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Though the way ITiNaZr doesn’t look at all like my name kind of amuses me, too.

Thanks!

IXeAmAs might be the best one. It's pronounced right, and if you allow 'ea' to be a variant transcription of the 'ih' sound, it's even spelt right provided you don't have access to the letter Z. :D

hS

... NaH.

Or: they say the noble gasses don't react, but neon and flerovium come together just FiNe.

~HUINeSORn

(Is this where I start element-spelling everyone's names? ~Hs (=hassium))

See, I was also considering the Portal 2 Curiosity Core for probably more or less the same reasons. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

That video is much too angry to be you. :P

Try this one on for size?

I don't have a good answer for myself. Maybe Chemistry Cat, because cats and puns and science, but I don't do chemistry. hS does chemistry.

Or maybe this video? (NSFW: swearing.) It's not really a meme, but it should be. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I don't know. Probably.

-Phobos

Referencing the Wayback Machine.

Also, at least for knights who reached Konti-Nyuum on the Hyparlink Route via the harbor of Mei'n Payj, travelling the Vaybek Road to sail against the Marizu from Mei'n Payj is an actual way back. It’s not the pun I initially hoped for, but it works too.

I’m just not sure whether the Vaybek Road "connects Los Taelis to the Hyparlink Route at Manyuel" or whether the Vaybek Road runs from Los Taelis via Manyuel to Mei'n Payj, and the part of it between Manyuel and Mei'n Payj is coincidentally a part of the Hyparlink Route. (In the latter case, other parts of the Hyparlink Route might also get regional names, but I’m afraid we’ll run out of names before we run out of geographical features to name.)

HG

Sounds pretty smart. Pretty professional and cool and such. I'll probably use that.

Alternately, I could just go as it flows and call them whatever I decide to call them at the time. And as I run out of things to call them, the titles will be synonyms stretched further and further, be generally more and more stupid, until it just kind of ends up as word salad.
As all good things ought to be!

I always figured that the spatial dimensions of HQ were the sort of thing a mortal mind isn't really meant to try fathoming - that if you measured just how deep the dark stairs going down to the ground floor go, you'd conclude that they're twenty-five kilometres above the rest of HQ, and fifty leagues west from where you started. And then your measuring device would evaporate in your hand. Or so on.
I'm sure it's sort of... floating around all those other places.
Which might all be cop-out excuses, but they're all pretty fun ones!

I also figured at least some of the trash there just kinda piled up, flooding out of that little trash dimension in that closet. Probably didn't make that very clear, though, did I?

And no worries, it's not like it's a particularly intelligent story, either!

The spooky question is, is where does the ground floor exit out onto, eh? EH?

Swiss, per fess sanguine and vert, a sword argent point dexter, a bow and arrow argent, a fess upper edge embattled party per pale Or and azure, a wolf sable and a badger proper combatant.

Saved by the fact that you're allowed to divide an ordinary. This would have been much easier were there such an ordinary as a Base (the opposite of a Chief), but there doesn't seem to be. Instead, what you've got is technically a horizontally-divided shield, with a vertically-divided fess running across it.

Since you specified dark red, you get Sanguine; I'm sure there are other stains I could have used (the US military uses 'crimson' as a variant of gules), but so far Plort has managed to stick to just sanguine, tenne, and celeste, so.

hS

It's perfect! It's all steampunk and clockwork and vaguely reminiscent of a ship's wheel which is totally perfect for what I'm planning for my Plort self and you even worked the arrows in and I love it so much! You even got the variant of brass I for the snowflake right even though I forgot to mention it!

Ahem, sorry for the run-on sentence, but seriously, thank you so much.

Now, as for my Inglish heraldry, the other reason I was reluctant to ask you for help is because I might end up changing it. A lot. I can feel there's a way to get it to work with proper blazonry rules if I can just simplify it a bit and change the field.
If you really feel like taking a crack at it, though, I'm hardly going to decline after how awesome the Alvish one turned out. I'm not even going to try to properly describe this one, though, so plain English will have to do. Oh, and I also sketched it a bit, if that helps.

The top of the shield is a dark red, with a silver sword pointing left. The center is divided in two, blue on the right charged with a rampant wolf facing left, yellow on the left charged with a rampant badger facing right. The bottom of the shield is green with a silver bow and arrow crossed.

The sketch. It's not much, but it's the best I've got. Don't feel too constrained by it, though. It's only a sketch, so feel free to muck about with the particular shades of the colors and whatnot. Stars know I will next time I work on it.

It is, as you can see, rather a kitchen sink blazon. I'm almost positive there's a better way to divide up the field, I'm seriously reconsidering the sword and the bow and arrow, and I'm still debating whethet I want the red chief embattled or not. Really the only part I'm completely happy with is the badger and wolf facing each other, and even then I'm not sure if they should be colored proper or sable and argent.

Still, I suppose the only way to improve is to iterate. The sooner I do that, the sooner I can find the flaws in the next version. "Fail faster," I believe the common wisdom goes.

Thank you again for the Alvish heraldry, and good luck if you end up tackling the other one. You're the best, hS.

HQ has sub-basements. The Phantom of the Opera Division is (or was) located in the fifth one, naturally.

Also, DAVD is located in the basement of HQ, and it and the HQ Pool are said to be some absurd number of flights of stairs below the rest of HQ.

So why does the trash collect on the ground floor? And where do the doors to HQ let into? And where's the lobby (cuz there is one, seen here)? {X D

Maybe the lobby and whatnot are on the first floor, but unbeknownst to the designers, HQ planned itself on city rules, and the first floor is not the first one you walk into, but the first one up from the ground?

~Neshomeh, who read the story, but couldn't think of anything intelligent to say about it. Sorry. {= (

Because I need a large-scale project to occupy me until my temp job starts and the lists are looking a little messy anyway. If you have a claimed fic dating from March 2017 or before, and you're still interested in doing a mission to it, please renew your claim before I begin. Conversely, if you're no longer interested in it, let me know so I can kick it back to Unclaimed with impunity.

The cleanup will begin on Saturday at 10 am Eastern time, which should be enough time for everyone to address their claims.