frank_apple,
madam_satine,
jayne_serenity,
gandalfglamdrin are all now permanently banned. Their writer did not give the option of adoption to anyone else, but has given me permission to mod them as NPCs to tie up whatever ongoing plot there is. Therefore, I'm not going to kill any of them off only put them "on hold" and out of sight. For instance at next open enrollment someone who might be interested in writing Jayne can either introduce him as new, or take him out of where I put him on hold.
There is a plot with Jayne ending tonight that I will NPC him for. He'll be on hold at the end of it.
The hotel is is still in town, and I might have Sebastian take it over whenever there is need for accomodating guests. It's too much to be full time "in play" constantly for me. But it'll be available when needed. Just let me know.
The Apple and Pandora's, I'm not continuing. If Inara, Becky, Miho or whoever would like to take it over, you're welcome to it. Satine is skipping town with Sheldon Sands (who I write, and I am retiring due to lack of time for him). Frank is also moving elsewhere. "Out of town" will be their holding place unless someone wants to pick any of them up under a different journal name.
Consider Gandalf off helping Frodo destroy the Ring. There are some things that'd take precidence over teaching at a high school, right? :)
Once I NPC them to their holding places by tomorrow, I claim no more authority over them.
And no it doesn't make any IC sense whatsoever how all of this happened at once. But I'll figure out something.