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But we’re in a medieval setting, and thus the old tradition of actually journeying journeymen would require to leave Master Neshomeh and find work with some other master archivists. And since these tales reflect real life and Master Huinesoron just turned down Thoth’s offer...

HG

...it could've had potential to be good if it weren't basically a stupid "you-violated-me-now-I-love-you" fic with Fanthulhu beings. The water theme could've been good, and so could the plot. In fact, I could totally imagine the good version of this, based on changes one could make to the plot described in the summary.

-Twistey

(Note: I probably should've been saying "ripoff" instead of "bootleg")

1. I think I get what you mean about not harming the canon, but what does that say about being able to recruit clones? The clone may technically be its own universe, yes, but because of copyright, it technically also shouldn't exist. Technically, the "canons" are still "canons", but canons from good universes have been recruited in rare cases, and the fact that the original universe is a copy and is also hopefully doomed to be destroyed by the creators of the ripoff-ee makes recruiting seem a lot more justifiable.

2. I get what you mean about rom-hacks, but it feels really uncomfortable that you're grouping awesome rom-hacks and mods together with terrible ripoffs like "Cup Haed Adventure." In particular, you seem to have severely downplayed the motives of all such games. The game is not trying to "become part of" the source material; that, from my perspective, would mean it's legitimately trying to add to the canon, which includes both good and bad rom-hacks. What the "developers" of said games, and thus the games, are trying to do is make a quick buck by pretending to be the canon universe so they can take advantage of both the canon universe's perceived popularity and the multitude of gullible children and their equally gullible parents who download freely on the App Store and Android Market. It's just money. Nothing but money.

However, if I were to use something similar to how you describe the motives of other games, I could say it was trying to pretend to be part of the source material. Not become part of, not copy, but pretend to be part of.

How do I know that the game shares the "developer's" motive? Well, most of these ripoff games are filled to the brim with ads. Sometimes the "developers" use even shadier techniques to get your money, such as asking you to let the game have access to your personal info (IE: CREDIT CARD INFO. Now is your mind changed?) If the game itself doesn't also want to make money, why does it have these things in it?

TL;DR: I guess I do see your point, but it just doesn't feel right to be treating unholy ripoffs and legitimate original universes the same way because of little technicalities. As I said, the name of the game for the "developers" is making a quick buck from people's lack of ability to discern what's official or a genuine fangame and what's not, so from my perspective, they don't fit into the categories that you gave. As for recruiting, I don't see why any of this prevents the "canons" of a ripoff game from being recruited. Heck, they might even flock to the PPC, assuming that they know they could be made to cease to exist at any time. Or something.

-Twistey

Also, they'd want to avoid the salt caverns...

Fire might be the best method in this hypothetical mission.

Lots and lots of fire.

Combat/Command Information Centre, aka 'what Battlestar calls their bridge'.

The 'command' variant would work better; only issue is that it really is intended for a combat situation.

'Operations' is also viable, or just 'Command'. That's valid use in English, where people protest outside Parliament for example.

hS

We writers have a tendency to concern non-writers that way. Your present is, thus, a Writer To Civilian Translation Dictionary. May your conversations with non-writers be less concerning with this helpful book.

-Twistey ;)

This makes sense for when the tentacle monster uses his god essence/DEADLY ACID to burn holes in both the back of his throat and his skull. The book tries to romanticize that, by the way.

But... for the injection? Pleasurable and/or addictive bodily fluids is a downright traditional trope for this sorr of story, at least in badfic. It's an odd omission, as are several others.

If this were a fanfic and it got missioned, the agents would find themselves in a muted landscape, devoid of all color. Everything would feel numb. Because that's how this story feels: numb. Detached. Unreal.

Huinesoron mentioned it on the Board here. Apparently my faulty memory told me that hS had answered to you when it was actually Zingenmir.

"Headquarters" is meant to be the organizational center (the main page with the sortable index). Since Los Taelis is a military establishment in-universe, I wrecked my brain for a military sounding word. In German, the obvious choice would be "Kommandantur". The only translations my dictionary suggests are "headquarters" or "commander’s office". I’m not happy with the former, but I dislike the latter more because it’s two words, I associate "office" with a room rather than a building and it implies the existence of a specific "commander" occupying that room (who would that be?).

Head Cleric? Head Clerk? Nah, too much honor. Although I’m a Baron now, I can’t tell Sir Thoth and Sir Tomash what to do (and in Real Life, I always preferred a staff position over a line position). Just being the oldest apprentice fits the hermit quite well for now.

HG

After... I think about a month wherein Aegis came over to my house nearly every day, he and my mom (with a little help from me) finally finished sewing his Tenth Doctor costume.

And, because I wanted to match, I put together a Jack Harkness costume. None of mine was homemade, sorry to say, but no Doctor is complete without a companion, am I right?

Check out the gallery from our photo shoot here! Special thanks to my mom for photographing us... and working her butt off to get that suit made.

Or the parts that wouldn't be conductive to his argument. "See? This guy getting injected with his god's essence is a good thing! There's no worry about the needles or any non-godly fire-y pain in his veins at all! 8D"

Pleh. =P

There's a good amount of Body Horror. But also a general inarticulateness to it. It's just... really hard to know what's going on.

I mean, look at when the seaman injected god fluid into him (... okay, that sounds... very wrong). You'd think the immrdiate response or sensation gets described but... nope.

... when you see it. >.>

(It's in part two of the liveblog. For some reason associating/comparing/contrasting Young Wizards with works like this makes me hyperfixate.)

Used to do it for fun. This, however, seems like something I might want to pass on. Or maybe not. I'll have a look at the thing after work tonight and see. If I'm up for its craziness I'll start working on a PDF (unless someone else finds a faster way to do it, of course).

Have a jar of fake air (nitrogen).

I've got all those errors repaired now.

I rather like Miss MacKinnon; I'm glad my agents recruited her. I need to make her a wiki page one of these days . . .

—doctorlit, going to wiki a page this weekend, maybe

Morality, people? Always follow first ideas in a RP, no matter how crazy. Other people can pick up on them and create awesome, case in point.

I've gotten through chapter 1 tonight. So far, it's mediocre, overly passive prose punctuated with moments of "wait, what?" when the author forgets to tell us something that would have helped things make sense. It's not a hillaribad laugh-riot like, say, Eye of Argon. But it IS only the first chapter. And the main character is clearly insane, and what he's experiencing might be partly or wholly the delusions of a diseased mind. So we'll see.

I have to say, I like the accompanying art, though. It's all a bit samey, but still, I like the style. Haven't tried the music, but I suppose I'll give that a shot at some point, too.

~Neshomeh, morbidly curious.

I don't have a smartphone which I'm glad about for once, so unless there's a better workaround I'll have to go without.

... And I kinda wanna know what the Other One you found reads like, now. 8'D