Okay, guys, Round Eight will be going live in a couple hours. Just wanted to give you the heads-up. It’ll be a different structure this time, since we don’t really know how many of you will still be actively participating. There will be an element of old-school tabletop RPG going on. The main post will set the stage. The actual round deadline will be 7:00 PM PDT on Monday, but we’ll have three mini-rounds of back-and-forth between then. You guys will have 24 hours to make a maneuver, ask our villains a question, hurl an insult, deploy a strategem, pretty much any small stage-setting action that doesn’t quite cause our whole delicately-balanced standoff to topple… yet.
At 7:00 PM Saturday, we (that is, @penguinchris and I, in the guise of Toecutter, Fleetwood, and any other relevant NPC and natural forces of the Wasteland) shall respond to this input. And you’ll have 24 hours from then to make your next moves. At 7:00 PM Sunday, we will again take our turn. And then you guys will make your final adjustments to the chessboard, as it were, and unleash whatever hell you all intend, collectively or individually, upon our villains. If for some reason you’re obliged to be AFK for part of the weekend, you won’t miss too much critical input, as long as you make your final move by Monday evening. The deadline for your final thrusts will be 7:00 PM PDT on Monday. And then we’ll analyze, collate, and publish the results on Tuesday evening, and put forth the final round Wednesday evening, the deadline of which shall be next Friday evening.
And then we’ll see who (or what) gets to Mars.
