where da heck have i been? (2026)

Hello!! It has been a VERY long time. Everyone everywhere has been wondering what happened to Almax, there have been posters posted and search parties partied. So, where have I been??

Well, that is an interesting question. Initially, I had left for a short break only because I am a small and anxious ball. It is a very stupid story, but basically, a site moderator noticed that I was often helpful to people in the forums needing tips/solutions for Game Mode programming, and asked if I would want to help write an official Game Mode tutorial for the site instead of just answering questions/making suggestions one by one as they came in. To be clear, this site moderator was completely normal and polite and nice, but I'm a bit of a weirdo and I didn't want to disappoint anyone, so I went away for a couple of weeks because I was feeling a lot of pressure (which the site moderator did NOT put on me, I put it all on myself).

But unfortunately, a lot happened during that short break.

Most of this story was written at a time in my life when I had a lot more Free Time (like Debbie when she hits the Courtyard). But a couple of bad things have happened since then which I don't super wanna get into, and they came all at once. The short version is that money being tight and other boring/sad, my-life-be-like stuff has kept me away for a long time now. Originally I was waiting for this stressful time to pass so I could come back to fun things like this again, but about a year ago, I realised that it was probably Not Going To Pass, and I should just **** as many fun things as possible back in anyway.

Which is why eight months ago, I started writing erotic Scripts on another site, intended to be available for people to read in their heads as well as for voice actors/actresses to read out loud with Audio performances if they so choose. It's been fun!! Writing short, character-driven erotic stuff reminded me of how much I like doing this, and really made me want to get back to writing this long character-driven erotic thing.

At first I started doing these off-site Scripts to get back in the swing of erotic writing, so I could come back to this story and make some really hot stuff for all of ya without any rust, but I'm very sad to say that I'm coming here with a bit of bad news.

The entire time I've been away, I've fully intended on coming back here to write more. I've even been continuing to take notes, write plans, and even write several deeper-in chapters that the story hasn't reached yet. I always FULLY intended on coming back, and continuing this story in the Big Ways. My plans are awesome. This story rules, and you have no idea how much cool stuff I've got written for its future.

But over these last few months of kinda-sorta-almost coming back, and looking around at the landscape, for the first time in the entire time that I've been away, I've started to stop wanting to come back. I'm not sure if there's any one thing I can point to, but there's just a general feeling of instability and "maybe I shouldn't spend a ton of time writing here". Between the site auto-hiding a huge list of words for any people without accounts (people who don't get any notice that a word is hidden, so it just looks like awful grammar/writing), and all the ads for AI stories all over the place, I just can't bring myself to spend hundreds more hours engaging with writing a story here in the way I had been looking forward to for so long. It's very very sad to say, but I think I just have to pour that creative energy/time that I'm able to scrounge together into some other place that doesn't make me feel sadness and dread and uncertainty whenever I think about it.

I completely understand that a lot of this is out of the site's control. I know that the admins had to do things to avoid sudden dumb censorship laws that landed on their heads, and frankly I don't have any better ideas than auto-hiding some of the words either. I know that they need money from sponsorships/ads to keep things running, because that's how things work in this world, and that patreon shut down the chyoa account out of nowhere. I wish I had the money to donate and keep the site up all by myself, but I don't, and it's fair enough that they accept the money from the people that do via the ads. So I don't blame them at all for what's changed in the time I was gone. I think they found themselves in a really really unlucky and suddenly-bad position, and did the best they could to fix it in the least-obstructive way possible. It's just that, for me, concern over the way things are now and the uncertain way that things might continue really de-motivates me from writing a huge, massive story with a billion branching paths and technical coding hidden in the text.

Now, with all of that said -- if things changed this much in the time I was gone, they could definitely change again, and maybe I won't feel this way anymore at some point. One million percent of me wants to continue writing this story, I just don't know if the landscape/infrastructure that exists today can still support it. I really hope that, at some point in the future, I can continue this story again -- but right now, I just lose motivation every time I open the site. Even though making the decision to Actually Not Come Back Anytime Soon makes me feel very sad, I don't think making any other decision would make me any less sad.

I still have big plans for these characters and this story, and I hope that one day you get to see it. Maybe it'll be a comeback to here, maybe it'll be somewhere else entirely, but I do still intend to continue this story and do all of my plans eventually. Even if I end up hiring an artist and making it a visual novel CYOA game on Steam in 2040 or something. Debbie and her friends have a whole lot of fun adventures ahead of them, and one day, they'll get to experience them. It's just that, for the first time, I'm not just waiting for an opening for me to come back with anymore.

I know this will disappoint a lot of people, and it disappoints me a lot too, so I am sorry. In fairness, I did write this whole existing story for you to read for free, so please don't be TOO mean in the comments. But I do get that for a lot of people, the natural reaction to feeling sad is to unleash that on the source of sadness (me, this time), so I promise I won't take it personally if you can't help yourself.

In the meantime, feel free to check out and read the erotic Scripts I'm writing from time to time -- or to listen to the Audio Fills that have been performed for a few of them! And maybe google "Becoming A Warrior Debbie Almax Coinpilfer" every six years or so, in case I do find a place to continue it. Though I would definitely update you here again if I ever did continue it off-site. Or maybe I'll just continue it here at some point if stuff changes. Iunno. You already read the post, you know the whole situation, why am I repeating it again.

TL;DR: all the excitement at Coinpilfer University has finally overwhelmed poor Debbie's happy-but-short body, and she is sleeping in. Cameron will wake her up at some point, so they can go class together. But for now, he's just letting her rest -- she looks like she needs it.