I finished Page 17 of the movie section. Moving right along, aren’t we? I don’t know if I can finish what I have left before the week’s out, but I can sure try. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned.

I’m really close to having the epilogue of EM3 finished. I probably just have another sentence or two to tie a bow on it and be done, though I imagine I’ll want to give it a couple passes before I post it. I also did a little writing in RttW while I was preparing the story update.

What took the bigger chunk of my time was some work in the peripheral materials I was doing with regards to juvenation and life extension, something that isn’t that well reflected in some of my materials. It was a big part of my calculations when working on the CeleKing series, but in the overarching narrative of the Cross Arc as a whole, I hadn’t really factored it in when I was doing my early genealogical work. I considered not making life extension much of a thing until the Fifth Empire period, but that didn’t jibe with my work on CeleKing as Emperor Wuzu of the Hua Dynasty made it to 266 years and life extension treatments would have had to have started no later than the mid-5th Century for him to have made it so long. We do have about a 50-year period for the Æther War for life extension to develop and we can argue that the Skyfall Calamity caused disruptions in its application, but that didn’t change the fact that I wanted it to be reflected in the main Imperial line and major pretender factions.

One example of a major change was changing Emperor Michael I Neologos’ birth from NE 541 to NE 461. This meant that rather than being the great-grandson of Emperor Victor Alexis I Neander, he’s now that Emperor’s brother-in-law with the two of them having married sisters. I had to move around the family tree to reflect this change, which is a bit of a pain when you’re just using a text file for this sort of thing. (I really should consider upgrading how I do my genealogy work.) With Emperor Michael’s lineage now majorly altered, I had to fill in a couple generations up so that he doesn’t just spring up out of nowhere. I ended up with quite the little soap opera story brewing in House Goldbaum. (I always love how stories come together as I make family trees.) Anyway, that kept me busy a good long while. Got to see the sunrise, so I guess you could call that a perk.

Anyway, Monday I’ll be switching over to TWH, but in the meantime, I’ll probably fiddle around with this stuff a bit more. I’m sure you all find it thrilling. Stay tuned.

I continue to inch along with the epilogue of EM3. I was also doing some work in the peripheral materials to better establish the situation post-time skip. I really want to get this finished, so maybe enough of a fire will be lit under my tail to get it done. Stay tuned.

I made a bit of progress on Page 17 of the movie section. I would’ve gotten more done, but there was some work-work to attend to. I find myself being pulled in a good dozen different directions as always, but if I can chip away at each task bit by bit, it’ll be something. Stay tuned.

I finished Page 16 of the movie section. It’s not a huge amount of progress, but it’s progress nonetheless. I’m hoping to move further along next week as there shouldn’t be anything pressing to occupy my time, but we’ll see. Stay tuned.

I won’t bore you with excuses, but I haven’t been able to get to working on EM3 like I was hoping until now. I didn’t get it too far, though, but at this point I might as well stick with it until I either finish it or I need to switch over to TWH.

I also spent some time on the peripheral materials for the WttW trying to standardize the system of weights and measures. That doesn’t get us any further in the story proper, but these details are all part of the worldbuilding iceberg. Maybe I can get some actual writing done sometime before the weekend’s out. Stay tuned.

I made more progress on the epilogue of EM3 but didn’t quite get it finished. I didn’t get anything written Saturday or else I might’ve met my goal to get it done by now. I’ll give it one more day and then move on to RttW. I’ll be running out of my lead time two if I don’t buckle down there. Of course, TWH is the real sticking point right now, but we’ll save that one for next week. Here’s to whatever progress I can get made. Stay tuned.

I made a little more progress on the epilogue of EM3. I would’ve liked to have done more, but I didn’t get started until late and by then, the mascot was agitating for me to go to bed. I’d like to get things wrapped before the weekend is out, but we’ll see how things go. Stay tuned.

I made a little more progress on Page 16 of the movie section. I was juggling some other stuff, so I didn’t make quite as much progress as I would’ve liked, but progress is progress. Now I just have to continue to make progress and we’ll have one less task to do. Stay tuned.

I made a little more progress on the epilogue of EM3. Probably another day or two of work and I’ll have it done. Stay tuned.