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Someone named Abdul got back to me on Freelancer yesterday, just as he had promised for after his school midterms were over. The last criterion I had in place before giving him the job was for him to formulate a different strategy for Team Galactic that would mesh with the lake guardians having left Sinnoh but needing to come back in a timely manner.

Unfortunately, things got awkward between us, as he was unable to think of what Team Galactic should even do after having already forged the Red Chain. I asked on Serebii about how the anime managed to give it a completely different strategy from in the games, but all anyone said was that its writers have always modified things to their liking.

Apparently, I'm gonna have to run a contest separately to account for that, but it should probably wait until Brian's here to critique the terms I write up and suggest a sum to offer. (That, on top of the Starbound chapter and contest and assessing the risks involved in promoting said contest through the story itself.)