Subject: Re. emergencies
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Posted on: 2010-05-27 08:00:00 UTC
Does that refer to "incidents that require multiple agents to handle", or "incidents that require multiple writers to handle"?
I'm asking because I'm wondering whether it's off-limits to write things that involve crises that don't stay within the fic you're trying to ppc at the time--like a Sue (or a flamethrower-crazy agent) loose in HQ, or a particularly bad fic that requires more than just one team to resolve.
I could see why a lot of people working on one story might be annoying; but would there be anything wrong with a single writer, or maybe a team of two writers, calling in other people's agents as backup when things got difficult to handle? Not that it'd happen constantly; but eventually, you're going to end up with dino-sues or crossovers with characters from five different continua, and it's reasonable you'd need help.
Naturally this presumes that you'd have the agents' owners' permission, or were using your own agents, or were using publicly-owned agents when you called in backup.