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/throws confetti/

Also, the second fic is probably the best birthday story I have ever read. XD

(Though by 'soon' I mean 'within the next month, maybe two')

Thanks! =D

And there were a lot of things I would have loved to bring into the story, but pacing was my number one priority—there's only so much you can write about a lone goose outsmarting a bunch of agents before you start to question their effectiveness. (Does the Goose likely have some sort of canon protection to just be an agent of chaos? Yes, but so does the PPC. :P)

But hey, if the Goose can wander into the PPC elsewhere and create chaos in, say, Rudi's, or in the Marquis de Sod's office—I think just about anywhere might be fair game for it to terrorize.

This was beautiful and perfect. I love how several character's reactions mirrored those of people in the actual game (Farilan especially). DoSAT is the perfect setting, too; I think we all know how easy it is to ruin tech stuff. Just twist a few wires or walk around on some carpet before touching something sensitive...

The one thing I wish I could have seen was someone trying to scan the Goose with a CAD and realizing that it's more or less a canon character. However, that would slow down the pacing quite a bit, and as I mentioned before, the rapid descent into chaos is absolutely hilarious.

Oh, and also, the line "You know, the day just doesn't feel complete until I end up covered in suspicious goo" had me in stitches.

I'd say we'd miss you... but we really won't.

What's the alternative? Halon?

Yes, Halon is a proud tradition in the history of computing and Computing Disaster Stories (BOFH, "VAXen, my children, just don't belong in some places"), but it would make this story... rather grim. So this is probably an acceptable alternative. :-P

I liked the early draft, and I like this expanded version even more.

But there may be some evil autocorrect going on:

Tomash shared at the screen in confusion. And Tomash shared at the state of the room and then looked over at the panel. In both cases, you meant "stared", right?

He aimed the CAD at the plothore intersecting the cables, and pushed the button. This appears to be a "plothole".

She then messaged the fellow who'd run to the data2 switch to let vem know it was safe to pull it. This may be correct, supposing that "vem" is a non-gender-specific pronoun I’m not aware of, but I thought I’ll better mention it anyway.

Overall, though the department maintained a typical level of swearing, coffee-drinking, and excited "I figured it out" noises. This doesn’t look grammatically right, like a part of the sentence is missing, though you may just need to either drop the "though" or insert another comma after "though".

HG

Man, I missed a hecka lot.

I have to admit one of the lines near the ending made me laugh:

"After the incident with the tape recorder and the dry ice, DIA sent a Sith Lady to keep order, and a Jedi to keep an eye on the Sith."

Maybe that's just because for a lot of my previous time in the PPC, one of the Boarders I was closest to was Rilwen Shadowflame, whose Agents were almost entirely from Star Wars, and I got pretty familiar with the issues between Jedi and Sith. XD

I have no words. The blissful familiarity of everyday chaos in HQ. It's rather soothing, actually. XD

I wasn’t aware of the Untitled Goose Game, but I can guess what it’s about now. Maybe I should try to play? (Nah, there are too many other ways of procrastinating already.)

HG

That is some epic life story.

Since I’m here and the latest 'Driftwood' mission went off the main page, thank you for the extended authors note there; this may help. Also, I especially liked that, besides the tapes fed to Isildor, the agents didn’t find anything to kill. Yeah for missions without bloody glittery slaying.

HG

In most cases, Docs to Markdown will convert a Google Doc into HTML that can be pasted straight into AO3's body text box.There may be some really minor formatting adjustment needed if you've got, say, colors you want to preserve, but typical text formatting should work fine.

Pager Duty (alternate Google doc), in which Tomash gets paged at an early hour.

Reviews and even just an "I liked it" are very welcome.

This story is an improved version of an old prompt response, except now it's expanded on and more canon.

This is set in 2017, and the spoilers for the story.

I liked this story, though I can't think of much to say about it other than "this was fluffy, heartwarming, and well-written".

It's a good birthday present.

"looking much more smug than any goose had a right to look" was one of the bits that made me laugh on the train

Overall, this is very PPC, I love the goose mayham, and it's nice to see interconnections between people's spinoffs.

One nitpick I have is that drenching the lab in water and foam (especially without a power cut) is going to be a pretty major thing in terms of damages and cleanup, and so having it triggered by just an alarm press would be weird. (and I'm assuming it's just a lab, not the whole department) The humor value probably outweighs that though.

I like the part where it steals the sandwich.

(This plug reminds me that I should try the goose game.)

Here's hoping no one gets assigned an Untitled Goose Game badfic anytime soon.

This was a delight - I love the pacing, and the glee that the goose exudes while wielding everything from lightsabers to sandwiches. That bird is such a menace.

Honk!

If you want them to reference it happening, be my guest. :P

Ix, you are a genius. Is it possible to learn this level of madness? Because it is truly glorious.

To be more specific, I like how you described the goose as a "picture of innocence" in the beginning before the mayhem began, as well as the part where Lorson stopped laughing at Alex's plight. I could really feel the jazz music stops energy there. I also liked the Andalite character's shrill reaction to the goose taking the lightsaber and Alantha getting tripped by the goose and Emiran losing his sandwich... Oh, phooey, now I'm just summarizing it. I liked the whole thing.

There is a double space on the third line: "The pair’s heads shot up, and Alex spun his stool around to stare at the white goose standing by his knee." Unfortunately, you can't see it because the Board is eliminating the other space, so you'll have to find it yourself. But other than that, I think you've done a good job.

As a matter of fact, I do believe I learned a thing or two about descriptive writing and how and when to place description so as not to bog the reader down. So, arigato gozaimashita, sensei.

This is glory incarnate and I cannot thank you enough for writing it. I'm a little sad I was asleep and therefore couldn't shove Ce'rana in the Goose's path, because she would absolutely try to square off against this arrogant creature and promptly regret every life decision she has ever made, because trying to get a goose with a pen is a terrible idea.

You guys might have heard of the Untitled Goose Game taking the internet by storm as of late. Naturally, I had to entertain the idea: What would happen if the Goose made it into the PPC?

It was a lovely day in DoSAT, except for the horrible goose.