Ola amigos! Thank you so much for taking the time to review and comment on my work. I know its such a torture for you to do it, but all of you survived. Gosh, I should have made it more distasteful, more disgusting to inflict more damage. But anyways, yes, unfortunately you survived reading my work so I'll just have to do the bitter damage right here.

Pero bago ang lahat, hayaan nyo muna ako'ng magbigay ng general comments about R&D.

Una)

R&D is what I call a "floating chopsuey" story. Kung saan ang lahat ng inyong references to Guardians of the Galaxy, Shounen Anime, Assassination Classroom and so on, are all correct. The world I created has elements of all of it, in one way or another.

Pangalawa)

I wrote R&D last year from October to December. All 31 parts from beginning to end, non-stop. It was my 'coming-out from hibernation' work.

It is a fast paced Novella, at ginawa ko ito ng mabilisan at may gigil; and to tell you honestly, I did broke a lot of rules in writing with this work. I knew I was roller-coasting from the tenses but I didn't give squat. It was 'juggles'.

I bounced it, flipped it and smashed it down hard that the reader could feel the ride.

And even though I broke the rules and made all you guys dizzy, still the story 'floated' above it all. And that's more important for me.

Pangatlo)

R&D is still very much an amateur work.

And having said that, I am thankful that ChantalCruz30 and libranages took the effort to look into the technicalities. Man, you guys are like professional editors or something.

Hey, can I hire any of you guys to edit the whole book? Hahaha just kidding, but seriously, can I?

Whew, even leoconstellwriter got me on the shifting of the scenes on chapter 1; and I promise to revise that (Kit-->huwag kang tamad.)

But on a brighter note, I was relieved to see comments from MissBulilit and the others that it was 'easy to follow'. That what I intended for the reader to visualize and internalize did happen on some occasions. Hoo-hah! Good splash!

It was also refreshing that justjayps and ChantalCruz30 noticed the incorporation if Pinoy words and cultures that I really wanted for readers to see. And I was also surprised at how yoshiro_hoshi was so sensitive to the 'creative direction' and 'morals' of the whole work. The moral is there, and though it was vaguely touched on the first few chapters, but it gets deeper along the way (I think). Oh di ba lola, kaya wait ko talaga comments mo eh, nakakagulat ka hahahaha.

Speaking of which, purple_porpoise was the one to see the hints on the morals, about cautionary tale of war and sovereignty among other things; and that's because she went to the full length, reaching up to chapter 12 that she shocked me regarding the details she mentioned. And aside from that, I was glad to have someone in the review panel to be well versed at least on the sci-fi side of the work.

If anyone needs an insight on sci-fi fantasy, she's the 'go to' girl. (Raine you caught me on the inconsistency of asst. professor for ancient literature—I was revising at the time and can't find the one you mentioned, you're very keen.)

And much like the way I introduced the characters and the terms in the story, the whole work is a building process. So I really take sympathy to libranages who wanted more descriptions on many areas of the story, but like I said, it's a building process; and a lot of what a reader would look for are later depicted vividly on the coming chapters.

Even the term back-dragging was explained in part 5, I think.

To sum it up, I think we had a very good spiral here. And I promise (with my left hand raised) that I will do some editing on the work.

Arigato gozaimasu *bow*.

Now, I think only one reviewer caught this, but the timeline from the prologue to the first chapter is about a twelve year gap.

Sinadya ko ito.

Why? To introduce the characters, but more importantly, the twelve year gap is a work in process.

I intended to make a series called "Bob & Gener" or something like that. Starting from the time that they saw the Jauro bear-Nina up to the start of Book 1: Embassies of Dangerous Dreams (maybe after finishing the next three books I already started). Hence if anybody was waiting for the Book 2 other than GreenLime8, you might say it's pretty slow to come.

So! This is why libranages is my pick for Most Helpful Reviewer. Not only because he saw the gap on the timeline, but he also refreshed my memory on a lot of writing forms and rules that I've already forgotten. Not only that, he has some interesting points in the contents as well. Mahusay mag-review ang mamang ito.

Pero grabe, ang hirap talaga pumili sa kanilang tatlo nila purple_porpoise at ChantalCruz30 sa totoo lang.

Magkakarooon talaga ng reputation to quality ang FWFC, hahahahaha.

And oh, , thanks for referring the work back to the author. Hahahaha magulo talaga ako, we can agree on that. Thank you kuya, or ate, or whatever... Mwaahhh!

Cheers!