Hm. I like the somewhat slow pace we've got going on, lets me think things through. I get the distinct feeling our independent characters have a little dry spell going on, with the exception of our good Steel Fist Mercenary, but that's to be expected when we were waiting on the Nation Characters to catch up and get this negotiation started.

My only question is how long do you fellows want to stay in negotiation? A long, in depth, attempt at negotiating things, or do you all see the negotiations falling apart sooner rather than later? This might be a bit too much of an IC question for me to really ask it, but it's a bit of a 'prediction' question I suppose.

As a side note, Alenius/Blackwell Culture preduction has begun.