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Tomorrow begins Amnesty Week. Amnesty Week runs from May 18 to May 25 and is when you can finish your personal challenge for Art Nouveau, as well as the following challenges that took place during that time:

- Canvas Challenge
- New Beginnings
- Daffodils in Bloom
- Resurrection Challenge
- April Showers and May Flowers
- Mother’s Day Challenge

Any one piece can only complete one of these challenges.

As you complete any of those, comment here to receive your Novelty Beads. Comment with which challenge it’s for and a link to the relevant fic(s). For Art Nouveau, comment with what your goal was, as well as what you actually achieved. That helps us determine if you get twenty Novelty Beads, or if you get extra for going above and beyond your personal challenge (whether that’s word count or something else). (Art Nouveau awards may take us a bit to determine the number of Beads, just because we may need to consult with one another.)

Comment here for Art Nouveau even if you aren’t taking advantage of Amnesty Week. Just as above, comment with your goal and your actual accomplishment, whether it’s exactly your goal or above and beyond, so we can judge the number of Novelty Beads you get. The same caveat about it possibly taking a bit of time to get back to you applies.

Happy ficcing!

This could get ugly and I'm strangely OK with that.

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Dearest RBF, please excuse my shortage of comments in the recent days. Got stuff goin' on at work. It's been stressful.

I don't know about you, but stress gives me The Plotbunies like nobody's business. I've been pestering some of you about them. And that makes you extra awesome (because everyone here is awesome, not even verging on hyperbole).

I actually have one right now that would only work here.

I could make it a novel. I'm sure I could. But, I don't want to. I think it would end up missing a lot if it got cut down to one plot and a few main characters.

The thing is, the setup: I have to fill in the entire cast before I start. I can't be bringing people in part way through. I could theoretically take people out, but in's a no-go past a certain point.

My friends, do I have any requests? Characters? Sorts of relationships you want to see? Issues to deal with? I'm entertaining anything and everything at this point in development.

Now, I make no garuntee that I can honor every inquiry or that I can make the story *do* anything, but I wanted to ask, since if anybody's going to be reading this, it's you.

A few things to keep in mind
-Setting is fairly far future sci-fi
-Cast includes a disproportionate amount of geeky types
--And I'm aiming to have more than 50% women
-There is a subset of characters who don't speak the same language as the others; about six people out of fifty.
-The cast maxes out at fifty people in an isolated but relatively well appointed situation. Not sure if I'm counting AIs or not. In fact, that issue may be dealt with as a plotpoint.