Thanks :)

More to come!

Thanks! I'm glad you like them. SorenZer0 has a great talent and I think that he did a great job of illustrating scenes of the story in a very realistic way

Thanks! I'm glad that you like them. I love SorenZer0's art, so when I had the chance to commission some pictures of the story, I did not hesitate.

As for Kelly, I think her tits are already big enough! :) I've always pictured her as voluptuous, in the sense of having E-size cups or similar, which is what SorenZer0 managed to do in the model he created for the renders. 

Cheers!

Well, it has been barely 10 days since I posted the last chapter of Volume 2... :)

I need to say that in these last 10 days I've progressed quite a lot in Volume 3. Now I'm at a point where I'm pretty sure it will be completed. I've written more than half of the story already and I have a clear outline of the other half. Having said that, and considering how long the story will be (it looks like it will be more or less as long as Volume 2), it will still take me a while to finish it. And once it's finished, I will need to re-read it a couple of times and probably make some changes for consistency, to try to prevent major plot holes, to rearrange some chapters to make the overall flow better...

All this takes time. Honestly, I think it will take me weeks to have the first draft of the complete story. Then some more time to do the proof reading, corrections and relayout, ... 

Honestly, I don't think I will start posting this story before I'm back from summer vacation. I would not like to start posting a couple of chapters and then stop for 3-4 weeks. I intend on keeping my usual weekly schedule, that gives me some time to re-read and make the final adjustments to each chapter before posting it. This has helped me quite a lot to improve many things in Volume 2, so I will keep it. So... I think you should expect something in the August/September timeframe.

Having said that... you must be starting to like the story more than it seemed to be so willing to get the next installement ready ;P

On your plot questions:

- Yes, Kelly thinks that she has got rid of everyone in the FSD and is unaware that anyone got away

- In one of the chapters I've not written yet there will be some more details about what they got from Kelly's DNA sample and further theory on the girls' growth

Cheers!

PS: Thank you for the congratulations. I was quite happy with the amount of reviews I was getting with this story, since feedback s what keeps me motivated to write and post, but your reviews of the last couple of chapters definitely helped reaching the "50" milestone :)

Well, thanks again for your positive feedback. As you know, this is what encourages me to write. You have been one of the most regular reviewers of the story so you can be sure that if Volume 3 ever gets done, it will be, in part, thanks to you. 

I knew that some people would be surprised by the sudden ending this week; that's why I took the opportunity to warn those of you that have been posting reviews regularly. I had doubts on whether to merge the epilogue and Chapter 23 or not, but I decided against it. Chapter 23 was very self-conained by itself, and the epilogue had a different mission, which was to set the stage for Volume 3. Still, I knew that if I did not let people know about the fact that the storyline will continue many would feel the ending was too abrupt.

I'm glad that you like the DA pic. SorenZer0 is a very talented artist; he has been amongst my favority for a long time and I took the chance that he had opened a Patreon account to commission the character design and render to him. I plan on commissioning some more. SorenZer0 is great at doing giantess in the city scenes and I have plenty of ideas on scenes I would like him doing, so the limit on the quantity/speed will be budget (which is always best as a restriction than just lack of options :).

Was Kelly how you imagined her? I need to commission the characters of Lisa and Casey and I'd like to know the opinion from someone that should have a very clear picture in mind of Kelly.

Cheers!

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad that you like the way I've been writing the series so far and that you have it in such a high regard. It's encouraging!

First of all, let me tell you that after reading your comment I'm convinced that we both share a very common approach in our giantess' preferences. I could not help but agreeing with almost everything you wrote as I read through your omment. It almost felt as if you had written what I had in mind when I started with Volume 2. 

I'm usually very happy to reply to everyone's comments (and I've been very glad that there has been a group of people that have taken the time and effort to provide regular feedback about what I have been posting). I'm especially keen on trying to provide some additional insight to some of your comments and to hear back from you if you have any additional questions.

Let me start by the middle: I have to admit that I was a little surprised about the level of scientific/reality scrutiny in some of the comments. One of the things I was more proud of when writing the story was that I tried to keep it plausible as much as possible (considering that the entire starting point of any giantess fantasy is completely impossible). I honestly thought that I had done a decent enough job at doing that, so the strength of the criticism in some of the comments puzzled me a little. In the end, once engaged in the conversation, it has even been helpful to fine tune some of the things I had in mind (without too big changes, I have to admit). Still, it made me wonder if maybe the job I had done had not been as decent as I thought.

Then, I read your comment and realized that you had explained perfectly what I had in mind: there needs to be a ertain level of latitude in order to keep the fun. Otherwise this would be hard science fiction but boring as hell. Still, I tried to keep accuracy in as many things as it made sense, to help in getting the plausibility I was looking for. Judging from your review I think that I managed to keep the right balance, at least for you :)

Let me go to the beginning now: Kelly is also my favorite character. If this was real life she probably would not be. She is not as bad as Casey, but she is arrogant and is getting dellusional. Lisa is a much nicer person. But this is a giantess fantasy story and in its context, Kelly is the funniest character to write about. It would be hard for me to write a complete story about Casey. And even harder to write one about Lisa (that would be boring). The combination of the three is what made this story interesting to write to me and Kelly has a central role, with a character which is flexible and adaptable enough to help me make the story progress.

Now, about her new size: I need to admit that I don't like stories with microscopic people or huge giantesses either. My favorite sizes have always been in the 100-300ft range (precisely the sizes the first two volumes have focused on), since they offer the women a lot of possibilities but still make the interaction with the world and its people easy. In Volume 2, this size was especially interesting when writing Kelly who, during most of the story, just played with her surroundings. The bigger giantesses get, the harder it is to interact with the people, as you mention. And as you'll have seen in this story, like you, what I like is interaction.

So, why did I decide to make Kelly grow so big? When I wrote the outline of Volume 2 I had the entire story figured out until the ending. The catfight between Lisa and Casey had to end up in some way. Either the girls were reduced, as in Volume 1, or something else had to happen. I was tempted to make them small again, but it did not feel right. Up to some point, it felt like Groundhog Day. I did not see anyone teaming up with anyone else. None of the potential alliances made sense in the long run, and besides, it would have kept the story running in loops (one girl down, two roaming the city doing whatever that had already been done). There had to be something that changed the status quo, and this being a giantess story, I decided to make one of the girls grow.

Of course, the only logical choice was Kelly. I did not even think about the possibility of making Lisa grow and if Casey had been the one to become huge, any story from then onwards could have only been Casey rampaging this or Casey rampaging that and it would have become boring too (at least to me). Kelly was the only one that could grow and still be interesting to write. So, that's what I did. And I chose a much much bigger size than the one I typically like because I did not want to turn this story in a growth contest where every girl gets a hundred feet taller in an attempt to be the one on top. It would not have played well in the universe I had thought of. Whenever Kelly grew, it had to be evident that she was the one in charge, so that’s what I did.

This choice helped me end Volume 2 at a point where even if the storyline is not concluded, I think the story feels complete enough to close it. And it set the ground for Volume 3. This choice also means that Volume 3 will be much more challenging to write. Kelly’s new size does not feel so natural to me when I’m writing about it, but I decided to take the challenge and see what would come out (hopefully it will still be decent enough…). And since what I like is interaction, I can tell you that one of the things I’m keeping my focus while writing the first few drafts of Volume 3 is precisely Kelly’s interactions with the world from her new perspective. As she stated in her speech, she wants to rule. And this means that she has to interact with the people, so she will try. Of course, with her size the amount of destruction will grow exponentially since, as you mention, it’s quite unavoidable. And this will also end up having an impact in Kelly, who was already getting a little too detached from reality by the end of Volume 2. But still, she won’t be just an oversized version of Casey. Kelly is much more complex than that.

Having said all this, I’ll try to keep making the story as plausible as possible within the rules I already set for this fiction world. I hope that I will be able to achieve the objective. I would not think too much about Kelly dying due to lack of food. The story will take place immediately after Volume 2 and will not span more than a couple or three days.

Thanks again for reviewing and for the positive feedback!

Cheers!

Well, I can agree that the army was under-prepared. In any case, if they had been extra-paranoid they would not have been ready for them growing again... they would have killed them (or locked them twenty stories underground) in the first place. Unfortunately, then there would have been no story...

Fighters do not tend to shoot satellite guided missiles unless they make special preparations for that. Satellite guided missiles tend to be used to attach fixed targets on the ground (or very slow moving targets like ships). Kelly is neither of those. I see that I will not convince you here but I honestly believe that sending a few anti-tank helicopters looks like a logical enough course of action... The tanks and the soldiers were just meant for support and to take care of the situation once the women had been taken care of. Besides, Kelly is pretty easy to hit once she has grown again, but when the army was sent the women were "just" 250 feet tall. That's what the operation was prepared to fight, not a Mega-Kelly

The fact that there are no giants in the story is basically because I don't enjoy too much the giant couples topic and I don't think I would enjoy writing about it. So, in the rules of the world I created, the formula does not work on men. As for strength without size: I guess that we will need to give the scientists some more time to research, now that they are on the right direction. Unfortunately, right now they are a little busy trying to make Kelly smaller...

As for ways to kill her: the main problem people face when they are trying to find ways to defeat Kelly is that it seems that she grows every time she is about to die. So, it's not such an easy decision to make.

Epilogue will be posted within the hour. I don't think it will clarify many of your doubts, but it will set the stage for Volume 3. I'm curious to see what you think about it...

Cheers!

Well, first of all I think I should thank you. From your comments it is quite clear that you did not like the stories at all. And yet, you took the time the read the 130,000+ words in both of them, together with the comments from other readers and my answers to those comments (since some of your references are to them and not the story), then you took the time to create an account and finally, you took the time to write two pages of feedback about different elements in almost every chapter of the story. 

I need to say that while I may agree with some of your comments, I generally disagree with most. I guess that you'll interpret that as me not wanting to accept criticism and, well, it may be that, but the truth is that my feeling after reading your extense review is that you mostly don't like some (or a lot) of the things that happened in the story, that you don't like the type of characters I wrote about and that you are considering that anything you don't like is illogical or bad writing or lack of research or whatever... 

I intend to respond to the comments you made (it may sound sarcastic, but after the considerable effort you put on this, I think that you deserve an answer). I have three questions for you first, though (of course, feel free not to answer them):

- The nick "IHategiants666" is truly meant to say that you have the concept of giant people (men and women)? In case that's true (maybe you prefer shrinking), I would be even more surprised that you read the entire two stories

- The story description for Volume 2 clearly specifies that it is mostly a giantess in the city scenario. I'm curious about what were your expectations about that...

- The important one: the fact that you have waited to the last chapter to make this comment is because you had liked the story so far and then suddenly Chapter 23 (and my comments about the story ending here) disappointed you completely (sort of like Lost's ending) or did you not like it all the way through and you just kept on reading in case it got better or more logical?

My comments to your points:

- Superstrength: It was not obvious in Volume 1. Still, for the girls to be able to even walk at their new sizes, they would need to be much stronger than at regular size. Otherwise, following the common theory that weight increases with the cube of the growth factor but strength only with the square, the girls would die crushed by their weights. In Volume 2, since they have got bigger, the increase in strength should have been even higher. And, having said that... I guess that you are not happy with some of the time and words I invested into trying to explain the theory behind their original and second growth, but in the conversations between Ron and Dr. Mendel I think it was clear that they had messed quite a lot with the girls' genes while trying to make them big again, and that once everything was unlocked, they were not completely sure about how many other things they had unlocked, besides the size. Well, in my mind, one of these things was super-strenght. You may like superstrength in a story or not... but at least I tried to explain where it is coming from. By the way, once I started writing a story about girls growing to 250 feet tall, I was under the impression that adding superstrength in the mix was not really going to make the story any less believable. I tried (as many authors do) to add some sort of bullshit scientific component to the story, since I think it makes it more interesting, but in the end this is fantasy, not science-fiction, and in fantasy there are no limits as long as you follow the rules you have set to yourself on how the universe works (which I tried to do, with partial success, according to your comment)

- Kelly's new size: believe it or not, I had it in mind since the beginning of Volume 2. I never post a story until I have the entire outline done. Volume 1 was about the girls growing, getting used to it, making differnet use of their size based on their very different characters and finally having things out of control. Volume 2 was intended to be a giantess in the city scenario with my favourite size of giantess involved and again witht three different girls with different characters, but with a much longer evolution, so that Casey's psycho attitude and Kelly's new approach to being big can have some background justification (which you may or may not like). I could have ended Volume 2 like Volume 1, with the girls being reduced. For many chapters I guess it felt like that. It was intentional on my side. But the truth is that I did not want the story to become groundhog day. And the only logical option if the girls were not reduced was to change the status quo (things were a little at a stalemate). And, call illogical... but a way I found to change the status quo in a giantess's story was to make one of the giants grow. Which, by the way, taking into account all the explanations about why the girls grew after they tried to kill them in the first place, was perfectly possible. As a matter of fact, Kelly, who had been the only girl to be awake when they tried to kill her and grew, had all the information she needed to make herself bigger.

- Megalomania: I never said that Kelly or Casey were goddesses. They said that of themselves. And I think that throughout the story it should have been clear that Casey is a pshycho-bitch and that Kelly is gradually falling into a dellusional state (let's call it megalomania). I agree with you that both of them are pretty bad and that Kelly is just trying to fool herself (she still is a little better than Casey, but the results are almost that bad, no matter what she thinks). But I think you should not confuse what a character does with what the author thinks... (otherwise one should start getting worried about Frank Miller's or Cristopher Nolan's mental health after writing the Joker). I understand you think Kelly is stupid to think she is a goddess... well, I never said she was right to think so :)

- The army's behavior: true, Kelly would not be able to fight back against fighter jets. And fighter jets can fire missiles from beyond visual distance. A problem with missiles, though, is that they are either heat seeking or guided by radar. As far as I know, Kelly is not made of metal... and as for heat, she has a regular 98ºF body temperature (not what heat seeking missiles are used to target). So, at some point, someone in the fictional military in my fictional story decided that a closer range attack was needed. One where they could guide weapons manually. Foot soldiers, of course, were not sent to try to kill her. But if the army had any expectations to kill her, then foot soldiers would have been needed in any case to secure the area and deal witht he body (and remember, she was 250 feet when they sent them). 

- Operation Goliath: explained in Chapter 6 (fast reponse force in case a giant appears); brought back later when General Archer orders his troops to attack following operation Goliath (Chapter 22), after the reducer fails. I guess you were expecting a more sophisticated method to deal with a giant woman, but I believe that the army had underestimated the threat... (after all, their previous exposure to the risk the woman represented had been very minimal). You consider it's bad story writing... It may be, but I think you might have missed a chapter or two before writing your comment. 

- Demise of Sykes and Archer: no one would go to ground zero to deal with a zombie epidemic. This is mostly due to the fact that zombies are contagious... as far as I know, giant women are not contagious. Archer is treating them more like terrorists than anything else, and you typically deal with a terrorist threat by commanding in the field. Beisdes, Archer is ambitious and he was under the impression that they would easily defeat the women and then he would be on the field to take the credit for it. It was implied a few times along the story (this was the purpose of Sykes point of view the entire time)

- Who in their right mind would shot a nuclear missile to the USA while the USA military is still trying to deal with the problem? That would be a declaration of war and would definitely be stupid! Besides, the girls have been in Hollner for about half a day. I'm afraid world leaders do not react that fast to things. The fact that the military has been able to assemble a force and strike the women is already impressive enough... As for which other methods will the military try to employ against them, I guess you will need to wait until Volume 3. Of course, they will not sit idle...

- I'm not closing the story. There will be a Volume 3. No one will want Kelly to roam free. The story will deal about what they will try and what she will do. It will also deal with the new situation Casey and Lisa have to face. 

I got, by this time, that you hate Kelly and would like to see her pay for what she has done. WHo knows what will happen... It's almost as hard to tell as whether you will continue reading Volume 3 when it's done, despite how little you seem to like it.

Anyway, thanks for reading again. 

Cheers!

Having said this, I enjoyed writing this chapter. It was different, and interesting. There will be much more about Kelly at her new size (including some explanation on how she got so big), and also more about Casey and Lisa. But it won't be in Volume 2... I did not want the story to go on forever, so I decided to wrap it up at a point where it made sense and where it could be considered self-contained. This point will be the epilogue next week. 

The adventures of Kelly, Casey and Lisa will continue in Volume 3 (I'm optimistic that I will be able to complete something good enough to publish), and if the idea I have in mind right now proves to work well, you might finally see the reunion of Casey with Kevin, her ex-boyfriend :)

As a matter of fact I have an outline for Volume 3 already in mind and a few chapters already written. It will take some time before I have something to publish, but I'm working on it.

I hope that you will enjoy the conclusion of Volume 2 next week and what I have in mind for Volume 3!

Cheers!