I could give a lecture on how you're always supposed to write your posts in a program like WordPad or Microsfot Word or OpenOffice and save regularly, buuuuuuuuuyt... I don't do that either. 8D
Remember that the longer you take to get your CS up, the further the story will progress, and the less chance you'll have of meeting all the other characters. Though, if that's not a concern to you, take all the time you need. ^^;

Also, for the funsies of it, I rolled a D100 to see the chance of survival each person in the story has. The results were:

Shizune Yoshida - 7% of Survival
Akane Kabetake - 20% of survival
Aito Shiba - 47% of survival
Shiori Mizuhana - 46% of survival
Reiko Nagatani - 38% of survival
Shinobu Resan - 82% of survival
Tsubasa Hazama - 2% of survival

Obviously, these are just joke-numbers randomly generated by rolling a die, but I thought it was fun to mess around and see what everyone's fate would be if things were left entirely to chance and RNG. :3