Subject: Only if...
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Posted on: 2012-10-02 22:41:00 UTC
... I get to be the wizard.
Again.
hS
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original series by
on 2012-10-02 17:16:00 UTC
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What fic is the original series based on and where can I read it? Thanks!
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on 2012-10-02 17:17:00 UTC
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To clarify, I mean the fic the very first mission is based on.
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This may be of interest by
on 2012-10-02 18:24:00 UTC
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http://www.oocities.org/houseofmst/aca2.htm
An MST of Rambling Band, or at least part of it, it says Part 2 at the top, but I can't get a working link for Part 1 (which may well be the mission, rather than an MST, I dunno), and it seems to end rather abruptly. But it does include more excerpts from the original fic.
No sign of the actual thing intact anywhere though. -
Through the Wayback Machine... by
on 2012-10-02 20:35:00 UTC
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... I discover that a) there were only two parts (part 1 is indeed gone) and b) they also have an MST for Sisterhood of the Fellowship (AKA TOS 14), with both parts accessible, linked here. (Yes, that's the oocities link; shurrup).
A quest! How many TOS fics still exist in one form or another? How many of the blighters can we track down? If it's more than these three (#1,2,14), I'm going to open an archive...
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A Quest you say? by
on 2012-10-02 21:27:00 UTC
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This would appear to be the actual fic for Chapter 6 of TOS
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/529809/1/
Now all I need is a group of companions, a fellowship if you will, to help me on this quest. But what sort of number would be best for a Fellowship, I wonder...? Hmm, 10 seems awfully popular for some reason... -
Curse my lack of LOTR knowledge... by
on 2012-10-03 00:47:00 UTC
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I've read up to the middle of the Two Towers... but going by this, I wonder if that's enough. Also, sentences like these:
2.) I am an AUTHOR. I write FICTION. And if I want Sam and Frodo to grow up and adopt 30.65 kids together, I'll write it like that.
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Hey, we've all got our strengths. by
on 2012-10-03 10:21:00 UTC
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Mine is ponies. And Warcraft. And Twilight. -hangs head in shame- I was a stupid fifteen-to-now-year-old...
Yes, lines like that are very...hoom...silly. And annoying - having an imagination does not give you permission to abuse canon with it. At least, not without fear of sporks. -cackles-
Wait. FRODO AND SAM ARE ADULTS. And...30.65 kids? How does THAT work? Or do we want to know? o.0 -
Heck if I know. by
on 2012-10-03 15:49:00 UTC
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It might be a joke about how the average American family has 2.5 kids... But it doesn't work, so I have no idea.
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Besides, Sam and Frodo are already grown up. (nm) by
on 2012-10-04 02:42:00 UTC
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Holy mother...... by
on 2012-10-02 22:48:00 UTC
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What sort of Quest?
I may volunteer my Agents if it involves snarking and bitching and possible bloodshed. -
Only if... by
on 2012-10-02 22:41:00 UTC
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... I get to be the wizard.
Again.
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I believe Al's Waiter MSTed the Andromielle fic as well. by
on 2012-10-02 20:38:00 UTC
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I definitely remember reading that one.
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Yep. by
on 2012-10-02 22:44:00 UTC
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There it is.
So, we're already up to five out of... er... twenty-five. That's... actually pretty good, for ten-year-old stories...
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And another one by
on 2012-10-03 00:04:00 UTC
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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/530422/1/All-Souls-Night
I believe this to be the original fic for Mission 13. -
Well... by
on 2012-10-02 17:42:00 UTC
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... as the title of the mission indicates, the fic in question is called Rambling Band, and I'm going to lay odds that it vanished from the internet a loooong time ago. A quick search for one of the quoted lines reveals only four hits, all of which are the mission... although I did learn the surprising fact that Acacia posted the first 20 missions to Henneth Annun (which incidentally gives the earliest date I've seen in connection with the PPC, specifically the 15th July 2002).
However, if you're interested, I know Chosen, the subject of the second TOS mission, was also MSTed by Al's Waiter, here. So there's that.
hS
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"Rambling Band" by
on 2012-10-02 17:38:00 UTC
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The episodes of the Original Series are typically named after the badfic, so it's a fair bet it was a story by the same name. However, finding it may not be possible. The fic may have been taken down, or renamed, or moved, or any number of things. Possibly even edited and improved.
... Well, maybe not that last one.
Good luck, though. I'm sure we'd all be interested in taking a look if it still exists. {= )
~Neshomeh