# Pastebin u8ISkvfZ 12:08 PM <%red3> How about we head into our initial impressions? Other people will probably filter in as we go on. 12:09 PM I finished too 12:09 PM (Was having dinner) 12:09 PM Sure. This provides a neat insight into what the other GoI's are doing with "The Blessed Blue" and what is currently going on in the world all over 12:10 PM I like that this shows a 3rd party view on all this, I kinda guessed the fae involvement, nice to see it confirmed 12:11 PM Sorry, I have finished right now. 12:11 PM <%red3> I'm not really a fan of this at all. The information it provides on a surface level just feels like a repeat of the first SCP article, the language is painfully generic with phrases like "Magic now rivals the godlings themselves", and I didn't find the frequent jokes funny. 12:12 PM And uh, well, same as Blue and Moned. I find really interesting the view that the Hand have on this. And plus, the worldbuilding and some implications of other people are more... subtle, I think. 12:12 PM I feel like it recaps a lot of stuff, and I am not a huge fan of the way it is presented 12:12 PM Also, I agree with lots of what you say red 12:13 PM DrMoned: I always assumed that the Fae was the SH's attempt to try and explain what is going with the world and the Blue 12:13 PM Because the footnotes. And even if there's many jokes (which hadn't bothered me at all, honestly, because... hey, this is the Hand and there's many people here, I doubt that everyone wants to act seriously), we can also see some hints. 12:14 PM Like the interest that some Gamers Against Weed have or the fact that Tilda Moose and her team had betrayed the Foundation. 12:14 PM (and goddamn, I hate these too long comments) 12:14 PM <%red3> I did enjoy the small sections which talked about where this thing could've come from, but I can count the number of lines which talked about that in one hand and they're miles apart from one another. The ending also feels very forced, with Tilda giving some speech about how "nothing is free" which is a very ham-fisted attempt to give some sort of mystery and stakes to this article. 12:15 PM So, well, you're right about the fact that it looks like the first story, but it's not useless at all. Considering that the first stories were exclusively from the point of view of the Foundation or the Old Vegas people, it's good to see people who have an other eye on the thing just... tell what they think of that. 12:16 PM Like the outsiders who enter in the game (even if, for the Hand, we cannot talk of outsiders xD) 12:17 PM What amazes me is that Sarkicism is accepting this as a sign that Ion has returned while the Broken God lot are adamantly refusing to accept this as a nice power up and a step towards acheiving apotheosis 12:17 PM It seems to just exist to be an entire "hint hint" thing 12:18 PM <%red3> I agree in the way that I enjoyed seeing other peoples' perspectives on this whole event, but most of those perspectives were delivered in the way of jokes and footnotes. If it spent more time talking about how their background influences their look on this thing, ranging from certain groups despising it and other groups hailing it as a prophet, then I would've enjoyed this as a purely worldbuilding piece. But judging 12:18 PM <%red3> from the way it is currently, I don't feel anything towards it besides irritation. 12:18 PM Its too much at once I think 12:19 PM Starts with 'Oh yeah, its the fae' then jumps around a ton 12:20 PM <%red3> Yeah, the different explanations feel weird considering that, most likely, it will just be one single explanation where everything else is abandoned instead of something more interesting like a blend of different explanations, playing into the anomaly's gestalt nature and how it appears differently to different people. 12:23 PM Mhm, I can see that. Could make for a more interesting read imo 12:23 PM <%red3> Does anyone have any closing thoughts they'd like to throw in before we wrap this thing up? 12:23 PM I wouldnt have minded if it was just serpents hand talking about what it is and the effects 12:23 PM But all the added tangents and stuck on bits didnt appeal to me 12:24 PM It feels more interesting for me than "A Farewell to Arms". 12:25 PM And the semi-serious, semi-comical tone of the people who write in this document, this is really something who speaks to me. 12:25 PM (plus, the little bits of worldbuilding are also cool) 12:25 PM ⇐ Mew-ltiverse quit (uid372380@queenofthemew.ltiverse) Quit: Connection closed for inactivity 12:26 PM <%red3> I think that the tangents would've worked if they were executed better. If it was just a pure retelling of the events of the first article, then there wouldn't really be anything original about it. I just wished that it expanded upon that idea more rather than just using it for some cheap references and unfunny jokes. 12:26 PM I honestly would have liked to see the conflicts be more depicted in another tale instead of summarised in a paragraph in this format. 12:26 PM It's not the best of the canon, but definitely not the worst and this Serpent Hand when you have serious and funny notes who are mixed in one document, it's really how I imagine it in my head. 12:27 PM I really imagine the Hand not as a group, but as a place when many people from many horizons and many personalities meet and do their stuff and this Tale summarize that perfectly. 12:28 PM This really sounds like a sort of big meeting between many different people and who write something together, which led to this. Sure, it's a mess, sure, not everything is serious or worth-reminding, but that's how the Hand is. 12:29 PM And that's what a document written by many people is. At least, it's the way I see it. 12:29 PM <%red3> Hmm. I guess I could see that angle. 12:30 PM So, that's why I had upvoted this thing, with pretty much gusto. Definitely the best of the two things I've read tonight. 12:31 PM red3 if the tangents were less cliche and properly wove into the rest of the article, perhaps :p 12:31 PM As much as I like this and dislike the flaws as you all pointed out, I'm novoting but could be swayed to a light upvote due to the information here 12:31 PM I mean, compared to the rest of the canon... meehhhh. Compared to stuff like the Antarctic Exchange, pretty good :p 12:32 PM <%red3> This is probably the weakest tale out of the canon, mainly just due to how botched the execution here is. This is gonna be a strong downvote from me. 12:32 PM oh yeah, compared to the AE canon, this is far better (no offense to the authors of that canon)