Well... There is no nice way to talk about this. Something terrible has happened to me last week which will halt progress on my work for My New Memories for some time. I don't know how long exactly, it can be everything between weeks and months. Let me copy and paste the message I posted on other social media platforms for you to read. This message is from thursday ( 14th september ). The updated stuff is below it. I'm getting framed. Someone is framing me and now I'm getting accused of being some kind of crypto scammer. Everyone that knows me knows that I hate crypto, but apparently whatever evidence was provided, was enough. I got raided by the cops. They confiscated all my pcs and my phone. They took all devices that I had for backups at my place. That is the super bad news. I'm super crippled in my ability to work atm. For some reason they didn't notice ( or didn't care ) about a Laptop I had ( it was still in its packaging behind other packages ). Here comes the bad part, though: My New Memories and my DAZ3D assets. They are on my pcs and the external ssds I had. And they are with the cops right now. I have an appointment with an lawyer tomorrow, since this is some serious shit. I will tell him that I need these things for work and that I want them back. In germany, the cops usually just mirror your hard drives and then work with those copies. So I hope that this can be solved sooner than later, but I don't have a timeframe ( or know if I'll get anything back at all ). I only have the assets for Bethany and Sabrina in my mega cloud, since my daz3d in general is over 1TB big. So I have no idea when I can continue work on MNM, since this stuff is so fresh and I didn't talk to my lawyer yet, everything is kinda in the open. I made this post on thursday ( 14th ) on Discord, once I got access to my phone number again so I could log into my accounts. The appointment with the lawyer was... Okay, I guess. He told me that he will ask the police to check the external ssds ( that contain my daz3d files ) first, and if they are clean ( which they are ), hand them back out to me again. The shit news is that he doesn't have a timeframe for it, but he told me right away "I can't get your hopes up that it will be solved super fast". He has to request access to the case files, which might be fast or not fast. I also got an update regarding that, getting access to case files takes between 6 to 8 weeks...But that is not in relation to getting my stuff back. So, what's the plan now? Honestly, I have no idea. I already put a shitton of effort into Chapter 4 and now I have no idea when I can get back to working on MNM. These investigations can take weeks or even months... Which makes me insane. I'm literally going insane because this is my life, working on these games for the last four years has been my life, and now it's being threatened with some bullshit that I didn't do. I know the cops have to investigate but...I don't know. This is way too much for my mental health to handle, to be honest. I had a breakdown on wednesday when it happened and the last few days it was actually the same. I just don't know what to do anymore. I have no idea. I can't just recreate the characters or else I would. I know it was stupid from me to not upload at least the character files somewhere online, so I can use them. Finding and downloading the other assets is no problem... But I can't recreate the characters just like that. It's just... It's just too much for me at the moment. And the only thing I can do is wait for my lawyer to do his job. Working on My New Memories is basically my life. And this has been taken away from me for reasons that are out of my control. Of course law enforcement has to do their job but man... That evidence they provided for the search warrant is pretty thin. For now, all I can do is wait and I apologize for that. I will do my best to keep you guys updated. Or let me say, as soon as I got ANY news regarding a timeframe or once I got the ssds back, I will inform you guys ASAP. Sorry that this post is rather confusing. It's basically just copy paste from posts I made earlier this week. I wasn't really able to post here sooner, my mental health is detoriating and... Yeah. Don't want it to sound like an excuse, you people are paying players for my game and you deserve to know everything. Maybe as a slither of hope, no matter how long it takes, the work on my new memories will continue. They're not going to find anything indoctrinating on my pcs, so I will get everything back. But... It's a matter of time. And no one call tell you the exact timeframe for these things, sadly. The worst part is that I don't have access to any of my editing tools as well ( photoshop etc ), so sorry if this news post is kinda scuffed..