Yeah, I don't see a need for a time skip right now, either, but speeding it up a bit would be nice.

Re: Perdix and Ilba, I'm okay with having them be a bit on the quiet side, but that would really take a huge bite out of Kip's gaming time, Mrs.The Finger or no, and that would suck. Plus Perdix has just gotten sober and that seems like a potentially useful tool for activity.

If we want to use them to arc the current plotlines over to the Court and the city, that might kill two birds with one stone.

Not Ishtitti, who is her daughter.

I don't think we need to jump far, but we need to stutter a bit more, maybe. A lot of what we're interested in playing out isn't going to go anywhere in the next day or so, so we should go to where some of it is next going to go. —Which I think is what everyone else is saying.

We could use tonight to set up some focus/planning/discussion stuff, and also get in some playing, maybe?

Perdix and Ilba: whenever, really. The idea was to stay away and let some of the bad blood ebb, I mean, vacation at the coast, I mean, present themselves as liaisons to the Court. Which they have done, and now they have retired to the family home to await any expressed need for their particular liaising services. Which have yet to arrive. —So news could arrive to convince them to return home, or stay there longer; if folks want to create characters to limn and explore the Court and Okla Lokchok some, we have that possibility. But I sense some resistance to the idea of adding further points of focus. But there's lots of flexibility here. —Even if we just check in on the fruits of their shopping expedition(s), that might be enough Perdix and Ilba for me for the next couple of sessions. (For me, I stress. Dunno about Dylan. Or the audience. Also, I stress for the next couple, as in, two.)

Nipi: I'm still in the deep end on this one. My instinct is to tamp it down—it's much too soon for the plot to blow, I think—but to have some nastily ironically foreshadowing blowback (betrayal, followed by a miracle that looks Green-Moonish if you squint at it in the right light, say). But I don't know how much to trust my instinct. —Damn those gun-jumpers from Yanalli! —But Nipi's plot (of mine, anyway) requires the most immediate attention: as in, the very next morning. So.

You know, there's a reason everyone refers to her as "Mrs. The Finger."

Really I just want to see what happens over the longterm if Perdix and Ilba manage to actually develop some real stability and self-assurance.

That's something Kip and I can quietly work out in the corner during lulls, and otherwise discuss on our own in summary, so that the evidence of their Healthy Vacation can actually make an impression in gameplay when they show up again.

I think Laetitia's going to be making the diplomatic rounds soon, but she'll be aiming to be helpful, and I don't think that needs anybody's attention but my own.

Plotwise, I've got a couple of long range things I'd like to see played out, but they won't happen for a while--well shouldn't.

I like the idea of skipping days here and there, handling them in summary as I don't like the feel of certain things happening in oly a day.

I'd probably be least interested scenes at court, but that's just me.