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side of things). All of this was done bc A.) I'm insane, and B.) because I wanted to create a sandbox that people could play in and meaningfully affect as writers/characters. Naturally of course I ran myself into the dirt and burned myself out 5/7s of the way through lmao

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One group, Block D, each got personalized ARG trail heads each of their respective weeks that offered them insights into the inner workings of the forces putting ECL on, as well as what their ultimate motivations/machinations were (I think @insurgentsia.bsky.social had a thread outlining their

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The format of the whole thing was that ECL was a 16 competitor tournament, divided into four blocks of four, each competing in a round robin tournament with the winners of each block meeting in the finals. The blocks were divided by pre-defined 'Engagement Levels', i.e. willingness to indulge me.

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

However, I imagine what the ECL alum probably remember most from it was the metaplot/the ARG stuff.

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

i.e. the sense that any given character felt tethered to the world of the fed (which, given that the entire thing was confined to one city, NYC, much like what @uciefed.bsky.social is doing now with Chicago, was generally simple to accomplish).

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

While the rules didn't change every week, a lot of traditional elements of e-fedding were tweaked or eschewed, perhaps chief among them being that shoot was discouraged in favor of a more general desire for what I described as "World Relevance"

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

because we're all elaborating today

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I guess to actually elaborate on this: ECL was a short-lived miniseries of a fed I ran last year that kinda sorta wasn't an efed at all (or at the very least it was the efed equivalent of Game Changer).

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Oh fuck, you're going to make me reference ECL again

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

On the bright side, my staff finally gets what I mean when I call something "the great invention of our time."

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Of course they aren't, their members just tend to whine less at events I host.

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Though I certainly understand the impulse, I'll gladly leave that in the domain of the DSA

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My brilliant book club idea has accidentally become a literacy program.

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Sara J. Midnight @sjmidnight.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Edin Džeko is the most consistent male figure in my life

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