Haha, no problem on shortening when I do it for things within the story, partly being can get a little weird with certain things if playing myself and using the name "V4mpire" in it.
As for disjointed and rushed, you're this first to mention this, at least in a way i've seen it as such maybe, however it might be in part due to my original idea, myself and others felt was too vanilla and with the decision to change it up meant that Chapter 1 became more of a bridge as to not just "jump" into the changes.
Hoping that with the release of Chapter 2 though, that things slow down some(at least feel that way from the readers point of view) and make a little more sense as to what's going on, since right now as many have said, they're a little confused on things, especially with how the MC just accepts what's going on around him and nothing from his point of view has been mentioned.