I'd like to wrap up this story as well. Caliburn needs to breathe the air of combat... (or something. That really came out wrong.)
So the options for a quick wrapup to the story are:
1) Do the New Year's Eve Party, but do it quickly, like in just a few posts as a "book-end" to the year...
or
2) Have the story end now, and if the New Year's party is ever referred to we can say everyone had a jolly good time or something like that. It does seem a bit redundant to have three parties in a row in the same story (Axel's birthday, Christmas Day, and now New Year's Eve).
I'm fine with either option, personally. There is a third option, which is to take the New Year's Eve party at the same slow pace as we did the Christmas Day party, but I think we're all a bit tired of the story. It's not that it was a bad idea, but I don't think many of us have had the time or energy to contribute to it enough to do it justice.
I know that I would have posted a lot more if I was still using Chance as my character, since he actually had close ties to many of the Vanguardians already, and my current character Mason Templar is a complete outsider at this point (though he has been used well in that capacity in this story). I had originally wanted to do a lot of stuff with Axel Magus in this story, but I think it was better to have that moved into a separate thread, which I did, even though I won't be able to post in it until I have more free time.
