HELLO it is I, Anders, your friendly neighborhood mouthpiece. Saphie has asked me to post a hiatus on her behalf, and so I am doing this thing like the boss bff I am.

This affects Hiccup i_saw_myself, Harry Potter head_heldhigh, both of the Brainies cabbage_butt and complicatedcop, and Superboy so_pregnable.

She will be back when she feels like it.

Beyond the Sea and Winter Shore Leave are over! They're still open for backtagging, of course.

I'll continue trying to update BTS as much as I can (swamped with work atm, ahahahaha yeah that's not funny >8|).

Edit: I forgot to add for those of you who want to know the broad strokes of what happened during the end of BTS for future tagging purposes...

The crew escaped, but not without several of the NPCs dying. A series of new threats cropped up on the ship as the situation began rapidly deteriorating and the crew was forced to abandon the station and head back to the surface. The station itself was basically uninhabitable when they left.  Depending on how the backtags shake out, they might know more or less about the alien artifact, but not its true nature. The artifact couldn't be brought back to the ship and the government that sent them down there was clearly lying about the reason for sending the original team down there.

Okay, first of all I want to apologize to everyone who I've been threading with for being so slow. You are all awesome and I'm really sorry for keeping you all waiting.

Second point, which is connected to the first, the reason that I've been so slow to tag is that I'm feeling some minor burnout which is making it hard to write those tags, so I think that the best thing to do right now is take a bit of a break. Probably for just a week or two. I won't be completely gone either. Both Alanna and Cassie are involved with plots and they will continue to be involved in those plots. I will also be trying to get caught up with other threads. I just might be a bit slow to respond and I won't be jumping into any new logs in the immediate future until I can get a better handle on this. This seems as good a time as any anyway because I restart classes this week so I'll be distracted with real life related stuff.

I'm still around if you need me though and I'll do my best to accommodate. This affects Alanna (lionesschampion) and Cassie (caringcassie). Yet again, I'm so sorry.