Prepare for a bumper OoC post, ladies and gentlemen: please stick with it till the end, because it's mostly important stuff. Skip the tragic hider if you only have time (or patience) for the headline news.

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[center][i]"My God, what have I done?"[/i]

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[i]"Fortunately, Doc, the process is reversible."[/i][/center]

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[h3]Good news, at last[/h3]

[indent]Jig has eaten.[/indent]

[hider=Click for First-World Problems]Your beloved GM had a minor and spectacularly irrational existential crisis at the start of the weekend.

Sequence of events:

[list][*] Thursday night: Jig stays up to watch UK Election and do some last-minute revision before Friday's exam
[*] Very early Friday morning: Jig is engrossed by election and is still revising, forgoes going to sleep
[*] Friday morning: Jig eats a sandwich and goes to the exam
[*] Friday afternoon: Jig has not done very well in the exam [/understatement]. The election is a car-crash for Jig's politics and national identity. Jig's body enters its 'siege mentality', which refuses food, as usual when Jig gets stressed. Jig hits the bottle (hard).
[*] Friday evening: Jig has not eaten and is very drunk. Jig has been awake nearly 48 hours (Jonas has nothing on me). Jig passes out, safely, at home. Flatmates are concerned that Jig has the door wide open while asleep; something that is extremely out of character.
[*] Saturday morning: Jig wakes up quite confused: somewhat blacked-out from the night before.
[*] Saturday afternoon: Jig wakes up again, and bravely decides to give the day another chance. Things have moved, evidently by drunken Friday Jig, to sober Saturday Jig's surprise and confusion.
[*] Saturday evening: Jig gets the shakes quite badly (tiredness and hunger, not alcohol) and realises that working in a busy London pub while trembling and in the kind of mood that gets innocent people a punch in the chops is sub-optimal. Jig gets cover for the shift. Jig retreats from kitchen to bedroom because the sight of flatmates eating is not helpful.
[*] Saturday night: Jig's flatmate's mental girlfriend proves her worth when Jig apologises for particularly frank responses to questions she hadn't asked and explains, [i]"I kind of know the feeling. Everybody's different, but sometimes I can't eat either. The only thing I can stomach sometimes is fish fingers*,"[/i] - boom. Eureka. The shops are shut, but Jig has had somebody mention a foodstuff that didn't incur a reaction of violent disgust, and, on Sunday, food seems feasible.
[*] 4AM Sunday: Jig is still awake, and has realised that Jig's other flatmate has a [i]huge[/i] bag of pollock (cheap fish, like a shit version of cod) for frying when high. Jig eats a small fillet of fish.
[*] Almost immediately after: Jig is torn between pain in his confused stomach and the creeping feeling of resembling a human slightly more than the shambling corpse the poor flatmates have had shivering, sweating, and swearing about the place all weekend.[/list]

I'm not quite there, but I'm getting there. It's a bit first-world problems-y, but I deal with stress, anger and sadness like an absolute champion most of the time, so when I fall off the happy-wagon, there's always a bit of a thump. 

In light of these culinary developments, the Defcom 'Jig will kill you' has been reduced from 'A' for Angry to 'I' for Irritated. This by no means I won't be getting the kitchen knives on innocent bystanders that look at me funny, but it does mean that, if I do, I [i]might use fewer knives[/i].

* just in case fish fingers is like a British-only thing and you're confused, it's basically the chicken nugget of the fish world: breaded, processed meat - fingers because they're long, not an anatomical anomaly we've bred for our consumption.[/hider]

So, apart from the UK having fucked itself right up the scoop, I'm back on this with a bit more energy now. 

With a place-holder from Cops up, the general chronology can continue, which is great news for those of you that have stuff lined up. This might not be such excellent news for those of you with no plot-points to play with or who have already played with your plot-points and are kind of flying blind. I got a bit distracted by cementing a plot-point whose name I won't speak for the sake of not giving it away for anybody that doesn't feel as though I've been clobbering you over the head with it with all the subtlety of a freight train on heat and can't totally see where this particular bit is going. By the time the night is through and all the tired little drunks have gone to bed, it should be pretty obvious what has happened (to the players, at least). Though I won't confirm or deny anything, I invite rampant speculation in the OoC (as a general principle), not least because it gets youse to meta-game and try to predict where this is going: either you'll make the resolution much easier, or much more of a twist - and either one is a good result. :P

To those of you that haven't had too much to do in this section: that's a straight-up mistake on my part, because I was focussing only on the plot and not on the game more widely. I promise that those of you who haven't had too much to do so far will definitely get stuff soon.

It looks as though we've largely decided as a group how we're going to tackle Day Two, though [@TheMaster99] and [@Kirah] haven't weighed in on the topic: if youse have any particularly strong feelings on the topic, I recommend you voice them fairly soon. Assuming you don't come back with any earth-shatteringly good alternative arrangements, the plan will be for each of you that wants to (though you don't have to), to write a sort of 'log' of the day's events. For this log, I have a couple of suggestions that [i]aren't[/i] compulsory in any way:

[list][*] Talk to me about what you're doing. Many rooms are as-of-yet unestablished, and, therefore, presumably, unexplored. I have further room deets to impart to you from my generous and bounteous soul - in return for insight that will give me the chance to be dropping further tiny plot-gobbets if I feel they're applicable to you.

[*] Think about similar 'day of rest' sections from novels. They're rarely only description: they frequently have very brief conversations in them. Just because you're writing a sort of 'contained' piece doesn't mean you have to do it solo. If your character wants to stay in their room all day and not talk to anybody, that's cool, but I doubt all of them will. Talk to each other, as players, and, if they will, as characters. Collusion is encouraged. The Wolfs will, as in the ball, be unavailable as a default, but with exceptions made without question.

[*] Perhaps get to know one another. We all know the nightmare that is getting convincing relationships in RPs, but, even if it hasn't been established directly IC, these are people that have been shipped across the world together to a house of German-speaking Germans, including moments entirely alone in waiting rooms and limousines: if you want to assume that at least some of your characters have bonded with or taken offence from others, even if it hasn't been explicitly noted in the IC, please do. See above about talking to each other as players.

[*] Take your time over it. It doesn't have to be a novel in length and you don't have to do it if you don't want, but there's lots of things to think about with all of the above, including talking to each other as players, so don't just rush into it in order to get on with the next section. If any of you are struggling for time as the others' posts are coming in, as usual, just let me know and I can take the spotlight off you for a bit. Never have posts been so suited for placeholders as these. ;)[/list]

Right. So. It's been an exciting post for an OoC section. Human tragedy, human triumph, plot developments, plot mistakes, and the dream of a brighter, [s]murdery-er[/s] tomorrow. I hope you're still with me on this.

Given that I've not been hugely excellent in this section on the 'giving people stuff to do' side of things, [b]could you all please give me an indication on how 'done' you are with this section?[/b] This includes those of you that I know perfectly well [i]aren't[/i] done. :P