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Terms of Service

You can contact the Organization by sending an email to organisation_ombre [at] pm.me.

O², l’Organisation de l’Ombre in French, Obscure Organization in English, is a completely original concept. This is a point that the author particularly wants to emphasize. The concept was invented in the early 2000s, and its oldest trace on the Internet, duly recorded on the Web Archive to silence any detractors, has a date clearly written right on the page: 2006. It is certain, however, that the concept dates back much further.

Pixel Stories is the hub where these stories are hosted, among other unrelated ones, using the same types of narrative. The pixel art on Pixel Stories, inspired by old Capcom promotional material, is technically, apart from those that reuse this material, original creations.

Pixel Stories represents multiple works and licenses. The characters represented in this way are done so as a tribute, pastiche, or parody. Those presented on the Pixel Database website (and only those) are freely accessible, under two conditions:

  • No financial exploitation, which, in any case, could lead to legal issues with the rightsholders if poorly organized
  • Send me an email at the contact address provided above.

The characters of the Obscure Organization are my exclusive creation, and I claim them under my own name, Frédéric Rombeaut. Any use of these characters without my prior agreement will be subject to sanctions, including, but not limited to, being relocated to a desolate universe restricted to a desert of lava.

The universe of O² is a universe made and thought out for collaborations with other artists.

The Organization has thus collaborated, or is still collaborating, officially or not, with:

  • The company Voxwave and their mascot Alys
  • The social network Qwice
  • The video game Tomo Jam!

Any collaboration is done, by nature, with the agreement (sometimes implicit) of the authors of the works involved, and also depends on the sympathy that the author may feel at any given moment for the said work(s).

IDEOLOGY

The author, and therefore the Organization, openly take a stand against ideology in fiction. Indeed, we consider — and you will excuse us for this passage of a certain but necessary vulgarity — that ideology is a polluting factor, fucking up stories that could otherwise be interesting. This applies to all ideologies. This is also the reason why caricatures of public figures that might be included in one or another of our stories are only included to the extent that they are making the news at the time the story is created — if you want an example, see our treatment of Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2025.

Any part of a story that might appear militant is not. It's great for you if you are vegan, but the hachis parmentier eaten by Alys in Adventures in a Car does indeed contain real minced meat — indeed, a ghost cook who died during the 19th century does not spontaneously think to himself, “Hey, what if I used plant-based meat bought from the local vegan shop”. Thank you for having the presence of mind to differentiate real life from fiction.

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY AND INFLUENCES

The author's main references in this creative process are essentially French and Japanese. Works from other countries may be referenced marginally. To anyone complaining about the use of their fictional characters: I won't be able to do anything about it. Their use is protected by citation and short parody rights, and my creative philosophy prevents me from resorting to fake names. I am truly sorry. I am not going to, and I will not be able to do like the author of Tumm Tumm, and I think that Herlock Sholmès is a bad character.

Japanese philosophy, which teaches us about yin and yang, is the foundation of the core pillar of the Organization, namely the rejection of all manicheanism, unless otherwise stated.

ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Since 2025, Artificial Intelligence has been at the heart of the creative process of the Obscure Organization and, more broadly, of Pixel Stories. It is therefore necessary to clarify my personal position on this subject as an author.

I will thus address both pro-AI and anti-AI individuals with the same disdain. Those who overuse AI as a miracle solution to avoid working at all deserve just as much contempt as those who continuously reject the work of honest creators who had the misfortune of using a little bit of AI to complete their work.

So, yeah. I use AI in a reasoned way. What are you going to do about it?

  • Claude and Gemini offer me in a few minutes code that I would have made anyway by myself without paying a professional. Except that I would have done it in several months, sometimes screaming at my chronic inability to produce content as complex as the site you are on right now. I have never paid anyone to write HTML, and I don't intend to start now.
  • ChatGPT and Copilot offer, for each novel chapter and each short story, an illustration. This sometimes requires hours of trials. It's painful and often makes me want to scream.
  • AI also generates all the illustrations in the gallery, as well as some special effects in the webcomics.
  • ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini can occasionally give ideas to enrich the plot.

AI-generated illustrations integrate into the plot to enrich it, not to sabotage it.

AI probably represents 5% of the work done for the Obscure Organization. The first person who dares to complain about it will be summarily teleported into the middle of a flock of enraged emus.

FORMAT

Pixel Stories offers tales essentially, but not exclusively, in the form of:

  • Webcomics
  • Novels
  • Short stories
  • Websites

A priori, this content is not commercialized. However, if you wish to purchase a paper edition of one text or another (novel and/or short stories), and do not plan to use a printer and two or three reams of paper for that, do not hesitate to write to me so that I can consider going through self-publishing to make you an offer. Since the text is not originally intended to be sold, you can anticipate a budget of 45 euros for a volume in advance.

LANGUAGES AND TRANSLATION

Part of the content is not translatable. Each story is thought of as a possible entry into the complex and infinite world of the Obscure Organization.

PARTIAL TRANSLATION GUIDE

Organisation de l’Ombre: Obscure Organization [any other translation would invalidate the logo]
Origami Onirique: Oneiric Origami

Le Chef d’Orchestre: the Conductor
L’Éclopé: the Peglegged
Le Borgne: the One-Eyed
L’Atout: the Wild Card
Le Spectre: the Ghost
Le Tueur: the Killer
La Psycho: the Psycho
L’Oratrice: the Oratrix
La Relève: the Shift
Sans-Visage: No-Face
Le Fondateur Originel: the Founder
Frite Funny: Freet Funny
Le Spectre: the Ghost
L’Oratrice: the Oratrix

Proper nouns remain in their original language no matter what, and too bad for the puns.

USAGE NOTES

The stories of the Obscure Organization occasionally quote or make direct references to real works. Some webcomics occasionally use collages of scans from comic books or mangas, as well as screenshots from video games. These collages are protected by French law, more specifically by the right of short quotation. Indeed, half a page of manga is not going to impact the sales of Kana, Kurokawa, or Glénat — in fact, maybe you will even want to buy the original work.

The Obscure Organization is not subject to any sponsor or partnership. Just as the works cited are real, the brands are too. Talking about McDonald's is much more intellectually satisfying than talking about WcDo. The Obscure Organization disclaims any advertising intent and will not be held responsible for any of your impulse purchases.

Any resemblance to existing or past persons or situations is not necessarily coincidental.

The original characters of the Obscure Organization and Spy i belong, under copyright rules, to Frédéric Rombeaut. Any reuse of these characters, outside of a formal authorization framework from me or a framework defended by the right to parody (still, I'm not going to forbid you from doing what I do myself, what kind of villain does that) could be very seriously and in the first degree subject to legal prosecution. Spy i, Lettroland, and all the terminology specifically associated with this story are the oldest tale in the O² universe. You are specifically asked to respect the venerable age of this story, and not to touch it under any pretext.

Alys is an original character from the company Voxwave. Her incarnation Alice Corail, her friend Penny, her producer Charles, and her cat Lupin are taken from the short story “A too easy suicide”, published by Voxwave as part of the collection “Beyond the dream”. Esteban is an original character created on Qwice by Romain Leclaire as part of a participatory story. The Qwokka, Qwice's mascot, was designed following the broadcast of the webcomic The Organization takes Control™ on this platform.

FORMAL AGREEMENT OF USE

Have been authorized to use the Obscure Organization:

  • Romain Leclaire, as part of the collaboration on Qwice

Are authorized, subject to a right of review, to use the Obscure Organization, within defined frameworks:

  • The developers of the video game Tomo Jam!

NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST AND STATUS OF PIXEL STORIES WORKS LINKED TO THE OBSCURE ORGANIZATION

  • Spy i 「Status: ongoing」 「FR」
  • Adventures in a Car 「Status: completed」 「FR」
  • O²’s conspiracies 「Status: ongoing」 「FR」
  • The Organization takes Control™ 「Status: completed」 「FR」
  • Second Movement - the novel that takes Control™ 「Status: completed」 「FR」
  • At O²’s Origins 「Status: planned」
  • Érasme Ennare - The Possibles 「Status: completed」 「FR」 「EN」
  • Éric Antony & Associates, private investigators 「Status: ongoing」 「FR」 「EN」
  • Jam with O²! 「Status: planned」