Major status update. I just realized that I have so much planned for my project that I may ultimately end up with a phased rollout, so at this point I am seriously considering switching my Steamworks profile to early access to accommodate this.
On a separate note, I have extended the content plan for the ending parts of the eventual third chapter to include one last surprise ahead of the final battle. Basically what will happen is that the divine associate whose intervention has been forced to assist in the capture of the "big bad" will suggest the use of a cryogenic service to allow for the protection of your party from potential retaliation while providing for the provision of the experience of your party following the expiration of a thousand years worth of negotiated armistice provisions, which is quickly upended by yet another rise of the "big bad".
It will also become known that during the lockdown of your party in cryogenic protection that a multitude of associates who previously gave themselves to the ongoing effort are among millions upon billions of people who have unwillingly been subjected to regeneration of their physical forms, and that there of them are on hand for the reawakening of your party when it matters the most. This will lead directly into the realization that saving the universe now involves reshaping it from the very core, and that only a select portion of the population will be allowed to follow into the next phase of existence. (For reference purposes, the point in the conflict where this will occur is based on part 20 of the great revelation, much as the situation just before this point is a riff on part 19.)
