Author Help after Pick Up

hi everyone, I have some new ideas for this story, but I'm struggling with story mechanics/pacing... so I made some polls

The first is the number of phases of transformations and descriptions of changes, which would be difficult the larger the number, and much less substantial:

https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQbAGwgd

The second is how frequently these transformations progress:

https://strawpoll.com/e6Z2Ad077gN