Apr 2015 Archive, part a

I think this one is a great idea too. Or maybe this one! Or the one over here! Or here! Okay maybe this one is a better idea.

I was surprised at the cinematography. While clearly armature, it was surprisingly well done. There were a few funky shots, like at 1:04 or that super strong dutch angle at 1:35 Otherwise, very well done!

Also, was it you singing? Because, if so, wow. I had no idea you could sing like that! I would recommend getting a better microphone, though. Perhaps a Blue Snowball? Just a possibility.

Otherwise, congratulations!

...Are they gone?

I think they're gone.

I KNEW IT! Come on, girl. I am like the rickroll KING! I have not been legitimately rickrolled in over a year! COme on girl. You can do better then that.

If you want to get people, give them something other then a rickroll. Today, everybody is seeing that coming. Link them to something like this or this or possibly even this. Just some notes for when you want to troll people in the future. :)

...from my old prank. Very good.

I feel that this summarizes this whole situation quite nicely.

I think this is a better choice. Don't You?

... a brief biography of a certain Jaycacia Thornbyrd. It... well, it's... honestly, I think it has to be read to be believed.

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The daughter of Acacia Byrd and PPC HQ, she was borne by Jay Thorntree due to Luxury's Black Magickckck. She was raised as Jay and Acacia's daughter, and became immensely popular in HQ. She married the Sunflower Official in secret, and is also known to have slept with Jay.

Jaycacia was murdered by unknown villains, but a year after her funeral was restored to life by the love between Jay and the SO. During a threesome with them, she was attacked by Acacia Byrd, who she managed to kill in a love-powered magical duel.

The defeat of Acacia was commemorated by naming the date as the first of Jaycaciamonth. Some years later, Jaycacia, Jay, and the SO went on holiday on that date. While out in the woods, they were ambushed by the Department of Intelligence, led by the Sub Rosa herself.

Jaycacia went to the Board of Flowers and asked them to transform her into the Starflower. She used that power to defeat another attack by the Spies, and to carry the Sub Rosa, Tiger Lily, and Architeuthis back to the beginning of the universe.

Jaycacia returned years later, summoned from the Rift by Dafydd Illian. She was restored to her human form, and engaged in an orgy with multiple other agents. By the power of Luxury's Black Magickckck, she became pregnant with a baby who had a high destiny...

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As of yesterday, there are nine stories in the Jaycaciaverse - seven by me, and two by Neshomeh brandybaby. Terrifyingly, they actually form a single coherent narrative (though there's no explanation at present as to how the Marquis can 'live happily ever after' and then get set on fire by the Department of Intelligence). Doubtless there will be more to her tale when September rolls around...

(Well, I say there's nine stories. If anyone knows of any I haven't thought of - which is the five Jaycacia stories by <a href="http://fanficland.webs.com/FfW/AuthorJayBird.htm">JayBird, 'Love and Secrets' by JayBird, both of brandy_baby's stories, and this AFD mission - please let me know! Anything which mentions Jaycacia as a real person, Agent Aurora, Dafydd-Ilraen-AW being one person, or any of the other minor facts of the Jaycaciaverse, is fair game to be incorporated)

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That was one shiny plot-twist.

The agents seem very nuanced and well-thought-out, with plenty of room for growth!

Also the Driftwood story was HILARIOUS.

YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR YPUR

The first one with Jaycacia amused me greatly, but the ending to the second with Nyx and Dassie had me giggling so hard. My classmates probably think I'm nuts. Very amusing. *offers a can of peanut brittle* ...why are you giving me that look?

The one with Legolas I can almost understand since it's so common, but that other one...Kill it. With fire. And Princess Celestia.

It's spelled Uruk-hai! With two Us! And naming a horse "Airborne" just should not be a thing! Please, someone spork this! On a good note, the second badfic link is broken for me. Thank god.

I'm just going to skip to the joke, alright? I mean, a coffee shop AU. That's silly enough as is, right?

Well, here is my train of thought while reading this:

A Coffie Shop AU? What on earth does that mean? I'm going to have Jumper look into this. If I ever write him, that is...

So, Doctor Who... Mission? Coffee break? This should be interesting.

Carrot juice? Well, I suppose some coffee shops would sell that. Their main demographic is hipsters, anyway. Coffee in a coffee shop is too mainstream, man! Though, I always thought Rose as more of a mocha person, myself. Maybe she just had a craving, that only carrots could satisfy.

Wait a minute, a carrot juice shop? I've been lied to! You will pay for this, Dawn!

Rose's... Ears started twitching? That's... Ood Odd, for a human.

Ah, there are our agents! And, it seems like we're lusting already. Well, I don't know what else you would do in a coffee carrot juice AU. I mean, how would you assassinate sues? Spill hot coffee carrot juice on them?

Rose was... Leaping out the door? Ears bouncing? Complements on her tail? What on earth...

OH! I get it! It's some weird pony AU! ((Not kidding, that was my actual thoughts. I am that hopeless, people.))

Oh, new agent team. Hmm, this seems rather normal. Oh, nope, there's the ear thing. Strange pony AU, this is. Ponies can drink coffee, though. I am fairly sure that's canon... ((somebody help me))

Well, that was interesting. Oh, author's note. "In honor of Viola, commonly known as Lolo, with much love." Oh no. Oh, Dawn, I'm so sorry...

"Lolo, of course, was my rabbit[...]" Wait, what? What does a rabbit...

Oh my god, I'm an idiot.

I truly am sorry for your loss, though. I know how special a pet can be. This was a lovely, silly tribute. Well done.

...it'd be on Serebii. Thus, this is a hoax/Apirl Fool's joke. Sorry to burst your bubble. :-(

You know, I never played any of the Pokemon games. I feel like I should fix that. This gen may actually be the one I pick up! I always hear about how amazing gen 1 is, so to be able to play it on a device I already own would be great! I mean, I know emulation is a thing, but having the updated console and graphics would make the experience so much better. Still, I'm going to be a reasonable consumer, and wait until I can read some reviews. Perhaps when TotalBiscuit gets his hands on it, I'll see if it's worth it. Still, I'm optimistic!

And, in other news, SeaTurtle either makes fakes or found some on the internet. Do you really expect me to believe that? Especially when you say it was announced by Nintendo? The least you could have done is say they were leaks. Without an official (or faked) statement from Nintendo, I have no reason to believe any of these images. I r8 2/8, not gr8 b8 m8.

*looks at posts*

AIEEEEE! Please tell me you're not kidding!

First off, I apologize that it took me so long to respond. I've been busy as of late.

I'm glad you were able to take some lessons from this exercise, even if my suggestions weren't as helpful as I had hoped. But that's how it goes. A lot of writing is ultimately subjective; people adopt the strategies that work best for them. I've never been a huge fan of the "writing notes into the badfic" technique (which Nesh also mentioned way back when), but I can see how it would work for others.

Awesome job. Keep up the good work!

[commented for the convenience of readers who didn’t live in my head for the last two years; these expositionary comments aren’t actually a part of the real outline I would do if this weren’t for the workshop.]

Pre-mission
Hieronymus (and Androia’s?) first mission, sequel to First Encounter [which should be fleshed-out and ends with a BEEP]; or may start with fleshed-out version of "First Encounter”.

Wide-eyed "veteran" Androia Avatar [She has the advantage of having been a warrior and healer fighting demons in World of Warcraft before she was snatched out of the game. She may even have gathered some experience in training missions, if I find co-writers for these. But since she never did anything else, she is still trying to figure out what life, free-will and everything is about.]

Over-confident rookie Hieronymus [He pretends to remember everything he read in the archives, and to have seen everything that’s there. But he has no idea how it really feels to leave his reading chair and go on a mission to fight the Mary Sues.]

Neither is prepared to lead the team. [Androia was not designed to be a team player and she never made an important decision on her own (except joining the PPC, but even then she might have been talked into it). She doesn’t know how to lead. Hieronymus should have seen the reports of her training missions in the archives, where she probably mentioned that she hates the guy who manipulated her whole life in World of Warcraft. If this didn’t happen, he is at least not the jerkass of the badfic games and can imagine (non-capital "i") how she feels. Anyway, he believes that telling her what she should do would not help to win her trust and that actually only telling her that he is her creator would be worse.]

BEEP! Hieronymus checks Intelligence report, summarizes the fic’s first paragraph and suggests going in as random inhabitants of Hogsmeade. Androia agrees, programs Disguise Generator.

Mission: Breaking the Loop
(Numbers in parentheses refer to paragraphs of the badfic.)

(1) Decision: Skip, already summarized in pre-mission.
After the battle of Hogwarts, mourning in the Great Hall. Half-sentence flashback to Hermione kissing Ron, then scene shift to Harry lying on his bed.

• I’m not sure how much this will throw the agents around until they realize that this just establishes Harry’s POV and we have seen his thoughts about the situation. [May bring some dynamic into a story mostly located in the dormitory, and Hieronymus’ reaction might be funny. But it doesn’t do much for the rest of the mission. Hieronymus’ first experience with such effects should be saved for another mission.]

(2 – 5) Enter the agents. Hide under Dean’s bed.
Harry and Hermione had left the Great Hall and went to their respective dormitories, but they cannot sleep, so Hermione visits Harry and occupies Ron’s bed. They chat for a while. Just before they doze off, an old woman appears in a bright silver light.

• Hermione should be in the Great Hall with the Weasleys? Actually, the canon chapter ends with Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Headmasters office, Harry contemplating to go to bed, and to ask Kreacher to serve him a sandwich in the dorm.
  
• H. and H. cannot see the agents arriving, but since "Rose" is a Sue, the agents should hide before she appears. Under a bed across the room from Harry and Ron’s beds? Dean’s bed, identified by the Westham United poster?

(6 – 9)
The Sue identifies as 143 years old Rose Weasley and claims that she used Hermione’s "notes to get back" in time because she wanted to talk to her parents.

• No idea what this means. Did Hermione leave her daughter notes about time travel?
  
• H. and H. are on the floor (rolled off their beds), wands drawn. Sue sits on Harry’s bed (She may or may not be facing the agent’s hiding place, depending on the layout of the dorm, which has not been described in canon, nor in the badfic. Pottermore, movies(?) and common sense suggest that the beds are arranged with bed-head at the wall of the circular(?) room and foot pointing to centre of room. My attempts to visualize H and H and the Sue’s positions and moves don’t make sense.
  
• The badfic may suppose that the beds are lined up along the wall, H. and H. rolled off the sides of their respective beds towards the room’s centre, Sue is sitting on the side of Harry’s bed facing the room’s centre, Harry is in front of Sue and Hermione somewhere at his side. This layout doesn’t make much sense, because it doesn’t leave much space for windows, lockers and the like between beds, or it leaves an unnecessarily wide empty space in the centre of an unreasonably big room.
  
• Actually, in this scenario it would have been better to stay on the beds, just drawing wand, rather than rolling off towards the potential danger (although it’s not entirely clear where the bright silver light appeared).
  
• The agents may experience a transformation from what they expected to what the badfic supposed, when the word world realizes that common sense is not applicable. [I would try to draw maps, but learning how to post them here is too tedious.]

(10 – 14)
Rose-Sue begins with the Weasley-bashing and claims that Harry is her father. She talks in breathless run-on sentences, and this spills over to the narrative.

• Reread check: was the narrative this way from the start? It starts bad and becomes worse.
  
• How does this affect the agents? No idea, actually. There is not much narrative anyway, and playing with the badly defined environment is more fun,
  
• Also, a misspelled Horcrux’s (meant to be plural) may give the agents something to do while they hide under the bed.
  
• The room may still be a bit twitchy, unsure concerning its size and layout.
  
• H and H sit now on either side of the Sue on Harry’s bed.
  
• The agents try to get C-CAD readings, but the C-CAD doesn’t work (explained later).

(15 – 16)
Rose-Sue gets an armchair to sit now facing H and H on the bed, then announces that H and H will not like what she has to say.

• She conveniently turns her back to the agents now.
  
• The word world may decide to fill the room’s empty centre with a table and some assorted chairs never mentioned in canon.
  
• Since Rose-Sue never turns to look at what’s behind her, the agents may leave their hiding place whenever it’s convenient to intersperse the sporking with some action.
  
• Hieronymus will definitely prefer to sit at this convenient table while he writes the charge list.

(17 – 18) I have to quote this:
Harry and Hermione turned to look at each other; nodded and then turned back to listen to what Rose had to say.

"Can you please keep in mind what you just did, that talking with out words..."

• Does she imply that Harry and Hermione did this in canon all the time, and that this is a sign of their true love? I thought I know my canon, but I don’t remember a single incident where this happened. (I do remember a scene in the third book where it happened with Harry and Ginny!) Unfortunately the Sue doesn’t quote canon lines I could argue with. Must I now reread the entire seven books to see whether she may have a point somewhere, or can I just charge her with blatantly lying about canon and be right because she doesn’t defend her position?

(18 – 19)
Rose-Sue claims that Harry, after seeing Hermione kissing Ron, was so devastated that he intended to commit suicide by Voldemort, because "he had no more reason to fight", and somehow she holds the Dursleys responsible for this, because Hermione of all people was too stupid and too un-empathic to understand how badly living with the Dursleys had affected Harry.

• Canon check: Harry’s thought’s while he walked to his sacrifice. Agent Hieronymus would love to quote them at the Sue, if he finds the time to do it.
  
• Alas he won’t.
  
• Is this the place to joke about this version of Hermione having the emotional range of a tea spoon?

(20 – 21)
Rose-Sue claims that Harry doesn’t know how to show love, and that what he feels for Hermione is love, and that he couldn’t stand being touched by people, except Hermione, whose hand he hold every night while she was petrified.

• This didn’t happen in CS, so she is blatantly lying about canon. Harry touched petrified Hermione just once, when he took the piece of parchment out of her hand.

(22)
Rose-Sue is foretelling the future now. "In the not to distant future" Rose will be conceived when Hermione and Harry will realise their "real true love" and promptly have sex. Hermione wrote about it in her journals, but she didn’t reveal what caused the big realisation. Harry asked Hermione to marry him. Also, Harry never asked Ginny, somehow she just pushed him into marriage.

• Canon check: how old is Rose in the epilogue. I’m sure she should be conceived several years after the battle of Hogwarts. Since this probably doesn’t qualify as not too distant future, Rose-Sue probably isn’t the canonical Rose.
  
• Obviously Stupid!Hermione didn’t consider that Ron might read her journal and find out that she slept with Harry. But aren’t you supposed to put your thoughts into your diary, not just a plain description of the day’s events? Why didn’t she say anything about how she and Harry realised their "real true love"? (Because Rose-Sue has no imagination and just wants it to happen, but that’s beside the point.)
  
• Since we already established that Rose-Sue lies, I suppose that Hermione’s journals say actually nothing about the big realisation, because it will not happen. But since Rose-Sue exists, something must have happened, so the secret that Hermione doesn’t reveal in her journal is probably that she and Harry had sex and Harry asked her to marry him just because a time traveller had told them that this had to happen because it had already happened.
  
• Also, I have some problems with tenses in these notes. We may need a Time-Lord to sort this out.

(23)
Further foretelling the future, Hermione, following a misguided sense of loyalty and obligation, will disregard her newly discovered "real true love" and marry Ron anyway, because she already promised and doesn’t want to hurt the Weasleys’ feelings.

• Being a Gryffindor, Hermione should actually be guided by honour (she’s a sort of knight, right?), and her sense of honour might misguide her in a Victorian way. But I can’t blame her for being stupid here. A time traveller told her that she will marry Ron because it already happened in the future, and Hermione is not as stupid as to temper with history. (Time-Lords, help me!)

(24 – 25)
Only days after Rose-Sue is born, Ron will start to beat his wife. Twenty years in the future, the Weasleys will do nothing to stop Ron when he beats his wife to death, because, as Molly says it, she’s "just a mudblood and therefore [...] must deserve it". Harry will try to rescue Hermione and will be stabbed by Rose’s evil half-brother Hugo. The Weasleys will make up a story about Harry and Hermione killing each other.

• Defaming Molly! Androia wants to kill the Sue, but Hieronymus insists that they still can’t be sure that she is a replacement.
  
• At this point, the agents are certainly not hiding under the bed.
  
• Is Ron’s wife really Hermione? Why doesn’t she hex him to Tibet? Or at least grab her baby and run away? Oh, I forgot, a time traveller told her that she cannot run away, because then the time traveller’s trajeck past will never have happened.
  
• Isn’t it telling that this starts as soon as the Sue has forced her way into existence, and is now able to warp everybody out of character?
  
• She must be a very strong Sue when she could do this while she was still a baby. Her strong Suefluence will certainly make H and H defend her when the agents charge.

(26)
Ginny plans to inherit all of Harry’s wealth and not share it with her kids, so she will cast an sterility charm on Harry before she sleeps with him, and when he is dead, she will send her children, who aren’t Harrys kids, off to their respective fathers.

• I don’t understand why Ginny even has kids. Why didn’t she cast a sterility charm on herself?
  
• Maybe she feared that Harry would want a divorce when she couldn’t give birth.
  
• But these kids will still inherit her wealth when she dies. Doesn’t she fear that they, having grown up in such a terrible family, will become evil and try to inherit early?
  
• Am I already writing dialogue for my agents?
  
• Tune the MSTing down and concentrate on the agents discussing plans to kill the Sue? The democratic decision finding process doesn’t work well and the badfics badness is distracting.

(27 – 31)
Rose-Sue brags about how she crossed the Weasleys’ evil plans as soon as she was of age. Presenting evidence that she is a Potter, and memories of the murders, she had the Weasleys arrested, got the Potter inheritance plus all other Knuts Ginny possessed, burned down the Burrow, and was probably somehow responsible for Hugo being found dead in his cell. Just as an afterthought in midst of this raging revenge, she remembers that she was abused ever since her mother’s death, starting when she was twelve and a half years old.

• I hope Evil!Ron had read Stupid!Hermione’s journal and knew that the didn't – no, scratch this, I'm not going there.
  
• Although it’s a good description of the Sue’s hate-full character, I will try to gloss over this section, conveniently ignoring all implications that the Sue was not already of age twenty years in the future, and was actually born about seven years after the Battle of Hogwarts. (But again she cannot be the real Rose Weasley, who is eleven years old at 1 September, Year 17 after Battle of Hogwarts, thus at least fourteen and maybe fifteen years old at 1 January, Year 20 after Battle of Hogwarts.)
  
• Did Hieronymus bring a weapon, BTW? Why didn’t Androia remind him? One knife (Androia’s) is not enough to keep H and H and the Sue quite while reading the charges. The C-CAD still doesn’t work. Can they trust the neuralyzer?

(32 – 33)
As soon as Rose-Sue has stopped babbling, Harry asks Hermione how one knows that they are in love. Hermione shortly contemplates "to interrogate him later about his treatment at the Dursleys", and, anticipating to hear about terrible experiences, to pay them a revengeful visit, but then makes Harry answer some other questions.

• Really? This is their reaction to the bloody story they just heard? They show no empathy for their abused child?
  
• It seems unbelievable that Hermione is so clueless about Harry’s family, but since I don’t remember when exactly in canon Harry told her about his experiences with the Dursleys, he may only have told Ron. [Further research required. Reread at least Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?]
  
• Is there a way to catch the Sue alone? Portal her to the basement of Malfoy Manor, where she can’t disapparate?
  
• Reading ahead, she is probably on a strict schedule and will vanish at a given time, short after confirmation that she is a Replacement. Will removing her from the dorm break the temporal connection or will she vanish anyway before she can be charged and killed. [Since we don't know anything about her method of time travel, I cannot think of any techno-babble that would make this sound plausible in either way. Better don’t try.]
  
• And will the RA even work, when the C-CAD doesn’t?
  
• Of course Agent Hieronymus remembers reports from agents who had no problems with technology at Hogwarts, but he doesn’t believe everything he read. They must have cheated in some undocumented way.
  
• The SEP field? It’s a lie. How would an SEP field generator work at Hogwarts?

(34 – 41)
In an awkward dialogue, Hermione makes Harry confess that she is the first person he thinks about in the morning, and the last person he thinks about in the evening, and the person whose happiness is more important than his own, and for whom he would die without hesitation.

• How often were we present when Harry woke up or went to sleep, read his thoughts and didn’t see any of these?
  
• Was this meant to be romantic?
  
• Agent Hieronymus has a backup plan. Find some spellotape, or Imagine (capital "I") it. There is certainly some spellotape in the drawer of Dean’s bedside cabinet, left over from when he spellotaped the Westham United poster to the wall above his bed; and the bedside cabinet is at the bed-head, which is – uh – over there. [The scene should be sufficiently undefined and wobbly to make this work, and it’s certainly not a special ability; other agents have done something similar.]

(42)
Actually, Harry believes that he did already show Hermione that he would die for her without any hesitation.

• Now Agent Hieronymus would like to quote Harry's thoughts from DH 34 to Harry. He didn't die solely for Hermione, and she didn't even take the first place.
  
• Assassination plans may need to be shifted around for better pacing.

(43 – 44)
Then Hermione and Harry begin to make out, and Rose-Sue tells them to "save all the sex stuff until three months today at eight thirty in the evening please".

• So realizing your "real true love" doesn't require immediate sexual activity, and this is all about doing it at the right time so that the Sue will be conceived! She is clearly only there to ensure her own existence by talking Hermione and Harry into having sex at the right time.
  
• Unconventional assassination method: Just neuralyze Hermione and Harry when this is over. If they don’t remember when they should do it, and that they should do it at all, Rose-Sue will never exist, thus being proactively assassinated.
  
• But when do we read the charge list? And I'm not sure whether the neuralyzer even works at Hogwarts. (This shouldn't be too easy.)
  
• Ha! Confirmation that she is conceived three months after the Battle of Hogwarts. Since somebody conceived six years before they were born obviously cannot exit, Agent Hieronymus may be able to talk her out of existence. After all, the sharp sword of reason is his preferred weapon. She is certainly too old to be the canonical Rose Weasley!
  
• Or too young. But I intended to gloss over the section that confirms the late birth date.
  
• I know that we shouldn't interact with canons, but maybe Hermione and Ron can just be talked out of following the time traveller’s advice by some random people who don't mention the PPC. Is it also possible to convince them that they should never mention this encounter? At least Hermione understands how dangerous timey-wimey stuff is, and Harry will listen to her. Pretend to be Unspeakables from the DOM's time branch?
  
• Confusing detail discovered at third read: Hermione had launched herself at Harry, who should still face Rose-Sue, but Rose-Sue pokes Harry, not Hermione, in the back, and then both Harry and Hermione turn to look at Rose-Sue.
  Androia tries to open a portal below the Sue’s feet, but the RA doesn’t work.

(45 – 49)
Since the Weasleys and the Dursleys weren't enough, Rose-Sue now bashes Dumbledore and Snape and the names of Harry's sons. Then she realizes that she is at "the turning point", implies that Hermione didn't get her parents back from Australia, and vanishes.

• Now I understand Harry and Hermione's non-reaction to Rose-Sue's story. It's the Suefluence. She is on a strict schedule and had to rush this to make all her points before her time is over and she returns to the future.
  
• And again she lies about Dumbledore forcing Harry to stay with the Dursleys because of some stupid prophecy that was not true and about the way Snape got his Dark Mark. Get these on reading ahead?
  
• If the agents didn't read ahead, they will be taken by surprise, and above-mentioned unconventional assassination methods may become necessary.
  
• Actually, they did read ahead, but it doesn’t help.
  
• Dramatic climax: In the last moment, Hieronymus throws himself at the Sue and hefts the charge list to her robe. It isn’t his fault if she doesn’t read it, right?
  
• Afterthought: Make Androia heft the charge list to Rose-Sue’s robe; she is younger and more agile. Hieronymus may be forced to utter a command at last, because there is no time to explain his plan.

(50 – 63)
Hermione confesses that all her answers to the questions she asked Harry would be him, Harry proposes, Hermione agrees to marry him, but insists that their children will not be named Albus or Severus. They decide to tell Ron later and go to sleep in one bed, but certainly not indulge into any sexual activities. Next morning, they break up with Ron and leave for Australia, "where they would make sure Rose was concieved again."

• I don't understand why they expect to stay in Australia for at least three months, but this may be convenient.
  
• I don't like to introduce semi-canonical sources, but I'm sure that Harry doesn't have the time to accompany Hermione to Australia and stay there so long. There are still Death-Eaters to be rounded up, the Auror bureau needs every experienced and trustworthy fighter and Harry, Ron and Neville will certainly not shirk the duty. So this thing doesn't even need to be PPCed, because it wouldn't work anyway, and Rose-Sue will never exist.

Replace (50 – 63) by proactive assassination: Introducing himself as a mere patrolman whose name doesn’t matter, Agent Hieronymus explains to Mister Potter that he cannot accompany Miss Granger on her journey to Australia, because Kingsley Shacklebolt needs every possible help to round up the Death Eaters, and thus will soon demand Harry, Ron and Neville becoming Aurors. This breaks the Sue’s stable timeloop and establishes a new stable timeloop. Since Harry wouldn’t shirk the duty, he cannot be present when the Sue should be conceived in Australia, thus she will never exist, couldn’t travel back in time and has never been there.

While Harry and Hermione discuss the patrolman’s announcement, and the possibility that he might be with some future Time Police rather than the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, and the fact that the time traveller actually never presented any evidence for her story, the Suefluence diminishes, Hermione realizes that she would have preferred Ron’s company on her voyage anyway and leaves for the Great Hall to be with the Weasleys.

[This prospect actually frightens me. Am I able to write Harry and Hermione slowly returning to be in character? Or will they both just sound like me? (Androia sounding like me when I try to be polite and articulate is not a big problem for the present. Hieronymus created her as an idealized, younger, genderbent version of himself.) So there may be a cheating alternative: The agents leave early, not watching H and H’s dialog, but they stay in the common room while Hieronymus explains what he hopes to achieve and Androia calls him out for breaking the rules. When Hermione passes without seeing them, they are sure that canon reasserts itself.]

Post-mission
Nothing. This mission ends on a stealth cliffhanger when canon reasserts itself. Only when the interlude "Trapped in the Wonderful World of Wizards" begins will readers realize that the agents didn’t return from their first mission, and then [SPOILERS: The Explanation for C-CAD and RA malfunction goes here. Basically, PPC-Technology that is not explicitly "Powered by Plotholes" doesn’t work at Hogwarts, as long as Agent Hieronymus, cursed with the Power of Imagination, is present and not convinced that this piece of technology doesn’t use electricity in some way. (Unfortunately Agent Hieronymus is unaware of his superpower, which brought him into the PPC in the first place and, among other, yet undiscovered effects, causes all Universal Translators in his vicinity to leave his German expletives not translated.) Makes-Things may have a solution.]

Or rather, Sunflower CupS...



Please do not fill them with drink. Metal poisoning is no joke.

When we actually have winners, I may or may not inscribe their names on the trophies.

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The last day to finalize teams is this Friday, April 10. If you don't have your team listed yet, you will be taken off the roster! If you don't have your team ready, sorry, but you'll have had a week to get this done.

That is all.

People have mentioned giving the tourney a story.

How would we do it? I don't know what kind of cool story a tournament could have, and I also don't know if we'd be using our Boarder personae or if it'd be agents throwing Pokémom at each other.

So, to carry through with one of my suggestions in a post below, for the next few hours following this post I will be in the Writing chat room on Pokemon Showdown.

If anyone would like to play or watch a few battles to better grasp the rules of the game, get to know their fellow contestants and/or just to have fun, please feel free to join me. You can find me under this name, or if you want, post the name you'll be using on Showdown below so you can be found (we're probably going to be needing those eventually anyways).

Anyone game?

Here's my team! (The first five, were actually used in a lost savegame for Platinum; the other two, are Pokémon that I always wanted to have from Gen-V.)

Morikame (Torterra)
Midori (Gardevoir)
Raiko (Pikachu)
Lizzie (Charizard)
Mizumi (Milotic)
Hikaru (Audino)

Substitute:
Douron (Haxorus)

(Honestly, I'll be surprised if I survive the first round. XD)

Here's my team...(AKA some of the Pokémon I always wanted in-game but never found/used)

Rigel (Starmie)
Amanda (Arcanine)
Rhodes (Heracross)
Ellie (Zebstrika)
Florence (Blissey)
Crichton (Tyranitar)

Here is a collective document of everything that's going down so far, what with rules and team registration.

Next Friday, April 10, will end signups and marks the last day you can alter your team. The brackets will be posted Saturday, April 11.

The Friday after, April 17, will mark the official start of the tournament! Matches will be arranged between competitors so a time suiting both can be decided. I will number the brackets indicating the order in which battles will be fought, so that way people don't have to choose between watching two different battles if they so desire.

The Rules
The Official PPC Pokémon Tournament of 2015 will be a single elimination, single battle format. Battles will be determined by a randomly generated bracket. Forfeiting a match is allowed, though that results in a loss for the person who forfeit. There will be a battle among semifinalists to determine third place. The winner of the tournament will be presented with the Sunflower Cup, an intangible and totally shiny trophy.

We will be using Smogon's OU X/Y Banned list, with a few minor tweaks. See below:

Pokémon
Aegislash
Arceus
Blaziken
Darkrai
Deoxys
Deoxys-A
Deoxys-D
Deoxys-S
Dialga
Genesect
Giratina
Giratina-O
Greninja
Groudon
Ho-oh
Kyogre
Kyurem-W
Lugia
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin-S
Xerneas
Yveltal
Zekrom

Abilities
Moody
Shadow Tag

Items
Gengarite
Kangaskhanite
Lucarionite
Mawilite
Salamencite

Moves
Perish Song
Explosion, Selfdestruct, Destiny Bond (only if this will KO both the user and the opponent's last Pokémon, forcing a tie)

It seems fun, and everyone is excited, obviously. But the fandom never interested me... Except that my sister often plays as Pickachu on Super Smash Bros., and she is DEATH with him. Me, I'm a pro at Meta-Knight. :)

I'll just have to hope that this isn't the only one. :)

this

For the 2015 PPC Pokémon Tournament! Any time someone posts their team or says they'd like to participate, I'll add them to the roster!

I've spent over a year working on a team. I'd be disappointed if we used showdown since I've spent so much time breeding Pokemon for a team I still haven't used. However, if that is what everyone wants then I must obey.
My Team:

Porygon-Z
Ninjask
Leafeon
Aggron
Umbreon
Togekiss

Good Luck Everyone!

Okay guys, when you sign up, please add your teams so I can make a note! This is because we want to have everyone use the same teams all the way through, not swapping teammates in order to counter your specific opponents. Movesets not necessary (yet), and if you later decide you want to swap a team member before the tournament starts, let me know so I can make a note.

As for myself:

Flareon
Espeon
Umbreon
Vaporeon
Sylveon
Jolteon

That's right, I'm going Eeveelutions!

Count me in. Assuming it's Showdown, that is. Nevermind that I'm mentally stuck in Gen III.

Everyone jump in with your own suggestions!

1) In order to allow as many people as possible to participate, Showdown will likely be what we'll use.

2) Legendaries. Will we/won't we? If we allow Mega Evos (see below), we could probably allow one Legendary per team (barring the ridiculous über-tier 'mons.

3) Mega Evolutions. Will we/won't we? This can bring a whole 'nother level of strategy to the tournament, but of course there are some OP megas.

4) Let's record the battles and share them!

5) Will this be doubles/singles/triple/rotation/inverse? oh god please not the last one I vote for singles. Very simple format, so even the less experienced people participating don't have to figure out the weird battle mechanics of the others.

6) Randomly assigned brackets? Impartial judge? Anyone?

7) If this goes well, I might just make this into an annual event because why not?

I think I'd be up for it if it was over Showdown - put everyone on even ground and all that. I don't have the time or drive to find a team, then breed them to perfect stats - I'd rather just get straight to the battle.

If it's on Showdown, I'm game. If it isn't, er... less so.

I'm more of a 'Dex completionist than a battler. But I'll join in for the sake of participation.

I even have a team set up. Hit me with your best shot!

But, I'm game. Count me in.

Are you asking how agents should be created? Are you asking is uniqueness a problem? Do you want to maybe run the agent by the community and get input?

I will say this, I cannot specifically say as to agents, so my advice is more about characters in general. When I have a character I am having trouble with I take one of two approaches. I either scrap the character and start from scratch or I keep revising.

Lets look at this character you are having trouble with. I will use my own as an example. Right now I am still pre-writing my future agents, deciding what I like, what I don't, etc. One of them, Cipher-7, which I introduced in our semi-RP thread a little while ago, is pretty well set, I just need to finish out a few details with her. The second one, which is more in line with what seems to be your problem, as of now is named The Justicar and I really have nothing else to him. I just was not quite feeling the character, almost that the development would be artificial, unnatural. So the way I see it, I can use that character and keep revising.

For the Justicar, I had intended a Time Lord Agent. Lets say, I like the idea, but my initial version did not work. I might take his sense of fashion and background and start a new character from scratch. Or alternatively, I am unsatisfied with the character all together and scrap him. Start with something new. Different. Right now I am looking for something that is going to clash with Cipher-7. She is basically a strict by-the-book military type. She likes using range and strategy to take down an enemy, and is frankly a bit racist towards non-human species. So, if I want a good foil for her, I come up with something like this.

1)By the book: The character does not need to be undisciplined or a loose cannon, but maybe his book of strategy looks a bit different. Maybe his book says Attack! Attack! Attack! and Shoot First, don't ask questions. So there is a difference in discipline that will work well here.

2)Range and Strategy: Well here the clash would be someone who likes to get up close and personal and acts rather than thinking

3)Dislikes non-humans: Make the character a non-human.

Really what I am trying to say here is if you are at a lack for ideas, and you like your one future agent, then create a foil for it. In other words Cipher-7's foil would be either a Klingon or Krogan and both are from Science Fiction universes. And so now you already have a potential plot that the characters would drive.

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Alternatively what you could do, especially considering the nature of the PPC, is consider a type of character from one of the universes. Say you wanted a Tolkienverse Elf. You have a large chunk of the creation done, because of the requirements, range of abilities, appearances, etc. in the Canon. What would be done then, is build the character out from there.

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Additional Alternative

If you are going an original character route, then really my advice to you is start at the core. Find something you want, be it a name, a race, an ability, talent, etc. Use that as a kernel to build on. Look at it this way. I have a character, lets call it X for right now, all I know is that I want the character to be male. So now X is a man.

You can then ask yourself some questions about that character. Where is he from? Does he have any family? How old is he? What is his favorite food? Does he have a name? Things like that.

When stuck with any character you can always ask yourself questions. Have a metaphorical discussion with the character.

I hope that helps.

I'm good with SPaG, and I have a few days of free-ish time, so I can definitely give it a look!

I'm not a huge fan of putting my email out where spambots can potentially get to it, as this board isn't password protected or anything, so follow the link for an image that contains my email. (Yes, I know, probably slightly overkill but shhh humor me.)

Click here!

Look at that, there are more of us! I had no idea. Happy Passover, since we seem to be calling it that!

I was at a friend's house (also a Boarder, actually, though he isn't on much anymore--Time Engineer) for the second Seder, and didn't get to bed until 4 am. That's kind of unusual for me, but it was definitely an experience. There may have been throwing of candies and toys on the table as representations of the ten plagues, too.

('Happy Plywood Week'? Oh, Des. Whyyy.)

~DF

My family had the actual seder at Grandma's house, though I'm not sure if it counts as a seder if we basically just read the plagues, the four questions, and the Daiyenu song because well we should probably read SOMETHING. And on Sunday we'll head over to my aunt's for Easter.

Happy weekend, though. This week has felt SO LONG to me. And good luck on exams!

Oh, the joys of not being observant. Passover is one of my least favourite holidays ever.

My family shall be celebrating the anniversary of humanity not being lost to the zombie apocalypse. Because we're weird like that.

*noms chocolate zombie bunny*

not understanding much of what was going on in the badfic. Apparently it wasn’t much anyway. But your sporking kept my attention long enough to spot a typo:

He waved nervously, wishing he’d bought a set of Guardian Orbitars with him on this mission.

May you have meant "brought"?

HG

I like Lapis and Sarah's banter. They get along so well :) Oh, and congratulations on your (the PPC's?) first mini-Mundus! Good luck handling your giant menagerie!

Not sure tinting the Word World "buge" is such a good idea. Remember, that color acts as a magnet for the Borg. I suggest either a normal beige tint or a nifty sepia tone.

A few things, though:

1) Isn't the C-CAD able to detect when characters are possessed?

2) An error:
We still need to get Riku to medical
Capitalize "Medical."

I present you, The Doctor Chala! Enjoy!

(Sorry, but couldn't resist the temptation of sharing it, and I didn't found a better place to share it, or felt the need to open another thread for something this minor.)

You know, like the Greek letter Ω. I think I like it.

Although I'll admit, something better is a bit of a weird name to go by :P

Back when I first showed up, I was known as RinaAndRanda (Rina). But then the Randa half of our duo kind of dropped out and I started going by Iximaz. And you did the right thing, notifying everyone so we know it's the same person. ;)

But I don't know wether I want to start MLP or Doctor Who first. Both are fandoms I don't know but am interested in. Any advice? I don't care either way, personally.

Yeah, Jumper, foofoo and I set up a video chat to watch the premier together, and it was fantastic. We're planning on doing it again next week.

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The whole "equality is happiness" theme going on was actually pretty heavy stuff for a kid's show. The fact that the main antagonist got away has me hoping she'll show up again.

My email should be Darkotas96@gmail.com.

Email is as follows:

ratbrainbasher@gmail.com

Mickey and Jackie were understandably surprised by the changes and wanted to know that happened.
I would assume that they wanted to know "what" happened.

Zeb muttered, watching said canon come out the door chatting up Mickey.
Only some lines later:
They kept a fair distance, reading the Words while Jack chatted up Mickey.
This felt a bit repetitive to me, enough to take me out of the story .

The shaking suddenly stopped and glass suddenly appeared all over the floor.
Aren’t two "suddenly" in one sentence a bit too much?
On second thought, you may be parodying a fic that makes too much use of repetitions. In this case, ignore my comments.

No go on and pick out some new clothes.
Should be "Now".

HG

I liked the mission, but it still feels like she's just being tortured.

Then again, I suppose I'm the only person here who's put his creations through Auschwitz, so what do I know?

Also posting this super late/early because I am a raging insomniac tonight.

Is planet Midnight the one that got overrun by the Vashta Nerada, by some chance? I'm asking because I saw Midnight and immediately thought of the creepy mimicry-possession creature. Piecemeal knowledge of Ten's era for the...something. *shrugs*

Hopefully Rina and Zeb will get slightly less insane/troubling missions in the forseeable future. I say slightly because a) Fate has awful willpower and b) the insane missions are the most fun to read. :P

Mostly unrelated question for you though: Since they're all in the same Department, will Randa show up to help out your new team at some point? I'd like to think we haven't quite seen the last of her yet.

Poor Rina just can't catch a break with these missions, can she? It was actually pretty funny to see her just go through the whole thing in... Well, I want to say kind of like a Tranquil Fury, but I don't suppose that would be accurate. As always, Zeb is adorable. Anyway, great work!

Here's a small fluffy animal to help us celebrate!

Should I be surprised that Daleks don’t know how life on earth works? Since when have the goblins anything to do with marriage or heritage (other than keeping family heirlooms in their vaults)? Gringotts is a fricking bank, not the Justice of the Peace’s office!

Ahem. Although it’s wrong, I can at least understand where Weasley bashing and Dumbledore bashing comes from. But where did the Harry Stu get this?

Also, I may have found two typos:

The sooner we get his over with, the sooner I can scoot off to somewhere else.
Should be "this"?

He and his companions watched at the Order members barely escaped with their lives into Number 12.
Should be "as"?

HG

The Guardsman looked up from his workbench and turned to his quarian partner, who was reclining on the RC's couch. She waved her Omni-tool at him. "It's a joint DMS and Floaters mission featuring the Librarian, that new Time Lady, and their partners," said Naya. "You might get a kick out of the Librarian's reactions to the 'fic..."

The Time Lord flicked his laser screwdriver towards his partner's Omni-tool and downloaded the report from the Mass Effect-verse computer. He then connected a cable to a port in his screwdriver's side and plugged the other end to his desktop computer. He moved the mouse, brushing aside a collection of electrical components and a half-empty mug of cold coffee with a swipe of his arm. He accessed the laser screwdriver's memory banks and double-clicked on the report's file. The Guardsman quickly read the report, brow furrowing the more he scrolled down the page. When he reached the end of the document he swivelled in his seat to look at Naya.

"He-- he ran from the Duty!" spluttered the former soldier. "They were fighting friggin' Daleks. Daleks, Naya! This stuck-up cowardly piece of..." he made choking motions in the air in front of him as the rest of the sentence ended in a growl.

"Now, don't do anything stupid," said Naya from the couch. "The last thing we need is you yelling at a member of the Continuity Council--"

"To hell with Morgan's little private club. HQ's 'humanized' Daleks are moving again. They want to claim a part of the canon materials the Continuity Council brusquely removed from the Musée des Univers Perdus' Gallifrey exhibit," muttered the Guardsman, turning back to his work. "Naturally, the Council refused and so the Daleks got angry and say they wanted their 'heritage' back, and now DIA is stuck in the middle of it. Nothing but trouble, these people. I wish the Council would just disband already."

"They're doing work on behalf of your homeworld--"

"What work?" grumbled the Guardsman, reaching for a circuit board. "Provoking the Daleks isn't the will of the Homeworld. We fought the War and both our races suffered horribly. Round one was bad enough: I'm certain round two will kill us all."

"Point taken," said Naya, "but have you actually tried speaking with any of them? Have you explained your concerns?"

The Guardsman laughed. "As if Morgan wants anything to do with me. She'd just straight-up ignore me or accuse me of speciesism against the Daleks again."

Naya stood up, made her way over to her partner, and put a three-fingered hand on his shoulder. The Guardsman turned and looked at her glowing eyes though her visor. "Go and talk to the Council," she said forcefully. "You're a Time Lord. The Continuity Council has to listen to what you have to say: you're one of them. If you're really that worried about the Daleks being a threat, then it falls on the Tigereye Castellan to investigate the situation."

"Oh, please no," said the Guardsman. "Not Morgan."

"Yes, Morgan. Sort out your differences and make sure that the HQ Time Lord front is a united front. You get what I'm saying?"

The Guardsman rubbed his eyes. "I must be out of my mind. Okay. I'll go and talk to her sometime this week. You happy?"

Behind her teal-tinted visor, Naya grinned. "Sounds good to me."

- - -

((I couldn't resist.))

Are we quite done with the Nightmare Fuel missions for Rina? I think the poor girl's had enough.

Doctorlit beat me for the traditional list of errors, but there is still some krautpicking left.

The navigation system should say "Biegen Sie am Ende der Straße links ab."
to turn (left or right) = abbiegen
biegen (without the suffix "ab" that becomes detached for grammatical reasons I can’t explain) = to bend (something)

To get into the story again, I had to reread the previous chapters, and apparently I didn’t take notes when I read chapter three for the first time, so you get this list now:

...the communication link came on before she could open mouth.
Should probably be "open her mouth".

Nikki took the other pistol out of his hammerspace...
Shouldn’t this be "her hammerspace"?

Homura’s attention, though, was caught by the flash patches on his left sleeve.
Is there more than one flash patch on Sergio’s sleeve or are you talking about the flash patches on Sergio and Nikki’s sleeves?

I think that whoever wrote this did actually wanted to say something else...
Should either be "did actually want" or "actually wanted".

I’m looking forward to chapter five-

HG

I was getting worried you had lost interest, and it would be a shame to see one of the most unique PPC stories ever written go unfinished!

Ahem. Fanboying aside,

Interesting name-dropping of N.A.S.T.Y. I've thought about involving them in more recent stuff from time to time, but somehow, I didn't make the connection to the canon kidnappings in "Blank Sprite" and the "Abduction" part of their acronym. Although, now it sounds like that might have been a red herring, but it's still an interesting idea that the PPC's antagonists might not be the typical Suvian/fanbrat numbers for once.

I liked the build-up to the reveal about Agent Sergio's past. (Although you fooled me for a few lines; I thought it was going to turn out to be Sergio himself who owned that bullet, and that time travel was going on.) It's a good addition to what we learned about him in past parts, and I'm looking forward to hearing about his past in the next installment.

And now for the traditional Hieronydoctorlit list of errors:

“And?” Homura asked while impatiently shifting her weight from one feet to the other.

The trio entered the building carefully, looking for any threat. Inside there were a couple of old tractors and an harvester, alongside . . .

“But It might be part of it. Nikki, cover the door . . ."

Sakura looked down in though for a bit, and then nodded. “You’re right. Everything will be alright.”

Those were composed by the half-demolished stone tower Sergio has spotted from the shed, and what remained of a low stone wall.

She didn’t know what to do, and was quite quite surprised when she saw Sergio kneeling down and hugging Homura tight.

It's great to see the story continue! I love your agents, so it's nice to see them again.

Personally, I think the agents are overlooking the obvious explanation - Sakura, Madoka, and Nanoha might not be popular fangirl targets, but they do have a lot of fanboys. But I have a feeling that the truth is something more complicated.

I just found a one-shot crossover between Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei and The Stanley Parable. It's hilarious.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10256183/1/The-Nozumo-Parable

I'm catching up after a quite busy week. So, what's to say? I like Ginger and Alloy's banter. There are only two minor issues at the beginning and the end of the interlude:

Ginger had just finished rolling the metal club in plain brown wrapping paper when it rolled onto her fingers, and Ginger swore at it viciously.
I'm not a native speaker, and I can't tell exactly what feels wrong here. It may by the repetitiveness of “rolling” and “rolled”. Maybe “Ginger had just finished wrapping the metal club in plain brown paper when it rolled onto her fingers...” would work better.

"Can I read my book now?"
I remember that Alloy apparently intended to read Guards! Guards! when Ginger distracted her with the wrapped present, but somehow Alloy asking this question now feels still wrong. The reason is probably that it doesn't fit the situation, because Alloy was the one who didn't shut up. A statement like “I will read my book now” may work better.

Speaking about something different:
If I didn't remember your Permission request, it would be a bit disconcerting that the first mission starts with “the newly-renamed Alloy“, and now the agents talk about the renaming, but new readers didn't see the event. It would be nice if you made your Recruiting prompt an interlude and linked it before the first mission on Alloy and Ginger's pages.

HG

There are 20 Jay-and-Acacia missions co-written by Jay and Acacia:
TOS chapter 1 – 9, 11 – 18 and 20 – 22.

TOS chapter 10 "Vacation at OFUM" is not really a mission; it’s more like an interlude.

TOS chapter 19 "Torment" is a Jay-and-Death mission, co-written with Miss Cam

TOS chapter 23 "To Know Where You Are Going" was apparently abandoned by Jay and Acacia and then finished by Jay and Rhysdux.

TOS chapter 24 "A Taste of Blood" is a Jay-and-Dee mission probably co-written by Jay and whoever wrote Dee.

TOS chapter 25 "Broken Doll" and chapter 26 "No Way" are Jay-and-Rhus missions co-written by Jay and Rhus Radicans’s author Thalia Weaver.

HG

That those are the only ones that have hit 20 plus missions.

Like, I'm pretty sure it just means that there's only a select group of people who've even come close to TOS's count. =]

Let's see if we can get in a couple of rounds before they call for a break!

Things overheard in the Bleepka Bar.

When Iximaz posts a new mission.

I know how fun Cards from a Hat is, and will gladly continue with the prompts until this thread is kicked off the front page. Perhaps beyond, if people are still playing. However, how do you want to handle the other games? I was planning on playing Alphabet, or If You Know What I Mean. Perhaps Hoedown or Irish Drinking Song, if I could get the game to work in text form.

My question is, do you want me to keep this thread for Cards from a Hat, and start new threads for other games later, or do you want me to keep all Whose Line activities in this thread? It's all up to you, I'm flexible.

Things overheard from medical
(reminder you can post on old topics)

Inappropriate times to quote anime

Things you can say about Cafeteria food, but NOT your partner.

Don't worry, you can still put in your terrible suggestions to the hat. Nobody is judging you for it. Well, except me.

((Seriously though, keep putting in more suggestions. These are great!))

Your prompt is:

Things Agents cannot say to the flowers.

NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING! NO PEAKING!

"Unusual magical girl battle cries"

"Rejected PPC mottoes"

"What the Nameless Admin does on their day off"

I’m sorry to say this, but when I’m not longer immersed in the story, because I was forced to read Slytherin common room twice in one sentence and think, "Huh, what’s this", then the work isn’t perfect. But I don’t really know how to do it better.

HG

I guess the Flowers are only mostly racist. But seriously, well done.

I think the Mary Sues are getting more inventive/over-the-top lately. Guess the PPC will have to follow suit. >:)

Also, wow, Alagaësia, huh? I actually used to like Paolini, but now I think he's just "meh". Good luck and don't go any more insane!

It's nice to have a breather from the Rina-breaking nightmares. Although again, I'm not exactly one to talk about torturing one's own creations...

This does actually take place after the cowrite. My bad.

~Iximaz is good at timelines.

Welcome to the Board!

Here, take this hyperspace leather belt. Useful for mitigating potentially horribly embarrassing situations of which I have no experience stop looking at me like that.

Hope you enjoy your stay. *Fades back into the mists of obscurity/IRC/Pokemon thread.*

To our land of weirdness! Have a hobnob juicebox. There's a random side effect, excluding death because that'll just kill the mood.

... What? Why are you looking at me like that? I said it just in case.
Anyway, that's weird, I've also got a huge sentient lizard kinda-planned agent. Though he looks more like a wall lizard, and he's from an original sci-fi continuum (the much-famed "book I'm totally planning to write, one day, maybe"). Oh, by the way, here's a bottle of clear vinegar. Gift from him. Don't ask.
And from me, there's this jar of glose-flavoured syrup. Tastes oddly good, but the Sueness combined with the sugar content might make it too sweet for some people.

Anyway, I'm no expert, but I think your agent is looking pretty good! Though there's no way to really be sure about that until you really start writing about him, but take your time ^^

Heylo, greetings, welcome, etc. Nice to have another fan of SAO on Board. Have you, perchance, watched Log Horizon? If not, I highly recommend it.
As a newbie gift, have this cup of good Oolong tea. No, the leaves won't try to eat you, why are you looking at me that way?

To this little slice of uniqueness. Have a pet alligator with a Triforce bow tie. Careful he can be a bit bitey.

Hold on a second... *rifles through pockets* Aha! I found you a pair of high pink goggles!And as for your agent, I think that is a good concept you have going there. I especially like the part about the chair!