[TAS + ND Announcement] Update on the situation - TL;DR: Taking this week off as well, but things seem fixed (hopefully)

Hello everyone, LunaWolve here once more.

A quick update, after one of the most mentally taxing weeks of all time.

Yesterday evening, at around 8pm on a Sunday, the problem was finally fixed by my landlord manually ripping apart the entire duct system in the basement and chiseling out whatever calcified blockages existed.

First of all, big props to them for doing that; didn't expect a landlord to come out and go crazy like that, but here we are.

Secondly, I'm assuming that things are now fixed. Hopefully.

I finally took a shower again after like half a week of living like an absolute animal, bringing out more than 80x 3litre buckets worth of sewage and killing the plants in my garden with it all and "sleeping" with one eye and ear open for a week straight, trying to listen for any gurgles of sewage coming back up the pipes.

To say that I'm exhausted would be an understatement.

While I'm physically not doing too bad, my mental is absolutely shot.

I'm 110% exhausted on a mental scale from the constant worries, 0 downtime and 0 respite of this past week.

Not being able to take a leak, eat solid foods (cause there's no toilet available!) and constantly worry about everything, all the while still working full-time and dealing with absolute dogshit at work as well, has completely left me dry and empty of mental juice.

As such, as much as it makes me physically upset to say this, I'll take another week off from releases, just to try and recover.

I got only half a week of work, as Thursday and Friday are off for me thanks to some holidays here in germany, so I get a nice 4-day weekend where I might actually be able to just properly recover a bit for the first time in weeks.

I'll write when I feel like I'm capable of sitting down and getting my head in the right space again.

At the latest, there'll be a new chapter on June 2nd/June 3rd for ND/TAS respectively.

There might be something before then, but I won't promise anything to give myself the option to actually just turn my head off for a few days and reset.

I'd rather take a break now than to truly break something that's not easily fixable inside my head.

Creativity, unfortunately, does not allow for itself to be forced for long.

Thank you for your continued patience on this absolute mess of a month.

You'll hear from me again soon. Take care.