There's a new way to experience the story of Karen and her companions on their journey to find Karen's father. If you don't mind loosing variants and dislike broken English, you can read this write-up, Marrend wrote for me. It's stylistically way better than anything I could come up with (at least in English) at it ends in the best possible ending.
Hopefully, next year's Secret Santa will surprise me with some artwork to go with the text.