From the personal files of Terri Ryan, Department of Personnel

And so it continues. What is this, Implausible Crossovers? That's Narto's old department... oh, Nar.

Okay. Pull myself together. Bad Terri, no reminiscing. Review. If I keep this up, the R&R Division will give me a part-time job.

I am quite terrified at the prospect of agents being given three missions at once, even short ones such as these - think of the filing! But if it has to happen, these three were a good match for each other. I'm surprised Agents Florestan and Eusabius didn't protest more, but I note that their file shows them to have a rather antique origin, so perhaps they were simply too polite.

The presentation of the differing styles of the three fics - script, centred, parenthetical - was masterful; I truly felt the agents' pain as they found themselves in each new situation. Perhaps the least fleshed-out was the centred story - it is mentioned once, and is amusing, but seems to fade into the background. I'm sure they felt the pressure of that centring more than they let on - and perhaps they should have written more about it. For someone like me, stuck in the Archives all day, it would have been an interesting read.

I do wonder at the language the pair use - look, it's even affecting me. I'm inclined to wonder whether they're playing on some reputation they have in HQ (I wouldn't know) and exaggerating their formality somewhat in the retelling. My suspicions on this front are strengthened by the fact that they occasionally slip into colloquial speech - the final 'Let's do this!' is one example. On the other hand, who knows? We've had stranger folk in here.

One point I do take issue with is during the climax of their third mission: one of the agents, Florestan, gives a 'review' to an author-wraith (described as a Sue-wraith, which I believe is department policy - precision is vital in DIC, where Sue-wraiths and slash-wraiths are both common). Unfortunately, this 'review', while appropriate in tone, nevertheless blurs towards being a flame. An insulting term is used towards the writer of the story - which is frowned on in most departments (the proposal for a Department of Author Abuse never got off the ground). My only consolation is that I'm inclined to think this 'review' was never actually given - it reads like a 'brilliant retort I would have made'.

On the whole, though I admit to not having any knowledge of the canons involved, I found this suitably entertaining. A few flaws, but far better than those agents who refuse to release their reports at all. I'd much rather have something to read than nothing.

-Terri Ryan, Dept. of

-- oh yes, and I found a bizarre piece of overprinting in my copy. The 'fourth wall' line in the third mission, for some reason, has folded on top of itself. Strange.

-T. Ryan, Dept. of Personnel, DOGA Archivist

I was hoping to get to read a spork on Sweet Apple Massacre... Although it's nice to Eusabius flustered (or at least anxious about being late) for once. The badfics aren't as bad as that MLPxSaw (Mission #3, I believe?) badfic though, because I lterally couldn't even read the snippets without cringing. D:

Anyway, nice mission! I really like the dynamic between Florestan and Eusabius.

Ahh, I remember Banjo-Kazooie. That game was such a large part of my first steps as a gamer.

Anyways, the mission itself was an enjoyable read. It was interesting to see Eusabius rush around as to avoid missing his rendezvous with Zerenze.

Given Florestan's nature, I wonder how he'll react to the ME3 endings...

The three mini-fics thing is kind of fun. Each badfic was different enough from the others to make for an interesting sporking in its own right.

One thing didn't seem consistent though. At the end of the first badfic's section, Florestan seems to figure out that Eusabius is planning to go on a date with Zerenze. However, he should already know this, because Eusabius flat-out told him before they left on the mission, "I have a very important date today . . . I was going to take Zerenze to World One and a Half . . ."

Also, since this is the first appearance of the mini-Jinjos, it would have been nice of you to say more about them beyond that they were "colored strangely, and looked quite odd." Some of us never played any Banjo-Kazooies, and hence don't know what a Jinjo is.

I really enjoyed it. I think I remembered in one of the Floater's troll-fic missions that I lost track of the location (or maybe it was just my poor attention span),
but it's definitely improved here.

There are some things I want to point out:

It looked like you overdid it when attempting to mock their chatspeak since some of the words in one of the badfics were actually not in chatspeak.

“Eusabius, would you be so kind as to escort Grunty back to L.O.G.’s video game factory?["]

I thought they already were in L.O.G's video game factory, unless the place they were in was a fake.

“Don’t you push me, you fat man; walk through it myself, I certainly can!”

I thought they would still be hedgehogs by the time this was said, since I couldn't find any indication that they're disguises changed back.

There were a few "soon after"s and I think someone mentioned not to use that phrase again.

Other than that, it was fun to read! The imagery of Sonic's head spiking things cracked me up.