Hey folks,
 
Deadline's tomorrow at 5 PM.  I'm missing 3 order sets.  I'm sending individual nagging e-mails within 20 min.  Also, due to my own schedule and a player request, we'll be taking next week off.  If there are any retreats, I'll see if we can get them done quickly, but we'll be off from the 10th till the 20th.  And what that means is our deadline will basically be 2 weeks instead of 1 week.  Everyone still here is welcome to diplome for the whole time, but keep in mind one rival/ally/enemy will be gone for pretty much a week and a half.  The fall deadline will be on March 23rd.
 
-Maslow
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"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing. The shadow, even the darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding onto something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."