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Paging Doctorlit.... by Pretzel on 2015-01-25 05:12:00 UTC Reply

Hey. Just wanted to let you know that I'm relatively familiar with the Dilbert canon (my dad loved that comic when I was a kid, and I'm pretty sure I still remember a good deal about it), so if you need help on that crossover mission, feel free to hit me up.

Hey, there! Sorry for the long response time. by doctorlit on 2015-01-27 15:21:00 UTC Reply

My work week doesn't leave much time between shifts for composing long replies.

The fic is a very weird one, with rather stupid time travel shenanigans on the Pokémon end, and a plot by Dogbert to send Dilbert, Wally and Alice on a giant office building-shaped space ship to start trading with the Pokémon world for PROFIT on the "Dilbert" end. Which . . . is actually in character for Dogbert, I guess? But the dialogue for the "Dilbert" characters is so awfully bland, it kind of ruins it. The actual "Dilbert" part starts with chapter 92. (Sorry for the weird link on the Claimed page, you guys; I think I must have been reading the last chapter at the time before I added it to the list, and forgot to go back to the first chapter before grabbing the link.)

Anyway, seeing that that fic has nearly doubled in length since I claimed it, I don't know that it necessarily makes for a good mission anymore. Even as short as the chapters are, that's a whole lot of badfic to sit through.

What do you think, Pretzel? Are the "Dilbert" canons OOC enough to be a charge? Is the length worth tackling? One thing we could try is having our respective agents tackling separate sections of the story, not realizing they both got assigned the fic, and have them meet somewhere in the middle before teaming up to take it out.

Hm. by Pretzel on 2015-01-28 03:04:00 UTC Reply

The Dilbert canons don't seem particularly OOC, save for one thing: they're all supposed to be engineers of some kind, right? That's the whole premise of the strip. I don't think they'd be as blase as they are regarding the fact that, y'know, their office building is now a giant spaceship. I have yet to see any of them geek out and/or freak out about that. Like you said, the dialogue is very bland for them, so I'd say that it's more of a displacement coupled with an Aura of Smooth or something similar-- perhaps in all the coffee they've been drinking? Anyways, I'd suggest a neuralyzation for them all and send them on their way.

And I have yet to see any mention of cubicle forts. How dare they.

There's Dilbert fanfic...? by Desdendelle on 2015-01-25 08:49:00 UTC Reply

Whiskey, tango, foxtrot, over.

Apparently so... by Pretzel on 2015-01-25 08:54:00 UTC Reply

...because someone did a crossover fic. I spotted the request for Dilbert info on the Claimed Badfics list, so I figured I might as well help.

whut by Desdendelle on 2015-01-25 09:13:00 UTC Reply

I took a look at a random episode (the one linked to in the list), and, well... how's this connected to Dilbert...?

Not sure, to be honest. I'm gonna go look at the fic itself. by Pretzel on 2015-01-25 09:17:00 UTC Reply

Maybe there'll be some explanation there?

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Oh. Maybe not. Welp.