CHIRAL: SIDE Y

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Update
So, an update on what's been going on.

I've been thinking a while, and I think I should be transparent. I am really well-motivated to continue. In fact, I feel like the adventure is actually the best it's been so far, right now. There's a lot going on and y'all are super engaged and fun to make updates for.

However, there are two things making me feel a lot of difficulty and reluctance to continue.

First of all, the setting. I don't mean the Nickel, but the very fact that- for some godforsaken reason- I chose to use fucking Sburb and the Homestuck setting of all things. It was a very impulsive decision because it seemed like it would have some cool potential, but as I have done nothing particularly groundbreaking using that setting, making CHIRAL a vein of fan-fiction was an absolutely garbage choice. I regret almost nothing more than my choice to do this, because it so vastly limits my options on 1. who can read it and 2. who would be interested in reading it. It's also very derivative, and I was in pain for this dumb decision since the word 'go'. Man fuck me why did I do this. It would have been so easy to tell this story as its own thing.

Second of all, the opening. The first 3 pages of this adventure are lackluster. Yes, they explain the setting some. Yes, they contain adequate dialogue and menu management. However, they are a fucking mess for first-time readers! There's just so much information and it's delivered in an incredibly cryptic yet also dense manner. The choice not to have a playable character until page 4 was one I'm fine with, but the choice to have absolutely NO place in the story to leap off from was a massive misstep. It's severely limiting who would be interested in this adventure, and I know a lot of things I'd do to remedy that in the future.

So here's the impasse: I can continue, but I am not sure I will be happy with the choices I made early on. I've been afraid to grow too attached to this story for that reason, but there are some legitimate story beats that really excite me and I want to make this thing a reality that continues for a while.

Since there's no discussion thread, I'll ask here: what should I do? Where to go from here?