And the first part is done. You heard that right [i]first[/i] part. This thing became so gosh darn long that for sake of clarity and not having to read a giant wall of text, I split it up into two posts, the second of which I'm working on right now. But in the meantime y'all can read all that plot that's going on. And ponder the dark mechanisms at work or whatever. I don't know.