Nah the story talk is not the problem, is where the story picks up and keeps up leaping to another different story, while switching between flashback and the current now which get confusing with no explanation of what trigger Mc to wanna remember and putting some flashbacks unnecessarily and then not explaining some of them but leaving it to our own device
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It doesnāt help that the story and world hasnāt been utilised very much so far. I personally think the worldbuilding is quite interesting but unfortunately most of the appeal has rather Dulles given itās likely never going to be expanded any time soon, and when it does itāll be in little chunks. It is very worst but, at least for me, I think slot of that comes from having to re-read it every time a small new update drops every like, what, year or so?"
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Yeah, and thatās hoping the updates keep coming
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I feel the same. I was hooked when this wip was first released, But after all these years with barely any real progress in the story, the excitement has just faded for me. I wish the author all the best, and I hope they find their spark again someday, but I wonāt be reading it again.
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Hi, good morning, how are you? Iām new here and Iām really curious to try this story; it seems very promising to play as Death. Iām new here and Iām really curious to try this story; it seems very promising to play as Death From what Iāve read so far, we are the oldest and most powerful deity. But are these just words, or does this apply to the story when weāre playing as well? Are we really the most powerful entity? Or are there characters more powerful than us?Do we have any limitations?
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For sure. But I think this one maybe even feels worse for two reasons:
A) GR seemed to have a better grasp of the audienceās level of patience; at least personally, it felt like the majority of the time, as soon as Iād start to feel irritated with the occasionally dense, overwrought prose of GR, itād pretty immediately revert to more āaction,ā so I never became fully annoyed enough to, like, groan about it or start skipping sections.
B) GR actually created a finished product. This one has been in dev for ~ five years, and is barely halfway into setting the scene for the first act (e.g., PC has met only 1/7 characters named in the intro postā¦). I think sporadic updates containing huge amounts of fluff / filler text with little substantive narrative progression/payoff is a quick way to turn readers off of a project entirely. Someone else in this thread said theyāre giving up on it, regardless of what may develop in the future, and I canāt blame them.
Itās just such a shame because I think the story is killer! Iām so intrigued and Iād love to see where it goes. Itās a bummer that that doesnāt seem likely to happen 
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Agreed, Iām no expert but i can tell the difference between a project with a solid foundation, good execution and a strong cast of characters. Compare to a project that that feels bloated, unfocused and lacks proper characterization of cast members.
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It seems a new public update is coming out in three weeks or so.
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Checked their blog to see what you meant and wow, theyāre making >$500/month on patron. No wonder itās been 5 years with no substantive progress. Thereās a financial disincentive to complete it 
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@moderators Iāll leave it up to you to decide if the thread should be locked, but weāre off topic at this point.
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The discussion says that thereāll be a public update in three weeks, so Iām tentatively going to leave the topic open.
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Well, its supposed to be today according to the authorās tumblr. Looking forward to it.
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Public update is out.
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Heck yeah, public update! 
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Same mistake as in the previous update, using āherā instead of āsheā.
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That Temu Poseidon better be wary. He gonna catch these hands
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The plot is really interesting, but it moved extremely slowly
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āItās not this. Itās not that. Itās a third thing. And honestly? Thatās meaningful/valid/whatever.ā
Almost every other page contains a sentence constructed like this, and itās really distracting, at least for me. Author, you might want to cut some of those. Youāre certainly not alone in using a lot of similar constructions, as Iāve lately been seeing this quite often. But it rings fundamentally false, and fails to provide the emphasis I assume authors are aiming for when they use this. Just a suggestion!
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Yea itās great but itās also one of those you just check like once a year, given the slow pace of the story and sporadic updates.
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This is one of the best IF that I have ever read and I have read all the CoG has to offer. I know not whether you yourself are aware of what you have conceived and produced. If not, let me extend my immense gratitude for writing this. My only request to you would be to articulate the Wheel of Fate part a bit more clearly. What happens when the soul is āfrayedā owing to multiple rebirths? If the soul chooses a new body, are those new bodies being born empty? If not, then what happens to the souls of the new bodies? Who is in charge of birthing/producing/ giving rise to those new souls? Are new souls not produced at all, owing to the fact that the wheel is damaged?
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