Title: Intrepid Reporting
Author: seiberwing
Word Count: 2,025
Rating: PG
Character(s): Scourge, Lugnut, Sho, ZEX, Dexter (not-DAX), Yuffie, Piper, Abe Sapien, Tobias, Dahlia, nurse, NPCs.
Summary: "Doylton MD" does a news segment documenting a rare but tragic mental disorder.
Notes: Sometimes I think my entire college education exists just to give me ideas for RP and fanfiction. This one came out of watching too many documentaries in Abnormal Psychology. All errors in psychological terminology, statistics, etc. can be blamed on how frequently the news seems to get these things wrong rather than just me being an idiot. Special thanks go out to the players of Tobias and Piper for helping me put this together.

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Hi, Lords and Ladies!

So sorry I’ve been in limbo – I’ve been having a little internal wrestle over it - but in an unfortunate and probably quite predictable ending, I’m afraid I’ll have to drop Megatron. I really-really-really-really-really-really-REALLY don’t want to, as I adore Landel’s to pieces, but health-wise was just too exhausting to sit down and do the physical writing every day. He’s also quite a taxing character to play, too, with the plannin’ and the plotting and the thinking, and I’m annoyed that I haven’t really had the energy to give him justice. (I’m miffed at myself as I had pages of diabolical plans! Plaaaaaaaaaaaaaans!)

Poor Megatron never really got to do anything remotely deserving of being a Decepticon leader, but, you know, he was, totally, like, a dick to a couple of people!

You’ve all been so phenomenally nice (it’s genuinely scary how nice and sweet everyone is!) and terrifyingly funny, and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know all of you lovely lunatics and your characters! All my squishy love to the Transformers players, who are so brilliantly good at what they do. I’m going to still keep an eye on the game because I want to see how storylines play out, not to mention the new application characters, and who knows, by the next cycle I might be able to get it together!

I know I’ll miss Megs terribly, so who knows! I’m also desperately tempted by Coraline, and I still have a perpetual urge to have Cid Highwind running around screaming about his goddamn tea. Or Dr. Cox being manly and calling people names. Time and health shall tell!

But, yes, please remove oil_connoisseur. Thanks everyone for the brilliant times, the mods for such hard work and a wonderful game, and best of luck for you all in the future!

Cheers,
Nine.

UM. I'm just getting super creamed by RL right now. I thought I could manage a bit of posting, but I honestly can't do it. DX;; Whenever I try to write, my brain freezes up. ;;

Skuld/Utena: You guys are welcome to skip Sam; he's just gonna stick around to make sure Skuld's okay before he leaves, but since Utena has already approached to help Skuld, he's not going to get in the way. I'm sorry for holding that thread up, but if you need to keep it moving, Sam's not going to do anything special -- he's just gonna see if anyone needs help and then he's gonna thank Skuld and then he's gonna leave. :C So if you wanted to mode that to keep the thread going, feel free.

Zalia/Bex: I just posted for Reno since he requires way less thinking, but I'm gonna have to call hiatus for the weekend at least. D: If you want to do a rapid fire conversation between Rude and Zalia and skip Reno, go for it too; I don't mind at all -- Reno's just gonna be listening in, entertained, and I'll just use the excuse that he wants to make Rude do all the talking to bug the shit out of him. :|

Fam: UM. WILL TRY TO KEEP THEM MOVING OR.........I GUESS WE CAN BACKTHREAD? IF YOU DON'T MIND I DUNNO AHHHHH I'M SORRY since I know I'm like. Holding up threads with you all over the place, hahahah. Fack.

Anyway, yes. I'm hoping things will calm down a bit after this next Thursday. .__.

Some people wanted examples of what a file should look like in terms of length and how it's written, so I'm tossing up a link to Sora's for reference. This has been approved and all that junk. Hope it helps!