For all of the 2.2 seconds I have spent wondering who Yud's coauthor on that was, I vaguely thought that it was Aella. I don't know where I might have gotten that impression from. A student paper about fanfiction identified "lintamande" as Kelsey Piper in 2013.
I tried reading the forum roleplay thing when it came up here, and I caromed off within a page. I made it through this:
The soap-bubble forcefield thing looks deliberate.
And I got to about here:
Mad Investor Chaos heads off, at a brisk heat-generating stride, in the direction of the smoke. It preserves optionality between targeting the possible building and targeting the force-bubble nearby.
... before the "what the fuck is this fucking shit?" intensified beyond my ability to care.