Hello there! It's your friendly neighborhood fanfic writer here! And today I bring... less than good news. For those of you who've actually paid attention to my story for some reason, you would know that I haven't updated this story since last August. Obviously, that's a bad thing, and obviously, there are reasons why. More than one sadly:

1. My Academic Standing: If you've seen my profile and stuff, you would know that I haven't been doing well since midterms started in Fall Semester of my freshman year at college. Well, to be quite frank, that hasn't really changed since then. I am currently on what is known as "Academic Warning" (the step before Academic Probation), with my grades I have been denied my initial major, and I have a set of parents yelling at me for "wasting money on me". As you can see, I haven't really been in a good mood to write Exalted on High for some time now.

2. My deadline: You guys did not know this, but there was a... let's call it a "deadline" I had before I would have to stop writing stories and do other things with my life. Thankfully, this deadline is no longer in effect, and as such I do not need to worry about this reason anymore. That's one down, and...

3. My Forum Migration: For the past few months I've been spending more and more time on forum sites like Space Battles and Sufficient Velocity. While they are fun to be on, this random browsing does cut into my free time. It does not help that I'm already writing another story on SB. Which leads onto my next point...

4. My Creative Muse: I have a problem. I come up with too many story ideas, and I don't know what to do with all of them. To be perfectly blunt, just yesterday I somehow came up with an idea for a Persona/Warhammer 40k fic. While I'm thankfully in no shortage for story ideas, these constant new ideas keep distracting me from getting my current stuff done. This is a problem, and for years, I thought it was just something everyone dealt with. Evidently, that is not the case...

5. My disabilities?!: Back in elementary school, my teachers recommended that I, as a child, get tested for Autism and ADD. They did not do this, because they "didn't want to put a label on me". And so, I had no idea that this had ever happened until after my first semester at college, where my poor grades prompted my parents to think "Maybe he should get tested..." and only then tell me about the warning. Needless to say, I was quite irritated to learn that I potentially had one or more learning disabilities, did not know about them and was denied potential help from my schools all these years because of my parent's beliefs. All together, this also had an effect on my ability to write, and I was not able to really concentrate on anything for several days afterwards. I myself am looking to get tested in the next few months.

6. The story's flaws: And thus, we finally arrive at the biggest reason of all. Exalted on High is an Exalted/Digimon/Yugioh/Whatever else I put in fic within Kanius' YYGDM setting. As such, authorial competency demands that I do the proper research into ALL of these areas of the fic. However, I did not do this prior to beginning the story. As such, there are an astonishing number of critical research errors, especially when it came to Exalted, which I made. I shall not read off all of the said research errors here, as that would take quite a time to get everything down, but let's give an example with "The Great Curse". Somewhere in the story, and I've forgotten where, Sansion mentions "The Great Curse" and explains it to the other characters. This is spite of the fact in canon where besides the entities responsible for the Curse, only Lytek, God of Exaltations and glorified bauble cleaner, and Jupiter, the Maiden of Secrets, knew about this curse, Lytek because he is responsible for cleaning the darn things, and Jupiter because she is Jupiter. Lytek hasn't told anyone else about it because he's afraid of losing his job, and Jupiter hasn't told anyone because Jupiter. As such, it would be impossible for even a Sidereal to know about the Curse or what it does. In canon, any instances of the Great Curse manifesting fully were simply dismissed by the Reigning Solars at the time as "merely letting out a bit of steam", because these Sons of Guns were quite altruistic back then. If they HAD known about the Curse, guaranteed at least one Solar Sorcerer would have fixed it within a year, or if not them, then Autochton (the guy who made the Exaltations). As it is, to any semi-knowledgeable Exalted fan, the mention of it within the story stands out like a sore thumb.

But we're not done there! While I won't list all of the research errors I made, I do feel obligated to write about the rest of the story's flaws:

1. Too many Cooks: This story has only 20 chapters, not counting this notice. And yet it has more "Major" Characters within it than it does Chapters! This is one of the things which irks me the most when looking back on this story. I had so many characters, and yet, the only ones had completely fleshed out beforehand and had planned an epilogue for were Joseph, Merlin, Sansion, Baldur, Davimon, Ivory and the Professor. That's it. I had no idea what I was going to do with Barri (wasn't too sure if I really wanted to just give her an Exaltation so that she doesn't die in less than a Century), Lily (what was I going to do with her if she entered Creation?), Natalie (Um, Sudden Raksha because what?), Maria (what is she going to have for an epilogue?), Giacomo (same as Maria) Artedramon (one of my less fleshed out ideas), Arteom (Basically supposed to be Lily's teacher in the ways of Singing in the Woods), the Metal Man (I had a twist planned out for him, then I realized the twist wouldn't even make sense in a Schamalan film, and so I scrapped it), Singer and Sophia (had no idea what to do with them beyond their initial appearances), Anthony (Had no idea what to do with him from the START), and Gold Claw Squad (Why. Do. I. Keep. Adding. New. Characters. Stop. Brain. STOP!). This build-up of characters who were underutilized and planned out caused this fic to start breaking under it's own weight. All I really needed for this story, at least initially, were Joseph, Sansion, Merlin, Lily, Baldur, Maria, Davimon and Ivory. And that's it! Everyone else could have waited at least another 20 chapters for them to make their debut as major characters.

2. Special OC Decks!: I know most Yu-gi-oh fics have at least one OC archetype or two for their major characters. I had plans for 6 of them at the very least. This is a Capital-P PROBLEM. I was so busy fleshing out Archetypes I wasn't even really writing the story at that point. The only OC archetypes I could reasonably create were Barri's and Kalivas' (Who, despite his being the only one finished, it's also the one with the most flaws. Hence why I'll be redesigning it both in aethestic and strategy). I did not need to create one for Woe, who could just as well play Dark Worlds or Geminis, I did not need to create one Ivory who could just as well play lswarms, and I did not need to create one for Anthony because I DON'T NEED ANTHONY.

3. You get an Exaltation, You get an-: I had too many plans for just giving out Exaltations without the characters receiving them proving themselves worthy of said Exaltations beforehand. THIS IS A MAJOR PART OF THE EXALTED CANON. This is something which is in dire need of fixing.

4. Forgot to sign everything in Triplicate: I got permission from Kanius to write this fic. What I did not do, however, was get permission for universe spanning things like the Deeper Well and such, which would be MAJOR artifacts within his world. This is a problem. I also did not think of just making Creation be in a seperate dimension rather than an interconnected, though distant world much like the Digital World and the Spirit World. This is also a problem. Finally, I did not and have not worked out with him what those characters who were or would be Exalted would be doing within the Silver Millennium (Because trust me, they would be THRIVING until then, because Exalted lifespans and all that crap). Altogether, I did not synchronize my story with his intentions and direction, and that, altogether, is the biggest issue of all.

Now that that is all out of the way, where do we go from there? As mentioned previously I'm already writing another fic over on SB, it's been months since I've updated Exalted on High and I haven't even mentioned Under the Waters of Babylon this entire time! For all of this, I am proposing a plan such as the following:

Under the Waters of Babylon (Sailor Moon/Exalted): RIP, it falls to the Wayside, perhaps never to be resurrected within a future time. May give a summary of what the plot would have looked like sometime soon.

The Epic Tale of Gilgamesh: My story on SB (it's actual name is much longer than that, of course), and the one most recently updated. Currently working on the Next Chapter and an Omake after a hiatus due to dealing with Finals and papers and the like.

Exalted on High: I'm reworking it. I can't continue the story and just retcon everything earlier without first making some serious, much-needed edits. So far, I'm in the process of finishing the Inquisitor Archetype and redoing Stephen's archetype (New name: the Incarnas (Cavatina Incarna for the regular monsters, "Blank" the "Blank" Incarnate for the special ones) Strategy: Rapid XYZ deployment and Attribute manipulation, Aesthetic: Cavatina (Musical term for a short musical number without repitition) Incarna will be named after famous bands and artists (So Far: Asia, Crush 40, CCR, the Beatles, Billy Joel and rest assured there will be more) and the Incarnates will be named after Semi-Famous deities of specific elements (Chaac the Rain Incarnate, Charybdis the Depths Incarnate, Sutr the Blaze Incarnate and more). This will take quite a lot of time however in order to get everything for the story right. Don't expect a chapter within the next few days, for example.

And well, that's all I have to say so far. Sorry for the long wait, but, well, things happened. Send me a PM if you have any questions and I will try and answer your questions as soon as possible!

Sincerely,

Critian Caceorte