I am curious, though - how did you come up with the pranks?
Heh, funny you should ask!
This fic was written shortly after a (much smaller and very gentle) prank war broke out at my office, so I was researching pranks for personal reasons as well as authorial ones. Sadly, the pranks documented on the internet weren't suitable, for the most part, so I was forced to invent some entirely new ones. Mostly I imagined myself into the personality of the person carrying out the prank, then tried to base it on the way they saw the 'prankee'; hence Annie's gag with Sam's desk and Ray's magazines. And then there was the question of what was expedient -- if you can't get into the squad room, there's always the mortuary ;-)
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Date: 2012-02-09 07:43 am (UTC)I am curious, though - how did you come up with the pranks?
Heh, funny you should ask!
This fic was written shortly after a (much smaller and very gentle) prank war broke out at my office, so I was researching pranks for personal reasons as well as authorial ones. Sadly, the pranks documented on the internet weren't suitable, for the most part, so I was forced to invent some entirely new ones. Mostly I imagined myself into the personality of the person carrying out the prank, then tried to base it on the way they saw the 'prankee'; hence Annie's gag with Sam's desk and Ray's magazines. And then there was the question of what was expedient -- if you can't get into the squad room, there's always the mortuary ;-)