Well, I'd meant to keep this up to date on the situation in the Wild Fascist Dictatorship, but the communication Argantry's been receiving has been confusing and contradictory, so I was waiting until things were a bit clearer.
So! The deal was this: I mentioned earlier that when Argantry received her initial information about Ebenezer Popcorn's deposal, she wasn't certain which of about five different factions of the army might be responsible for it. Over the last few days, she received probably two dozen more emails and telegraphs and this continued to be completely uncertain. The only thing she was clear on was that things were an absolute disaster and lots of animals were just fleeing the capital.
It turns out that a lot of the chaos is due to the fact that three of the army's factions carried out the coup in tandem, and then upon achieving their goal, their alliance immediately fell apart and they started fighting each other. The current situation, then, is basically close to anarchy. Argantry is really worried about some of her family and her associates; apparently there are a lot of civilians barracaded into the university, hoping that the fighting won't reach there. The only bright spot is that the army is so busy beating the shit out of itself that it hasn't been too harsh on the civilians yet.
If you (or Argantry) can find the time to write up a brief summary of the different factions involved, that would be fascinating.
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