Feb 2009 Archive, part b

Might I suggest linking your missions to your Agents' wiki pages? Sara's page claims that there are no missions in existence for them.

Have you posted that to http://community.livejournal.com/lol_typo yet?

Good day, all.

We of the Department of Fictional Psychology congratulate Agents Sara Knight and Zach Homewood on the completion of a successful mission. However, we are concerned with some of the particulars of said mission. We would like it to be known that any use of the "snaperrifle" in any capacity other than the strictly professional will result in the offending party being banned from all Bleeprin supplies. We simply do not wish to contemplate the kind of mayhem such a thing would cause in the halls of HQ.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

The Kudzu Vine

Looks good! Loved the Snaperrifle, it had me laughing hard enough that my roomie came and checked on me.

Spotted a typo, btw: “'Mithril coat be damned, for grying silver tears, having your villain randomly grow wings, randomly having an orgy in the Mines of Moria'”

Shiny. And potentially very disturbing. "snaperrifle"... *snigger*.

I had no idea. And I wish I could go, but being in New Zealand, the plane fare alone would triple my costs. And that's close to exam week. So sorry, but no. You guys have fun!

I would love to go but I would have already blown my money on Otakon the week before. Have fun!

Honestly, you vanish for a month and people start thinking they can just wander off and find new betas willy-nilly. :P

I'll take a look at it, Mister Impatient.

I might be able to beta. I'm a pretty good proofreader.

If no one else volunteers, I'm pretty sure I could help make it at least legible. :) I'm hardly up to Cassie's level, but I should be able to assist a little.

Not sure if any of these have been PPC'd

Frey
Found alone in a storm. Fourteen year old Frey seems to know alot about aliens. The torchwood team allow her to join them but what other secrets is she hiding?

She's the Master's daughter in Cardiff.

Torchwood Mystic Storm
This is my first fan fic story. All characters you recognize from Torchwood are Russel T. Davis any others are my own made-up characters.

Jack/OC and OC/OC. Hotaru, computer whizkid, been working for Tochwood for two years since graduating from college. Is sleeping with Jack and Kelly Rose. Kelly Rose, her roommate, cook and friend with benefits. Poor punctuation and grammar.

Trapped
What would happen if the world was sudden infected by an alien disease that killed everyone? And then by some ill fated accident, members of the torchwood team fell through a crack in time to this world? Would they survive? Eventual TorchwoodXDoctorWho

Earth Shock The Electric Feel
A new member of the Torchwood team suddenly shows up. an old friend of Jack's with something, or someone in common. Aurora has an interesting past, and present. rated M for bad langugae and sexual content. Please rate and review. ENJOY!

Hmm… I'll take the first one.

"Don't call me Doc." -- The Doctor, The Time Meddler.

I just skimmed the fics. First one has a run on sentence problem, but didn't seem too horrid. Basic "Doctor Who is not a TV show it's real" premise. Would be interesting to investigate whether what that means for PPC agents that step into such a fic.

Second one: I stopped reading when Jackie yelled at Rose something about wanting to get married after a year, but having a 13 year old daughter to think of. Uh, is this Rose who wants to get married to human!Doctor? Then how did 21 year old Rose get a 13 year old daughter?
No wait, don't answer that. Just kill it.

Third one: too short. Just leave it a critical review. That will kill it.

Do you want to take any of these on yourself? I've noticed your rather prolific. If not, I may want to take my chances for brain damage on the second fic.

The first one isn't quite so bad as the others, but they certainly seem bad enough to PPC. Although you might have trouble with that third one iven it's so short.

We muck around with Bleeprin in the PPC, laughing about agents overdosing or goiing loopy, but it's very possible that people could overuse it just as so many pharmaceutical are overused. Dependancy would be so damn easy. The article touches on this, but not in enough detail, I think.

Really, I hope that they find some flaw and dump the whole project. Too risky. And besides that, people need to learn to deal with fear, or they're just going to spend their lives fearing an incident that will make them afraid. That's no way to live.

The drug does not take away the memory; it takes away the fear associated with the memory. The person would still have the bad memory. He would just not be affraid of it anymore.

I'm reading the linked article and though the point of the Dutch researcher is made (not changing the memory, just changing the response), the British scientists that respond (mostly) seem to fail to see this point. They're talking about it being bad to change a bad memory, 'cause memories are useful. But the memory wasn't changed, the response to it was. So it would have been nice to see these scientists respond to the usefulness (or not) of changing a response to a bad memory.

They make valid points, though they are some what irrelevant to the research that was presented.

That said, when the item opened my first thought was of bleeprin aswell.

A medication that creates memory loss...that remineds me of a book I read called Kiss, it was by Ted Dekker. The Heroine lost her memory due to a medication that supresses the memory.

But British experts questioned the ethics of tampering with the mind.

Hang on. I thought this stuff's affecting brain chemistry. Time, perhaps, these scientists realised brain = mind? 'Cause if they haven't yet made that link, surely the experiments were a tad unethical in the first place?

Well done, stellar as always - I especially liked how you tied in the ending with the genderbender incident.

Pick me, pick me! Britpicking's always fun.

Few weeks ago there was a documentary on TV where he told about his Alzheimers, and in the end credits it seemed to say: Sir Terry Pratchett.

Actually, on my screen it said (I don't have wide screen and lose some information on the sides):
resented by
ir Terry Pratchett

I may have added the wrong letter before ir.

Hi. welcome to the PPC.

have a combat spork and bleeprin.

any examples of rare fandoms?

Have a prinny suit. It has the unusual side-effect of making you say 'dood' after every sentence. It looks like a penguin with small demon wings on the back and a pouch for explody and/or pointy objects. A Scarf of Non-Explodiness, which negates the explosiveness of prinnies when thrown, is optional. The suit will go well with the baby penguin, at least.

It's a solution for everything.

Have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs but author wraiths and spambots, too! Use it for good and not evil.

Welcome!

Welcome to the PPC! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *holds out bucket marked "Warg fodder"* We don't tend to have much use for it here. I'm sure you'll be quite happy here. If not, there's always brainwashing and torture.
Enjoy.
-Mad Maudlin

If it's alright i'd like to start a new Department called the Department of Deconstruction.

The idea is that it's a sub-department of Research that deals with breaking things down to understand them better.

Is that acceptable?

And I absolutely collapsed when Edmund was saying 'I want you to be the first to bugger me," golden moment made even better by the delightfully snarky observations of the agents, xD.

*goes to read the next part*

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/68673.html

In which there is SLASH.

Well, what did you EXPECT us to do? *innocent face*

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/68383.html#cutid1

Last part. Worst part. Involves Aslan. You have been warned.

http://agenttrojie.livejournal.com/68187.html#cutid1

[warnings: genderbending, incest, lack of any kind of explanation]

Have a prinny suit. It makes people tack 'dood' to the end of every sentence, and looks like a penguin with peglegs and tiny bat wings. Oh, and a pouch for pointy and/or explody objects.

I'm Lolotea; that's not my real name, but it'll do.  I'm a habitual snark who's probably playing something tall and blue on WoW at any given moment.

A crossover with that fic would be both hilarious and confusing - sounds like good fun. Go for it, but be nice.

After all, that'd be a bit convoulted, heh.

Honestly, you could have waited. I'm here now, and believe me, I'm going to be thoroughly betaing that chapter even if you've published it. I'll be here tomorrow morning, so expect to get a talking to, young lady!

*hug* At least you've got on with it. Well done for that.

Sure, I've got time to kill.

Well, there are modified CADS for it. If nothing is used, then either one or both Agents are possessed by the Suevian spirit and act out the role of the Stu/Sue. It seems that removing said Agent from the story's plot by intervening can force the Sue into the third person, but the possession in that incident was incomplete.

Disclaimer - my entire knowledge of pokemon is based on my having watched the first series of the cartoon when I was about eleven or twelve, which is over ten yeras ago now.

Pokemon biology ... yeah. I can't really say much on the front of the mechanics of Pokeballs or of the whole laser thing, but as for the 'evolution' ... well. There are things I can say on that score.

Evolution, for a start, is the wrong term. Metamorphosis is the correct term. Yes, that's right, what butterflies do. I know there are different types of Pokemon and that only some of them are 'insect type', but if I had to fit them into an Earth phylogenetic system I would put them in the phylum Arthropoda.

Yes, I *know* some of them are mammal-like and rock-like and plant-like, but hear me out :)

See, the thing about arthropods (not just insects, but we'll get to the classification thing soon, I promise) is that they are incredible mimics. There are arthropods that are almost impossible to distinguish from bits of plant, from bits of stone, from snakes and so forth. And arthropods metamorphose, which is very important.

Animals and plants are grouped based on different charactersitics, and the idea of grouping them is to make sure that each group contains only organisms that are more closely related to each other than they are to everything outside the group. And modes of life are very important criteria for dividing up organisms - outward appearance is actually one of the least important criteria - it is so easily changed by selection pressure. So given that all Pokemon have this same basic mode of reproduction/metamorphosis, which can be catalysed by rocks, of all things (and I'll get onto THAT later as well), I'm going to group them in their own class, part of the phylum Arthropoda and a sister-taxon to the classes Insecta, Chelicerata etc etc. This group is cladistically correct because it is monophyletic (nothing that belongs in the group has been left out - no other animals reproduce like Pokemon do)

As for the rock catalyst thing, it is possible (not probable, and not likely, but possible) that these magical rocks contain essential elements or compounds that catalyse the chemical processes that cause them to metamorphose, or that stress them into changing, somewhat like bad water conditions force axolotls (which are normally neotenous and happy about it) to undergo the last stage of development and become newts.
This is a poor and depauperate explanation but I'm sort of scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

I would like to state that this is me mostly me waffling on about biology and probably mostly talking out my arse and that I claim no authority on Pokemon canon. That said ... if these ideas are any use, feel free to use them.

Since it is aimed at children, the characters don't age so that they can continue to connect with their audience. Other anime that is set over a long period of time (many anime aren't) do have characters that age. One example is Dragonball. The main character started the series as 12, but by the end of GT he's in his 60s with grandchildren (even if he does age spectacularily well).

As for the other stuff... It's a children's show. It doesn't need logic. The manga might have more detail though, I think that was aimed at an older audience.

Yeah, I was wondering about where the water would come from for the move surf. If they pull from the environment then does that mean that they can't use it if they are in a desert? I gave up analyzing it. You just have to be creative when you write and try to work around it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotSkittyOnWailordAction

Pokemon doesn't have many canon explanations for these, as a reuslt, some of them are often left to the fandom to decide. A lot of these are also assumptions and guesses on my part to apply logic to the world.

First paragraph: It's a show aimed at kids mostly, same as the games. Characters don't look 10, but rather cna fit into most early age brackets. And yes, Pokemon is anime.

There is no logical explanation behind Pokeballs, other than the diffusion of matter. In my stories, the Pokeball contains technology capable of transferring physical matter into a pure energy form, thus allowing the Pokemon to be stored within the Pokeball. As all amtter is simply different forms of energy, the conversion is easy enough to say in theory, but hard ot put into practice. Additionally, Pokeballs can expand or reduce in size due to the technology of the Pokeball moving around, thus allowing it to enter a more compact mode. It's unsure what the inside of a Pokeball is like, seeing as the being inside is theoretically pure energy, but it is often guessed, and supported by Nintendo, that the inside of the Pokeball varies to give the mind of the Pokemon, or the physical body if the energy process turns it to energy, then to matter again inside the Pokeball, a more sane level of existance. A water type may need water, thus the Pokeball compensates thruogh inbuilt technology. In this thread, of the inside of a Pokeball is chosen to suit the Pokemon, it also follows that the environment is suitable for the Pokemon to rest and heal. Given the choice, I suppose a Pokemon may even be able to listen to events occuring outside its Pokeball, giving the possibility that the Pokeball has psychic capabilities and responds to the thoughts of a Pokemon.
Within the anime and games, Pokemon do need additional medicine for particularly extreme wounds or conditions (Poisoned, as an example), but other than that, Pokemon have probably developed accelerated healing abilities as a result of their frequent practice of battling. Pokemon have aso been shown to be fed regularly outside of the Pokeball, showing that the Pokeball doesn't seem to provide nutrition. As a result, they can starve to death unless they are Ghost Types.

Pokemon do not evolve constantly, as each tends to have one, or at most, two forms to evolve into. Humans are constantly evolving in their childhood to their teenage, and then adult forms, it's just more gradual. In the case of Pokemon, these changes are more sudden. It's the training that allows a Pokemon to evolve, similar to how exercise and nutrition allows the human body to grow towards adulthood. It's quite similar to the human developement, just occurs at set stages that can spontaneously happen, whether upon an emotion trigger or the need to evolve to deal with their current situation (See when Ash's Charmeleon evolved to Charizard to save Ash from the Aerodactyl). The elemental stones are shown to contain concentrated doses of whatever element they represent, which leads to the suggestion of radioactivity, a natural element not found on earth or even divine blessing.
Eevee is capable of evolving because it is very adaptable. It has been specifically noted that Eevee's DNA is unstable, allowing it to potentially absorb part of the environment around it and evolve to best suit it. This would explain why Eevee evolves around the Ice Rock in Diamond and Pearl, or to Vaporean when exposed to a Water Stone.

Pokemon attacks can be a bit tricky, but again, I also dealt with this in my own Pokemon fanfic. The water used by certain water Pokemon (Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, etc) is developed in an internal water pouch which frequently fills with either excess saliva, stomach acid (Explaining why several Water Types are also poison types), or is capable of combining oxygen in the air with hydrogen produced naturally by the body.
Leaves and vines are harder to explain. However, there are cases where plants can be quite effective against regular metal. Theoretically, by binding together thousands of paper thin layers of membrane, you can create a substance equal in power to steal. This would be seal in a laquer naturally product by grass Pokemon. The vines may simply be the result of seeds carried by the Pokemon being forced to grow rapidly, or even the Grass Pokemon itself forcing its body to grow by concentrating sunlight, nutrients and water in its body to force the growth or attack (Solarbeam requires sunlight to fire, etc).

And that's all stuff I've dealt with in my story. It's actually quite fun, applying logic, you just gotta ask 'How can this work', and then create the theories. I dealt with the paradox of 'Pokemon fire = Not Death' vs 'Building on Fire = Death' by saying that fire types excrete a natural chemical in their fire sacs which limits the heat their flames can reach.

I, personally, gave up on logic in Pokemon a long time ago. I don't think it's meant to make sense, but just to entertain. It's a fantasy world with different rules etc.

Lights etc are just visual effects, for the viewers, in my opinion. Kids are attracted by shiny things.

Evolution could just be a case of 'I'm too powerful/experienced for this form now, I need to be at the next one to continue getting stronger.' There are exceptions, of course (i.e. Ash/Satoshi's Pikachu and its ability to defeat almost anything), but most things evolve once they're strong enough. I believe it was mentioned somewhere, perhaps in the Pokedex of one of the games, that Eevee has an unstable genetic code and therefore can evolve into whatever Pokemon is attuned to the stone you use on it (about seven or so now I think).

People do age in anime, most of the time, but Pokemon is just weird with its non-aging. The Digimon Adventures 01 characters were older by the time of 02, to use your other mon-anime example. Bleach, Gundam 00, Naruto, Code Geass and Ouran all show the characters aging, whether through time skips to the future or flashbacks to the past.

Good luck with figuring out Pokemon logic and science.