You know that I like to let chapters sit a while before I go back over them prior to posting, but I also want to reduce delays to the schedule, so this time I pushed through to the end of Chapter 2 of CoP and went right on to review, prep and post it. I would then go on to write a bit on Chapter 3 to give me a little head-start on next cycle and did some reworking of the outline. I’d like to have all the chapters named and it’s already looking like I need to expand things by a chapter or two. I’m also having to decide if I want things weighted so much toward the final battle or if it’d be better to do something closer to a monster-of-the-week approach to build steam. These are things I intend to work on a bit more before switching over. Stay tuned.

I managed to get through the first section of Chapter 2 of CoP, but I didn’t even get to the second. There were a few things chewing up my time, but I really didn’t have much excuse for not finishing. I’m going to try to finish it tomorrow and go for a same-day release or just shift the release schedule by a day, as I’d really like to get things done relatively on-schedule. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 2 of CoP. Again, not as much as I would’ve liked and, again, for the same reasons. I only have a bit to go in the first segment and the second shouldn’t be too long. Stay tuned.

I made a little progress on Chapter 2 of CoP. Not quite as much as I would’ve liked, but work is keeping me hopping a bit, then I crashed out in the evening. I was doing some of the logistics, so that does contribute a bit. Anyway, I’ll try to make up for lost time. Stay tuned.

I managed to make some nice progress on Chapter 2 of CoP and filled in a bit more of the world map. Meeting my deadline is looking rather feasible at this point, so all that’s left is to make it happen. Stay tuned.

I did some work on Chapter 2 of CoP and fiddled around on the Korushi Calendar a bit, too. I originally planned for Chapter 2 to pick up the next day after the cut to the present in Chapter 1, but I changed my mind when I came up with a better opening to introduce the audience to Ellis. It’ll be interesting introducing the other Protectors from his perspective, so that’ll be this week’s fun. Stay tuned.

I was doing more work in the peripheral materials, focusing on Bergeny yet again. In particular, I was working on related encyclopedia entries. Loads of fun. I might do a little more fiddling around before switching over to CoP for next week. Stay tuned.

Although I mostly worked on the peripheral materials, dealing with stuff both before and after the events of TWH, I also made some progress on the main story itself, finishing Chapter 25 and starting on Chapter 26. Speaking of the peripheral materials, for some reason I was spending a lot of time with the family lines of the Princes of Bergeny. I don’t know if I mentioned this elsewhere, but Bergeny originally had a fairly typical royal line until the end of the reign of Arnolf III. Rather than simply have his eldest son succeed him, he divided the kingdom among his seven surviving sons and instituted a system where the seven Princes and their successors would elect the new King from among them. Ultimately, the first King elected was the eldest among the brothers, but from there, a fairly stable arrangement of rotating kingship developed. Anyway, I got to try to account for seven lines of rulership to keep track of it all. Oh, what fun it is. Anyway, we’ll see what other fun I get up to over the weekend. Stay tuned.

I made some more progress on Chapter 24 of TWH and am almost finished with it, so that bodes well for next cycle. It shouldn’t take long to wrap it up and hopefully I can get a decent head-start on Chapter 25 as well. Stay tuned.

I spent a fair bit of time in the peripheral materials getting an estimate of Hecate’s forces and then fiddling around with the world map in a continued effort to try to sort out the scaling issues, location relative to the climate bands, etc. I did do a little more writing on Chapter 24 of TWH, so that’s something. Going back to the map thing, I’ve found some tools I’m going to try fiddling around with more. Stay tuned.