2016-12-28: So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe

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If this be a better fit in one of the planning-related threads, I have, at most, no problem with it getting moved, but it's a comment on the book, so I'm putting it here.

The Steeple(...) provides a home to those who have fought secret battles, but are still strong enough to put friendship first.
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The Addams Mansion( t)ends to attract students, people with swords, and the weirder-than-other displacees. And combinations of all of the above.

So BLEACH's Team Deathberry could go to either of those residences, but the Spartoi from Soul Eater (whose battles in their own world could get very public) would fit better chez Addams. ("Tish! That's French!")

I'll trust you on that, since I'm not familiar with either work. Not saying that the other writers can't use this, mind you.

As mentioned in the capsule writeups, Nanoha's at The Steeple. As mentioned in Everyone's a Critic, Utena's at the Addams mansion. Not saying you can't do a mismatch of roommates (I put Fate/stay night and Lucky Star in the same building, after all), but it does make things easier if there's a theme. Is that a concern here?

And we're sure there are other residences that we don't know about yet. (But we've heard rumors.)

This justifies a thought-related program activity I had a while back that is either the best or the worst idea for a residence, if it even be possible. It depends whether Unreal Estate will be as much of a thing in our Refuge as I recall it was going to in the original version. Specifically, whether it be reasonable for Greenbird, CO (setting of the justifiably infamous Moon Over June) to show up. If so, it'd be a perfect place for any weird gremlins who want porno characters to drop them. (And I freely admit I'm suggesting this mainly so there'd be a fitting place for my dear Néo and hir family.) The goddess contact would of course be Kaguya from Reirei.

As always, the Mgt. apologizes for any convenience this may cause.

Again, I'm not familiar with Moon Over June or Reirei, but I'm not going to speak for the other writers.

As for Unreal Estate, that's a fine, fine thing in Fenspace, but only one of the pre-retcon writers (who will not be named at that person's express request) had any interest in including it here. So, no, our miracles are limited to subtle effects like what's shown in Ah! My Goddess or the In Nomine game (or at most the appearance of a settlement such as Lake Wobegon), not blatant changes to geography. Unless we're adding something - I still have a soft spot for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, but can't figure out any stories to tell about that particular mouse.

(In a related note, we're not including the Girls und Panzer school ships in Refuge. Even Oorai's keel is deeper in the water than the crush depth of Tessa Testarossa's Tuatha de Danann and that's one of the smaller school ships, so even with their magical "carbon coating" the ships don't pass the deconstruction test. The Sensha-do teams are pencilled in to appear in our story later, though.)

We've only placed one residence in Colorado so far, so there's room for the characters... although we still haven't placed any residences anywhere in Africa or South America, so it might be a while before we place many more residences in the USA or Canada. Unless, of course, we want to.