Whew! A half-million word novel is no joke folks... Especially when it isn't even your first extremely-long-form-got-away-from-me-Gryphons-rarely-do-anything-small escapade.

They say no plan ever fully survives first contact with the real world, but to fail to plan is to plan to fail. Plans are clay to work with as the situation evolves.

So here is mine, currently:

First, I again want to shout-out Keystone Gray, and The Campaigner.

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Here, in no particularly organized fashion, are all the achievements (the vast majority by Generic Friendship) which sadly didn't make it into The Advocate for story/brevity/etc reasons.

• Out of the Cold, Around the Fire - Go camping with a party of individuals. - “All right, all set. I’ll go set up the bear traps…”
• Your Plus One - Have Roger recognize Malacandra as a member of your party. - “I could write the book on being the third wheel.”

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Just to relieve anyone who still is keeping an eye out; I am working hard on The Advocate!

I have been trying to get away from the practice of tossing out a few chapters, vanishing for a month, then repeat. So I am presently building up a backlog.

The good news is, that backlog is almost long enough that I'm ready to start releasing again, on a set schedule, right through to the end of the book!

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For the interested: I'm still focused on getting The Advocate completed.

I had planned to make some progress this week, and still might depending how the weekend falls out, but it is becoming clear it won't be as much progress as I'd hoped, if any.

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