In the interest of returning to the spontaneity of previous story threads, a drache has set fire to this control thread. Onto the ashes is dropped a very large boot, on which has been stenciled the letters “RE”.
Anything previously appearing in this thread but not the story thread is considered to no longer exist unless brought in by someone else.
Should anyone wish to continue the story thread, I’m thinking it takes place some 7000 years prior to Minas Sulat emerging from deep cover. The people of Zatistan are using crystals in a way that had been lost somewhere between wearing around one’s neck and implantation, methods which Kathy Swanson of the Sci Fi stories has recently begun to rediscover.