Hello everyone!

First, let me thank you for reading Rifter’s Covenant so far. I really appreciate the number of people reading me story. Every comment or like you leave me, puts a smile right onto my face.

This time I decided to do an announcement directly in the story instead of posting on my wall. Why? Well, if I share a post with my subscribers on my profile, only the people who already subscribed to me will be able to read it. Everyone following into the readership later will have no chance to know about the announcements. So, this time I’ll leave the information here, so all can find it, no matter when they joined my readership.

First, for all that missed the last announcement: I introduced a small readership bonus as a token of gratitude for the rise in subscriber numbers. As most of the goals were already claimed by now, I will only list those still left at this point.

150 Subscribers - 2 additional episodes unlocked

200 Subscribers - 2 additional episodes unlocked

250 Subscribers - 3 additional episodes unlocked 

Additional meaning: I’ll unlock these episodes additionally to the normal 3 times a week update schedule, so you can enjoy more of the written chapters so far. As I can of course not write unlimited chapters in a single week, I won’t provide additional episodes out of the schedule after 250 subscribers, but I might think of other readership bonuses in the future.

So far 51 episodes of Rifter’s Covenant are written, so even if I would be surprised to find the number reached within the next days, you’d get your bonus, don’t worry. 

As several readers were reaching out to me for the possibility of early access options and other things, I decided to provide  a bit more information in Q&A schemata.

Is there a change to get an early access option for Rifter’s Covenant?

Sadly, Tapas doesn’t allow me so far to set an early access option for readers. As far as my research showed, I don’t think it will be available for me in any near future, as the feature doesn’t seem to be given freely to everyone. If anyone happens to have further information on it, I’d be glad for you sharing. That being said, I do intend to provide special services for the reader in the setup of my ko-fi page’s Tiers.

What benefits can one gain from joining ko-fi Tiers? 

Well, that is something I’d actually like to ask you at this point. What type of perks would you be interested? You are welcome to leave me a private message or a comment below this announcement to tell me your wishes. I’d definitely like to do some kind of early access for you, so I’d appreciate if you told me what you’re willing to pay monthly for an early access option. Or if you’d even be willing to pay for it. Rest assured, none of the comments or messages will end up in some type of commitment to join my ko-fi page. I’d simply like to know what you’d be interested in. 

Other suggestion that came in from readers so far were for example:

An official Discord Server for Rifter’s Covenant

Background information on character, world settings or a bestiary

Talk to the characters - every wanted to ask a character a question? That’d be your chance

Reading recommendation from me for other comics/novels

So, bluntly speaking: This is your opportunity to ask for something you’d enjoy in the future.

I can’t spend money on a monthly ko-fi membership. Is there any other way I can support you?

Of course. Every read without an add blocker already helps me, as I’ll earn a bit of the ad revenue along the views. It doesn’t add up too much so far, but it might in the future. If you’re interested in supporting me more, there are a few other options. If you have a social media channel or some friends who like to read similar stories, please recommend Rifter’s Covenant to them. Even if you cannot afford to spend some money for it, someone who comes in over your recommendation might be able to. If not, he might suggest my story to someone who does in the future. So spreading the word definitely helps me in the long term. Of course, I’d also appreciate every single drop of ink you can spare me in the future, no matter if you earned it from the offer wall for free or paid for it directly. But as the support system with ink will only open up by 250 subscribers, I cannot receive any of your ink so far.

Last but not least a little teaser of my Vtube model in making. 

My friend is working on a Vtube model for me, so I can upload some videos with background information on my ko-fi page in the future. I hope you’re already looking forward to the future introductions as much as I do. There will be some further adjustments to the first draft, of course, but I still wanted to share the first concept of it with you. If you’re interested in further work of my friend, please check out FacelessLayn on twitter! The link will follow down below, but be warned. Some of her works are NSFW.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you in the comments. Thank you for being such an astonishing readership so far.