Ladystuck Remix progress report

[edenfalling]

Okay, I have picked a story to remix (in an unsurprising turn, it's the one I kept picking at in my head over the past week) and have made a super-minimal provisional outline. The thing is, this remix will either require me to learn some coding really quick in order to do a certain thing, or I will have to... uh... that would be a spoiler, damn. I mean, there is a relatively convenient fudge I could use in case of emergency, but I'd prefer to avoid that because it will look like I wasn't actually putting thought and effort into mirroring a certain effect in the original story.

I've done a little googling on the programming option, which mostly left me more confused than when I started. And on that note, is anyone willing to let me ask dumbass questions about Unicode and/or AO3 work skins via email or private message?