Swamped Talk

It was hard for me to make today's update.

This was because I only had one suggestion, and I wasn't inclined to use it.

I felt that making the list into a forgery would just introduce a bunch of complications that I wasn't up for fitting into the plot.

But once I said "I'm not doing that", well, it makes it hard to confront Quill about a forgery if I'm not having it be a forgery (or even taking that as a misleading plot thread).

To be clear, I'm totally fine with the suggestion that Quill has a history of forgery. I just didn't have a place to really use it now.

And I didn't want to use Crosswinds' name as the tell even if I had gone down that route. I would have used Mudviper's name instead (which is why it's a tell that the list is real).

But without that, all I had to work with was "the list is mostly Rider's officers". So, that's what the update wound up being about.

I'm not using this to criticize the suggestion or anything. Keep making suggestions you think are interesting. I'll use them if I agree, and even if I don't, I'll try to get something out of them.

I just felt that in this particular case, it was important to share my thought process. Make of it what you will.