I just found an interesting article on Cracked.com, which details the 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in Fanfiction History. It doesn't really go into anything graphic, otherwise my mind would have exploded, but it's an interesting read. Number 2 was quite warped for me...
http://www.cracked.com/article_16554_5-most-baffling-sex-scenes-in-history-fanfiction.html
So yeah, mind-warping is to ensue. Bleeprin and Bleepolate is on me!
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Warning: You May need Bleepin... by
on 2008-09-21 14:15:00 UTC
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Head, meet desk. by
on 2008-09-26 00:40:00 UTC
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"Hey head!"
"Hey desk! Long time no see!"
"Yeah...did you flunk a pop quiz again?"
"No...I read this article about five baffling sex scenes in Fanfiction..."
"Ooh, that's bad. Go pester someone to get you some Bleepovour."
"I feel like mixing Stuffs with Bleeprin myself..."
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There was worse in the comments by
on 2008-09-24 23:02:00 UTC
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One of the comments has the link for a Hitler/Jesus slash. Worse than any of the five mentioned, I would think.
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brain... dies. *CRUNCH* (nm) by
on 2008-09-25 00:45:00 UTC
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Asdfghjkl!?!?!?!?!? by
on 2008-09-24 23:11:00 UTC
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OMGWTFBBQ? You're not being serious, right?
- Sixth comment down by on 2008-09-24 23:13:00 UTC Link to this
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What makes it even funnier is the author's note. by
on 2008-09-27 16:14:00 UTC
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Which is:
'Author's note: Adolph Hitler and Jesus are both my original characters. They are copyrighted and you cannot use them without my permission.'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing Adolf Hitler was owned by was the British. -
*snorts* Good one (nm) by
on 2008-09-27 18:06:00 UTC
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OMGWHUT by
on 2008-09-25 23:53:00 UTC
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*sort of...dies...*
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*brain explodes* (nm) by
on 2008-09-25 06:26:00 UTC
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I remember that classic. (nm) by
on 2008-09-25 00:58:00 UTC
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Brain go boom *snickers* by
on 2008-09-23 00:57:00 UTC
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Hilarious. Also slightly traumatizing, as I had no idea stuff like this existed. o.O
The article made it funny, which is good because otherwise I think I might have tried to break something.
Thanks for posting the link. :) Laughter is a good thing. -
Ooh, I remember that! by
on 2008-09-22 10:57:00 UTC
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There was a link on Deleterius, I think - someone wanted to spork #2. Not sure how that turned out, but yeah. I remember staring at the screen and going 'guh?' at #1, but the others I just found hilarious. Meh.
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*has hysterical giggles* That was fantastic by
on 2008-09-22 09:11:00 UTC
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I needed a good laugh, thanks for posting this!
All those pairings could probably make amusing crackfic, although Weasley Twins/Lance Bass is a bit hard to set up, and twincest kinda not my thing (okay, I'll be honest, none of those are 'my thing', before you get any ideas, but incest is one of my very few 'just ... no' things).
Correct me if I'm wrong though, but I'd nominate Kurt Cobain/Axl Rose for 'most baffling sex scene in fanfic history'. It sure as hell baffled me. -
*strained laughter* Oh HELL. by
on 2008-09-22 00:48:00 UTC
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Picard. Elrond. Picard. El- NO. Just... no *shudder*
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Better than a joke idea a friend and I came up with. by
on 2008-09-22 02:44:00 UTC
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Picard, Gandalf, sex on the Balrog, in space.
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If you took out the Balrog... by
on 2008-09-22 12:14:00 UTC
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I'd read it. *hides*
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XD Serious? (nm) by
on 2008-09-23 05:31:00 UTC
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If they made it believable. by
on 2008-09-24 14:30:00 UTC
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I'd love to see how it could work.
I like brain-breaking pairings, when the author actually makes it plausible. And I sort of have a crush on both Picard and Gandalf, so...*goes back into hiding* -
*whacks Tomato with a sledgehammer* by
on 2008-09-24 00:18:00 UTC
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Begging your pardon, but... BLAHARHAHGAGARAHG!
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Ow! (nm) by
on 2008-09-24 18:23:00 UTC
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ON a Balrog? by
on 2008-09-22 07:52:00 UTC
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How can you do ANYTHING, let alone have sex, ON a Balrog? Forget "in space"...
Okay, okay, it was a joke. Still, the mental image... Where's my bleepka? -
I'm not clear on that myself. by
on 2008-09-22 09:55:00 UTC
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But it was still amusing in a horrific way at the time.
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*giggles like a thing demented* (nm) by
on 2008-09-22 00:07:00 UTC
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I think I'm gonna be sick by
on 2008-09-21 23:52:00 UTC
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I really shouldn't have eaten before reading that.
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Someone needs to give those guys a link to "C***b***n" ... by
on 2008-09-21 17:49:00 UTC
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... "Little Miss Mary", too. But their examples were pretty hilarious, if not quite as brain-breaking.
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I admit it. I laughed. (nm) by
on 2008-09-21 17:19:00 UTC
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....oh Glod oh Glod oh Glod oh sweet zombified Zarquon... by
on 2008-09-21 16:57:00 UTC
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...I saw the first few words of #5 and had to leave.
I am filthy-minded. I have a little taste for such things where humor is concerned, as long as it's witty and well-written.
But?
DO. NOT. WAAAAAAAAANT.
*hugs poor Picard*
*grabs as much Bleepolate and Bleepulan Ale as is possible*
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For continuity reasonsÂ… by
on 2008-09-21 20:17:00 UTC
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…I am bumping "Harry Potter and the Weapon of Atlantis" to #29. This will be #27 instead.
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HELP! I think I've killed a canon character. by
on 2008-09-22 07:59:00 UTC
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*is very, very red* In my very first PPC mission, Agents Sedri and Iza killed a Gary Stu named Geron who was playing matchmaker for one major and one minor Star Trek: Voyager canon characters. I did my research! I ran searches for the name and searched my memory (as well as my DVDs) for a canonical "Geron". There wasn't one.
Guess what? There IS a Gerron. I just dicovered him - here - while browsing. He fits the badfic description well enough that I'm sure he was meant to be the same character, though this canon is "reticent to the point of rudeness" while the 'Stu' was Mr Happy Innocence.
... I still killed him. Meep.
I'm sincerely hoping you guys will tell me that because the Stu was constantly misspelled, he wasn't actually the canon character, but... *squeaks* The Flowers scare me.
(Also, because I don't want to double-post: I've been trying to find out more about the shipping war between Harry/Hermione fans and... whomever they were against. I heard it got pretty bad, but I don't know the details. Can anyone help me out?) -
Killing Canon by
on 2008-09-26 06:41:00 UTC
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You could also do an exorcism.
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You think I should rewrite my mission? by
on 2008-09-27 00:14:00 UTC
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I could, of course, but as I've written missions since then, it seems a bit... hypocritical, considering the nature of the PPC.
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I've rewritten a mission once by
on 2008-09-27 17:57:00 UTC
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I don't think the PPC can or should claim that it is beyond making mistakes. I thought we were about pointing out mistakes so they can be fixed. I guess that should also go for the mistakes we make ourselves.
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I meant in terms of continuity by
on 2008-09-27 23:16:00 UTC
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Partially because we all build off each other and changing things is confusing, but also because if I - and therefore, my agents - have made a mistake, they/we should have to face up to it rather than go back and erase it.
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Some H/Hr shippers seem to have snapped... by
on 2008-09-25 23:12:00 UTC
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It looks that way to me. Personally, I ship H/Hr, but not to the extent that I'd boycott the book if they didn't get together.
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Pfft. Everyone knows the true ship is Harry/Dobby.. by
on 2008-09-26 04:01:00 UTC
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Followed closely by Movie!Hermione/Me.
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Dude. Srsly. The only true canon ship in HP is... by
on 2008-09-28 08:23:00 UTC
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Remus/Sirius. Forget those kids who run around in the foreground, the UST says it all ...
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You crack me up. by
on 2008-09-26 04:31:00 UTC
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If that's so, then the true ship of the multiverse must be...Agent Suicide/Me. And then we'd have problems.
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*whacks with newspaper* Down, boy! (nm) by
on 2008-09-26 04:14:00 UTC
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Well, I dunno about the Star Trek... by
on 2008-09-22 16:44:00 UTC
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But I can help slightly with the HP. Apparently before the release of HPDH, there was a petition going around for J.K Rowling to pair Harry with Hermione, and enforcing this by threatening to boycot (sp?) the book if she did not go to their whims.
Even more amusing, after the seventh book was finally published, a second petition went around demanding that Rowling REWRITE the entire Book, with Harry and Hermione getting together. Around the same time, a third petition went around, demanding that the 7th book should be withdrawn and instead of Rowling publishing it, a Fanfic writer who supported the Harry/Hermione pairing, write it instead.
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And it's *that* kind of thing ... by
on 2008-09-22 23:40:00 UTC
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... that makes people think that all ficcers are delusional, mad, live in their parents basements, are perverts/paedophiles, have dangerous obsessions and will quite likely snap and kill people if they aren't humoured.
Honestly. It's. A. Work. Of. Fiction. The Earth will not cease rotating because Harry Potter doesn't marry Hermione Granger. Gah. -
Polyamory could solve so many fictional problems. by
on 2008-09-24 16:25:00 UTC
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Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean would benefit so much if more fans were open-minded to the idea of a full-cast orgy, don't you think?
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I'm so with you on that point by
on 2008-09-24 22:26:00 UTC
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It would probably help with the constant, overarching, extremely irritating sexual tension in POTC. Just give in and have an orgy, and that'll be sorted and we can get on with the pillaging, right?
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Wy do you think that my standard answer... by
on 2008-09-24 17:56:00 UTC
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to a love triangle is 'Why all three of them together of course'? Unless two members of the triangle are related to each other (and not the Hitachiin twins from Ouran).
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Sadly it can't solve the problem in a fic I'm planning. by
on 2008-09-24 19:34:00 UTC
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One of the participants is a gay guy and another is a girl, and I think he'd object to sharing the poor guy in the middle of the triangle with her even if he (the first guy) doesn't have to be involved with her personally. Shame.
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That does tend to complicate matters. by
on 2008-09-24 22:49:00 UTC
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It helps that most of my OT3s have canon evidence for them (if you squint and turn your head just right, yes like that, see that tiny little speck there). That and I can't decide which guy should get the girl (or girl should get the guy) or if I should just slash em and be done with it.
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I'll go with option number 2. by
on 2008-09-25 06:35:00 UTC
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My answer for every love triangle with two guys fighting over a girl. Slash the guys and let the girl watch. :D
Well, okay, that only works most of the time in CLAMP manga. But still, it's way more fun than a huge hate fest. -
But it IS exactly what I was after. by
on 2008-09-23 04:31:00 UTC
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I don't suppose any of you know where I can find online evidence of that petition, do you? Otherwise I'll just have to say "I've been told that..." in my essay.
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Yup, got the link here. by
on 2008-09-23 05:45:00 UTC
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ANd to date, it's up to 8,940 signatures. Again, it make me laugh.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ultimate_betrayal
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How do they propose to do that? by
on 2008-09-23 22:21:00 UTC
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Or are they just further demonstrating illiteracy by using the word "ban" instead of "boycott"?
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Probably, yes. What fools. (nm) by
on 2008-09-24 00:15:00 UTC
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I think you're all right by
on 2008-09-22 09:56:00 UTC
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As Rilwen said, if it's a Stu replacing a canon character you can kill them. The proper course of action would also have been to first locate the canon character before killing the replacement.
I think there's a few stories out there where agents kill the replacement character. I'm about to write one.
Your agents may still have to file a report on why they did not report on the whereabouts of Gerron in the first place. -
*BIG sigh of relief* Ah, good. by
on 2008-09-23 04:32:00 UTC
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I'll work it into the beginning of the next mission, maybe. The report, I mean. Thanks!
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Likely a Replacement!Stu, and those can be killed. by
on 2008-09-22 08:53:00 UTC
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Don't think you killed a canon.
Also, the 'Harmonians' being the main cause, try here, which has a list of 'wanks' where nutty H/Hr shippers were involved. -
*grumbles* I hadn't finished typing... by
on 2008-09-22 08:58:00 UTC
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Silly mouse button. Silly me for letting it hover over "post reply" when I wasn't done.
'course, the only thing I had left to say was to breathe a sigh of relief about the Stu. Cheers again. -
Well, that answers my H/Hr question by
on 2008-09-22 08:57:00 UTC
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Thanks, Ril.
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As to the Star Trek thing, I can't help... by
on 2008-09-22 08:26:00 UTC
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but I can for the H/Hr wars. Basically, JKR was interviewed by two fansite owners - Melissa and Emerson, who run The LEaky Cauldron and Mugglenet respectively - and she was asked a question about shippers. JKR said something about 'anvil sized hints' that it was gonna be Ron/Hermione rather than Harry/Hermione. On top of that, Emerson called the H/Hr shippers 'delusional' and the H/Hr fans went batshit.
I mean, the sane ones didn't. Most H/Hr shippers, I'm sure, got a bit annoyed, but didn't start writing letters to JKR and boycotting the series. But the batshit ones did, and that's why everyone thinks ALL H/Hr shippers are batshit. The main focus of the war was between H/Hr 'Harmonian' shippers and R/Hr shippers. And, yeah. So Harmonian shippers got a bad press while the R/Hr shippers came out scot free. Fandom_Wank will have reams on it, but I'm not sure of the links, and since their main purpoe is to make fun of everything, I don;t know how much you'lll find.
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I remember that interview by
on 2008-09-22 08:29:00 UTC
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I remember thinking Emerson was being a bit rude. Ouchie. And I didn't realise I'd only been hearing about the Harmonians, but now that you say it, it's certainly true - I wasn't even sure who their opponants were.
Poor Hermione. *sigh* I'll check fandom_wank, then. What I'm mostly lookking for, actually, is examples of how insane shipping wars can get.
Cheers!
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A message for Artic Blade. by
on 2008-09-22 12:29:00 UTC
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I know it's a bad habit to pester people about fics they have yet to complete, but wheres the MST of "It's a mon kinda world, Mon"(link here:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3238401/1/)?
It's been a month or so since I first posted the link, and I distinctly remember you saying that you may complete it by this time.
If this has caused some inconvinience, please have my pre-emptive apologies, and some Anti-Lustin lilies. -
*Headdesks* by
on 2008-09-22 16:38:00 UTC
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Darn, I knew I was forgetting something. Bad news? I haven't touched it. Good news? I've officially finished school, so I'm up to my eyeballs in freetime.
So, one MST, coming right up. -
Yay! I should glomp you! by
on 2008-09-23 11:05:00 UTC
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If it's all right, of course.
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Oh, and how many days will it be before it's completed? by
on 2008-09-23 11:34:00 UTC
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I really need to know how much longer I have to wait, since the part of me that needs to laugh at the 'girlfriend exchange' in Chapter two feels pssed at having to wait more than a month, and needs to be satiated as soon as possible.
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Genius can't be rushed. Please chill. (nm) by
on 2008-09-24 21:34:00 UTC
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Sorry! (nm) by
on 2008-09-25 12:44:00 UTC
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Oh, and it's pissed, not pssed. (nm) by
on 2008-09-23 11:37:00 UTC
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The second 'mon' should'nt be capitalized. (nm) by
on 2008-09-22 12:32:00 UTC
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Project Gutenberg! by
on 2008-09-22 14:22:00 UTC
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So I'm sure most of you guys probably know about this, but I only discovered it a few weeks ago whilst looking up Cory Doctorow online, and was blown away by the concept of it all, in practice. I mean, I've -thought- about sites like that, but it actually EXISTS!
This is a site, just in case there's some of you guys out there who don't know, like me, where there can be found over 25,000 free e-books. They have (or at least it would seem) just about anything our twisted copyright laws will allow them! It is AWESOME. Also excellent for written projects, if the work being researched is public domain; the only drawback of that is that it's difficult to get page numbers on some of the sites... the one I use, at least.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
(also, the fact that they named themselves after Gutenberg makes the historian in me sqee.)
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Mm! I like that place! by
on 2008-09-23 04:33:00 UTC
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There are a handful of places that try hard to distrubute all the public domain they can get their hands on. Apparently there's one for sheet music, too, though I can't find it.
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*brain implosion* by
on 2008-09-23 20:29:00 UTC
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...free online sheet music?
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Don't hold me to that by
on 2008-09-24 00:11:00 UTC
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I have a vague memory of it being shut down. I don't know, but do search around. I think I was looking through the links of wikipedia's "public domain" entry when I found it.
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Artic's Random Fact of the, er, month! by
on 2008-09-22 16:47:00 UTC
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Did you know, in the Harry Potter continuum, that Godric Gryffindor, one of the Four Founders of Hogwarts, is still alive? And where is he?
He happens to be the giant squid in the lake. His Animagus form happens to be the largest of any living wizard. According to Rowling, he transforms at 11pm every night and takes a stroll around the grounds.
As he is known for being one of the greatest duelists in history, kinda begs the question about why he didn't participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, huh? -
I found where the rumor originated! by
on 2008-09-23 23:39:00 UTC
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It came from JKR's diary section on her home page on May 14 2007. You can find them all posted here: http://www.hp-lexicon.info/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-diary.html#13
But the one in question reads as such:
May 14, 2007
A couple of weeks ago (April 28th, if you want to go and search the archive) the Potter fansite The Leaky Cauldron posted an editorial on potential spoilers for "Deathly Hallows". It made me laugh, but I was also incredibly moved and grateful.
We're a little under three months away, now, and the first distant rumblings of the weirdness that usually precedes a Harry Potter publication can be heard on the horizon. The Leaky Cauldron's early mission statement on spoilers (ie, don't, and we're not putting them up if you do) is deeply appreciated by yours truly.
I add my own plea to Melissa's for one reason, and one only: I want the readers who have, in many instances, grown up with Harry, to embark on the last adventure they will share with him without knowing where they are they going.
Some, perhaps, will read this and take the view that all publicity is good publicity, that spoilers are part of hype, and that I am trying to protect sales rather than my readership. However, spoilers won't stop people buying the book, they never have - all it will do is diminish their pleasure in the book.
There will always be sad individuals who get their kicks from ruining other people's fun, but while sites like Leaky take such an active stance against them, we may yet win. Even if the biggest secret gets out - even if somebody discovers the Giant Squid is actually the world's largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the eleventh hour, transforms into Godric Gryffindor and... well, I wouldn't like to spoil it.
Anyways, point is, as a few of you have mentioned, it seems to have been intended as a joke. But you know how things go in the fanfiction world. I bet there's a fic out there using Godric Gryffindor = Giant squid as the formula for a cringe-worthy story.
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*SIgh of relief* by
on 2008-09-24 03:19:00 UTC
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Okay, Rowling hasn't cracked yet, and the apocalypse isn't nigh. I can go back to my usual boredom.
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Ah! I remember that entry - that was funny. by
on 2008-09-24 00:08:00 UTC
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Definitely a joke, too. Though I would like to see someone write a fanfic where that happens - a parody/humourfic, preferably, but serious if they could pull it off. Would be great. *grin*
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Not sure the EXACT source... by
on 2008-09-23 05:31:00 UTC
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'It was revealed by J.K. Rowling, while making a joke, that Godric Gryffindor is still alive: he is the Giant Squid that lives in Hogwarts' lake, and thus makes him the biggest Animagus in the Wizarding World. At the eleventh hour of each night; the Squid transforms back into Gryffindor, who wanders the school grounds before returning to his Squid form. This explains why the Squid, despite its dangerous-looking appearance, is kind and gentle in nature (revealed when he saved Dennis Creevey from drowning).'
She did say it while joking though, so it's possible it may not be true. I'll have a look around for the interview though. I'll keep you posted. -
A source would be nice... by
on 2008-09-23 04:36:00 UTC
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This is... weird. Fascinating if it's true, but... where did you find it? I drop into mugglenet every day and I haven't heard a word about it.
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I... what? by
on 2008-09-23 00:49:00 UTC
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Er, really? o.O
*resists urge to pounce on usage of 'begs the question'* Huh. Interesting. It would explain so much, and yet leave so much unexplained. You found this tidbit where? -
And you found this where... by
on 2008-09-22 23:52:00 UTC
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This has my curiosity peaked.
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Rowling announced this? by
on 2008-09-22 23:35:00 UTC
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Heavens, that epilogue must have been only the beginnings of the evidence that she'd snapped.
How on earth did none of the students rampaging around out of bed late at night not run into him?
How did he live this long?
What's the *point* of this concept?
JKR, you're mad.
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...Wow. by
on 2008-09-22 20:36:00 UTC
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Y'know, I totally would have picked a lion for his Animagus form, since all the symbolism points that way...
...but then again, what says courage and nobility like the avatar of Great Cthulhu himself?
Gryffindor? Squid? I seriously fail to see a connection here, despite the fact that I like squid.
But hell, why listen to me? I'm just a Ravenclaw, babbling on about logic in the corner over here... I mean, that's pretty cool, but the giant squid? -
I feel I should be a Wikipedian protestor... by
on 2008-09-22 17:33:00 UTC
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... and wave a sign saying [Citation needed].
No, I did not know that.
hS
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Weird question by
on 2008-09-22 22:38:00 UTC
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What is the life expectancy of a beech tree, if all goes well?
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According to Wikipedia,,, by
on 2008-09-22 23:22:00 UTC
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The European Beech has a life span of 150-200 years, but can live to 300. There is no life expectancy given for any of the other species (Japanese, Chinese, American etc).
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Thanks. by
on 2008-09-22 23:35:00 UTC
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And it would have to be a European beech. And since the nymph's assimilation assimilated the tree as well, three hundred would fit.
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Um, sure... (nm) by
on 2008-09-22 23:49:00 UTC
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Can someone direct me to potential proofreaders? by
on 2008-09-23 10:15:00 UTC
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Not for me. An acquaintance has asked for proofreading and concrit on an original scifi story of hers. Sadly, I don't know much about scifi and I'm not very good at giving suitable concrit. Can someone tell me where I could direct her to some more suitable potential proofreaders?
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I edit/proofread professionally, but... by
on 2008-09-24 00:05:00 UTC
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For anything other than fanfic, particularly anything that's going to be published (is it?), I take jobs that pay, and I don't suppose that's going to happen here. I also really don't have time right now. Sorry.
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Re-reading that... by
on 2008-09-27 07:23:00 UTC
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I sounded pretty snobbish, particularly about the money thing. Sorry; didn't mean to. Just meant that, being short on time, I'm not much inclined to take extra projects that don't pay. I didn't mean I'd actually charge my friends.
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Erp. Why is that centered... probably the advertisement (nm) by
on 2008-09-24 00:07:00 UTC
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I can by
on 2008-09-23 11:36:00 UTC
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I'll be happy to give it a shot. He/She can send it to winter@trashymail.com
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Needs to be sent again by
on 2008-09-24 14:36:00 UTC
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That didn't work-ask your friend to try sending it to tempestguard@hotmail.com instead.
Trashymail is the usual dummy email address I use online, so I won't get spambots hunting my primary address, and it works for most things, but it seems it won't let me reply or grab the attachment, if any. Fortunately, I have a couple more that I hardly ever use, so the spambots can swarm them to their hearts' content.
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So, are we migrating back? by
on 2008-09-24 14:32:00 UTC
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I see that the original Board is becoming quite active...have we officially returned there?
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In summary, yes. by
on 2008-09-24 17:19:00 UTC
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Longer version: yes, leaving this one open for big RPs and the like.
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Link? by
on 2008-09-24 20:44:00 UTC
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I can't seem to find a link to the other forum in question, here or on the wiki. Mind providing a link for newbs?
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... we've only been /gone/ a few weeks. by
on 2008-09-24 20:47:00 UTC
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Um, it's here.
[Goes to prod the Wiki]
hS
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On OFU crossovers: do they work, or are they confusing? by
on 2008-09-24 20:18:00 UTC
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We're looking for a slightly different storyline to the usual "Sues invade" thing for the OFUR. I had the idea that we could bring in a dimensional rift which, instead of allowing Sues in, allows in something horrible from a fandom which does not have any fic or an OFU, therefore the characters and monsters do not know what's going on and behave exactly how they would in their canon, i.e. killing everything in sight. Would this work, or would it just confuse people who don't know the other fandom?
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Well the only horrible thing by
on 2008-09-26 12:06:00 UTC
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Would be something out of Hellsing. Perhaps a horde of Millenium Vampires would do the trick.
Or perhaps The Anon horde might be A good idea. On all accounts They seem to have a loathing for furries, if only for their susceptability to trolling. They are highly chaotic, filled with controlled rage and hate for their enemies on their *chans.
Warhammer 40k seems good if only for the Orks.
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I already had an example, I just wanted to know ... by
on 2008-09-26 13:34:00 UTC
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... if using it would just confuse people who weren't familiar with it. I didn't want to explain what my example was in case of spoilering my own writing.
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Re: I already had an example, I just wanted to know ... by
on 2008-09-28 03:28:00 UTC
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If it's really obscure good writing, and fits into the story's patterns and prose, most people's eyes just gloss over it until they read about it somewhere else.
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Well, Miss Cam did a crossover in OFUM 2... by
on 2008-09-25 23:04:00 UTC
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And though I haven't read about Death, drow, or daleks, I still thought it was amusing.
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They work, but... by
on 2008-09-24 21:31:00 UTC
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Since I can guess what the other fandom might be, I have to wave a little caution flag for the sake of my sanity. Isn't part of the idea to keep Redwall's innocence intact? And to show how bad fanfic is bad? If the pure, undiluted canon is trying to kill everyone, it's a slightly strained message.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea; I'm just saying choose wisely.
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True. by
on 2008-09-24 22:16:00 UTC
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We did have the idea that something a lone Sue did caused the crossover, stranding the students in the other canon or letting it in or whatever.
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My guess. by
on 2008-09-25 00:52:00 UTC
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My first guess was Jack, but I also seem to recall mention of nasty things from the Deptford Mice books, which is my second guess. I haven't read them, though.
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Bingo. by
on 2008-09-25 00:59:00 UTC
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What could be more fun than pitting a bunch of kids against the giant snake god? Such a shame I probably can't use it because nobody would get the references ... and I was so keen on this idea, too.
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Still possible by
on 2008-09-25 02:54:00 UTC
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If you want to keep the idea, but maybe broadening it a bit to a general invasion by various cosmic horrors, I'll be happy to help however I can.
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I want to keep the "childrens' fiction" theme ... by
on 2008-09-25 03:17:00 UTC
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... just so I can have characters look at each other and say "These came from KIDS' books?!" Or something.
Heck, maybe I could avoid the crossover if the cosmic rift thing erases all memory of the OFU world in the minds of the vermin staff members ... they're insanely violent and difficult to handle already, even if they are not cosmic horrors. And there are a lot of them. -
You could always try... by
on 2008-09-25 03:40:00 UTC
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The original versions of common fairy tales and Disney movies, for example, though it might drop the cosmic horror theme. Snow White, for example. In the fairy tale, Snow White was about 14. She was woken up from her coma by one of her children sucking on her finger and accidentally removing the splinter that made her fall into the coma. Yes, children. She had been raped and given birth twice while asleep, and when she did wake up, she immediately hunted down the good prince responsible, who had gone home to be with his wife... and in a couple of versions, she ate her kids in a rage at the end.
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Oh yes, I know those. by
on 2008-09-25 11:45:00 UTC
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I'm using them for my ficlet series "Scarytails Can Come True" (fairytales as retold by vermin. You have to change surprisingly few things about them).
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Since this is you... by
on 2008-09-24 22:45:00 UTC
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I'll take a guess at Jack/i>.
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Actually ... by
on 2008-09-24 22:56:00 UTC
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... we were going to use Jack earlier, in a comedy chapter. (insanegrrl and I have already shown in missions that the Jack cast know about the Canon Protection Initiative - well, the dead ones do - and there have been shoutouts to Redwall in the canon comic - see Artie's wife being treated in Saint Ninian's Hospital - and I find the idea of a field trip in Hell to be deeply amusing.) Besides, Jack already has a fanfic board, though not an OFU - webcomic OFUs may not be a good idea because the original author would be looking over your shoulder all the time and things would get weird.
The one I was thinking of is purely PG-rated, but still rather darker and more gruesome than Redwall (not that Mossflower doesn't have its fair share of random deaths, but they're slightly more avoidable there). Trouble is, it's also very obscure, so it's likely that nobody reading would understand what was going on. Probably a bad idea, then. -
Dark, gruesome, and obscure? by
on 2008-09-24 23:06:00 UTC
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If that means Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, or one of the darker, creepier Dungeons And Dragons books (Lords of Madness, Book of Vile Darkness, etc) a specialist going through PPC Orientation is present and available.
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Guess again. by
on 2008-09-24 23:14:00 UTC
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Though now you mention it, it might work better if several things were mixed in there - more dangerous therefore more fun, and more chance that someone who's reading will have heard of at least one of them.
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Oh, they can provide gruesome by
on 2008-09-24 23:30:00 UTC
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If you want dark, gruesome, and dangerous from any of those three settings, give me a call. There are many, many options to choose from, ranging from simple body horror to mind [CENSORED] to things that really should not be discussed in polite company.
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The ones I was thinking of are, technically, kids' books. by
on 2008-09-24 23:36:00 UTC
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But they're full of various wonderful Cosmic Horrors which will eat your soul at the slightest provocation.
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Dare I guess? by
on 2008-09-24 23:43:00 UTC
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Almost every kids' book, ever? Aside from the blatantly Anvilicious ones, kids' books in general have a disturbingly large number of Cosmic Horrors.
But that's fine if you wanted to expand it-DnD, WH, and WH40k have plenty of Cosmic Horrors of their own. Just read http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicHorror and scroll down to the Tabletop Games page.
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Teaser for the PPC Movie Audio by
on 2008-09-24 23:34:00 UTC
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Hello there folks!
I have here for your enjoyment a rough edit of a scene from the PPC Movie; 'July and Library Join the Massacre'
Assuming I've worked out this Box.net thing correctly, this should be the link;
http://www.box.net/shared/ktsvdg1otp
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Awesomeness! by
on 2008-09-29 05:51:00 UTC
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Though I might suggest a little more dramatic talk...I mean, the tomb's URPLE! They ought to sound more horrified!
And the echoey effect sounds as if the announcement's in Chinese. Haha.
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Otherwise, it's sheer awesomeness. Tis a pity that my stinkers of little brothers seem to have deleted my files on my electric keyboard for the soundtrack and the computer with Audacity and the mike crashed.... -
Sorry But I might have to back out by
on 2008-09-28 22:47:00 UTC
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I don't have the resources to record my lines.
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that's okay, I'm sure we can fill the gaps by
on 2008-09-28 22:50:00 UTC
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Thanks for trying, anyway.
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I awsome! by
on 2008-09-28 05:02:00 UTC
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I am having trubble saving my lines as mp3 files, or anyother file other than an audacity file. How do I do it?
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To get it to save as an MP3 by
on 2008-09-28 06:45:00 UTC
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To get Audacity to export a file as an MP3, you need to download http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&i=lame-mp3
then when you tell Audacity to make a file into an MP3, it will ask for that file; you tell it where you saved it, and bingo. As long as you don't move the file it will always know where to find it and will just do it for you when you click the option.
Failing that, save it as an .aup file (the standard save option) but when you email it to me, send the project_data folder that it makes *as well*. Without that folder my copy of Audacity won't open the .aup
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Absent Brain Alert by
on 2008-09-26 17:35:00 UTC
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Was I supposed to receive a script? xD I remember signing up...and my computer can take Audacity now, hurrah!
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You were indeed :) by
on 2008-09-27 07:37:00 UTC
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I thought I'd sent it to you, but if you haven't received it, email me at trojanhorseshadowfax AT gmail DOT com and I'll send it again :)
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Eee! by
on 2008-09-25 05:25:00 UTC
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*huggles the echo*
The echo makes me happy...
And I'm afraid the weird background noise on some of Library's lines may be my fault. Don't have the most stellar of microphones. -
Yay! by
on 2008-09-25 01:00:00 UTC
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It's nice to have progress. ^_^
A few things, though--it's hard to understand the announcement at the start of the clip, there's a weird background noise to Library's lines, and some of July's lines seem to fade out. I don't know how much you can do about stuff like that, but there it is.
Incidentally, if you need back-up voices, or if my lines need to be re-done for any reason, I can do that.
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noted. by
on 2008-09-25 01:02:00 UTC
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I can fiddle with it in Audacity, but I may also have jacked up a friend with multimedia experience to give me a hand, so I shall see what can be done.
Your lines are great, no need for redoing, and I'll put you on the list for extras :) Thanks! -
Yes, that *is* the link. by
on 2008-09-24 23:53:00 UTC
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And it is quite funny. You should listen!
Also adding my request for lines to Trojie's. And to those whose emails and IMs I have... I'll be aaafter youuuuuu...
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Forgot to remind: final deadline's Hallowe'en, everyone! (nm) by
on 2008-09-24 23:54:00 UTC
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How extensive is your average K-9's literary database? by
on 2008-09-25 04:23:00 UTC
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If it is not complete, I had an idea for a possible interlude in the Land of Fiction.
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Well here is something mildly disterbing... (work safe) by
on 2008-09-25 05:17:00 UTC
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If any of you have heard about the new game Spore, it is awsome. While wandering around youtube, I found this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNa_rh7GWI
I hope I don:t ruin anyones mind with this.
Leto
PS, now that I have my internet working, I will get my movie lines done... sorry about the delay...
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Excellent. XD (nm) by
on 2008-10-01 18:31:00 UTC
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I wish I'd been wearing a helmet... by
on 2008-09-26 22:14:00 UTC
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...'cause that just made a mess when it BLEW MY MIND.
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That's frickin brilliant. (nm) by
on 2008-09-26 20:03:00 UTC
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Awesome by
on 2008-09-26 04:41:00 UTC
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I wish I had a computer that could handle spore.
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[[[UNPARSABLE SUBJECT LINE]]] by
on 2008-09-25 05:27:00 UTC
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Spent an entire day just playing that game. Soooooo much fun!
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*Blinks* by
on 2008-09-27 16:11:00 UTC
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Well, I know the names, but that ain't no possession fic. More like a crack!fic that was proudly brought to you by the letters 'WTF'.
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If you go and click the link at the top... by
on 2008-09-27 18:07:00 UTC
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Then you'll get several chapters of Ranma crying because realizing that he's a girl has apparently taken away all of his martial arts ability and emotional fortitude, despite the fact that Shampoo, Akane, and Ukyo are all female and rather accomplished martial artists.
If Ranma crying in a locker room because boys are looking at his naked body isn't a possession fic, I don't know what is.
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*blinks* by
on 2008-09-27 05:53:00 UTC
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OKay, then.... I don't get it. That might be because I have no clue who the characters are, but it still sounds bizarre. Huh?
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More canonical agent ideas by
on 2008-09-26 18:28:00 UTC
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Whow, whoa, whoa! Put down the pointy implements. Please. I implore you.
That's better. Now, I know my little pet project Team Phoenix has kind of been grandfathered into the PPC as a fact of life. And I'm not saying I want to bring in more members. (Seven's quite enough to be going on with.) However, there is Project Phoenix, which is separate, and dedicated to the recruitment and assimilation into the PPC of canon characters who (hopefully) won't cause a stampede.
Still with me? Good.
Because, dear colleagues, I've been mulling over new canons to add to the PPC for quite some time.
Nowaitdon'thurtme!
Steady on now...they would all be going to understaffed departments. One to Intel, one to DoSAT, and one to FicPsych. All three of them are incredibly well-qualified for these positions. (And two of them are unceremoniously murdered by a new, allegedly-canonical author, which is perhaps a blessing in disguise because it saved them from Character Assassination by aforementioned author, a fate worse than death IMO.)
For Intel, I nominate the bookverse Alexander Conklin, from the Bourne series, as he is a killer strategist and can hold his own in a fight if need be. (Seriously. Cane-fu.) He is also Captain Snark of the series, along with my next nominee...
...Dr. Morris Panov, candidate for FicPsych, an excellent psychiatrist with much experience with post-traumatic stress and other such lovely brain-things.
My last nominee is a mite more controversial, because she is such an important character in her canon - however, I justify this by clarifying that this is an alternate-universe version of this character, and there are reasons for her to join the PPC, not least of which is knowing two agents. She would not be removed from her home continuum; in fact, the one I plan on taking her from has already branched off. There are loads of other reasons, but I'll leave them to the person who will be writing this character, as she's bloody good at it.
My DoSAT nominee is Col. Samantha O'Neill, originally of Stargate: SG-1 fame.
WHOA HEY PUT THAT DOWN.
Again, this is an alternate-universe version of her, because she has been married to Gen. Jack O'Neill. Hence, you know, the different last name. She may change it back to Carter once within the PPC, because Jack won't be coming with her for reasons that are just way too convoluted to try and explain here (long-running insane RP being one of them). I submit that she is different enough from her canonical version to count as a separate character. Pseudocanon, if you will.
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Real Oldbie 2 cents by
on 2008-10-01 02:21:00 UTC
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Personally, I don't feel to comfortable with this. Now I admit I haven't been around in a while, but to throw my two cents in from what I remember when I first joined, the point was to keep the canons in canon.
You could pick up Sues or Minor Characters in fan fics for agents if you wanted to, or just create someone, but canons were off limits for a variety of reasons.
One of those being Lust Object. Throwing a canon into a room full of crazed agents who may lust after them is begging for trouble. It's bad enough that the agents have to deal with their lust objects in the Fics, but to tempt them with a canonically acting canon? It's not fair.
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Another Canon Character by
on 2008-09-27 05:51:00 UTC
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About the alternate universe characters- those of you who have played Kngihts of the Old Republic will recognize this name- I suggest one of the million and something versions of Revan running around, whether from a specific fanfic or the author's imagination.
Basically, Knights of the Old Republic is a role playing game set 4,000 years pre-Star Wars movies. If you want a more detailed explanation of the plot, you can look it up, but Revan is an ex-Sith Lord who gets captured by the Jedi, mind-wiped, and sent to defeat his/her apprentice Malak.
The canon has Revan being lightside and male, but for the alternate universe side of it, there are all sorts of weird options. You can make Revan female or a dark sider in the game, not to mention messing around with his/her assumed name, but for the purpose of being really AU, it would also be possible to give him/her his/her memories back, or somehting. Anyone else like this idea?(Please, let not the overuse of slash marks by for nothing) -
Ookay.... *dons Permission Giver Hat* by
on 2008-09-27 05:29:00 UTC
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We need to be really, really careful about how we do this. There is Canonical precedent, IIRC, we've got a copy of Voyager's Doctor working in medical (from TOS, actually). However, I would like to set some ground rules for borrowing Canonical characters (debate is welcome, of course).
First, and most importantly, we can't take characters out of the main continuity of their universe. We're here to protect the Canon, and that definitely includes the characters therein. Rescuing Wash, for instance, was rather borderline - I'm willing to let it stand as Canon, (and keep Wash around), but please, don't do it again?
Effectively, this limits us to pulling characters from AUs - while I'm no expert on alternate universe physics, I would suggest that the AU both has to be rather drastically different from the main Canon, and have been running for a long time - enough time and difference to (metaphysically) separate them from their Canonical counterparts.
The second rule I would suggest is that ex-Canons shouldn't be field agents. Mentioning that Sam is now working for DoSAT is fine, writing one-shots about her getting used to the job and her new co-workers is fine, stealing Luke Skywalker to kill 'sues with is definitely not.
Ultimately, the rule is "write maturely". This is the PPC - we're a band of crazy people going crazier while fighting the growing flood of badfic. We are not an insert-your-favorite-character sitcom.
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Yeah... *also dons PG Hat* by
on 2008-09-28 17:45:00 UTC
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Looking at this thread, I'd like to add that we really shouldn't be looking for canon characters to add. It's one thing to speculate, hey, wouldn't it be interesting if so-and-so worked here, but as Dann said, that's not what we're really about. Please resist the temptation unless there are extremely compelling reasons to go ahead with it
like Joss Whedon being evil.
Also, along the lines of AUs being different from their canonical counterparts, it might help if they go by a different name. There is precedent for that sort of thing, after all, and it distinguishes them as separate characters.
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I read you loud and clear. by
on 2008-09-28 01:30:00 UTC
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If we're going to stick to strictly AU characters, I would suggest Future!Mohinder from the Heroes episode Five Years Gone. It's an alternate universe after the first season finale (so, therefore, it's an alternate universe that's been running for five years, and is drastically different to the main canon - as revealed by Season Three's Futures being completely different to Season One's), and he is the President's Chief Medical Advisor. Plus, it is suggested in the episode that the battle between Future!Peter and Future!Sylar kills him due to the sheer amounts of energy released. So, he would be a perfect candidate for medical.
I would also suggest Future!Hana from the same AU, as she has the power to "intercept, generate and interpret electronic wireless transmissions" - with her mind. She's also an ex-Mossad agent, and killed in the AU. She would be perfect for Intel or DoSAT. -
I'll have to disagree with you on one point. by
on 2008-09-28 23:44:00 UTC
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Specifically, that Hinder'd be a perfect candidate for medical.
Item 1: he has not been revealed to have any medical training. As I shouted at the screen several times in late Season 1, he's a professor of genetics. That is a somewhat different thing.
Item 2: In the early part of Season 3, he has demonstrated a dangerous recklessness and disregard for, among other things, proper procedures and common sense, as well as an unwillingness to listen to good advice. What the specific consequences of this will be, other than what may be a calcium deficiency, remain to be seen.
Also, it's somewhat iffy to say that it's a long-running AU, considering that it was in effect from Seven Minutes to Midnight to How to Stop An Exploding Man - a present!canon time of only a few weeks. For that matter, we only saw one episode containing it.
I'd also not say that the first Season 3 future - the one the present Future!Peter is from - is drastically different. It may be, but the scene we saw of it could fit very easily into a reasonable extrapolation thereof. The second future we saw - an unknown "distance" away - probably is, but... I dunno. Timelines in Heroes don't seem to be very solid.
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on 2008-09-29 00:56:00 UTC
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However, I will argue that that particular AU has been eradicated because of the change of events (namely, NY not getting blasted to smithereens), and therefore Hinder'd still be a good character to recruit - perhaps there's a Department of Medical Development and Sue Experimentation or something? I seem to remember one of those existing...
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Mmm... by
on 2008-09-30 00:59:00 UTC
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While I can accept your point that it is, indeed, an "alternate" AU (and perhaps I let my mind wander too far when I was composing that post), I still balk at the idea that it's well-established. Moreso than any other Heroes future we've seen thus far, perhaps, but that's not really saying much.
According to the PPC Manual's list of departments, there is a Department of Mary-Sue Experiments, which might well be to his taste and qualifications. I don't know of any appearances by them except in DOGA's Alumia the Woodsprite mission, but if you search you might find more. -
Great! by
on 2008-09-27 16:17:00 UTC
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I figured it would be something like that. Having canonicals running around in major roles would kind of throw things out of whack.
The additional Bourne books are so AU it's not even funny. Ask SealRat, she knows. Looks like everything's shipshape here. ^^ -
apology/explanation from a guilty party by
on 2008-09-27 05:57:00 UTC
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I agree with the 'need to be really really careful', and will acknowledge that the way I ganked Wash wasn't as well explained as it could have been; suffice it to say that he was pinched from an AU fic and that *will* be explained, once I get round to filling all the gaps in my timelines.
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You might also want to mention... by
on 2008-09-27 06:23:00 UTC
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...a chewing-out of the parties responsible by someone in a position of authority.
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oh, that was always on the cards (nm) by
on 2008-09-27 06:25:00 UTC
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Well, you know I'm gung-ho for it. by
on 2008-09-26 20:00:00 UTC
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You are so much better at this sort of thing than me. I like the idea, but you knew that already.
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Re: Well, you know I'm gung-ho for it. by
on 2008-09-26 20:13:00 UTC
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Well, it's all in how one begs and pleads, you know. It's the Whiner's Art.
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Well, if we're going by alternate realties... by
on 2008-09-26 23:39:00 UTC
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That would make Vamp!Willow and Vamp!Xander candidates too, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But while we're on the topic, as a matter of curiousity, would HQ have its own Stargate? If not, maybe we can make one that's just a very large portal, capable of sending tanks and the like through...
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on 2008-09-27 04:04:00 UTC
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...I think a Stargate within the PPC would require ten chevrons. Possibly even more. xD
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This is alternate to the nth degree... by
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...because this Sam knows Harry Potter magic.
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I see no problem with this by
on 2008-09-27 00:50:00 UTC
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Given that effectively policing my intended continuum will require building a hangar for the multi-kilometer long starship that will be necessary for non-canon planet killing, I fail to see how this could be a considered a problem.
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We do have a Sun Crusher, you know... by
on 2008-09-27 05:11:00 UTC
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I think we can fit your pet starship, though. We've got at least one Conveniently Large Hanger - the biggest it's fit yet is the Enterprise D, but there's no upper limit on size.
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I'd rather use canon weapons by
on 2008-09-27 15:01:00 UTC
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The Sun Crusher won't be necessary-as I understand it, general PPC policy is to use canon weapons and technology whenever possible, and when it comes to methods of destroying things, WH40k takes a back seat to no one. If the destruction of entire non-canon star systems is necessary, I intend to lease two or three Blackstone Fortresses from Abbadon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos-they can combine their energies to shatter stars, and they're powered by sacrificed souls, which should be plentiful.
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Question: May I Briefly Plug Radio Nutmeg? by
on 2008-09-28 03:07:00 UTC
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Probably paging Huinesoron, since 'twas he who created it...
I'd just like to ensure that it'd be all right to include a couple lines from the broadcast in the beginning of an upcoming mission.
Basically, I fell in love with the thing, and thought that due to the nice music and canon readings, it'd be a nice thing to play to soothe Agents in FicPsych.
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By all means! by
on 2008-09-28 16:16:00 UTC
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That's absolutely fine -- in fact, it's better than fine. :P And there will be more episodes at some point... whenever I get bored enough to make one, I guess.
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*glee* by
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*tips her Hat*
Much thanks.
And also, huzzah for fellow Onion enthusiasts. (Who doesn't love France? I suggest Canada for your next installment. Or, no, wait- Finland.)
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I know we have the Bleepproducts... by
on 2008-09-28 19:47:00 UTC
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but if an Agent needs to just plain forget the last twenty-four hours, would it be possible for them to reproduce/procure some of Moe's 'Forget Me Shot'.
The ingredients are:
Jagermeister
Slow gin
Triple sec
Quadruple sec
gunk from a dog's eye
Absolut Pickle
the red stripe from Aquafresh toothpaste
venom from a Louisiana Lobotomor (butterfly, possibly Simpsons-verse native)
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on 2008-09-29 08:39:00 UTC
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Any reason why this particular drink, though? What continuum is it from?
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Oh, haha by
on 2008-09-29 05:45:00 UTC
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It sounds like some wierd potion or science experiment. x]
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There's also the traditional hammer to the head approach! (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 02:49:00 UTC
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Other side effects? by
on 2008-09-29 00:29:00 UTC
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Just checking-something like that does not possibly sound like it's drawback-free.
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Why not just neuralyse themselves? (nm) by
on 2008-09-28 20:41:00 UTC
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Vacation interlude Part 1. by
on 2008-09-28 22:49:00 UTC
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A little dark backstory included. Hope you enjoy. More, funnier, installments will be forthcoming.
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*points to the Posting Board* It's back! by
on 2008-09-29 08:42:00 UTC
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*kicks something* Oh, well. At least we can fix it this time...
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*KICK* by
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Mega Kick! Blaze Kick! Hi Jump Kick! Rolling Kick! Double Kick! Triple Kick! Jump Kick! Low Kick!
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And it's gone. (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 17:51:00 UTC
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*sigh* by
on 2008-09-29 15:03:00 UTC
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I thought it had gone for good this time...
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Nooooo! (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 13:38:00 UTC
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*joins in the kicking* by
on 2008-09-29 12:55:00 UTC
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I think we can safely say we are not going to run out of spam for a very long time.
And at least we have this established refuge now, thanks to the quick thinking of the oldbies last time.
*ponders* Maybe it was just waiting for us to let down our guard and return, then it could attempt to stampede us to death.
Hah. Well, we're tougher than that, right, guys and gals? *takes out a big PPC flag and waves it* Forward the Buffs! -
just great by
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Can;t it catch a virus or something?
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And transmit it to the Board? No way. (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 18:33:00 UTC
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*cries* NO! ... *sigh* At least we're HERE this time... (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 08:59:00 UTC
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SPAMBOT GO HOME!!! by
on 2008-09-29 08:48:00 UTC
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Jackass spambot.
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Testing (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 12:41:00 UTC
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It's dead now. by
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*thwaps flood-bot with Ban-hammer*
(For those who missed it, the flood-bot paid us a brief visit last night. The evidence has been removed.) -
*breathes sigh of relief* Thank you, oh Nameless Admin! (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 17:52:00 UTC
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Hail to the Nameless Admin! (nm) by
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*eyebrow* That sounds like an invocation or something.. (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 18:50:00 UTC
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...It could be. by
on 2008-09-29 19:23:00 UTC
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Admittedly it was meant as a slight bit of irony, but now I rather like it.
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Why not? by
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*imagines a masked and caped figure running around with 'NA' inscribed in fancy letters on underwear worn outside of clothes*
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Fear me... for I wear my underwear on the outside! (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 20:50:00 UTC
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*giggles* by
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Did your mummy not help you dress this morning? I see we need more practice putting our clothes on properly.
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*joins in the trembling and gasps of awe* by
on 2008-09-30 08:24:00 UTC
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All hail the Nameless Admin!
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It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the Nameless Admin! (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 06:27:00 UTC
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*gasp* Who is this Mysterious Stranger? (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 02:09:00 UTC
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*trembles in awe* (nm) by
on 2008-09-29 22:00:00 UTC
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*joins the trembling* (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 05:45:00 UTC
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*Hides as his Richter scale goes off from all the trembling* (nm by
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*Suffers a d3 hit from the self-induced vibrocannon* (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 13:23:00 UTC
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THe 2008 Ypur Invasion Roleplay! by
on 2008-09-29 15:44:00 UTC
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Muttering as he stalked down the hallways, his trusty Keyblade, adorned with even more trustworthy sausages, Agent Lunac shot glares at his partner, one Agent Liadan.
"I can't believe you left the cafeteria door open!" He growled, mostly to himself. "The Ypurs are out AGAIN, and now we have to catch them. You realise the SO is gonna chew our asses out about this, right?"
Giving her partner a seemingly innocent look, one that happened to show every single one of her teeth, Liadan raised an eyebrow. "Is it my fault that the Ypurs can break through magic? I put my bes tlocking charm on there." TO illustrate this, her wand, ten inches of willow, with a Mermaid scale, sparked threateningly.
Ignoring Liadan as his eyes caught movement, Lunac reached for one of the six red and white orbs located on his belt. His fingers trailed along until they reached the orb second form the end. Clicking a small button on it, making it enlarge to its usual size, Lunac threw the Pokeball. "Go Apollo!"
From within the sphere, a brst of red energy rocketed out, forming into a creature that was an odd mix between a Kangaroo and a Sheep. THe Ampharos bleated, looking at the Ypur in front of it. Having had plenty of experience with these creatures for the past month, and having more brains than most Sue Authors gave a Pokemon credit for, Apollo raised its paws and released a wave of yellow energy towards the Ypur. The Thunder Wave impacted directly, paralyzing the ram-like creature and making it fall to the ground. Giving his Pokemon a tuhmbs up, Lunac ran past Apollo, pulling out two small black devices and switched them on. Lowering a hand until it lay on the Ypur's broad back, Lunac stretched out with the psychic powers lent to him by the machines and teleported the Ypur back to the cafeteria.
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"Any Ypurs left?" asked Rosalie. (nm) by
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[[I always seem to miss out on such fun like this...]] by
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Agent Eledhwen was happily minding her own buisness strolling down the hallways trying to look innocent and not hurried at all. In reality, she was in a rush and needed to get back to her RC before her partner Christianne realizes that she was gone.
Don't think about RC#L0121F4114C3... she reminded herself every other second. Don't think about the fact that you're in a hurry. She tried to calm herself down as she walked on and on in the endless hallways of gray.
THUMP. THUMP.
Eledhwen nearly jumped three feet in the air. "What was that?" she murmured as she looked around her wildly.
THUMP THUMP THUMPITY THUMP THUMP.
Eledhwen's hand tightened on the hilt of her sword. She looked around again, but her elven eyesight revealed nothing.
"It's probably upstairs," the part-time Assassin told herself. "Nothing special. I suppose it's just another two or more Agents getting frisky or something. Christy has often complained about our neighbors..."
She never finished that thought because a whole herd of ram-like creatures suddenly popped out of a random plot hole, thundering down the corridor.
And Eledhwen was in their way.
"Confusticate that elleth!" snarled Christianne. "She must have snuck out while I was taking my nap." The Assassin stormed out the door and down the corridor.
She was in such a rage (Not to mention that she was easily provoked, so a small issue like sneaking out when she was sleeping gets her positively fuming when she finds out.) that she tripped right over something on the ground. Christianne looked down, ready to shoot a stream of expletives at it. She refrained from doing so, however, when she saw who was lying on the ground.
It was Eledhwen. Or rather, Eledhwen run over by a bunch of stampeding Ypurs. Christianne groaned. "It looks like I'm going to have to lug her sorry ass over to Medical, then," she grumbled to herself as she picked up the unconscious elleth and started making her way over to Medical. -
Looking around with a nervous twitch in his eye by
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one that the Doctors had been able to remove, Arti wandered around Medical. Since his recent abduction by Medical for mental reasons, he didn't see why turning all the Agents in sight into extremely attractive pseaduo-Sues was a bad thing, Arti had been bored out of his brain.
It had only been in the past week that he was allowed to wander around Medical, assuming he did not go near their supply of sugar, bleeprin, or sugarfied Bleeprin.
Glaring at the same wall he had been glaring for for three days, which had reduced it to a trembling pile on the ground, Arti contemplated the excitement in escaping. He knew he'd have to spend a large amount of time in here, but it was oh so boring now.
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A portal opened up, and Temp. Dishwasher WikiMaster... by
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Stepped through. He was not supposed to be here. However, after his supposedly exemplary service at the raid on the New Caledonia DIA headquarters*; his employers had cut him some slack. Sneaking up on a pack of unwary Ypurs, he threw his net at them, catching half of the pack and scaring off the rest. He then threw the net into the portal and ran off, looking for more to catch. Activating his personal SEP Field projector(which he won from TM*), he went to the Cafeteria.
*Not posted yet. It's in part two of The New Caledonia Escapades: A test of the Psyche. Link to part one is here: http://wikimaster.livejournal.com/1459.html(I asked if I could tack on new plot elements into the PPC, like this story).
*Tleilaxu Master and future agent. appears in the story on the link.
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Several agents were moving around... by
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...trying to bring the Ypurs they captured into the room. Deciding not to interfere with their work, he went into a random side corridor, and saw another pack. Using one of his extra nets, he caught them all. After finding the portal again, he then left. Two heavy catches ought to be enough to earn enough money to the Smut Carver Victim's fund, he tought.
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Kumori Tenki glared across the room at the escaped Ypurs. by
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"What in the world are those things?" She asked her partner, not looking away from the creatures.
"Ypurs," Georgia replied, hiding behind the older woman, "You remember, right? That spambot invasion a few weeks ago? We lost the spambot but someone decided to keep the Ypurs."
"Must have missed it," Kumori said. She lifted one hand above her head and it began to glow.
"I think they'll be upset if you kill them!" Georgia reprimanded her, taking a few steps back anyway.
"Those things broke down our door and crushed my favourite dodecahedron bush!" The green haired Ex-sue growled, "Like hell I'm letting them get away with that!" -
what is a ypur? by
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never know about these.
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Look here... by
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[[*whoops and joins in*]] by
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Nat stomped down the hallway, Cassie and the minis trailing close behind. The lanky girl was muttering under her breath. "Goddamn incompetent people not putting proper security on the place and now we're stuck with clearing it up can't get five minutes' peace in this place only just got back off the last mission..."
Cassie, on the other hand, seemed perfectly happy to be out of the RC and was entertaining herself tossing bits of bacon towards the minis. As she threw a piece to Giml, she accidentally dropped one of the sausages she'd been carrying to lure the Ypurs out with.
She didn't notice, but the Ypur lurking around the corner did. Greenlead, who had hung back to investigate something he'd found interesting lying on the floor, growled and snapped at the blue-furred creature that scurried out to claim the sausage. On hearing the growl, Cassie turned round.
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"Well it wasn't MY fault!"
Agent Sedri growled, smacking her partner with a rolled-up newpaper that, thanks to a printing error, was entirely pritned in black ink on black paper. Sedri claimed she could still read it. "It bloody well IS," she replied. "You're the Trek expert, Iza - you SAID he wasn't a canon character! Now he's off with all the actual Stus in Stu Hell and I have to get him back!"
"Geron is the one we killed, not Gerron!"
"The Flowers don't seem to c- oof."
A furry blue creature recoiled, not having expected a person to be just around this corner. Of course, being a ypur, spawn of a spambot, it wasn't intelligent enough to expect anything at all.
Sedri blinked. Iza squealed. "It's so cute!"
Running feet could be heard around the corner; running feet and heavy breathing. Sedri pounced.
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[[*grins* I was hoping to run into more Agents]] by
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Nat, who due to her longer legs had been in the lead, just grinned at the two agents as she leaned against the wall, panting. Cassie, on the other hand, frowned at Sedri.
"That one is ours, yeah, she replied in between gasping for breath. "Look, it's still got the sausage I used to lure it in." That said luring had been wholly accidental she glossed over completely. Nat pushed herself away from the wall and poked her partner.
"Cass, be nice, at least they stopped it for us," she said before turning to the others. "I know you two, don't I? You were part of that Narnia exorcism. Sedri and Iza, right? I'm Nat, and that's Cassie, and, er, the minis seem to have gone walkabout."
Before she got a reply, however, another Agent came around the corner, completely unaware of the current situation. Cassie grabbed him. "Tyler! Great! Can we borrow you for a minute-" The thundering of hooves cut her off.
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"What-" (pant) "-the-" (pant) "-hell-" (pant) "happened?" demanded Sedri.
"Ypurs - escaped," replied Nat, jogging as fast as she could with Iza stumbling into her every three seconds.
The hoofbeats came closer. Sedri took one look over her shoulder and did something very sensible; she crashed into the nearest door and dragged her fellow agents inside.
Cassie, the last in, slammed it shut and slumped against it, breathing as hard as her companions, hoping the ypurs were too stupid to understand sharp corners.
Then she opened her eyes... and grinned. The others frowned at her, then turned to see what room they'd ended up in.
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For a split-second, the words "Division Of More Dakka: Currently Under Construction" can be read on the far wall, before the wall crumbles, revealing a titanic armoured vehicle of a scale seldom seen. Between two sets of enormous armored treads, an armored hull that rises to nearly fifteen feet in height, and no less than eleven forward weapons, from the massive battle cannon on the top turret to the hull-mounted siege cannon and side turret-mounted bolters and lascannons, one standard-template Mars Pattern Baneblade has crunched into the armoury, covering the entering agents.
The enormous vehicle fires a single shell from its main cannon that fills the hallway with smoke, and a distinctly male voice shouts down from the top of the Baneblade.
"That smoke shell should buy y'all some time! Don't think we'll need old faithful here, but get yourselves a gun or three! If you need em, we've brought some grenade launchers and a cache of hallucinogen grenades!" -
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[[We has decisions. Which version do you want to go with, mine or yours? I'm more than happy either way?]]
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*grumbles* error by
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That should have been "sharp turns", not "sharp corners". WHY do I always forget to check for errors before posting?
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Re: [[*grins* I was hoping to run into more Agents]] by
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An explosion rings out in the corridor behind them, in the vicinity of the Ypurs, as two enigmatic figures without description or detail carefully advance down the corridor under the cover of gas grenades, and a stink of burning promethium fills the air as one of the figures triggers a flamer, covering the hall in a sheet of flame and cutting off the Ypur advance.
The other figure makes his way past the impromptu blockade and shouts an indistinct message, as no description of the figure's voice or speech has yet been made by its creator. The message itself, however, is clear-they can hold of the Ypur advance, but don't know for how long. -
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She saw the explosion and, letting go of the two Agents she had been holding in either hand, ran back towards the featureless people. "NO!" she yelled, waving her arms and doing a rather good, if unintentional, impression of Captain Jack Sparrow. "We're not meant to kill them! Put the fire out! They've stopped!"
Tyler, who had watched the whole thing, followed curiously, calling to Nat, "I think Cassie is going back."
The agent addressed turned round, trying to avoid being squashed by Sedri and Iza, and started back. "Cassie! CASSIE! You flaming pillock! Get back here!" She stopped and looked at the two Agents who hadn't decided to run towards the big wall of fire. "You two want to help play damage control?" -
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Although there is nothing to describe their voices, the meaning of the featureless agents is clear enough somehow: they have no intention of killing the creatures. They are reasoning the creatures to be afraid of fire, and hence are barricading this passage in flame. If the creatures are not afraid of fire, they will be. The flamer can be turned off at any moment-combat promethium, burns and dies fast.
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Iza blinked at the fire... and squeaked. by
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Sedri translated; "That's a no. I'll do it. I have an Idea."
Nat hesitated. When a PPC agent speaks In Capitals, general wisdom is to stay Far Away.
Sedri pulled a small object from her pocked and aimed towards the fire - and Cassie. First Nat thought was a gun, then jumped back as the Thing began to spurt huge quantities of water down the hall. Must be plothole-driven, she thought.
Iza was watching with a serene smile. Nat shook her head and watched the torrent douse every flame in the corridor. Water rushed back across the meal floor, soaking all their shoes, but the explosion was sufficiently quashed.
Nat looked at Sedri's tool. "What is that? Some sort of deux-ex-machina you pinched from a Sue?"
"Close enough," said Sedri, twirling the thing like a gunslinger before offering it to Nat. "Transdimensional Pocket Knife. Useful little things: I've been giving them away like crazy to the newbies - plothole in my RC seems to be duplicating them - but no one seems very interested. I don't see why. They can't be taken on missions but there's enough to do around HQ."
"If we're ever here," muttered Nat, but she had no chance to say more - Cassie was returning.
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However, the shock of being suddenly soaked from behind seemed to have silenced her, and she merely squelched back up to the others, wringing out her clothes and peering short-sightedly at them.
Tyler had managed to get out of the way of the worst of the water, and was merely damp. He seemed rather cheerful, considering the current state of affairs, and was about to say something when Cassie cut in. "Er, has anyone seen my glasses?"
Sedri looked rather sheepish. Nat held up the Transdimensional Pocket Knife and said, "She used this thing to make all the water. I reckon your glasses got washed off in that."
"No, d'you think?" Cassie replied in a heavily sarcastic tone. "Well, this is just great. We have a shedload of those ypur things just down the corridor, the place is soaking and I can't see more than three feet. Any idea what we do now?"
Tyler shrugged, then yelped as Sedri grabbed him. "Okay, techno-boy, you can run, right?"
"Er, yes-"
"Good. Then get them to chase you towards the cafeteria."
"How?" Nat handed over a pack of sausages.
"Wave these at them. They'll happily run after you for hours. And while you're doing that, we can try to find Cassie's glasses. Now go on!" She shoved him towards the herd. Nervously, he took out a sausage and waved it at the blue creatures. They moved towards him as Iza dragged everyone else into the shelter of a doorway. After a few moments, Tyler turned round and ran. The herd followed, but as the Agent had excellent speed due to his continually having to run away from enraged Agents, he was in no danger of getting trampled.
Nat stepped back out once they were gone and splashed down the corridor. "Come on, I guess we'd better find Speccy's glasses." Cassie hit her. "Ow, you loon, what was that for?"
"I'm not deaf, you know, and I can still make out where you are, Stringbean."
"Don't call me that-" They began bickering again, ignorant of the two featureless figures standing nearby. -
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[[Tawaki, Winter, I've no idea what's going on with either of you, so hopefully this section will allow all four of us to merge plot threads fairly well.]]
Sedri blinked at the two. "You were serious?" she asked Nat. "About the glasses? A whole herd of ypur just ran through here - you don't actually expect them to be more than powder by now... do you?"
Iza's eyes lit up. "Ooo, Sedri, maybe she enchanted them! You know, with a wand like those Potterverse people-"
She never finished. The featureless figures were approaching; calm and silent, like bit characters without the presence of a Sue. Iza's brow wrinkled (nicely matching her Bajoran nose) and she backed up as Cassie, still half blind, caught sight of them.
"Is that a... Dalek?"
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Nat groaned. "Cass, why don't you carry spares?" She wasn't too concerned, having recognised Five of Seven as a Trekverse agent, though she wasn't sure what to make of Omicron. She called after the retreating Dalek, "We just sent someone off to lure a bunch to the cafeteria. If you want to go give him a hand, you can, but there aren't any more around here."
Meanwhile, Cassie had been squinting at the featureless people who were approaching until she heard Nat ask if about spare glasses. She rummaged through her bag of holding, which she never went anywhere without these days, and came up with a spectacles case triumphantly. "Ha! Got some!" She put them on and looked around at the group - three human agents, two Trekverse agents, a Dalek of some sort, and a couple of figures whose species was unknown. "So? Who wants to do the introductions here?" -
Some details, for once by
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Whatever the power that plucked the strange figures out of the womb of creation, it now gave the nameless figures some description, though both were still hopelessly generic, and only if you knew the subject matter-one could be described only as an Inquisitor-male human, late twenties. The other, a Sister of Battle-female human, mid twenties, ritual scars on her face. The male steps forwards and speaks with a distinct drawl.
"We are without name, for our creator has given us none. For now, you may simply call me Inquisitor, and my companion Sister. She cannot speak, for our creator has yet to decide on her syntax and accent. We are, of course, well armed, but we will consent to use our neuro shredders in this case-weapons that disrupt the electrical activity in the brain, allowing for lethal or nonlethal incapacitance as deemed necessary." -
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Liadan slid across the floor, hitting the wall and collasping into an undignified pile.
"#^%&@($ Ypurs!" She cried, unaware of her newfound ability to pronounce symbols in her speech. Rubbing her head, she looked up at the group of people near her. "Oh great. None of you saw that. If any of you are thinking of telling anyone else, let me now so I can Obliviate you now." She held up her wand threateningly. Getting to her feet, she dusted herself off ignoring the wet patches on her uniform.
Liadan suddenly froze as she looked at the featureless beings before her. Blnking her eyes to see if they were playing tricks on her, they weren't, she shook her head. "Hi, not sure who you are, but hi." Looking over at Cassie, Liadan grinned. "Hiya Cassie, haven't seen you since Robecca. Good party after that, huh?"
Hearing the trampling of what had to be yet another stampede of Ypurs, Liadan instantly moved into action. Raising her wand, she moved it in a sweeping motion, muttering under her breath. Where there had previously been empty air there was now a Ypur. Looking down at this one, Liadan quirked her mouth.
"It's the one we domesticated." She told the other Agents. "So far he's been having fun acitng as transport for some of the lazier minis, but the Ypurs go off of a group mind. If one isn't running anywhere, they'll stop."
Looking up at the woman who had summoned him, the Ypur cocked his head. She was a nice woman, she smelt like sausages. A rumbling made him turn to the left. A stampede of his brethren were running at him!
At this point, the group mind Liadan had mentioned kicked in. The domesticated Ypur began running, keeping a considerable lead over the other Ypurs.
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"Well, that has to be all of them now, doesn't it? Tyler just lured about thirty off to the cafeteria." She shrugged and leaned against the wall. "Maybe we should go down there and see if they're back."
Nat shrugged and waved at the newcomer. "Okay, seeing as nobody else feels like it, I'll introduce." She nodded towards the two faceless people. "They're Inquisitor and Sister, apparently. You already know me and Cass, and I think you know Sedri and Iza."
Elsewhere, Tyler was running for his life. Having thirty stampeding ypurs behind him was almost as motivating as thirty stampeding Agents. He raced through the door ahead of him and found himself in the cafeteria lobby. Sprinting for the cafeteria door, he yanked it open and threw the sausages inside before diving behind the door.
The ypurs charged through and he slammed it shut, then leaned against it, completely winded, and gasped for breath. Fortunately, he had very good lungs, and was just about recovered by the time another group came pounding towards him. Calmly opening the door, he let them run back into the cafeteria and closed it behind them before sitting down and waiting for either Lunac or Liadan to arrive. -
The figures shrugged by
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While the female figure pulls an eviscrator (translator kicking in: twelve-foot chainsaw sword, designed for anti-tank duty) from her localized hammerspace, the male pulls up a convenient chair and a large bottle filled with an unidentifiable liquid.
"Howdy." The figure says, gaining definition by the minute. "I think I'm called Nathan now, but the voices in my head tell me it's only a tentative name-they're not wasting time on my parter at the moment. Fun little critters, those. Remind me of critters from my homeworld. Speaking of which, Catachan whiskey?" The man offers his bottle to the others. -
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Agent Sedri, who had been tapping her foot impatiently, now blinked. "Sure," she drawled. "Let's just sit here and get drunk while the ypur overrun HQ."
Iza squeaked. "Sedri!" she hissed. "Be nice!" Turning a bright smile to Nathan she said, "I'd like some-"
"Oh no you don't," said Sedri, snatching the bottle. "You're a menace sober. Now what exactly are we going to do, people?" she asked, hands on hips. "How can we restrain the ypur, and where do we have to haul them back to? Hmmm? Can we use a portal generator and activate it in front of them?"
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"Well, like I said before," Nat said... by
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"...we need to get them down to the cafeteria. If Tyler's been distracted enough, he'll already be there."
Cassie shrugged. "If he is, then we'd be better off avoiding him."
"Come on, Cass, he's a right softy, he couldn't use a weapon if he tried."
"Well, you argue with him about it then." The bespectacled Agent turned to Liadan. "So how many ypurs got out altogether, then? We've seen about forty so far, but I'm guessing we're not the only ones to have run across them. And if there are more out, then maybe we could... um... no, I'm out of ideas without the sausages. Sorry." -
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"We're thinking between eighty and a hundred." She said, her brow knitted as she tried to remember. "It's quite odd actually. I used a locking charm on the Cafeteria last night, but it was dissolved, which let the Ypurs loose. We're thinking their pelts or horns might repel magic. Either that, or.." Liadan trailed off for a minute. "Or someone let them out."
Holding up her wand, which seemed to give off an indignant spark, Liadan waved it threateningly. "After we get them all back in, then I'm gonna be checking on how they got out. Anyone wanna join me?" -
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Nathan and the still-featureless female figure exchange a look, and shrug towards Liadan.
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...and nodded. "Sure," Nat said. "It's not like we have anything else to do right now."
Cassie grinned. "I've always wanted to see Potterverse magic in action. So, to the cafeteria then?" She cast an enquiring glance at the others before heading off down the corridor the same way Tyler and the Ypurs had gone.
Before she'd taken more than a few steps, however, what seemed to be two ambulatory fireballs came charging around the corner and leapt for her. She caught one and quickly put it down, wincing. "Greenlead, you know you burn mummy when she's not wearing her fireproof gear! And where have you two been? I've been so worried!"
Nat rolled her eyes, but tossed a slice of bacon towards the slightly smaller fiery creature, which was approaching her. "All right, Giml, there you go." She watched Cassie wander off down the corridor and sighed. "Shall we follow her, then?"
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[[I second that. And sorry for forgetting by
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about the cafeteria. I swear I looked back over all the previous posts...]
They went, walking mostly in silence while Iza cooed over the mini-Balrogs and started a hushed conversation with Cassie about how she could adopt one. Sedri, fiddling with her far-too-long-a-name pocket knife, didn't hear.
Either everyone was distracting themselves fairly well or HQ was simply tired of ypur stampedes, because they reached the cafeteria within a few minutes.
The door was shut. No charm locked it. The noise inside was deafening.
Sedri paused, dagger in hand, still feeling a bit stupid thanks to her earlier memory lapse. "Uh... Nat? You said the ypur love sausages, right?"
Nat nodded. "Yes."
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Nathan says slowly, after taking a long draught from his Catachan whiskey, "How are we going to get them trapped anywhere without placing ourselves at risk, sausage or no? I have a syringe of polymorphine from my division, if we have someone willing to temporarily turn into one of those things, if that would work. Or... hmmm..." The Inquisitor thinks for a minute. "Or I can run as bait. I'm barely defined enough to qualify as a redshirt."
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Tyler had stood up when he saw them coming... by
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and looked at Liadan, rather annoyed. "Does this mean that the cafeteria was not where we were meant to bring them? Because if so, then why was I requested to run all the way down here at the risk of my life?"
Cassie and Iza were still busy cooing over the minis and seemed to have completely forgotten about the current situation. Nat, who was getting very used to Cassie's apparent ability to switch off to anything she didn't feel like paying attention to, shrugged and turned to Liadan as well.
"Is Sedri right, then? Should we not have brought them here? I heard you lot were tagging them or something." -
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…Rosalie returned, now in a sleeveless black gown, and carrying a box. "My partner confiscated a lot of 'Corellian nerf sausages' from somewhere called Deep Space Nine. Maybe this will help.
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[[anyone else thinking that this is slowly dying?]] by
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[[We seem to be getting nowhere. Of course, that could be my insane-efficiency side talking... And, Tawaki? I don't know much about Rosalie but is she supposed to be wrong? Corellia and nerfs are from Star Wars and DS9 is Star Trek. I'm all confused, and really don't want to write another section with the risk of ruining whatever you were trying to set up.]]
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[[She's in Misplaced Flora and Fauna.]] by
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[[It was from a mission her partner had just been on; the nerfs were the misplaced fauna.]]
"Very clear," said Rosalie.
"WE O-BEY!" said Omicron. "SEEK AND LO-CATE! LO-CATE AND LURE BACK! LURE BACK AND RE-JOICE!" -
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I'm not ignoring this section, but I'll post the next bit under Winter's one above.]]
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[[Not on my watch]] by
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"Enough!" Nathan snaps. "We seem to be getting nowhere, so I hereby assert my authority as an officer of the Imperial Inquisition to put a boot in your collective rear end or analogous anatomical feature and get moving! Rosalie, put the sausages wherever we need the lure the things. Tyler or whatever your name is, congratulations! You've been promoted to bait-take some of the sausage and stand by the door-be ready to run like hell when the door opens. Sedri, you're on the door-on my command, open the door and throw out the sausage-if you die, at least Tyler will be able to pick up where you failed. Everyone with one of those mini-daemons, cover fire-I don't want the Ypurs running loose. Keep them following the sausage. Have I made myself clear?"
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Sedri glared at the "if you die" comment, but, being pleased that something was finally happening, did not make her usual snappish remark about not taking orders. "Fine," she said, striding up to the door. "But I dare you to try that 'I'm an officer!' routine with the Flowers."
Tyler, looking betrayed and very, very pale, held the sausages tightly. Iza gave him a big hug.
The other agents shrugged and shifted, hoisting whatever weapons they had as the mini-Balrogs crouched eagerly, waiting to pounce. There was tension. There was fear. There was eye-rolling. Nathan examined the prepared group, making one last check before giving the order to proceed.
Sedri rolled her eyes and, without waiting, opened the door.
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[[Yay! *joins in*]] by
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While Nat and Cassie joined the other agents, Tyler looked around frantically. "But- wait! Where am I meant to be leading them to?"
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[[Shifting tenses]] by
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"How am I supposed to know where you're leading them to?" Nathan asked irritably. "I'm not the one in command of this outfit, but if no one else is going to step up, I will. All else fails, roll a scatter dice and pick somewhere to lead them. I *am* new here, but surely you people have someplace to keep dangerous creatures in relative safety."
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Nathan's words were lost in the noise by
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as about fifty blue ypur, smelling sausage, charged out of the cafeteria doors. Iza yelped and hid, but the other agents kept their heads, and used whatever flashy or noise-making weapons they had to keep the ypur from branching off into the wrong corridor - though with the scent of food on the air, that wasn't too likely. The mini-Balrogs had great fun burning a few blue ankles.
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"Doesn't ANYONE know?" she asked. When all she recieved were blank faces (strained, of course, but the wind and noise of passing ypur - there were certainly more than fifty now), she brightened and declared, "Right! He's going to the office of the Sunflower Official!"
"And just how do you expect that to be true?" muttered Nathan.
Floating above, the Ironic Over-Power was taking notes.
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Liadan looked around, wondering how she could have gotten lost on the way to the Cafeteria when she had been right next to everyone. Pulling out her wand again, she checked the doors as the Ypurs headed down the corridors to the Sunflower Official's office.
"Ostendium Veneficus!" She cried, hitting the lock with her wand. When nothing happened, she sighed, swishing her wand. "Revealo arcanum?" Her wand, becoming sympathetic to her uncanonical spells, shimmered with a pearly light. The doors lit up, displaying a hand print, and oddly, the shadowed imprint of a staff.
"Well, that can't be good." Liadan muttered. "Know anyone who uses a magical staff?" -
"Count me in," said Agent Rosalie, a Naiad in DMFF. by
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"I'm a newbie, and was on my way to my ... tahdis? ... when an Assassin who looked like a giant saltshaker, leading an ypur back with sausage, told me I had to do the same, as well as change something. I asked an Agent in DBS to help with the Ypurs I was luring, but she responded with an indecent proposal."
"Agent Lux," said Agent Blast J of DAVD. "And the way you're dressed, no wonder. Go find your TARDIS and put something opaque on. But don't think of wherever your partner said your TARDIS is. Distract yourself or you'll never get anywhere. Meet us in the cafeteria when you're ready."
Rosalie left down the corridor.
"If I had to guess," said Blast J, "I'd say it was a plant for the LMSF trying to throw us in disarray. Here's hoping they get the You-have-failed-me treatment," she added.
"NOT LIKE-LY," said Omicron. "TO BE THE LEAGUE OF MA-RY SUE FAC-TOR-IES, I MEAN." -
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Omicron came on the scene one way, and Five of Six another. by
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"SEEK AND LO-CATE!" said the Humanized Dalek. "LO-CATE AND KNOCK OUT! KNOCK OUT AND RE-TURN!"
Five pounded her head against a wall. "No, no, no. You lure them back with sausage. That is standard procedure for Ypurs."
"DO YOU HAVE AN-Y SPARE SAU-SAGE?"
"Here," said Five, placing some in Omicron's plunger.
"LURE BACK TO THE CA-FE-TER-I-A!" So saying, Omicron started leading a few Ypurs away. -
OT: CASSIE! We have a problem... by
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Somehow I, being an utter idiot, missed Winter's addition and thus yours. Do you want to continue here or go with the above "hiding in the armoury" scenario?
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My Agents are so vague at this point that they can snap to whatever reality y'all go with. :)
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Sorry again for the mess. I've just posted - by
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and Cassie's replying now. Then we're both off, so it's your party, Winter.
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Going with the armoury-my still unnamed agents have covered your retreat into the armoury with some classic 40k-style firepower.
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[[I'm happy with whatever, but...]] by
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[[As far as I'm aware, we're going with my post. :S SOrry for the conusion.]]
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*growls* sorry for the italics. And the typo. (nm) by
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From the mists... by
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The figures emerged, plucked capriciously from the womb of a hapless writer's mind before their time. They had no distinct form, for their genesis was not yet complete, and had settled on no details concerning their appearance. They were without name, for the whim of the uncaring powers that brought them here had not yet seen fit to grant them such. Indeed, so hazy and ill-formed were they that they were little more than figures of mist, animated only by the brightly burning spark of the idea in each, a spark that burned in the smoke that formed them. Even their voices were little more than indistinct whispers, though one seemed to have affected a French accent and a feminine tone, while the other was just as clearly male, and bore a drawl distinctive to those who knew of the planet Catachan-or alternatively, the mythical land known as Texas.
But these figures were not to be dismissed, for what their creator had not yet granted them in description, he had gifted them in firepower. While some of their weapons were little more than indistinct haze themselves, others were not...
Two Ypurs immediately fell to the neural shredders on loan from the Callidus Temple, mental activity hopelessly scrambled by the arcane weaponry, while a third barely dove out of the way of a hail of fire from the needle pistol one of the mist-shrouded figures bore.
It didn't help. A psyk-out grenade bounced around the corner, courtesy of an expert throw by one of the figures, despite the fact that it had no solid hands to speak of. The Ypur never awoke, silenced by the point-blank blast from the neuro shredder that followed as the unborn figures silently moved down the corridor, so indistinct that they barely seemed to register at all to the naked eye, save for that burning heart of the idea within...
Three had been cut down. There would be more to come. The figures shared what might have been a smile, had they faces to smile with, and continued down the corridor, shredders level. -
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Ansela ducked behind a half-open door, out of sight of the Ypurs stampeding through the cross section ahead of her. She didn't like the things, therefore she didn't even want to look at them.
"Stop hiding, Ansela, and help me out here," Risa resisted the urge to roll her eyes as she watched the Ypurs. "I cannot handle this number of these creatures by myself."
"I ain't coming out and you can't make me," Ansela scowled and reached for her zat, knowing the Shinigami could quite easily drop her in the middle of the Ypurs without being harmed herself if she wanted to. Activating the energy weapon, which looked rather like a stylised snake, she went to stand by her partner. "Can I kill just one of them?"
"We do not yet know what the consequences for killing one of these creatures are," Risa snapped, her eyes closed as she concentrating on focusing her energy.
"Whatever," Ansela's hand snapped up and squeezed the trigger of her zat, blue energy bolts arcing out and striking the Ypurs. Any that were hit collapsed instantly, knocked out by the Goa'uld stun weapon.
"Geki!" Risa yelled, thrusting her palm forwards at the Ypurs. Several of them stopped, paralysed by the red light that engulfed them.
"W00t, we got them!" Ansela did a victory dance, waving her zat above her head madly. Suddenly Risa shoved her backwards, barely pulling her out of the way of an enraged Ypur.
"Do not celebrate until they are all unconscious or restrained," Risa barked, before spinning round to face the dozen Ypurs that were still standing. "Geki!" Three more Ypurs were restrained by the paralysing red light. "Rikujōkōrō!" One more was caught by six rods of light, which crashed into it from all directions. "Sajō sabaku!" A thick chain wrapped around two of the Ypurs, binding them together from head to tail and preventing them from moving. "Hyapporankan!" A spear of light formed in her hand, which multiplied into a hundred when she threw it, driving the rest of the Ypurs back and impaling the limbs of two of them. Ansela's zat hummed four more times, knocking out the last four Ypurs and preventing them from breaking down the wall of glowing spears.
"You the gal, Risa," Ansela grabbed her partner and pulled her into a kiss, a wicked grin on her face. "Ansela and Risa 1, Ypurs 0."
"We should call Agent Lunac to return these to their proper place. He should be pleased to find that his burden has been lessened by seventeen escaped Ypurs." -
[[*smites enter key* I wasn't bloody finished]] by
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Risa pulled a small black butterfly with purple markings from somewhere within her shihakushou and cupped it within her hands. After whispering something to it she released the insect, allowing it to fly off in search of Agent Lunac.
"Um, Risa, how's Lunac meant to know how to take a Hell Butterfly message?" Ansela asked, sitting on one of the unconscious Ypurs.
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Glad we're getting fun out of the Ypur invasion. by
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Looking around the endless hallways that made up HQ, Lunac began muttering to himself again. He and Liadan had become seperated somewhere around the DoDAEG when a stampede of ten Ypurs seperated them. Liadan had fallen down an inconveniently placed trapdoor that sprouted from under here, while Lunac, used to the HQ making trapdoors appear in his presense, simply rolled his eyes. Calling out the rest of his Pokemon team, he had made quick work of seven of the ten Ypurs while the other three got away. From the crunching noise and resultant squeals of indignation, Lunac assumed the Ypurs hadn't bothered turning when they got to a wall.
After teleporting the knocked out Ypurs, one of which was still being poked by his Blissey, Lunac eyed his Pokemon crew. "Ok guys, the Ypurs have gotten out, as you may have guessed. Hestia," He Blissey perked up at the sound of her name." If you find any injured Agents, you can heal them. Otherwise, stick to the Egg Bombs and Doubleslapping. The rest of you, we want unconcious, not dead." A fluttering on his shoulder made him look left. A small black and purple butterfly stood there, looking up at him intently. Blinking at it, Lunac arched an eyebrow, wondering where it had come from. Taking their 'Valient' leader's sudden silence as permission to go, the Pokemon headed off down different corridors. Lunac sincerly hoped no other Agents would attack; if they did they would soon be slapped, burnt, blinded or several other handy effects his Pokemon had.
"So, uh." He looked at the Butterfly. "You live around here?" If the bug could snort, he was sure it would have done so then. As it was, it flickered its wings again, before a jolt of pain shot through Lunac's head. A telepathic message, albeit not by a method he was used to. Lowering his mental guards, he could hear a voice talking to him.
"Reporting seventeen Ypurs down." THat was Risa's voice, he knew it now that he could hear it properly. Accompanying the messages was a mental image of a hallway, it must be where Risa and Ansela were.
Giving a sigh, Lunac looked back down at the Butterfly. It seemed quite comfortable now that it's message had been passed on. Pulling out the two, black devices again, Lunac turned them up again, mentally searching until he could find Risa's mental energies.
'Risa, it's Agent Lunac. I got your message from the butterfly thing. Are you good to secure the Ypurs, or do you want me over there?' It was his own branch of telepathy, imported straight form the Pokemon World. He found it much easier to deal with than butterflies, which was plain odd. -
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Risa mentally jumped when Lunac's voice echoed through her head, not anticipating the telepathic message. Realising what was happening, she concentrated on sending a reply back.
'Agent Lunac, I would appreciate some warning next time. I hear that having your mind shredded by a defensive zanpakuto spirit is a very unpleasant experience," she added an image of Dokuha's snake form poised to strike with fangs dripping venom. "And to answer your question, of course your presence here is required. If Ansela and myself were capable of dealing with these beasts further I would not have sent a Hell Butterfly, my last one might I add, to locate you. I would appreciate it if you would bring my Butterfly back in one piece as well."
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Resisting the urge to cover his eyes or rub his temple, Lunac settled for simply shaking his head. 'Ok, I'm on my way. I'll just grab my Blissey and we'll be right over. Oh, and having my brain shredded by a Butterfly is not oly painful, but quite humiliating.'
Spreading out with his powers again, and feeling the weariness that came when he was doing too much, Lunac sighed. Connecting with his Pokemon, he asked her to head to the Cafeteria, interuppting her action of slapping a Ypur into the next century.
'We're on our way.' Lunac sent, before cutting off the connection. Looking around, Lunac shrugged, closed his eyes and spun around on the spot. Opening his eyes again, and taking a dizzy step forward, and turned a corner to find Risa and Ansela.
Lunac's eyes flashed over the pile of Ypurs. Giving the two Agents a grin, he knelt next to the bovines. "Sorry if I was short, I'm kinda tired, for obvious reasons." He told Risa. Narrowing his eyes, he glared at the ile of Ypurs, and with a 'Pop', they disappeared into the cafeteria. A spell of dizziness fell over Lunac and he fell down onto his backside, clutching his head. "Wow that does not feel good." He murmured. On his arm, one of the machines beeped rapidly, before sparking and dying. Glaring at it between his fingers, Lunac groaned. -
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"Foolish child. Do not kill yourself through exhaustion and overwork," Risa knelt down next to Lunac and looked him in the eye. "I suggest that you take some time to rest and regain energy before you attempt any more of your teleportations, or I will restrain you myself."
Standing up, Risa brushed off her shihakusho and resettled her zanpakuto on her hip. "Dokuha would like an apology from you. He, like many snakes, is rather prideful and does not appreciate you confusing him for a Hell Butterfly."
"What Risa's trying to say," Ansela leaned on her partner's shoulder and grinned at Lunac, "is that Dokuha is her zanpakuto, and is giving her a headache right now with his whining. Hissing. Whatever. Say, you wanna come to our RC? I'm sure I have some Super Restore or Magic Potions or Wizard Mind Bombs lying around there that might help you out. Your powers are kind of like magic, aren't they?" -
Looking up with a tired look by
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Lunac nodded. "Thanks Ansela. If anything, they're just a natural weapon. These machines just boost my capabilities by a lot."
Looking over at Riza, Lunac adopted a confused look. "Zanpakuto? Sorry if I did insult him. I'm just not used to many things having psychic capabilities around here. Hell,I don't even have psychic capabilities without these machines." He waved towards the broken device. "It just caught me off guard. I really am sorry."
Getting shakily to his feet, he gave a sigh of relief once he was balanced. "Ok, which RC are we going to? If we can duck in, then we can go check on the cafeteria." -
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"STU-PE-FY!" said Omicron, and nailed an Ypur with a stun blast. The Ypur photo-negatived and collapsed, out like a light.
Tawaki and Dustin were on their way to the mail room when they ran across four Ypurs. Tawaki cursed in Romulan and sent a message to the DIA.
"Here we go again," sighed Dustin.
Tawaki drew his DL-44, set to stun. Dustin pulled out a pencil-sized device called a Sonic Smiter, recently confiscated from a Forgotten Realms/Doctor Who crossover that shipped Drizzt with Rose. Dustin pointed it at an Ypur and activated it. There came a noise not unlike Sue-squealing, and an Ypur went down. A blast of expanding blue rings from Tawaki's blaster and another went down. K-9 took the other two down. -
[[Er- should we be joining in or is this just a oneshot?]] (nm) by
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Join in of course! by
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What, you think I'm so cruel to taunt everyone with it?
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Query by
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Would I be allowed to participate? I'm still serving my probation period, and thus my intended agents are still locked in their home continuum.
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We've had newbies join in roleplays before (nm) by
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Radio Nutmeg -- Broadcast Two by
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Yes, it's him again. A transmission from the general direction of New Caledonia reached me, asking me to link to this on the Board, and like the obedient supporter I am, I complied. It's in four parts, for size, but they follow directly from each other.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
He also asked me to apologise for the sound quality in one song -- apparently there's a reason, but he won't tell me what it is.
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Nice! by
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Very nice! The US one made me laugh, especially since most of the stuff in there remains depressingly true...ah, well. Hope there's another one coming soon!
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Awesome! by
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The Onion's US entry is hilarious.
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Brilliant. Utterly. by
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Undis Closed is very good at comic timing, and I rather like his pick of songs too.
If he's taking requests, as he seems to be, I wonder if he'd be willing to advertise the Movie with that little mockup our sound technician Trojanhorse did. *ducks and hides under the table* Yes Trojie I did say that I thought it'd be a good way to get more viewers but if you don't like the idea can everyone please forget I said anything to do with it.
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I'm delighted. Also had to do a double take when you mentioned the countries I suggested. ^-^
I really need to get myself a copy of that Onion atlas- its sporking of my native land had me laughing at about every line. (of course, Agent Closed's calm English accent helps quite a bit...)
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Calling all volunteers: "Lost in Austen" group mission! by
on 2008-09-30 01:40:00 UTC
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Legal Mary Sue ends up with Darcy, after sending Elizabeth to the modern world for eternity, and making Bingley, Collins, and Wickham all fall for her. And sending Jane and Bingley off to America. And making Mr. Bennet nearly bleed to death. And showing Lydia her "landing strip". And sending Charlotte Lucas to Africa as a missionary.
I don't know how she'll go down, or how many weapons it will take...
but let's get her.
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Wow, what a response! by
on 2008-10-05 23:14:00 UTC
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Thanks, everyone! And to anyone who is still thinking of volunteering...it's not too late!
What I'm thinking of is dividing this mission up into four parts: one part for every episode of the miniseries. For those of you who haven't see Lost in Austen, you can go onto Wikipedia and figure out where the episodes begin and end from the plot summary there. Then, simply choose your (least) favorite episode and e-mail me *points above*. That way, the poor agents will get some relief from the badfic. Don't worry...you can all be present for the no doubt gruesome ending of Amanda Price (though I haven't decided what that will be, yet. Red-hot shoes are very tempting).
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You may want to make a new thread... by
on 2008-10-07 08:06:00 UTC
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Just because I think this one is being lost in the glacier-like flow of posts.
Just to clarify, do you plan to have some agents listing charges for episode one, others do part two, and so on, until someone (or all of us?) can charge and condemn her in the end? -
Yeah, that was the plan. by
on 2008-10-07 12:49:00 UTC
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As long as we're careful not to overlap charges from the various episodes.
And you're right. I'll have to make this a new thread. Later, when I'm not sneezing my head off. -
I'm coming! by
on 2008-10-01 23:52:00 UTC
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*jumps onto the wagon*
Count Agents Christianne and Eledhwen in. We've seen the show and it reeks of Mary Sue-ism.
*Agent Christianne looks through her poison supply*
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Grrr.... by
on 2008-09-30 22:08:00 UTC
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You can have Ansela and Risa for a cameo if you wish. They know nothing of the source material, but will quite happily go along with a mob.
Ansela will anyway. Risa's there to keep her from killing/poisoning/sleeping with the wrong person.
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Count my lads in. by
on 2008-09-30 19:23:00 UTC
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I think they might feel rather at home with this one, considering their home continuum.
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Crispin and Maria are in! by
on 2008-09-30 13:26:00 UTC
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Kill. Her.
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Oh, I am IN. by
on 2008-09-30 08:18:00 UTC
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Count Ecru and Avada in, after I finish their first mission and watch the recorded programs. Admittedly, I haven't sen the first ep but if YouTube has it, then I'll watch it as soon as possible.
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I'm in. by
on 2008-09-30 07:48:00 UTC
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In in in. She married Darcy?
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Unless she was killed off-screen shortly after kissing him. (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 15:47:00 UTC
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Oh, I'm so in. *grabs whisk and growls* (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 06:27:00 UTC
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I'm in! by
on 2008-09-30 05:49:00 UTC
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I got through the first episode thanks to you-bloody-tube and that was MORE than enough. I mean, if Jane was so vulnerable as to nearly DIE from the cold, would Mrs Bennet have sent her out the first time? *strangles*
Admittedly, I didn't hate the Sue character too much. Amanda, I think her name was. She wasn't infuriating; it was all the things the scriptwriters did FOR her that was worst. Not that she wasn't bad, just... blegh.
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Good point. Plot summary here everyone! by
on 2008-09-30 15:47:00 UTC
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The "saga" begins: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that we are all longing to escape."
Cue our Sue, Amanda Price, angsting about how terrible her life is. She undergoes such harrowing difficulties as dealing with difficult customers as a bank teller and having her boyfriend propose to her when he's drunk. Angst angst angst, and the only joy she has in her life is reading her beloved Pride and Prejudice.
Then, one asuspicious day, she finds Elizabeth Bennet in her bathroom. It seem that Amanda Price is "the key": the only one in the entire universe who can make her bathroom wall into a door that opens into another world. Elizabeth Bennet, who doesn't display any shock at going into the modern world or misgivings about leaving all her family and friends, immediately proposes trading places with our dear Amanda. Oh, and as for Elizabeth's witty lines? She doesn't have them. At all.
Soooo, just as Mr. Bingley arrives in town, so does Amanda Price. Her well-rehearsed and rock-solid story is that she is Elizabeth's friend from Hammersmith who no one has ever heard of before. Not only does this mean the Bennets let her stay in their house for free and treat her as one of the family...but in every scene thereafter, whenever Amanda does something explicable (for instance, shouting out "Bumface!" at Lady Catherine's table), she explains it away to oblivious canon characters as "it's an expression from Hammersmith".
But I digress.
The next day, Amanda wakes up to Lydia copping a feel in her sleep, so Amanda believes she's on reality TV. To get out of the "show", she asks if she has to flash Lydia to get sent home. No one answers her, but she does it anyway. Is Lydia shocked? Horrified? No, she gives a little half-giggle as if, after all, these things happen.
Amanda, as you may imagine, is an instant hit with Mr. Bennet. She seems to him to be a girl of common sense, which is patently impossible because Amanda keeps spouting off anachronisms and 21st century jargon at every turn. She doesn't know how to dance, she uses peculiar expressions, she curses frequently, later on calling Mrs. Bennet a "ball-breaker" and Mr. Collins a "minger". In fact, I wonder...I seriously wonder...why she is not shipped off to Bedlam directly. Wouldn't that be fun!
Amanda meets Mr. Bingley, who is lovestruck practically at first sight, despite the fact that Amanda is still in her modern clothing. Yep, leather jacket, low-cut blouse and jeans...a paragon of 19th century beauty. Bingley steadily ignores Jane at the Netherfield Ball, which leads Mrs. Bennet to take Amanda into a private corner and make covert, subtle threats against her. But wait. Mrs. Bennet, covert? Subtle? Intelligent? Yep, the CADS are sounding like bugles.
Poor Jane is left in the dust, and Amanda feels a pang of guilt, so instead of dancing with Bingley, she dances with Darcy. Darcy is suitably put out. Mary Sue makes a puny attempt to fit in by wearing a dress, but for some reason no one comments on the fact that Amanda has unbound hair and has on heavy make-up, like a lady of ill repute.
Amanda, when insulted by Darcy, goes out for a smoke. Bingley catches up to her and says, admiringly, "You even breathe fire!" as she lights up a cigarette. He starts to profess his affection, Amanda kisses him deeply, but then makes a half-hearted attempt at telling him that he should be with Jane instead. After the ball, Amanda virtually forces Bingley to fall for Jane, telling Bingley that Amanda can't love him because she's a lesbian. Bingley is shocked and appalled…oh, wait, that would be canon…Bingley is mildly surprised, but docilely agrees to fall for Jane. (Jane almost dies of her cold when she rides to Netherfield, in contrast to canon.)
In the background, Wickham shows up and tries to charm her, Amanda rebuffs him with the kind of righteous indignation that can only come from having read Pride and Prejudice ahead of time and knowing who's the villain. Collins shows up and is promptly bowled over by Amanda's…um…Amanda's…to be honest, I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing. In canon, he's obsessed with propriety and with his own superficial virtue. Amanda has neither. But I suppose it doesn't matter, because Mr. Collins is a pervert in this version of P&P. Regardless, Mr. Collins flirts with her, she agrees to marry him in order to stop Jane from having to marry Collins (Lizzy, upon whom he should be fixing his attentions, is still "out of town at Hammersmith".) However, Collins drops her after Wickham spreads a rumor that Amanda's father is a fishmonger. It looks like a hopeful sign that Amanda may be facing the consequences of her actions. But don't worry; she won't take responsibility. She'll just knee Collins in the balls instead! Sadly, the author's Suefluence causes Mr. Collins to propose to Jane shortly thereafter…and Jane accepts him.
Turns out Darcy has persuaded Bingley away from pursuing Jane, which Amanda finds out and calls him a "tit" and some other things, too, if I remember correctly. Darcy gives her a well-deserved tongue-lashing for a few glorious seconds, and Sue flounces off to cry about how everything's gone wrong.
I couldn't stand watching all of the episodes, but at some point the following happens: Bingley turns into a drunkard and runs off with Lydia. He returns to Longbourne, where he assures Mr. Bennet that he didn't actually have sex with Lydia. He does this using such vulgar language (Bingley. Vulgar and coarse in speech. And running off with fifteen-year-old girls. Just like in the books!) that Mr. Bennet challenges Bingley to a duel…in the drawing room. Ignoring any proper dueling rules, Mr. Bennet attacks, forcing Bingley to wound Mr. Bennet out of self-defense. (If you want a real laugh, look at how this "sword fight" is choreographed! Bwah!) Mr. Bennet is bleeding heavily and sure to die, when...dun dun dun! It's Sue to the rescue, with her modern ways of knowing about stitches!
I swear, I'm not making this up. Shame on whoever did. By the way, Lydia is never heard from again, so it's not exactly clear how, or if, that scandal was resolved.
After saving Mr. Bennet's life (she's a hero, now, see? See?!) , Amanda meets Lady Catherine when she goes to see Jane at Mr. Collins's parsonage. (Fortunately for Jane, Mr. Collins is undergoing a period of abstinence for some obscure religious reason.) It is there that we learn that, despite having loathed Amanda and held her in contempt before, Darcy is actually violently in love with Amanda! As with Bingley's amorous attentions, Amanda makes a few weak protests towards Darcy, all the while gazing at him with limpid, tear-filled eyes. Darcy returns this with a gaze that I'm sure is supposed to be smoldering but looks instead like he is having a rather bad hangover. He doesn't really give a good reason why, with so little contact, with no exchange of witty repartee, with no respect for her personally, he loves her. In fact, in a later episode he admits that he does not find either her simpering or her obscenities attractive! This is supposed to be the woman he chooses to be the Mistress of Pemberley, sister to Georgiana, mother of the heirs to the Darcy line? In any event, Amanda reacts to this news in a typically fangirl way: by forcing Darcy to dive into Pemberley's pond and emerge with his shirt dripping wet.
I'm still not making this up.
Canon, which is now in a coma and on life support, gives one last gasp in the form of Amanda returning to her own world. Darcy follows, Amanda is reunited with her boyfriend, who says sweet things to her, and Darcy meets Elizabeth for the first time. Except it's not really Elizabeth; it's the soft-spoken, tepid, dull Out of Character Elizabeth, who has cropped her hair short, wears pants, and is working in the modern world as a nanny.
Yes, a nanny.
Okay, so it hasn't gone totally wrong. Darcy and Elizabeth will meet, fall in love, Amanda will go back to her boyfriend…
Nope. Amanda drags Elizabeth back through the door because Mr. Bennet is still unwell. Elizabeth seems very reluctant to go, even though her father was almost mortally wounded! Amanda's boyfriend tells her that if she goes back through that door, he's leaving her. So, she does. And…he leaves. And we never hear from him again.
Darcy and Elizabeth don't hit it off, and Elizabeth wants to go back to "Hammersmith" and spend the rest of her life there. So she does. Guess life as a nanny in London is a LOT better than being happily married, rich, and living in your own time!
(Elizabeth is not the only one put on a bus, metaphorically speaking. Elizabeth's best friend Charlotte Lucas, bereft of Mr. Collins whom she otherwise would have married, decides to go to Africa and be a missionary. And she is never heard from again.)
Lady Catherine DeBourgh goes to Amanda and makes her promise that Amanda will leave Darcy alone forever. Well, Amanda promises. It's a lie, of course. But in exchange for that favor, Lady Catherine gets the marriage between Jane and Mr. Collins annulled. Right on cue (was he waiting in the shrubbery?) Mr. Bingley shows up and proposes to Jane. Jane responds that it would be a disgrace if they were to marry now, so Mr. Bingley tells her they will go to America, "be married by liberal Episcopalians, have twenty-five children, and name all of them Amanda…even the boys!" And they are never heard from again.
Lady Catherine and Miss Bingley drive off together in a snit, Miss Bingley making a pass a Wickham along the way. And they are never heard from again.
Meanwhile, Amanda somehow travels all the way to Pemberley (In Mr. Bennet's carriage?! By herself?!), meets up with Mr. Darcy, and they each profess their undying love. Darcy has tears in his eyes as he tells Amanda what an awful person he has been and how sorry he is. Then, the music swells and they engage in a very unromantic smooching session. Darcy now looks like he is drunk and has a hangover at the same time. Note to whoever that actor was: you, Sir, do not know how to brood. Please stop trying. It's embarrassing to watch you.
And thus it ends.
Kitty what? Mary who? They have maybe three lines apiece in the entire thing. Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, Sir William Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Anne DeBourgh and anyone else I haven't mentioned here vanished into Fanfic Oblivion for the duration of this farce.
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OH MY GOD. by
on 2008-10-01 02:06:00 UTC
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I've never even seen a Suefic this bad, and this is on British television?! I mean...what the hell?! Why must they turn Austin's beautiful love story into a gorram soap opera?!
My Agents are Not Amused. We really, REALLY have to think of a suitable ending for this Sue. A slow, gruesome, painful death. Rawr. -
I'm tempted to chain her to a REAL airport "landing strip" by
on 2008-10-01 07:45:00 UTC
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Something that sees a lot of traffic. Heathrow Airport, perhaps? During the Christmas holidays? When there's so much snow that no one will see our agents until it's too late?
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Well, snow-wise... by
on 2008-10-01 10:59:00 UTC
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Greater London tends to get its snow around February; last year we got some on Easter Sunday. But yes, I approve of this idea.
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Oh come on, be imaginative! by
on 2008-10-01 15:32:00 UTC
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For a crime this heinous, we should come up with an equally painful finish.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Canon has suffered enough. So, let the Canon be the one to inflict the punishment.
Firstly, we have a Chosen!Sue. For this, the Sue must be made to face another Chosen One. I'm voting for Harry Potter, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer myself. After this punishment, we go onto the next punishment!
As a Timetravel!Sue, we let Time itself hurt her. I'm sure Father Time and assortment of other Time Deities would each like to 'Bless' her with their own Gifts, ala Pandora's Box style. I.e.: I Curse you with wrinkles, with aging badly, etc. Upon hitting seven Blessings, we whisk her off to the final punishment!
For being an Angst!Sue, we get our arms and elbows REALLY dirty. I'm sure many of us here would remember Tara? The imfamous Harry Potter Sue who not only angst'd in general, but had 'Blue eyes brimming with limpid tears'? Well, I know Tara is probably still Angsting about Harry ad Draco, ahem, sorry, Vampire and Draco not getting together, so we place this Sue in with Tara and wait until she is Angsted to the death!
Or, if that takes too long, we can throw her in with the Ypurs...
Anywho, that's my idea. But don't make it quick, we must make her suffer. Suffer I say!
Would now be a bad time to say I've never read the book? -
Oh, but... by
on 2008-10-01 18:26:00 UTC
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would she need to be cursed with aging badly, if she's going to be killed almost straight after?
Also, more ideas. Not particularly imaginative, but she could be half-strangled by the chain on Hermione's Time-Turner! Or, possibly, she could be put in the Time-Turner room in the MoM (HPOotP) and shoved in amongst the never-ending destruction of the Time-Turners until she is deaf/has a REALLY annoying ringing in her ears?
I don't think you need to worry THAT much about having read P&P if you're not taking part in the mission. After all, I've just finished reading it - once - for my GCSE and I'm pretty defensive of it already. -
My vote is for arco-flagellation by
on 2008-10-01 22:41:00 UTC
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If you don't know what that means, breathe a sigh of relief. It's one of the more unpleasant things to do to people WH40k brings.
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I'm up for anything that involves a lot of BLOOD. by
on 2008-10-02 04:05:00 UTC
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Chainsaw, perhaps - thoguh we'd have to drag her back through the door and into modern London to achieve it.
As for creativity... well, she stole a dance with Darcy, which is a heinous crime on its own - how about being Danced to Death? We could chain or her hands and feet - or enchant her limbs - so that she's dragged around a dance floor by some sort of robot (maybe with "Darcy" written on its face) faster and faster until she's torn apart by the centrifugal forces. Or, if anyone knows Sara Douglass' Axis books, we could force her to dance the actual Dance of Death...
Hmm... must think. We shold start a sub-thread soley for death suggestions. (... well, actually, it looks like this IS one already.) -
I'm reminded... by
on 2008-10-02 11:59:00 UTC
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Of the original Little Mermaid story. Whenever the mermaid (well, she was a human at the time) danced she felt as if her feet were being stabbed with daggers.
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I vaguely remember... by
on 2008-10-02 19:27:00 UTC
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that the ogres(?) in The Tenth Kingdom had a pair of metal shoes/boots that could be heated up and the wearer would be forced to dance in them until they could dance no more. Maybe they would be of use in this instance.
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In one version of Snow White... by
on 2008-10-02 19:40:00 UTC
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...the evil queen was forced to dance in a pair of red-hot iron shoes until she died. That what you were thinking of?
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THAT sounds like fun by
on 2008-10-02 22:51:00 UTC
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We can portal into uncontaminated Word Worlds, can't we? And pinch the shoes (or duplicate them) after the queen is dead?
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Well... by
on 2008-10-02 23:07:00 UTC
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...those shoes would be pretty easy to duplicate. Just make some nice dancing shoes from iron- high heels would be good, I think-, let them sit in the fire until they're nice and red, then make her wear them and dance until she drops dead from shock and exhaustion.
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Yup... by
on 2008-10-02 21:02:00 UTC
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it's definitely in Tenth Kingdom, which is based off of an amalgamation of fairytales. Somehow the troll(?) (still not sure if it is trolls. Could be ogres) King has the exact same pair of shoes and like to make humans dance in them for his amusement.
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You want her to perform a dance on daggers? (nm) by
on 2008-10-02 13:46:00 UTC
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I can always provide a Harlequin's Kiss by
on 2008-10-02 15:12:00 UTC
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Monomolecular whip in a tube-used by jamming the tube into the target's vitals, making the whip lash out and reduce their organs to soup. Might be suitable as a coup de grace.
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*cries* It's worse than I thought! by
on 2008-10-01 01:10:00 UTC
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I don't know how we're going to PPC this if we can't even get through the whole damn thing... but then, as boarders, I suppose it comes closer to what our agents must be experiencing than the pain we suffer while reading text.
Still... *shudders violently* WHAT KIND OF IDIOT SCRIPTWRITERS CAME UP WITH THIS DRIVEL?
And how is it that they can get this sort of thing FILMED and ON TELEVISION while other good stories rot in the dust?
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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. by
on 2008-09-30 19:05:00 UTC
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Oh God, this is worse than I thought. My friend (who normally has VERY high standards when it comes to fanfiction/Mary-Sues) has...well, not recommended this to me, but she said it wasn't bad. My uncle has said that it's very good. My English teacher (who is a P&P junkie) said she fell asleep within the first two lines, but she suggested that the people in our class could watch it.
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What the...? by
on 2008-09-30 16:55:00 UTC
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I know diddly about Jane Austen apart from that I'm bored to death even hearing the name (especially as the first line of P&P is a false truth). But this sounds like a total crack fic from what I read. Weapons free, people, weapons free.
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I know. I don't understand why this would appeal to anyone. by
on 2008-09-30 18:13:00 UTC
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(especially as the first line of P&P is a false truth)
Yes, it's intentionally false: she is mocking people who think that any single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. Miss Austen has quite a bit of biting satire in her book. Contrary to certain adaptations, it's not just about who ends up with whom romantically.
That's the other thing that bothered me. As stupid as "Lost in Austen" is, it's also not funny! -
Ah... by
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Okay, since she knows it's false, then I've gained a bit more respect for her.
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Nor is it satirical by
on 2008-09-30 19:23:00 UTC
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Quite frankly, I don't understand the point of that fanfic at all. I had the joy of writing a ten-page research paper on P&P for a class last semester, analyzing what I felt the author was trying to accomplish, and LiA threw it all out the window. It's not even badslash or wish fulfillment, near as I can tell-unless the fanfic author knew nothing of the time period, living in nineteenth century England would not be remotely considered wish fulfillment.
I confess that I'm not as inclined towards violence as some of y'all with this one-it's really not worthy of any animosity from me. It has no redeeming values, but no especially damning traits either, beyond the usual laundry list of canon rape, character derailment, etc. -
Thing is... by
on 2008-10-01 13:43:00 UTC
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it's actually a TV programme. If it were a fanfic, I don't know whether people would be showing so much animosity towards it, but since it's actually on TV... yeah.
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I know only the barest fraction about Austen by
on 2008-09-30 02:20:00 UTC
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But count Agent Trojie in, so very much.
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The Beavers' thoughts when the PPC arrive to charge the Sue by
on 2008-09-30 04:26:00 UTC
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One Agent smells metallic, the other draconic. What would the Beavers be thinking? And what might they do?
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Beaver thoughts? by
on 2008-10-01 23:42:00 UTC
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Beaver (possessed): What are those two menances that smell like metal and dragons doing here? I'm sure that draconic one is evil. And the metallic one must be an accomplice! I do hope Aslan will sort them out. He did get rid of the Witch.
Beaver (unpossessed): Thank Aslan! These two must have been sent by him. That little blondie menance must go. She is no Pevensie, that's right. She doesn't smell like them. But those two peace-bringers also smell strange...
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Newb introduction and fic claim query by
on 2008-09-30 06:25:00 UTC
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Hey there, newb here. It's been a long time since I've been interested in badfic (especially ever since the fabulous FicBitches fell into inactivity) so imagine my delight that there was a yet active badfic sporking community.
I came across PPC not long ago when, on a whim, a friend of mine Googled a gem of amalgamated bad!yaoific we'd written once upon a time called "Immortality in Fickle Affection," which was listed among the unclaimed badfic on the PPC wiki. Intrigued, I decided to see what the PPC's modus operandi involved, and liked what I saw.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that I'm interested in claiming "Immortality in Fickle Affection" for myself, as it looks like no one's taken up that cause yet (*sadface*). Being one of the writers on the original fic though, I see where this could just lead to a conflict of interests--and far be it from me to harsh anyone's buzz if someone else had their sights on this one. If not, sweet.
Thing is, I don't really know that this fic is capable of (or meant for) fixing in the usual PPC style when the very body of the text is grounded firmly in the "hey, it would be kind of awesome and ...ed up if this happened next!" school of thought. A mess of genital mutilation and yaoific conventions from start to finish.
So I was thinking, what if by way of "fixing" this fic, I went in and provided direct context for every line/event/bit of characterization seen in it? The writing process of "Immortality in Fickle Affection" was passing it between Tekki and myself to try and get the other to laugh, and those lulz were generally based on exaggerated observations of the characterization and badfic tropes of 4+ years ago. Of course, this would also be explaining the jokes, and that always makes things less funny. (Of course, when the decision was made to upload it to the internet, my assumption was that the sheer ridiculousness of the text would speak for itself, but it appeared--with exceptions--not to be the case.) Thoughts? I could, instead, attempt a more by-the-book PPC fixing solution, but something tells me that it would involve a complete renovation that would render it unrecognizable.
Or if you'd just rather I not touch it and leave someone else to make with the funny on "Immortality", I can do that too. I defer to the hivemind. -
Heya! by
on 2008-10-25 04:41:00 UTC
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I gift thee with an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated...and, hey, it whisks eggs! However, it may also be utilized in the whisking of author wraiths and spambots. Use it for good and not evil.
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Howdy by
on 2008-10-02 19:27:00 UTC
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Hivemind? Your request for an acid maw biomorph on the Agent of your choice has been approved. Welcome to the looney bin.
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First Poke! by
on 2008-10-02 08:18:00 UTC
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Yeah, that's right. I give pokes.
Anyway.
You need permission to actually PPC a 'fic, so for that you need to Page the Permission Givers with a sample of your writing and a link to the badfic in question, and... I think your agents? And they'll look around and give you an answer. Those I can think of are Techno_Dann and Huinesoron, and... Tawaki? I don't remember.
Anyway.
*poke*
Enjoy your stay a'Board, hope to see you around, have a whisk and a pair of fireproof gloves, good luck! -
First Egg! by
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Welcome to the PPC, and here's an egg!
No clue what'll hatch from it. -
First Fox by
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Welcome to the PPC. have a list of sporkable fics and a heavily edited version of Celerbrain, for dare readings.
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Anti-Lustin Lilies! you'll need them. (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 13:35:00 UTC
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First load of Bleepolate! by
on 2008-09-30 06:42:00 UTC
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Trust me, you'll need it. Welcome to the PPC!
Now, let's take a looky here. You wrote that story, huh? Well, I know everyone on the PPC has a story they're ashamed of. I myself have hidden mine in the Land of the Gods, guarded by the Dragons of Eternity across the River of Lost Souls.
Anyways, it's really up to you. Firstly, you need ot gian permission to write in the PPC Universe, however. We do have a time-period for that, about a month of active participation on either of the Boards, and then one of our handy-dandy Permission Givers should give you the ok.
ANd it's really up to you about how you PPC. You could MST your story, PPC it, Reference it, dress it in drag and force it to do the hula (I support that one!), it's really up to you.
Anyways, that's all I've got. Be careful, there are a few marbles rolling around here. We don't talk about them, simply bow to them in respect and shuffle them on. -
Ohhhh yeah... by
on 2008-10-01 23:46:00 UTC
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I still have my old badfics from...fifth grade. That's how young I was when I started getting into the fandoms.
I've MSTed my own badfics, though. I just take a character from my more recent fics and force him/her to read it. Always fun to do. -
Re: First load of Bleepolate! by
on 2008-09-30 07:05:00 UTC
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*laughs* Strangely, not ashamed at all! (It is my opinion that it's still funny as hell.) Though I do wish the ridiculousness of the text had spoken clearly enough for itself, but I suppose what it needed was giant, flashing text scrolling across the top going WARNING: FACETIOUSNESS AHEAD, so in some way I suppose I'm hoping to rectify that here.
Forgive the rampant noobery--which of the "other" Boards would you be referring to? (And do I apply for permission, or.. something else?) Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. -
There's a difference between the Boards. by
on 2008-09-30 07:26:00 UTC
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This one is mostly meant for RPing and the occasional refuge when we get a Spambot attack. The other Board, which is the main message board that everyone goes to, can be found here:
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/199610.html#176176
And to apply for permission to write in the PPC, again, wait about a month, and then ask. Nothing too complex, but we do like to know who we're stealing the Bleeprin from on the occasion. You know about the various Bleep products, right? -
Re: There's a difference between the Boards. by
on 2008-09-30 07:34:00 UTC
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Ohhh! Oh, I see, sorry about that. Yeah, I think I got linked here from the PPC LJ or something in response to the spambot.
Should I be reposting my original post over at the other, more appropriate board, then?
(Bleep? Mmm I don't, but I'm sure I can just lurk moar and pick it up as I go ^^) -
Yeah, the Spambot threw us off for a while... by
on 2008-09-30 07:37:00 UTC
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Head on over, and say hi. You'll get links and explanations there.
The 'Bleep-' products and their assorted uses can be found here:
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Bleeprin
Warning, you may be showered under shiny gifts, random topics and the occasional plover when you head over to the other message board. -
First plover! (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 06:31:00 UTC
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Do I.. do I eat it? (nm) by
on 2008-09-30 07:08:00 UTC
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Probably not a good idea. by
on 2008-09-30 10:16:00 UTC
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Since it just quacked and all. Here, have a First Pint instead. Welcome, by the way.
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Newb introduction and fic claim query by
on 2008-09-30 08:21:00 UTC
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[Crossposted from spam-free RP board]
Hey there, newb here. It's been a long time since I've been interested in badfic (especially ever since the fabulous FicBitches fell into inactivity) so imagine my delight that there was a yet active badfic sporking community.
I came across PPC not long ago when, on a whim, a friend of mine Googled a gem of amalgamated bad!yaoific we'd written once upon a time called "Immortality in Fickle Affection," which was listed among the unclaimed badfic on the PPC wiki. Intrigued, I decided to see what the PPC's modus operandi involved, and liked what I saw.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that I'm interested in claiming "Immortality in Fickle Affection" for myself, as it looks like no one's taken up that cause yet (*sadface*). Being one of the writers on the original fic though, I see where this could just lead to a conflict of interests--and far be it from me to harsh anyone's buzz if someone else had their sights on this one (or just the buzz-harsh of admitting to intentional--but really not troll--badfic). If not, sweet! Thing is, I don't really know that this fic is capable of (or meant for) fixing in the usual PPC style when the very body of the text is grounded firmly in the "hey, it would be kind of awesome and ...ed up if this happened next!" school of thought. A mess of genital mutilation and yaoific conventions from start to finish.
So I was thinking, what if by way of "fixing" this fic, I went in and provided direct context for every line/event/bit of characterization seen in it? The writing process of "Immortality in Fickle Affection" was passing it between Tekki and myself to try and get the other to laugh, and those lulz were generally based on exaggerated observations of the characterization and badfic tropes of 4+ years ago. Of course, this would also be explaining the jokes, and that always makes things less funny. (Of course, when the decision was made to upload it to the internet, my assumption was that the sheer ridiculousness of the text would speak for itself, but it appeared--with exceptions--not to be the case.) Thoughts? I could, instead, attempt a more by-the-book PPC fixing solution, but something tells me that it would involve a complete renovation that would render it unrecognizable.
Or if you'd just rather I not touch it and leave someone else to make with the funny on "Immortality", I can do that too. I defer to the hivemind. -
Hello there! by
on 2008-09-30 08:42:00 UTC
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Greetings, hail and well met, and other such phrases!
As a newbie, I gift thee with a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object!
Now, I believe you're enquiring about fic claimage? I don't know whether anyone else has gven you this advice, but I'll say it anyway. When it comes to writing missions and whatnot, the general consensus is that you should hang around the Board for a month or so, chatting and letting everyone get used to you and your style. During that time, most people tend to work on creating and developing their Agents.
At the end of that month, you post a message for the Permission Givers, asking for Permission to write missions. In that post you should include a writing sample or link thereto, a description of your Agents, and possibly a link to the fic you intend to tackle.
*deep breath* Now that's over with, I'd like to welcome you to the Board. Other people should be along shortly to give out presents and advice.
If anyone links you to something called C*l*br**n, That Series, or anything else labelled Legendary Badfic, for the sake of your brain DO NOT READ IT. They're Legendary for a reason. If you've already seen them, however, feel free to disregard this friendly warning.
Lovely to have you here!
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Newb introduction and fic claim query by
on 2008-09-30 08:22:00 UTC
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[Crossposted from spam-free RP board]
Hey there, newb here. It's been a long time since I've been interested in badfic (especially ever since the fabulous FicBitches fell into inactivity) so imagine my delight that there was a yet active badfic sporking community.
I came across PPC not long ago when, on a whim, a friend of mine Googled a gem of amalgamated bad!yaoific we'd written once upon a time called "Immortality in Fickle Affection," which was listed among the unclaimed badfic on the PPC wiki. Intrigued, I decided to see what the PPC's modus operandi involved, and liked what I saw.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that I'm interested in claiming "Immortality in Fickle Affection" for myself, as it looks like no one's taken up that cause yet (*sadface*). Being one of the writers on the original fic though, I see where this could just lead to a conflict of interests--and far be it from me to harsh anyone's buzz if someone else had their sights on this one (or just the buzz-harsh of admitting to intentional--but really not troll--badfic). If not, sweet! Thing is, I don't really know that this fic is capable of (or meant for) fixing in the usual PPC style when the very body of the text is grounded firmly in the "hey, it would be kind of awesome and ...ed up if this happened next!" school of thought. A mess of genital mutilation and yaoific conventions from start to finish.
So I was thinking, what if by way of "fixing" this fic, I went in and provided direct context for every line/event/bit of characterization seen in it? The writing process of "Immortality in Fickle Affection" was passing it between Tekki and myself to try and get the other to laugh, and those lulz were generally based on exaggerated observations of the characterization and badfic tropes of 4+ years ago. Of course, this would also be explaining the jokes, and that always makes things less funny. (Of course, when the decision was made to upload it to the internet, my assumption was that the sheer ridiculousness of the text would speak for itself, but it appeared--with exceptions--not to be the case.) Thoughts? I could, instead, attempt a more by-the-book PPC fixing solution, but something tells me that it would involve a complete renovation that would render it unrecognizable.
Or if you'd just rather I not touch it and leave someone else to make with the funny on "Immortality", I can do that too. I defer to the hivemind. -
Mae govannen! by
on 2008-10-02 00:10:00 UTC
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Oh, it is brave of you to spork your own fanfic. Normally people wouldn't want to do that. It still has a little sentimental value, after all.
(but I've MSTed two of mine, so I shouldn't talk)
Anyways, have a graduated cylinder! Not only does it measure fluids, but it also has a Master's degree and a graduation cap to boot. Very handy in scientific "experiments" regarding Mary Sues and such. -
Re: Mae govannen! by
on 2008-10-02 00:25:00 UTC
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Wellllll I don't know if it's a "sporking" because I'm still of the mind that the badfic in question, by dint of being intentionally horrible, is perfect [/ego] But clearly it needs some adjustment in conveying intent when its existing sporkers are pretty much just hijacking the horror!lulz that were originally written into the fic, so I hope to accomplish that! :D
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Well, I did mean Glitter... (nm) by
on 2008-10-02 00:57:00 UTC
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Hah! by
on 2008-10-01 09:04:00 UTC
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*laughs like a thing demented* I knew it.
Now that I've got that out of my system, ah, hi! *waves* Here, have a- um- *digs through pile of stuff* -a katamari! It seems vaguely appropriate. (Plus, always useful if the King goes on another bender.)
Actually, I would have treated it as Bad Slash, or… worked something out for Bad Parody, actually. Moot point, though, since I don't intend to take it (got a couple others, and… not sure about taking fics that I know the MSTs of anyway)- so I figure, go for it, once you've got permission and all.
And I see you have seen the MST! Awesome. We're… not 'round kingdomspork so much, though, these days- there was a problem with spam a while back, and we couldn't get in touch with the mod (pretty sure modship and so forth couldn't be transferred, either)- so most folks are at heartlessfics, and Lynx and Tegu's sporkings are at snakesonasora.
… We have a hivemind? Why does no one tell me these things.
Anyway. Hi, and welcome! (And Floaters has its advantages and disadvantages, too. *grin*) -
Heya! by
on 2008-10-01 03:11:00 UTC
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I gift thee with an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs, but spambots and author wraiths, too! Use it for good and not evil.
Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy your stay! XDDD -
Welcome! Here's your gifts, and a friendly nudge towards DMS by
on 2008-10-01 00:58:00 UTC
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(Because if Trojie's advertising Bad Slash, I must wave my flag for the Department of Mary Sues.)
Welcome, welcome, welcome! Have a Transdimensional Pocket Knife, a chain of butterbeer corks (functions as a necklace or a garotte), and a stuffed Animal of your choice.
Concerning your mission... the others have said most of what I'd say, on either this board or the other. I don't know if it would function as a great mission, but good on you for handling your own creation! -
Welcome. Here is your plate of introductory lembas by
on 2008-09-30 22:32:00 UTC
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Volunteering to spork your own old works is a brave notion. I'm sure you'll fit in just fine :)
Be sure to check out the Wiki's article on Permission, and maybe the FAQ for the Board; your posts seem to be duplicated for some reason.
When you make up Agent characters, don't forget the fine employment opportunities and perks available to the members of the Department of Bad Slash!
- Trojie, your friendly Board Bad Slash recruiter and giver of canonical baked goods. -
Re: Welcome. Here is your plate of introductory lembas by
on 2008-10-01 17:31:00 UTC
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(Wouldn't really call the plan so much a sporking as an explanation almost, but I suppose one would have to be brave to willingly justify hydra peen XD)
Yeeeahh, about the double posting, sorry about that. I got linked to what I'm informed was the RP board from the LJ or something when the spambot was still on the loose. This seemed the more advisable place to post my intro. -
Fair enough, it's all good. by
on 2008-10-01 22:04:00 UTC
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Twas just a friendly nudge :)
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*Hands over a inferno pistol* by
on 2008-09-30 15:16:00 UTC
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The Division of More Dakka has approved your request, submitted three years ago by a time-lost warp storm, for an inferno pistol, rated for melting through up to 20cm adamantium battle steel, or ten yards of conventional titanium alloy, along with five hundred rounds of ammunition. Usage of this weapon is at your discretion.
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I was wondering where I had lost that warp storm... by
on 2008-09-30 15:49:00 UTC
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And I'm assuming you're granting permission for the Inferno Pistol. I'm so gonna have to try it out against the Blaziken I got here.
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Not quite by
on 2008-09-30 16:06:00 UTC
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The Division of More Dakka authorizes that kind of wargear on a case-by-case basis only. Besides, Blaziken is a Fire-type, so the inferno pistol's strength would be halved. I suggest requisitioning a tremor cannon from the currently unreleased Space Marine Codex and employing Blaziken's ground weakness.
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Ad I use Mewtwo to counter your tremor cannon! (nm) by
on 2008-10-01 05:34:00 UTC
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Winter uses Animus Speculum! by
on 2008-10-01 15:31:00 UTC
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It's super effective!
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Nuuuuu! by
on 2008-12-04 13:15:00 UTC
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Not the sexy purple guy!
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Hi there by
on 2008-09-30 08:42:00 UTC
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I think there are a few agents around that first started by PPCing one of their own fics. So there is precendence on that.
I'm a little confussed as about your intentions with the fic mission wise. Most of the PPC agents go into a fic point out what is wrong, some add how it could have been right, charge the offending parties, execute them and go home. You seem to have more of a tour guide idea. Not sure why you'd need the PPC for that.
Unless the Flowers have decided to branch out and offer tourist trips (compare those tourists that went into space). -
Re: Hi there by
on 2008-09-30 09:02:00 UTC
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I gather that the function of most (all?) PPC agents is to establish what's wrong and set it right. My stance is more that if it's meant to be wrong, there's little sense in making it right, but perhaps worth indicating why the wrong occurred the way it did.
Being that this must be way out of the PPC's general usage, I'm soliciting for alternate ideas on how to approach a situation like this, if the one I suggested is just a lot of silliness.
(Alternatively, if the fic is meant to exaggerate or lampoon what is wrong in badfic in general, BUT it's not widely understood as such, then a PPC agent infiltration of the fic could right what went wrong with the fic's establishment of its intentional facetiousness?)
Just tossing out ideas here. -
It occurs to me... by
on 2008-09-30 10:48:00 UTC
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... that while not particularly suited for a PPC mission, your idea looks ideal for PPC training. The Department of Operations is in charge of things like the Nursery, and so is probably officially supposed to run training of Agents, too. If you want to adapt this idea into a training exercise for new recruits -- a guided tour through the mind of a badficcer, as it were -- I would consider that an interesting expansion on a previously under-explored area of the PPC. Of course, first you'd need to explain why the Nightshade has suddenly started training properly...
(Qualification: this message does not constitute official Permission. I'm just suggesting ideas you may want to consider)
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I like that idea by
on 2008-10-01 00:52:00 UTC
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If nothing else, it would give some substance to the ever-ellusive "training" agents often refer to.
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Re: Hi there by
on 2008-09-30 09:01:00 UTC
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I gather that the function of most (all?) PPC agents is to establish what's wrong and set it right. My stance is more that if it's meant to be wrong, there's little sense in making it right, but perhaps worth indicating why the wrong occurred the way it did.
Being that this must be way out of the PPC's general usage, I'm soliciting for alternate ideas on how to approach a situation like this, if the one I suggested is just a lot of silliness.
(Alternatively, if the fic is meant to exaggerate or lampoon what is wrong in badfic in general, BUT it's not widely understood as such, then a PPC agent infiltration of the fic could right what went wrong with the fic's establishment of its intentional facetiousness?)
Just tossing out ideas here.
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Advertising for an idea bouncer. by
on 2008-09-30 15:47:00 UTC
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I was just wondering if anyone would like to help me with a fanfic I'm writing? At this point, I have most of it planned out, but there are some changes and things that I wanna run by other people to ensure I'm not creating 'Sues, God!Sues or anything like that. The story is an epic crossover, which goes into several genres. If you don't wanna be an 'Idea Bouncer' for the entire thing, then it's ok if you wanna help with a particular section.
Involved in the cross over are the following continuums:
Spira - Final Fantasy X / X-2
Hogwarts - Harry Potter Series
East High - High School Musical
For the most part, I just wanna leave a majority of the storyline intact. If you wanna offer, give me a yell, and I'll write up an explanation. I've been planning this for about three years, so there's a lot of preparation and background notes, AKA, there's a LOT of reading.
Thanks everyone. I'm still open to be a Beta for anyone who needs it! -
I could help with the Harry Potter part by
on 2008-09-30 17:32:00 UTC
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as long as you don't mind poking me a lot. I tend to procrastinate, but I definitely won't mind reading, since reading is fun. So, yeah. I can't say how long it'll take before I think of anything, but I'm here if you want me.
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Oh, and if you need it, by
on 2008-09-30 20:28:00 UTC
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my email address is webmaster(at)lynxihez(dot)co(dot)uk.
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Awesome, I'll send it along when I'm done then by
on 2008-10-01 04:37:00 UTC
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That is, when I have the basic plot written up, as well as the characters. And feel free to be absolutely and brutally honest. And I honestly mean that. I can't improve unless I know where I'm going wrong.
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Alright, cool. by
on 2008-10-01 13:33:00 UTC
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I'll read it as soon as possible after it's been sent, and beta/offer ideas as appropriate.
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Is that the right email? by
on 2008-10-01 13:45:00 UTC
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Or format? I'm with Hotmail, or Windows Live, whatever you wanna call it, and it gets confused with it.
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Yep. by
on 2008-10-01 17:23:00 UTC
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Technically, I'm with hotmail as well, but I registered a domain name 'cuz I'm *speshul*. If it's not working, tohugh, try kasia.shaw(at)gmail(dot)com or shawk001(at)suttonlea(dot)org .
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Great, the email has been sent. (nm) by
on 2008-10-02 03:10:00 UTC
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Cool, recieved. (nm) by
on 2008-10-02 21:00:00 UTC
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Umm... by
on 2008-09-30 16:37:00 UTC
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what's a God!Sue? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's worse than a regular one.
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It's pretty much in the name. by
on 2008-10-01 04:36:00 UTC
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Essentially it's a Sue who has Godlike, or very extreme powers. AN example of this is Robecca, the Mary-Sue who 'created' Narnia with her Cute Animal Friend 'Aslan'. Essentially, the difference is the level of power. WHile Mary-Sues do often have world destroying powers, they tend to keep these 'Quiet', showing them off when they need to. And these powers tend to be very mystical, with no solid basis for their power source. I.e.: Mary-Sue who can destroy the world by falling in love. There's no reason to it, and we have no reason why it would destroy the world.
God!Sues on the other hand have very blatant powers that they show off very regularly. Whats worse is that they tend to have a reason to their power, which is usually 'They're a God, duh!'. The God!Sue is usually specifically named to be a God, like that Horse Goddess Sue that was recently dealt with. -
I see... by
on 2008-10-01 11:32:00 UTC
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I was thinking that most Sues had devastating powers (mine included). I still have some Sues in my fics, but they don't show off their powers and I have slight reasoning for their mega-powers. At the moments when they most need them, something cancels out their advantage. Whether that is an enemy of the same strength (or worse, as is more usual) or just something that nullifies their magic or whatever it is.
But I haven't created a God!Sue for a long, long time, thank God. I've created a character who becomes a god when he dies but, like the Ancients in Stargate, is forbidden from helping the mortal plane. It annoys him to no end.
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Yet another "I Love Sirius" fic! by
on 2008-09-30 16:49:00 UTC
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Good God, can some government please pass a law that declares badfic as a treasonable offence? Okay, maybe not the first one, but as long as they are then forced to join a writing class, I'll be happy.
It's far better written than most (in terms of spelling and grammar, if not plot), but the author doesn't seem to understand what chapters are. Oh, and the Sue's once again called Amethyst. Make your own conclusions.
1000 Oceans by MsJasperHale: Empty Streets. I follow every breath into the night. The wind so cold. The sun is frozen the world has los tit's light. I carry your picture deep in me. Back to you over 1000 seas. Back to us. My name is Amethyst. And I'm in love with Sirius Black.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4567693/1/1000_Oceans
Oh, and on her profile she says this: "I normally write Harry Potter fan fiction, because I'm too afraid I'm going to defoul Twilight if I even attempt to write that fan fiction."
So Potter's okay to destroy but Twilight (huh?) is sacred? *sharpens knife*
"I want to be an author, a photographer and a model, but I know only one of those things will come true- that's why I'm on this website :)"
Uh-huh. -
Was just browsing the Torchwood list by
on 2008-10-02 12:37:00 UTC
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Oh, and the Sue's once again called Amethyst. Make your own conclusions.
Came across a fic that mentioned in the summary that the girl was named Amethyst. Frankly, I had never seen that name on a person before. Other clues in the summary also suggest this girl is a Sue too.
As if I didn't have enough of them to contend with already.
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"Inkheart" Badfic Reporting and Claimage by
on 2008-09-30 23:05:00 UTC
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I just finished reading the third book in the Inkworld trilogy, which was absolutely fantastic, and made the mistake of looking for fic...
It's only going to get worse once the movie comes out in January. (This has not in any way dampened my incredible excitement about the movie. Paul Bettany as Dustfinger...*squees*)
Up for grabs:
I'm Only Yours » by CassDG3253 reviews
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4378385/1/Im_Only_Yours
Okay, I suck at titles. Lorlai has some special talents that Capricorn plots to put to good use, but will the relationship that begins blossoming between her and Basta get in the way? Basta/OC fic. All reviews will be greatly appreciated!
Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,053 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-7-08 - Published: 7-7-08
Dustfinger's Sister:Violet » by -MusicRush- reviews
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4033957/1/Dustfingers_Sister_Violet
Yea...Check for a summary inside, but the title basically sums it up.
Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 9 - Words: 3,534 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 7-12-08 - Published: 1-25-08
Claimed for myself:
Inkfire » by irish33cm reviews
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3910685/1/Inkfire
Dustfinger and Ann have been read out of 'Inkheart' for a year, and Dustfinger has gone to find Silvertongue to help Ann and him escape the clutches of Capricorn. Capricorn, as well as Dustfinger both have their sights on the girl. DustfingerXOCXCapricorn
Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 17 - Words: 43,796 - Reviews: 47 - Updated: 9-21-08 - Published: 11-24-07 -
Oh, book 3's out? by
on 2008-10-01 11:02:00 UTC
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I haven't seen it around, but I'll look next time I go in to a book shop. I'm slightly surprised about the movie's release date, actually; the trailer was shown in early 2008. They must have pulled another HBP. (Stupid Twilight being shown instead...grr.)
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They released it early. by
on 2008-10-01 12:51:00 UTC
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It wasn't due out until the seventh, but a bunch of bookstores and Amazon all released it a week early.
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Oh, fair enough. by
on 2008-10-01 13:28:00 UTC
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Yeah, that makes sense. If they'd released it in real stores, Mum would have bought it, I think.
You know, it's strange. Just last night, we were discussing when the movie would come out, having seen the trailer a while ago. So, now I have an answer. Yay! -
Hmmm... by
on 2008-09-30 23:19:00 UTC
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I started reading the first book in that trilogy, and got distracted about halfway through...
...ought I to continue?
Unfortunately, as such, I can't help you here.
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YES. by
on 2008-09-30 23:34:00 UTC
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You should read all three, because they are awesome. Very, very awesome.
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*salutes* by
on 2008-10-01 01:29:00 UTC
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Si vous voulez, mon capitaine! ;)