Subject: Congratulations!
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Posted on: 2014-10-15 04:07:00 UTC

Whew! I don't think that I have ever seen such a long entry as a PPCer's first mission. However, I must admit that you've done a good job. Though it was long, it was not rambly; a laudable achievement.

Two things, however.

First, there are a few SPaG errors:
“Oh. Ohhhhh. It was a dream sequence. Of course it was.” She made sure to note an extra charge for confusing the Duat out of them as well.: That "she" should be “Rashida”; the previous paragraph of narrative was from Falchion's POV, and except for the reference to Duat, there is nothing in-paragraph to note that the speaker was Rashida.

appeared out of no where: “nowhere” should be one word here, not two.

The teens and the PPC agents rushed back to the cloning room we’d just visited: Don’t you mean “they’d just visited”?

and the ensuing narrative everyone, including t rex, into silence: It looks like you're missing a word there. Perhaps the missing verb is “stunned everyone … into silence”?

Its robotic legs clung to it as though it about to pry it free. As is, the second-to-last “it” is out of place. too many. Consider deleting that "it" or adding a verb:

Its robotic legs clung to it as though about to pry it free.
OR
Its robotic legs clung to it as though it was about to pry it free.

Of course, with all those "it"s, you might want to add a different noun, replacing one of the "it"s with "the scarab" or "the finger," as appropriate.

Second, regarding the badfic itself, I did not think that the format was that bad at all. IIRC, the premise is that the fic is actually a recording. That said, the first-person/scriptfic format is actually appropriate, as it accurately conveys the sense of people adding their two cents to the story as appropriate. Too bad that the story itself was horribly written, but IMO, the format was not one of the weaknesses.

Either way, good work, and congratulations on besting one of your old shames.

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