Stress, yes, you could say that. My Internet connection got knocked out by a storm three weeks ago, and even after the service call it hadn't been working properly until today, when tech support *finally* figured out the problem. And I thought these things weren't supposed to happen with cable modems. But, finally, I can connect again.

I'm glad that there are a few people still hanging around that are interested in the story, and I'm very glad that you took the initiative and continued it. I was hoping there would be more people who would do that, but I guess the story wasn't as interesting as it seemed to me.

We'll be moving on now, but I'd like to see a show of hands (or text or whatever) of who's still with us. I know that Jerreck and Ravyson are here. Shara? I think everyone else is out of it.

As Jerreck recently pointed out to me, this style of story doesn't seem to be working well. So I suppose we'll be reverting to your standard form of storytelling. Leader and all. So let's wrap this up before New Year's. It's been crawling along for far too long.

Torlax