This strip was prepared 20050920 for deployment on 20050922.

Coincidentally the Autumnal Equinox and the end of the first micro-arc. CALL THE ENCLAVE (drunkeness, plotting).

DCR'll make sense faster than ATC did, I promise - starting normal building up to abstraction (minor branching off of one core plot thread) as opposed to starting neck deep in the middle (three-plus parallels).