I'd like to belive the reason behind the lack of updates is the authors time in fleshing out the world and direction of this novel since the dinner scene introduced a lot of different aspects to the world of avalon and it's landscape it reminds me a lot of Game of Thrones now that dragons are rumored to exist.
I really enjoy the part of the Caelan separating himself from the player which is a breath of fresh air in a player-controls-protaganist dominated genre and in a ironic twist that the blank slate you project yourself onto your name and all frees himself from what you typed in the beginning is pretty clever!
Replaying this chapter made me think more highly of it since it introduced a lot of elements and kept the story progressing, do I think the story is gonna get more faster now? Probably not.
All things considered there so much going on that I hope he doesn't end up writing more than he can fit on his paper so to speak.