Beige Prose

In badfic, locations, people, and objects tend to be either overdescribed or described very poorly or not at all.

What to Expect from Lack of Description

 * Buildings made of Generic Surface, which is a gray, nondescript material
 * Characters eating Generic Food
 * Generic characters
 * Generic Beasts (in Redwall), dull gray creatures with no identifying features
 * Undescribed humans and humanoids tend to be very pale and washed-out, or extremely nondescript in some other way (bland brown or blond hair; bland brown or gray eyes; average height; average build; average voice, etc.)
 * Generic non-humans tend to default to their stereotypical appearances
 * Entire Generic Locations, which tend to default to whatever is most probable for the world at the time (a generic forest in Middle-earth or Narnia; a generic planet or spacecraft in Star Wars; etc.)

These poor-description effects do not extend to bit characters and crowds in goodfic and canon worlds untainted by horrible writing, where the canon tends to support and flesh out characters that remain undescribed in the Words.

What to Expect from Poor Description
Descriptions are not always completely missing. Sometimes they are simply woefully deficient ("a village"), misspelled or botched ("the bride of Khazad-Dum"), or just plain incorrect ("the castle of Rivendell").

Descriptions of this sort tend to play out literally. This can be dangerous, hilarious, or most likely both. It is also a good source of charges.

Literal interpretation of bad descriptions can result in:
 * Location Minis
 * Creation or deletion of objects, people, and places
 * Characters doing utterly absurd things
 * Headaches and large-volume Bleeprin consumption on the part of the Agents.
 * Referral of the case to the DoGA to deal with particularly bad cases where cities, countries, or even entire solar systems exist where they shouldn't.

Taking Advantage of Poor Descriptions and Lack of Description

 * Agents with a good sense of creativity or imagination (i.e., most of them) in poorly described Generic Locations can affect their surroundings by providing such descriptions. Known methods include saying the description aloud, concentrating on it mentally, or simply expecting to encounter something or someone (beware the Laws of Narrative Comedy!).


 * Minis and characters created through botched descriptions can be recruited.


 * If a dangerous situation or location has been created, it can be used to execute the Sue responsible. Ah, poetic justice.