Hello everyone!
For now, this is only the first half of Chapter 1 (like NotuScans did), but I do intend to complete the chapter, and then probably reupload it as a single chapter with everything in it (or maybe just update this one). Just doing this much was quite a bit of work in terms of dialogue and typesetting, so this felt like a good "checkpoint" for making progress, and I felt like it was appropriate to put out at least this much while I finish up the rest of the chapter. This is also partially a cry for help; I'm doing this all by myself, so if anyone can offer assistance with a similar or better level of cleaning and/or typesetting, it'd take a lot of the workload off of me. I'll be back with more as soon as I get it completed, which will be between working on my other projects with other groups. But in any case, I hope you all enjoy this chapter, and feel free to point out if I've made any mistakes anywhere!