Well, as I said - I think with the RL problems he's having, we might not see him for a while, so I'd rather we kept things moving. I don't want the game to die through lack of posts again, especially if we're waiting for someone we know is having issues posting currently. 

I'll get a post up in reply tomorrow evening. I'm not going away for once this weekend either, so I'll keep things moving fast and furious, because I'd like to pick the pace up a little again, and get us past the first mission, and onto the revelations leading us down the garden path toward the main plot. 

I'd honestly like this iteration of GEARs to actually get beyond the first mission, and into the succeeding ones, with an aim towards actually getting onto the real 'meat' of the story. It almost got there with the very first version, but that died for various reasons. I hope this one can actually get somewhere.