This update is becoming quite a nightmare, as you can probably imagine. It turns out adding an entire battle and dungeon-crawling system and then adding several different ending paths worth of content using those new systems takes a lot of testing. Many, many, many bugs happened. On top of that, my other/real job demanded a lot of my attention suddenly earlier this month, and there wasn't much I could do about it, so I was behind, and then I was really behind, and now I'm astronomically behind.
That said, I have been back in the swing of things for a bit now, and things are progressing again. I want to try to get the update out before the end of the month but I feel like I've said that before. Like last time when I got super far behind, I won't charge patrons until the update comes out. So if it doesn't come out before the end of this month, I'll suspend payments for April, since as far as I'm concerned, I owe you guys an update before I collect the next payment.
Thanks for your understanding, and please enjoy this new artwork! A whopping 24 pieces of new artwork will be included in the update when it comes out! That's largely because I'm so slow at getting this one out, but it is what it is. In my defense, this update is by far the largest I've ever released, about three times as large as any update I've ever released in terms of written content (nearly 65,000 words in total). Of course, it's split across several story branches, so it won't necessarily feel that way to play it, but I think it should be worth the wait.