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H&E's Recap! (With apologies to hS and Tomash) (warning for loud noise)

I don't think it's really talking about Silm, though. Drat April Fool's Day.

Whooooo we're racking up the firsts here. First mention of mini-Balrogs! First mention of my favourite courtyard! The recruitment (though they didn't realise it was a recruitment) of Alice!

So... "Quolful". The PPC wiki is the only real hit for this word on the internet, but could it be a valid Elvish name? Surprisingly... well, no, not surprisingly: it totally isn't.

But! If we go back to Tolkien's earliest Qenya, we can find the roots "QOLO" and "FULU". "QOLO" gave us words such as qolu, qolda, qolo-; "FULU" has no known derivatives, but its alternate form "HULU" gave hulin and hulqa. It's not impossible that descendents of these roots could give a Qenya name "Qolful", which (assuming the roots survived, which "FULU" probably didn't) would become "Quolful" or "Kwolful" in mature Quenya.

So what does it mean? Just about the worst thing it could! "QOLO" is the root to do with sickness and disease, while "FULU" is the root for nakedness and stripping. "Sick and naked" is the closest Alice's original name comes to having a Tolkienian translation.

She probably prefers her new name. I know I would.

hS

Another day, another estimated publication date for a TOS mission... interestingly this one follows directly on from the last line of the previous mission, so it's possible they were even posted as a pair.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum: Laugh at the Moon, by Jay and Acacia

Sadly the badfic is well gone - the TOS first page capture lists it as 'author forgotten - story taken down', so it was gone by the time of posting.

hS

Behold, the hS bait

Boadicea shakes Matthew's hand.

"Well done. You had an awful lot of luck, though. Why couldn't you have given me some?"

Rebecca also shakes Matthew's hand.

"Congratulations. I am never participating in this thing again, and now I will go find whoever got me into this mess and give them a piece of my mind."

[Kkukttak walks into the interview room, with the hood on his traditional black cloak pulled down. He is smiling, but not widely enough to really show off his first set of pointy teeth.]

Kkukttak: I should've seen that coming, with all the poisons in the arena. Silly me, thinking my usual luck with the Cafeteria food would carry over.

Farah [who, having cleaned up, looks rather spiffy]: You sure that wasn't, like, karma?

Kkukttak: Probably not. If nothing else, the organizers were definitely out to get everyone, so good on them for succeeding.

Kkukttak [looking more directly at the camera]: I know I wasn't the most talkative tribute back there, but I was rather busy trying to not die. But, now that the Games are over, I have to say: that was fun! It's been a while since I've had a no-holds-barred scramble for survival, and even though they're stressful, I did miss them. I'd like to thank everyone for playing and I look forward to going again if our fine hosts will have me back ... even though I just put a massive target on myself by coming in third.

[Farah opens her mouth to ward off the IO, but then realizes it'd probably be happy throwing a boring mission or two just to see her partner complain.]

[Kkukttak waits a moment to see if Farah says anything, taking the moment to think of what he should say next. He remembers the talk he'd had with his therapist about complements recently.]

Kkukttak:: Oh, and, Matthew? That was an excellent recovery from getting your supplies ruined.

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Meanwhile

Taq::Aw, darn, I wanted a fight! Tha' was a borin' endin'.

Peregrin (his partner): Oh,the Hunger Games have started?

Taq: They're over, boss.

Peregrin: Did you win?

[Taq resists the urge to facepalm]

Meanwhile

Aulhar is asleep. This is partly an effect of the Games, and partly just an effect of his feline-analogue heritage.

When he eventually wakes up, he'll encounter the reminder he left himself to work out where one could get good tea in the PPC. He hadn't talked to Farah much during the Games, which was a shame, so he wanted an opportunity to get to know her without a battle royale getting in the way.

Matt, blinking: I... won?

Paye: OH MY GOD YOU WON!

Paye proceeds to tackle hug him.

Paye: I can't believe it! You won!

Matt, hugging her back: Yeah! I won!

David Null: Great job, Matthew!

O'Ryan: Ey, you won, Trainee!

Kittyauthor: Congrats, Matt!

Crow: You did great!

Matt: I still can't believe I won!

Paye: GROUP HUG TIME!

David: No.

Paye: yEs!

Paye stops hugging Matt long enough to drag David over to Matt.

Paye: Group hug time!

David: Why must I?

O'Ryan: Fine with me.

Everyone, exluding David, hugs Matt.

Paye: Mr. Null?

David sighs.

David: Fine.

David joins the group hug. The group hug breaks up.

Paye, holding a camera: Okay group! On three! One, two, three!

She takes the photo.

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(Holy heavens, that was exciting! I hope to do this again sometime, but I don't think Matt will ever particapate again. I loved it! Thank you all for an excellent HG!)

(BTW, H&E's final day recap should be done this weekend. Then, the whole Games recap by H&E (with the sole focus on the kills/deaths) should be done within a week. Both will be posted as plugs, probably.)

(-kA)

(Edit: formatting)

I'll just wait for all the interviews to finish up, then drop in the doc once it's finished. Thanks!

-OrangeFox

Well, glad you liked it! And congratulations!

And, um, sorry about the shaking?

-OrangeFox

But, anyways, nifty joke, especially with the pun!

-kA

For the previous Games, I just slammed them all together in order. I'm happy to do it for this one too, but if you were already planning to I'd let you do the work. :D

hS

I think maybe Android just doesn't have Comic Sans installed

Your writing is funny and quite pleasant to read. (IFun fact I 've heard: Comic Sans improves dyslexic people's ability to read text in some measurable way)

If it isn't, you may not have it installed or something

(I had to excuse myself to the bathroom so that I wouldn't look like a crazy person because I legit BURST OUT LAUGHING but got myself under control within two seconds so that I could run to the bathroom. Although I think everyone in the bathroom thinks I'm crazy...)

(-kA, who is ecstatic because holy shpx Matt won!)

I was trying to use HTML/CSS to put the subject line in Papyrus, and IIRC the tag was incomplete when I misclicked, so that might have something to do with it?

~Neshomeh

It's gonna be a long one, but I'll see about combining the docs later. Is there anything you need in specific to archive, or...?

-OrangeFox

Kaitlyn: "Oh, [censored and extremely long list of exotic swear words. It seems like she might be trying to recite The List from memory].

Memo to self for next time: don't eat the mushrooms. They wouldn't put mushrooms in there if they weren't a trap. Don't eat the mushrooms.

Oh, well. I suppose it fits that I made the first kill, and was the last. And hey, it's still my highest ranking ever! Congratulations to Matt, though - well played!"

((And thank you, OrangeFox, for running it! Are you going to be putting together a consolidated doc for posterity? Asking for an archivist who is me.))

hS

We have our champion!

Sorry about the wait, but it's finally here! I hope you enjoyed the event while it lasted, and, um. Well, have a good one!

(By the way, despite the day, this isn't an April Fool's joke. It's just unfortunate timing.)

-OrangeFox