[News] WLTK revision notes.

Hey everyone! As I mentioned last week, 'We Lease the Kraken!' will be going through some revisions. Why is this? A few reasons.

The biggest being that while I like the current storyline, its a bit deceiving of the general theme of the story.

At its core, WLTK is a Shop System story. While there WILL be action and adventure, those aren't the primary themes. This isn't Primal Hunter or HWFWM. Its meant to be closer to "The Innkeeper" by lifesketcher or "Gourmet of Another World" by Li Hongtian. (both great stories, btw, totally recommend them)

With that in mind, we come to the changes.

The ORIGINAL flow plan for the story was as followed,

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Introduction (chapters 1 - 10)

Beast Bond Tutorial ( 11 -25)

Shop Tutorial (26 -40)

Shop Opening/End of book 1 (40-45).

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The issue here, as some readers have pointed out, is that by having the Beast Bond tutorial so early, it misrepresents the focus of the story. For readers looking forward to a Shop system story, having to wait until more than half the book to even get to that part would be frustrating.

While those coming in not knowing what to expect would see an "Adventure" story like Primal Hunter, only to be blindsided with a slower paced Shop story later. Like playing a beat-um up game only to learn half-way in what you've been doing up to that point is just side content, and the ACTUAL game is a Real-Time management game.

SO, with that in mind, with this revision I'm going to switch some things up.

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1). The Prologue through chapter 9 will remain roughly untouched. I might go back and polish them up a bit before release, but unless the Beta readers have some serious issues with them, they'll remain the same.

2). The ending of Chapter 10 will be revised to reflect the new direction to the story. (The new Chapter 11 will also be posted later today, so don't worry).

3). Chapter 11 will start a totally different arc than the old chapter 11. The new arc will focus on establishing the shop and learning a few basics of the greater System, such as the [System Scan] (previously just 'examine') and the nature of 'Iterations,' how the system manifests for the user, in Jeremiah's case the [Mystical Menagerie].

4). AFTER this arc (planned for 10-15 chapters) Jeremiah will begin part two of the tutorial, the Beast Bonds as previously explored in the old chapters. The plot there will roughly follow the same order of events, but adapted to the new history.

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What this does is give the story a more natural flow while letting me establish the central themes of the story more concretely.

It SHOULD also help me cut down on some of the Meta-bloat. In other words, there won't be a need for 4 back to back chapters detailing how the different System windows work. That information will come more naturally and the more universal windows like the Status, Mission Board and Achievements can be more spread out through the story.

With that in mind, enjoy the new chapters and be sure to tell me what you think!

The revised chapter 10 will be posted shortly after this news post, with the NEW chapter 11 coming out later today.