"Bell & Candle": A middling noble of House Telvanni, his wife, their young son, and their tiny retinue of servants are dispatched to the Daedric ruin of Zergonipal on a research expedition. Things then proceed to go awry in the face of constant ash storms, the increasingly unhinged behavior of one of the servants, and the eventual arrival of a pack of Ashlanders and some fellow calling himself "the Nerevarine." Told from the POV of Ismene, one of the servants (but not the unhinged one). Notes: semi-minimal progress already on this one; I have some snippets written out, at least. Will probably be written more as a series of short vignettes rather than a continuous narrative.

"Cassini's Rainbow": Actually, a rewrite of a pre-existing fic (original: http://tyraarane.livejournal.com/279239.html), to make it less sucky and fix the horribly bungled ending. And to make it more of a Sasha/Milla fic, per the original request behind the fic. In short: Sasha and Milla go to Portland, Oregon, to find a former Psychonauts agent (and one of Sasha's mentors in his early days at the agency) living under an assumed identity, only to discover that he's...not entirely sane. He's also a precognitive with some worrying predictions for Sasha's future. And for some reason, Orwell's "1984" gets referenced a lot. Notes: Somewhere in the realm of 40% rewritten (I started over basically from scratch), but stalled for reasons unknown.

"Dig, Ophelia": A companion piece, sort of, to my Esher-centric "No Going Home" (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3193056/1/No_Going_Home). This fic will attempt to do to Yeesha what "No Going Home" did for Esher--flesh out her character as it appears in Myst V to make her more sympathetic, and in the process do some clean up on the trainwreck that was Myst V's story. Mildly AU by necessity; as with "Home," I do bend and stretch canon, but try to avoid actively breaking it. Plot is still in flux, but at the moment chronicles Yeesha's perspective on events mostly prior to and following Myst V, with a focus on her relationships with Esher and Calam, her murdered teacher/father figure/possible lover. Notes: some semi-coherent snippets written, but mostly in plot bunny stage. Yeesha is an excruciatingly hard character to write for.

"One Flew East": One of the most dangerous psychic terrorists in recent memory decides to stage a prison break and some revenge kidnappings, among other things. Added difficulty: he was once one of Sasha Nein's best friends, years ago. And one of the acts he's most famous for involves the murder of Sasha's first partner. (No, not Milla.) The fic moves back and forth between the present and the 1990s, during Sasha's years at the Psychonauts' academy and some of his early years as a field agent, to better explore his relationship with our antagonist, Nick Harper, and some of the people surrounding them. Adult rating is for language, some violence, and a few scenes of sexual content. Notes: Epic story is, well, epic. It started as a badly written first draft that was never finished (here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3016273/1/One_Flew_East), which I began to rewrite as my NaNoWriMo '08 project. I hit the 50K goal post with the fic still unfinished, and stalled. Now it's trying to rewrite itself again. I have my doubts I'd be able to have a completed draft I'd be comfortable with posting for public consumption within 8 weeks, but it's worth a shot...