40.3k back on track (more or less)

so after a record 6.5k yesterday, I am back up to where I'm "supposed to be" for the 50k word goal. Ideally, I will be doing the same thing again today, preferably at my desk instead of various couches so as not to antagoniaze my wrists further. They hurt. (oops) We shall see. (oh, and I'm absentmindedly trying to treat lj like word... somehow saving doesn't work in the middle of an entry-- which *doesn't help* when lj decides to eat half the entry in attempting to post it. bah.)

Meanwhile my plot threads are sorting themselves out, although there is still the challenge of how to make the murder mystery last long enough for the archaeologists to finish digging up everything. And Babbage has distracted Martya, for reasons of his own, and talked her into helping with the wrong investigation because it's more interesting and less morally difficult. Although this may put her in the way of meeting and recognizing the murderer, rather than slowing things down. What she's going to say to her employers when the start asking why she's hanging out on an archaeological site instead of working on what they're paying her for, I'm not entirely sure.

Of course, I'm also not sure what motivates Babbage in the first place, but so far he appears to be a force of good rather than evil. Possibly he just likes being altruistic, or possibly he has figured out some of what is going on, and is trying to get other people to notice it without Trismegistus catching on and doing something drastic.

45.3k; I should be asleep

(as the alarm will be going off at 6 tomorrow morning...)

But the murder mystery is wrapping itself up. Soon several characters will know who did it and why (I suspect Babbage already does, and was merely lying about it to make Martya feel better, but since I still don't quite know what he thinks he's doing, I'm not sure about that.) and then there will merely be the question of what to do about it.

The end of the archaeology will probably have to wait until after, although now that Martya has taken an interest, there's more reason to follow the project through to the end of the lab analysis. But that... well, it may not happen next week. Sadly, there are other things in the world to do, and a doll to put clothes on, and a christmas CD to begin...

Oh, and fishy1 and/or scraun23... is there gaming on tuesday?