Cipher Chronicles Episode 1: Safety in Numbers has begun! This is a short epic of ten total chapters, the first chapter of which is up now. Enjoy!


Also, there's a Mini-Guide in episode one's review topic, with some new information especially about characters' tools and about three new species. This Guide focuses specifically on what's featured or mentioned in this episode, not the overall Multiverse per se.


The Denizens contest has been extended by two weeks. This is mainly because I had wanted to do a front page news article on all these new EM things, from the Discussion topic to Safety in Numbers, to the unfinished BRC topic and the not-yet-quite-finished weapons guide, at least a week before the contest entry period closes. Due to real life delays on my part, I was unable to get those things done by today (which was the previous deadline), so to be fair Swert and I agreed to extend it.

The progress report on what's coming is this:

1) Weapons Guide has all its content, it just still needs a banner and heavy proofreading. Hoping to get that done this week, but I dunno... Got a lot of the Dreaded Real Life stuff still. Ojh and I have both gone through it once and fixed many typos, but I'm sure there's still plenty others, so I need to go through it again.

2) BRC topic has some text ready, and I should be able to slap that together in one day.

3) Swert will write episode two and we've got extensive plans ready for it.

4) A guest writer is lined up to write episode three.

5) Decided I'll go ahead and start the next blog contest next week, and focus on posting the results of old blog contests while it's open. This contest will be an EM one. Only way this gets delayed is if I fail to get weapons guide and BRC topic up this week (and that would probably mean another Denizens extension).

6) I'm thinking of putting together an actual web page or topic or something as a Mini-Guide. The point of this would parly be for those few people who say their computers can't handle the PDF Guide or the Slideshow. The other point would be to collect the short versions of stuff used in the review topic Mini-Guides, to copypaste as relevant to future episodes, mainly for our purposes as the writers of those stories but also to be available to others. It would sum up the important basics and winning contest entries of the EM. Perhaps this would simply be in the BRC topic, not sure. Just tossin' around the idea right now.