@all: apologies for my radio silence. Weekends are ironically when I have the least time for RPing. This week you can expect at least two new IC posts from me, plus the start of the Encyclopedia Avara in the post below the RP. Please add your worldfacts(tm) to the pirate pad, so I can add them to the RP. Feel free to start your own categories/systems of organization, and to copy paste relevant stuff from your NSes. 

Additionally- we're going to start a new role-play mechanism (feedback welcome). Each week, I will announce world events either ICly or OOCly for specific nations to react to. These can range from events of world wide-significance to minor things affecting one nation. Stay tuned this week :)