Subject: The possible (probable?) source:
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Posted on: 2022-06-30 15:27:06 UTC

PPC Contiuum - Defining and Clarifying

According to Araeph (as archivist), that text was originally posted by Meg Thornton herself! A really big clue to it being the document Jay mentions is that in the list of Untanglers, the four names are Shelley & Nia, and Jay & Acacia - in that order. So it looks like Meg wrote it up while working on "Teddy Bear", and then silently changed the head of the DIC when Jay invented a new one.

This document, archived two days later, is almost certainly the other half of Meg's notes - her plan for how Despatch would work, including her two candidate stories. Between this and the DIC material in the first one, Meg seems to have been the first person to have written what we would now format as a wiki article!

Hmm... here is the Despatch home page in its original form, linking to both of those documents (& did you know Meg was Australian?). But it also has a reviews page, on which Architeuthis says, on June 22nd:

"Oh, your reference sheet lists poor, overworked Sub Rosa as the Director of both Intelligence AND Implausible Crossovers. I'm HOPING that 's not really the case...."

So I think that's the answer: the Flower Jay couldn't remember was the Sub Rosa moonlighting for the DIC.

(I assume Meg was in correspondence with J&A, and that's where the doc came from. It's also another possible explanation for the anachronistic mention of their transfer - but it seems a bit off for her to mention it before they made their big reveal.)

hS

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