Yes this is a string of posts almost entirely by me. If memory serves, these posts came around summer and many of our forum's members went on holiday during this time. While I, too, was away, I'd planned accordingly. It was the Open Arc, after all, which meant our characters could develop their own stories separately. Of course, haboo and Yoko didn't have this luxury and neither were most of the other RPers who tagged along on their story. However, as Cyan's RPer had left the RP and I'd assumed his role, it meant my characters could. Taking note of that, I'd actually written several of my posts ahead of time and posted them when I could. While it may seem that these posts were back to back, the original dates of these posts were at least a week apart. I believe my two Mishka posts were actually a month in between. This wouldn't be the only time I'd post back to back, though each time it was only because I was allowed to given the circumstances.

It is one of the things I've noticed as a cause for an RP's death on this forum. At times when an RP's updates slow, any RPer may take it upon himself to post again to progress the story. One of the major factors slowing an RP's progress is a lack of ideas on how to move its story forward. But so long as you have an idea, post it. The additional information may in fact be what inspires other RPers to continue.

As a result of the Open Arc, my character of Iezak is making some progress on his side of the RP. As an unsent, he has unique abilities, at least, in my interpretation of an unsent. Seeing how Seymour and Yunalesca were very different as unsent and Shuyin was even considered a shadow because his unsent abilities were vastly different from them both, my interpretation of an unsent is that their emotions manifest differently through pyreflies based on who they were and what their goal was at the time of death. For Seymour, his goal had been to become Sin and then take its wrath to the Spira that cost him his mother. As an unsent, he fused with others and gained power and new abilities from the fusion. Yunalesca became a monster hidden underneath her human guise. She'd been one of the orchestrators of the false Yevon religion, hiding the horrible reality from everyone under the guise of the pilgrimage and hope for an Eternal Calm. Shuyin died embittered, having struggled against Bevelle's Machina War. Throughout the game, he's shown to be cynical and without hope. As an unsent, he possesses his victims and forces them to do things against their will while his actions created a new struggle, which both he and the game relate to the war. At the end of the game, Nooj, his first vessel, is left believing the only way to defeat Shuyin is for him to die and take Baralai with him.

Keeping that in mind, my character Iezak was a devout Yevonite who was completely convinced that his religion was right even as the truth was revealed. As an unsent, he becomes the manipulator and his pyreflies can seep into his victims much like lies can spread from a single source and expand until it can no longer be contained. His manipulation caused the failure of the Calm Lands site and he does have some influence on those carrying his pyreflies, like Hunter.

My two Mishka posts developed Cyan's story. In her character biography, her original RPer, River, created a detailed backstory about her motivations as a warrior. As he never got around to revealing this past through the RP, I felt the Open Arc was the best time to do so and I'd be expanding on it even more later.

Haboo's Nikki post introduces a new character for her backstory. Sanika is a psychic who was also a sort of older sister to Nikki during her time in the gang. Her role will help explore the psychological trauma Nikki suffers.

Yoko's Kyra post works in lieu of Nikki's Open Arc story, but Yoko also elabourated a bit on Kyra's origin, which will play a role later on, not to mention being a rather key reason we even have an Final Fantasy VIII chapter of this RP to begin with!