What a week!  Thank you all sincerely, from the bottom of my heart. I'm glad you've all stuck around for this silly VN I'm making. You have no idea how much it means to me that anyone has been reading this regularly.

I hope you enjoy this release, it marks a very important point in the series where older alpha versions are being fully replaced. And boy, what a replacement.

 Long story short, I've completely thrown out and redone the prologue for Out of Touch.  I kept about 5 pictures from the original (out of nearly 700).

Suffice it to say, you've probably seen me complaining about how bad the old one was, so I'll spare you from my further ranting. Now I can really say the prologue represents what I want a new reader to see when they first try out the series.

It's about twice the length that it used to be with some much needed attention given to those characters that could really use the spotlight and the art is up to the same standard as Chapter 15. Even if you're already a fan, you should give it a try: there's plenty of new material for existing readers too.

Lastly: This is the final step before I start the work on Volume 1 of Out of Touch. Vol 1 is going to be the first real, gold (Silver?) release for Out of Touch. No more Version 0.9 nonsense. As such, the level of polish will be far greater than what's been seen in these alpha releases so far. This includes not only things like the UI, music and writing but also the art itself. I want to make sure all visuals are consistently of the same quality shown in Chapter 15 and that very well may take a while. Furthermore, there will be actual gameplay! Fun! 

Point is, this next step will be the biggest and most important release for the series yet and could be considered the move from Alpha releases to Beta. I can't give an exact time estimate, it'll be done when it's done, but rest assured I'll be working on it as fanatically as I've worked on the series so far. Early 2021 is probably as much of an estimate as I'll give. It'll be worth the wait, I promise you that.

Anyway, enough ranting from me. Enjoy.