That's right, I'm back! College is out for the summer and the chip designers I'm supposed to be working for don't seem to be able to get their act together enough to actually assign me any projects, so it's PPC all the way!

I found these on the forums of a fairly old TBS I like to play. They're essentially tactical overviews of game runs with various difficulties and initial conditions, but some people also add a narrative to them, making them basically fanfics of the game:

http://forums.galciv2.com/387597
http://forums.galciv2.com/437654
http://forums.galciv2.com/417394
http://forums.galciv2.com/327971


Why I'm bringing them up here (other than that they're interesting and I sort of recommend reading the better ones even if you're not familiar with the GC games) is that there seem to be relatively few of truly poor quality. I wonder if that's simply because the people who write them are smart enough to play (and win) TBSs, or if it's because the plot is partially written by game mechanics and not Suethors, or because there's just few of these in general, or some other reason.
I suppose it would be possible to make missions from the bad ones, but (if one wanted to) one could raise difficult questions about PPCing a "dramatizeation of canonical events"...