Jun 2011 Archive, part c

I shouldn't use HTML in the morning. .__.

http://rc7331.freezoka.net/
http://rc7331.freezoka.net/introsal.html

Just thought you ought to know.

Aww. :3

Nice to see that the kid'll grow up to know that a Mary Sue is a very bad thing. :)

I think it was too long for a kid that age. But it was funny, and the baby was cute, especially at the very end! Everyone reading this: you have to download the PDF (linked in the video information). It's even funnier!

And I remember hS linked the book here on the Board, but alas, I seem to have deleted my bookmark; so if anyone still has the link, I guess it'd be nice to post it.

Little kids are almost always adorable.

That is absolutely adorable and huggable and amazing! Wish I had so awesome a parent!

I didn't know about the video or the children's book. Get 'em while they're young, eh?

And I must say the father is roguishly handsome.

But that's just my uninvolved opinion, obviously.

I can imagine the traveling ones, such as the legendary birds and Suicune, Entei, and Raikou occasionally running into agents and Sues.

As far as I am aware, there has to be a really good reason for a character or group to know about the PPC. For instance, the Bronze Dragonflight in the Warcraft Universe knows about the PPC because they can each see their entire personal timeline. You can't Neuralyze that away, so any of them that have contact with the PPC will know about us.

Pokemon, even powerful ones, would be susceptible to Neuralyzation, in my opinion.

I don't think they were aware of the PPC and such, but you may wish to read the mission yourself either way. It's quite good!

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfg2s5q3_124dmmnf5ck

~Neshomeh

Woohoo finally got time on my hands for fanfic.

Hopefully at least the authors' summaries will warn those who dislike slash.

I like the format you guys are using--genre, status, quick summary. Way better than a random list of titles.

I'll have to check the TVTropes fanrec page for anything I submitted there...

I've got a ton of fics I could recommend, so this is an excellent idea.

I posted mine recently. I've only got a few fics there so far, but I plan to update the list over the next few days, because there are a LOT of fanfics that I like that could do with some recommendations.

Only got a couple fics for now.

1)Put him asleep from safe distance. I recommend using a PSG1-T tranquillizer sniper rifle from the Metal Gear continuum.
2)Bring him to Medical/FicPsych for memory editing. The should have something that works with sleeping canons, I hope.
3)Drop him back into canon before he wakes up.

A gag for your Agents would be recovering the spent case: PSG1 cases tend to fall far from the rifle (the PSG1 has a pretty violent action), and being uncanonical they must be recovered. Cue Agents having trouble finding it, maybe because it ended up in a weird place. Or maybe one Agent shoots, and the case hits the other in the head.

…not to the headings.

What do you mean "badass" Stu? For a Stu to be badass, he would have to be awesome. As Stus are not awesome but pathetic, it would seem that Stus are inherently non-badass.

...unless anyone wants to claim them here first?

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3295299/1/Crimson_Blood

Thought I'd use this thread rather than clutter up the Board with a new one.

On the subject of the above fic, OH GLOD MY BRAIN HAS BEEN BLENDED. *ahem* Sorry about that, but it really is that bad.

Frodo and Harry Potter (who are suddenly both at Hogwarts) inexplicably decide to take acid and 'excstacy' and then commit suicide with razor blades. Oh, and then their boyfriends also kill themselves 'off screen'. Makes perfect sense.

Frankly, I find it to be much more enjoyable (better written, more likable characters, much more interesting sparkly immortal) than Twilight. But I digress.

Huwhat.

Did this person... make Isabella Swan... the same person as Isabelle Lightwood?

...Fanbrat. Must. PAY.

*FANRAGE*

Now I know how it feels to be the clapper in a humongous bell.

Seriously. It HURT to read this. I'm just glad it's so short.

I can't help but notice that the RP above is not taking off. If I may offer a hint based on years of online RP experience, I would suggest giving your would-be players something to go on by writing a little scene to start with. Preferably one in which somebody is doing something that would invite interaction, rather than just sitting alone in a corner. After all, interaction is the point of a role-play. {= )

~Neshomeh, who would jump in with said scene herself if she could think of anything to do that didn't involve her ex-dragonrider agent wallowing through a bout of depression.

"Stop me if you've heard this one- Two agents walk into a bar for bleepka and NM@NMs..."

The door of the bar opened, admitting a young woman dressed almost entirely in brown, the flashpatch that was sewn on her ankle-length coat marking her as a Bad Slasher. She took a good look around her, noting the various people and nodding to those she knew before heading over to the bar and ordering a bright green drink called an Eleventh Doctor Sonic Screwdriver. It was a normal screwdriver with Midori in it, and one of the Bad Slasher's favorite drinks.

Maeryn sipped at her drink before taking a seat at an empty table, watching the people around her. Kaliel, her symbiote, would make sure she didn't get too drunk, but for now, Maeryn was enjoying her drink. She didn't know if anyone would be joining her, but she wouldn't mind if someone did.

Agent Suicide did not, as a rule, class himself as a social drinker in either sense of the term: he hadn't boozed in friendly company since his original death, and he was not at home to Mister Moderation. However, if questioned, he would admit that he was always open to the possibility of change--especially when a good-looking woman was part of the equation. And when weighed against the abovementioned good-looking woman, even engaging in social drinking could be considered acceptable.

As far as Suicide could tell (HQ time being what it was), he had been released from FicPsych about three days before. He'd been laid up there for almost a week, recovering from the combined mental and physical trauma inflicted by one Archir the Emerald, and had spent the occasional moment of lucid consciousness attempting to get to know one Nurse Jenni Robinson. (Ah, Jenni, who was sharp as a xiphos and got such an interesting look on her face whenever she read his medical records . . .) His plans to ask her out for a drink had been temporarily halted by a mission into a continuum he didn't know, but after fighting with both self-insert troll Sues and his own abysmal communication abilities, he'd finally managed to send her a note and arrange an assignation/date/meeting/thing.

To Suicide, the bar was a good spot for a rendezvous. It was fairly public and had decent lighting, meaning that if she tried to knife him, there would be plenty of witnesses to corroborate the facts and no way for her to hide the weapon--both important considerations in Suicide's past interactions with women. Granted, Jenni was a class act and therefore completely out of his realm of experience, but Be Prepared was the kind of motto he would've had if he had a motto.

Plus, the Bar had pretzels. He liked pretzels.

He perched himself on a stool by the taps, ordered something with three Xes and a biohazard symbol next to it on the menu, and sipped his drink while glancing around at the clientele. For a moment, Suicide thought he glimpsed an animated teddy bear in the corner, but he shook his head and double-checked his drink. Damn, that must be some good stuff.

If not, well, I'm seeking permission within the next few days, so no biggie.

Rookie Agents Steven Fontwell and Wallis sneak into the Bleeprin bar, slipping into the darkest corner they could find.

"Dude, I told you, this is going to be cool." Steve muttered, looking towards the bar, complete with all manner of alcohol and blee-products.

"Yub cha wa na?" Wallis asked, scratching his fury head.

"What do you mean 'how do we get it'?" Steve shook his head at his little companion. "Dude, no one can tell the age of an Ewok. You go up there, get the booze and we both drink it. It's a sure fire plan."

Wallis continued his confused look for a moment, before reluctantly nodding. "Yub yub." He said, before making his way towards the bar.

Ray slumps at a little table, one hand clutching a fuzzy ear and the other wrapped around a mug of rootbleep. She mutters something about a vampire infestation in the wrong kingdom.

Aster Corbett walks into the bar, hops up on a stool, and promptly droops all over the counter.

"I can't write this mission report. I don't want to think about The Hidden Secret anymore..."

Her clothes are rather disheveled. It looks like she has been on-mission for days...

Krisprolls, South and Whatever walk into the bar, order their Bleepbeers and start getting shitfaced. They then start a peanut fight.
"OW" says Krisprolls as he receives one in the eye.
"That was supposed to be for South" says Whatever.
"WHAT? You'll get one!" says South.
And so on.

Reading missions to fandoms outside your knowledge is an interesting experience. Some fandoms and authors tend to assume that you, the reader, are fairly familiar with canon, and will not have their agents re-inventing the wheel to explain canon problems. That kind of thing is most likely to be found, in my experience, in fandoms like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter that are or have been very popular.

Canons that are currently very rare usually go to lengths to explain the canon issues. This is usually accomplished by one or the other of the agents being unfamiliar with the canon, and therefore standing in for the audience and giving the agent who does know an excuse to engage in what would otherwise be As You Know Bob conversations.

I do have a bit of an unusual perspective on this, I think, because I read the Merlin mission that Trojie and Pads did before I had heard of the show. They explained it enough that I understood why the charges were charges, but after I had watched the show (And loved it. Everyone should watch it!) I re-read the mission, and I did get more out of it. Just knowing what the characters looked like helped me a lot, and there were subtle things that knowing the character gives you that written explanations just can't cover.

So yeah, I did get more out of the mission once I knew the canon, but the mission was thoroughly enjoyable without that extra layer of understanding.

I have to hope that people are willing to read less well known or popular (within the PPC) fandoms. While there is now a small contingent of people that know Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and NCIS those were all canons with no or only a very few missions in them when I joined. Sherlock Holmes had none (two old missions were later recovered, but they are for a sub-canon of Sherlock Holmes). Merlin had the one mission, Psych (I'll finish it eventually!) still has none, and there is only one other person in the PPC that I know of that knows and likes Sanctuary.

As for the practice missions, I point you back to July's response, again. It was well thought out and sound advice.

I was also worried about humor when I joined the PPC, and I have to admit that my results have been mixed at times. I think the one thing that writing for the PPC has taught me above anything else is to relax. Not relax in SPaG, which I think I am slowly getting better at, but with the process and characters. I've had problems in original fiction and fanfiction writing of being so afraid to mess things up, that I end up paralyzed and never get anything finished. I wish I had learned some kind of advice that I could share with you about relaxing while writing, but though I've consistently managed it with my PPC agents, I still stress over the others. If I ever figure it out, I'll let you know, because most of the best things I've come up with in missions were a result of having no plan whatsoever and writing myself into a corner that I then had to write myself out of, and I wish I could bring that to my other writings.

Anyway, I'm done with the rambling. Good luck!

I'm currently working on the first PPC mission in the Thundercats continuum and to my knowledge there have only been two or three X-men missions too. Working the less known continuums just means there's more badfic for you that you don't need to share.

So far, I have written the one Dr. Horrible mission, and as soon as it's beta'd, the one Alex Rider mission. (Although it should be noted that it's a crossover with Harry Potter.) It's not a real disadvantage- I've read a few missions in canons I have no familiarity with and enjoyed them- but you're right in saying that you won't necessarily get everything from them someone who is familiar with the canon will. At the same time, the canon is usually not the main focus of the mission- badfic is, and badfic is pretty universally bad. I think a well written mission, no matter what the canon, is fun to read, even if you don't get the inside reference

As for the practice missions, I can't say that it's a bad idea or a good idea. See July's answer for more info.

... yes, go ahead, but don't hang your heart on anyone else seeing them ever. :P

The real question is, what canons do you know? I'm quite astonished you've found something our mission backlog doesn't cover (and not everything's even on that list...1)

hS

No one's forcing you to do missions in "popular" works, honest. As long as it's some form of published fiction, it falls under the jurisdiction of the PPC. Personally, I haven't done missions in any of the three works you mentioned. I've done missions in Happy Tree Friends and Gorillaz, for goodness' sake. We'd much rather you write missions in a book/game/etc. you *do* know than fumble through a "popular" work you don't know. If you want to do a mission in The Death Gate Cycle or The Edge Chronicles or Psychonauts (also totally okay if you don't know what those are), then by all means, have fun and make sure you post it for us once you have permission.

And don't worry, I haven't read Lord of the Rings either.

What sort of canons do you know? LotR is actually fairly lower on the ranks of recent missions in terms of frequency, so it doesn't matter too terribly now, if you haven't read it. For example, I've done missions in Doom, Discworld, Harry Potter, Legend of Zelda, and so on, and there are others who've tackled other canons beyond what I've just mentioned as well.

As to getting references? This isn't a disadvantage at all; inside references are inside references, and the important thing is getting the broad strokes and intended tone and humor when reading a mission.

As to experimenting with missions before you receive permission to write them, honestly? There's no one really stopping you. We're not going to go to your door with a battering ram and a writ demanding you to come with us or you end up in prison, but the reason for permission so so that we know you have a vague idea of the humor and general gist of the PPC. Writing missions before you get permission, and, if you say, get turned down because you don't capture the tone or mood, or if you take things down a dramatic and serious road and the PG goes 'eeeeh, try again later, this is way too serious for us' makes it more likely for you to get overly attached to what you did without any way to tackle it properly because you've put yourself into a pattern that you like already.

Oh ewwwwwwwwww!
Ah Quizilla, the only place on the internet smellier and more depressing than The Pit.

Just reading these would be enough to make someone go crazy (starts singing the Mad Scene from "Lucia di Lammermoor).

That last one makes me wish I was more at home in the Discworld so I could take it on. I love Granny Weatherwax and Death, and no Sue should put her glittery hands on them.

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate, and please enjoy your stay!

Hi! Hello! Aloha! And other greetings of various levels of sanity!

Have some Mary Sue cookies and see how they crumble!

I'd give you a cookie, but you appear to have one already. So here are some volumetric flasks and iced tea.

Welcome, new friend! Have a Fire Materia!

Hi, have some fudge!

P&P, is that paper and pencil gaming or something else?

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQ parties!

Welcome aboard!
Have some breath mints and a rubber chicken.

Welcome. Here's a Bleepka/orange juice cocktail nicknamed "Sonic Screwdriver."

Welcome to the Board! Have a Dramatic Longcoat. It flatters dramatically when you need it to.

Welcome to the madhouse Board!

Have an anti-crumbling cookie metastability field generator, because, erm, cookies are better when they're not crumbly! :P

Have a bottle of peppermint schnapps and a party hat!

So, what are your favourite games and what do you like to read and stuff?

Have an extra pair of socks, useful when you need a pair to wear or an improvised weapon! (You might also need them because of that sock-eating penguin. ;])

Welcome. Have a leather bound copy of the mission logs of Jay and Acacia and a box of sporks in case you get hungry. By the way, I may be being stupid, but what the heck is spiriting?

Have some Swiss chocolate. It will come in handy, especially when facing physical descriptions involving chocolate. Oh and have some Bleepka. It will help you keep your sanity.

Hello there! It's always nice to have some new peeps around here!

Here, have some Tristan Murail for the road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tinChMgLnjc

See, I told you that you'd get funny presents. :D

I told you dog. Also, have some awesome-laced cookies.

Welcome to the board! Have a green and blue penguin. But be careful, he eats socks.

Oh, and that other department. ^_~

The writing samples looked pretty good for the most part, so no worries there. I'll point out the few things I did notice:

In the first intro, you mention that Gloria turns the pages of her book to the right. That's fine if it's a manga, but you don't outright say so, so it could be confusing with people who aren't familiar with manga.

The tendency these days for a "normal" RC to have actual bedrooms and anything resembling a kitchen confuses me, but since they're all different I suppose it's not an actual complaint.

In the second one, there were a couple of things. First, while I don't want to disrespect any religious beliefs you might have, I heard "Oh g-d oh g-d oh g-d oh g-d" with the hyphen as a schwa sound [ə], resulting in "ohga doga doga doga," which, given the Narrative Laws, could result in unwanted attention from the Department of Geographical Aberrations. In writing, best practice is usually to accurately represent what your character is saying, even if they are blaspheming, so that's my purely editorial recommendation. If you feel strongly about not spelling out "god," though, even uncapitalized, I'll shut my trap and say no more on the subject.

Second, the plural of continuum is continua.

And that's it. Enjoy!

~Neshomeh

So, are these from an original fic of yours, or something? Is there a link somewhere? I dunno what the Lombax Dimension is, but I'm game to find out. {= )

Given that it's been a million years, please allow me to share with you our wiki, which is chock-full of useful, relatively up-to-date information and entertainment besides. I particularly would like to point out the newly re-written Permission article, since there was a discussion about the whole process recently and I'm interested to hear whether it all makes sense and is helpful from as many people as possible.

Anyhow, welcome back!

~Neshomeh

Hi, have some fudge!

Welcome back. Have a box of plastic sporks as a welcome back gift.

Fair winds!

Now you can throw BBQ parties!

That set of spelling failure could be put down to super-lazy young fanbrat, but the lack of disclaimers makes this look like a troll.

I thought it already was Legendary Goodfic, to be honest. O.o

I can't speak for the others, since I haven't read them, but I do remember hearing about Brothers In Arms back in the day, and I believe I've heard of Siobhan, so I can at least agree with the "legendary" part. {= )

~Neshomeh

Nice to meet you! Have a portal gun!

Since your welcome thread is a bit small, have a WHOLE BAG full of Bleepolate (nm)(nm)s.

By the way, what famdoms are you in?

What are your fandoms, BTW?

If you are, sweet! I love new people!

Here, have some Schoenberg for the road:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIwE0c-BOA

I don't know Homestruck, so I'm trusting Firebird's enthusiasm to tell me all's well there.

Aside from a few miscellaneous technical errors, I didn't see any problems in either writing sample, and I like the idea that Tethra can't hear the Flowers. I also really want to see that paintbrush in action, because it sounds like a neat idea. Thus, go forth and spork, and be merry!

Oh, and don't worry about the portal malfunction thing. Every other character arrives by a plothole of some sort--the other ones are recruited directly--so it's not a big deal if you don't change it. Almost nobody gets here on purpose. {= )

~Neshomeh

It occurred to me that the malfunctioning portal is kinda weak, and I'll probably be changing it.
Just FYI.
I feel like I'm commenting too much on my own post.

Tethra http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/198/tethraw.png/
Aly http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/695/tek5189218.png/

Allow me to squeal over a potential other troll Agent. What's her sign?

First off, your character has special eyes, is a non-canon relative, and where most characters have one main power or a secondary power, or a primary power enabled by a secondary power, your character has three, and manifests none of the frailties that the other X-Men have. On top of that, you're attempting to shroud her past in mystery, which, while it may seem cool or neat at first, giving no explanation as to why or how tends to aggravate the issue; there are two ends to that scale, overexplaining, and underexplaining. Erroring on either side can be fatal; many times a poorly thought-out explanation can be even worse than no explanation at all.

Under the specification TGD-SPC-MS101, by:
                  (a) creating a non-canon younger sister to a canon character undermines the role of a canon character, Kitty Pryde, who fills the role of a younger sister to some of the older cast;
                  (b) copy-catting the relatively unique powers of a canon character, and thereby marginalizing them;
                  (c) bringing in more powers than normal and not suffering frailties, this breaks a limit that can be logically inferred from canon, which destroys your character's credibility;
                  (d) giving your character an eye colour/hair combination that is not natural to the universe it is in breaks consistency of the story with the rules imposed by the setting;
                  (e) not justifying or reasonably explaining who your character is, their personality, what makes them unique as a character, or giving any sort of features besides what they appear as and what they can do destroys the integrity of the character itself;
         you have created a Mary Sue.

I suggest building a new character, one that doesn't explicitly depend on the presence of canon characters. It is quite possible (and advisable) to take this approach, and still make your character special. However, the way you'll want to make them special is by their personality and evolution throughout the series as a character. More importantly, you'll also want to show how your character acts and the choices he or she makes when under pressure or in the face of meaningful challenges.

Whoa! Hold on there a second. What is this for? Your post isn't very clear about its purpose. Please do explain.

I quite like your writing sample, but don't know much about the Homestuck continuum, so I'd left off saying anything here. But since Phobos has Guilt Trip skills nearly unmatched...

Permission granted! Sorry it took so long.

I'm not familiar with the Homestuck continuum, but both of your agents sound very interesting, and your writing sample is great!

Why is it everyone else gets good ideas but I don't? *facepalm*

Why didn't I think to captchalogue stuff? Fft. I may just...Steal that...>>

I might as well chime in, finally.

Good writing, good characters, and dear gods that is a horrible first badfic. Completely approve! Permission granted. Have fun!

...to the sporking of that story on the Mary Sue LJ community, but that might spoil your ideas. :D

"I write plenty, but not a lot in English"

If I may ask, what do you write in?

Curious,
Lleu

Seriously, I don't know much about the Haruhi Suzumiya canon (though I am working on it), but this fic is just... GAAAAHHHH!

Wow, that was kinda ridiculous... Especially the hermaphrodite!sex bit.

Also, I would've said I went in there because I wouldn't know that it's bad otherwise, but that's just me.

Great job! =D

I especially liked The Fisherman. Both of your agents were pretty funny, and the mission was good overall. Very nice job.

I like that you use excerpts from the text, rather than just referring to what the characters does. I think missions are best when you see parts of the original fic in all its awfulness.

I loved the Portal reference.

But now I have a question. Are we sure that the raw fabric of time is capable of killing that Sue? 'Cause they often tend to be quite tough.

Oh my grod. That is one of the WORST badfics I have ever heard of!!!!! Spork it.

If it's as bad as My Immortal it really doesn't matter if it's a trollfic or not, thanks for sharing.

*ahem*
I thought Portal might be safe from the clutches of truly awful fanfic, but it looks like I was wrong (note to self: if it exists, there is badfic connected to it).

I think you're right in suspecting a troll. The author clearly has a grasp of the Portal plotline and some of the theories behind it, and I doubt that someone with that level of understanding would intentionally butcher canon to this extent. Either way, it needs to die, and as Lleu mentioned, you are welcome to put your name down to do the honours.

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Permission#Q._Can_I_claim_a_badfic_before_I_get_permission.3F

Not having played anything beyond two-thirds of Portal (the original), I can't really comment, but that looks like a self-aware imitation of My Immortal, in particular "Then Glados started to listen to some Avril Lavinge music and cry." — Avril Lavigne as a mark of people the 'Sue dislikes is setting off metaphorical bells.

Lleu

I read the Dark Is Rising series a few years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it. I'll definitely have to pick up the books again soon. Unfortunately, as it's nearing 3 am right now, I'll have to put off reading the mission until I'm more awake. I really look forward to it though (how could someone disrupt *that* series? It was so good!).

That was a fun mission to read. (Embroidered eyes? Ack!) Nice work! :D

I've never read The Dark is Rising or any of the books that follow, but I'm definitely curious now. I'll have to see if the library has a copy.

Even though I have never read The Dark is Rising, I still enjoyed the mission. The death of the Sue and the "Maybe I should just stop saying things between missions." line were just hillarious.

Like the others, I have read them and have very fond memories of them, it's just been rather long time since. I know that isn't helping you right now, but I thought it might be encouraging to know.

Unfortunately, I didn't even know what Dark is Rising was until just recently, so... yeah. Sorry. =(

That said, though, this was a hilarious mission. Great job! =D

but, like the other two, it's been a while. They were some of my favorites when I was younger (ha. Barely an adult and now I'm old).

I read them about 10 years ago. Maybe longer. I'm getting old and don't remember things as well as I used to. You know, because 25 is practically ancient.

...but it's been about two years. I should really read them again.

Granddaughter?! What is that I don't even...

*goes off to read*

... assuming you already have the Tower of London on your list (and who wouldn't? Crown Jewels!), my main recommendation is the Monument. Climb it and look out over London!

... assuming you don't mind 311 steps up (and down again), that is. Strangely, most people object.

hS

I'd recommend checking out what West End shows are on if you're at all interested in that sort of thing, if you are it'd probably be the highlight of your time in London.

Go to the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert (I don't really like art museums but I still enjoyed it). Those were by far the best things we did in London (the Rosetta stone!).

The second best was that my mother and I made an effort to take as many tube lines as possible. I think we only missed one; two tops. But that is probably more to do with my love of public transportation.

'The minimum age for the purchase of alcohol is 18. People aged 16 or 17 may consume wine, beer or cider on licensed premises (pubs/bars/restaurants) with a table meal. In England and Wales, it must be an adult who orders,[72] however an adult doesn't have to be present to order alcohol with a meal in Scotland. The legal age for the purchase of alcohol from an off-licence (store/supermarket) is 18. (The legal age to buy liqueur chocolates is 16, but this is rarely enforced.)' From Wikipedia.

• The London Eye is always worth a go if you hadn't thought of that.
  + A couple of companies do short (hour or so) cruises down the Thames which are quite nice as long as it's not raining!
  + Camden Market (http://www.camden-market.org/) is great if you're into 'alternative' stuff (read: geeky weird clothes! :D)
  + There are two 'Heritage' bus routes (short sections of the 9 and 15) that are operated by the old 'Routemaster' buses.
  + The London Science Museum in South Kensington is great if you're a science nerd (like me!), and there's the Natural History Museum right next door too.
  
  That's all I can think of at the moment, but I might come up with something else later! You'll love it, trust me! (yeah, I suppose I am biased :P)
  

...that Inheritance fic...I was laughing so hard during that! xD I only got halfway through before I couldn't take it anymore. It's so bad it's comical. Please, the moment a PG gives you Permission, kill that thing.

for trollfics. It was a subdepartment of Bad Parody, I think. You could look to see if any of those missions are still available and find out what they do.

My first (failed) permission request I was going to kill that thing but decided that would be a bad idea for a first mission. Glad someone's planning on taking it to its (metaphorical) grave!

As to minis, possibly mini (as in smaller than regular wolves) werewolves/shapeshifters/whatever-they-are? I'm also an ex-fan who plans to have (probably crossover) future missions involving the continuum. But eh, the mini wolf is the first mini-like thing that came to my mind, if that helps you at all.

...has a name been established for Twilight minis? I checked the wiki but found nothing, and there will be a lot resulting from this thing!

I think a combination of the two approaches from downthread would work. First, the agents need to find the troll and get it out the fic and into its true form. Exorcism would work for that, as well as pulling the troll out of a plothole, or something else entirely. After that, the troll needs to be charged and killed. I would think killing a troll would be harder than killing a 'Sue, since trolls are big, lumbering, hulks that don't die too easily in most continua, so the agents will have to do more work than usual to kill the thing (sadly).

I've written two troll missions. I basically charge a troll the same as I would a Sue (but without the Mary Sue charge and a little more emphasis on being intentionally bad) and shoot the troll. It turns to rocks, rubble and dust after that.

Basic guideline.

1) Locate troll.
2) Determine it is a troll.
3)'There's a troll in the dungeons!'
4) Exorcise troll from the fic.
5) Resist poking the dead troll.
6) Flail and panic.

My suggestion, anyrate. I did do a trollfic mission. But my agent set it on fire instead of poking it.