<p>Everyone notices a jump in systime of almost a year, no one phys-side will give them a straight answer. Turns out someone figured out how to make a self-replicating virus a la the syringes that wound up essentially shredding the system. It was recovered (another thing phys-side is cagey about), but there are some changes. Maybe a small percentage of people don’t return</p>
<li>Reed (he/him) — Relationship fork, merges down to sync up once a year, discovers Marsh is missing, date has jumped, has to lean on partner and clade, tries to stay level-headed and organized, embroiled but tries to take leadership, though whether that’s his idea or he’s forced into that role is up for debate<ul>
<li><em>Pierre</em> LaFontaine (he/him) —<em>tasker</em>— In a relationship with Marsh, has a bit of a hard time controlling his emotions, specifically grief</li>
<li>Fenne <em>Vos</em> (she/her) —<em>tasker</em>— In a relationship with Marsh, singer, does her best to stay strong, but it comes with an edginess</li>
<li><em>Hanne</em> Marie (she/her)—<em>tasker</em>— In a relationship with Reed, a bit short-tempered, easily overwhelmed, which leads her to lash out</li>
<li>I Remember The Rattle Of <em>Dry Grass</em> of the Ode clade (she/her)—<em>dispersionista</em>— In a relationship with Tule and Cress, tries to be helpful, kind of irks Reed and Hanne (more so than Reed), though they do their best to hide it</li>
<li>Günay (she/her) —<em>phys-side</em>— system engineer, chill type, worker on situation, goes against manager’s wishes to talk more with </li>
<li>en4 (they/them) —<em>phys-side</em>— system engineer, zero chill type, manager of situation, member of a more conservative collective</li>
</ul>
<p>NB: It’s frankly astonishing how few cats there are in this story. Fix that.</p>
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<liclass="done2"><ahref="001.html">Intro</a>— The false start</li>
<liclass="done1"> Part 1 — Marsh has gone missing and the date has jumped forward — whaaaa — exploring the new System, what it looks like, contact from the LVs<ul>
<liclass="done1"><ahref="002.html">002</a>— It all kicks off</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="006.html">006</a>— Working with Dry Grass on trying to figure out sys-side, she hints that phys-side is being slow/difficult</li>
<liclass="done0"> Part 2 — Phys-side is being a little sketchy about what happened, turns out there was a reset and a lot of work behind the scenes after a coordinated attack between phys- and sys-side, taking the form of a generalized weapon that wiped out most of the System. Large chunks of it were restored after a lot of work and help from the Artemisians, but not total success — virus loophole was fixed (incl. singular attacks), but no guarantee there won’t be another work-around, plans to split the System into smaller pieces, move some of them to Earth/Sun Lagrange points<ul>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="007.html">007</a>— Dry Grass loops Reed & co into discussion with phys-side engineers</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="008.html">008</a>— Huddle to talk about why they’re being so cagey</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="009.html">009</a>— Larger meeting with other representatives of clades with missing members, bit more info (loophole was patched, but no guarantee), introducing concept of splitting the system up</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="010.html">010</a>— Clade representatives form a group, start organizing/strategizing/investigating, contacted by chill phys-side syseng, learning even more about both what happened and plans to split system, plus how phys-side is seeing things</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="011.html">011</a>— Finding up-tree (or maybe down?) instance of person who caused the whole thing, seems super upset, promises they’re unable to contact that instance, but whether or not they’re telling the truth left up in the air</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="012.html">012</a>— Funeral for Marsh, though what if reconstructing?</li>
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<liclass="done0"> Part 3 — The ramifications, both global and personal (but mostly personal) — a lot of talk among the Marshans, their partners, and a chill phys-side syseng — looking into trying to reconstruct Marsh by cross-tree merging Reed, Lily, and Cress — it doesn’t work, so it turns into coming to terms with letting go of the past<ul>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="013.html">013</a>— Dry Grass and Günay going over system capabilities when it comes to reconstructing personalities</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="013.html">014</a>— Reed and Hanne talking, Reed admits to starting to grieve now that things are calming down, expresses doubts about reconstruction</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="017.html">017</a>— Discussing list of requests to sysenges both phys- and sys-side for improvement, incl someone digging into Artemisian archies</li>
<liclass="done0"><ahref="013.html">018</a>— Coming to terms with letting go of the past</li>
