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Tensions are high in Neverland.
Not even four years ago, the Hounds had taken advantage of the crisis of the water-systems to advance their own goals, driving many people away from resources to make a quick play for power. Now the air rippled with the careful tension of a gas buildup before a cycler explosion below decks, and it didn’t look like anyone cared to clear it before it blew up in their faces.

No one cared about the Lost, they said. But the Lost were the words on everyone’s lips, their names and deeds alike. When there was trouble, they said the Lost did it. Come to find out, a lot of the kids causing the trouble were doing it for good reasons, or at least reasons that felt justified to a lot more people than just them. Some of them joined the Lost, when Pan figured out who had done it and tracked them down to speak with them face-to-face. It was better than letting them punch away at civvies who didn’t know any better and had been parroting things the Hounds had been saying about Troublemakers, the Kids Like Them (barring that a lot of those Kids were fully adults, these days).

Now, though…

Times are hard, and getting harder. It's time to write about our present-day. Somebody's got to.

2020 left us with a lot of trauma, and we're only finally starting to accept that the world is different now.
Well, some of us are. The rest are busy still pretending things are fine. We know most things aren't fine.
But we can't let that destroy us. And we can't bottle it all up, expecting to be fine.
So we tell stories.
And through those stories, we work out what's fine, and what isn't, and what could be a bit better.
We find what we've got to work on to be better.
Here, in this new space, we have film to develop, stories to write about Gencon 2023, and a whole lot of zines to print.

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