Subject: [FFML][Info] Re: AUTHORS' REVENGE NOTE[We're forgetting something people ; ) ]
From: wyrm@mail.utexas.edu (Thomas R Jefferys)
Date: 10/4/1996, 11:17 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

<<INCOMMING MESSAGE FROM WYRM! EMERGENCY COMMUNIQUE!>>

Y'know, while all this organized chaos is great, ^_^ we've forgotten one
MAJOR point.
We're anime fanfic writers, and we all know that in almost all
action/adventure anime(which most of us write) there is usually a Bad Guy,
ESPECIALLY in something this major. @.@

It should be someone NEW, powerful, with nice 3-D sinister
characteristics,and with lots of nifty
Henchpeople(politically correct :). And that no single Author can beat him
alone.

Any takers? ;) Let's decide first before writing anything about them. Hmm?


I think I've got it! It's so perfect that it's revealed truth! Well...

Our Big Bad Villian is...

Undefined

Yes, that's it! He/she/it/them is/are undefined!

It's a character that's a mystery even to its creator. The thing is when
you first read about a character, your mind goes off on tangents of
possibilities. He might be a god, he might be some low life, he might be a
fighter, or he might be a complete nobody. But the thing is, until you read
more about his character. Then he doesn't seem as imposing, because you
know something about what he/she is and what he is not.

Somehow, one of the characters in our unfinished fanfics became aware of
our existence. He was declared (at least internally) but he was undefined,
he could therefore literally do ANYTHING, because he had no limitations;
they weren't defined yet!

Of course, he is limited, depending on the tastes of the creator; ie, just
how powerful ANYONE can become is a constant and represents an automatic
limit on any character that the creator creates. However, this author is
willing to contemplate creatures powerful as frigging GODS! Pretty high
limits.

He then saw the danger the FFML posed: once his creator gets around to
actually writing somthing, at least in notes, about his character, then his
power decreases because now there's some limits on what/who this person(s)
is. He obviously can't abide by this, so he serripitously modifies a couple
of realities (namely, Ranma and co) to be able to warp.

SKJAM!'s "Sauce" was probably an experiment just to see if it worked.

frosty's message was possibly caused by subtle manipulation by the Villian,
or just a lucky break (I vote for the latter).

Nightelf was another experiment, to try meathods that would delay and even
stop the real creator.

Bridget was a further experiment. It's also when the SKJAM! fic challenge
was recognized in one of his "logs"

Sailor Mak (snicker) was hitting on the magic formula.

By this time, we all were imagining encounters with our characters, out of
humor. So the entity (possibly because it was restricted to universes where
everyone is unbelievably dumb) makes its great mistake:

It tries to hit everyone.

By the time it got to Alpha C, Lawson realized we were under attack. As the
"log" had to include failures (Lawson's attempt), we were realizing
whatever it was was going for EVERYONE who had written a fanfic.

It also meant that now someone could hit upon this exact idea.

This baddie needs to remain undefined to exist as he is. It's also existing
by what the FFML as a whole believes him to be. A single good fanfic can
sway all of us to believing this baddie as something less.

Despirite now, it needed distractions, delays. Being able to read minds to
a limited extent, it hit upon the idea of preemtive strikes. Soon, we were
getting blasted for ideas we've not even posted yet, or eventually, written
down! And since lurkers can turn into writers, they are potential dangers.

Even people loosely connected to the FFML are in danger; friends, family, ect.

Whatever he/she is, there are some things that we can tell about it if we
know where to look. Look for clues! Because of our group behavior, there
are certain ways that he behaves. Every definition expands his abilities as
well as subtracts from them. His scope has expanded beyond the Ranmaverse,
where more people are smart. He's therefore smarter.

He's starting to go to outright killing; this is now a fight for survival.

Stop. Look. Listen. Be careful. Be logical. With every new piece of
information we find, the less things he can do, but also the more.

Our enemy, (?) is out there. Yes, that's his name: "(?)" We don't know his
true name (if we did, the author could just go into his files and define
him), and he has no defined identity.

We must find him. We must know who he is, and who he isn't.

Good luck, ALF!

Viva l'Otaku!

<<END MESSAGE>>

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