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Well, I'm finally back from the US, and again, a Happy 2020 to everyone! But since I promised this update I better get to the point for the above title.

You might be wondering why despite my usual promises there was almost no update on The Crossroad throughout the holiday. Well I guess this isn't unexpected of me lol. But point is, I'm beginning to wonder if I should really use create.swf to finish The Crossroad anymore.

No I'm not planning on abandoning the story, especially not after last update's was the big climax. I have always wanted to finish this story and I intend on doing so. However, I'm debating whether or not I should finish the story in text rather than finishing them in comics. I know, this sounds kind of like a cop-out given how this was a comic series since the beginning (2012 what the heck where did the time go?), but I must confess, I've been burned out from Walfas and create.swf for a while.

Precisely because this series has gone on for so long, and I'm finding myself even busier with University, it's getting harder and harder for me to keep up making Walfas comics. I already pushed myself super hard for the last few ones, and I'm not lying, I'm super proud of them. But considering after those, everything else in the story is just gonna be the epilogue, it's making the next few comics more of a chore to put together.

Not to mention, Flash is discontinuing soon, so create.swf will go with it. Granted, I have been using the downloaded create.swf, so theoretically even when Flash goes kaput, I would still be able to use the program. But that has brought other problems.

I hadn't mentioned this before, but I got a new laptop since I started University back in Fall of 2018. And ever since then create.swf has been extremely uncooperative. It would periodically delete all my data and restart as if I'd opened the program for the first time. And often it would do this without warning. I could be saving a whole bunch of scenes and then when I close it and re-open, poof, it all just resets. I tried to get around this since then by constantly making backups of the flash data itself, which I would copy to somewhere else constantly. For the most part, this worked, but boy was it a pain. The huge comics I uploaded last year in July were especially irritating to get done because almost each comic the data would disappear, and if backing up the data didn't work, I'd have to make do recreating everything from screenshots. There was one point I had to fish data back up from my old laptop. It's honestly a miracle I got those comics done and turned out as well as they did, because the constant deletes were driving me insane.

Right now, create.swf has mysteriously stopped doing this constant deleting, but why I'm not so sure. I can only assume after the last few deletes the space on my create.swf data isn't that big (which makes no sense considering I ALWAYS set create.swf to accept unlimited storage), but now it's made another glitch. That being if I leave create.swf open for just a couple minutes and have it be idle, it will randomly close. So once again, this has made saving my data incredibly irritating because I would not save a scene while leaving it idle and then suddenly it closes and I lose my progress.

Long story short, what has previously blunted my comic-progress because of my procrastination has now become nearly impossible because of how often create.swf closes on me and makes me restart from square one. So on top of Uni and real life in general, I have an unstable program that seems intent on making me not finish this story.

Again, I'm not going to abandon The Crossroad. I intend to see this baby finished till the end. A lot of you might know I have a huge project planned afterwards that I've been working on, but The Crossroad is where it all begins, and I really do want to finish this work that has been really precious to me and I'm really proud of. I really do want to see this to the end. I just don't think it'd be possible to reach the end in create.swf anymore, sad as it seems.

But I want to hear what you guys think. Would you be okay if I finished the rest of this supposed-to-be comic series in prose? Perhaps I can do what I did with my old World of Monochrome series, where I'd write a text document with Walfas images inserted in-between. Although I'd still have to use Walfas, it's far less time-consuming, and it'd allow me to keep the atmosphere still in image form. I'm leaning towards this format actually, and at this stage I'm not so keen on trying to force everything into a comic format anymore. Still, I'd like to see if you guys are comfortable with this.

Regardless, I'm super thankful for all of you who are still following this story to the end with me. I really can't thank you guys enough for being invested in this work as much as I am. And I really hope to give this story the conclusion both you and I can be happy with :D
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Huh, it’s been another three months since I’ve broken radio silence...I’m noticing a trend here.

So, hey guys, I am so sorry for being completely quiet since mid-May, without any update or Crossroad parts coming out. I’d like to say it’s because I’ve been busy with real life, and I kind of have been, but I’ve also been spending a lot of time in DFO with my guild. Now that I am starting University, my schedule is having a complete overhaul, so that might change.

Either way though, now that I’ve finally cleared out the next two parts, scripting and editing for the next few comics will begin again. I’m going to try to schedule these things better while I’m in Uni, especially since the next few parts are going to take another turn. My status update system will resume as normal.

If you guys have any questions though, I will do my best to answer them. I’ll still be alive and still kicking. God bless and take care ^^
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Heyo, it'sa-me. S'been a while since I made a Journal Post about anything, huh?

Y'know, given how Status Updates are just more convenient... 8'D

Anyway, I'm writing this mostly to give an ACTUAL status update about my current state of affairs, since after the latest The Crossroad update I have left the progress bar at just 'Scripting in Progress'. Rest assured, I am still working on the story, however it has not been consistent due to certain events in real life I'm about to detail.

Firstly I've received my A-Level results about two weeks ago and I have been blessed with good results! :D Currently, I am still getting stuff ready for my University applications, and if I get accepted, I will be starting school again in August. Leaves me many months to myself, but I'll be entering a new stage of life, which is always kinda nerve-wracking.

Secondly, while I was waiting for those results, in order to occupy my time, I signed up as a volunteer at a daycare for Primary School students. Dealing with kids is kinda tough, but so far I've warmed up to them and things are going smoothly ^^ I've also been taking driving lessons on alternate days and several of my lessons have been filled with muttering about not ramming into motorcyclists, but otherwise, that's been going well too.

Thirdly, thanks to being egged on by certain people (YOU ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE), I've been trying out Dungeon Fighter Online for the past few weeks too! Despite it being my first MMO and kinda confusing me at first, it's been super fun to play! ^^ So far I've made Alyss Baraen the Spitfire, a.k.a the class that was just designed for an explosives maniac like Alyss, and ARMEDMakoto the Asura.

...

I make no comments about his name 8'D

Either way it's basically been a blast just steamrolling enemies across all the dungeons and I've clocked a few hours in, though I'm trying to manage my time. Thank goodness for the fatigue system making sure you specifically don't ruin your life xD

...and yeah unfortunately this means I haven't made much progress with Cuphead. I'll get back to that suffering another time 8'D

For those of you who still remember, I also haven't made much progress on the preview for the Wadanohara video I've hinted at before, since that's still a side thing. But I will be sure to let you know how that goes.

So yeah, things have been kinda busy for me despite being off of school, but otherwise I am doing fine ^^ I apologize if I worried anyone with my silence sans any comic updates, since I keep most of my contacts private, but I assure you everything is well. The Crossroad shall continue when it's ready, and in the meantime I will still be as active as I have been.

God bless you all and have a great day ^^
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Memes, The Dna Of The Soul by Kigurou-Enkou
(There are many events that warrant this reaction...)

To all readers of The Crossroad, thank you for sticking around for this long. Finally, all my delays and detours and incremental boss battles are going to be worth it. The climax is at hand...

...riiiiiiiiiiiiiight as my 'A' Levels exams approaches. :'D

As such, not only is my update schedule for this comic series going to be slowly grinding to a halt until the 22nd of November, the update batch infometrics is going to be a bit different. I will no longer post a progress stat for Scripting, BUT I will still post a progress stat for the actual individual comics. This is mostly because given my tight time schedules and pace at doing things, my scripting for these last few parts is going to be more erratic and either too fast or too slow.

...

and also multi-tasking is a thing.

But otherwise, comic strip updates will come as they usually have. Whenever I'm not busy dying amongst my books and notes, I will be sure to keep you guys posted!

Thank you guys so much for keeping up with this, and sit tight!

Because if you thought I was evil for leaving the last comic with a cliffhanger...

You haven't seen NOTHING yet >8D
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(commission done by clairevoir )

A bit out of the blue, but given my latest update of The Crossroad, I wanted to thank all of my readers who even after 168 comics and 4 and a half years continue to read my story eagerly :D It's hard to imagine a project I started on a whim and with hype turned into a tale that I hold to my heart so dearly, and that people are still waiting to hear it to the end. Not to mention the fact that out of the almost dozens of characters I've created, my two most popular characters remain, to this day, a girl who is basically my self-insert and a guy who's my clumsy attempt at writing a deconstruction of every idiot hero light novel protagonist ever.

And yet I still receive fanart of these two from time to time! :D

THAT'S AWESOME AND YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! 8D

So (as my profile status shows) in the midst of me returning to school and planning out more of what's to come for this story of mine, I'm super grateful to all of you guys who still read my beloved story, and I promise what's to come will not disappoint! Strap yourselves in, because from here on out, it's gonna be a wild ride!

In less mushy things, lemme run down what's been happening to me lately. I've more or less just finished my June Holiday break, so it's back to school for me in a couple days. It's honestly been kinda weirdly tiring, since I spent most of the time cooped up in my house just studying nervously for exams, as well as some...other events which I will talk about at a later time.

and by 'talk about', I mean accidentally CCC

(yes :iconthedarkbreaker: I'm working on it, writing hermit diplomacy is a new experience for me y'know 8'D)

Anyway, I will be a bit busier as a result since my A-Levels draw near, but I will do my best to keep you guys updated on The Crossroad's progress, as well as toss out a few small works on the side. Besides the aforementioned CCC piece in the works, I've been doing a private riffing of some of Mogeko/Deep Sea Prisoner games (which some of you may know I have expressed disgruntled complaints of in the past), and I have a little surprise planned at the end of all that. I've also gotten my hands on Sony Vegas 12, and have been trying out doing a few silly animations for those riffs and other Deep Sea Prisoner works. For now, they are private, but in due time I might show you guys them all just for fun :D

So it's just another busy year for myself, but I'm still here, still alive, still doing the same crazy things I love to do. Hope you guys will continue to stay with me for what's to come! :D I'll see y'all around!
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