Subject: Making writers come up with something new isn't bad.
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Posted on: 2011-09-03 17:21:00 UTC
Depending on the same running things risks stagnancy, I figure. Look at CADs. Them blowing up every time someone looks at them is just old now.
OK, so, I finished my first mission, which can be found here (http://astra-aurora.livejournal.com/17479.html). I hope it's OK.
But oh god, poor Fiver.
I pity both your agents and the bunnies.
And we thought they were annoying enough when they stayed dead!
Nice job. Watership Down is one of my all-time favorite books, and one of the most appealing aspects of it is the very obvious non-human nature of the protagonists. Rather than being anthropomorphized animals, they're quite simply animals. Sure, some liberty is taken with giving them a language and more culture than they have in reality, but they are definitely not humans, and that is the charm of the book--it lets you read about people who are very different from anything you are likely to encounter, without confusing you with their alien nature. To read a story where someone turned them into furry humans would justifiably enrage anyone!
Good first kill, interesting agents, etc., etc.
I should have put this in the main post, but I didn't, so I'm putting it here.
Anyway.
Loot:
Nothing, unfortunately.
Minis:
1 (1) mini-Woundwort ('the Thereah')
And 1 (1) mini-Sue (Rosebelle) which I completely forgot about until about five minutes ago.
Except maybe for target practice. Or for hitting homeruns, like Elly did.
I only added her to the list because technically she did get removed from the fic, but she's now in the custody of the DMSE&R, and they can do whatever they want to her.
Between your regenerating Sue and my styrofoam Sue, I wonder if DMSE&R could kit-bash a disposable crash dummy?
...probably not, it would spoil the humor of agents forgetting to collect the crash dummy before leaving the fic. The field testing could be amusing, though.
Depending on the same running things risks stagnancy, I figure. Look at CADs. Them blowing up every time someone looks at them is just old now.
I actually don't even use "regular" CADs. They're built-in in my AI Agent. Yep, she gets a lot of system errors. *whacks her on the head to snap her out from a freeze*
I laughed so hard at the colorzapper sequence. And I like your Agents, too. If all your next mission will be as funny as this one, you've gained a regular reader.
I felt it took a bit to get really into it, but once you got into the jist of things it was hilarious. Grace and Ally play off each other very well, and with them I especially liked how Ally would get so clueless at some of Grace's pop culture references.
So the mission itself is good. =D
Now, for posting the mission, it's customary to put a list of the minis and the loot you've collected when you post the mission on the board. Nothing wrong with making a new post to cover that now, but just keep it in mind for future reference.