A completely new - and, hopefully, less failed - version of this is now available here: http://royalroadl.com/fiction/chapter/135153

Everything you need to know can be found there, including explanation of, uhm... the reason we were quite late. Actually now that I think I could have put it here, which would make it less problematic to actually fit the 500 characters requirement to publish this. Let's just not hope that I won't be required to spam in a such intricate way anymore after achieving, uhm, this. Yeaaah.