So, it's -40 out there today, after factoring in the wind chill.

I'm not leaving the house...

(12-15-2022, 08:30 AM)In My Apartment Manager Is Not an Isekai Character, we Wrote: Chrono asked the ritual question. "Have you decided what to wish for?"

"I have!" Mihoshi suddenly looked completely serious. "I wish for local help for those of us who have found ourselves here, not just me!"

• 7 Henrietta Street
  
• Appartements Mont-Royal Sud
  
• Aria House
  
• Basin and Range Province
  
• Blossom Apartments
  
• Club Lofts
  
• Douglass Gardens Apartments
  
• Gulfside Rest
  
• The Masaki residence
  
• The Old Dietmeier Place
  
• The place in Nova Scotia
  
• The Steeple
  
• Warehouse 13
  

• Artie's Artery -- once he starts booking bands from Douglass Gardens Apartments
  
• Kaleido Stage -- on good terms with Aria House
  
• Piffle Enterprises -- on good terms with Blossom Apartments
  

• Addams Mansion
  
• Ben Rose House
  
• Black Lagoon
  
• Callahan's
  
• Grand Imperial Theatre
  
• Kickstand Cottage
  

• The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information -- have they made contact with Douglass Gardens Apartments?
  
• Live Oak Manor -- does Jenny Everywhere count as "local"?
  

OOC:

This "story" is somewhat unique.  First of all, it's not really a story, it's an in-universe book.  Those of you who have read fanfiction over at EPU may recognize the format of the title, to which I asked: What if I actually wrote a self-help book for transuniversal displacees?

As such, the content is a little dry, because our conceit is that fictional characters live in (a near replica of) this world, and you already know a lot about this world!  In some sense, this serves as a bit of a universe bible for writers, though it's an in-universe perspective, so not everything is correct.  Still, the in-universe writer, Yomi Mizuhara, is very good at reading between the lines.  Anyway, if you're not enjoying reading it, just stop, because nothing actually happens in this book that won't be covered by another fictional format story, except a bit of banter.

Second, as it would be impossible to replicate all of the formatting needed on this forum, it is released as a PDF file.  In-story, Yomi sent this off to be printed by Chisa Tsukamoto – but not before some joker stole the final draft and started writing in the margins.  And then it got passed around some more.  Finally, it made it to New Jersey to be printed.

But there was no cover!  How would it sell lots of copies without a cover that would attract customers?  The cover, front and back, was thus designed by the Comic Party cast to their own standards.  Yomi had the amount of input on the cover traditional for first-time authors of books, which is to say zero input.  It's hard to say if Yomi or Brent were more offended by the "About the Authors" section.

Here it is: 
  So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe - My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character.pdf (Size: 1.74 MB / Downloads: 27) NOTE BY ROB: This is an outdated link, See post #6 below for the current link

After a little over eight years, the previous EPU thread went into overtime here.

Operation Blackout, an untold but evidently upcoming tale from the Golden Age of the WDF, gets a mini-story prologue. In 2168, a trainee MechWarrior and second-generation Wedge Rat* has to take a friend to her doctor's appointment, but don't worry; they'll be Traveling in Style.

* Whose BPGD file, I discovered when I went to check some points of chronology, apparently got munged at some point. Someone with Forum posting access might want to notify the mods, or if I can get such access after the move, I'll do it myself if still necessary.

Old recommendations thread is here.

Yes, I'm actually sending you to an Amazon page to listen to the advertising jingle. Just do it, okay? It's a hoot.

https://www.amazon.com/SOSS-Mortise-Invi...000CSI9S0/

Effect: All doors in Doug's AoE are converted to having Soss Invisible Hinges. If they were broken, jammed, or otherwise nonfunctional, they are also repaired. Does not affect any locking mechanisms that might be holding them, but Doug has any number of ways to get through, past, or around a locked door. Very useful for repairing the collateral damage after that sort of thing, in fact!

Go ahead, Bob. Write in a scene of Doug busting down a door somewhere just for the sake of using this. You know you want to

Since the original thread is locked up in the attic, here's a new thread with a slightly different focus.

Considering that OnNaGumi's look leads me to think they're a punk or punk-rock band, I can imagine them playing a cover of "Tainted Love" that sounds a lot like this one by The Town Cryers:



Non-embedded link to the entire album on YouTube. (Note that the credits on YouTube are misleading - while the album was released on CD in 2017, it's copyright 1992.)

So you know how Bubblegum Crisis has a bunch of fairly obscure written work, as of yet untranslated after all these years? The Toshimichi Suzuki Light Novels Silent Fanfare and Break Down-48, the silly manga Go Go Sabers, and the 2012 schoolgirl AU Hard Metal Guardians? I'm not counting the ADP manga, since those have translations but are just hard to find on the internet. (I know of a massive VK archive of BGC photos that had pictures of the ADP manga, actually, but you have to create an account to access them now, and I'm uncertain about doing such a thing in light of the Russian conflict.)

Well. I Have  Them. And at the pestering of one guy on reddit, and upon realizing that scanning itself shouldn't be that hard, I've decided to take a crack at getting these babies scanlated. Or, at least scanned. The problem is I don't know what to do about the 'lating side.

So... do I need to commission a translator? Where would I do that? I'm sure there's a process here and I was just wondering if anyone knows what that process is. Thanks.

A thread for when y'all think of an interesting power effect, but don't have a song in mind to connect it to, or the song you thought of is already earmarked for something else.

In this case speciofically, it was My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark by Fall Out Boy, one that I proposed a complicated multi-factor investigation effect for some time ago and Bob said he already had something simpler to use with it. Reminded of the power effect I'd thought up then, I also came up with something simpler for it - retrocogition with the amount and clarity of information gained not depending on time or strong emotion in the moment, but rather by how much effort was put into keeping whatever Doug is trying to find out about hidden. (by which I mean that a drive by shooting or terror bombing would give him almost nothing, while a meticulously planned locked-room mystery or conspiracy theory government cover-up would be immediately revealed, to the most minor details like the mastermind's favored brand of tooth paste and how well they slept the night before.) It could go with just about any song related to finding out secrets, really, but I'm hoping someone will pipe up with a perfect match since nothing is springing to my mind.

Other cool power suggestions are of course welcome as well.

Star Trek Original Series to "Common People" by William Shatner