With the setting of the sun I bid ye farewell, my return shall be heralded when the Power of Ra crests the northern hills.
Yeah it's a little more challenging to turn Emerald evil because she has an insane amount of innocence. Not to say it's impossible, cause I can think of a tragedy or seven that could have made her become far darker.
I never enter the contests, but an evil version of Emerald would be fun.
Might be a strange suggestion, but we could always just have the knife mission end in a collab as they suggested and move on to missions in the IC? Might make timing seem strange, but it would get the RP moving in a way you suggested earlier and still allow the affected parties to finish the knife mission?
Come on man, there were crematory urns for all the members of VGNB, and one last one for Gratia at the end.