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The Cancer sign is ruled by the moon. Guya was conceived on tsukimi and is named after a folklore character from the moon as a result. So there ya go.

Zara is a Virgo, Doom is a Scorpio, Diamond and Thalia are Gemini, and Meg… is part of the Second Circle of demons. She doesn’t have a birthday.

The idea just came to me after rereading the birthday interlude I wrote. Those of you who have established birthdays for your agents, feel free to share said birthdays and their associated zodiac signs in this thread; I'd love to imagine them in giant mascot suits representing their signs.

As for my agents: Kaguya and Urato were both born on June 21, the first day of Cancer. Momoka was born on September 22, last day of Virgo, while Inasuke's birthday is right after hers, making him a Libra. Hmm, maybe I should write an interlude about that.

And I hope your kids had a great Halloween!

Huh. so the DAVD was originally conceived as a secondary Intelligence department, one that just handled the heavier, triggering sort of content? I feel like that could have just been a division of Intel. I know it has action and medical divisions itself, nowdays, so . . . guess I'll have to just look forward to seeing that change happen!

Katharine the Great maybe could have payed better attention to the spin-offs that cam before, though; the "portable portal generator" already has a name, and . . . I can't remember if the DORKS has been introduced yet? There's a surprising amount of content to keep track of in these early days! Shame the Wiki hadn't been created yet, would have made things easier for the early writers . . .

—doctorlit is dressed as a nerdy white prep. Not for Halloween; that's just how he dresses outside of work.

The costumes! The pumpkins! The tiny elfy babies! Omg I simply cannot.

Thank you and happy Halloween! :) :)

I don't much about archery. Would an iron bow bend well enough to actually fire arrows?

Aha! I see now why I liked Rich so much when I first read him. He finds the "getting in pants" euphemism "graphic." He's confused by Kazra's list of LOs. He's grossed out thinking about Legolas/Caraline. My boy is a fellow ace! Power to my sleepy ace ally!

Can't help but notice that Caraline's name only works in the song's rhyme if it's pronounced in English style, but as an Elvish name, it should end EEN-ay, not EEN. And that gold/red hawk . . . Cayire? kaa-YEE-ray, I guess?

Beepy devices!? I don't remember these at all! Nice to know there's a handheld communication device to use in HQ, despite the lack of cell towers!

—doctorlit fills his only holiday bowl ( a Christmas one) with Oreos and fruit snacks and leaves it on the porch while he spends the evening with friends

Not gonna lie, writing Granny was intimidating. And I went through a lot of different ideas for how to turn Mellon human before I settled on good old fashioned magic.

Glad you liked! Thanks for reading. =)

I particularly enjoyed the science section, and the solution to Mellon's problem was inspired. :D

hS

I'm sure we'll get along. =)

/Ekwy (she/her)

Hope you had a lovely day. =)

In honour of her birthday and also Halloween, I drew the Illian-Sims family carving pumpkins.

It's inked, not coloured, because of Inktober. And not because I'm too lazy to break out the watercolours.

L-R: Dafydd as a jackalope (because Maglor is the cryptid Feanorion), Daphne as a devil, Constance as a witch, Oleander as a squirrel (or as hS put it, "he skinned Tom Nook, which I fully support"), Belladonna as an angel, Tanfin as a vampire (or Edward Cullen dressed as a real vampire), and Jasmine as Wednesday Addams. Dafydd and Daphne are carving the Doors of Durin, Constance has drawn the minimum amount of face on her pumpkin, Oleander and Bella are stabbing their pumpkin, Tanfin attempted to turn his pumpkin into a Silmaril, and Jasmine has a normal jack-o-lantern.

Happy Halloween!

With everyone having left feedback on their agent(s)'s presence in the story, it's ready for publishing. I tried to find tags for as many of them as I could, but I don't think everyone has a tag on Ao3. Thank you again to all who signed up!

Interlude: Ditching Wings
In which Mellon finds himself a new body, causes havoc at HQ in the process, and A Witch Did It.

Words cannot express how fun it was to hang out in Discworld. A little scary, but fun. Hope I did it justice. (Footnotes are fiddly.)

Enjoy!

/Ekwy

Playing catchup a bit here, because I didn't manage to post either of these over the last week...

22nd October: PPC: The Enterprise Expands - The Eirren Bow Maiden by KazraGirl

I don't remember anything about this mission. ^_^

27th October: The DAVD Files: If I Die Before I Wake by Katharine the Great

DAVD is a bit of an oddball - they seem to be a small department located in the basement of HQ, and have their own division of Medical to boot. Naturally, I've spent the last 20 years messing their backstory up repeatedly (sorry!).

hS

Now that October is finally over, I'm dumping a truckload of candies on the Board! 🍬🍭🍫

In which we leave mecha dogfighting aside to have a couple of more down-to-Earth investigations. Sergio manages to get dragged into a murder mistery by an old friend of his, and then the whole gang gets involved in the mistery of no one being able to die anymore in Venice.

From now on, releases will be on AO3 only as it keeps things easier on my end.

I... think the potions manufacturing thing went unmentioned in the books since she hadn't really thought too deeply about it until later? Maybe? Since you'd figure that people would make more jokes at Harry about being the heir to Sleekeazy's Hair Potion and yet having that for a hairstyle.

Oh no, the poor pilots!

… (can't pronounce French for her life)

Less Pureblood nastiness here, which was appreciated! A nice breather chapter, that also developed the plot. I just love how you tied in the Plot-Important Potion to the Potters' potion making businesses, the Potters' potion manifacturing went criminally unmentioned in the books.

Unfortunately, me having just finished an aircraft dogfight-heavy story arc means I keep reading Enchanted Quadrille as Enchanted Esquadrille... the later being French for "squadron". I am now imagining a quartet of very disgruntled fighter pilots being forced to play music for some stuck-up wizards.

The Trio prepare to go home for the holidays.

Enjoy!

Danse Macabre, Camille Saint-Saëns.

I don't know if it's technically a waltz, but it's in 3/4 time, so you can dance a waltz to it, and it's a cool piece of music regardless. Be sure to read the backstory in the video description. {= )

~Neshomeh

I do generally lean towards the kind of full-orchestra, danceable waltz with a lot of "oomph" (i.e. Shostakovich's).