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Alright, I've genuinely given this a bit of thought (like, for the last few hours), and I've made my decision. Consider things back on schedule. I won't be putting this thing on hiatus, but certain things will end up slowing down. Basically, during the last couple of months I put so much time into this role-play that I wasn't putting enough into my PC sorting work, but now I'm planning to balance the two. The main reason for this is that morale just isn't all that high when I'm not working on this at all, and considering a lot of the notes I need recovered require me to use my memory it's actually more helpful if I have this going on in the background to keep me in the same mind state.

Things are still moving forward, but naturally I won't be able to run really long chats over Discord with people or anything like I was before, since those were probably the main thing that distracted me from working on the PC. I'll come in sometimes and comment if people're messing around, but nothing extensive unless it's to help someone with a post or with a character application. Also, you should consider the map to be more or less entirely on hiatus for now (not only because people I want to discuss it with are rarely around, but because I just don't have time while I'm working on the data recovery), but that shouldn't cause any major problems. Anyway, long story short, I've decided that I can run this role-play while I do the data recovery, but I can't let it take all my time.

With that in mind...
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Status update:

[list][*] We're scratching the previous comment about character applications to the public closing once my data recovery is over, and I'm setting the new date to February 9 (specifically, the moment it becomes Thursday for me -- it's currently 1:19 AM on Wednesday). [b]Indra can still finish up Daniel's CS and get him accepted, but he'll only have until the thread officially closes off to the rest of you creating second characters.[/b] This'll happen at a specific plot point that I'll warn people about later.[/list]
[list][*] I'll be working on my part of the collaboration with Leonard, Rein, and Karlita now. There's no way any of them could arrive at the escort point immediately anyway.[/list]
[list][*] [b]Conrad and Henneth are the next characters to post.[/b] This will then be followed up by Lotus and Tatiana. There's a possibility that Itzal's next post happens somewhere in the middle of all this, but I figure at least one other person needs to post before we do a second collaboration between him and Paula.[/list]
[list][*] Charlotte and Olivia have been confirmed to be likely arriving at the escort point virtually moments before it shows up. Conrad is stated to not be using the escort, and neither is Tatiana. Leonard, Rein, and Karlita's statuses regarding this aren't relevant because they're too far away to be posting at the escort soon either way. [b]James and Daniel are the characters we don't have accounted for in terms of whether they're taking the escort or not and when they'll arrive.[/b][/list]
[list][*] I'm waiting until Daniel is finished before moving Annabelle over to the character tab, because I want second/third/whatever player characters to be posted there only once all the first ones are done.[/list]