The SECRET SERVICE Review Agency [currently accepting requests/missions]
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Description
THE
SECRET SERVICE
where
BAD WRITING
IS THE ONLY ENEMY
reviews
mission explanation
greetings!
welcome to the secret service
welcome to the secret service
16.01.01
OPEN
overview
Archives ♦ Team ♦ Rubric ♦ Request (see below)
The Secret Service Review Agency was founded by the authors of Irony and The Blood Brother Code and is here to provide quality reviews in a fun way. Space is limited as we are focussing on quality rather than quantity and do not want to take on too many missions at once. (You may keep up to date with ongoing missions on our specs page.
There are two services:
1) General Mission – in which the agents must clear the entirety of your story without being incapacitated by, e.g., grammar/spelling errors, clichés and the like. Specific mission focus points can be found in the mission rubrics/elements section and are classified as sub-missions. You will receive an extensive mission debrief once we have cleared your story, based on our experience of the sub-missions.
2) Mission Training – neutralising any grammatical/spelling errors in your first five chapters, also paying attention to fundamental rubrics of language such as pacing and flow. Warning: training can be brutal.
While casualties and even failure or fatalities may occur during sub-missions of the General Mission, the General Mission as a whole will either be failed (unlikely) or passed (potentially with accolades). Missions don't get a grading score out of 100 – rather, it's an assessment of how well the story does, placed into categories of Pass, Pass with Merit, Pass with Honour and Pass with Distinction. You will also be assigned a flame rating based on how on fire your story is.
Layspeak translation: we just really, really wanted to start a review shop and have fun with it. Then we saw this layout and couldn't not take on a badass theme.
Terms
Mission/mission commisioning: you ask us to review your story
Mission debriefing: the review we write
Agents: the reviewers
Rubrics: the elements of the story we examine and base our review on
The wanted list: the blacklist
Mission failed: your writing needs a lot of work
Mission passed: your writing is decent, but there's a lot stuff that could be worked on
Mission passed with merit: good writing, but a fair amount to work on
Mission passed with honours: great writing, perhaps a little to work on
Mission passed with distinction: excellent writing, very little (if anything) needs working on
Flame rating: consider it your score/grade
The Secret Service Review Agency was founded by the authors of Irony and The Blood Brother Code and is here to provide quality reviews in a fun way. Space is limited as we are focussing on quality rather than quantity and do not want to take on too many missions at once. (You may keep up to date with ongoing missions on our specs page.
There are two services:
1) General Mission – in which the agents must clear the entirety of your story without being incapacitated by, e.g., grammar/spelling errors, clichés and the like. Specific mission focus points can be found in the mission rubrics/elements section and are classified as sub-missions. You will receive an extensive mission debrief once we have cleared your story, based on our experience of the sub-missions.
2) Mission Training – neutralising any grammatical/spelling errors in your first five chapters, also paying attention to fundamental rubrics of language such as pacing and flow. Warning: training can be brutal.
While casualties and even failure or fatalities may occur during sub-missions of the General Mission, the General Mission as a whole will either be failed (unlikely) or passed (potentially with accolades). Missions don't get a grading score out of 100 – rather, it's an assessment of how well the story does, placed into categories of Pass, Pass with Merit, Pass with Honour and Pass with Distinction. You will also be assigned a flame rating based on how on fire your story is.
Layspeak translation: we just really, really wanted to start a review shop and have fun with it. Then we saw this layout and couldn't not take on a badass theme.
Terms
Mission/mission commisioning: you ask us to review your story
Mission debriefing: the review we write
Agents: the reviewers
Rubrics: the elements of the story we examine and base our review on
The wanted list: the blacklist
Mission failed: your writing needs a lot of work
Mission passed: your writing is decent, but there's a lot stuff that could be worked on
Mission passed with merit: good writing, but a fair amount to work on
Mission passed with honours: great writing, perhaps a little to work on
Mission passed with distinction: excellent writing, very little (if anything) needs working on
Flame rating: consider it your score/grade
mission
commissioning
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missions open
commissioning protocol
01. Subscribe for mission updates. Failure to do so will result in an aborted mission, or a failed one. You may unsubscribe if you so wish once you have received your mission debrief and acknowledged it. Appreciation in the form of upvotes for the agents carrying out the missions is appreciated but not mandatory.
02. Please finalise commissioning missions by commenting below after filling out the commissions form.
03. Please give official acknowledgement of mission completion after the debrief by commenting, and by putting the banner and linking back to the agency in your story's foreword.
04. Please do not request an agent unsuitable for a mission (e.g. one who doesn't read when a story contains any , or who doesn't like horror when yours is a horror story), or an agent who has already been dispatched to the monthly limit. Please also do not request for a fic/story type (e.g. idolxidol) which the agency currently does not accept (see Non-Classified Information below for details – we will assume you have read this section in full if you request and will reject missions out of hand if anything we clearly state we do not accept is requested).
05. Please do not pay the mission expenses until your commission has been accepted. (See Non-Classified Information below for details.)
06. Please don't hassle us or be rude. We want to give you the best possible feedback, but we do have normal lives as well as undercover ones. Longer stories will naturally take longer for us to get through, but please expect between 2–4 weeks for a mission to be completed as a baseline.
07. If you wish to cancel, please note that there are no refunds on any karma you may have paid.
08. Failure to comply with these will place you on the Wanted List, and our agents will hunt you down.
09. The password is the EXO avatar of the agent you have requested. This is visible on the agent profile page.
COMMISSION A MISSION
02. Please finalise commissioning missions by commenting below after filling out the commissions form.
03. Please give official acknowledgement of mission completion after the debrief by commenting, and by putting the banner and linking back to the agency in your story's foreword.
04. Please do not request an agent unsuitable for a mission (e.g. one who doesn't read when a story contains any , or who doesn't like horror when yours is a horror story), or an agent who has already been dispatched to the monthly limit. Please also do not request for a fic/story type (e.g. idolxidol) which the agency currently does not accept (see Non-Classified Information below for details – we will assume you have read this section in full if you request and will reject missions out of hand if anything we clearly state we do not accept is requested).
05. Please do not pay the mission expenses until your commission has been accepted. (See Non-Classified Information below for details.)
06. Please don't hassle us or be rude. We want to give you the best possible feedback, but we do have normal lives as well as undercover ones. Longer stories will naturally take longer for us to get through, but please expect between 2–4 weeks for a mission to be completed as a baseline.
07. If you wish to cancel, please note that there are no refunds on any karma you may have paid.
08. Failure to comply with these will place you on the Wanted List, and our agents will hunt you down.
09. The password is the EXO avatar of the agent you have requested. This is visible on the agent profile page.
COMMISSION A MISSION
Non-classified information
>> Each agent only accepts 2-3 simultaneous missions per month.
>> Each agent's undercover identity is shielded by their EXO avatar. This forms the basis for the password.
>> Mission expenses are: 10KP for mission training; 25KP for a mission involving 1-60 chapters; 35KP for anything over 60 chapters. Mission training is half price if combined with a general mission.
>> Currently, our agents only accept idol (predominantly EXO, but it may be anyone) x OC missions based on AFF, or bromance ones. We may expand our horizons at a later date, but for the time being, no idol x idol (het, or yuri), please.
>> If our agents particular enjoy a mission, it may get recommended in one of these three locations: x, x, x. Otherwise, you can find the best missions in the "declassified" section.
>> Our agents are not James Bond and would prefer not to be sidetracked by numerous ual encounters or missions that are purely ual in nature. Some of us are happy to go on M-rated missions, but not ones that are outright for the majority or entirety of it or that focus on kink.
>> Each agent's undercover identity is shielded by their EXO avatar. This forms the basis for the password.
>> Mission expenses are: 10KP for mission training; 25KP for a mission involving 1-60 chapters; 35KP for anything over 60 chapters. Mission training is half price if combined with a general mission.
>> Currently, our agents only accept idol (predominantly EXO, but it may be anyone) x OC missions based on AFF, or bromance ones. We may expand our horizons at a later date, but for the time being, no idol x idol (het, or yuri), please.
>> If our agents particular enjoy a mission, it may get recommended in one of these three locations: x, x, x. Otherwise, you can find the best missions in the "declassified" section.
>> Our agents are not James Bond and would prefer not to be sidetracked by numerous ual encounters or missions that are purely ual in nature. Some of us are happy to go on M-rated missions, but not ones that are outright for the majority or entirety of it or that focus on kink.
13.07.18
Special Mission debrief reviews for the Tender Rose competition (FT) are here!
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