A post for you all! Ten, I know you wanted to collab but you weren't on this evening and I wanted to fulfill my promise. We'll do it next time. I don't know when, exactly, I will have time to work on another post - I'm guessing next weekend at the earliest, but a full post probably won't come until the week after, particularly since I intend the next one to be fairly long (and to be set after Prisk moves the story forward). I'll keep everybody advised. @Hae: Writers' block happens. For lots of reasons. Honestly, I think the best thing for you to do is write! I know what horrid advice that is, and I almost never take it myself, but it really does help. Only once I start writing do I realize how much I have to say. As far as Oz... I don't know how we've dealt with Thael's absence IC, if at all, but maybe the best way to handle this is to think about this from an in-character perspective. If Roy, as a character, has wrapped his personal identity and will to live up in somebody who's no longer with us, imagine how that would affect him. It'd be a profound struggle for him to cope with Thael's loss or absence, however it's handled. I think it might be worth asking Prisk if she'll make some GM decision about Thael's ultimate fate, so that you can roleplay a reasonable response.