Dec 2010 Archive, part a

It's a party game that I adapted for PPC use. It's introduced in this Interlude: http://rc273.webs.com/bleepong.htm

Basically it's the same thing as beer pong, only with Bleepka or similar products. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_pong

Technically speaking, you did - both in the academic sense of using something that's not yours without citing it and in the more legal sense of potentially violating copyright.

In practice, I don't think anyone is going to care too much. If you have the ability to edit the chapter, or attach a note, you might want to add a disclaimer saying it's from f_w. If you have too much time on your hands, you might want to see if you can track down the original post.

It's an idea that was posted (presumably for public use) on a website. I rather doubt there will be Massive Drama because you used it.

No offense meant, but this sounds like a Redwall-specific Fanfiction.net run by writers and rather worse, seeing as we're not allowed to touch or criticize anything but goodness knows that some of the challenges will likely be dreadful, seeing as all kinks are protected. It opens up a new batch of stories, though, so thanks for the link.

As other people have noted, it's very much a case-by-case thing.

There are 'verses that share the same magical system -for instance, Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms are both D&D settings, and use the same magical systems. A mage from one could reasonably be expected to have no trouble in the other. I'd be willing to accept crossovers between 'verses that have similar systems, especially when they're ill-defined: A D&D sorcerer would probably not have too many difficulties working magic in Valdemar, for instance.

On the other hand, there are 'verses that are very definitely not compatible. For instance, a Potterverse wizard isn't going to be able to do anything in Earthsea, where everything works by knowing things' True Names. That said, I wouldn't have a problem believing that someone inclined to magic in one 'verse is also inclined to magic in other ones, even if the underlying mechanism changes.

Though I've had my own take on things. I have a few Agents from 'verses other than World One, and those of them that have any real powers (one LOTR-verse Elf with his natural physical abilities, one Potterverse wizard, and one as-yet-tentatively potential Jedi Padawan) can still access their abilities on missions if not disguised.

As I see it, when the Disguise Generators put somebody into a disguise, that person is then limited to the abilities of the being they're disguised as. If they drop the disguise, they can access their own abilities again, unless the continuum has specifically disallowed said abilities.

In HQ, of course, Disguise Generators aren't necessary and powers are unblocked there.

First question: Nanohaverse (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) magic is based on the so-called "Linker Core", a sort of immaterial organ that allows the mage to process magic (and it's also the "fuel tank" for mana). Since it's something inherent the character and not the continuum, it should work out of the Nanohaverse, right? (I've got an Agent from that continuum and I was thinking about getting another one)

Second question: The Agent I was going to recruit is Material-S from the MGLN Battle Of Aces PSP game. She's a magical construct "clone" of the main character, Nanoha, and looks like she can be a good Agent: she's quite calm and polite, so she shouldn't go insane and can restrain more hot-blooded Agents, and has the psicological need for blowing enemies up, so she can happily kill Sues and disintegrate Author Wraiths. She has quite too much firepower (Nanoha, the girl she is a clone of, is called "White Devil", "Gundam in schoolgirl dress", "Sailor Beamspam" and "Demonic Cannon Girl". Yeah.), but nothing I cannot nerf down (power limiters exist in the home continuum itself).
Provided she is canonically dead (and, besides, she's in a side continuum made for the game, she doesn't exist in the main MGLN canon), may I recruit her?

It depends on the powers, I think. Also, in messed up fics pretty much everything goes and canon's on your side.

For the HQ: This thing's basically a mashup of everyting, it keeps changing more often than Hogwarts stairways and operates on the base of the Laws of Narrative Comedy.

My take on it: One of my characters is a Warcraft!Paladin. She can use her powers everywhere, but they are way stronger in the Warcraft continuum.

Well, one of my agents, Lee Keaton, is able to do magic, but given that her 'Verse's magic usually isn't compatible with other 'Verses that don't have elemental-based magics, she tends not to use it outside of HQ.

is the general power level of the continuum the agents will be working in. A lot of worlds are just not survivable by a standard human, so an agent would require above human attributes to work in those worlds. Drop the same agent into a World One based continuum and the agent would be either ridiculously over-powered or constantly restricted.

There's a lot of agents in the PPC from various continua, and so far from what I've seen around the general consensus is that they have access to any race or continua specific powers they used to have, seeing as it's usually a matter of biology. For instance, Agent Gremlin in the department of Bad Slash is a meta-human from the DCU who has the power to manipulate electricity and machines. Because her power is based on a meta-gene complex, and is this a part of her biology in much the same way your arm is, she can use this power in any continuum she wishes.

However, there is an addendum when it comes to magic and magic-like powers, which is that only magic from that continuum is usable since it follows that continuum's rules. For instance, a wizard agent from Harry Potter could use his magic in a mission in the Harry Potter continuum, but if he went to the Dresden Files continuum, where they have different rules for magic, he couldn't use his H.P. magic without breaking the rules of canon, which is a Bad Thing. Since chakra and jutsu are basically another type of magic, they fall under this same rule. However, within HQ magic should work just fine.

I would wish for the ability to resist the procrastination temptation.

Seriously.

That would solve ALL MY PROBLEMS. All of them. I swear to God.

Well, that or I wish I could force myself to go to bed earlier. Either one is fine, though the first one would probably take care of the second one anyway.

be perfectly fluent in all languages that have ever existed. Think of all the fascinating things you could learn if you could read and understand absolutely everything... *sighs*

I would wish for more consistant inspiration. It has always been pretty sporadic and I would like to be able to sit down and write a complete story instead of just bits and pieces of one.

http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=48

... for the science fiction series I'm writing. It's called Dram of Evil.

If not, I would go with immortal agelessness, or a personal hovercar. 'Cause you can't hit another car if yours is up in the air!

Definitely shape-shifting. With the caveat, of course, that you keep your mind and soul in every shape you take. I don't mind it taking practice-- as in, turning your physical shape into a dog's does not mean you are good at being a quadruped, and flight would be a trick unto itself-- and a new trick with every different kind of bird. (Example: crows flap like crazy to gain altitude at all, raptors soar, sparrows flutter, and hummingbirds are basically the teeny-tiny helicopters of the avian world.) Likewise with sharks, and remembering to keep your tail in motion at all times.

Still! Imagine shifting into a Thunderbird-- you could make it all the way across the continent in record time! Or, if you could do something extra-dimensional, like a Sasquatch or one of the Fae, and use the Ways? Plus, disguises! Invisibility! And all the experiments it would take aside, eventually being able to fly in human form!

I would wish to have the universe fulfill the meaning of any statement that "I" make that is preceded by the phrase "I wimble-wamble-flimble-flamble that. . . ".

If not, first I hire a lawyer. Then, I wish for the fulfilment of Wish Contract #1. (This is to avoid semantic loopholes messing it up.)

What Wish Contract #1 would be, I'm not sure. A wish for immortality has so many catches even a wish contract might not get rid of them all, so I probably shouldn't risk it. Maybe a perfect memory, retroactive if possible (AND the ability to forget things at will: unlike Agent Nume, I don't have Bleepka to help me). If that counts as two, I suppose I'd settle for a dream recorder.

The ability to actually remember all of the stuff the teachers are pushing at you. Friggin' O-Chem...

Because if you said, say, 'I wish I could sing', and you just get a cop-out like 'Oh, well everyone can sing, can't they, just not well', you'd be a bit mad.

I would wish for the ability to draw well. It's always something I've wanted to be able to do, but I draw worse than a duck with no wings. =(

I finished on the 25th, primarily because I've been doing Nano since 2004 so it's not really anything new to me. It's actually gotten pretty boring at this point. However, it did provoke me to write again, and it's made me start developing a new novel project from scratch. This, of course, when I should actually be writing my master's thesis.

I just squeaked by with 50,008 words, but I'm very happy with how it went and I got to write in a 'verse I've been meaning to flesh out for a while now.

I had some points where I fell rather far behind, but I caught up in the end. Too bad the fic itself isn't actually finished yet... must find the motivation to do that...

First time, I didn't actually find out what NaNoWriMo was until halfway through the month. Second time, I was working on my Girl Scout Gold Award project, and this year I was busting my butt with college applications.

Here's hoping I'll actually have time next year.

I fell apart about two weeks in, and by halfway through the third, I knew it wasn't going to happen. I ended at... 16,000? Something like that?

No regrets, though, and it got me back into the habit of writing. Now I'm looking forward to going back to writing short stories, and starting a PPC spin-off, finally.

I failed. The end. Will try again later. Congrats to those who made it.

Real Life got in the way. Phoo. Oh well.

Could you give me a link to your story, pretty please? I'd like to read it.

It's been a slightly disruptive time, with an uncertain schedule and things changing--in a good way, fortunately; but such things are not conducive to writing. Also, I think I'm being held hostage by my unfinished NaNovel from last year. I don't know if I can work seriously on anything else until I finish it and fix it and make it respectable. But it's haaaaard....

On the upside, I HAVE worked on compiling a list of Germanic names and a glossary of their elements and meanings, which I enjoyed immensely and will most likely continue to build on as I discover new elements. Also, I'll probably end up doing a similar thing for other language groups if my characters ever spend much time in a location with a different language--I figure differentiating names between peoples is the easiest way I can indicate a different language without actually knowing or inventing them. So, you know, if you ever need an Old English/Norse/German-sounding name and want to know what it means, let me know. You'd have to figure out which permutations of the elements belong to which branch if it matters to you, though, 'cause I didn't keep track. ^_^;

~Neshomeh, amateur anthroponomatologist.

School was a big obstacle for me - 400-level classes soak up time, and it's all interesting enough stuff that I want to study it. On the plus side, NaNo gave me something I could "procrastinate" at in favor of studying.

Also, I started to care too much about writing well and keeping my plot consistent. I'm going to finish the story, but it's going to take more than 30 days.

Sues seducing every pretty guy,
Slashers slashing horribly,
The holiday season is definitely nigh,
That means more work for us unluckily..

Everybody knows that killing all these Christmas!Sues,
Helps to make the canon right.
Mary Sues with their eyes all rainbow,
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.

They know that Trojie’s on her way
And all that bad biology is going to pay,
Then every Mary Sue is going to die,
And be thrown off towers to see if they can fly...

And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
For Suethors up to ninety-three,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
JUST DON’T PISS OFF THE PPC.

(I'm not really a PPCer, but I used "us" in the fourth line wouldn't sound as good. It's based on the Christmas Song, the "chestnuts roasting" one.)

(To the tune of 'We Three Kings')

We agents of the DMS
Have to fix a Mary Sue’s mess
Weapons loaded, Sue imploded,
Canon can get some rest

O fic of horror, fic of fright
Fic with urple shining light
Badfic leading, still proceeding
Get the department that’s right

Born a boy to two human men
Slashers sigh; they’ve done it again
This forever, ceasing never
Will the bad slash please end?

O fic of horror, fic of fright
Fic with urple shining light
Badfic leading, still proceeding
Get the department that’s right

From Implausible Crossovers am I
Mixing tales brings craziness nigh
Canon’s homecoming, send Sues running
Sanity’s gone to die

O fic of horror, fic of fright
Fic with urple shining light
Badfic leading, still proceeding
Get the department that’s right

Floater am I, a somewhat stoic chap
Have to deal with all kinds of crap
Sueing, slashing, lover bashing
Give the fangirls a slap

O fic of horror, fic of fright
Fic with urple shining light
Badfic leading, still proceeding
Get the department that’s right

I work for the Marquis de Sod
Put recruits in couples quite odd
archive writing, Suefic smiting
Send them off with a nod

O fic of horror, fic of fright
Fic with urple shining light
Badfic leading, still proceeding
Get the department that’s right

(To the tune of Kate Bush's "December Will Be Magic Again".)

Mary Sue is using magic again
Carry weapons on the ice
Try not to slip
A cracked femur
Doesn't feel nice
Mary Sue is using magic again
She's in Mossflow'r, shouldn't have any,
But the Suethors must be contrary

Ooh, drop her down with no parachute
The Mary Sue, she is so beautiful
Until we throw her off the belltower roof
Ooh, soon she will fall
Soon she will fall
Like the snow

Come to make them all love her
(Them all love her)
Until we wake 'em up
Come to sparkle the place up
(Sparkle the place up)
Really screwed it up
So we'll fix up this muck-up
(Fix this muck-up)
Ooh, with a little luck

Mary Sue is using magic again
Light the candle-lights
Make the canon right
On this winter night
Ooh, it's quiet inside
'Cos she's sucked out their minds

Mary Sue is using magic again
Eyes as bright as stars
Planet-sized ego
Her spelling makes us laugh
The brat has got to go now!

Ooh, drop her down with no parachute
The Mary Sue, she is so beautiful
Until we throw her off the belltower roof
Ooh, soon she will fall
Soon she will fall
Like the snow

Come to make them all love her
(Them all love her)
Until we wake 'em up
Come to sparkle the place up
(Sparkle the place up)
Really screwed it up
So we'll fix up this muck-up
(Fix this muck-up)
Ooh, with a little luck

Oh, she's coming to make them all love her
Ooh, and she's coming to sparkle the place up
Ooh, and we're coming to fix up this muck-up.

(Sung to the tune of "People, Look East")

Agents, look out, the console beeps
No time for eating, relaxing, or sleep
Make your blades ready as you're able
Get your drunk partner from under the table
Agents, look out, there's Hell to pay
Sparkly Sue is on the way.

Doctor, oh, Doctor, though you're strong
You'll be a wuss before too long!
Someone is coming to replace you
Coming to upstage and to deface you
Agents, look sharp, and seize the day
Time Lord Sue is on the way.

Gimli, beware! Evil is nigh
Flashing too much breast and thigh
Even in hour when Ring is woken
Aragorn's manly libido she's strokin'
Agents, mount up, into the fray!
Sex-fiend Sue is on the way.

Vimes, keep the Watch watching your back
Hogswatch night's no time to slack!
There is a lady at Death's portal
And we aim to find out if she is mortal
Agents, attack without delay
Godlike Sue is on the way.

Agents, the canon needs our aid
And we can't stop for holidays
String up some tinsel in a hurry
(Good for garrotting a sparkling houri)
Agents, look out, this Christmas Day
Much more work is on the way.

I'm going to take a wild gues...the L'Ang are from an original fiction story you're writing.

Foraging for food across the multiverse? Sounds like fun.

Yooooou cannot escape me, Lyn! I am yoooour student ID! I will haunt yoooooou!

I can think of places it would be good to pilfer food from... Redwall springs immediately to mind, of course, followed by Middle-earth. You could hit Farscapeverse in a pinch--food cubes are edible and sustaining, if not really appealing.

Anyway, congratulations on your spin-off, and I look forward to seeing what you do. {= D

~Neshomeh

It sounds great, they'll be in supporting roles, but still in danger (sort of). Collecting food from plot holes sounds like it could be serious, are they also going to be getting food from made up locations that don't exist in the canon?

This looks like it's gong to be interesting... yay for non-Action Departments getting time in the spotlight!

(Though I do have a query - if the Agents were being put to work for the Cafeteria, wouldn't they have been sent to report to the Nightshade, first? She's Head of Operations, after all.)

Oh, and my b-day was the 24 of November... I forgot to post... darn.

...But happy birthday anyway!

(Hands over a chocolate cupcake with a candle in it)

Be sure to blow out the candle first!

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQs!

Here's some Bleeprin and chocolate.

Have a VAST amount of confetti, a catapult, and some candy! I apologize for the late gifts.

*leaves fuzzy slippers as a present*

Sorry I haven't been on much, my best friend (who I hadn't seen in 7 years) is visiting, which makes me VERY happy.

♪ This is your birthday song it's not very long! ♪

Here, have a plushie Companion Cube. It will stay with you forever, and you don't have to put it in an Aperture Science Companion Cube Euthanasia Vent once you are finished hugging it. Also, some cake (which is not a lie).

Here, have an Adamatium Knife! It'll cut through whatever cake you have easily! Unless it's made of adamantium as well of course. Hope 15 is a lucky year for you!

Have a sack of pebbles, a customised sling to throw them with, and a basket of delicious and nutritious home-grown Bleeprin-berries. ^^

Happy birthday to you
We'll make cakes out of Sue
With sprinkles and icing
And glitter in, too!

Have a folding car. It becomes a rather heavy case when not in use. Be careful, it has a tendency to unfold itself. Do not put it near fragile things.

Fifteen! That's ten plus five, nine plus six, eight plus seven...all of that.

I'm younger than you - only fourteen, and recently turned.

Here, have a coffee mug with your name on it! It's made of porcelain - be careful with it!

Again, happy birthday!

Cheers!
~X.B.

The stated goal of the PPC is to be satirically funny and to have fun. If this fits up with the goals in your opinion, go ahead. If not... you don't have to make the effort.

Somewhere there was a quote to the general effect of "we look for the stuff so far below the bar that it has forgotten the bar exists." I have now, sadly, lost the quote. Anyone know where it was and who said it?

Anyway, yes, people run into these, and we usually leave 'em alone.

I can't recall any instances like the one you're describing, but I tend to pass by fics that don't have a sufficient humor potential. They have to be the right sort of bad, with funny typos and ridiculous shenanigans, and often rage-inducing canon defilement. Stories that merely suck don't make the cut.

~Neshomeh

Thanks for answering my questions, everyone.

And, while I'm posting...

*takes deep breath*
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: CATACLYSM IS LIVE! RUN FROM THE ANGSTY WORGEN SUES!

I'm not sure. I don't see why not - I know that Captain Jack Sparrow is largely the way he is because of how Depp chose to play him, rather than how he was written or directed, so in that case, certainly. In more general situations... maybe. There's certainly no reason you couldn't add the actor's name into the exorcism, but to the exclusion of the writers? I wouldn't. The more names the better.

If somthing happens on the board, how would you reference it in a fic?

I don't quite understand what you mean by that first question. Maybe you could make it a bit clearer? A character acts the way they do because of the author, generally.

Questions 2 and 3, though... the links from Pretzel's replay do cover it well in one sense; Lycaenion did cover it well in those missions. However, Rule of Funny/Cool can always intervene, not to mention the potential for Disguise Generator malfunction.

Re: 2 - in my view, it is possible for the daemon to stop being a separate entity whilst the disguise is on, but it's also possible for them to remain separate. It shouldn't matter too much; they'd still be covered by the SEP-field. If it's funnier one way than the other, do it the funny way unless you have a good reason not to.

Re: 3 - I don't think the Disguise Generator can create a daemon. However, there's always potential for substitutes; a particularly intelligent pet, or other small but smart creature, can have the Disguise Generator used on them to create the desired effect.

There's also a possibility I considered introducing for one of my Agents, but later dropped due to the new limits he'd have placed on him, though it would be a canonical thing to have happen. Namely, entering Lyra's world in HDM was shown to be able to cause one's daemon to appear as a separate entity. I cite John Parry, who met his osprey daemon Sayan Kotor after stepping from his world into Lyra's. It's not a guarantee, though - when Will goes into that world, he doesn't find his daemon, after all.

Just thought I'd throw that possibility out there in case you liked the idea.

I can't answer Your first question, but I can handily answer the others:

For Number two, read: this

and for Number Three, read:

th/ is

I'm a bit late, I guess, but oh well. Just wanna say that I'm with the folks who think you're overreacting, since I don't recall anyone picking on you recently, so I have no idea where this came from. Anyway, considering that I gave you Permission in the first place and have worked with you since, I obviously thought it was worth the time. Agent Chliever has a slightly sick brand of humor that may not appeal to everyone, but I enjoy(ed) him, and I note that other people feel the same way. As for Rilwen's point, I would've thought that was covered by whatever it was cutting him off from the Warp, and therefore a nonissue.

The only thing I ever had a problem with was the Eponine thing, mainly because it made certain departments look bad, not necessarily because it couldn't be done. It could easily have been fixed.

As for "stealing" ideas... the truth is, everyone does it. Nothing is completely original--it's all based on our experiences, so familiar things can't help but slip in. You're familiar with TV Tropes--you know how concepts get used and reused, subverted, inverted, etc. The trick is just to combine these things in new ways with enough of our own personalities to make them appear new. It's all about slight of hand. Originality is all a matter of style, which I happen to think you have. It's a little dark and a little twisted, but not moreso than it is goofy and fun, and I thought it worked.

So, that's my $0.02. Maybe as much as $0.05. Anyway, since you've already made up your mind, you can just take it as a vote of confidence for whatever you do next. And I'm still available to beta, should you wish it and have the patience to put up with me. {= )

~Neshomeh

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Category_talk:Candidates_for_deletion

Please do delete them. I don't even need to finish the last Starjeffry mission.

This is going to be incredibly jerkish and callous for me to say, but Cheliver... It feels to me that you have some kind of self esteem problem here. If nobody is actively hating on your work, then nobody probably hates it. It feels like this is your own self-esteem making you think that you aren't good enough to be around us.

I'm new here myself. But if there's any impression, there is NOBODY around who isn't worthy to at least hang out here. Even writers of Mary Sues, if they have an open mind and aren't afraid to swallow their pride and improve.

You have two options here, in my mind. You can wail in despair, feel worthless, knock over your block tower and go home. Or you can look at your block tower, see the structural problems in it, and then perform renovations... which I am sure anybody here would be happy to support you in doing if you feel it has to be done.

You won't get anything done by deleting everything and then waiting for the day you feel as if you're 'good enough' to be here. As if we're some kind of holier-than-thou snobbery society. You were approved, so base quality must be at least reasonable.

Dude. We can help if you want help. We're here to be chums. Leaving because you feel bad about yourself isn't going to solve your problems if your perception is 'I'm not talented enough.' You won't suddenly become more talented. But if you stay and improve, you might eventually see yourself as better than you do now.

(OK, GIANT JERK MOMENT over.)

Reckon you could delete your Great Unclean One on the way out? Or at least, you know, downgrade it into a lesser kind of daemon that isn't a fragment of a bloody Chaos God? And therefore doesn't have the risk of "oh, he died? Oh NO, Nurgle now has that fragment back and knows about HQ!"?

And I do hope you come back. I enjoyed your missions, including the ones other people criticized. And as to that Nurglish Daemon thing, I say that if a were-penguin Borg Time Lord is acceptable, a hulking mound of disease should be as well.

But anyway, I do encourage you to stick around, if nothing else, to try to improve your writing abilities, seeing as you've lost faith in them. What better place to get better than a writing message board?

Allow me to add my voice to the chorus of those saying you need not leave. Even if you just stick around and read.

I have never written a mission, nor do I have any intent to do so at this time. I enjoy reading snark, am not so good at writing it. (That and I'd spend way to much time looking up obscure bits of canon to make sure I've got it right!)

Also, that only way to get better at something is by doing it. You're aware of the need to improve, which puts you ahead of a lot of people.

Additionally my very nature makes some people uncomfortable. It's something unavoidable at times, so don't let it worry you too much.

I've had a sudden attack of morality. I realized that killing Sues because they're Sues, even though they're going to rend apart all existence, makes me uncomfortable. Maybe someday when I'm feeling sufficiently sociopathic, I'll come back.

Say, would you all like to hear what my overarching plot would've been (and might still be if I come back) or would you want to remain unspoiled in case of my return. It sounded like it was going to conflict with kgarrett's overarching plot, anyway.

If you really feel like you're not cut out for the PPC right now, I honestly won't stop you, but I feel like it's a bit of a waste. Honestly, from reading your missions I don't really agree with you on that front, but it's your own personal assessment that counts, I guess.

However, I will say this; Writers are thieves, each and every single one of them. Writers see an idea they like, latch onto it, twist it and turn it around a bit to fit what they like, and run away with their stolen ideas as fast as they can make themselves go. Sure, outright plagiarism is most definitely a bad thing, but it doesn't take much to fix that if you catch it, and those little twists to things usually used to fix said plagerism make big differences. For instance, that decommissioning scene of yours from your introduction? You took an idea, changed it a bit, and made it yours, and it was all well and good.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that A) you're improving, which is only a good thing, B) you aren't really doing anything the rest of us already aren't, and C) if you're willing to fix what little damage you did in the past, then all will be forgiven. So really, I at least feel that you don't really need to go unless you truly feel that you aren't cut out for this place, and if you say you do then I'll disagree. Anyways, I'm looking forward to your next mission!

Don't feel you have to leave! Even if you don't write missions, I mean, I don't and I still stay here. You say you need time to polish, well you can so that staying here as much as you could by leaving.

Still, if you feel you have to go, farewell.

I really liked your missions and characters... but if this is what you feel you have to do... then go ahead.

Who knows? Maybe we'll see you here again some day...

For what it's worth, your missions have been some of my favorites, and I find Agent Chliever to be really funny! I'm looking forward to the starjeffrey wrap-up.

I hope you'll still hang around, even if you take a break from writing for a while. See you again soon, I hope!

I can't really think of anything more.

Please, if you really want to leave, do so, but don't go because you feel you're unwelcome or not good enough. There are always rough patches in communities. If you need time to polish, by all means, take it, but why does that mean you have to leave? Half the point of this community is to help each other become better writers - we can hardly do that if you shy away.

...That said, sorry if I come across as lashing out. I don't mean to. But you sound a bit like my little brother when he's being unreasonable, and I suppose I'm probably reacting to that as much as to your actual words. If you really do want to leave, or are simply bored here, then by all means do so, but please make sure that is the reason, and the only reason. I'd hate to think we drive people away.

I joined the Board only earlier this year, and I've been drifting around for some time now. I don't think that we've actually introduced ourselves to each other; but I do read your posts, and I regret that we haven't truly 'met'.

I do hope you'll return.

再見！Until we meet again!

Xanthia B.

Nice to see that you're staying... and that you're a fellow TVTroper!

Glad to see you're sticking around.

Nice solution. I may have trouble remembering who you used to be for a while, though, so sorry if I get things mixed up. :)

Tutto bene quello che finisce bene, right? (Sorry for the Gratuitous Italian, but I do not know if there is an English equilvalent of this motto, that roughly means "It's all good what ends in a good way")

Since retconning away your missions means that we have to retcon also the comeback of the Mistery Agent, can I use him in my next mission?

Have a generic book of your choice. Now off to greet everyone else!

Have a pet cat, a cheesecake and a pink elephant (on parade).

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQ parties!

"I iz back?"

*twitches*
Welcome back. Please use grammar and spelling.

Mice are traditionally portrayed as skittish, and Orion was discribed as such by his PPC wiki page (then again, this is Redwall, where they carry giant swords...)