Aaaaand we back! 

 As I mentioned in previous patrons only report, at the end of June and early July I had a trip that was planned ages ago, and a wedding to attend. Coupled with the overall fatigue I had, I decided to just take that whole week off with those 2 events/trips taking my time off work anyway. Was definitely a good decision. 

 But realistically the most important irl, but even overall news I have to share is... Medical results came back, and it's very good! I'm writing this just as I came back from the visit to my specialist. The new meds, that are now the weakest (unlike the first I got, that were the strongest and caused constant migraines), are doing a great job, and I'm now only ~30% off the value they want me to be at. For reference, I started with ~240% off 😅

This is great news for multiple reasons. Not only do I not feel any drawbacks from taking the meds, but that also means we (doc and I) won't be seeing each other for half a year now! No more constant back and forth, paperwork issues (we actually found out why today, not my fault), and trips there and back that take me 3 hours just in public transport alone. I'm not the best when I have multiple issues going in life at the same time, so finally having this behind me, that started in early January is amazing news. Being relatively young, but also classified as high-risk category and always being surrounded there by much much older people... Felt bad. 

 That also means that I, finally, am kinda free. Besides dealing with burnout, there is zero major tasks, irl responsibilities or big events I need to attend or plan for at least 3 months, but prob even more than that. I can finally, genuinely, "lock-in" as people say.

Although a lot was going on irl, I did work on the game with "okay" pace. I'm now at ~1270 ep3 renders done, which is a small ~350 jump or so since last one. Not the best jump, but all things irl considered, this time I don't feel burdened with it. I've finished the Raiko challenges stuff and one other new addition, and I'm a day or so away from finishing Koko's night beach section. And speaking of Koko... It looks great. Decided to take it slow here and retried some things, and I am now happy with her renders in the water and things surrounding it. Huge upgrade, and I'll def post some of the images in the patrons sneak peeks coming soon. Did however find a small mistake in ep2 due to wet hair, will see if I retake those 56 renders + 1 animation later. 

 Besides that, work-wise I did try to learn some new things related to animating, but I'll admit I'm still very lacking and the new knowledge didn't sit with me yet. I also want to learn something related with Blender, but that's for later, maybe when ep3 is about to be rounded up. 

 So yeah, TLDR, great irl medical news, finally freedom from it, I expect now to finally lock-in again and obviously also go back to by-weekly reports as the speed should increase. There are some challenging bits in the "race" in ep3 hotel coming up, but I can't wait to finally finish this big hotel section and move onto other stuff, soon some big new sections too. 

 As always, thanks for the patience, and love you all. Kat <3