Rhaus 5

New Rhaus the Conqueror, even if it's seeming very academic at this point:

-Chapter 1 - Darkness Triumphant!
-Chapter 2 - Help Wanted
-Chapter 3 - Dashing Prince Percival
-Chapter 4 - Mommy!
-Chapter 5 - First Times

Not naming characters is too much of a pain. I'd intended to just give guards numbers and leave it at that, but it's just too annoying. Grk and Yir only got names for that reason. I don't know if they'll ever come back again or not, if they do they'll just be inserted into scenes that would otherwise have generic guards.

In the outline I didn't introduce Hala until later, but throwing her into one of the flashbacks seemed simplier than introducing her later on and just saying that people have known her all along. So yeah, if you're getting tired of more characters then there's no salvation here, but I swear that there's a story being built here, I'm (generally) not just throwing out characters for no reason!

I'd aimed to get chapter 6 out by the end of this month, but I spent way too long editing chapter 5 (I finished "writing" it on August 31st), so it's looking doubtful.

More.

I'm trying to make only necessary edits as I go along and focus instead on new content. Wise? Maybe not, but the other option is "edit forever," so I think pushing forward is the least bad choice. So in that spirit:

-Chapter 1 - Darkness Triumphant!
-Chapter 2 - Help Wanted
-Chapter 3 - Dashing Prince Percival
-Chapter 4 - Mommy!

I have no power over the tabs being five spaces. I fixed them in the actual documents after Scott pointed it out, but Google docs doesn't care. It discards that and defaults back to five spaces. But anyway, that's 68 pages and counting. Think I'll make it to 100 (again)?