. . Okay, then.

[taennyn]

I actually have clue one for the meme requests for Falcons' Feathers and Chevalier de Grammont, the remaining many-request stories.

I also appear to have an inkling of clue one for the Trickwood Unification. (dear fuck, it's way more than one novel I could actually start Wild Roses here fuuuuuuck)

Clue One means chunks of jigsaw puzzle, not

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[taennyn]

"never, ever mess with the sergeants" and "knowing exactly which warnings/alarms/beeps/banners/etc can be safely ignored" - Sibir, Sergeievich, Symon Gavriilovich (who first appeared in two steps sideways)

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Symon was running late. Ruslan had run through the pre-flight list to the point he needed Symon's crosscheck, had run through it again to make sure he hadn't missed anything, and now had the manual for a troop-carrier seven open in his lap, paging through it for differences between the fives and sevens he was already familiar with.

Familiar clattering from the back announced Symon's arrival, finally, and Ruslan turned his head just enough to confirm it. "Waiting on cross-check," he started, but blinked when he got a good look at his fellow lev. "What happened to you"Remember Yeshevsky?" Symon asked back, even as he cast a not-really-casual eye down the pre-flight

[billradish]

*cackles* Poor Gavriilovich. I like how they intersperse gossip with actually DOING stuff, and how Sergeievich just checks, double checks, and then goes to study ahead a bit. <3

" . . Isn't that when Khristovo assumes you've died and kicks authorization back to inactive?" The zastava-engineers claimed that was just a slightly-overactive subroutine on Rozdestvo Khristovo's part, but the active-duty sergeants were anything but convinced, and Ruslan tended to side with the sergeants. It was safer.

Why are the active-duty sergeants not convinced, and how does this relate to what's happening here?

[taennyn]

The active-duty sergeants have a theory that the file-sergeants have a hand in the timing and strength of punishment of Not Doing Your Damned Paperwork.

It is a reasonable length of time for an inactive account to get its privileges revoked--I'd guess other zastavas have slightly variant lengths of time, and some places are set to never expire, but since Sergeievich is always active wherever he is, I don't have direct knowledge of what exactly happens?

[taennyn]

(k, via email)

The lessons continue!

I really like the whole symon--ruslan thing. they get on so easily. and i love the fact that there's a "glitch" that can randomly get you declared dead if they don't get your work done. that's motivation, for you. =D

[taennyn]

In this case there appears to have been a personality mismatch between this guy and the sergeants directly under his command, which was what Sergeievich was referring to, and also problems with the supplies-files-and-personnel sergeants. The personality mismatch probably reeeally didn't help with the paperwork problems.

[illian]

I'm always amused at the casual thumpings to make things work that go on.