Day 16: 38,394 words

Serial Killer plotline revamp:

A.
1. Body of Sandra Bernice Halley found
2. Suunja assigned to case
3. Brother Bernard found, but he's still alive!
4. Trackback to the site of the ritual (thereby eliminating Sally Anne from the story altogether), based on what Brother Bernard says about what happened to him.
5. Backstory fill-in with Morton happens en-route (thereby eliminating the boringness problem where they do all that while sitting around in an office).
6. They could start searching for the serial killer after forensics analyzes the materials used in the ritual, and points them to places that sell them.
7. Martha found, also based on what Brother Bernard says.

B. Skip to Endron Oil storyline (which needs serious revamping too)

C. Somehow find a link to the zombie storyline from the Endron Oil storyline

D. Zombie storyline leads to Siege of Myan storyline

... and then it continues like I planned out before. The Siege of Myan storyline needs some serious rethinking too, but I haven't figured out how to do that or Endron yet. Still, it's good to get a better grasp of what to do with one of the three problem storylines.

Now all I have to do is write all that up.