I will confess to having recently resorted to reading in full only the IC posts of those that were immediately pertinent to the plot developments that I had going and then skimming over the rest or just reading the summaries.

So I started at around page 10 and have been rereading the IC. Picking up a bunch of things I had originally missed, finally getting around to reading some of the posts that I had only read summaries for, and overall the story is starting to make a lot more sense to me now. 

I'd recommend that anybody else who's confused by all these newish characters (or who just have time to spare) do this!

Anyways, thanks [@Double Capybara] for the patience regarding khookies. Most of the Chroma and Makeda posts were among those that I had skimmed, but now that I've gone back I'll look to analyze them and bake khookies in the nesr future

And to be clear [@Rtron], I was totslly serious in that PM where I said I'll make the creation sheets I owe if you give Ventus his khookies ;p