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Chelsea the Good

Today's chapter—

* Interactive: "Home Sweet Hollywood" 
* Public: "Home Sweet Hollywood" 

—finally gets Will and Sydney to Hollywood, where they are laying plans for adding another industry person to their burgeoning coven. A commentary post is in the forums here:

What's next? The exit of Chelsea Cooper "... And the Entrance of a Better One" 

Will and Caleb have been playing around with masks. Will was using a mask of Caleb to flirt with Eva Garner, to try setting the two of them up, but then got crossways with Chelsea. She sent Gordon to beat up Will, and when all was said and done, Gordon was trapped in a mask of Will, Dane Matthias was trapped in a mask of Gordon, and Chelsea was trapped in a mask of Dane. And where was Will? He was now pretending to be Chelsea Cooper! And he had just decided to turn her into a better person!

But there are still a lot of dicks at the school, so it's not like being a "better" Chelsea will make much of a difference. So Will is wondering if maybe he should make some other substitutions.

This was the first branch I wrote when I came back from my mega-hiatus, and it dives into the kind of story that later (though published earlier) got a much longer exploration in the Doppelganger Conspiracy, so what comes next will be like a premature return to and reset of that, just in another branch.

Lastly, I need to catch up on the "Gratuities and Gratitudes." Easy seemed to like the Hollywood branch, because he sent me a bunch of GPs, and I thank him for them.