So, I missed the update last month. I missed this one by a day as well. Work in the two weeks surrounding the beginning of November was particularly insane, and eventually I’d missed the update so badly that I decided to just skip it entirely. As you might surmise, when I can’t even write updates properly, there’s hardly any work being done on the story. A little bit has happened, but it amounts to little more than a few hundred words and some notes, written one night when I couldn’t sleep right and had nothing better to do.
The reason is that I’m currently busier than ever. I keep saying that, and yet it’s still true. It’s just been ramping up steadily for a while. I already have trouble enough keeping up with work, so frankly, I’m in no state to be making any promises about how much I can work on the story for the next few months. The lore post that I was working on (“On ninja in modern society”) hasn’t been touched at all this past month.
The post, for those curious, includes one of the topics suggested in the comments two months back: ninja economics. In fact, it’s quite a bit broader than that. It covers the history and origin of ninja and their techniques, the rise of the ninja villages, the general internal organization of ninja villages (it differs a lot in specifics from village to village), general ninja village economics and culture, and finally various facts about the kinds of lives ninja lead and the roles they serve in society, both culturally, politically and militarily. The main focus is on Konoha as it’s the focus of the story and also the first, biggest and strongest ninja village around, but there’s also a bunch of information about the other villages since they’re each unique in their own interesting ways. It’s a big chunk of info, but it all fits in together so I’d rather not split off the currently finished parts and publish those separately.
I’ll work on it when I get the energy and time to do so, but since my plans of one lore post a month have already slipped so far, I won’t make any promises that I can’t keep. It will get there when it gets there. Right now I won’t commit to more than an update around this length every month.
That’s all for now. See you in the new year!
The Forge 