Subject: Awesome work, guys! (nm)
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Posted on: 2014-12-01 02:41:00 UTC
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Mission One Complete! by
on 2014-11-30 21:40:00 UTC
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Mission One: Pilot Co-written with SkarmorySilver, thank you kindly, sir.
This was definitely worth the wait! *does the Kirby dance* Reviews are welcome! (Also, SkarmorySilver, do you want any of the mini-Missingno we picked up? I'm keeping Meww and psych-heal. If you don't want any, they're all going on the mini-Missingno page)
Rescued (adoptable) characters:
Miguel Correa - agent-to-be. Has Celebi powers/alternate form, which will be nerfed because time travel is OP. Accompanied by mew the mini-Missingno (Kabutops skeleton), Kitty the Persian, and a Cyndaquil.
Diane Correa - Miguel's mother; Nursery aide. Also has Celebi powers/form, which will also be nerfed. (Knows Spanish and English.)
Brenda - Has Rapidash powers/alternate form. Maybe.
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Congrats! by
on 2014-12-01 16:00:00 UTC
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I apologize for not responding sooner - I went to see How To Train Your Dragon 2 a second time in the local theater yesterday (I would *highly* recommend visiting the HTTYD continuum in a future mission btw), and ended up doing graduate research until one in the morning! Anyway, I think everybody's covered any proofreading we may have missed (I was going to correct it myself but I see you've taken care of it), so I'll probably go into some general topics.
For Miguel's abilities, direct time travel may be a little overboard, but I do imagine that a limited version of such a skill may make traveling through badfics a little bit easier (though not very much). You won't need an RA to skip past scene shifts, for example, but you will need one both to enter/exit the badfic and to jump to a different location. It may be possible that in a badfic, Miguel could skip only one or two chapters at the very farthest, if they're not important, but in general he'd probably go past only a scene or two. At least it'll make dodging Author's Notes easier, though.
I'm actually not interested in adopting any of the mini-Missingno, sorry to say - I already have a whole bunch of mini-Omnidroids, a mini-Sentinel, a mini-T. rex, a Spellcheck Scrat, and an Attack on Titan mini I accidentally spawned myself during a post on the Board (Eren Yager, I think). Since my collab with Desdendelle also deals with Pokemon, that technically means I'll have already adopted one mini-Missingno by the time we're done with that (though it's probably gonna take a while, due to responsibilities on both sides).
One little issue, however... I was honestly surprised to see you post this thing without getting a third person to beta-read it. Granted, there were two of us working on it, but I usually get at least two beta readers for the missions I write solo (And speaking of which, I wonder why haven't PoorCynic and Iximaz beta-read my first DMS mission yet? I remember the latter being more punctual for that Teen Titans mission I did last month...). I'll let you off on this time because I didn't see too many things wrong with this mission, Board-caught typos aside, but please remember to have your missions beta-read before posting them. I'd be happy to serve as a beta-reader, in fact - you know my e-mail address so contacting me shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Regardless, great job, and best of luck with your future endeavors! :D -
Thanks for the input! :) (nm) by
on 2014-12-01 20:28:00 UTC
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A couple of nitpicks by
on 2014-12-01 14:31:00 UTC
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Firstly, and no offence meant, but are you sure that the fic takes place in the game continuum, because I've had a quick flick through and I can't see it stated anywhere for definite. The reason I'm asking this is because in the anime continuum, I believe Pokemon can learn more than four moves at once, although they can't use more than 4 different moves in any single battle.
Secondly when the Sue is scanned by the Pokedex it's said that her stats are vastly underleveled, when in fact except for her Attack and her Defense (which are actually at an acheivable level for a Level 10 Mew) the rest of her stats are overleveled, some by a small amount (Special Defence) some by a larger amount (Special Attack and HP) and Speed is ignored completely (something which isn't even picked up). Using a Stat Calculator that I know is very reliable this is a Level 10 Mews Stats with Max EVs and IVs and a neutral nature.
HP 49, Atk 34, Def 34, SpA 34, SpD 34, Spd 34 compared ot the fics stats which are HP 65, Atk 34, Def 33, SpA 54, SpD 38.
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RE: Nitpicks by
on 2014-12-01 20:27:00 UTC
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Hmm...well, we assumed the game-verse for simplicity's sake, but it could just as well have been an anime-verse fic too. I think it was in the Pokémon game section on the Pit.
As to the stat thing...we had no idea what the Sue's level and nature and whatnot were, and so just worked off of Mew's base stats (according to Bulbapedia). Thanks for the advice; I'll pay closer attention to which version of Pokémon the fic takes place in next time for sure :) -
Fun stuff. by
on 2014-12-01 13:58:00 UTC
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Though it was a bit unnerving when it started rewriting itself in front of my eyes...
Anyway, yes. Fun. I thought you overdid it a bit on the infodumping between the three agents - in particular, Chris would every so often just flat out ask to be infodumped about random things, including Ami's history, which was quote jarring - but in general, it worked well. Falchion slipped between competent and newbie pretty convincingly, and the new kids felt, well, new. I also really liked the Pokemon battle at the beginning - fun stuff.
Also, mini-Missingno are adorable. ^_^
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Awesome work, guys! (nm) by
on 2014-12-01 02:41:00 UTC
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SEMPAI NOTICED ME 8D (nm) by
on 2014-12-01 02:54:00 UTC
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Oh, and- by
on 2014-12-02 00:16:00 UTC
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If I'm senpai, does that make you kōhai? Meh, whatevs. I know the big sib/little sib is falling into obscurity, but Imma adopt you!
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I should be flattered, right? by
on 2014-12-01 11:51:00 UTC
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Right? Okay, then. *is flattered*
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While I'm here... by
on 2014-12-01 20:51:00 UTC
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Two things I've been meaning to ask...
1) Have you beta read my DMS mission yet? I would swear I sent the draft to you a while ago - I wonder if I should send it again?
And 2) I was actually thinking if an interlude taking place prior to eatpraylove's mission with Falchion making friends with someone else's agents. I wonder if you'd be interested in helping out? It would be nice for my agents to be familiar with another author's for once prior to a collab mission. If so, I can start something up for us both sometime this week. -
Right! by
on 2014-12-01 21:27:00 UTC
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Sorry I haven't looked over the mission yet. My friend ended up staying longer than anticipated and then I had some school stuff [s]that started kicking my ass[/s] needed doing. I'll take a look at it in a minute.
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Uh... the word is senpai. (nm) by
on 2014-12-01 04:23:00 UTC
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According to The Source Of All Knowledge... by
on 2014-12-01 09:53:00 UTC
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... y'know, Wikipedia...
Anyway, according to Wiki, and specifically the article Talk page, it's technically written 'senpai', often written 'sempai', and always pronounced 'sempai'. Precisely what the 'correct' spelling of a word normally written in a non-Latin alphabet is, is fairly debatable anyway. How exactly are 'Beijing' and 'Peking' the same word, again?
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Congratulations! by
on 2014-12-01 01:11:00 UTC
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Not bad for a first outing. And Arceus, did that Sue make absolutely no sense! Why would a pair of Pokémon hide out as humans? How--and WHY--would said Pokémon imprison others in an apartment complex's basement? And if you're a Pokémon, then for what reason are you going on a Trainer journey?! I'd understand a journey to figure out how to turn back into a human, but a Trainer journey? Again, why?!
*deep breaths*
Either way, good work on this mission. Not too long, and it got the job done.
There are a few errors, however:
Not having the tilde over the e in Pokémon is understandable...
Wrong word, there. The "tilde" is that little squiggly symbol that goes above the N in certain Spanish words (i.e., this symbol: ~ ).
The marking that you wanted to talk about is this one: ´
This marking is called an "acute accent". However, it would make sense to just say "accent"; unless the language being referred to has multiple accents, the word "accent" by itself usually implies the acute accent (of course, that is when the word is used of an accent marking, as opposed to a speaker's accent).
a sheep-like Pokémon with fluffy cream-colored wool and a blue head/legs.
That description is a bit awkward: it seems to say that its head is its legs. What you really want to say is that both its legs and its head are blue.
Therefore, just say so. Consider this fix: a sheep-like Pokémon with fluffy cream-colored wool, a bare, blue-skinned head, and similarly-colored legs.
I didn't warn her about the gruesome death of the Character Replacement we were supposed to kill.
Memory serving, not!Ludlow was one of multiple Character Replacements in the fic, yes? In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to change the article? That is, say "a Character Replacement," as opposed to "the Character Replacement."
He’d done it right; the Sue’s apartment complex was clearly visible through the portal. “Miguel, would you mind carrying Mareep this time?” Ami asked.
Minor nitpick here: I think a paragraph break between the two sentences would be in order. Remember that the previous paragraph focused on Falchion, and this paragraph starts of with the results of Falchion's efforts. To have the same paragraph inexplicably switch to Ami is a bit disorienting.
Falchion instinctively blocked the attack with his large wingspan before tossing the RA to Chris. It was lucky that in the Pokémon games, Normal-types are immune to Ghost-type attacks.
I was a bit confused when I first saw this sentence; it took me a while to remember that Falchion was disguised as a Fearow in this mission. You might want to make that fact a bit more explicit.
She struck out with a Stomp attack at Replacement!Mewtwo, kicking him into the wall behind him, but at the same time, a Shadow Ball caught her in the chest and sent her sprawling, somehow forced back into her human form.
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Thanks for the concrit! by
on 2014-12-01 02:36:00 UTC
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It's funny how the mistakes are all in passages SkarmorySilver originally wroteI mean, yeah, wow, can't believe I messed those up. I'll fix them tomorrow.
I feel your rage, by the way. On my first readthrough of the fic, I wanted to punch the wall right after the part where her parents revealed themselves to be Pokemon. (I watched "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances" instead. Jack Harkness is the best conman in the history of conmen.) -
Actually, I noticed a mistake in my concrit. by
on 2014-12-01 04:22:00 UTC
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The last piece of advice, to be exact.
In short: completely ignore it.
The long version: I thought that there was a word there that really was not actually there.
Recall the sentence as written: She struck out with a Stomp attack at Replacement!Mewtwo, kicking him into the wall behind him, but at the same time, a Shadow Ball caught her in the chest and sent her sprawling, somehow forced back into her human form.
Here is what I thought it read:
She struck out with a Stomp attack at Replacement!Mewtwo, kicking him into the wall behind him, but at the same time, a Shadow Ball caught her in the chest and sent her sprawling, somehow forced her back into her human form.
Had that word actually been there, then the subject of that clause would be the Shadow Ball, and the verb should have been "forcing", not "forced." However, since that word was acutally not there, the subject is clearly Brenda, and the verb is in the correct form as written.
Sorry for the mixup.