Results - Week 37

[clauderainsrm]

I've already mentioned this to the person going - but from here on out, if you WANT me to tell you "which one was you". I will. I can do it in public or private. Honestly, we will probably have more of a discussion if it's in private. I know you people well enough to know that I'm probably going to get follow-up questions. ;) But that's up to you

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[hosticle_fifer]

I have a line of tabs open with funny images I was going to post. Giving me immunity after all that work is downright disrespectful, dammit. And I thought I was gonna escape before Gary made me do the final topic of that batch of six that's been hanging around...!

Just kidding, of course - I am truly gobsmacked. I hope, and will attempt to ensure, that whatever I can yank out of my head in the coming week(s) will be worth that vote.

[fodschwazzle]

It was worth the vote. There were aspects of your piece that could be tighter (were all mystifying plot elements answerable given enough read-throughs?), but I honestly like what you did this week better than everything you've done before it (although it is a change of pace).

Doom may stalk you in the coming weeks, as it will someday stalk every man and woman, but I'm happy to see that you walked out of this one OK.

[hosticle_fifer]

Well, I guess that means my "hope that I wasn't making the secret shenanigans too obvious during the leadup" was a rousing success! :P :D

Of course, ideally the hidden-in-plain-sight plot elements should become clear immediately upon the reveal or at most with a quick second skim, so that was a failing on my part. I'm glad it was well received despite!

[hosticle_fifer]

(Oh, I don't know if you actually care this much, but yes - there were no extraneous details in that story. Mags passes herself cutting out lodestone with her visor tinted, then sideswipes herself coming out of the Materials Dropoff Bay. It isn't actually her mother she almost hits in the road, it's *her* - she looks like her mother when she was younger. Note that when she comes to, she's walking dazedly in the middle of the aisle, just like her "mother" was.

There is only one dorm, and she has never met other interns, because she's the only one. When she cuts through or otherwise harms the black rocks is when she skips time. The obvious increases in Lab 16's wealth (fancy shuttle, deep-space cargo transport) are because they are profiting from the infinite lodestone being generated by Mags' stable time loop.)

[fodschwazzle]

I do care about this, and fully intend to reread with this info. I did get the vibe that she is the only one, missed the mother, missed the deep space cargo transport (but wanted to know so bad). I read it like a form of hell after death, where details loop and it is space so why not. Didn't realize they had made a perpetual motion machine out of a human. Wonderful.

[swirlsofblue]

Oooh, I got all of this except for the mother bit and the wealth bit (but I only read it once). Love the wealth from stable timeloop lodestone idea. The looping was brilliantly done.

[crisp_sobriety]

Honestly it's baffling to me that you were on the chopping block at all. Not just because *I* personally liked it a lot (which I did), but I also saw other people recommending it!

Really glad you're still in. :)

[hosticle_fifer]

Aww, thanks. On both counts! :D