Gazing Rabbit wrote:
I don't have the foggiest what happened for the last year or so, but the last month is interesting. I do suggest going back and start reading it again.
By 'it' I meant ES, in case I wasn't clear.
Lemme see if I can summise the last year and change:
[spoiler]Ian, still hopped up on absorbing all the power of Anilis, went to his home village so that he could heal his ailing sister... only to discover that while he'd been away on his quest, his crazy mother had set their house on fire, killing herself and his sister.
Ian then proceded to use his powers to "Omega-Heal" all the unwell half-elves in the village, rewiring them at a genetic level so that their bodies didn't snap back to the busted factory default. He also attempts to resurrect his sister from the dead, only to find that he could put the body back together but that her spirit was gone... this angers the already dangerously emo Ian, who then goes all Superman and files off into the night... leaving Meji behind.
Jon and his sister Sara (whom he took captive during his run in with the Time Monks) do some quality bonding in the woods... then Sara and Sarine beat the hell out of each other for a while... and then Sara decides to continue travelling with the party. Jon, Sarine, Sara, and Ellis all head to Tsuiraku (since they're out of better ideas), where Sarine bullshits her way past the guards posing as part of the Elven Ambassidor's honor guard.
The team meets up with Meji, only to have her run off because she wants to meet her father (the actual Elven Ambassidor Sarine was posing as a guard for). Meji and Ellis get captured... *sigh*... and taken back to Elfland. Sara discovers that time monkery doesn't work against elves when they've got personal shields up... Jon discovers that bullets do... and the entire party bugger off in the middle of the night chasing after Meji.
Meanwhile, Ian goes to Veracia to demand the Patriarch tell him where the elves are hiding. Luminosita attacks Ian... Ian dispells the pokegod... and a significant portion of the city is destroyed. The Patriarch eventually tells Ian that he doesn't have the foggiest idea where the elves are at, at which time a time monk spy knocks Ian out and whisks him away to the Time Monk Village, where Anita propositions a pantless Ian to join her on her quest in world domination, starting with the genocidal purging of the elves.
So picking up with the most current events, Jon, Sarine, and Sara were captured on their way into Elf Mountain, and Sarine faked her way through (again) by saying that she'd captured the two humans because they knew about the 'half-elf in question' (Ian). So now they're in the city, staying in a disused consulate, Misa is officially involved in events, and Meji is stuck in a small holding cell with Ellis... but no toilet.[/spoiler]
...and that about sums it up.