#future escapism here: I did indeed sleep after prepping this post

[mmorpg-escapism]

Okay, wow, that revelation took me out a bit. I suspect, at the very least, that Thancred and Urianger are the ones working with Koana. It would make the most sense based on the stuff we saw in 6.55...

Oh, and Bakool's plan A was to steal a prototype of Koana's solution, but it doesn't actually show us that it worked so there's a nonzero chance they really mess things up afterwards. That'd suck...

Now, I need a bit to get the aether current quests done and get back to Tuliyollal, and then *sleep*, so we'll see where this takes us next tomorrow.