[Author's note]

Hi and welcome to my story!

Anyway, I believe that I have a few things to say.

Firstly, I don't think I've really mentioned this, but I have a bit of a philosophy concerning this story and its chapters. For one I really want this to be an actual 'choose your own adventure' with different branches flying off in every which direction, not just a regular linear story, and secondly I don't want too long between decisions for the reader, so I try to keep each chapter at around 500 words, even though I'm so often slightly above that.

thirdly, I've gotten quite a few branches going at this point, so I'm ping ponging quite diligently between the different ones. This is kind of how I prefer to work, with several different different things going on at once, juggling ideas keeps things interesting you know. Now I get that that can be frustrating for someone who just wants to follow a particular branch, so I made this to hopefully help focus the story and get some help for my unemployed ass:

https://subscribestar.adult/skogchyoa

that's my subscribestar and I intend to keep it as a place for people to vote twice a week on what new chapter they want to see before the next poll starts. Note that you don't have to give me money, I love writing and see it as very therapeutic, so I will probably never stop, but it would still really help me if you'd consider subscribing!

Please also note, I have barely any idea of what I'm doing, so any pointers would be highly appreciated.