[@Solace]

It's a fair point you're making and I don't disagree.  I also don't want this to fall down to a "what's done is done" scenario because then everyone is unhappy.

In my case, I personally planned to have a post up before things sped up. I'm in a different time zone to most of y'all, you're mostly posting when I'm asleep and then I'm at work so I'm often going to be 18 hour behind or so; in this case splitting one's post between pre-attack and then to cover the attack itself seems to be the best course of action for those who didn't get another in before events took a turn.

It's difficult for GMs to balance keeping a pace and allowing everyone to post and, in this case, there wasn't a time skip meaning that everyone completely misses out and they can split their posts to cover initial reactions to the attack.  My impression that the main aim of this RP was for during their training and then after they 'graduate', as it were, and the battle in Trost.  Spending more time in the 'prologue' stages has its own advantages but I also see the benefits of starting the main events.

Also, I have more confidence in those assembled here for this not to descend into a simple "we all have PTSD" situation.  Again, a valid fear and quite possibly a likely outcome but, judging by the posts so far, I doubt that'll happen.

[b]Tl;Dr:[/b] I don't disagree, perfectly valid point, best solution is to split posts between before and after attack posts.