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New grading rotation! And by that, I mean I reversed the arrows again.

[Be] <- [Oc] <- [Aq] <- [Be]

The grading groups and their graders are currently as follows:

[Ca] Castus - Inactive Members

Castus List
Bish
Bunz
Cheese
Dil
Freckles
Griff
Kaze
Lambo
Loko
Nella
Puppet
Regulus (Oc)
Resh
Sev
Shrub
Sparx
Switch
Tetsu
Zerieth


[Oc] Occultus - Finny
Bob
Doc
Iron_Void
Ketch
Moon
Thread​

[Be] Bellator - Will
Berri
Dys
Kago
Minj
Rob
Shade​

[Aq] Aquila - Val
Hare
Hiren
Raph
Thana
Vin​

The Rotation for the month of August 2016 is:

[Be] <- [Oc] <- [Aq] <- [Be]

Please post your thread titles beginning with your grading group, then the week number, like follows:
[Ca] Week 01: Title Should Be Here

Grades are due by 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday.
 
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Hare
Partay: 117/118
Ayyy it was Kincaid all along! Not a bad drunk thief. At least he's adapting to his environment. His lax behaviour does this collab justice, drawing away from the seriousness of the not-too-tolerant mobster boss. It was a nice piece of writing, surely to set up for some lovely devilish deeds in the future.

A pleasant sigh escaping him before the drunkard nodded and tossed the whole glass back, downing the whiskey in one go.

Not sure if it's wrong, but this sentence seemed a little awkward. Perhaps escaped would have been a better word. Otherwise, you're good.

Arun
Interest: 115/118
I'm not sure what I feel about Dominic lately. I kinda like him as that mafia boss with a sense of style. Then I see some of the ways he reacts to people. He's an interesting character. To be fair, his reaction to a drunken Kincaid was pretty justified like. I love the smell of dirty underground deals in the morning. The fact that he will stoop low to achieve his goals makes him pretty ambitious. And dangerous.

Near the beginning of the collab there were multiple instances of 'the' being used instead of 'to' and then a few more of 'to' just being left out altogether. Just watch out for weird spellchecking things.
 
Moon + 58 etdgfv
Engineer: 130

“What do you think of this? Do the joints pass muster?” She asked, genuinely hoping that Ignis approved.

Same sentence, no need to have a capital word in the middle of the sentence.

Ooh, team crafting. That's great to see. And it's nice to get some more of Aeria crafting. It's been a while, and I could feel that she was really comfortable throughout the collab. Aeria's talk with Ignis was also fun.



Ketch + 72 bfp
Hair IV: 370

I really enjoyed Thalice calling Oriana puella all the time. Not sure why, but it really seemed to fit into the atmosphere of the chapter. The overall feel of the chapter is done really well. It's a bit dark and mysterious all the way through. The talk between Thalice and Oriana had a good sort of intensity to it.

Still, with all this religion talk, it sort of feels like another world entirely since it's just completely different from everything else. Not to say it couldn't happen, but probably the Vis are real and really did do all the things the stories say they did.


Armed Forces: 104

For getting no customers, Tycho sure is abrasive to people going into his shop. I can see why it's failing.

This entire business transaction felt much to hush hush for being something that's perfectly legal. Geeze, smile a bit and engage in selling the product. Also, I like how Tycho doesn't actually know how much money is there. For all he knows, that could be a bag full of ones.

I liked this little look into how he does business.



Doc + 72 bfp
Roar IV: 176

Your dialogue punctuation is now half-right half-wrong. It's just gotten weird now. I'll give a few examples here, though it's not all of them in the chapter.

“Well,” the enlil gestured towards itself. “that’d be me. Name’s Baron. What’s it you need?”

This entire thing would technically be one sentence. When you want to break apart a single sentence in the middle, you start the next part with a comma.

“Well,” the enlil gestured towards itself, “that’d be me. Name’s Baron. What’s it you need?”

“I’m here for the ledger.” Speedy said flatly.

This is simply just one sentence, so the dialogue would end in a comma.

“I’m here for the ledger,” Speedy said flatly.

“Who in Castus’ name do you think you are?” Baron shouted. “did Bell send you? Is that it? He think he can just send somebody to shake me down after all I’ve done for him?”

Now this sentence is not like the one up above. This is actually 2 sentences, so starting a new spoken dialogue sentence would be capitalized.

“Who in Castus’ name do you think you are?” Baron shouted. “Did Bell send you? Is that it? He think he can just send somebody to shake me down after all I’ve done for him?”

Now why is this 2 sentences while the one up above is one sentence? Simply because you did not break apart the spoken dialogue in the middle. You stopped it at a full sentence and started a new full sentence afterwards.

That was quite a gunpoint robbery there. I liked Speedy's badness at it and his talk with Apollo afterwards was great.


Armed: 104

It's Tydeus! Who's Tydeus?

Well, I liked you engaging other people for their crafting services. It's a nice way to round out the world. And geeze, no talk about price, just throw down a bag of exa. You could have been overpaying! Or underpaying! This is like movie/television shopping.

Still, Tycho and Tydeus seems like a fun pair. It was an interesting shopping collab.



Will
Item Fabrication: 230

I am trying to picture this thing you have made. It's one item, an axe and an anvil mashed together. The anvil is attached to the axe head, right? On the back of it? Moving over my thoughts on the design of the item.

The act of crating it was done well. Seeing the little d'oh moment from Keydis was fun. And the work put into making the weapons was certainly intensive and careful. The talking part with Aecus really added a lot to the chapter. It makes it clear that Keydis, despite being skilled, is still learning and changing her ways of thinking.
 
Aaaaand Dys grades are back! These took a while to get out due to the need for a ritual involving a sacrificial goat. If I missed anyone's chapters for this week, please provide me with links to the chapter requiring grades and one goat.

Dys writing: http://www.postterminus.com/showthread.php?1320-Oc-Be-Week-104-Engineering-Connections


Kago:
Your chapter title is extremely appropriate. 231/231 + 75 faction bonus for making me laugh

Even though I haven't been reading your chapters, I was able to get a good sense of Dio's personality: blunt, protective, and impatient. I like how he has a temper, but doesn't fly off the wall every single time something annoys him.

That said Elidor is probably my favorite; classic wiser older guy. I do like how he was crafty enough to pretend to be both more and less impressive than he actually is. Dio wasn't able to tell that this man was to train him until the guy blatantly told him, despite Elidor managing to impress Dio enough to bluff him into agreeing with his opinion on great swords.

The pacing of this was done quite nicely and there were enough references to what Dio's been up to in the past for me to understand the context of the chapter. Well done!


Minj: 78/98 (PM bonus applied) + 25 faction for effort

I know you're told this often, but it bears saying: PROOFREAD. I won't go into detail on every little sentence, but there are a lot of places where you would benefit from breaking up sentences or joining them together. There's also a dropped word in a couple of places.

A couple of things that stand out:

  • "but she supposed that memories were memories." I am not sure what that phrase is supposed to mean, there are better ways to communicate the significance of these sentimental feelings to Aelflead.



  • "The redhead was watching a small spurii with a single three red feathers..." perhaps you meant a small group of red feathers? Or even, a cluster of three red feathers. A single three violates the rules of number agreement in grammar.

One last criticism: how does she haphazardly toss a sword hard enough to sink into the ground up to its hilt and then pull it out with little to no effort?

Now, with that out of the way, it was nice to see Aelflead express something besides rage/annoyance/contempt. Finding something worth fighting for despite her misgivings and anger is much more interesting than a character who is always angry and never cares about others.The few moments in which you write Aelflead as anything but angry and or bitter are her best moments from what I've read of her overall. Focus on these moments because they contrast with her anger and make her a more three dimensional character. Now, Aelf will probably always be ill tempered and testy, but dedicating chapters to explaining her poor attitude as well as showcasing her when she isn't in a fowl mood will help shape Aelflead and give her some direction. Keep up the good work, although this chapter wasn't perfect, it is a step up.


Val: 346/347 + 50 faction bonus

Well, your writing is polished as usual. I must say, Deni is more of an incorrigible horndog than I thought. Dulcia had him twisted around her little finger, and Deni, despite her hesitation and his own suspicions, was ready to go. Guess he figured he would get a piece before he went down.

Deni is incredibly lucky, as seen by his narrow near-escape, but, it wasn't enough to save him this time. The bit at the end really highlighted how much Deni relies on luck and how vulnerable he is without his guns. The imbalance makes for interesting weaknesses and I'm curious to see how he works to overcome those in the future --if he does.
 
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Dys - 132/133

Thanks for grading the others, Dys. Sorry this is late, it's been a long day.

I think you might need to rethink the description of Cora's size. Beach balls are... pretty large. Since Cora's a bird, maybe compare it to another bird? ... A few minutes later, I see that you're making Cora more bird-like, but I stand by the idea that a beach ball is huge.

When dialogue spans a paragraph break, you should avoid closing tags, but keep the opening tags. For example, you have this:

Original said:
“I mostly wanted to travel. I felt like I was more from here anyway.”

“I grew up in Terminus for the most part; we didn’t go back to Boreas until I was twelve or so. Quippe is great, but it’s such a tiny place, not even on any maps. You just start to feel trapped when all of a sudden you’re staying in one place, you know?”

It should be this:

Revised said:
"I mostly wanted to travel. I felt like I was more from here anyway.

"I grew up in Terminus for the most part; we didn’t go back to Boreas until I was twelve or so. Quippe is great, but it’s such a tiny place, not even on any maps. You just start to feel trapped when all of a sudden you’re staying in one place, you know?"

If you close the dialogue, it gives the reader the impression that a new speaker has appeared in the next paragraph.

Minor technicality aside, this was a good collab. Short, but a good bonding scene and a good description of the work itself. It's nice to see Ignis in situations that aren't so dangerous. However, I do feel like a bit more of a reminder that Cora is actually a weapon as well as a companion might have grounded the scene with Ignis' reluctant realism, providing a parallel to Aeria's slowly budding optimism.

Engineering Connections (2672) 132/133
 

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