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All the important stuff has already been said, so, have this bottle of space! I'd advise not drinking it, it's oddly salty.

There's some discussion of whether the 'vin' is said with a long i - meaning 'wine' - or a short - mmeaning 'meadow'.

I mean, the 'wine' reading goes back to at least the 1200s, and the 'Meadows' in L'Anse probably doesn't come from meadows, but it's an interesting coincide all the same.

Also now you've put the idea of Vikings in the Northwest Passage in my head. Villain.

hS, who has spent all this time on a map of Earth, only to end up with his protagonists orbiting the moon

I'm glad the new solution (which I have Hardric to thank for) is being much better recieved. ^^; Unfortunately, most continua I know of don't have cures for vampirism :P Apparently it tends to be a one-way trip.

Charlotte's devotion to Ix is... complicated. How much of it is her own personality, and how much of it is her home canon's influence? After all, at this point they've only been together for about a month.

And yeah, that Sue... ugh. Later chapters had her ripping straight from the books, only with her in place of the various Animorphs. She was quite delightful. Black tigers... *snicker*

Of course Ilraen's been seeing Farilan's nice side; he's an Andalite, after all, not some lowly human. Even if he has been hanging out with them for too long. ;)

Yeah, didn't see that. I'd also been thinking of some arguments that they'd gotten further south because of the grapes (around Massachusetts, I think?) and imagining Viking sub patrols along the Northwest Passage. {= ) Still, if there's no need for it, there's no need for it.

~Neshomeh vaguely remembers things from a book she read years ago.

I've tweaked the colour to make it more visible, because fair point. But Vikingar extends to northern Newfoundland, which is the site of L'Anse aux Meadows, which is the only proven Norse settlement in the New World.

They may extend further if I visit them. I don't think they'll go inland, though - submarines don't go on roads!

hS

Please have a pot of black-hole coffee. I hope you'll enjoy this place as much as your brother.

Now, I assume that you know the essentials, but what are your fandoms? Having three brothers, I know that differences about them can be quite important.

Vikingar (which is hard to see on the map, FYI) could be a lot bigger. There are stories, and some evidence, that the Vikings had colonies on the east coast of North America (see Vinland) and may have even penetrated the interior as far as Minnesota, which has a fairly significant Scandinavian heritage. They eat lutefisk, doncha know!

Or New Vinland could be its own thing, because why not? {= D

~Neshomeh

I'm still holding out for an appropriately god-awful crossover, preferably involving Ax or other Andalites, in case anybody happens to see one. The best I've got right now is this, which is maybe better MST material than mission material. The author's notes almost outweigh the story, if you can call it that. O.o

(Making Ilraen and Farilan MST it could be fun, though, come to think of it...)

Anyway, the mission! I enjoyed it, and I'm interested in this new take on fixing the problem of Ix and Lottie's different lifespans. Charlotte researching ways to de-vamp herself from various continua could be a fun exploration of different takes on the vampire myth, but even not getting into it in detail, it still provides some food for thought. It also shows how devoted she is to being with Ix, which is a great bit of characterization.

Speaking of showing over telling, the mission did a good job of highlighting how the Sue failed at it with regards to her angsting about her lack of friends while at the same time behaving in an obnoxiously standoffish way. And wow, the speshulness. Jeez. Good riddance to her.

I did have one moment of confusion here:

Ax and Tobias retreated to the bathrooms to morph cockroaches, and just as they were making their way back to the pool entrance, the scene changed again, dumping the agents behind the stack of hay bales.

It took me a minute to figure out that the scene had changed back to Cassie's barn rather than something new, so I struggled a bit trying to make sense of hay bales in a Yeerk pool, where I'd have expected the story to go next. Y'know, if the fic had actually bothered itself with detailing an important action like scouting enemy territory. {= P This could be easily fixed by the addition of a few words, either "the scene changed again back to Cassie's barn" or "behind the stack of hay bales in Cassie's barn." (Not both, of course.)

I feel bad for Lottie at the end. Unbridled hope and enthusiasm meets the cold steel wall of elitism and xenophobia. Ouch. Good to know Ilraen has been seeing her nice side so far. Guess he's in for a rude awakening when he finds out just how much work he has cut out for him.

~Neshomeh

Rowling: yeah, the lack of actual Natives bothered me, too (which is why my anti-propaganda stories usually included them).

Orcs: I don't want to touch skinwalkers with a barge pole, frankly, all things considered. ;) I think the orc I did is as good as it gets for South-west Evil Goblins, but is there another possibility? Can we come up with something that still fits the text of the book - willing to fight against humans, and not very fond of them either - but without having to be Necessarily Evil? Mesoamericarda is based on the conceit that Tolkien's notes are his translation efforts - LotR, Hobbit and Silm are 'finished', but any other notes may be mistranslated or speculative. So we don't know where orcs come from, not for sure...

Anduril: the key thing about Anduril is that it's not a local weapon. It's Numenorean, from the volcanic chain around Hawai'i. It also vastly predates the first recorded settlements on Hawai'i - of course it does! Numenor sank, the Hawaiian chain is just the rubble. So obsidian is perfectly viable (and the fact that the Black Numenoreans in central America used it is a big point in its favour).

As Scapegrace says, the scenario is less reforging than rebuilding. The precision technology to fix obsidian perfectly in wood isn't going to be common in the American Archaic: any old Arnorian could bodge a couple of the obsidian-shards of Narsil into a working axe or something, but it takes Elvish craft to remake the true, original blade. War clubs, or something like them, are probably the more commonplace weapon, and likely what Merry used against the Witch-King. (In fact, I think I gave Boromir one...)

hS

[Checks; double-checks]

:D And we can have both. The great woolly dragons of the old North - Beleriand is somewhere in Alaska, the details aren't quite fixed yet - are gone by the third age, except for isolated hold-outs like Smaug. The smaller mearas of Valinorean extraction aren't particularly closely related (and are probably mastodons, rather than Columbian mammoths) - it's possible that Morgoth twisted mearas into dragons, he has to have based them on something. And the lesser breeds of horse are... probably horses, since they actually post-date the mammoth species.

This does invoke the idea of flying, fire-spitting mammoths (perhaps from the trunk) - sort of Fallout: Dumbo or something. But I'm noooot inclined to argue against that, honestly.

hS

Though I've spent a fair bit of time there. But the dirty secret in this post is that I actually knew c > g from Sindarin, and went to check whether it also applied in Welsh (on which Sindarin is based) to lend an extra air of respectability to the comment.

hS

A typo like that is just another word for the count!

Fine, fine, I'll edit it... ;)

(Seriously, though. At the moment I'm doing fine - I've already passed today's 1667, actually. But if I start to struggle towards the end of the month, expect to see lines like "I count one... two... three... four... five..." allll the way up to a hundred and six or something.)

hS

But writing on mobile is showing.

The fact that the entire floor was soft meant that, technically and for the first time, Areatha was in bed with with me.

HG

Not really knowing any of the continua involved, I had some difficulties keeping track of who’s who and which agent knows which continuum, but I finished reading eventually.

Speaking of continua and their singular:
Well, at least those of us who know whichever continua each charge applies to.
Shouldn’t this be "continuum" (singular), or may some charges actually apply to more than one?

Well, as the one who knows the continua that this chapter is focusing on.
As far as I understood, Aiko doesn’t know One Piece, Fairy Tail or Steven Universe. This should definitively be "continuum" (singular), even if the part of the badfic under discussion didn’t focus solely on Naruto.

I wouldn’t put it past the Flowers to specifically punish someone who knows a certain continua in addition for the general punishment for failing in collecting enough charges.
This should either be "a certain continuum" (singular) or just "certain continua" (plural, no "a"); and I think for should be "to".

I’m sorry, but I just can’t, not when I have cause to believe that is she only arguing against me that much because she hates me
Word order should be "she is".

Did you realize how you in the heck you could have caused THAT?!
The first you should not be there.

She’s taking the image of one of my favorite characters and twisting it while doing while doing all this mess, after all.
Too many words again.

Don’t tell me that I have witness something that amounts to torture again.
Missing word "to"? (While "have witnessed" would be grammatically correct too, I don’t belive that’s what you meant.)

Well, I don’t think we really needed it, but if there was any doubt of just how bad this is, it just went out of window right there!
Missing word "the" ("out of the window").

(I wondered whether Aiko’s speech patterns are building up to her speech becoming almost incoherent in a rage, but it doesn’t really look like this is intentional, and it continues when she’s calmed down again.)

The agents who rescued us charged us just for sake of it, but there wasn’t much aside from Anju and I just being there, so we got saved.
Missing word "the" ("for the sake of it").
Also, while "Anju and I were there" would be right and "Anju and me were there" would be a wrong use of "me" that occurs far too often, MS Word Grammar Check tells me that this should be "Anju and me just being there". (I may have learned the applicable rule ages ago, and it may have something to do with the continuous form, but I can’t really explain. English grammar is weird.)

This is job is very important for her, so she wouldn’t do anything to miss it.
The first is should not be there.

However, with her Byakugan still activate, Gem!Hinata easily noticed this and rushed over, the palm of her raised right hand glowing with chakra as she prepared to strike Aiko in return.
This should be either "active" or "activated".

... thus dodge the knife when without seeing it at first.
I’m not quite sure what you are trying to say, but "when" is probably a word that shouldn’t be there.

You know, I’m definitely happy we will probably get over all that, but don’t get wrong.
Missing word; may be "don’t get me wrong", "don’t get this wrong", "don’t get it wrong".

We don’t have to enemies to be that, after all.
Missing word "be".

So, even if we trying to nicer to each other now, I believe we still have a contest to settle.
Missing words; probably "we are trying to be nicer".

I’m glad that Lapis and Aiko will come to terms.

HG

Still, I'm here if there's any way in which I can help.

Read this mission while waiting for the lecturer to get into something interesting, no siree.

The Good: I like the characterisation of Ix and Lottie. There is no Talking Heads, which is nice. The mission is... I'm not sure how to say it, but it was an easy, flowing read.
The Bad: there's a distinct lack of funny in the mission. Might just be me, though.
The Ugly: the Sue, who else?

He's just positively giddy at the thought of his home state being part of an independant nation.

First, the story so far, for which the map has minor spoilers.

Then:

I can link to Google My Maps, apparently.

Most of the ideas people have brought up have been incorporated in one way or another (often combined - hence the Polish-Lithuanian Papal State, under its Pope-President-Grand Duke.) Juliette, I've pretty much adopted yours wholesale, down to the Kootenai Nation (population: 165). I had to laugh at 'I'm not entirely sure what your future chronology looks like', though - yeah, I don't even know when this is set, let alone how we ended up with a world this cracked. It's NaNo - who cares?

Specific things people have mentioned that I'm considering but haven't yet put in:

-Newer York. I'm not sure what else is going to crop up on the east coast, so I'm keeping it unmarked for now.
-Neotsarist Russia. I've left a space for it, but don't know if it's the only state up there.
-Australia. The idea of a bunch of Australias all insisting they're the real one is hilarious; I just haven't decided whether they're dotted around the world, or different fragments of Australia itself.
-Japan. Given that I've reduced the British Empire to Gibraltar and the Pitcairns (sun status: still not technically set!), I'd quite like to give the other island nation the opposite treatment. I remember Japan occupying swathes of China at some point, but I've drawn a blank on precisely which bits.

If you've got expanded suggestions from the above, or entirely new ideas, go nuts! There's a lot of world left to fill.

Places namedropped in the narrative so far:

-Celtic League
-New Etruria
-Imperial Liechtenstein
-Greater Sealand
-Euskadi-Catalunya
-Deseret
-Tex-Mex Republic
-United Kingdom of Israel and Jordan
-Persian Caliphate
-Golden Mongolia
-Cascadia
-New Netherlands
-Holy Prussian Confederation

Which is a pretty decent chunk, actually.

No idea where we're going next, of course. NaNo!

hS

Here, have this best hamster and an Azeri folk song.

Welcome, welcome. Seems like everybody else took care of the questions, so here, have this Royal Ice Cream Container! Close lid, state desired flavor, open lid, enjoy. Repeat as many times as desired. This container also happens to be very resilient, so if you have a shrink ray and need to escape from a nuclear bomb, you can use the shrink ray on yourself and hide in the container.

Why not use a Macuahuitl as the base. It may not fit geographically though. But you get both wood and obsidian out of it. And the Macauhuitl was an absolutely vicious and effective weapon. Easily able to decapitate a man or a horse, if I recall properly.

Got some Skarm-blood, in here!
Skarm's my big sib, which would make you my, um. Half big sib.
Kind of big sib.
Decently-sized sib.

Welcome, decently-sized sib!
My gift upon you is: Skarm-blood.
I, er, I just found it. Around. I dunno, I feel like he might need it. At least, more than me.

In which Charlotte schemes, and Ix gets a shiny new gun to counter an Animorphs Sue.