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Part of the delay was me waiting for folks to double-check my work, but the relevant folks have been busy lately so I just went and pulled the trigger on all this.

Most of the downtime wasn't actually directly related to the search change, but more a result of "hold on, we're running an OS version that's four years old at this point, I should do something about that while I'm here".

After the first long gap (for a given value of 'long'), the Assassins are back with:

Children of the Earth

With the date nicely confirmed by Acacia announcing it on Entmoot. Sadly there is no record of the badfic, other than the title and the author (Silver15, but not the current FFn user by that name).

hS

That's going to make searching a whole lot easier, and thanks for getting it done so smoothly.

hS

Kaitlyn Jackson, Floaters / DCPS. Human, but gets very excited if people mistake her for a Hobbit. Not really much of a one for weapons.

"It's back! So I was in the last, um, three of these? I did really well my first time out, but the other two have been kind of, ehhhh, so I'd really like to have a good game this time!"

Holo-Acacia, a hologram of Acacia Byrd originally created for the 2nd Games, and reappearing in the 4th and 5th. After the last games, she ran off into the HQ networks and is only reappearing now. Pretty much acts like Acacia.

"Yeah, he said I should get out a bit more, so I thought I'd jump back into the Arena... he who? None of your business."

hS

Most of the changes I've just done are rather behind-the-scenes affairs, and so shouldn't be visible.

The main change is that our search is now a bit less off

1. Results are now sorted in chronological order. If people want an option to stop doing that, let me know.
2. You can use richer search queries, such as Nume | Ilrean (to search for either of the two) or "Exact phrases"

To Angband with time zones and their confusingness.

—Yuki living the PPC life from Vietnam

Name: Boadicea (I think that's how it's spelled?)

Species: Terrarian female

Preferred weapon: Anything she can get her hands on

Why she's here: It's like in Terraria. Lots of fighting. It's like home. She may not stay dead if she gets killed on account of being a videogame character, although someone may have put her in a reality room and gotten rid of this ability.

Name: Thalia Quinn

Gender: Female

Species: Human (we think, DC stretches their human characters a bit)

Preferred Weapon: Her bat, creatively named Bat

Former occupation: Bit character copy of Harley Quinn

Department: Mary Sues

Why she’s here: “I heard nothin’s off limits! So I can finally blow stuff up without hurting people!” [grins manically and twirls her bat]

Name: Doom

Gender: Male

Species: Halfling (half human/half demon)

Preferred Weapon: Crossbow

Former occupation: Gary Stu who was the uncanonical brother of Raven

Department: Mary Sues

Why he’s here: “Because Quinn is a madwoman and someone’s got to keep an eye on her.”

Thirteen out of the twenty-four (or forty-eight, but that seems a bit far fetched at this point) slots have been taken, leaving at least eleven competitors unaccounted for!

Honestly I don't know whether I should've waited for this thread to drop down further so I could put the sign-ups as its own independent and more noticeable thing, but hey. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. Anyway, let's see how this turns out!

-OrangeFox

Edit: ...Eleven, not nine. Sorry.

Barring objections, I plan to have the Board down for about an hour starting around 17:00 UTC (aka 1 PM New York, 12 PM Chicago, and 10 AM Seattle) to perform system updates that're needed to fix the search system (and touch up some security bugs)

If something goes horribly wrong, announcements will be available on the backup RP Board (did you know we had one?) and the Discord.

Please rest assured that there'll be extra backups taken before I go messing with anything.

I sort of imagine each fic as a separate AU connected to canon by an imaginary umbilicus? Sort of. In the sense that one could be attached to a greater or lesser degree, with a more or less parasitic draw on the host canon. Not that it would necessarily look like a bunch of little balloons with string or something.

Jenni, for instance, would see the threads of the infinite AUs as more or less overlaying each other as Lily suggests, occupying the same space without affecting each other. Except sometimes they do. They can connect, and even merge. Sometimes fics use the same fanon; at least once, two fics were so similar that they merged, and it was a bit of a headache for the agents involved (I forget who and am on mobile). The canon would tend to stand out like a line traced over and over. Canon damage might look like the line fraying, or a new thread becoming bold enough to cover the original and mess up the pattern. Sue-threads have to be pruned to stop that from happening.

But really, that's just a metaphor. The reality might be too complex for our human minds. {= )

~Neshomeh made half of that up on the spot, too.

I want to give priority to people who haven't had characters in one of these before, but if you end up needing to fill spaces, you can use Caprice (average World One 20-something Latina woman) and Shimon (evolved Razielim male from a Legacy of Kain AU, stupidly tall and blue with black hair, nails, and wing feathers). Department of Floaters, if it matters.

~Neshomeh

The Gourmet is a chef from Skyrim who is responsible for penning this recipe book. I'm sure they'll have a great time together. {; >

~Neshomeh

Because both of you were bapped, and you're clearly implying that baps = love arrows.

-kA

Since Claire is very willing to wear furry ears amd Voyd is catboy, I think this ship is the natrual result.

-kA

I mean, obviously, right? ClaireBOOK, doctorLIT. With books as an optional third party. {; P

~Neshomeh

Doc's various food crimes are legendary in the Discord, so pairing him with a chef would be amazing. My initial thought was Gordon Ramsay, but Gordo hasn't opted in yet. =]