What could have been: Monster Collection Chronicles, parts I and II

So, here is what was supposed to have been posted on this day last year, if only my laptop hadn't fucked up on me. This is the exchange I had with Chelle a year earlier still, about the story I once spent years developing a plot for. Here is exactly how it all came apart, leading Starbound to replace it as the focal story of my choice.

( Part I )

( Part II )

( Parts I and II, follow-up )

What could have been: Monster Collection Chronicles, parts III and IV

Continued from my previous post:

( Part III )

( Part IV; Jake, you might want to avoid this. )

( Parts III and IV, follow up )

(Last time I asked, not too long ago, Chelle said that she was still not up for brainstorming a new outline for Part I, which is what was since replanned as its own fic.)