The Allbright System - A Sci-Fi Progression LitRPG Story

Hello everyone, LunaWolve here.

To get straight to the important part, so people that don't really give a shit about the extra information/art and stuff:

September's Admin Week will be extended by one more week.

That means ND/TAS will return on October 6th / October 7th instead of Today / Tomorrow respectively.

Now to get to the extra information, and the art release:

I'm struggling IRL at the moment, as should not be a surprise given the recent month+ of just absolutely horrendous schedule keeping on my end.

I've missed release windows, writing windows and have just been overall terrible when it comes to keeping my implicit promise to all of you, that I'll release two chapters a week for ND and TAS outside of Admin Weeks.

I took additional time off at the beginning of the month, but it was mostly a stop-gap to try and stem the tide of bullshit being thrown at me IRL; it has not really worked well, to be entirely honest.

I have been setting myself unrealistic expectations and deadlines recently, figuring that "I'll figure something out" to make it all somehow work together without tearing myself apart at the seams, but it's now obvious to me that this isn't working; not with the current responsibilities and events in my life.

Last week was the official Admin Week for September, and I fully intended to get a bunch of editing done on TAS' first book to finally get it prepared for KU/Audiobook releases. I intended to get at least 10 chapters done, but only managed a SINGLE ONE, as the night from Tuesday -> Wednesday, I was hit with a bout of insomnia so hard that it broke the entire rest of the week.

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I'm used to insomnia, always kind of had it in intervals here and there, and yes, I've tried all your recommendations of melatonin, warm tea/milk/coco, exercise, etc. Please refrain from posting them in the comments.

But the recent bouts have been really bad.

I did not sleep at all on that night.

Wednesday -> Thursday, I managed three hours. Thursday -> Friday, I managed 4.

Friday was also the funeral of my grandmother, which naturally included a half-day wake with the whole family.

While nice, it wasn't exactly something that allowed me to relax or recharge from the previous days at all.

Friday -> Saturday, another 4 hours.

Saturday -> Sunday, 3 hours again.

It's been extremely bad; there's no sugarcoating it. It's been affecting my life quite badly, as I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to doing things like writing. I have not been able to write just about anything as a result.

Mentally, I have not managed to relax for weeks now; as I keep trying to force myself to write, to try and make up for all the times I've ALREADY missed this month; while also still working my full-time job on the side.

It's a vicious cycle that I realize now, will just not be able to continue.

Hence, my extension of the Admin Week.

I just need this extra week to focus on my IRL job and just relax and catch up on some sleep in the meantime.

I will force myself to not write, maybe some editing of TAS at most, but no continued writing on TAS or ND proper in this time, just to make sure I can actually try to turn off for once.

I hope that this will be enough to fix me back up, after this last horror month, and that we will be back to regular schedule with the end of this extended admin week.

For both TAS and ND, I've already loosely prepared the next few arcs, with the next 4-5 chapters already being workshopped for the most part; so I'm hoping that once I'm back alive (and not dying from sleep deprivation) I can go back to providing the quality content that y'all have come to expect from me in recent years.

Thank you for listening to me rant on this topic and for your continued patience and kindness.

I really do appreciate it a lot.

Finally, I have some art to release to y'all, which was originally meant to be held back until a relevant chapter (where the characters actually appear or are at least talked about), but I figured it's as good as time as any to release the Ref Sheets/Art Pieces, to tide y'all over just a little bit until the next chapter release.

Without further ado, here's the Canidae (Void Daemon) Ref Sheet:

Artist Links:

ig: instagram.com/white_moon_kyo/
twt: x.com/Black_Sun_Kyo