[quote=@Naril]
I think I can count past 20,000 as the second big milestone. :3 Almost 20,500 words, but I need to go refresh my tea and I think I'll just do a little more outline refinement for now. Things are still going [i]entirely[/i] swimmingly - for me as the author, anyway. Our heroines are in less dire straits, and they have a few more answers, but those answers are only leading to more questions. 

I sort of love this story. :3
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Screw you and getting a reasonable amount of stuff done.

I still haven't made many big problems yet. But they're coming, soon, in the form of blatant Cold War parallels.