Hello readers!

I hope you've enjoyed this story so far. It's a longer-form foray into narrative prose, something I don't do a whole lot of otherwise. I haven't included puzzles or extra audio components or anything of that sort yet, because I wanted to focus on the words and the universe.

I planned for this story to end about here, but the amount of plot that presented itself to me during the drafting process was too tempting for me to leave out. This story takes place in a universe that I've been thinking of internally for over a decade. The multiverse it's set in has been bouncing around in my head for longer. There have been tons of ideas that have swam around, rather unconnected. The amount of connections I was able to make simply could not be done justice in the time I had to write it.

I have other projects (including more Etceteraverse stuff!) to focus on in the coming months, and will need to focus more of my time on those projects to avoid working and thinking myself to death, which basically almost happened last year around this time.

As of today, PAN is on hiatus.

You will hear from Corov and Vasan in other projects soon enough!

In the meantime, I have given you, all of the tools you need to understand Aqnep, even if you didn't catch all of it the first time. There are some bits hidden amongst these pages, too, if you can find them. Thanks to those of you who drew fanart or designed your own Drek! I love seeing people's takes on this story and I encourage you to come up with your own ideas in the meantme. These stories and universes have provided pallettes for you to paint your own personal picture of them with, and I couldn't be happier.

See you all soon!

— Case

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