A few major annoucements

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Hello everyone! Today I present you with a new update to Onlife; this screenshot!

This is from the "light mode" version (I'll make and edit dark mode once the story's finished, which it almost is but that's later on this post), and as you can see there are quite a few new faces, plus an old friend of ours from way back...

Here we learn what the in-universe chatroom is called. I wanted to use something that had a short and snappy name with as few syllables as possible - and so... The name Chatyou was born! I then changed it to Chatyu to make it shorter and more memorable. Fret not, the tradition of teasing your friend after they make a typo is still alive and strong.

Speaking of strenght, I've realized I have a strong ; in just 2 months, the collection has reached more than 45 thousand words! That's a lot of messages, let me tell you that...!

It's about this many pages worth;

Onlife's table of contents. There are 18 lines. 15 of them are story titles. At the end of each line there are numbers, except for for lines, where they end with TBD. "COMING SOON" has "TBW" at the end. Under the ToC, there's a red agenda. "Number = Chapter completed (number may change once in final stage). TBD = To Be Done (has been started but not finished). TBW = To Be Written (has not been written yet)

Don't be fooled by the TBDs, all the chapters are either done, or almost done (with Pipeline and Amy moves out being the longest out of the 4). With the pace I'm going, the book will be more than ready for its September 22nd release.

Now, you may have noticed that "Oceanwrangler300 is typing..." is in the chapter list, while *also* being here on this itch.io page... why's that? Well, this project, other than expand the OIT world, will also act as archiving the story that started it all. I need to decide if I want the story itself to stay in the project list, but right now I'm thinking of getting rid of it It just doesn't make sense to me to keep two same stories in the same place, especially if one version is cushioned between an expanded universe's worth of tales.

Onlife will be available in English in September 22nd. I plan on releasing it in Italian as well, but I have to find a translator first. If you're interested, let me know! You can contact me on here or on Instagram or even tumblr, Your pick. I have the same icon and same version of the name across all platforms listed.

This is it for now, see you soon! :D