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to bring something up that I saw recently in a group totally unaffiliated with the PPC?

Usually big organizations that don't have to ban a lot of people and are democratic in nature tend to fracture. But this is obviously still here and whole-I-guess? Hmm.

-Twistey

Has someone informed Nord of the community's expectations of him? If he is aware and failing to step up, what are you going to do about it?

~Neshomeh

Take the Iron Spork. You've earned it

A lot of my writing style is from a more serious, RP writing past, I hope to shake that off by the end of my first full mission.

You're close on Sylendre's name. "SIGH-len-dra".

I'll do my best not to disappoint!

And yes, that's ever. For a long time, the occasional trolls and spots of drama somehow managed to get taken care of through the natural force of social pressure.

The less said about the ones that required more effort to get rid of, the better.

~Neshomeh

I mean ever? I only ever hear about Bramandin/zdimensia/Makkara/TooPurple/etc, so is she the only one so far? I've been thinking a lot about how big organizations work, but I'm going to hold my reasons for asking this until my viewing of Star Wars Episode 8 in the movie theater (and with it the "epicness mindset" that I get whenever I watch movies) wears off and I calm down a bit.

-Twistey

Let me give you this self-updating guidebook of all the deathtraps in the multiverse, Pasty.

May your cowrite be long and lively and your characters go through interesting times.

Overall, I think you're looking pretty good! Just a couple things I wanted to flag:

First, from Mei's bio, stealing all the left socks is funny. Telling Potterverse canon children that "Dumbledore dies in the end" is less so. Be careful that Mei's pranks do not get too mean or actually damage the canon.

Second, somewhat related, your writing style seems to be straddling the line between serious and comic. I really enjoyed the humor in the second prompt, but the Cafeteria scene had me a little worried when it came to the mentions of silverware embedded in the walls and frozen coffee spears. In a totally comic setting with totally comedic violence, it would probably be fine, but because I'm not entirely sure yet what tone you're going to settle into, those things seemed a little too dangerous to be funny. So, watch out for that sort of thing, too.

Those two things aside, I liked both prompts. The first one quickly drew me in and had me interested in the outcome, and the second one, as I said, was pretty funny. I loved "Coffee went boom!" Poor intern. {X D

Assuming you meant Erron and Mei by "both characters," I'd support putting Sylendre in Floaters, once she's been trained up a bit. The more agents on a team, the longer the mission gets to give everyone enough screen time, so keeping it to two most of the time is a good idea. Having her still share their RC might be interesting, though.

(BTW, how is "Sylendre" pronounced? My brain wants to make it like "cylinder.")

I'd normally advise avoiding anything remotely connected to a Legendary Badfic for an early mission, but seeing as you've got your self-sporking lined up first, and "Im Not Okay" doesn't really look that dire, you may well take it in stride. I'm willing to find out.

So, with that, Permission Granted!

~Neshomeh

My sense is indeed that this isn't the first time Nord's name has come up in instances of misconduct toward others. However, my memory isn't accurate enough to say exactly when or under what circumstances, or if those incidents were ever resolved.

I did look at that bit of the Conciliatory, though, and it looks like Herr is the only one who offered any kind of apology for any of it (specifically, revealing private information). Nord flat-out refused. The resolution there was that they both agreed to have nothing more to do with each other. That was a pretty extreme deal where neither side was blameless, though, which doesn't seem directly connected to this current discussion.

If anyone knows anything I don't, I encourage them to please speak up.

For now, my feeling is that an apology from Nord is required, for the insult to OpinionedAngel (since he hasn't denied it) and for ignoring multiple attempts to clarify the issue, and if it is not delivered, then the Discord mods should take whatever action they feel is appropriate to censure the behavior.

~Neshomeh

was Nord ignoring his issues and pretending nothing happened, as he did in his previous offense. I don't believe he was DMing something to Angel regarding this behaviour, given her surprise that something like this had happened.

In my opinion, however, this was an intentional flame given the same response to being called out for a guilty incident.

Addition: As of now, 5.11 my time, no response was made from Nord, about Angel asking for apologies. Whether or not they occured in DM, I do not know.

... then it actually looks pretty bad. Taken at face value, that's a direct flame of another PPCer, not provoked by similar behaviour on their end, and a refusal to apologise there-for. It suggests Nord Ronnoc believes that mocking other PPCers is acceptable - when in fact, a PPCer shouldn't be flaming any real people, PPCer or not.

Given that Nord Ronnoc's name came up in the Conciliatory back in May, it may be worth someone who's able to cope with looking at that thread reading through it to find out whether this is part of a pattern, or just a one-off.

hS

This is a very different story from anything else I've read, and it made for a very interesting read. You've really done an incredible job of seeding this narrative with little bits and pieces of world-building detail, but only enough to inform the reader that we aren't looking at humans in an Earth setting. You don't slow the action or dialogue down with excess details like the descriptions of the characters or the society they live in or the magic system that (maybe?) exists. With all those questions essentially forced under the rug, it leads the reader to focus more on the parts of the story that really matter: the relationships between the characters and their emotions—in other words, how human they are. Reading a story this way was a very unique experience, and it made the ending hit even harder.

One little nitpick, regarding this pair of paragraphs:

"'Dantril’s brought in someone new. We’ll see, Lath,' she said. 'We’ll see.'

'I know you want me to have all the answers, but I don’t,' she said, when he didn’t respond. 'I wish I knew, too. But we can’t, Lath. We aren’t gods.'"

I suggest moving the "when he didn't respond" to the front of that second paragraph, as the start of a new paragraph and new quotation mark tricked my brain into thinking Lath was speaking it.

—doctorlit, sleepy, but still getting through these reviews

I beta'd the entire Permission document once, suggesting several changes. I didn't take a second look after those changes were made (I don't remember whether Pasty Greens didn't let me know they were updated, or whether I just spaced it).

hS

For a few reasons:

a) Nord blatantly ignored anything about the issue, despite being individually asked for it four separate times.

b) He only reacted with a vauge "won't happen again" after I posted this on Board.

c) I would like to avoid another issue of "Discord handles their own matters, and turns out the Board knows nothing", if we happen to drop into a major drama. Even if the offense at this time wasn't a big drama. Call me paranoid, but I thought at the moment this was the right thing. I won't bring up every smallest dispute to the Board, but let this be a sort of example to why we should make these cases public.

Also, about Nord assurance, this is all that happened: https://i.imgur.com/1TLOs8I.png

I worded my message in a vague way about Nord saying he won't do it again and I apologize for that.

He actually posted the message, "It won't happen again." in #generic_salt.
That particular message is the only reassurance I can recall. I have not gotten a private message from him about it.

I took a screenshot that I think the others at discord can confirm in terms of the message itself (the times are going to be different because of timezones):
https://imgur.com/a/KHnNk

So far (11:48 PM my time), there hasn't been a clarification and he hasn't made an apology yet, at least one that's been made in a public chat.

--Ozzielot

I have a couple of questions.

1. Did this need to be brought up here? Shouldn't this have been dealt with by the mods? It seems Maslab was aware of the situation and presumably prepared to do something about it, right? OpinionedAngel didn't even know anyone had a beef with them. Unless there's a bigger problem than this one incident that's been going unresolved for some reason...?

2. Since it HAS been brought up here, I'd like to know if Nord Ronnoc assured anyone who was concerned earlier, or a mod, or anyone besides Ozzielot, that it won't happen again. Also, was there ever any clarification on what he meant? And what about an actual apology, for apparently ignoring people's requests for clarification even if the rest was a misunderstanding?

~Neshomeh

This is the first time I've heard about it. Ought I to be offended?

No seriously.

I don't spend too much time on Discord and tend to miss out on things. (And I admit I might have said some things I regret, but I missed out on a chance to reply and apologize...)

Here it is, finally. I wanted to wait for New Year's Eve.
Thanks to Huinesoron for beta-ing my first thing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bl01B1KsRROA7xPcSBPvHviD4EAhhH-hB0dm5axJIbg/edit?usp=sharing

Character gallery: https://imgur.com/a/8haGI (from Rinmarugames.com and the Covet Fashion app)

I want to put both characters in the Mary Sue division, or at least have one of them in Floaters.
The first story I want to spork is one of my own, the 3-parter that I have in some notebooks that I wrote when I was twelve. After that, I really want to tackle the miniature My Immortal, (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12602418/1/Im-Not-Okay) which I've listened to a lot on Youtube.