Feb 2010 Archive, part b

*pokes with determination*

There! ^___^ Also, please accept this bumper sticker. *sticks on bumper sticker reading "If you can read this, my partner is in range to shoot you through the eye."*

Welcome!

~Neshomeh

Have a 17 foot long, multi-color, wool, knit scarf (curly wi not included).

Definitely check out the original missions. I just finished the last one today, and I laughed for at least 20 minutes straight.

Hello and welcome! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

*poke* Welcome to the PPC!
A Sherlock Holmes fan? *can't believe it* GREAT!
Have a hug! *hugs*
And again, welcome. Here's your first ration of Bleeprin, and may the Sues tremble when you come to defend Canon.

Sail on!

Another Sherlock Holmes fan! :D

*gives a violin*

It's one of my stock gifts now, it should serve you well.

Good to meet another newbie =D I don't know any of your fandoms very well, so have an albatross *Gives* His name's Graham :)

Welcome! I offer you this sparkly rock (pickax not included). Hope you stay with us for a while and enjoy yourself while you do.

--anamia
p.s. I would advise against reading the legendary badfic. I suppose if you can somehow manage to see the humour in them it's fine, but they tend to be worse than they sound, and they sound bad. At least, to me they do. Then again, I have issues with graphic smut, so it may be easier for you, depending on your level of tolerance. Good luck if you do choose to read them!

Hello. I hope you enjoy it here.

...The others will ask about depositing your sanity somewhere, I advise you to not put it in there at any cost.

I won't come looking for it if you do anyways.

Have a softnose laser and a target in the shape of Stephanie Meyer's head. Enjoy!

I don't know about you, but I would love to see what would happen if Alucard was unleashed on Edward Cullen... BUT I DIGRESS. Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, have some coconuts. There's at least a lovely bunch or two there.

Thanks, everyone! It's nice to meet you all!

Thank you especially for the links- I've almost finished reading all of the original stories, but the badfics look wonderfully entertaining in a masochistic sort of way. Good thing the internet has made me (mostly) immune to disturbing fanfics. I'll definitely check out the other sites, too.

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

Good to see another Sherlock Holmes fan! I like your username, too.

Now, help yourself to your favorite venomous arthropod!

It is ever so nice to meet you. I give you a towel and hope that you will always know where it is.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a dagger set from the Raven Amory and a bottle of bleeprin! I don't know any of your fandoms very well, but perhaps I'll look more into them this weekend. (I'm completely snowed in at the moment, so I'm going to be bored to tears real fast if I don't write and read a lot.)

I have seen the complete series a few times, and I wonder how the movies will be. The series is one of the best I have seen and the best American animated TV series I know, in my eyes.
So, yes, I will watch it! ^^

I'm a bit miffed at the costume department for not keeping the color coding, and Katara in the trailer sounds a bit too much like Sandra Bullock in Prince of Egypt for my tastes, but I'm definitely seeing this, almost certainly in theaters.

I fully expect to be disappointed about the casting of Toph for the next one, but I've been wrong about that sort of thing before; see: Evanna Lynch.

...it does look like it's got the potential to be excellent.
That new trailer is excellent, and thank you for pointing it out -- I've been stalking the movie site for a while now, but not within the last month, so I would have completely missed it.
I do think they did some odd things in casting, but I'm not going to get up in arms about it, like so many people have been doing.

I will, however, lay in for a siege. : P Can you imagine how many more 'Sues the fandom's going to get over this?

I actually really, really love that show, and have for a very long time-- since the first season, actually. (Or 'book,' I guess.) And honestly, I think Shyamalan might be the perfect director for the job. He's made some bad films in the past, but he was good before them-- and this movie is kind of his style, I think?

Anyway, I think Sokka looks exactly as he should, and Katara sounds exactly as she should, and I absolutely love what they did with Aang's tattoos.

So yeah. Definitely looking forward to the release.

The trailer looked interesting (pretty pictures!). It's always strange seeing a live action movie based on a cartoon. I was reading the comments and apparently there's some race wank, etc.

I saw that it was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Hoo boy. I hope he won't screw this one up. -_-

*glomp*

Congratulations on a fixed computer!

It seems like everyone I know online has had internet connection problems this past year, myself included. Weird.

Nice to have you back.

Anyway, welcome back. Glad your computer problems are fixed.

Is this one going to crop up every time a chocolate related holiday rolls round? I'll throw in a disclaimer now, saying I'm drunk, and so anything that may look offensive is just poor phrasing on my part, and please don't take it to heart, but...

I won't try to deny that some workers are forced to contend with appalling conditions. I won't try to deny that the western world is all too happy to shit all over other people for cheap commodities. But I have a couple of problems with your post nonetheless.

The first is the guilt issue: the suggestion is that it is our fault, each and every one of us, that some people live in appalling conditions and work in the same, and that the west benefits. We're not individually responsible. We may, some of us, buy into a system that has, over decades, led to this situation, but personal responsibility and guilt for this cannot be laid on the shoulders of any one of us. The suggestion that it can not only gets my back up, but also suggests a lack of understanding of the many and varied factors over a lengthy period of time that have led to the situation you object to. Your post may not deliberately suggest this; I suggest altering the wording somewhat to make it less of a personal laying of blame.

The second problem is the assumption that we each of us wilfully buy cheap chocolate. Perhaps you live in such circumstances that you can decide which of a variety of brands and prices to opt for. Some of us are not so lucky. Some of us exist on a daily income well below that considered necessary by the wossnames (UN? my memory fails when drinking). Some of us don't have the option of spending two quid on a bar of chocolate when we can get the same for twenty pence. Poverty doesn't only exist in the third world. While I realise western poverty is nothing compared to that experienced in the third world, these things are, to some degree relative: it's fine for you to advocate buying fair trade, but fair trade costs money some of us simply do not have.

Ansela would like me to add that chocolate is not necessarily a luxury. If anyone can add any Science to the whys and wherefores here, I'd be glad to hear it, but chocolate's about the only thing stopping her killing the three of us once a month. Is it, perchance, the same sort of luxury as tampons?

(Pun semi-intended.)

Yes, I buy free trade chocolate whenever I can. I find that it often tastes better than mainstream chocolate, too. Thank you for advocating awareness of this issue.

I did an extensive Social Studies project on Cote d'Ivoire a few months ago. So yes.

...cocoa beans are bought in bulk, mixed in from all over. Unless you buy exclusively Fair Trade, it's nigh impossible, really, for anyone - chocolate-makers and -eaters - to tell where each individual bean comes from. Chocolate isn't the only thing that has this problem; it's also a big issue with palm oil and other things, and for this reason I've developed a fear of having eaten something illegal...

...because you never can be too sure...

I remember a thread here about chocolate and slavery.

http://www.chocolonely.nl/

And may the agents that deal with this give the Sue a most painful death.

*hands over a bottle of bleepka* Here you go. Gosh, that's horrible.

In Irish Gaelic, the word "Craic", (pronounced "Crack") means "Generally good time". It's not uncommon for someone to say that "The Craic was Mighty" after a party or an Oiche Arnaigh ("Fun Night")...

Funny how I'm connecting things in my Cultural/Language/Music/History class with things in 'Real Life'...

Ha ha, they're coming to take me away, ho ho, he he, ha ha, to the Funny Farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats, and they're coming to take me away, HA HA!

"You, you, and you, support me! I'll be the hero! And eat hamburgers!"

Mrs. Dodds! Mrs. Dodds!

PANDASSS!!!!!!!


*falls*

But that shit's bad for you, you know...

Ruffling feathers? Certainly not, ruffles have ridges! I am no tiger, I'm a real girl!
Everything's better with super-soakers.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or so saith me.
Je n'aime pas Edward Cullen parce que il scintille comme une chose bete.

The lord of change is where it's at! HAIL TZEENTCH!

DECEPTIBOTS! Transform, and ROLL OUT!

"You, man the guns"
"Aye aye, captain!"
"You! You also man the guns!"
"Aye! Captain!"
"Everybody else: DANCE!"

You will find yourself in...a ROOM with a MOOSE!

It's time to DU-DU-DU-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL!

Punch the keys, for God's sake! Yes. Yes! You're the man now, dog.

Well I think so, Brain, but what did Darth Vader need the gorilla for, anyway?

THIS IS CAKETOWN!

*But now, a serious note.*

Let me put it so you'll understand. Picture a box. You know something about boxes, don't you John? What if I told you that, somewhere on this island, there is a very large box and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted to be in it when you opened that box, there in West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin' out, maxin' relaxin' all cool, and all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school, when a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood. We got in one little fight and my mom got scared; she said, "You're moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air."

This crack party brought to you courtesy of the letter 4 and and the power of cheese.

I spent twelve hours yesterday looking at couches so I could write a story. Does that make me weird, or normal, or what?
Anyways, onto something funnier than my (lack of) social life-- a fic! http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4826152 trust me. It's random enough for this--I think everyone will like chapter five's section "Who's that girl?" Its lolz worthy.
And just to add my two cents--
ALL HAIL THE GOD-KING BABY! (Sluggy Freelance)
HOnu_Wahine

Anyway, my Bene Gesserit have infiltrated your Cult and they're making a new warp god! One that will serve me and me alone! Hahahaha!

My Agents are coming to rock the place.

HAIL IT all the same! Up the Evil Penguins!

THE SPICE MUST FLOW! All hail the Sandworms!

... What's a nurgle? Sounds like something I might find in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
But wait, that was a gurgle blaster.
Anyway...
ALL HAIL NURGLE!

And I can feel my insanity level rising again... Wheee~.

Actually, the only thing I've noticed is that we've been a bit slow lately; not that many new posts, and not that many replies to them. It's like everyone's on holiday.

But by all means, throw a silly party if you feel like it :)

That was a fun read.

By the way italics are text without the spaces.

Thank you for sharing the link. That was a very enjoyable read. Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's to cheesy romantic subplots that detract from the main action of the story!

(Also, thank you, Laburnum; I didn't know I had a symbol.)

Let's go sacrifice a goat!

(Okay, technically Lupercalia's tomorrow, but it's the basis for Valentine's day, so it's appropriate.)

And happy feast day of that guy who performed illegal marriages, too.

Don't mind me, just doin' my part for asexual pride *hands out grey triangles - seriously, that's the asexual pride logo*

To all you who do have interest in this holiday, I hope you and your significant others have fun, or if you're single that you find an appropriate significant other, or if you're not interested in looking for one that you take a little time to show love to yourself and the people around you. In fact everyone should do that last one anyway.

You made a Mini-Toruk of your own! At one point, the page calls them Mini-TUROKS!

As explained in a comment on your LJ.

Part of it is human nature. Part of it is human stupidity (though I'm not quite sure there's a difference between nature and stupidity). Part of it is film producers who have this great action movie and think only guys will want to see it, so they try to appeal to the female crowd by adding romance. *rolls eyes*

Why do you think I'm sort of fed up with the Romance genre at the moment? It's not that I hate Romance. It's that it's everywhere! Why? People want to know what happens next. It's an overused cliffhanger that keeps people watching these movies and shows or reading these books. Will so-and-so end up with this person or that person? Le gasp! This character kissed this random person at the end of the movie! Oh, I guess I'll have to see the next sequel to find out what happened!

*sigh* Human nature. At least it means that we have an instinct for this sort of thing, right? As in, we may end up overpopulating the earth, but as long as there aren't any apocalypses, nuclear wars, plagues, climate disturbances, or badly functioning governments, we'll never have to worry about dying out, right?

Personally, I don't mind Romance all that much. I wish they'd come up with a more original way to keep people interested, though. And I hate nearly all of the Romance clichés, so I'm getting bored with seeing this everywhere.

Anyone else think that they do this to keep the viewers watching a plotless two-hour movie, among other things?

I think the reason romance plots are more glaring in movies is because the entire romance has to get shoehorned into the parts of the two, three hour movie left over from the main plot. This leads to a situation where the audience is still just getting to know these characters, and now that guy and that gal are already jumping at each other's lips. The same is kind of true in a stand-alone novel. In a longer book series or television show, we can be slowly led into the romance one scene at a time over multiple chapters/seasons, so it feels less forced and more like a natural progression of the characters' storylines.

I don't mind romance between action-oriented characters, so long as the romance doesn't completely disable them DURING the fight scenes.

RL asexual here. Meaning to come out to the people who know me in real life because I'd like my parents to stop thinking I'm just a social failure. Eventually.

Also busy writing a novel in which the main character does not end up in a relationship, because A) she's thirteen and B) she has better things to worry about. Two of her gang members sort of have a thing going, and there's two guys between whom I'm going to intentionally include as much Ho Yay as possible because if I don't actually state that they're gay then the fans who don't like slash will ignore it and the fans who do like it would imagine it was there even if it wasn't. But neither of those relationships is actually a major focus of the plot.

Isn't human interest lame? They even shoehorn it into war movies of all things. Also, I hate how twu wuv seems to be about treating the female lead like a princess instead of a partner.

You know, somehow I'm not surprised that the fic for PJatO is lousy. It's a YA series - so it's aimed at basically prime fanbrat age - and the characters are canonically demigods. Let me guess, there's a lot of Big Three kids running around suddenly?

Hello and welcome to the PPC Posting Borad! Have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

Believe me, it's useful - maybe not for sleeping, but for putting others to sleep.

Hi ukitsu!
Welcome! Here's a bottle of bleeprin, and I have heard they have bumper stickers somewhere back there *gestures behind her*.

*pokes ceremonially*

Welcome! Also, please have this bumper sticker! *sticks on bumper sticker reading "Spell-check is my co-pilot."*

If you need even more material to read, may I point you to the PPC Lost Tales archive? It's still under construction in places, but there are some PPC stories there that you won't be able to find anywhere else now that Geocities is gone. Enjoy!

~Neshomeh

Welcome! I offer to thee...a coxcomb! Which is a sort of silly hat. One can never have too many silly hats.

Fair winds!

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

And Honey. I like honey.

Have a 17 foot long, multi-color, wool, knit scarf--curly wig not included. :D

I'm pretty new here, also. It has been a blast so far!

Welcome to the insanity! Have a plush panda. :D

What fandoms are you into?

Hello! That's pretty much it, really...

Agent Sam and Sidhe say hello (Well, Sidhe says Aneth ara).
Welcome to the Board, have lots of fun (oh, and have a bucket for your sanity. Don't worry, we won't let the Mabari have *all* of it...).
If you'd like a mini for yourself, I've got a ton left over from that last horror on the Pit. Great Hades, what a nightmare.
Like I said have fun here--we're all a little nuts, and we don't bite...unless we're really, really hungry.
Honu_Wahine(I'm probably the craziest person you'll meet here)

Have a venomous arthropod!

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a set of archery equipment from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. (Unfortunately, I'm not all that much of a role model here, as I have no plans at the moment to PPC anything. The Pit of Voles has stolen my sanity at last.)

*pokes*

Anyway, welcome to the Board! Shortly, someone will come up to you with a bucket labelled 'Warg Fodder and ask you to deposit your sanity inside. Do so. It is the best place for it during your stay here.

Also, take a softnose laser.

So, what are your fandoms?

Haha, the suefic one is really accurate, and so is the slashfic. I've read a bunch of fics that are pretty much the exact same as those, except with worse grammar and/or more purple prose. It's a bit depressing, really.

I don't know quite as much about LoTR as I probably should, but the 'The Last Alliance Primer' was totally hilarious as well. Nice find!

That website is awesome! I tried out the "Do-it-yourself" Suefic and it was surprisingly accurate and funny, due to the fact that I just randomly gave the prompter words mostly from my PPC lingo. And I misspelled words. On purpose. Oh, the lulz that resulted when I read it. Everyone has to try it out themselves, seriously.

I'm pretty sure there was a decision made at some point that minis shouldn't just be randomly decided--it's the person who first writes an OFU for the fandom or, if there isn't an OFU, then the person who first writes a mission with minis in the fandom who gets to decide the type of the minis. Sort of like a discoverer's right to name their discovery. Also, it prevents a build-up of miscellaneous information that isn't connected to anything. So, if you're actually going to do something with this, then it's fine, but if not then leave it for someone who is, okay? {= )

~Neshomeh

Since Real Fic takes place in the real world, it kind of messes up how Minis are supposed to work. Should we perhaps decide on one type of Mini to cover misspellings in all RealFic? The problem with that is there isn't really a "monster" for Earth, unless you count Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster, which some people don't believe exist.

Or, we could say that misspelled singers make a Mini-Microphone, misspelled actors a Mini-Video Camera, or something like that.

I have been prone to fits of laughter at random moments ever since I read about the Witch-King being named 'Norbert'. I salute you! =D

Hahaha... excellent, just... excellent!

Ah! So you have come across the genious named Araloth. She's actually my beta. She is a really cool person. Flexible yet hates Sues vehemently.

That is how he should react.

Thank you. :)

Science is awesome. I've always been kind of intrigued by the idea of metamers -- that's the red, green, and blue channels that we use to perceive color, and all color is a combination of use of those three. Well, apparently there are people who have an extra metamer, and can perceive an extra dimension of color. These people are mostly women, who can perceive color changes in a person's face that most of us can't --changes that are indicitive of health alternations when you're getting sick. Pretty cool, huh?

Light seems to throw scientists for a loop fairly often. It's fun that something that's constantly around us can still be so mysterious and difficult to study.

I was reading a Scientific American today, and it said something about impossible colors on the cover, but I was more interested in why humans don't have fur.

Rei is a clone of Shinji's mother..... He figures that out 3/4 of the way through the serise....................

Leto

Ai, cripes, darn it...

THEY GOT ASUKA TOO!!! *wails*

I tend to think of my characters through the lenses of my roleplaying background. I look at two sets of opposing factors: virtue/vice and merits/flaws.

Virtues and vices are a good way to broadly define your character. Virtues include Temperance, Hope, Faith and Justice, among others. Vices can include any of the Seven Deadly Sins. Giving your character these two elements should add a bit of imperfection, so long as you stay true to them.

Merits and flaws are more specific. For merits, any attribute that gives your character an advantage over other people: eidetic memory, ambidexterity, being unusually strong or pretty. Flaws are, of course, the opposite: addiction, cowardly, deficiency in a sense, having an embarrassing secret, aloofness. The most important thing I find is to balance the merits and flaws. If your character has a merit that boarders on mythic then give them a flaw that is equally mythic to balance it out.

These things will not only allow you to create imperfect characters, they will also help you create characters that are easy for a reader to identify with.

Just make them like regular people, I guess. Normal, real-world people are imperfect--they're good at some things and terrible at others; they make mistakes; they do things even when they know they shouldn't, they don't do things even when they know they should. Sometimes (often) things don't work out in their favor. And yet they also do good and right things, often when it really matters, and sometimes it works out for them. That's about it, really. *shrug* Maybe other people will have more to say.

~Neshomeh

Have a softnose laser and a glomp.

*glomps*

Have a 17 foot long, multi-colored, knit wool scarf (curly wig not included).

I also enjoyed your Sue Marie story. The names in the sequel are hilarious!

Hello and welcome to the PPC Posting Board! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay here.

It's one of my stock gifts, hold on to it!

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

Welcome to the insanity! Please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle and enjoy the ride.

Tis' another beehive. Except this one is radioactive!!

My gift to you is a Fish. Use it well.

Welcome!

Have an Adelie penguin. He's perfectly house-trained! And he can cook a fantastic stir-fry :)

*pokes*

Also, please have this bumper-sticker. *sticks on bumper-sticker reading "Love me, love my beta."*

If you're interested in classic PPC stories, you should head over to the PPC Lost Tales archive. It's still under construction in places, but since GeoCities went down it's the only place to find some of these works.

All in all, welcome to the PPC!

~Neshomeh

Welcome to the boards, and here is a plush panda that eats, shoots and leaves. :D

Greets and welcome. If you've got any questions or whatever, we've also got a big sib little sib thing going and I'm sure someone would be willing to 'adopt' you.

Welcome to the Board! I gift you with a pirate hat, for sailing that tall ship Kahjidu gave you.

That is definitely a good nickname to have, especially around here.

Help yourself to a venomous arthropod.

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

(I just read that Sue Parody of yours. It's very awesome.)
Welcome to the PPC! Here's a Glitter-proof shield from the Raven Armory! (It can't be Suefied and can be used to block out the sight of any pesky Sues.)

Fair winds!

Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't be needing it here. Also, here's a muffin.

We bumped into each other on #PPC, but I'm here as well.

*gives Jack a bumper sticker*

Welcome to the board!

LOL. It's industrial grade hair wax. ENJOY!

I see you've already been given The Links, so I'll just give you a pineapple. :)

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a sabre from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. Have fun with the Sue slaying (and the headaches that stem from reading badfic).

My advice is to create a realistic agent, one that's well balanced, flawed, and has issues. But the agent should also have talents as well.

Welcome to the nuthouse. Don't worry-as someone's probably already told you, "We're all mad here."
Here, have a mutant mutt(and I seriously need to rename that critter). He's a generic mutant wolf, rescued from an insane woman with over twenty minis and a bad story in the JC Avatar verse. He likes to chew on everything, and is a good warning system for 'Sue's in Avatar. He's also good with children.
Oh, and have a Generic Shovel. You'll need one eventually -- it's good for digging mass graves, knocking out bits, 'Sues, and canons, and shoveling snow.
--Honu_Wahine

Have a softnose laser and a target shaped like Bella Swann's head. Enjoy!

Again. I already poked you in the chat, but this is the official one. *poke*

Hmm... Dann already gave you a bumper sticker, so that just leaves this: in addition to the links Ansela has provided, you may wish to visit the PPC Lost Tales archive, which is the only place to find some of the things written contemporarily with the Original Series since GeoCities bit the big one. It's still under construction in places, but mostly if you can get there, you can read the content.

Enjoy, and welcome!

~Neshomeh

Welcome to the Board! I offer you a coxcomb, which is a sort of funny hat.

Wow, we've had a veritable flood of newbies...awesome!

Have a 17 foot long, multi-color, knit wool scarf (curly wig not included).

It was nice to meet you yesterday.

Fair winds!

Welcome to the PPC Posting Board! Have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

Have a plush panda that eats, shoots and leaves! :D

Yet another stock gift.

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

Welcome! Here is a mini Mirkwood Spider, called Schnookums.

You will be provided with all kinds of helpful links soon. In the meantime, help yourself to your favorite venomous arthropod!

Despite evidence to the contrary, the Pit DOES have rules about using proper language, and this blatantly throws all of them to the wind. I noticed that the author claims it is an "experimental abstract fanfiction," but since the other two stories on the account are similarly awful, I don't believe him. Her. It. Whatever. {= P

~Neshomeh

I count twelve Minis, assuming "Pachinko" in chapter two (chapter three?) is supposed to be Pikachu.

The Earth really *is* screwed-- so says the Word of Cameron. A direct quote from the guide to everything Avatar "We've devastated our planet. We're neck-deep in festering industrial muck, in a trash heap of ever-expanding waster and decay. Overpopulation, overdevelopment, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic runoff, air pollution, deforestation, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of bio-diversity through extinction..." So much for the exaggerated state, Gandalf the Beige. Page one(of actual text), James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide.
In the section about flora, it says that plants from Pandora are being used to heal what's left of the Pittsburgh wastelands--and that they're *thriving.* Pandora's atmosphere is mostly CO2(18%+), Hydrogen Sulfide(toxic concentration less than 1%), Xenon(5.5%), and Argon, along with O2. Therefore, Earth *cannot* be as well off as you have tried to explain it.
Yes, there is a colony on the moon, but nothing about Mars-- sorry, but you're out of luck there. The moon is also, according to what I could find from official sources, a cess pit with more humans living in itty-bitty spaces than is safe(oh, and Earth's population is only 20 billion).
To address the Gene Banks--sorry, pretty much everything but worms, cockroaches, grubs, and humans are *EXTINCT* in every sense of the word. Power-- that's a big fish. There is an extreme energy crisis on Earth(not to mention overpopulation, eternal war, extermination of life as we know it...) is why people went to the stars(i.e. Pandora) in the first place. There is no ozone layer, all water is pretty much toxic--and tastes like turpentine after its been filtered to within an inch of its life. No, the damage is not being healed--not on the scale that you're suggesting. Enviromentalists from Na'vi Nuts(TM) are smuggling flora in from Pandora to see if they can heal the Earth, but at the rate that the RDA is arresting and torturing/killing them, I don't think that's going to well.
The Sully brothers, that's *Sully,* dear, not *Scully,* were born and raised on Earth, and until Cameron says otherwise, I'm going to say that their parents are still alive(oh, and I claim that Mini).
On the Hell's Gate--Omaticaya and Hometree situation- The RDA was never allowed to mine there in the first place. That's why they destroyed Hometree in the movie. Yes, they did mine, but they were never near Hometree. The Omaticaya clan would also never have been near starvation. The planet has incredible sustainable growth--where Earth is spiraling out of control(and into a toxic hell), Pandora maintains a constant equilibrium. They wouldn't have needed saving, and even if they did, they would have gone to another clan or Eywa(through the Tree of Souls)for help. Selfridge is, pardon my language, an evil corporate bastard. Quaritch is, once again pardon my language, an evil sadistic bastard from the depths of whatever hell spawned him. But he is a good soldier, I'll give him that. But a UN hero? Nah. One--the UN no longer exists, two--Quaritch likes killing people too much.
Have you done the i-phone app? Cause that's the only place I know of where the mining equipment was destroyed--it was only one BULLDOZER, and it was set on fire. Grace's Avatar never spent a month in ICU(from what *I* know), as she wasn't able to intervene before the hunters and Sylwanin were killed by the RDA--not Wainfleet specifically. And, from the incident you were talking about, Wainfleet wasn't there, nor was Quaritch. Quaritch arrived after Major Cage got his ass handed to him in a spectacular fashion by the Omaticaya(an Avatar named Lorenz, specifically). Trudy Chacon(ooh, another mini--You can have it, it's a mini-Turok named Trudy Chachon) would also have arrived with Quaritch, thus, she wouldn't have been able to witness the incident with Lorenz, the Omaticaya, and Major Cage.
I do apologize for poking holes in what might have been a great theory, but I had to. I love Avatar 'verse too much not to. And, this topic has already been picked over before(yes, I remember you), and should now stop. Earth is a cesspool of toxic waste, Pandora is an atmospherically-toxic paradise, and Quaritch and Selfridge are both assholes.
James Cameron is the Avatar 'verse God. What he says is Canon is FACT, therefore, when anyone says anything differently, we must stop them. I suggest reading the Survival Guide for more information.
Sincerely, the nitpicker;
-Honu_Wahine

I concur completely with Araeph, and offer congrats on a hilarious writing sample. Welcome to the PPC!

Glad you'll be joining us!

~Araeph