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Then the veteran smith continued his work, shaking his head at his Baron's ways.

After all, there was actually more evil in a twelve-year-old practitioner of the Majokko art of white magic than in his current landlord.

[I just had to.]

...but I'm not sure what to do with it now; it's such a mess of a rough draft.

It's for a "Wolverine and the X-Men" mission.

which was, in fact, very useful, considering that most of them were sound asleep and totally unconscious whenever he was awake and liable to approach them.

But the one or two people he did run into quavered and quivered like never before. You wouldn't believe it.
Off the charts, it was.

'I exiiiiiiiist!'



'i dont know if i want to exist'



'I exist, but only within the confines of this tube. Pity me.'



'These snakes all exist and that spooks me, a sailor, a little. Also, I am glued to a wooden post behind me and am completely sessile.'



The last one isn't very cute (it might be a bit rude to call it an animal, too), but I think the snakes help makes this post add up to an ultimate sense of general cuteness.
Which was the plan, of course!

It was introduced in Generation V to complete the pollution trio of Koffing (who is helping an airborne sea mine with a silly grin) and Grimer (a sentient blob of pestilential ooze who, in Hawaii, has taken to eating lots of mustard). Both of those are from Gen I. =]

I'm about halfway through writing a reply, but it's now one in the morning and I'm not typing straight.

I am sorry that my post came across as it did. I know how much it stings to be on the wrong side of a shutdown and I'm sorry I did so at you. I was reading implications into your post that you probably didn't make, and I'm sorry for continuing the miscommunication.

I'll post more words tomorrow to try to debug the miscommunication?

I feel like this was a fairly hard shutdown. It feels to me like you are telling me I'm not allowed to have an opinion on the chat, and that any comment I might make on any version of it is invalid because I am not a part of the chat-using group. That isn't a nice feeling.

hS

Everything honestly looks really above-board right now. And, given how nasty the Glarn situation seemed to get, I'd be all for giving the mods power to be a little quicker and a little more coordinated in the future. And... that does seem like the form of a mod-chat to talk on the subject.

Honestly, it's probably better than emails, in the long run; more instantaneous, everything is in one place, etc.

And this really, really shouldn't happen again, though I completely understand why it did. I don't like throwing blame around when people are slow to hit the ban button, especially since I'm really, really sympathetic to the "Well, if it's just -me- they're bullying, that isn't the same as bullying, period, right?" mental gymnastics. We've all been there, and I'm so sorry that happened. Maybe one of these days, it'll be the last time it ever does.

So this is stream of consciousness and my interpretation of the situation at hand. I haven't really read all the other replies and thoughts, but here are mine.

To be quite honest, I feel this is a case where Glarn should be banned now. Not because he's been terrible, but because he should have been kicked multiple times before this.

Quite frankly, the mods and community in general should feel ashamed. I know I do. I joined the Discord a few months ago, and in that time I rarely recall Glarn not being aggressive with his discussion topics or feeling a need to dominate the discussion, and I repeatedly talked to a mod on there regarding his behavior in RP and other places, though I only really witnessed his behavior in an RP channel once. One of the times I had to get on him in voice chat was when he was insisting on discussing Jack Chick's views on sexual assault (thankfully he was angry at Jack Chick, but it was not a topic that anyone wanted to touch at the time).

For weeks and months the community allowed someone who we all knew was harassing a member to remain relatively consequence free. Sure we'd get after him and he'd be quiet for a bit when he got aggressive, but he would always quickly go right back to it.

And the problem is the person he was harassing was a mod. Someone who should have the power to distribute punishments as necessary, but felt they couldn't because this community thinks they're ban-happy and just trying to get back at the harasser who, I repeat, repeatedly harassed them.

I'm ashamed for this leniency, and I want our mods in the channel to actually be able to exercise their power without the fear of an angry horde descending on them. Yes, mods should clearly not abuse their power and should themselves face consequences when they do abuse it, but it does the community on Discord no good when mods feel they can't do anything.

I do think that someone could be aggressively in violation of the constitution to the point of warranting less warnings, but for general problems, that process sounds entirely reasonable.

And I agree, a mods-only channel really does seem like the right way to organize. I don't see other options that address transparency concerns well, and Discord is set up for special-purpose channels that only get used once in a while - and you're very right, if there's no faith in a mod or mods, we have much, much bigger problems than moderation process.

You are now the proud owner of Ametris, the mini-chimera! Don't forget to feed it... um... I'm not sure, actually. They have mini-treats at AFA, but there's no mention of their regular diet. Possibly it depends on what they're made of?

~Neshomeh

You're correct that without the tag in the middle, that semicolon would be exactly what's needed. My issue, however, is with where the semicolon is now. As currently written, there's nothing showing that the semicolon would be what would have been in the quotation. However, without a grammar book to reference, I'll just let the matter drop for now.

As for the Latin, thanks for the explanation.

Sunday sounds great, though I'll give you a heads-up if my D&D group is meeting then or not. (My brother's the DM and he doesn't know how much homework he'll have. Fingers now crossed that it's a boatload. :P)

Monday is also good. Say, around noon or so?

Sorry you're sick, though. {= (

~Neshomeh

Thanks, I'll always take free food, and you can never have enough heavy weapons.

Is that a Pokémon? I know there are some bizarre Pokémon these days, but... O.o

(Also, those questions marks? Fooling NO ONE. You know exactly what you did, Sony Shock. {X D )

~Neshomeh

One of the perks about being sick: lots and lots of free time...

Like I said to Tomash, looking at the thing for any length of time was honestly kind of exhausting. Not only is the formatting awful, the writing itself is poorly structured and the events described are dumb. My eyes and my brain just wanted to slide off each sentence. >.<

Hehe, no need to blame Farilan entirely for what happened to Ilraen. I'd been planning to get him hurt in this mission for a while; him being lovestruck just made it so much easier. I'm glad the drama worked. ^^

I wasn't sure how it would go over, having Nume jog Ollivander's memory about HFA, so I'm glad you like that bit. It's a bit of a callback to the early days of the PPC. He'll obviously have forgotten again once canon snapped back, of course.

And yes, Nume does care. That's about as much as he'll ever admit it, even in his own head, but he does. {= )

So! When d'you wanna write the next interlude? ^^

~Neshomeh

I'm gonna check through the existing FMA stuff to make sure there isn't one by that name owned already, but yeah, it's probably fine. I even feel fairly confident claiming the authority to say so, since I was a beta for the Alchemists' Fanfiction Academy and therefore had a bit of a stake in it. {= )

~Neshomeh

Sorry I've been avoiding my inbox. I've kind of been avoiding everything, since I've been focused on RL and finishing this mission.

I think it's canon that a Muggle might be able to get a reaction from a wand, like sparks or something, but no, they certainly can't cast spells. The wands won't work for Nume and Ilraen when they're in HQ, but they do in the mission because they're disguised as wizards.

~Neshomeh

I'm glad you felt there was enough of the badfic. Phobos suggested that I put a bit more mission in the mission, but I honestly couldn't stand to look at the original fic for too long, and I couldn't find that many good gags to wring from it, in spite of its complete stupidity. It was a bit overwhelming!

I was indeed going for dramatic tension in the climax, so thanks! I'm glad it worked. ^_^

Getting Nume to actually discuss any liaisons he may or may not have had would be approximately as difficult as getting blood from a stone, so no, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Even as his author, pretty much all I know is what I've already put in his bio.

I, too, look forward to finding out what happens when Ilraen presents his gift. *eg*

~Neshomeh

TREES

First, thanks for commenting! Yes, the Saga of Faraen will continue. {= )

I disagree that the semicolon is in error. If I were to write out the dialogue uninterrupted by narration, it would read "Never mind; he pulled it out of his a**, that's where." A comma would clearly be incorrect there, and while I could use a period, I prefer the semicolon to show that the thoughts are connected and, taken together, mean "Disregard the previous question and take this statement in its place."

You're right about Vulnera Sanentur, but since the incantation is from the movieverse and not the books, I decided to err on the side of correct grammar. I'll change it if we ever get Word of God or something confirming the plural form as the one and only form of the countercurse, but for now, y'know, grammar. {= )

~Neshomeh