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I don't know the canon, but this old Labyrinth fic is an interesting one. It's one of those fics that read garden-variety bad at first, but grow increasingly annoying as they go on; this fic clearly mistakes being obnoxious for being assertive and quirky. The funniest part: the fic has this habit of making jarring anime/manga references at regular intervals (many of which, IIRC, wouldn't have been published yet at the time of the canon), and the constant reminder that the Sue wears anime cosplay to her grandmother's funeral. All in all, an odd fic.

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Could I have an invite for the Discord? My old lady brain will not be able to keep track of this site.

September is good, because a) everyone's back in school and needs a distraction, and b) it's six months off from the Shipfest. If someone could edit it that would be great.

You can also remove the part about me starting it. fanficVERSE is not running live with the Games, so I can just update it whenever. The site is at https://fanficverse.neocities.org/, and at some point I'll backfill the missing years (2015-2019, I think).

hS

Not to mention hS needs time free to archive stuff on FanficLand/Verse/World. So keeping it at a more predictable “September” might be easier for him.

Of course, this depends on his energy levels, but I know personally I would like more time to write.

...I write like Harry Harrison.

Who?

—Ls

...and here’s the relevant paragraph:

“The game has historically taken place in either July or September, once in October, but could presumably be started at any time in that late summer/early fall range, provided no other big event is happening at the time. Huinesoron has typically been the one to start it, but that doesn't mean you can't if you want to.”

If that’s not the case, we should change the wiki article. Basically, the last nine Games have been in September (with one in October), six before that were July, and the original was in April.

I’d like to see what others say as well.

—Ls

The last July one we had was, according to the Wiki, 2011. All the rest (except one) have been in September.

So, I'd say we hold off until September again unless we have more people available to do the Badfic Games in July than in September.

Anyone else have some thoughts on this?

-kA

It is now mid July. Therefore, I’m requesting that we start the Badfic Games!

I’ll wait for hS, the FanficVerse master, to officially declare the Games.

—Ls iz sooo reddy 4 da Badfyc Games!1111

I put in Maya Sue, and I write like...J K Rowling. I can’t say that surprises me, though. It’s Harry Potter mission.

I like the Harry Potter series, but as for Rowling...I can’t say I particularly care about her opinions or writings beyond that. shrugs

—Ls

It sounded like you were on the menu.

—Ls is back!!!!! And he’s trying to catch upon the latest.

In which they find themselves in a bit of a tight situation, and a little revelation is made.

I hope I didn't write Lux too OOC 🤣

Heh, the console having a sorting feature is a funny detail. I bet it can do that for Potterverse as well, if the settings are programmed right! Luxury is fun here, too; she'll find things to appreciate in the continuum, and she's being herself without laying the * ahem * on too heavily. Nice for Momoka to get a break from the boys for a while, too!

—doctorlit, with a light dinner of croissant and muffin

Apparently the long gap caught me out, because I'm a day late on this:

Mary Sue, Sue Mary and the Broken Plot Continuum: It's the End of the World (and I Feel Fine) by Nath

The saga of the PPC's disappearance is over - and it is the greatest ending of any PPC story ever. ^_^

Also out today (actually today) was the second and probably final chapter of "A Byrd and a Thorntree", but sadly it is lost. It was titled "Delivery", and ran to about 900 words.

hS

though it's inspired by a lot of the Stufics I've seen 🤣 The one the boys are missioning (two god-mode Sues, tons of copy-pasted game text) is real however.

Fun story, surely that's gotta be Trollfic. Nothing can be quite as bad as the sections you reprinted? Right? Hopefully...

Good to see Luxury making a comeback, can't remember the last time I saw her pop up (not counting the PPC+20 of course)

For she will say both =[ and =].

I do want to make something clear: the Fenrykan Heresy is an ongoing project and will be added to with whatever cool stuff my brain finds lying around like a seagull hunting chips. There's just so much goddamn Heresy that any document is inherently incomplete. The version linked in the OP was specifically published because I felt like I had a critical mass of Stuff To Show Off, with really strong narrative sections like the fall of the Blood Angels and the eventual fate of Fulgrim. I intend to keep updating it every time I write something worth adding.

However, this extremely informal approach means there isn't a Huge Overarching Plan. This is a great and terrible disappointment to Rochdale Gillingham, so I can only imagine how it feels for you, Nesh, and Phobos. I know that I want the Saviour Sons (that's Perry and Morty, with occasional assistance from whoever else is on hand) to have been more actively fighting against the Imperium Pandaemonium, with the crusading and heretic-hunting and such being a much more proactive process than in canon due to basically having, like, at least eighty-odd versions of the Black Templars for Imperial commanders to let loose, as well as the White Templars later on in the timeline. Fleet-based chapters on both sides of the Long War are a hell of a lot more common too, allowing them to operate as roving armed forces that can deploy wherever and whenever they see fit.

Sidenote: one very important point that you might have missed because it's only mentioned in passing: unlike the canon Black Templars, the Word Bearers' successor chapters all have a full Librarius that works closely with the chapter's Reclusiam. This is because they know through the Hymnalis Aurelian, the adapted foundational text of the Ecclesiarchy, that the Emperor himself was a master of the psychic arts -- which later theologians (post-Heresy) contrast directly with the warp sorcery of Russ, Jaghatai, and so on. Indeed, for the Word Bearers themselves, their Librarius is their Reclusiam, and vice versa; they have practiced and honed their psychic gifts into vehicles for the praise of the Emperor rather than mere conduits to the inchoate powers of the Immaterium.

So no, I haven't got something for you to try and tease out of my brain. I've got something far better: watching you tease things out of your brains, coming up with theories and ideas I'd never considered, using canon knowledge I don't always have to develop those ideas into fully-fledged ideas, and then getting to use those ideas to springboard my own creativity. I won't include anything directly written by you guys without your informed and explicit consent, obviously, but watching people care about this is what inspires me to think about the setting of the Fenrykan Heresy more, and therefore make more Fenrykan Heresy content. =]

Thank you. Thank you both.

And I'd also like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone else who has engaged with the Fenrykan Heresy Project on any level. You all helped me make a thing I'm genuinely proud of, and I'm so grateful to you for that.

Just like Russ' secrets were safe with Guilliman, who would never dream of using them against him.

Soooo, is the Fenrykan Heresy an ongoing project? I was treating it as a completed thing to which you might add new bits if they came to you (such as the Chapters chapter), but now I'm wondering if there's A Plan which we should be trying to mind-read off you.

What I'm trying to say is: do you know if Malcador is alive? (Or rather, are you certain he's dead? Because if you're not... he's alive. >:D)

hS

Momo fares no better; welcome to part 1 of her new mission into the same continuum with an unexpected partner.

I fed the thing various excerpts from The World Without Authors, and here are the results:

• One of the dogfights featuring Variable Fighters apparently resembles Arthur Clarke. Same result for one of the pre-mission briefings. That makes sense, I guess.
• One of the bits with Nikki during her down time is apparently in the style of Stephenie Meyer. I am greatly offended and horrified by this,
• Corolla Being Corolla gets Hernest Hemingway apparently. I am quite baffled.
• Keiko driving a Cyber Formula car gets Dan Brown. I'm quite baffled again.

Fun fact: I never read anything by any of them. I cannot even claim theywere influences in me forming my writing style!

Watching the two of you concocting theories about the overall plot and story arcs of the Fenrykan Heresy is just amazing. And I definitely didn't get a bit emotional about people I look up to engaging critically with my big fan project.

You can't prove it.

Shut up.

=]

...I got Mark Twain.

Not that I'm complaining but that feels wrong somehow, haha.

I think it indicates that the fate of the Grim Dark Far Future hinges, uncharacteristically, one one person, one moment: when (not if) Magnus finds himself on the Golden Throne... what does he do with it? Guilliman has one idea. The Emperor had another. The Hexarchy (minus Omegon) have a third. But who can know the mind of Magnus?

I'm not sure about the state of the Throne and the Webway Project. Scape said that the Emperor was ensconced on the Throne during the Heresy, which implies something happened. I meant to ask but I'm not sure I got round to it. It's possible the Emperor just thought his Project was more important than the boys' squabbles, and kept on it until Lorgar impressed him with the absolute importance of taking down the Wolf.

Which... implies that Malcador survives. If the Webway is not broken, the Emperor can just leave the Throne, no consequences. He still gets lashed into it afterwards, and the Project is cut off and abandoned - but Malcador the Sigilite lives, and Malcador knows.

Given that he was already building a Chapter of his own, I think we now know who the real driver behind Perry and Morty's decision was.

And if, somehow, he lives for ten millennia - then he is the one person who knows what Magnus will see when he takes the throne.

I said Bobby Gulls is the (dae)Man with the Plan - but the Sigilite certainly has a scheme to match him.

hS