Subject: PPC+20: "Darkness Awakened"
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Posted on: 2022-06-29 16:01:16 UTC

... is almost certainly late.

As doctorlit pointed out, "Teddy Bear" from Despatch is dated 5 days before this, but mentions events in it! This is weird, because both dates are pretty solid: Despatch is the last update date on her story (which has some big names in the reviews... Architeuthis, Miss Cam, and technetium are all there!), while TOS17 has a release date on Oddlots.

The key passage (in "Teddy Bear") reads as follows:

"I was thinking of bringing in Jay and Acacia," I said. "They're the best in Lord of the Rings, and Acacia in particular has very good reason to want this Sue dead."

Shelley and Nia looked at one another. Nia looked a bit doubtful. "Aren't they Untanglers now?" she asked her partner.

Shelley shook her head. "Yes, but I'd say that Meg's got pretty good judgement on this one. Jay and Acacia are probably the best pair to get in. They've got the right balance of professionalism and vindictiveness to do the job properly. They've also got those assassin skills — the best assassins around for a long time."

Looking at that, I reckon it was a last-minute change to Meg's story. If you tweak Nia's line to something like "Aren't they the really scary ones?", it would work just about as well - nothing in Shelley's reply references the DIC, and Nia's next line seems to be written as if they're still Assassins. So I think TOS17 was posted to Miss Cam's site on the 24th or 23rd, and then only uploaded by P@L to Oddlots on the 29th.

So there you go! This one's late, and that's cool, because it means we're still learning more about the early days.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: Darkness Awakened by Jay and Acacia

hS

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