update: i didn't progress much from the last update time wise, only one second. I filled in a lot of background though, as when I started today only the characters who actually did stuff were there and they were in a blank white void. Now, there's a bunch of useless people standing around them and they're in a slightly less blank white void.
hopefully tomorrow I'll get to the actually interesting part.
It'll take more than that to turn me to ash!