Well, it's officially Christmas over here now...so to all of you fellow Christmas celebrators, I wish you all a very merry Christmas! May it be merry, happy, and bright! 8D

(Yes, I realize that that is redundant. Whatever.)

Yeah, short post it short.

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Christmas story sharing start!

So, we're in the middle of Chapter 03. We'll ignore the anal-retentive calendar dates for now since I'm way too lazy to continue it, but in nebulous terms every chapter is still an in-game week.

Courtesy of Msytacorika Ausa Fende, here's a list of most of the current logs we've done in Chapter 3, up until, like, three weeks ago.
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Okay, so as a reminder, we're in the week after Luke cuts his hair. Here's a quick summary of the canon in-game events which transpire during this period.
- Aramis Springs, Luke and Tear meet up with Guy and Jade. - Cannot do this as Guy and Jade are not played, so substituted Anise.
- Saving Ion and Natalia - Chester, Colette, and Philia saved Natalia and Ion.
- Keterburg stuff. - Unable to do due to lack of Jade. Easily skippable. Issue: Finding out about the origins of fomicry. Will solve later.
- Theor Forest MGS-style stuff, and Curse Slot - Again, no Guy, so no point.
- Audience with Emperor Peony.
- Evacuation of St. Binah and attaining the Albiore from Sheridan.

Considering that in canon there are two back-to-back character-specific events in this leg of the journey, the absence of a Jade and a Guy doesn't give us much direction to go on. For now, at the very least, Luke and Tear's main perogative in the story is to stop St. Binah from falling. To do that, they ask Emperor Peony, which we can cover in a summary, and surrounding things can be filled with scenes and skits for character interaction.

However, we are also deviating from canon, so we have that to work with as well.

Ion and Natalia were not saved by Luke (so maybe Natalia can somehow leave a note for Luke or something to let him know she's okay, that or Anise/Tear finds out that Natalia and Ion escaped from Daath), but by the group of Chester, Colette, and Philia. Arche is also joining them. Philia suggested that they go to Chesedonia, since as a neutral power, it would be a safe place for them to be. If all players involved are okay with that, then we can set the next group of their appropriate logs around Chesedonia before deciding what else to do.

Kyle's already stationed in Chesedonia, so he's more or less taken care of. He'd at least recognize Philia since she's also from the Keterburg Orphanage.

We also have Raine, Marta, Noishe, and Tenebrae heading to Sheridan since Raine's taking it open herself to find out the cause of the lands falling. Marta also has her own subplot going on, so any Oracle Soldier character can be assigned to more or less hunt her down (since she's Moh's daughter).

... I have no idea where the Chokmah Fried Yuri group is going. I apologize. Or Emil, for that matter. Or Senel. We'll figure that all out.

Chapter 3 will end with the acquisition of the Albiore and the saving of St. Binah (somewhere around there).

For a fun side project, how od you all feel about compiling a Character Image Song Compilation FST? Basically, we upload songs and lyrics which can serve as "image songs" for our muses (one each for now) and put it together for us all to share music?

I'm going to try to pimp out the community again sometime soon-ish (I know I keep on saying that). As a reminder, while on New Years we'll have our regular plotting post, there won't be an activity check until the end of January. Considering all of the new recruits have been active in at least one or two logs, everybody as of right now should be able to pass it.