Not long at all.

The Pit of Voles has its first Homestuck fanfic. by Firebird766 on 2011-01-18 02:13:00 UTC Reply

How long do you think we have until a badfic explosion?

And because I like multitasking, how long should a mission get before it is split into multiple parts? One of the 'fics I claimed is incredibly long, and I'd like to have a rough approximation for where I should be making the splits.

Another thing: What is the ability of the PPC to obtain supplies of an unusual nature? Say, for example, the sopor slime that Alternian trolls use to help them sleep. Should I make make my in-development troll agent go without? If there is a way to get obscure stuff like that, could my in-development krogan agent use it to smuggle in ryncol?

Re: The Pit of Voles has its first Homestuck fanfic. by Anonymous on 2011-01-18 15:23:00 UTC Reply

The MSPA fora have had a significant thread in the art sub-forum collecting fanfic for some time. Except for Isoraqdtheth (whose actual username contains a variety of nearly-untypable IPA characters) who writes somewhat incomprehensible and weird fic based on his conworld, the fic has been largely very good.

Also, a note about sopor slime: I doubt the standard RC has anywhere near enough room for a recuperacoon, or even a bathtub.
Not long at all. by Aster Corbett on 2011-01-18 12:26:00 UTC Reply

Considering there is already a MSPA-chan image board (413chan) on which there is a copious amount of slash, porn and pornfic, no.

Not long at all.

I would say that if the badfic goes beyond 3 7-pages (standard MS word 12 point font, single-spaced) then your agents-- or at least my agents, if they were in yours' shoes-- could consider a) summarizing the more boring parts by a timeskip and then recap, b) not traverse the whole fic and instead slay the Sue halfway through.

Going through the WHOLE thing and cutting it up is nice and all, but I can only wonder if anybody has the stamina to go through that much badfic. I'm sorting through an 8-chapter Spyro the Dragon badfic and I can't even do it all without including the line 'and this went on for several pages and was excruciatingly boring/painful.'-- and my first mission in Legend of Zelda was the same. In fact, I gave one of my agents the 'power' to speed-read really fast to compensate because I simply did not have the stamina to stretch it out.

But if you have that kind of stick-to-it-ive-ness... great! I would write no more than 7-10 single spaced 12 point font MS word pages per mission part.

(Reasonable margins, of course. What do you think this is, high school?)

That's a bit ominous by Firebird766 on 2011-01-18 18:20:00 UTC Reply

The fic I'm talking about is about fifty chapters long. I suspect timeskips may well be in order by that reckoning.

You don't have to do the whole thing if it's that long... by L'homme_Arbre on 2011-01-19 03:25:00 UTC Reply

As long as you get far enough to cover the major breaches of canon, you can really just have the exorcism/execution then and there. Most missions only cover about a chapter of any given fic before it ends, the theory being that if a fic hasn't proven itself awful enough to warrent destruction by the end of the first chapter, it's unlikely to do so by the end.

Of course, this isn't a hard-and-fast rule. For example, if the chapters are very, very short, or there's some truly horrible canon-rape in the sixth chapter and you'd like to charge them for that, by all means make it as long as you want. Just don't kill yourself, is maybe what I'm trying to get at here.

Well, that was pretty damn ramble-y. I think I'm gonna go now, before I find anything else to talk endlessly about...

So it's time... by ellipsis flood on 2011-01-18 12:25:00 UTC Reply

Well, as soon as there is fic to go in, you can obtain stuff from it. And given the PPC's means of support... possible.

Also, I guess a "sober" troll would be quite cranky after a while, which could be used for some great humor. Just imagine that guy/girl GOING ALL KARKAT ON HIS/HER POOR PARTNER!

Now excuse me, I got to explore the fic to "The Beginning of Something Really Excellent", hoping that Ironic Overpower doesn't get me.

Pretty damn cranky, I'd assume... by Mr. Eldritch on 2011-01-19 20:55:00 UTC Reply

Especially since the trolls are plauged by horrible nightmares without Sopor Slime.

Of course, this leaves you free to make up some kind of sleep aid, like Bleepquil...

Ah, it's first by IndeMaat on 2011-01-18 05:24:00 UTC Reply

I guess that depends on your own preferences. I once cut a 13k word mission into three parts (5k, 5k and 3k), but other nearly as long missions (11k) were not cut into parts until I tried posting them on LJ and exceeded LJ's post size limit.

As to the other question: what is the potential for humor? Many things are possible, if they are funny.