Subject: It's not like I'm any better.
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Posted on: 2016-02-09 14:24:00 UTC
I may not historically have used multiple agents simultaneously, but these days... yikes. I am a symptom of a problem I have myself created.
hS
War Stories
This opens about fifteen minutes after the end of OOCest Teacher and covers Éowine and Steormægð swapping stories with friends while they wait for a Response Center.
All the references and technology, and stuff.
Spooky.
You'd just grab a hold of a knowledgeable person and, y'know, ask.
I recognize some of what they are talking about, but I have trouble remembering which story goes to what detail.
... was read the entirety of a person's mission output in a row. Everyone only had one set of agents, and most of them only did a couple of missions, so that was easy. (Dafydd and Selene had one of the biggest runs, for reference - and note that my other agents came /after/ them.) There was very little crossover between different writers, no all-HQ events to talk about, and not a whole lot of extra technology - we mostly used just what was in TOS.
The interconnected, stuffed-with-tech, nineteen-agents-per-writer setup we have now came about because of the Wiki, I think. It wouldn't have worked without it.
hS
Wait, I can say with all sureness that it wasn't.
The interconnectedness was something that started around the same time but wasn't caused by the wiki- I know that for certain because the interconnected missions started happening before and after I created the wiki, and it was months and months before it was even usable for something like that. The early wiki was very nearly entirely things from previous PPC websites and bios made generally of characters from older spinoffs. The interconnectiveness was just something that came about with the 2006/2007 generation of writers.
As for'nineteen agents per writer' that one is actually on you. Because again, by around that point, you had both Crashing Down and Reorganisation, and with them a large number of agents you were writing, besides your other spin-offs. You were emulated quite a bit on that point.
-July, who certainly remembers the wiki stuff, considering
But I will point out that, while I have umpteen agents, I never had umpteen agents on missions. I wrote Dafydd and Selene almost to completion before I started Narto and Lou. I'm pretty sure Nar and Lou were almost done before I brought in Mortic.
The only time I've deliberately had two teams running at the same time is now.
Also, I very much regret sparking the movement towards 'the more people I have the more people will like my stuff'. That is all.
hS
Quantity and quality are not the same things.
I've got stuff in the works for new spin-offs, but that's mainly because for my first spin-off a)July is retired and b) I'm very nearly done with their whole spinoff, and as far as BM goes they're a load of fun but more for side stories and the like that don't really need a running thing and I kinda want to get back into writing missions.
-July, contrarian
I may not historically have used multiple agents simultaneously, but these days... yikes. I am a symptom of a problem I have myself created.
hS
Does this mean you qualify as a contagious disease?
After all, I went to all those Gatherings, and then people started writing like me!
Correlation = causation, I'm pretty sure. ^_^
hS
What are you? A plague? A flu? A pox?
He's impossible to get rid of, so obviously he's...
...never mind, I'm not gonna say it.
I know you're not serious, but still, this seems in worse taste the longer it goes on.
~Neshomeh
That's seriously starting to take it into outright unkind territory in general, too, which I was trying to not do.
hS, my apologies for setting that cascade off.
-July
I didn't mean to come off as unkind, and while I was only making a joke it was a bad joke. It was in very poor taste, even by my standards.