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... you shouldn’t have a team dedicated to that. What would they do all the time? After all, we try to catch errors as soon as possible. Finding something only when the mission’s author is no longer around should be an exception.

I imagine that the Snowdrop wouldn’t have any agents permanently assigned to his department. He would temporarily draft knowledgeable agents from other departments as needed. (Androia and Hieronymus are supposed to be in the Harry Potter Division of the DMS, although I didn’t write any regular missions yet.)

HG

But while rereading "Pick your Poison" to get the context, I may have picked some glitches:

But the truth is, this is isn’t your story, or your world.
"is" shouldn’t be there?

You do not have a daughter—or a wife, for that matter—and have never met anyone else currently standing this room.
Missing word "in"?

And there may be another one in "Because we like you":

He impacted the wall and bounced off onto to the floor.
Either "to" or "onto" should not be there?

I liked Miss MacKinnon’s part best.

HG

For your birthday present, have an Urple Apple Macbook. It's like a normal Macbook except it's wilver with an urple logo.

Gonna be honest, I *like* the idea of a Department of Inaccuracies. The PPC isn't infallible, after all.

Said department would especially help in cases like this, where the author of the mission is unreachable and has probably left the PPC completely, and thus wouldn't be able to edit their own mission.

If I do get Permission (or re-get, since I've forgotten whether I'd achieved Permission before I left- although I'm pretty sure I hadn't) and the UDoI achieves canonicity, I'd definitely join in with a UDoI team. (Although I think it'd need a different name once the U falls off, since the Department of Intelligence also goes by the acronym "DoI")

Happy birthday! Congratulations on becoming an adult!

I shall treasure them always. (And I'll also dress up the aloe to look like Aloe from MLP. Because yes.)

I should not board without coffee.

I'm talking about bootlegs that still try to be in the game world they're ripping off.

Again- if the bootleg says it's Pokemon, in the Pokemon world, and there's canon Pokemon in it, it's not an unoriginal canon, it's trying to 'add onto' an existing canon the same way a fanfic would.

Take an extra d6, to be applied to a roll of your choice.

If we ever become a canonical department, and then find some agents who are sufficiently versed in the Fallout canon, we may do something about it.

The Snowdrop, Unofficial Head of Department, Uncanonical Department of Inaccuracies

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Hi, Hieronymus Graubart here. Welcome back; I remember you.

Officially taking note by PPCing the mission is all we potentially can do to prevent the undead Stu from coming back and complain about not having been slain properly. Unfortunately, the Department of Inaccuracies exists only in the badfic games yet.

Also, I’m currently hosting copies of ShatteredSanity’s missions on my Google account, and I intend to move them to The Lost Tales so that they won’t be lost.

HG, Archivist’s Apprentice

Congratulations! It's your new personal best!

Joking aside, you're officially an adult, according to the US. Enjoy your newfound power and responsibilities. Congrats, dude.

It doesn't. But you get used to it and eventually learn to contain the internal voice constantly screaming deep within you.

My cat also says happy birthday. At least, that's what I assume he was doing, since he kept jumping on my keyboard as I wrote this.

Anyhow, have a very happy day! Have a potted aloe plant and an Ant-Man action figure as virtual birthday presents!

I think I remember you as Anonymouse. Good to have you back! Have a potted aloe and a Spanish verb tense workbook as welcome back gifts!

(Also, I just want to say that it makes me happy to see people type out long, detailed rants about their favorite canons that show how much they know and love them. So your post made me very happy, even though I don't know Fallout.)

Have some cake! It's cake-flavored!

Yes, it is that time of the year again. Specifically, it's my eighteenth birthday!

I assume it gets more enjoyable when it stops feeling like someone turned pure terror into scalding hot liquid and jammed it into your tear ducts?

I think it depends on how far the bootleg tries to stray from the source material- with the rule of thumb I'm going to give being thus.

"Is this game trying to *become part of* the source material, or *copy* the source material?"

For instance, if a Pokemon bootleg were labeled "Slap Ball Monster Pocket Go" and tried to sell itself as a clone of a Pokemon game, I wouldn't think of that as trying to usurp the canon of the game- it's merely copying from it. That isn't going to harm the canon in any way.

However, if a Pokemon bootleg were labeled "Pokemon Pirepearl Alpha Rite", and at least made a passing attempt to place itself in the same world as Pokemon (say, having at least a few prominent canon Pokemon in the game) then yes, I would consider it a "fan"fic-esque entity trying to assert its influence on the canon- and *then* the original characters (say, fakemon) could be recruited. (Note that for Pokemon in particular, 3rd-gen bootleg games of this nature were usually hackroms put on a cart and sold without the consent of Nintendo OR the hack-maker. And hackroms typically are pretty much fanfics in video game format.)

I got all I needed from the description, yeah, that's just painful already. And when your core concept is painful... yeah, I don't want to know about everything else.

Also, you dropped an E from your "bizarr(e)ness" in the last line of your post.

Because I see no reason why the index.html and the actual story files for any new additions to LT can't have some autogenerated aspects. I mean, we can't entirely autogenerate all of them, but extracting stories from HTML files and putting them in the new format should be semi-viable, and automatically creating a skeleton index.html (just a list of stories) and maybe even next/previous links should reasonably simple. So I might do that.

~~Thoth has been working at a company that is almost actively hostile to scripting and automation and for crying out loud just wants things to make sense again.

...Although I do notice that both of the weapons I've gotten so far are Warhammer 40K weapons, which I find kinda silly. (No, 40K isn't one of my fandoms, I prefer my power armor to be descended from the t45-d, I just find it kinda silly that it matched up like that.)

I pour forth the holy libations to celebrate your return, and give unto you a half-kilo of lembas and a laspistol!

A book called 'Arms From the Sea". The summary (on the book's website - which is a trip in and of itself that I shall not link here) goes: "Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm—blue, aquatic, and wholly alien.

He’s rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the watery realm they call “heaven.” A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur and mysterious purpose.

Lyle is horrified at first but soon finds himself falling for the Polyp, and the potent and bizarre creative potential he represents . . ."

A friend of mine over on the Young Wizards Slack, due to already having the book for free (since apparently the author was passing it out on college campuses?), went ahead and did a liveblog, which I've transcribed (with permission) in two parts.

Not Work Safe, Not Brain Safe. Quotes are at a minimum, but the bizarrness persists... Biggest CW tags I can think of are body horror, possession, and dystopias.

Anamia's Corner has been rendered into code that doesn't offend every sensibility I have! And it wasn't even as hard as I thought it would be! {= D

That's not to say there's nothing left that needs doing—again, with something this big, there are bound to be things we've missed—but that's down to the level of minor errors, inconsistencies, and things that just personally bug me. For practical purposes, the task is done. I might even see my way toward adding content again, since it will be so much easier now.

But not right away. Baron Hieronymus needs to pick out his new accommodations first. ^_^

~Neshomeh