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[Saoirse]

Congrats, Geco. You're so fortunate to get your dream job; I'm envious.

How is everyone? I'm back... well, kind of. I can't join or create (ha) any threads for now because I'm starting a new job in December and I want to see how busy I'll be before committing to anything. But I'll be reading along.

[SoHee]

Hey Sao :)
Good to see you.... and I do hope you get some time to join our small remaining group here....
Everything is good, but my schedule with work, training and everything else is crazy at the moment. hope it settles down soon so I can focus on my writing... :)

[Saoirse]

I hope you do, too.

I've not written anything in a year. I'm trying to do NaNoWriMo now, but I can't seem to. It's like trying to walk again after being bedridden for ages.

[Mireldeyn]

Sao!! *pounces* Welcome back, even if only temporary. ^_^

And excuse my randomness. It is a curse, I swear. ^_-

[Geco]

SAO!!! It's good to have you back in any form!!! You'll always be a fav as I had my biggest fight ever on the boards with you ^_^ I think you should just jump in and say screw it, I'm going to write no matter what =P

Thanks again everyone.

Shair: I really just started this past Monday, so this is my 4th day. I'm doing what is essentially a 4 week internship where I'll get to learn about all the different parts of the business. Right now I'm doing editorial. I'm reading submissions, making notes, and handing in back to the Editor, and I've either already impressed her or she trusts me a lot because she's taking my critiques seriously and if I say I'd reject it she just puts it in the rejected pile (power is SO COOL!)

If all goes well I'll be hired on permanently in Jan. Most likely it will be more of a business manager role. Where these guys need some help is with planning and keep on schedule. Unfortunately, I've noticed, Arts people are tremendously bad at business. Thus why the Publisher is giving me this chance, he needs someone to make good plans and crack the whip to get it done haha ^_^

SoHee: How are you doing? Has life calmed down any?

[SoHee]

Geco - well I'm doing fine, but I have no idea where my spare times goes.. I'll try to catch up soon though :)

[Jolly Rensha]

hey everyone! seems like everyone is one suddenly. It's good to see!

Sao - Welcome back! Missed you, believe it or not... ;) *poke* I'd like to see you write sometime soon. :)

[Shari Tana]

Project management then, eh? That's cool, some of my buddies are project managers. Every business needs them, but in this economy alot of them are getting laid off since it's not a strictly money-making department. A mistake, in my opinion, but Random House still employs its project managers :P

[Shari Tana]

@Aposai - I think your post would be much easier to recieve if the time was changed from that evening to the next morning. They all just barely escaped with thier lives and someone bearing a banner of peace from the guy who just tried to kill them would not be kindly welcomed under any pretense.

I suggest editing your post to "..." and reposting it with a time of day change after Geco moves us to the next morning. It would flow sooo much better. That's my professional opinion, by the way. It's nothing personal at all.

[Drice]

Sorry all for my absense. Working on a post now

[aposai]

@Aposai - I think your post would be much easier to recieve if the time was changed from that evening to the next morning. They all just barely escaped with thier lives and someone bearing a banner of peace from the guy who just tried to kill them would not be kindly welcomed under any pretense.

I suggest editing your post to "..." and reposting it with a time of day change after Geco moves us to the next morning. It would flow sooo much better. That's my professional opinion, by the way. It's nothing personal at all.

Well i guess the situation is a bit different than that actually. I believe the real reason was not the timing but rather the story Geco and Phoenix talked about, in which Gabe and Siegfried were some kind of business rivals. You see my story didnt go along well with those plans.

[Saoirse]

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. And Geco, you still remember that embarassing episode? I already started pretending it never happened :p

*is pounced out of the blue and collapses*

[Jolly Rensha]

aposai - don't feel discouraged. Keep with us buddy! :)

[Geco]

Sorry guys, I wanted to post but after everyone's posts I'm trying to figure out how to go about this. I'm kind of stuck. We know we could locate a source of magicite, porbably in a tunnel underground near the volcano, but we also know any openings are guards by the natives and that they are far more skilled than us, so we can't get the drop of them. Asking them won't help, because we've said there's no way they'd give any to us.

So that's where I'm at, and it feels about the same as being stuck =P The only things I can think of are to straight up steal some magicite, and make the natives mad at us (and goes against the principles of Gabe, Seph, and probably a few other crew members) OR to run a con involving Ralse and his crew in some way to which would enable us to get some magicite, but I'm worried it could mean staying longer on the island =P

Thoughts on the options?

If you have another idea that I have missed, feel free to PM me with it.

[Shari Tana]

Well, Drice's character is the sneaky sort. Some kind of assassin as I interpreted his posts, and a good one at that. His characters have as much motivation to get off the island as ours, so it would make sense for him to help.

Otherwise, we might just have to come up with a strategy to lure the guards away to get inside, but with my post, I was suggesting a network of tunnels inside the volcano (as there are often many sealed off or dormant lava veins which become caves in volcanic mountains). A group could enter with Cailey providing a sort of compass through the caves.

Also, there is a third option of the original plan to steal Ralse's magicite engine and transplant it to the Dawn.

I'm sure there are other ways as well, but those all came to me off the bat. I'll post again if I think of more.