Fine for beta...that should be starting soon according to T-A-G.
I am going to create a Beta Forum for him soon. He just wants me to hold off so people don't get too excited too fast.
The beta thing is not for everyone. IN THAT: While anyone in the forums that wants to can be a beta demon, as T-A-G will explain in the opening to the beta forum why one might not want to be a beta demon, and why it will be locked to beta demons only.
Mainly, it's because it exposes you to the "Infinite Worlds of Maybe" Beta demons may end up traveling down alternate--dead end--timelines that get wiped out by the 'final timeline.'
E.g. when something bad happens and then someone from the near future goes back and makes sure that bad thing didn't happen and then in the new 'official' timeline that bad thing didn't happen, the time traveler ends remembering both realities.
In other words, being a beta demon may expose people to information/event/plot destroying horribleness that doesn't actually ever happen in the real world (of Astlan/TheAbyss) but you just thought it happened for a while, like a bad dream.
This can bother some people. You have to be able to live with possibly having knowledge of these universes, but you can't ever tell anyone because 1) no one would believe you and they would lock up and away from gen-pop and 2) My demon buddies would hunt you down and eat your soul.
Anyway, so as of last word on progress, that's on the front page, there are now hard deadlines. Given that the deadlines are further out than he'd planned, T-A-G is taking time before the beta program to go back and clean things up/improve consistency and then optimize the 'wrap up' for Book ii
This is actually kind of important because what he had planned to do in book ii is now what is book ii + book iii, in that it turns out that in order to get to where book ii was supposed to go...has taken a lot more story than planned and the old end of book ii is now the end of book iii. I think this was bad planning on T-A-G's part. But in the end, I think it has improved the multiverse.
To give you a hint of the detail.
Book I took place over a period of 30 Astlanian days. I.e. 1.5 Anuropian Quarter Months I am not sure how many people realized that.
Book II takes place over basically 10 more days. So Book 1 and 2 together last 1 Uropian month.
Word counts are going to be very similar (Dead Tree page limit for on demand printing)
In other words, book II maintains the speed of action at the end of book I, we are not slowing down. Although
we did get to take a nice lava bath...and play some relaxing games of whist!
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