Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids: Difference between revisions

* the [[Department of Literature]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'')

* the [[Department of Zoology]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'')

* the [[Department of Chemistry]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')

* the [[Department of Theology]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')

* the [[Department of Taxes]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'')

* the [[Department of Postal Services]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Society of the Rhyming Dove (short story)|The Society of the Rhyming Dove]]'')

There used to be a [[Department of Conspiracy Theories]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'') and a [[Department of Forestry]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') both of which were disbanded. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'', ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')

The Cupid authorities refused to ratify this agreement and attempted to obviate the need for negotiations by increasing the security measures of the Cupid warehouse, with little success. A second Cupid detachment was sent back to the Magpies' H.Q. to romanticise them, but it was found that this only increased their enthusiasm for theft, failing to solve the Cupids' problem. Ultimately, the [[Cupid Parliament]] decreed that the Cupids should simply remain neutral towards the Magpies and avoid them altogether. The Magpies solved their storage problem by building a larger warehouse, while the Cupids moved their own hoard of Arrows to some other location unknown to the Magpies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mob of the Maroon Magpie (short story)|The Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]'')

[[File:Romanticisation of Mr Rectangle and Ms Bubble.png|thumb|right|[[Quadratus Rectangle|Mr Rectangle]] and [[Diskie Bubble|Ms Bubble]] are romanticised on-camera. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (video story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')]]At some point, a group of Cupids attempted to film an infomercial about the Crew's operations, filming the live romanticisation of two [[Geometron]]s, named [[Quadratus Rectangle|Mr Rectangle]] and [[Diskie Bubble|Ms Bubble]]. The result was less glossy than expected due to the Cupids on duty overdosing the [[Love Potion]], causing both Geometrons to devolve into cooing, non-verbal simpletons. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (video story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'') Nevertheless, they put out a bulletin claiming the mission had been a great success. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Latest Success Story (short story)|Our Latest Success Story]]'')

Growing weary of having to sneak past the [[Mechanical Sphinx]] to access their own [[Cupid Archives|Archives]], the Cupids eventually launched a project to digitize their files, starting with the most often-used [[Cupid Fact File]]s. The first was #94, concerning the [[Euclidean Plane]]. Around the same time, the Crew was trying, unsuccessfully, to covertly [[Love Potion|romanticize]] the [[Chief of the Euclidean Flying Squad|Chief]] of the [[Euclidean Flying Squad]] in the hope of getting him to stop the Flying Squad from opposing the Crew's operations in the Euclidean Plane. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Euclidean Plane (short story)|The Euclidean Plane]]'')

=== After the Rifts Crisis ===