Apr 2009 Archive, part a

The mad villagers welcome you,too.

And a Mark I K-9, as well.

They're a good source of potassium!

Hello! I joined nearly a year back now. I seem to remember coming across missions with your name floating around on 'em when I blundered in through the door.

Nice to meet you!

Six or seven years? Damn, I keep forgetting how old the PPC is. Were Jay and Acacia still active when you joined?

It's cool to meet one of the vets! I'm still new.

I suppose that's a good enough word as any. :)

Good to 'meet' you!

- Sedri

*throws banana, just for fun*

Together/separate from an Easter thing? *been vaguely thinking about that*

Maybe a memorial service? The Orchestra could do something maybe?

I was not there yet at the time of the invasion, but I'm always open for RP's.

I have no suggestions for the moment though.

The minis could be servers...

What's the protocol for cleaning up RP logs and getting them into a readable form? This is currently an impenetrable mess :P

In their response Center, Naomi looks out, then groans, and grabs her partner back. “No, we first call our friends.”
She turned to the laptop, frowning as she logged on and attempted to contact Storm and Skyfire.

Nat Freidar sat bolt upright in bed as a loudspeaker blared out.

All agents to report to the nearest Sueification station for reeducation. Despatch is currently readying a list of the most flagrant goodfic that needs to be flamed. All agents to report to the nearest Sueification station.

"What the gwaedlyd uffern is going on?" she grumbled, but stopped short on getting out of bed as she noticed that the room was the wrong colour. "Um, am I seein' things, or is the room..."

"Black? Yeah." Cassie turned round from the cupboard where the weapons were kept. "I thought it was some April Fool's Day joke when I went to look it up, but now it looks like there's an actual invasion or something."

"Didn't we 'ave enough o' that last year?" the lanky girl complained, sitting on the edge of her bed for a moment before what Cassie had said sank in. "What?" She jumped up and grabbed her own weapons. "Come on then!"

"Is that really such a good idea?" said the third occupant of the room, who up till then had been silent. Kelvin shifted nervously as both women glared at him. "Um, we don't know what's going on, is all..."

"Then we need to go and find out," Cassie replied. "Come on, grab your stuff." She glanced over to the minis' bed, but neither of them were in the RC. Ah, well. Guess they can take care of themselves better than we could.

A random pair of EPC Agents got the surprise of their lives - and deaths - a minute later when three PPCers burst out of the room next to them.

"That wasn't so bad," Nat said as she wiped off her sword. "More Sues. They should be easy enough ta deal with."

"Wait a moment." Kelvin was examining one of the bodies. "This looks like our flashpatch, except for the sword."

"No kidding..." Cassie looked around at the now-unfamiliar black corridors. "I really don't like this. Let's try and find someone else. Maybe they'll know what's going on."

There was total agreement from the other two, and the trio set off warily down the corridor, keeping a close lookout for more trouble.

Of course, rounding the next corner to come face to face with a large group of Sueish-looking people would probably have counted as more trouble.

"RUN!"

"Now what?" Kelvin asked as they tried to outrun the gang.

"We run an' find 'elp!"

Adder practically broke down the door of her RC, grabbing her wooden cricket bat. "Deuce, we've got a problem.

Her partner was already sharpening his daggers "You don't think I didn't realize that already? What the hell's going on?"

"The PPC's been compromised," Adder replied. "Some kinda mirror multiverse thing... I don't know! All I know is that we gotta kill these farkin EPC agents, and I don't intend to cower in the RC and wait it out! But don't set anything on fire. We don't know how flammable the mirror verse is."

"Damn. Oh, well." The diminutive Agent bared his jagged teeth in a feral grin. He bounded toward the open door.

"Deuce!"

He paused, looking back. "Yeah?"

"You're fly's down.

Deuce yelped, glanced down, and-- "No it's not."

"April Fools!" Laughing maniacally, with a cricket bat and one hand and a razor-sharp reed knife in the other, Adder shot out into the hallway and brained the first EPC Agent she saw.

Question; is this like, a canon invasion like the 2008 Sue attack or just a one off thing that doesn't canonically happen?

Agent Cal came running at the noise, almost tripping in his overly large trenchcoat. It took him a minute to understand the situation.

"Ellen! To me!" he barked. "The headquarters are under att--"

"YAAAAAY!"

The robot girl shoved him aside with a maniacal grin on her face, forcing the young agent to throw himself to the ground to avoid the huge spiked head of her flail.

"I will not tolerate more of this unprofessional behavior," he said weakly as Ellen ran past him. But he strongly doubted she would pay him any heed. Sighing, he got back to his feet with as much dignity as he could muster and followed his partner.

Agent Warren strode down the hallway, whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King" at the top of his lungs.

Considering the current state of HQ and the fact that his partner was still in their TARDIS, this was a remarkably stupid thing to do. He got bonus points for dragging his lightsaber through the walls at waist height, leaving a glowing line of molten Suefic Surface behind, and for forgetting not to look where he was going.

"All Agents...bzzzt..." The loudspeaker fell silent as the lightsaber bisected it, then fell in two pieces on the glittery ground.

"Bugger you," Alex muttered, then continued humming, confident that nothing too bad would happen. It was therefore inevitable that he bumped into not one but three EPC patrols at the same time.

Agent Mulhoon looked out the door. Gone was the grey Generic Surface, to be replaced by chic black. Loudspeakers dtted the wall at intervals, blaring out PSAs.
All agents to report to the nearest Sueification station for reeducation. Despatch is currently readying a list of the most flagrant goodfic that needs to be flamed. All agents to report to the nearest Sueification station.

"Oh, good," he grunted. "The EPC are back. Had enough of those last year."
He walked acros the response centre to the weapons cabinet, drawing out a revolver and a set of brass knuckles.
"Grab your toys, newbie. HQ's been invaded, we need to go find some more agents to help chuck the jokers out. Help me find the way to RC 45?"

"But I've got no idea where that is."

"Good. I do know where it is, which means I'll never find it. You'll likely go straight there. One of the oddities of HQ. It's Trojie and Pads' Response Centre, if I know them at all they'll be spoiling for a fight."

Are we fighting or are we hiding? I'm down with both, I'd just like to know ...

I can get another grey jacket off my counterpart after I kill him? And his lightsaber collection?

There are flowers, just like the ones in charge of us, who are evil?

I TOLD YOU SO! Battle stations!

Is it a parody?
Or a compitition?

Which happens to be conveniently located behind a foot thick block of titanium-steel alloy.

Or find some weapons, or something.

Not that that's a bad thing. Seems interesting.

Also, sorry for not being able to participate in the April Fool's day event. Not that I could have managed more than one post...

If I hang my cursor above the link to the second story the word aprilfool appears in the link.

Did you make these links yourself?

*wishing all badfic was just a joke*

it's a crossover. And is just far too much WTF. I have enough knowledge of those canons, but it's just... whaaat?

There isn't much to say about the others that hasn't already been said.

The link for the 2nd one is broken...
The first one is classic sue, no questions asked.
The 3rd just really confused me with the OOC-ness.
And the fact that people just popped out of nowhere.

That first one looks particularly juicy. Loads of missing punctuation, angst everywhere, and it's twenty chapters long.

I'm ashamed to report I couldn't handle any of the lot; haven't read a Harry Potter book since Goblet of Fire, for one, and I'm only familiar with the Nu Who. Still, even I know what the Third Doctor looks like!

Best of luck to whoever decides to take on these things.

I looked at the third one, and...
Thirteen Nazgûl?! Angsty!Harry?! Kind!Petunia?! AAAH!!! MY BRAIN!!!

Hmm, apparently the change is only for mine own eyes. Ah, well, it's still devious. Did you invent that code yourself?

Fun.

...here are some more characters who play major roles in Chliever and Winston's stories:

The Floating Hyacinth: Chliever and Winston's Head of Department, so of course he shows up occasionally. At one point, he sends them on a punishment mission to the entire works of Starjeffry.

Agent Grendel de Bry: The self-proclaimed "Morally-ambiguous head of genetics and regeneration" for the Medical Department. He's responsible for all tanks in HQ, such as the regeneration tanks and the Floating Hyacinth's tank. He enjoys randomly breaking into bouts of evil laughter, wearing horrible-smelling latex gloves, and generally looking and acting a lot like Professor Hojo.

The Insane Canon: This (canonically) insane canon character is saved from a squickfic by Chliever and Winston, is sent to Medical for treatment, and subsequently escapes, ultimately moving in with Chliever and Winston despite their protests. Who this is is a pretty big spoiler for the early missions, so I won't tell you just yet, but I am well-versed in this person's native canon and thus should be able to write them fairly well.

Chliever's Dumbass Brothers-in-law: Algort the Contaminator, Pustol the Mortifier, and Burt the Stealer of One Sock from Each Pair respectively. These three get dumped by the Warp into the RC and immediately make with the mooching. They'll appear from mission three onward.

Chliever's Nerglings: Chliever has thirteen adorable Nerglings back home. Most of his paycheck gets sent to them. They may move into the RC later on, I'm not sure yet.

Agent Michel Javert: If Tomato will let me use him, I've got a big role planned for him later on.

EPC: Yep, I'm planning to do a Mirror Multiverse story. Features appearances by the mirror Dr. Fitzgerald and Bashir Hologram, the latter of who's identity is... disturbing, to say the least.

After that, you make the page invisible on the sidebar through the site manager, and put the link to the mission page on the mission log page. It's easy, just takes a little while.

Oh I surely dearly do hate it when people mess with my favourites. Poor Yamcha gets his character torn every which way.

But jeez, that fic... I couldn't even make it half-way through the first chapter. Where the heck does that kind of drivel pass for humour?

Rapist!Yamcha. My eternal enemy has struck again. Oh, and King Vegeta being upset that his son married an earthling. What an original plot device. You can totally tell the author didn't just take a bunch of plot devices from other fics and then mixed them together.

*gets the feeling that if she actually clicks the link, there is a good chance she will start breaking stuff.*

We try not to have too many new messages one after the other, otherwise things get shoved off the end of the Board and if something's happening further down the page it can end up getting lost. If there's a fairly recent thread you can add this topic to, it's usually best to post it there.

Don't worry about people missing it; most Boarders tend to be fairly observant about checking for new stuff.

I liked the CAD's reaction.

you beat me to the first cake or death reference...

Great first mission! Your Agents are as amusing as I'd hoped.

This fic, though... my only coherent reaction is, "Whiskey. Tango. FOXTROT."

I mean, the random Communism in the zarking Avatarverse is bad enough, but the Rwanda thing sent me over the edge.

I highly doubt this author has seen "Hotel Rwanda." I mean, comment on the massacre of the Airbenders if you want to make a political point. Don't go dragging real genocides into it, kthx.

[/rant]

Loved the Eddie Izzard reference at the end. =P

Excellent, excellent. Made me happy to have reported it here.

I like.
Communism has no place in the avatar-verse.

Just FYI.

…what was a were-penguin doing on a world known to have a moon when he didn't have to be there? You've got Tawaki dropping by before the PPC is seen.

Who thought it was a good idea to let Cluny near the List? Are OFU characters considered that "tame" or was it an accident?

I was anxiously awaiting the Big Reaction, and you pulled it off with aplomb!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4895774/1/How_It_Should_Be

A Ginny/Draco piece. Summary: It couldn’t be her of all people to do this to him! It didn’t make sense. It wasn’t right. She was a Weasley and he a Malfoy. It was unheard of to think of one and the other to be anything but enemies.

I think that says it all. It's very short, and I'm not entirely sure how to handle it, so I'll offer it up for grabs.

Yes, of course lions have skin, but the bit I was referring to was talking about should have said fur, not skin, as it was referring to a... colour, I think. Which, yes, would be influened by their actual skin, but the point is that they should've... ack. It's bad anyway.

'Cause nobody's posted.

Is something wrong with the old thread? I've never seen any RP continued like this, paticularly with the rules about double posting.

Alex saw the lightsaber fly through the air and jerked to the right in an attempt to catch it, throwing the wolf off balance in the process. Hand reaching out, Alex lifted his arm as the lightsaber began to fall down, his fingers curved as he prepared to hit the activation button...

And promptly felt the hilt hit him between the eyes hard enough to make his world turn black for a moment. The handle dropped to the ground with a clatter.

"Sorry!" Chase called, then was forced to turn back to her opponent as he nearly took her head off with his sword. All the nearby Agents were similarly occupied, so there would be no help for Alex from that quarter.

The wolf Sue had gotten back to her paws by this point and snarled viciously as she jumped at Alex. The PCCer, who had just gotten his fingers around the saber hilt, was thrown off his feet.

The saber handle slipped from his grasp once again, only inches out of his reach. Reaching for it with his left hand, Alex tried to the wolf's jaws shut and away from his neck with the other. He wasn't having much luck. The wolf's claws tore holes in his jacket and jeans and left bloody gashes in his chest and legs as it struggled to break free of the death-grip Alex was exerting on its jaw. Alex struggled to twist to the left, and the wolf took advantage of that to jerk its jaw free of Alex's grip.

It lunged for the Agents neck at the same time he got a grip on the curved saber handle and swung it above him. The Wolf! Sue impaled its head onto the lightsaber, shrieking as the energy blade burned through its lower jaw and skull before emerging through its left eyesocket.

The howl stopped, and the Sue collapsed onto the Agent. Panting and exhausted, Alex tried to move, only to be stopped by the corpse's sheer bulk. Absently, he noted that the body was just the right size to be made into a very nice rug.

Fortunately and unfortunately for the trapped Agent, the combatants of both sides were too busy killing each other to notice him. Fortunately because it meant a Sue wouldn't come over to finish him off. Unfortunately because help would not be forthcoming. Two minutes later, Alex finally worked up the strength to push the body off and pull himself up. Wincing with each movement and the pain it brought from his various injuries, the Agent got back to his feet.

The Highlander method doesn't work ???

Prove that his immortality hasn't gotten passed onto her by killing her in a logic field.

I'm joining up soon, and my specialty will be Yu Yu Hakusho. I suppose I could loan you a Sinning Tree or a Pseudocreature.

I like the idea of doing 1 and then 2. Acting like the Mafia is always fun, even if I did confuse them with raffia once.
-Mad Maudlin

Why not try taking care of her Highlander style, with a quick decapitation?

Here's an idea - release some sort of massive Biblical demon that feeds on life energy, and, when they've killed each other, CUT HER LIPS OFF. That way no bloody Welsh police officers can snog her and bring her back.

Stick her in a sun and turn up the TARDIS's internal time vs external time. (ala "the Runaway Bride" formation of the Earth). The Sue should end up spending her life energy rather quickly. That, or hook her up to New New York's power grid.

Having the Sue's immortality disappear in a puff of logic is such a nice thing, don't you agree?

It wasn't just a black hole. What the man said was "the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy". Which is about ten orders of magnitude larger. Like Pads says, those are very good shields.

You might want to consider how Upstairs will take leaving a 'Sue alive, even if she's trapped, though. They got rather ticked off at Jay and Acacia for leaving one to the Elves, as I recall.

hS

A pity I'm too recent to join... I don't have permission yet, so I won't be able to help you with my (future) team of agents with a TARDIS

I like the last one too. Although now that I think about it, the TARDIS must have incredible shields to actually be able to drop someone in a black hole...

But there's no need to make a new post to inform us - not unless you have a question. All it's doing is shoving other posts off the end of the page. When your agent profiles are ready, please put it in this thread instead of starting a new one (unless, of course, this thread has been pushed off the page by the time you're ready. In that case, go right ahead and make a new one :) ).

H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. Good job, Adder and Deuce. One criticism, though: the scene where the Stu gets killed is not graphic enough. I'm not sadistic or violent by nature, but I think he deserved a more detailed death.

I can understand why people write smutfic. But why, of all fictional universes, would anyone choose HTF?

My bad, found it on the wiki.

No bad fanfiction for us to mock?

Me too.

Try metafandom on del.icious, and the Organisation for Transformative Works - both lots of material if you go digging.
random lurker just chipping in >

You could look up Gregory Maguire. He wrote Wicked, which is basically a fanfiction of The Wizard of Oz, AND got it published. Just a thought.

She did a rather lengthly study that basically concluded that when fanfiction can be considered a transformative work, the author's distaste for it is not reason enough to suppress it. There's a lot of other issues around that so don't quote me directly, but I found it useful.

But you might want to look up the people who've banned Fanfiction of their work. Anne Rice and such. See what they're doing to try and stop it. Another interesting thing to look up would be any authors who actively encourage fanfiction etc., and how.

What I normally do for my essays is head to wikipedia, scan read, scroll to the bottom and check out the citation links, and any other links. I mean, fanfiction leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction, and that has lots of interesting looking links.

Google books might be worth checking out as well.

For the proposal, do you just have to present one solution or many possible ones? Either way, try a spider diagram. Scribble down all the solutions you can think of an work off them. The only thing I would point out is that if you're siding with fan authors then you need to think of what the issue that you need to address is. Is it checking that people aren't copying your work word for word or that they're not making money off it? The first is easyish to solve (searches for text chunks), the second a little more tough. If you want a solution to how to stop fan authors altogether, then you really do need to check out Anne Rice etc.

Good luck.

At least this one didn't have a talking blood-drinking sword or unintentionally make the hero sound like a paedophile ...

That probably wasn't the ideal thing to start reading in the morning. Writing like that makes my inner grammar-stickler collapse motionless.

Make it go away! Ah! I know! I will send the link to my English teacher and see what she thinks of it. should be interesting.

The sentence structure (or lack thereof) of this fic reminds me of Legolas by Laura.

Kill. It.

http://www.fanfiction.net/r/3952344/

I was very polite. He doesn't sound unintelligent; just reluctant to learn from critique. {= P Oh well.

Anyway, I don't think it's been PPC'd. Have fun with the run-on sentences and the lack of punctuation in general.

~Neshomeh

The woman he viscously raped and enslaved?
Ha ha ha ha...

I haven't checked, but I know my fellow Boarders, so you've probably been handed a dozen links, and twice as many rules in various forms. However, what a lot of people seem to forget is that trying to set rules for the PPC Board is like trying to herd cats when the cats are on fire and swimming in treacle. Possibly they are also all possessed by insane aliens. In other words, it don't work, and the results wouldn't be pretty if it did.

So. This is the Board. You make threads with the Post Message button, and you reply to posts with the Post Reply button. And then the Board moves along and hopefully people reply to you.

We have a Constitution. No one ever links to it any more, but it's still linked at the top of the Board. Look! We also have a vague rule about not making two threads in a row, or too many in a short period of time, but apart from that -- nothing. You're free! Free as a bird! And not even an on-fire-treacle-wading-insane-alien-possessed bird. You lucky thing, you.

hS

To the PPC.

and sorry, not sure about the list.

Have a notebook to write down what you learn about the PPC.

Have a bunny-shaped plush.

I gift thee with...an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and hey, it whisks eggs! Use it for good and not evil.

Welcome to the insanity! Enjoy your stay. ^_^

I notice that people have been mentioning the Wiki, but I don't recall anyone giving you a link. So, here's a link to the PPC Wiki. The article on Permission is particularly enlightening.

Beware the Legendary Badfic. Reading them is not recommended. Even the summaries can strip sanity.

Welcome, please leave your sanity in the receptacle provided by someone else and enjoy your stay.

PS. The Floaters are always looking for new bodies to help out with all kinds of badfic.

I believe the others have already said everything you need to know, so I'll just scare you with a VERY LARGE HINT that the DMS is the best department to work in (as well as the most in need of new blood agents.

The Hedge is useful against the Knights of Ni, should you ever encounter them.

All continua are under the protection of the PPC, really. Recently I took it to the world of Happy Tree Friends.

Feel free to take a complimentary walnut from the bowl by the door. If it starts talking to you, please ignore any advice it might give you.

I gift you a derringer pistol with garlic-soaked bullets, and a sock full of rocks. I'm sure you'll find use for them.

Nice name. Have a winged kitten, and watch out for giant glass jars!

Here, have a couple pounds of Composition 4 plastic explosive. or C4, if you want to call it that. i don't care. you can light it on fire to cook stuff. just remember not to stomp on it if it is lit, because it will detonate. see you around.

…so have a Mark II K-9. BTW, will your Agents be based in a TARDIS or response center?

Lovely to meet you. Here, have a bag of pebbles and Random Shiny Object.

How this Board works... I assume you mean regarding writing PPC stories. Well, we have a few guidelines that we prefer people to follow.

First of all, you should hang around for a month, posting and letting everyone get to know you. Then, after that month is up, you post with basic bios of your Agents, a writing sample and a fic you'd like to take on. Then it's up to the Permission Givers to say yea or nay. If they say yea, then you can sally forth and defend Canon with pride!

And as for the Canon worlds, you can take on any one you like. We have people covering all sorts, from LOTR to Star Wars to Halo 3.

Lovely to have you here. I'm sure somebody will be along to throw the relevant links at you in a bit, they're traditional newbie-gifts.

(Ha, Tawaki, I beat you at it!)

Welcome aboard, Guessmyname. We can always use cannon fodder.

I'll grant you that this board is not very practical, but people are friendly and activity never dies.

It's a low-tech forum: no edits and the older posts vanish. You might want to look around the wiki if you've just read TOS. Welcome, and have a vibrospork. Good for those Jedi Sues who don't know about cortosis fiber.

Incidentally, Luxury is coming! Hide!

Welcome. Here's a tall ship.

Pretty much all continua are under protection. Star Wars is a popular example, as are Stargate and other SF universes. Fantasy universes too (Pern, Valdemar, ASoIaF, WoT, SoT, Eragon... and yes even Twilight), as well as TV shows (House, CSI...) and even RPF (actorfic, bandslash, etc.).
I just joined and haven't asked for permission yet, but personally I'll be protecting Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate Atlantis, Watchmen, some fantasy universes, House MD, Numb3rs and U2.

Er, sorry about that...Anyway, hi! Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *holds out bucket marked "Warg fodder"* We don't tend to have much use for things like that here. Also, have some hugs and a thermos full of chai tea. Use them well!
How the Board works? It works like this. People post topics and other people reply to them. Eventually, old topics are pushed off the page to make room for new ones; for this reason, we tend to frown on making truckloads of new topics. That's how the Board literally works, but perhaps you were asking for an explanation of how the Boarders work? Well, most of us are completely insane. (See first paragraph.) We're usually very happy when there are newbies- you will likely be presented with lots and lots of virtual gifties. We natter on about a lot of random stuff and help each other with writing. It's fun!
List of continuums under protection...hurm. It would probably be easier to list all continuums not under protection, but I don't have a complete list of those either. What I do know is that, although Twit-lit, also known as Twilight, has lots and lots of Mary Sues and badfic written about it, I've never seen a PPC mission for it, except when it is crossed-over with another continuum. I can't speak for the rest of the Boarders, but I personally don't like said book. If you do, I won't hold it against you. (Ooh, that reminds me- Have a can of patent Sparklevamp repellent!)
Someone will probably come along and give you shiny links to things which will help explain more stuff to you, and they'll know how to use hyperlinks, so it will be prettier than if I just gave you links. Signing off...
-Mad Maudlin

But FMA doesn't take place in the United States...silly Sueauthors.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2575594/1/Game_Set_Match

Definitely one for Implausible Crossovers. Features Erik randomly and unanouncedly going back to the past, Eponine rehearsing her own songs, and Valjean somehow being mayor of not Montreiul, but Paris!

Since When? I mean, does Jack Chick control the United States now?

Anyone mind if I use this one for my first PPC outing? I know I've still got the month pre-deadline and some reading up to do, but at least this is a fairly simple Mary Sue take-down to 'get my foot in the door' so to speak.

As for killing a Homunculi, well, there are ways. Repeatedly killing them until they run out of 'lives' would be the obvious one.

Of all the "sins" she could have picked... *eyeroll* Even for a comedy...

Although, considering that his title makes the least sense, Illegal Immigration is the closest to a real character.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0644.html

This OoTS strip says it better than I do.

Not a D&D player, but still...

Why are we losing all the geek icons?

I guess now he and Mr. Gygax can DM together again in the after, whatever that may be.

~Neshomeh

Having a father who's an ex-DM, and thus a house filled with original D & D material...

*sighs*

At least they won't be forgotten any time soon.

Meh, I hate it when I learn about a cool guy only at the moment of his death.

Same for Gary Gygax: never heard of him until his death, but I know I should have known him.

The RC of Agents Suicide, Diocletian, and Ithalond is here: http://www.geocities.com/sixty_of_nine2138/index.html

Remember, if you want to use them for anything, you have to ask me first.

~Neshomeh

I've been sketching here and there and I kind of like this one. I'm still super amateur at inking my own stuff with photoshop, considering using my old old old old graphire wacom tablet is like trying to ink a full piece on an index card.

http://astroleo.deviantart.com/art/Gal-119035713

I voulenteered when this was first mooted, but I never got a script so couldn't record anything. I guessed you just has too many voice actors for the parts availible.
:(

This is awesome, Trojie. And thanks, you beat me to this post. I was going to make it last night, but got called away. And I wouldn't have been able to do the scene.

So yes, artworks and vocals would be nice, people!

I personally would love to contribute with voice acting for the dying Sues and/or screams and/or crying. I have a bloody microphone, but I don't know how to use it. Curse me for being technologically impaired. *headwalls*

Sounds, interesting, anyway.

Particularly for the Sues.

I can channel the California valley girl like no other...

Maybe I shouldn't have said that. :P

I dunno about contributing, but I love the voice acting for it. It's--how do those Brits put it--wicked. ;)

Just give me a list of things you need. :)

Off to watch the scene now!

BTW, will your Agents be based in a TARDIS or a Response Center?

I won't reiterate what everyone else has already said, but welcome, and have some little green pills!

Oh, and Maeluwien's coming.

...Have I seen you around Livejournal, by any chance?

Have a complementary PPC-issue harpsichord! It has an unfortunate habit of squirting urple ink at people on wrong notes, but meh.

You are Mine now.

*does not share the newbie*

Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *holds out bucket marked "Warg fodder"* We don't tend to have much use for things like that here. I gifteth thee with some hugs and a cup of chai tea. Come back if you need more.
-Mad Maudlin

I give you a granite pillow. You can decide for yourself how to use it.

I see everyone else has already said literally everything that I was going to, so I'll just smile and try not to scare you. :)

Nice to meet you! I... wait, hang on.

[Shuffles through boxes] I know I've got it around here somewhere... aha!

[Dons a Crotchety Old Man hat; Pulls out a walking stick and starts waving it about]

Now then you youngster, you listen up well! When I were a lad we didn't have these Pii Pii See Boards, no siree! We had to write our missions in stone tablets! Uphill both ways, unless that was something else.

... aaaaanyway.

If I know my fellow Boarders, you've already been bombarded with links, rules, guidelines, recommendations and presents. Well, I've been here longer than most of them (hence the walking stick), so I can get away with saying chuck 'em all out! Except the presents, obviously.

While the PPC has certainly gotten very large (some would say cumbersome) over the years, it all started with two people. They're the ones you need to read about. So if you haven't already, read Jay and Acacia's missions.

Also, since you're posting on the Board, you need to read The Constitution. Sadly it's not signable any more, but still. And that... is it.

Seriously. You can look over the other stuff too if you want, but the only things you need to read are those. The Board is a place to be silly (again, hence the walking stick), not a world of rules and regs and so on. So relax! And be thankful we don't have editing access for the Constitution, otherwise it'd be about a hundred times longer now.

hS

Here, take this shiny new coffeemaker. Now you no longer need to waste a third of your life sleeping.

Oh, and be advised that I am the only one awesome enough to have the right to wear a fedora. You can have a hat too if you want, but just not a fedora, 'cause it's my trademark. Got it?

Welcome to our bizarre, barely sane world, my friend. Please take a complimentary salted walnut. By the off chance one of them starts talking to you, I implore you to ignore its advice. Don't worry, though, it will never threaten to stab you.

My agents welcome you, and both of them hope that the arrival of your agents will lessen the workload for them. Though I doubt that.

I gift you with a jar containing a live Portuguese man o' war, and this sock full of rocks. I'm sure you'll find them useful.

Nice to see you! Here, have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and hey, it whisks eggs! And other things, as well, if you think about it. Use it for good and not evil.

Welcome to the insanity!

Welcome. Here's a tall ship.
Don't worry, people tend to give random objects as a welcome.
I look forward to knowing your agents. Mine are there:

http://khajidu.insanejournal.com

S'good to see some fresh meat faces 'round here.

If you haven't already, please check out the PPC Wiki. The article on Permission may be of particular interest to you.

Please read the TOS (not to be confused with Star Trek) if you get the time.

Avoid the Legendary Badfic, as even the summaries of those horrors can scare an unsuspecting mind.

Slow down, it's not a race. Hang around, let us get to know you, take the time to get to know us. We won't vanish tomorrow (barring major catastrophes completely killing the internet).

PS. If you change your mind about DMS, the Floaters could always use some extra bodies.

Nice to meet you. Welcome to the Board. Have a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.

About posting... well, I think a brief explanation of how the Board works would be a good idea.

When you arrive, you're generally asked to hang around on the Board for a month or so, posting and letting people get to know you. During that time, you can develop your Agents and maybe join in any RPs with them.

Once that month is up, you can post asking for permission to write PPC missions. In that post, you put a brief profile of your Agents, a sample of your writing and maybe the fic you'd like to take on for your first mission. Once that's done, people will look at it, and if they like it, the Permission Givers will tell you whether or not you're good to go.

So basically, you can post profiles of your Agents, but you most likely won't get permission to write with them just yet.

Also helpful to know: have you read the Original Series and/or The Reorganisation and Crashing Down? The PPC Wiki is also useful. I'm sure somebody will be along shortly to throw the links at you either way.

Welcome again.

Looks like someone has read the Left Behind series too many times.

Just looking for the Board's opinion- I know about the general policy.

"Josephine looked younger than the Doctor. She was beautiful and worth a Ms Great Britain. The only thing that spoiled her beauty was the fact that she was wearing a black suit adorned with futuristic guns."

KILL IT. NOW.

Because... because... because...

... be...cause of the wonderful things he does?

(That was either thoroughly irrelevant or incredibly insightful. I choose not to choose which).

hS

In other words, a plug for something that isn't a canon mission.

http://hungryugolino.livejournal.com/2746.html

I say go for it. Doctor Who and religion do not mix under any circumstances.

I think the horrible things going on around the speech and the ridiculous storyline in general are sporkworthy.

I mean, do spork.

Oh, certainly. Kill it all you want. In the face.

Is there any chance that someone could delete this entire post? I was a little nervous about what I was going to post, so I ended up deciding that I would give fanfics to other users until I can go on my own PPC missions. I was going to post about my Watchmen OCs, but I wasn't sure if the board really cared about a fanfic a user was working on.

I'm not thinking straight. I'm pulling a 24-hour right now, so you can't expect me to be very focused.

I thought you wanted to work in DMS?

I think it's waaaay too early. The one-month rule can be bent, but you still have to prove us that you know enough about the PPC community.

We can put this fic aside for you, though: there is no shortage of badfic for us to spork. And of course you can write your mission immediately, though you still have to wait for permission before posting it anywhere.

Big fan of Alan Moore, and I know his stories very well. To be honest, though, I'm not seeing too much fleshed out considering your character. I'd love to beta read and help you out if I knew more.