I admit I've been having a little bit of a hard time figuring out what I want to react to. Also, I got sent to California for work (where I still am!) so that was...fairly disruptive.

I'm all for the Beach Episode, but we need some pretty high narrative tension first, followed by something with [i]apocalyptic[/i] stakes. Those are the rules, right? :3

I'm rather feeling like I'd rather be proactive than reactive in this case, though. Make something up and move a plot forward. Hmm...