Subject: That's correct.
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Posted on: 2014-12-27 15:30:00 UTC
Anything beyond "second-to-last" is rarely heard, but "fourth-to-last" is nonetheless proper English.
Subject: That's correct.
Author:
Posted on: 2014-12-27 15:30:00 UTC
Anything beyond "second-to-last" is rarely heard, but "fourth-to-last" is nonetheless proper English.
Enemy Mine
Yes, I know the title was directly swiped from TV Tropes. I would've used 'Enemy of My Enemy' but there's already a mission with that title, so... yeah. Anyway, it took me three drafts and a lot of revising to get this one ready to roll. Enjoy~!
I've already picked out the fics for my next two missions, but hopefully I should be able to start taking badfic requests after they're done!
I liked how you were able to flesh out your agents' characters, especially E.V.L. She's pretty much how one would expect a Suvian agent to act! I hope to see a lot more of your work.
That said, I did catch a few things:
and even if we hate each others’ guts, I still need to know how you idiots do things around here
The apostrophe is in the wrong place. It should be should be "each other's guts".
E.V.L. decided not to pose the obvious question about how dA treated MLP:
I suggest that you cut the acronyms. Granted, it's easy to guess what you're talking about, but it might throw people off.
A second mini-Discord, Cadence, promptly poof-ed into existence next to the agents.
I don't think that the hyphen is needed.
“There never was any mention of how many alicorns the world could support at any one time,” the disguised ex-ficubus noted. “So that means this prophecy wouldn’t have been backed up by anything in the actual canon.”
It seems like E.V.L. is trying to make a good argument on the Sue's behalf; she's saying that the prophecy does not run afoul of canon.
If so, then the word that you've used is the exact opposite of the word you want: you should use "contradicted," not "backed up."
“Neat use of a title drop, but no points for you, Tara,” E.V.L. sighed.
This sounds like a good comment, but the problem is that the reader does not know the context! What is the title that the Sue is dropping?
In the following chapter, the other ponies caught up with the Sue, upon which she told them about where Twilight was...
You're using the wrong prepositional phrase. Where you put "upon which," what you really meant to say is "whereupon" or "at which point".
“Now, roll over!” Rayner ordered. Cerberus roll over onto his back.
Tense shift. It should be "rolled over".
“Then why don’t you just transfer him in External Security?” E.V.L. growled. “That way, I’ll never have to see his stupid face ever again.”
Two issues. One, it should be "transfer him to External Security".
Two; How does E.V.L. know about External Security?
And based on doctorlit's response, I've edited Not!Sombra's death as well - it's a lot quicker now, and less sadistic. Given E.V.L.'s emphasis on efficiency, it seems only fair.
The title dropped is the badfic’s title “Let Rise a New Alicorn“ in the fourth to last line of the prophesy.
(Do you say "fourth to last" in English? I've only ever seen "second to last". Should I have said "tenth line"?)
HG
Anything beyond "second-to-last" is rarely heard, but "fourth-to-last" is nonetheless proper English.
Though I really have to question if 'recruit' is the proper word to describe E.V.L. :P
Anyway, excellent first (DMS) mission, and I can't wait to get started on our collab!
I can't pinpoint what exactly I liked about it, but it was good!
Good work! As someone who is still very new to the series (I've only seen a few episodes of Season 1), this was very enjoyable and a fantastic mission to read. However, the text seemed very clustered together - I read most missions on my iPad, and my brain started confusing which line I was on after a while due to the spacing. Some more space between each different lines of dialogue would be great.
Overall, though - I loved the mission!
Your agents were very interesting and with great interaction. You really get a feel for each of them. And I like that there's still plenty of animosity and room for development in future missions.
And a nitpick, "falling right after the Sue melted through the strange mirror."
(There's nothing wrong with a trope title.) Rayner's mean-spiritedness still comes across as weird to me. I know he's not supposed to be all rainbows and flowers, but... Is he going to mellow out at all in the forseeable future? (Also, remember to make Wiki profiles for him and E.V.L.)
I particularly liked the part where E.V.L. charged fake!Sombra and tried to fight him off. It really captured her overconfidence and relative inexperience with this whole PPC thing. (Also, what is the deal with her head? I thought it got reattached, why does she occasionally play with it? That's creepy even by her standards.)
As noted on the cover page, this mission took place two months after, well... that one... and he had to recuperate in Medical the entire time. It's technically the second one since then (the one where he first met E.V.L. was the first, straight out of Medical in fact). He wasn't particularly happy about it. I plan for my second mission with this team to take place concurrently to my Floaters team's timeline (i.e. two months later), and yeah, I hope to have Rayner's mood to improve somewhat, partly due to making a new friend after this one (and no, his partner doesn't count).
Yeah, E.V.L.'s Suvian mentality really did throw a Mankey wrench into the mission that was only barely cleared up due to Rayner's intervention. And as for her head, that was the result of a poorly worded metaphor for losing her temper (I'm betting it would have been something like "her head came completely off its shoulders" or something). And I understand that Medical can probably regenerate severed limbs, but I don't think putting a typo-induced detached head back on would be doable, at least without grievous bodily harm to her. Besides, it would be fun to have her head fall off at the most embarrassing moments, too.
I'll probably take care of the Wiki profiles later today, along with putting the mission on the front page.
Also, "Mankey wrench"? I see what you did there, and I approve of that pun XD
Come on guys, applaud! That was great!