Thank you to FloppyPhoenix does not match any existing user name, MaliceAforethought, and
Mortos for critiquing this. Also, huge thank you to
MaliceAforethought for making all of the "nonsense" words. And extra, extra special thanks to both
MaliceAforethought and
Mortos for being part of the brainstorming session that made this happen.
So, welcome to the debut of DoMc, or the Department of Miscommunications. Yes, you heard that right. This is a debut. Expect some future installments, perhaps from Mortos and
MaliceAforethought…
But enough about the stuff surrounding the article, more about the article itself! This came about because I hadn't written and posted for two months (the Roget collab was mostly
Roget), and I was itching to get something out. Cue a well timed brainstorming session started by
Mortos talking about the incomprehensible and difficult to communicate. We get to talking,
MaliceAforethought shows up, the Department of Miscommunications comes to be, and we decide we'll each write at least one article about it (at our leisure). Well I was damn excited, and I pumped this out pretty fast once I started on it. I wanted to write about a successful attempt, on the Foundation's part, to fully understand an anomaly. In fact, one could argue that since they have figured out how to neutralize its property (communicate about it) and have researched its byproduct (thinking without words), it is non-anomalous. But, that's precisely where some intra-Foundational politics come into play.
Once I had them succeed, I knew I needed a bit more… so why not flesh out the Department of Miscommunications on the way? And here we are. It also was my goal to make another article like #MassaTruthetts, in that it was entirely concept driven and did not have a drop of dialogue, exploration log, or anything other than dry summation of events. I quite enjoy writing stuff like that, so I wanted to do it again. Here's to hoping it worked!
Cheers, and I'm glad to be back.
EDIT: I feel the need to justify why I gave it only two tags. Simply because that is so ridiculously low. The only two tags, beyond the page tags (scp and esoteric-class), that I could consider were "language", "mind-affecting", and "observational". Here's why none of those work.
EDIT: This ended up on a podcast and I didn't even know until now! Thanks, pxdnbluesoul!