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Bragging rights here because I can and because LibreOffice records this stuff:
-started playing the game: February 2021, then my save file died, then I replaced my computer and didn't have it.
-picked up the game again, beat it: July 2021
-spent a lot of time having feelings about the characters and plotting fic in my head, especially during "fitness walks" at work that summer, when it was hot and I didn't want to go outside, so I associate some of the basement hallways with my headcanon plotting
-started writing fix-it fic part 1: July 11, 2021
-started writing fix-it fic part 2: March 15, 2022
-hit a wall with "how much language worldbuilding/deliberately odd syntax do I want this to have," put the question to dreamwidth: March 28, 2022
-finished draft of fix-it fic part 2, wasn't sure whether to post until I could post everything at once: May 12, 2022
-started writing fix-it fic part 3: May 31, 2022
-posting: October 2023
And! Like! I have begun and completed lots of other things in this timeframe, it's just that I'm normally a one-project-at-a-time person and between exchange deadlines and original fic submission deadlines, longfic for a teeny-tiny fandom tends to always take a back burner. Then it's like...okay, the first part worked out to be ~16k, so I want the later parts to be long enough to do that justice and feel like they're on the same order of magnitude even if they're not exactly the same. So here we are.
Anyway. The game is about a ship named the Odysseus on a long and frequently deadly quest to save the galaxy, after the robot "Shutdown" twenty years ago. So obviously I added some references to the mythological Odysseus and Tennyson's version. The gameplay (roguelike, moving from sector to sector), is very much based on FTL, and the lore is kind of a mashup of Dune and Foundation (and I've gotten back into Dune since I started, so I appreciate more of the allusions now). But I found the limited "choices" the game offers you to be unsatisfying, considering how often they railroad you onto the plot.
Here are the freeform tags, which I think give you a good sense of what the canon is about:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Free Will versus Fate, Justice versus Mercy, and characters who have very different ideas about each, Dying is easy (old) man; living is harder, Kaos Odysseus is best Odysseus, Past Relationship(s), Post-Canon, Benevolent Dictatorship for Fun and Profit, Galaxy Building, Ballads, Cannibal Space Pirates, (canon-typical levels thereof), Fix-It of Sorts, Fish out of Temporal Water, Plots Within Plots, Chekhov's Acherus Fruit
And here's the link just in case, (but I don't think it makes a lot of sense canon-blind, this is just me bragging/rambling in my own space!)
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-started playing the game: February 2021, then my save file died, then I replaced my computer and didn't have it.
-picked up the game again, beat it: July 2021
-spent a lot of time having feelings about the characters and plotting fic in my head, especially during "fitness walks" at work that summer, when it was hot and I didn't want to go outside, so I associate some of the basement hallways with my headcanon plotting
-started writing fix-it fic part 1: July 11, 2021
-started writing fix-it fic part 2: March 15, 2022
-hit a wall with "how much language worldbuilding/deliberately odd syntax do I want this to have," put the question to dreamwidth: March 28, 2022
-finished draft of fix-it fic part 2, wasn't sure whether to post until I could post everything at once: May 12, 2022
-started writing fix-it fic part 3: May 31, 2022
-posting: October 2023
And! Like! I have begun and completed lots of other things in this timeframe, it's just that I'm normally a one-project-at-a-time person and between exchange deadlines and original fic submission deadlines, longfic for a teeny-tiny fandom tends to always take a back burner. Then it's like...okay, the first part worked out to be ~16k, so I want the later parts to be long enough to do that justice and feel like they're on the same order of magnitude even if they're not exactly the same. So here we are.
Anyway. The game is about a ship named the Odysseus on a long and frequently deadly quest to save the galaxy, after the robot "Shutdown" twenty years ago. So obviously I added some references to the mythological Odysseus and Tennyson's version. The gameplay (roguelike, moving from sector to sector), is very much based on FTL, and the lore is kind of a mashup of Dune and Foundation (and I've gotten back into Dune since I started, so I appreciate more of the allusions now). But I found the limited "choices" the game offers you to be unsatisfying, considering how often they railroad you onto the plot.
Here are the freeform tags, which I think give you a good sense of what the canon is about:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Free Will versus Fate, Justice versus Mercy, and characters who have very different ideas about each, Dying is easy (old) man; living is harder, Kaos Odysseus is best Odysseus, Past Relationship(s), Post-Canon, Benevolent Dictatorship for Fun and Profit, Galaxy Building, Ballads, Cannibal Space Pirates, (canon-typical levels thereof), Fix-It of Sorts, Fish out of Temporal Water, Plots Within Plots, Chekhov's Acherus Fruit
And here's the link just in case, (but I don't think it makes a lot of sense canon-blind, this is just me bragging/rambling in my own space!)
( Edit to add: )
