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For my part, I'm sorry for not finding some off-Board way to discuss the whole thing - the fact that we've been handling it publically for years is no real excuse, just an indication that we should've found a better way ages ago. And I'm sorry for the way I reacted on the thread.

I hope you've managed to absorb that... pretty much literally everybody jumped right in to defend you, so there's no need to be scared of Big Bad Huinesoron commanding the pack to maul you. :) I'm not actually scary, and I hope you can come to understand that. (I also do my best not to get hung up on past arguments - if I did, I definitely wouldn't talk to Neshomeh, who did... that thing... I guess... something once? I'unno, it's water under the internet bridge.)

hS

--when is anything not about me? ;) No, no, I jest (mostly); like Agent Soul said (that is you up there, right?), it's pretty standard practice for the Flowers to invent a role just to make someone feel speci... ah, useful.

I'm glad to hear he's doing well; I'm reasonably sure Ilwion checks in on the kids occasionally (well, I think that's where he vanishes to), so if you see a strange bronze hanging around, it's probably him.

~Dafydd

I'm glad you liked the stuff involving Karen and the Cube. It was something of a sticking point for my betas, and the initial version was a lot darker, so I'm pleased that it's intriguing rather than concerning. As things stand, the Cube is my attempt at figuring out what happens when partners are really, really mismatched in terms of power level and temperament, and it's a really nasty piece of work. The Cube picked Karen for no other reason than because Karen was there and the Cube wanted someone to control. It was something I had to get out of my system in an environment and manner that felt safe to me, and I knew there was a risk of it going really wrong. So I'm glad it didn't.

I'm also glad you liked how unrepentantly awful the Shallot is. He's based on every punchable new-media twerp I've found hanging around fashionable London boroughs like maggots on a picnic, and, well, you can't run a Buzzfeed churnalist content-output agency in HQ and not have it run by an Onion, can you? =]

Finally, the bottom right tea stain in this image seems perfect for the flashpatch.

Thanks for the review, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Like it says in the disclaimer, the Shallot is open for everyone to use, and I'd love to see Nume being forced to deal with him. =]

It's far more telling you thought it was about you. :P

Oh! While you're here, I just thought you ought to know, Zeke is doing great! Thanks for trading those eggs, because I don't know what I'd do without him.

Fairly irreverent, at any rate - which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I second Nesh in asking whether the NPCs will ever actually publish anything - if they do, we'd be up to four different in-universe print publications that actually exist (five, if you include the Manual). Goodness, that's practically a library!

Mortic is very sad that people see him as stuck-up. He was grumpy around the WhatThe newbies, but that was a special case...

Anyway: fun, but really weird.

hS

Might get around to writing a proper review, but my brain's frazzled.

I just wanted y'all to know this was good and I enjoyed reading it, even if I know... uh, nothing about 40k. Cheers.

Because all I can think is that flash patch probably means something extremely rude in Heptapod. ^~ (And not to knock KittyEden, but if you can find a vector-ish tea stain you like in a solid color, I'll doctor up a higher-res version like the others on the wiki.)

But seriously, I enjoyed this story a lot. I was skeptical about a new division just on principle, but I love the idea of the SO and the Board making up some nonsense just to placate an annoying Plant and have somewhere to chuck people they don't know what else to do with. I believe there is precedent for this being exactly how they handle problems like this. ^^

The (sub?)plot about Karen and the Cube kinda threw me, it being a very serious element in an otherwise very silly story, but in a way that makes me want to know more about it, not less. What is the Cube, really? Where does it come from? How real is it? Why Karen? Where is it now? Should we be worried? 'Cause we've got people who can deal with that pudendum if necessary, just sayin'.

If only our friendlier psychics weren't so well-behaved with their powers that they didn't notice the problem... or maybe the background psychic noise of HQ interfered, or the Cube is just good enough to mask itself from casual notice. Any number of possible explanations. ... Sorry, I digress.

The SEP field was a nice (temporary) solution to the problem, though, and the moment of everyone coming together as a team was just plain nice. {= )

Other things I liked... Caroline. The acronym NPC. Bogbrush and his Sue-tracker problem. The Shallot and his terrible personality. The fact that the NPCs are basically Buzzfeed.

Is there going to be an actual publication associated with this, by the way? Such things are a lot of work and difficult to sustain, history tells us, but even one or two issues as an example would be awesome. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Here's the mission on Neshomeh's Archive. And I believe all three of these are adoptable:

Mini-grox
* Tera
* Slaneesh (comes with panties on his head)

Mini-Balrog
* Arcenstone

~Neshomeh will be adding stuff to the wiki in due time.

But if we kept arguing about this we'd be here forever. Agree to disagree? :P

Lorson has a lot of backstory to him that'll hopefully be revealed as I write more with him, and Dax will be going along for the ride. I'm already working on their first mission so I hope it delivers.

I mean, I'm biased because I betad, but I think it turned out really really well! (Expect a return of the armored ovoid if I ever write a deliberate badfic where it would be actually appropriate. Because that is far too funny to not.)

And do they not say that it never rains but it pours?

Scape put up an interlude. Ix put up an interlude. And now Nesh and I have finally completed a new mission.

Featuring: sheep, unlikely brothers, footnotes, large appendages, and overly dramatic agents.

The mission should be up on Nesh's website soon, but for the time being, you can view it on on Google Docs at https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ3cSKS2Z1ci1PUhuPOS5M-cEH0gaD-73HL3kSPuq9Jtsq95He4TW_IepMXVfKTShPmkKgL3elFLf/pub

Dax is a lot of fun to be around, and feels very much like the antithesis of Agent Ix - someone at peace with their body and identity via its mutability as oppose to someone at war with themselves over bodies they force themselves not to have change. Meanwhile, Lorson seems like someone it would be interesting to get to know, and I look forward to reading exploits of their careers. =]

And that is indeed an excellent walrus.

And tea stain badge. Yes, that's what I meant!

Also, clever trick with the SEP field, there.

And featuring a pair of characters you might have seen knocking around in #rudi's in the past!

Introducing Dax and Lorson, Department of Implausible Crossovers.

That said, now go read Scape's new thing, because it's excellent and much better than this.

After quite a lot of beta work from the incomparable Iximaz and Larfen J. Stocke, esq., I am extremely proud to present the inaugural story of:-

The Non-Propaganda Communications Division!

Or those creepy twins that act in unison in Hoenn or wherever it was... =]

((Allo, it's Thoth! Quincy felt a little bit skittish about posting the apology she wrote to the board. So I'm posting it in her stead. The rest of this message is Quincy's exact words, as she sent them to me.))

Huinesoron,
The events leading up to this apology have been hectic and scary and generally unpleasant, for everybody involved. We've all had reactions we aren't proud of, and I thank you for your apology. For my part, I'm sorry I got so emotional. I shouldn't have blamed you so much for what happened; I know none of this was really your fault. I hope you can forgive me for being an idiot and lashing out at the nearest convenient target, and that we can move past this (and hopefully into a realm where I'm not so terrified of you.)
Hoping to make amends, Quincy Jones

We both choose you, but there is no "we" in Pokémon AFAIK.

Quincy, thank you for the offer, it's much appreciated, but we already had one person (Calliope) volunteer via Discord, and the majority of the badfic's issues are 40k. Maybe next time!

~Neshomeh

I'm not nearly as up on The Hobbit as I am 40K, but I know my way round a gag. You can contact me at h heath [one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two in numerals] at that place where the mail is hot. =]

I have a working-ish knowledge of 40K and the Hobbit was my entire childhood. My email is, strin michael is at gmail dot com.

Thoth and I have just finished our co-write (Thoth's first mission!), and we could use a couple of betas familiar with one or both continua, particularly 40k. Also to generally check things over for style cohesion, flow, pace, sense-making, SPaG, and all that good stuff. It's about 14,300 words (30 pages) long.

Let me know if you're interested, and make sure to include an e-mail address I can invite to the Gdoc.

Thanks!

~Neshomeh