**Not the Narrator's Self-Insert...The Author. The actual Author of this whole adventure. The Narrator is not the Author.**

**Predictably, your attempts to actually strife against the Author end badly, not because he outlevels you or anything, he's actually much weaker than any of your party members statwise (even Ecrivain, who explicitly chose to cripple himself statwise to gain early bird crafting bonuses). No, his inevitable victory is mainly because he takes the advantages the Narrator has up to infinity, as well as some other tricks that are definitely more than OP. coughcoughmarysuecoughcough.**

Author: (You could try to-)

**Be a little less condescending? Unfortunately, that's one thing that you're going to have to put up wi-**

Author:...You don't want to know what's going on up there now. You just don't. Trust me.

((I'm going to have to abandon thread for the rest of the night. I have VERY IMPORTANT BUSINESS to attend to regarding college, and college out-prioritizes almost everything in almost every circumstance right now. Good night!))