Subject: Fantasy is a frightening thing. (nm)
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Posted on: 2017-07-29 14:06:00 UTC
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An oldbie with a new mission! Or a very old mission... by
on 2017-07-29 04:38:00 UTC
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Hello, citizens, I return from the depths to provide you with...
Mission Title: Valcentica, Selected Field Reports
Canon: Harry Potter, sort of
Rating: T, for swears
Agents: Trevelyan, A.
Time Period: March 2007-May 2010 HST
Target: ...half the students at the school?
Word Count: 2,801
Source Summary: Yes, folks, I've been threatening this for years. Here's the summary of the Valcentica RP mission from ten years ago. Get ready.
Yeah. Y E A H. I did this. Finally. Ten years later. Hope you all have as much fun reading as I did writing. And RPing, back in the day.
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Oh, and— by
on 2017-07-30 20:19:00 UTC
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Are you planning to add this to the wiki, or would you mind if I did it?
~Neshomeh, PPC Archivist -
Oh, go for it! Thanks! (nm) by
on 2017-07-31 03:25:00 UTC
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Yay! by
on 2017-07-30 20:18:00 UTC
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It makes me so happy when things like this aren't just left to die. ^_^ It's also comforting to know I'm not the only one with ten-year projects still waiting to be completed, and that people are still excited when they get done, even if they weren't around for the beginning. It's just... nice. {= )
And I enjoyed the report, too! I'm dying to know the details of what's going on that Alec isn't telling us, but since I'm not brave enough to wade through the RP site myself, I guess I'll just have to wait for more from you. I am Jack's captive audience!
~Neshomeh -
:D by
on 2017-07-31 14:51:00 UTC
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The site was a thing, I will tell you that. Alec's omissions will be coming out, at least partially, in an interlude that I'm working on right now!
And I'm comforted, too...I honestly thought nobody would care, because it's been so long! It's quite a good feeling. -
Re: mission by
on 2017-07-30 13:40:00 UTC
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Hey, there! Just want to say, I was really excited to see you pop up again, and then really excited again when I realized what you were posting! I had read the blurb about Valcentica on your characters' pages on the wiki, and was really curious to see how that situation would play out in story form.
I love that you decided to go (basically) journal style for this. Alec's narrative voice still carries all the attitude and pride of his spoken dialogue, even without Kitty to play off of. The sudden time jump, and then continuum jump, at the end are wonderfully startling, after the "opening data" staying largely irrelevant for the early parts of the story.
I hope we get a bit of follow-up to this, or maybe see Kitty's version of things? It does feel like there's more to learn of this event.
I look forward to seeing your spin-off continue, too!
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Thank you! by
on 2017-07-31 14:53:00 UTC
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Thanks so much! I'd been dragging my feet on this, because it was such an undertaking. But yes, a little bit of history is filled in now. :D
I'm so glad you think his voice still came through! I was a little worried about that since I'm rusty, but clearly I'm not as rusty as I thought.
More data's definitely going to come out, don't worry. This is definitely a watershed event for both of them, and they're coming out of this disaster changed... -
Oh man, that was *awesome*. by
on 2017-07-30 08:04:00 UTC
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I recognized the story within the first few lines, and basically went, "Oh, it's this! Yesss." Because I vaguely remember reading something about it and wishing that more of the story was already out.
And now it is. Lovely.
I'll admit it was slightly confusing to sometimes have reports out of order, but at the same time, it kind of worked stylistically. Over all, I enjoyed it a lot; it was a fun read, and it was good to see Agent!Alec again, though I kind of missed Kitty--their dynamic's always been enjoyable, and though I do understand why her appearances/mentions were fairly minimal, I still missed seeing more of her.
Ah well.
Also, the field reports structure looks *fun*. (Which reminds me, the time skips at the end were pretty amusing.) I kind of want to play with it myself more, if I could find a scenario where it makes sense. Though now I'm just thinking of a mission report by diary entries...
Anyway. Nicely done! That was very fun to read. I'm glad you finished and shared it.
~Zingenmir, who was DawnFire until January -
:D by
on 2017-07-31 17:16:00 UTC
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Oh! Hello DawnFire-that-Was!
I am so sorry for the delay, truly; I never meant to hold the community in suspense for this long! And yeah, I had to go by thread dates, so it was all in chronologically-experienced order for Alec, but not for HQ, haha. The reports were all arranged by how he experienced them.
And don't worry; Kitty will be back soon, though a little less loopy than before. All of this kind of changes a person, you know? (She'll still be such a foil to Alec, so their dynamic won't change one whit.) -
Re: An oldbie with a new mission! Or a very old mission... by
on 2017-07-29 19:24:00 UTC
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I may have said this already, but I love this.
I mean, creating an ENTIRE NEW CANON probably qualifies as its own level of deliciously wacky. I feel sorry for the Agents...
Okay, more sincerely sorry since they actualy died during it (and resurrected), but still.
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Yaaas by
on 2017-07-31 15:34:00 UTC
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Lol don't be sorry, this was ten years ago and everyone in this forum was a high school edgelord. Including me. HENCE ROCKS FALL EVERYONE DIES.
In the process of writing some! Just finishing an interlude now - the bug's officially bit. :V -
Fantasy is a frightening thing. (nm) by
on 2017-07-29 14:06:00 UTC
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Holy crap, look who's back! by
on 2017-07-29 05:16:00 UTC
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*obligatory glomp and poke* Have a plate of fresh SPaGhetti!
I really liked the mission... thing. Log? I'll call it a log, since that's what it really reminded me. A sort of apocalyptic log detailing things as they spiral out of control. Not bad for a return piece. :)
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:V by
on 2017-07-29 13:21:00 UTC
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Oh, I think so! This was the freakin' albatross around my neck, because this mission was quite a turning point for both Kitty and Alec - and just how will slowly come out in subsequent missions. (I mean, this took me ten years to finally cowboy up and do, and it took quite a long time to pull everything together when I started writing. Years worth of threads to comb through and all. There's even stuff I left out because Alec wouldn't have known since he was dead. We had a Super Saiyan Vampire. I can't make this stuff up.)
And a few dangling threads or things Alec didn't go into will definitely be explored. That's the fun thing about the epistolary format - even with a character who doesn't strictly lie, you can in many ways have an unreliable narrator.