Next chapter or two has been interesting to plan for

As you can probably tell this story didn't turn out exactly like I had planned it would, it spent more time on the yunguaq stuff than the Knicknik stuff at this point because the focus of the story is on Twilight and Naudia. This has caused some problems for the climax because of the limited number of developed characters out there in Knicknik.

I can't just kill off a character like "Rolled Oats" in the final battle because, well frankly he's not developed enough for that to be something other than a redshirt event. So I had to figure out ways to add tension to the story without letting people die. Another thing that makes that harder is that this is basically a "foreign government feeding partisan fighters weapons" sorta event, and in case it isn't obvious I can't make the yunguaq look bad here because that would make them look a bit like monsters.

As such there has been a refocusing of the combat section, the way things were going to be was tweaked a bit. However I think I have found a way to make things still tense and exciting without having ponies die to some random mob that Doctor Willow summoned in from the last day or so. Also some parts of the climax have been foreshadowed for quite a while now, TBH certain parts of it are the kinda thing where I decided to turn off ratings and comments because it has the potential to go so wrong.

Heads up though it might require me to release two chapters at the same time(maybe maybe not, still undecided) so there could be a gap there where I'm still writing but there will be a delayed release of 8k words, or I just smush the two chapters together into one.