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Subject: Mission pluggage
Author: Elcalion
Posted on: 2010-04-11 01:19:00 UTC

I've finally finished the second of the missions that have been sitting incomplete on my computer for the last four years.

This one is just a bit longer than the first one, but the fic in question was over 10,000 words (and that's only two chapters since it's incomplete).

The mission is set in late 2005, just after Logan and Entropy transferred from DMS to ESAS, and has Stus galore, a Vampire!Maia!Sue, Radagast as a grizzly bear (and his invisible pet cat 'familiar'), plus a horde of cannibal vampire morris-dancing Elves.

I wish I were kidding!

Mission can be found on LJ (in two parts due to length) here and here, or, for those who prefer googledocs (which has preserved more of my original formatting *pokes LJ*), it can be found in one piece here.

Thanks to July for the idea of how to deal with Grizzly!Radagast, and to Trojie, Laburnum and Cassie for the loan of some agents for the Cafeteria scene.
(Thanks also to Pads and Cinnia Aine for the offer of some agents, but due to this being set back in 2005 the dates didn't line up, alas.)

Elcalion, creative

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Mission pluggage by Elcalion on 2010-04-11 01:19:00 UTC

Re: Mission pluggage by Laburnum on 2010-04-11 12:31:00 UTC Reply

Um, I really hate to point this out, but you said the mission was going to be in 2006 when I handed over my two. They weren't there in 2005. Sorry, but I realised the timeline doesn't mesh.

If you want to change it, I think it's okay to use the names of non-"player character" agents from the OS or other early missions - I think Joe Bob and Zaneth from Architeuthis' stuff could be useable, for example.

Gaah! by Elcalion on 2010-04-11 14:14:00 UTC Reply

I just checked the timeline on the wiki (which I /should/ have done first) and realised that L+F weren't recruited till August, so I changed the timeline of this mission to September 2006.

I had always thought of this mission as predating the Les Mis Songfic Crisis (Feb 2006), but there's nothing stopping it from being set afterwards. Plus, I wrote a fair bit of the grizzly scene around Laburnum's Bloodwrath, so I can't just name-switch.

Guess I'm learning the hard way to double- and triple-check dates when writing missions set in the past.

Elcalion, retconning

Sorry. by Laburnum on 2010-04-11 17:14:00 UTC Reply

I need to figure out a better timeline for mine as well. They were recruited around late August/early September '06, the Nighthunt fiasco was mid-September (assuming Laburnum's birthday is the same day as mine), then the mass mission was around the end of August '07 ... hm.

Whoops! by Elcalion on 2010-04-11 12:56:00 UTC Reply

I was going on memory when I said 2006, then looked back at some of my early notes from when I started to write it, and then realised that I'd decided to set it in late 2005, so I changed the timeframe without checking about L+F.

As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really make a difference if I change the timeframe to 2006, especially since I wrote the grizzly bear fight partly around Laburnum's bloodwrath, it's easier to change the timeframe than rewrite!

When were L+F recruited? I was thinking I'd change the mission to Feb 2006 (making it the prologue to the Les Mis Songfic Crisis, which happens in Feb/March), but if that doesn't fit, I can change the timeframe to later in 2006.

Elcalion, sheepish