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An Introduction To The World of AGFF Fiction

By Eyeglazer, Jonny & A.Wierdo

 

AGFF fiction are stories designed specifically to exist within that Usenet newsgroup (aka forum) known as Alt.Games.Final-Fantasy. (AGFF) As a Usenet fic, it is unrealistic, at times absurd, yet is still an entertaining read if you're willing to suspend disbelief. To a greater extent than usual when reading fiction, I mean.

A note on characters: Nearly all the characters are based on the screen names and assumed personalities thereof of the denizens of the aforementioned newsgroup. Hence the odd names and even odder occupations.

Click here to listen to the AGFF Trailer

Also an important read is the now sadly removed Wikiedia Entry:-

alt.games.final-fantasy, or AGFF for short, is a USENET group created in 1994 for the discussion of the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Co. Ltd (now Square Enix). Prior to the release of Final Fantasy VII in 1997, the slow pace of new releases in the Final Fantasy series caused discussion of Final Fantasy to slowly become stale, so AGFF eventually became a hot-bed of activity for "off-topic" conversations about any range of subjects. Its highest point of activity was in 1998 when it received over 200,000 posts [1]. It has since declined greatly in usage, but can still be accessed through Google Groups or most news servers.

During the group's heyday of the late nineties, it was occupied by a strong, tightly-knit community of regular posters who often called themselves "Regulars", "regs", or "AGFFers". Over time, the off-topic discussion among the Regulars had created a large number of unusual traditions, customs, and practices, sometimes making it difficult for newcomers to fit in. The group was the source of the term FWAK (False Wisdom and Knowledge), promoted the use of oversized signature blocks of hundreds of lines, and, in "honor" of one of its members, often replaced the word "God" with the name "Bob" during conversations. AGFFers often wrote fictional stories based on themselves and the group, amalgamating these ideas with invented internet personas and characters or settings from the Final Fantasy games. Newcomers to the group were referred to as "newbies", and were often looked down upon or ignored by members of the community, making acceptance as a "reg" seem very difficult. The group was also a frequent source of and target for internet trolls, which led to intense flame wars with other newsgroups like alt.games.grand-theft-auto and rec.sport.pro-wrestling. Eventually, due to many old regulars leaving, few new regular posters joining, and more frequent and sometimes targeted trolling (such as "Project Megan"), the rate of posting decreased and the original community of Regulars disappeared. The decline of activity in AGFF also corresponded with the general decrease in newsgroup usage due to the rise in Internet forums and Weblogs.



Alot of the concepts in these stories are based on Final Fantasy and can be looked up in the Final Fantasy Compendium Glossary Index.

A few other terms can be found below. Click on the links for the Final Fantasy Compendium and Wikipedia links.

AGFF Fiction Glossary:

  • Final Fantasy Compendium Index

  • A-C

  • AGFF: Alt.Games.Final-Fantasy - A newsgroup, a nation, a world. Our world.  Sometimes a fictional place/world/city ranging from a huge forests and kingdoms to a sprawling "meta-ropolis". (Also All Guys Fart Freely or A Guppy Flattens Fargo)

    • A-G-F-F:\ a-ge-f-f \ [Bacon (Starts with an F)] (unknown
      origin):

      • 1. a newsgroup [nu s-grup] made for Final Fantasy <~RPG :
        role-playing game (game in which player[s] take upon the role of
        others) >

      • 2. Off- topic incarnate (in-car-nate), with no relation to
        on-topic (on-to-pic : to post or have conversations related to Final
        Fantasy [see above] ). 3. A newsgroup solely dedicated to bacon(
        ba-con {starts with an F}: fried pork<Pigwalk>  meat, sustenance)'4.
        Everything relating to ChEEsE 5.  Everything relating to the acts of
        the almighty microwave (mi-cro-wave:  a great and powerful being, a
        part of the "mythology(?)" of AGFF).  See also Bob, Hentai, Re: Tifa's
        Breasts.

      "They could not help but be shocked when they learned
      the AGFF encompassed over a hundred different Kingdoms, a diverse,
      open-minded culture, and a complex government system all branching
      back to the literal center of AGFF civilization, a single well-armed
      Castle right in front of the largest city, AGFF City."       - AGFF Clonewars - Chapter 17 - Act 3

     

  • AGFFH: Alt.Games.Final-Fantasy.Hentai

  • AGFFRPG: Alt.Games.Final-Fantasy.RPG - A sister newsgroup. Occasionly rivals with AGFF.

  • AGFFSDIAIA: AGFF Secret Department of Intelligence and Internal Affairs. Headed by Sean Dougherty

  • AGFN: Alt.Games.Frp.Nurpg - A splinter newsgroup from the AGFF Civil War

  • Alt Hierarchy: The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically.

  • Blues Brothers, The

  • CTCITL: The Coalition to Call it Lifestream. The CTCITL and GFS go hand in hand, pretty much...members of the CTCITL use the word "Lifestream" (From FFVII) as a euphemism for the male reproductive fluid. It began during the hentai wars when Thierry Nguyen made the following remark about a hentai artist's work: ""Uum, maybe that's HIS interpretation of the 'Lifestream,'"

  • D-F

  • FWAK: False Wisdom and Knowledge/Furry Widdle Animal Kilts (as defined by Wikipedia)

  • G-J

  • GFS: GFox Syndrome - A disease that makes you take things in sexual meaning rather than as it was intended. Named after Greg "GFox" Cook

  • Gear: A Gear is a giant, humanoid fighting robot. A Gear is controlled by a single pilot, which is seated in a small cockpit in the center of the Gear.

  • Hentai: A drawn erotic/pornographic picture usually in a Anime/Manga style (Japaneese Cartoon)

  • HP: Hit Points or the amount of Life someone has left in them.

  • K-M

  • Magic: See Charon's "On The Nature Of Magic Itself"

  • Megahal: A computer program that can, using associations from previous conversations, speak to you halfway-coherently. Sometimes what it says does make sense, and sometimes it doesn't. (Just for fun, ask it about Ned Flanders or David Bowie!). Rumours are this computer program now runs all major governments and newspapers.

  • Meow Wars

  • MP: Magic Points, otherwise known as Mana or Magical Energy. This is used up to cast spells.

  • MRF: Microwave Rescue Force. A group dedicated to ridding AGFF of "The Microwave" during the Microwave Wars. The Force is divided into two teams; The MRF Alpha and The MRF Beta.

  • N-R

  • Newbie: A new-comer to the lands of AGFF (or someone who acts like they are).

  • Newsgroup: A repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations.

  • Regular: A normal denizen of the land of AGFF.

  • OmniGear: When a Gear aligns with a Anima Relic, it becomes an Omnigear. An omnigear is dozens of times more powerful than a regular Gear. Instead of having controls like a normal Gear, a omnigear is controlled by the mind waves of the pilot. When the pilot invisions the Gear doing something, the Gear does that.

  • Poster: A term grouping all denizens of Usenet.

  • S-Z

  • TTOKAH: The Tale Of Kain Aaron Highwind

  • Usenet: A distributed discussion/form/bulletin board system. Existing before the World Wide Web.


Anything else you might come across we either forgot about, or is self-explanatory, or is a product of the author's diseased and perverted mind.

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