Lianna's first segment's up. Hopefully I'll get the second one done by Sunday or so. These all take place in the prime universe.

Edit: Sorry about the delay. A rather crazy few days.

A conversation held with stargazer over IM:

starkat: 'gazer, do we know where we're headed with this story and how long we want to stay in this particular storyline?
stargazer: not sure, kat.
starkat: With Katherine and Verena's ability to hop between realities, this could be wrapped up very quickly or it could be drawn out quite a bit.
stargazer: I think Sonny has some ideas integrating his characters into this, and I have a couple of conspirators I'm waiting for
starkat: ok
stargazer: do you have a preference? I do like the way you're bringing them in, and restoring their abilities
starkat: I'm not thinking of them as the actual solution. Just mainly as messengers to the various dimensions so that everyone can pull together and solve the problem.
starkat: Say maybe there's a piece to the solution in every reality or something.
stargazer: I hadn't really thought of resolution for my characters' alternates...more on the order of 'their lives go on.' Though I'd like to end their little story arcs, especially injured Abby in the red 'verse
starkat: One option I'd wondered about was maybe the resolution could end up in a reality that was blended together from all four
stargazer: interesting idea! Would that become the new prime reality then?
starkat: Yeah
starkat: sort of a knitting together.
stargazer: that is, the one the story would continue in?
starkat: yeah
stargazer: intriguing
starkat: that way no one would lose any character development they didn't want to.
stargazer: or any characters
starkat: ditto with plotlines and any additional characters
starkat: but to knit together four realities, I can see it being a complex thing to do. It would also allow for a reset of several things if we wanted including the villains.
starkat: Say instead of 9 have three. or even just one main bad guy group or something.
stargazer: you're right, it could be crazy.
starkat: but it could open a lot of doors
starkat: oh and the only alternate character I plan on keeping in the storyline is Verena. Anyone who pops in to help restore abilities is temporary.
stargazer: absolutely!
stargazer: to your previous note about opening doors
starkat: That Verena may also depart at some point towards the end of her usefulness or I may meld her character together with the younger Verena if we go the way of knitting dimensions together.
stargazer: I think it might be worth posting in the Library, see what others think

So... what do you guys think?

I do plan on adding some limitations as to how the hopping between realities ability can be used. I don't want it to be something that can be easily handled.

(This post is within rules as the last post was well over 24 hours ago. )

Kat, the blend sounds like a good way to resolve this.

Varna has some more shopping to do in London that I want included in this story - but she needn't see any more of England's alternate reality.
And even if she does, I don't think there's any need to resolve that reality - she just got a glimpse into another one that doesn't really affect her, is all.

Resolving the Ditto Town ones by blending them is more useful - and more needed - since we've got so many versions of some of the known characters.

And Varna will only hear about it after she comes back. It would explain her strange experience ...

It'd be fun to read more about Varna's trip to London, whether or not she sees more of the 'green' universe.

To add a bit to the IM conversation kat mentioned above, I really wasn't sure how to resolve all this. At first, it was just Abby somehow experiencing a sort of 'leakage' from alternate realities (not really needing much resolution).

But our wonderful writers have made it so much more! So I really like the idea of a sort of blended result - allowing us to keep characters or plot elements from the other realities if we wish.

Since my NaNo also deals with these alternates, I've thought of a few interesting (to me, at least ) ideas. I'll likely keep the Silvermoons alive, but have some fun plans for Shannon Lewis (the young lady who rescued baby Molly in what became the 'evil' 'verse).

So, it's been a while since I last visited Ditto Town. I'm going to need a few days to refresh myself on where everyone is, but here's a segment I wrote a while ago which never got posted. It takes place in the Order and Evil universes, following up the whole "mad bomber is holding Alex hostage" thing.

Okay... now to get caught up.... (Well, more "refreshed", since I have been reading the posts--just not in enough detail, apparently, because I can't remember much of what's happened since school started. )

Kat, I love your newest posts. I feel like they add a lot to the current story ark we're in. I'll be interested to see how the re-empowered Lianna and Katherine affect the four timelines... especially if they can jump between the alternate realities.

And combining the four timelines sounds like a good resolution to me, although on my part my characters will end up the exact same as they were before except for maybe some fuzzy additional memories. Although I strongly vote to keep ALL Nine of the Nine. I feel like it has good significance as a number because you get body, soul, and spirit as well as past, present, and future. And that mysterious Tenth. I don't know if JillPole had a specific plan for that, but it's intriguing and gives us material for future stories.

Also, I had a bit of an idea on how to tie the bombing of the Emporium into the rest of the story line but I'm not sure how much I tell at this point. It could be an interesting reveal if 'gazer likes the idea.

Good continuation of the evil and order plots Rya! I owe you a post now. I'm not sure that will happen before India, so you might be looking for my next post mid-January.

I quite like your idea about the Emporium bombing, Aravanna. (It's great to discuss our writing in person, isn't it?). I agree that it should make a very interesting reveal should we choose to go that way.

On melding the universes: I've sort of played with this in my 2012 NaNo, in which Shannon Lewis shows up in the prime universe with odd memories/dreams/whatever of rescuing a baby years before, only to find out that Molly's parents are alive and well.

Ryadian, Masked Rider, and I were talking about this a bit last night and she had an interesting point:

Reading the latest story posts has made me want to write more in this timeline (as opposed to the NaNo future I've been focused on since mid-October).

In that case...

It's been a while since anyone has posted in either of these threads, so I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one who needs a refresher. Now that I'm out of school, I'm hoping to get back into writing the story. But... I've been away too long, and now I'm very confused.

Anyways, here's what's going on as best as I remember after skimming over recent pages, focusing on my characters mainly because I know where they are ( ). (Sonny, I didn't put your characters in here because I'm not entirely sure where they belong. )

Hopefully that's all accurate. If I got something wrong, please correct me! This is the basis that I'm writing future segments on.

And somehow England also is affected and has its own version of the green text Chaos universe - Varna is in London and gets a glimpse of it.
In this version,

In case someone was trying to make this a Ditto Town only phenomenon, I see that I have messed up that plan royally

Edit:
I just found something I wrote a while ago and thought I had lost - Varna's first reactions on entering a second-hand bookshop in Charing Cross Road. It should go into a post sooner or later.

That's a good summary, Ryadian. It's very helpful to have it here since it's been a while since the story's been active, and it might be a bit confusing to sort it all out from those story posts.

I was about to add a comment about Varna's very good segment (the one she mentioned above). No worries about extending this beyond the ditto world, Varna, as I also did so by affecting the gargoyles' home world. BTW, looking forward to reading that additional post about your character's experience in London.

Also, while the "fifth reality" 'verse (with Erika, Aaron, and all the twins) was written as a one-off, other writers may feel free to include it in their story arcs - as may I, later on. (I revisited it, and several other alternate 'verses, in last year's NaNo story).

Ah, yes, my characters... I'm going with this theory right now:

I hope y'all are having a good summer!

Just as a clarifier, my Mata Nui character is still active, just hasn't had any interaction. A world meshing from nine different realities is a mind bender for sure, but I'm game.

*Cautiously glances out from inside her bomb shelter* stargazer posted on April Fool's Day? And no one died?! *Breathes a hearty sigh of relief!*

In all seriousness, I really liked your post. It's kind of sweet to see what Erik's family will/might look like in the future. (Might because--well, I still remember how our multiverse started! )

I need to get around to posting again. *Goes back to double-check what her characters were doing last*