Thank you! The original prompt was such an intriguing idea, and I've enjoyed playing with it over the years.

I did finally make a high-level outline of the story -- nothing hugely detailed, but sort of a "this is the background worldbuilding, these are the major characters, here is the emotional plot and the action/adventure plot, here's how they resolve" rough sketch. So it's looking more like something I could write someday, instead of just disconnected snippets. I guess we'll see!