Sometimes the plot has to take a backseat to convenience, though... My main motivation for wanting the timeskip disappeared, but I would have rather have had the timeskip and accept an implausible justification.
Right, but this went a little past implausible and more into 'we videogames now, take three years before proceeding with the main quest'. If everybody had been explicitly OK with that I would have had less of a problem, but as things were it seemed like nobody was aware of the consequences and I really didn't want to get 'gotcha''d into everybody dying. Remember that, at that point, we had suffered a bunch of gotchas that were still fresh on my mind.
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Twostuck, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/63360266