What Cursed said :) Take care of yourself and your loved ones first and foremost! The financial support from people is lovely (and incredibly humbling) but so long as people are playing my game and enjoying it, that's the most important thing to me.
As for the Beast taking humanoid shape, it was something I wrestled with myself for a long time, actaully. But it's necessary for a whole bunch of things that happen later, and is actually a bit of lore hint too, so a necessary sacrifice, I'm afraid!
There's still more Eldritch Horror hiding in the wings, though... ;)