Sep 2015 Archive, part a

Have an ocarina, pull up a chair, and tell us a bit about yourself! What fandoms are you in?

I don't know whatever you actually want to participate in this community, but since you are already here and we here at PPC are in the business of fandoms, may I ask what are your main fandom, for curiosity's sake?

Here have an Ion-Trail-In-A-Jar

The others already covered the Wiki thing, so I'll just offer you this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

Your name reminds me of that griffon character from MLP, just saying XD Have one of my own shed feathers and a Lyra plushie!

As for your question, if it's a brand new Wikia you're talking about, we probably don't have anything to do with it, so I guess you can make and edit it without our permission. The permission thing is only for our own wiki and works within the PPC itself, and doesn't really extend to others.

Um, I'm not actually sure what you're asking. While there is a PPC Wiki, we're not actually anything to do with Wikia ourselves, so we aren't anything to do with permissions on other wikis.

Unless you're asking for permission to feature PPC related characters on your wiki?

- Irish

"End of an Era", which never fails to make me tear up a little.

And the final act in A Very Potter Senior Year.

As the great J.K.R. said herself, "The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

She's probably going 'Oh dear lord here we go again...'

It remains to be seen if he will carry on the Potter tradition of causing trouble everywhere he goes.

...

James, ignore your Dad curling up in a ball, he's just having a flashback, it'll probably pass. =]

In other news, you scared me! I was all like, "What. How can it have been eleven years since DH was released?! I'm so old!" But then I remembered the books are set in the nineties, and everything was okay again. ^_^

~Neshomeh

(No, I don't particularly care that I just got a spoiler for the end of Deathly Hallows.)

I can see this also applying to hack games (say, Pokemon). Especially when they introduce new maps, storylines, et cetera.

Also, I don't see why technical aspects CAN'T be targeted. We target technical aspects (i.e. SPaG) in fanfic, why not target technical aspects (i.e. glitches) in mods and hacks?

Of course, the technical aspects can't be the only thing problematic, there has to be actual sues or Player-Sues involved.

I also see a special type of Crash Dummy used for this, one that is controlled remotely to mimic the player controlling his character.

As for your main question... I suppose? If you just got a copy of the script and used that, I don't see how it would be substantially different from a normal badfic, from an out-of-universe perspective. Obviously the agents would find it to be a unique experience. That said, it would definitely have to be ones that focused on the poor writing of the mod; criticizing other elements of mod design is slightly outside the scope of the PPC.

"We swapped," she said by way of explanation.

The two trailed after Mia and Gurgan. While the splint certainly helped matters with Day, Sax was still feeling dizzy and everything was still out of focus.

"I saw that movie, once," Sax said.

I haven't been able to get on for a while, so I didn't notice.

Semper erit insanus

Apparently it's all Linux's fault.

So the upshot is that it's not yet a fixed problem, but it's also not a perennial problem.

hS

(Probably because I check the Board at more reasonable hours than some of you lot.)

I hope this is just a temporary blip, and not the start of a trend. I can't recall the Board going down before, and now it's happened twice in quick succession. Don't think we need to do anything about it just yet (as the old saying goes, 'once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action' - we're still at the coincidence stage), and it would be good if yourwebapps can explain what happened, but if it keeps up...

It's also rather annoying that these have been problems with yourwebapps as a whole, so they've taken out our main Board and back-up simultaneously - which sort of defeats the point having a back-up!

On a slightly related note, I'm still having occasional problems with ads/redirects. Not as bad as when we were discussing it a few weeks ago, but they are definitely still there for me, and it's still worse on my tablet than it is on my laptop.

- Irish

They watched without comment as she turned off her laptop and listened to a soundtrack with headphones from the show ...
So Karianne got the headphones from the show? How did she do this? (Try alternate word orders like "listened with headphones to a soundtrack" or "a soundtrack from the show with headphones". But I’m not sure whether this sentence can really be rescued without changing some words and putting in some punctuation.)

What is a Covenant Shrub? (You probably meant the "Convenient Shrub" mentioned earlier.)

Who is Natalie eyes? A mini-agent? (Should be "Natalie’s eyes".)

HG

One question: Who's "him"? Generally "Upstairs" is an umbrella term for the Flowers That Be as a whole...

I hate those Time-Lady-with-a-speshul-connection-to-the-Doctor Sues. Good to see this one killed off.

It might've been nice if Natalie had more of a reaction to finding herself sitting on top of the Doctor. But apart from that, it was great fun. I loved it.

I prefer the classic series to the new overall, but this...

BTW, what's the canon status of the BBC continuity that airs when Ace turns the Smiths' TV on in Remembrance of the Daleks?

I love that duo! :D

Oh, I'm so glad that Sue's dead. Seriously, teaching River 'spoilers'? Not cool!

I really enjoyed the little fangirl Natalie experienced at the beginning :D Also, Za'kiir's humming was nice - I wanna hear his cover of Ragnar the Red.

I always enjoy non-human agents, and Za'kiir is pleasant - though I admit to knowing absolutely nothing about Skyrim other than it has at least one Khajiit living in it. =]

A solid and enjoyable mission, especially considering it's a pretty early effort. One thing stood out though:-

'The C-CAD's screen promptly went bank'
Should be blank. Unless the C-CAD has nipped up to take a bit of cash out while we weren't looking. =]

What happened to the pug?

Also, I found the Grand Hall scene pretty cute.

As for the fic you sporked, my god. That was atrocious.

Did the badfic say that the Sue is a heavy sleeper? Lavender, Parvati and Hermione apparently got up in time to have breakfast and then go to the Potions class. Could the Sue really sleep through all the noise they probably made? Would Lavender and Parvati not try to shake her awake when she obviously oversleeps? (Hermione is evil in this fic, thus it’s possible she wouldn’t.)

Assuming that Dumbledore’s stupid plan to get the Sue and Harry into his office by making her oversleep depended on the other girls letting her oversleep makes this plan even more stupid than it is anyway. So what this comes down to is: I don’t believe that your agents stepped into what looked like the girls’ bedroom. Doing this after the portal had already transported the agents to a Generic Bedroom is also a bit of a continuity error.

With another badfic, I might buy that the Generic Bedroom transformed into the girls’ dormitory when the agents (and the word world) realized that the Sue woke up at Hogwarts. But here, although the Sue didn’t brag about being so speshul that she got a room on her own, and didn’t whine about being segregated from the other girls because she was considered to be a monster, I’m quite sure that she woke up in her private bedroom, not in a dormitory. She probably got her own, private bathroom too.

BTW, I can accept that a Hogwarts setting defaults to Gryffindor Tower if not stated otherwise, but how did your agents figure out that this is Hogwarts rather than the Sue’s home before the end of the first paragraph? IMO it would have been better to keep this in a generic environment until the Sue was reminded that she was late for class.

After this mediocre start, the mission became quite good, although I don’t appreciate everybody utilizing the Room of Requirements. I actually liked the open end, but I wonder what happened or will happen to Triste Malfoy.

I won’t talk about grammar here. I’ll send you an e-mail.

HG

...few, but they're there.

The idea of Muggle Technology classes at Hogwarts.
The idea of a gay-straight alliance at Hogwarts... or the British equivalent, anyhow.
And how would hit men really function in the wizarding world, anyway; couldn't you just Imperius somebody close to the victim? Are there circumstances under which Dumbledore would hire a hit man? Probably not for money, but still...

The writer does nothing with these ideas but turn them into angst and use them to kill the characters they don't like, though. Which is a pity, because they aren't bad ideas as ideas go. Maybe this'll be an old-shame fic for a good writer in the future...

...and not in a good way. Good job killing it.

And it's great to William and V.J. in action.

I don't know what this author was thinking! Half-angel, half-demon has the potential for some interesting plot, but the author is just using it to angst. Pity.

Looking on the bright side, they do seem to have some interesting ideas. Muggle Tech classes at Hogwarts, for example. A gay-straight alliance at Hogwarts. It's just that they're not doing anything interesting with them. They're just... killing off characters they don't like. And poor Hermione...

As for being asexual when you're an angel... Not sure whether to roll my eyes at the sex-is-evil implication or thank the author for mentioning asexuals to begin with. The idea of fluid sexuality is kind of interesting, though--like being genderqueer, but with attraction rather than gender identity? I dunno. Yet another interesting idea that didn't get any play.

My hopes are that this particular author will mature into someone who can write well, because with the interesting ideas spoiled by a Sue, it makes me wonder what this writer could do with some practice.

Electronics working at Hogwarts? Hermione a Death Eater? Luna a vampire? Dumbledore a He-Who-Fights-Monsters mob boss? DOBBY a [Gobbledegook expletive] Death Eater!? +++ !!!!! +++

And as for the angelology and demonology in this fic? +++ Eternal Domain Error. +++

This fic was so stupid that I was literally uttering incoherent gibberish every so often! If even the excerpts made my brain BSOD, then I doubt that I'd be able to survive the undiluted badfic.
Please tell me that this was a troll. I fear for the human race if someone seriously thought that this was good writing!

BTW, You might want to add a NSFB tag to the NSFW one.

As for the mission itself, it was OK, especially for a first. However, there was a whole mess of errors:

1) "Your dads sound cool." He said as they approached the door to Dumbledoor's office. The Sue opened the door and they disappeared behind them. As soon as that happened, William and VJ left their cover and went towards the Generic Courtyard.

Who disappeared from behind whom? And how?

2) The warlock finally removed his hand and let her partner sit on the bench, shoving the mini aside.
I don't think you meant to genderbend William so soon in his PPC career!

3-4) The Room of Requirement had everything the agents needed; apart from a place to sleep, and a small bookshelf, it also contained a wide but shallow basin filled with transparent liquid.
Replace the semicolon with a colon or a period. Delete the comma before "and a small bookshelf".

5-6) Dumbledore calmed the Sue down, and told her she would receive no punishment. Instead, it turned out it was him who messed around with her alarm clock so she would be late to the class, got into an argument with Snape, and eventually be sent here.
First off, there's a tense shift. The full verb is "would get," hence you should have "get" there, not "got".
Secondly, there's a word choice error. You're in the third person and narrating from elsewhere, so you need to replace "here" with "there", "to Dumbledore", or "to Dumbledore's office."

7) “Good call.” The warlock said.
Period-comma substitution. Correct punctuation is thus: "Good call," the warlock said.

8) “S****!” The warlock hissed,
It does not matter whether the quote ends with a comma or with another punctuation mark; if you are adding a tag and the next word is not a proper noun, the word is lowercase.

9) Naturally, she didn’t a lot of convincing and quickly agreed to join the Sue in her shenanigans.
You missed a word.

10) The agents scratched their heads, wondering where this was going, when the Sue deduced that this girl pretty blonde had to be related to Malfoy’s in some way.
Did the first set of underlined words get scrambled? And what's with the random possessive noun?

11) It doesn’t seem like it but we’ve been here for a while, and my stomach’s starting to feel it.
You're missing a comma before "but we've been here for a while."

12) “He could be an under the Imperius.”
Delete the "an."

13) hitmen crew
Multiple times. It should be "hitman crew": when a noun is being used as an adjective, use the singular, never the plural.

14) Tyrone chose a pistol as well and a knife.
Either replace that "and" with an "as" or delete the "as well."

15) “Well, that’s one good news today.”
Missing words: "that's one piece of good news today."

16) William and VJ managed to hide under the Hufflepuff table, when the crew entered.
Delete the comma.

16) The tickling sensation of its pincers against William’s side made the warlock stifle a laughter.
"stifle a laugh" or "stifle his laughter"

17) VJ … shoved the Grand Hall mini into the portal.
…
Suddenly, William felt something nudging his side. He looked to his left, only to see a mini-Aragog who was trying to push forward.
“Hey, lil’ guy.” He poked the mini with a finger. “What’re you doin’?”
“We can’t see, pressciouss… Help usss…” the mini mumbled, still wiggling around. The tickling sensation of its pincers against William’s side made the warlock stifle a laughter.
“Oh, that’s Grand Hall,” explained VJ, looking at the Words. “Yeah, he’s gonna be here for a while, no sense in sending him off just yet.”

Did VJ send Grand Hall through a portal or not? You're contradicting yourself. Please clarify.

18) [The explosion] provided an excellent cover for the agents to escape the Great Hall (and sending Grand Hall to the HFA)
Another tense shift. It should be "send", not "sending".

19) Dumbledore told them here was going to show them something interesting.
I believe you mean "he" instead of "here."

20) They looked like made of neon rope
You missed two words this time: "They looked like they were made of neon rope".

21) Next thing they noticed, was a thick layer of white fog curling by their ankles
Delete the comma.

22) “My magic!” The Sue cried
Please see 8).

23-24) The Sue and Harry quickly pointed their guns at VJ, but when they pulled the triggers they’ve heard only clicking.
Insert a comma after "triggers". It's "they", not "they've".

Wow, Harry defiling his parents' sacrifice, killing Hermione and trying to kill Dobby? Gosh, that fic was really atrocious. Not mention the whole thing with angels, demons and hybrids of the aforementioned and all the Uncanonical powers.

So orphanages in HP fic are enough of a cliche to be a charge? I will have to keep that mind.

Wind Weasel from Ayakashi Ghost Guild.


Dont ask me how i came to that conclusion

(are slow and painless deaths allowed?)

Though I would've liked to see a bit more of a post-mission at least, with the agents returning to their RC and such. The fic itself, of course, was utterly horrifying (i.e. even the excerpts showed how stupid it was), so thank you for sporking it. AFAIK, neither angels nor demons exist in HP, so a hybrid of both is inherently nonsensical.

As for proofreading, though, it looks like you might need a little help with wrangling a few stray commas:
The agents had to hug the wall, as the Sue turned to see who made such a noise.
“There’s no way I’m lettin’ you near them, right now.
The Sue told Harry, how one of her fathers struck a deal with Azrael[...]
Dumbledore gestured at the wardrobe-slash-armoury-slash-closet, and told the hitmen to get inside.

Since she was immortal, accidental explosion wouldn’t kill her.
Should be either "an accidental explosion" or "accidental explosions".

Nobody raised their hands (even the agents)
Just a matter of personal taste, but I'd have changed the stuff in parentheses to "not even the agents".

She yelped and waved her hand in pain, failing to notice a sudden headbutt which made her hit the wall and slum unconscious to the ground.
The correct word is "slump".

Unless the Agent AND the Sue are both from the Highlander continuum (apologies, I know nothing about it), then we may debate.

But, as for the others - no. Take my first mission, as an example (Thread below). William is an immortal warlock and Azriel was an immortal Sue. Nothing happened between them.

The "Blue" Demon's main thing is chase sequences and puzzles. As he's fast, I'd suggest Scout for him.

Garo as Demo? but i'm not sure he counts because he is technically fighting against the horrors.

Plus I haven't seen the show

Some other horror based video games:

Bioshock, Alan Wake, Amnesia, and of course Resident Evil have things that are of course quite terrifying.

I'm not familiar with TF2, or much into horror games for that matter, but it seems more like a FNaF fic with guest appearances from other characters, as opposed to a balanced look at the horror genre.

What about Pyramid Head? I'd say that he's probably the most famous horror game monster I can think of.

Mia raised a quizzical eyebrow at Derwin, then returned her attention to Day. "No, I don't think it is," she said. "Let's just get to Medical."

You should have my e-mail address already.

Also, I've been meaning to get in contact with you about our co-write - I've seen the latest bit you added, but just haven't got around to doing any more writing myself. I haven't forgotten about it though :)

- Irish

Just inform beforehand that the mission is NFSW and contains swearing.

Examples: Rina and Zeb's Rose Potter missions, or even my recent mission with William and VJ.

hoom hoom

Yeah, um, they've been fully booked for a while now, but people are still getting them. Please keep leaving the comments with your fave types in, though; just because you're not running a Gym doesn't mean you can't favour a particular type or Pokémon.

I, for instance, will likely be running mono-Bug in this at some point.

#THUGCATCHA

Lucario and Scizor. So steel I guess.

As nobody knows me yet I should probably make it known that I have a fondness for Eevee and also point out that in real life I'm going to college for software design.

I've actually designed a gym for myself in the past, if you'd be interested in hearing it. Want me to e-mail it to you?

Though other appropriate choices would be Psychic or Fire. Whatever works.

-Phobos

My favourite type is Bug in spite of my gender being female.

I'm too late to claim a type aren't I?

Drat.

Well, for the record, I would have chosen the Grass type. My team naturally would have had to feature nippy, annoying sorts such as Whimsicott (because no team of mine is truly complete without that adorable, soul-eating fluffball).

I had an idea like this way back during the PPCPT and even started a little write-up of it. It never got much further than an idea and a few paragraphs, though. It's interesting to see someone doing it. I look forward to watching this progress!

Not the best fighter, not the coolest looking one. The one that can give me companionship akin to a dog or cat. That may or may not shoot lightning.

To another Showdown event. To see who can manage the most success with a restricted team. Might be interesting.

Fighting type, since usually there are no two gyms with the same type theme within one game. Not a bad type in my opinion anyway.

Favorite types are Steel, Flying, Normal, and Grass. (Which is hilarious, because I hate real world plants; even working at a zoo, I get hurt more by plants than by animals.)

If you want something more imaginative than type, my favorite "themes" to use in-game are copying or random moves, and not fully evolved Pokémon. I suppose you could also do an animal team to reference my work, but that's a little broad, and honestly, plenty of PPCers past have been animal lovers, or even worked in zoos or veterinary offices, so it's really not that unique to me in this community.

I'll go with Bug-Type. 'Cuz why to have Magikarp, when you can have Metapod.

Is there a cat type?

If not, I'll probably give this a miss.

Why, you ask? Because Fairy Type is immune to Dragon Type, and that's awesome.

I love Lugia, so Flying! Wait, that's taken.
Psychic? No, that's taken.
Dragon? *scrolls down* No, that's also taken.
OK then, I'll go with Ice. Drat also taken.

OK then, Rock!

Since Dragon and Fire are taken after all. Ground for me then.

I prefer Fire-type, but since it was claimed by Des I'll take Steel, since I'm into Robotics IRL.

Well, it's a tie between Electric and Ice.

And my gym would definitely be a gigantic skydiving simulator, with sky battles up the wazoo and a Skarmory as my main 'mon. :D

*chomp chomp*

This is absolutely precious by the by.

I'm curious what my gym would be themed about...

Because why bother with Dragons or Ghost or Fighting types when you have Magikarp?

I would've pick Psychic, but I see hS called dibs already.

His favorite is Fighting.

Because most of my favorite Pokémon are pure Normal-type.

Because they are freaking dragons. How cool is that!? Short of that, Fire.

Yeah, I don't play Pokemon. I'm interested to see where this is going though.

Fierce as fire!!

I'm a big fan of tricksy things and the negation properties of Ghost. :3

I LOVE GRASS POKÉMON YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

Also, Team Glitter. Why is this so perfect.

Happy last day of freedom to children and teenagers.

How is everyone spending their holiday?

Seriously, I have no idea why we both have it. I expect one country came up with it and then the other decided it was a good idea; either that or it was originally British. Something to research.

Happy Labo(u)r Day to all of us.

~DF

I know a bit about Watership Down and I'd be interested in helping. But like Dawn, my canon knowledge is very rusty. Also, I haven't done a co-write before, and don't know how to go about it, which is the main reason I haven't replied.

But if you don't mind teaching, I'd be willing to be taught.

Which is a shame; I should reread it again sometime soonish. I like it a lot. I'm not sure I remember enough to properly do a mission there, though, although I could be wrong.

As for the not-Stus--they can probably be left to assimilate into canon, since they're, well, not Stus. If there are severely OOC characters around them, that would be good--exorcism and probably neuralyzing would set the canon back to rights. Without that...I can't quite remember how it'd work. There's generally something that has to be charged and changed by the agents.

Essentially: I'm interested in cowriting with you, but...I don't know that I'd be anything but a hindrance with this one. I remember the general plot and general world details of Watership Down, but I can barely remember the characters' names and doubt I could provide much insight for mischaracterization except when it comes to Fiver and...whoever the other main characters are. That's the only name I remember at the moment.

~DF

Hello there! If there's one thing you should know about me, it's that I never know what to say to newbies.
...
I'll see if I can find... ah! Have this inch-tall replica of a Mary Sue Factory! It's definitely not a fell artifact of an evil deity!
...I hope.

Have a shovel enchanted to make dumb people see sense when you smack them with it!

(also totally not wondering if you read my spin-off, with Valon and Kala)

It is always nice when people do the research before jumping on Board.
Since it doesn't seem we share any fandoms, have a Rorschach Book, which changes automatically according to your current reading interest.

Welcome to the board and have a dark black light pen.

Have some sonic screws. You'll have to provide your own sonic screwdriver to go with them.

*tackles and hogties pokeballs the http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mini/Pok%C3%A9mon">mini-Missingno* That ought to keep it out of the way for a little while. Mini-Missingno don't eat, but they have a rotten sense of humor.

Also, welcome and kudos for doing the required reading! Here's a spare squeeze bottle (perfect for storing potions), three bottles of Bleeprin (trust me, you'll need them), and some delicious popcorn! :D

Welcome aBoard from a fellow two-years lurker! Have a... Well, it looks like a big snow globe, but it's actually a near-perfect model of the Earth. Long story. It generates its own gravity, but you might want to avoid shaking it just in case.

Here's your starter Pokémon!

Iiiiiit's Weepinbell!

And your starting item is:-


The Back-Up from Risk Of Rain!

Now, the problem with getting an NFE mon like Weepinbell is that whatever item you get probably isn't going to be as good as Eviolite. This doesn't mean that The Back-Up isn't a good item - providing a +33% damage boost to non-contact moves is pretty nice - and actually? Weepinbell can use it. Get a Modest one with the ability Chlorophyll, Super Train it in Special Attack and Speed, and you have quite the powerhouse, because if you can get Sunlight up then it's pretty much the only Grass-type with decent Fire-type coverage (courtesy of Weather Ball). Yes, Weepinbell gets Weather Ball. Surprised me as well. =]

Here, have some Ion Trail in a Jar

Here, have one of my own shed feathers - and because you said you like LoTR, here's a vest made from mithril mail and a vial of Shelob's venom!

*Optional!Hugs, if you like those.*

Pleasure to make your acquaintance. :)

Have an urple ocarina, and glad to have you in the PPC!

Yay, another Lord of the Rings fan! Who's your favorite character?

-Alleb

I see Doctor Who, I see The Dresden Files... Yeah, I'm sold.

In that case - welcome! Here, have a head that's always screaming

I'm glad you like Agent!Des! Which reminds me: You are a Boarder, not an Agent.
That said, here, have this cup of confused Lapsang Souchong tea. It's not sure whether it smells like a campfire or not, so be gentle with it, aright?

Wel come aboard!

Have a chemlight battery.

(And I highly suggest checking out the wiki, but I suspect you've also done already!)

It will automatically turn into your favorite type! Welcome aboard!

Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!

Since you've already read the Original Series, I hope I can assume you've read the Constitution as well?

And heh, glad to know you've been so entertained.

Hope you like it here!

But if there's something you need to bring up to the Board as a whole, we can use that. I don't know how to use the IRC, either, though I could conceivably learn how.

I have a "just saying hello" email in my draft folder somewhere that I need to finish up and send to you. *scuttles off to do that thing*

((So, it's Tuesday. Two days have passed since the last events written in the Chaos. I'm not going to bother connecting the dots on how my characters ended up where they are, unless inspiration strikes.))

Salamander threw himself under the table as the wall of water crashed down. "Help!" he yelled. "He's going to put me out! Kayleigh! Somebody!"

There was a roaring sound from out in the cafeteria - the sound of a great, indrawn breath, as the monster prepared to drop a tidal wave on Sal. His borrowed body wouldn't stand a chance, even with its flames turned up to the hottest.

Then there was a flash of blue light, and a gruff voice said, "You couldn't have done that five minutes ago?"

"I would have if you'd let me grab the Remote Activator," another, very similar voice replied. "But nooo, you were too busy stuffing your face."

"This is a hungry body!" the first voice protested. "When I return to my own, I do not wish for its owner to come hunting for me."

"You don't think he'd - they'd - object to having it back crushed under a mile of water?"

Salamander crawled out, settling his flames back down, and stared: the two voices came from the same body. It was a two-headed ogre, and the two heads were arguing ferociously with each other.

"Besides," the second was saying, "what happened to 'I can take control any time I want, I'm used to multiple heads, this is easy'?"

"... shut up." The first head turned a toothy grin on Salamander. "Hi! No need to thank us, it's his fault anyway."

"It was not my-" The second head didn't get any further, as the body swung an arm up to cover its mouth. The other arm twitched, but the first head glowered at it, and it settled down.

"I'm Kyaris," the first head said, "Department of Intelligence. This is Jareth; he's a decent tracker. We heard you were planning to hunt down that missing machine that caused all this?"

Salamander shrugged. "Someone has to," he said. "And my partner-"

"Kaaaaayleeeeeigh to the rescue!" Sal ducked as Kayleigh swooped by overhead, hanging by her hands from a hoverboard. "Have at thee, foul beas- oh, it's goooo-oof."

The board came to a hard stop against the wall, and Kayleigh dropped down. She jogged across the wet floor to Salamander and waved.

"Wa- oh, sorry, I keep forgetting. Sorry I took so long, I had to get changed."

Salamander looked at her bikini and shook his head. "You didn't-" He frowned. "Wait, how did that take a long time? You were wearing a bikini already!"

"But that was my sunbathing bikini," she said. "This is my monster-fighting bikini. See?"

Kyaris tried to exchange a look with Jareth, but he was too busy glaring. "Right," she said instead, "okay. So do you actually have any ideas how to find this thing?" She looked around the bedraggled cafeteria. "Does anyone?"

~

((Happy for anyone to jump on-board here.))

((hS))

I will have to introduce Flower!Printworthy in the chaos thread, but short of that, it seems we are on the hunt. We just have no idea what we're looking for. All we know, is that the Sunflower has to know something.

Also, sorry for not being diligent with that thread. I will try to be better with this one.

Salamander and company are recruiting right now. Anyone who's got a clue where to look (or wants to make one up, rather) can drop in to join them - or can make another team! I don't want to be the only one.

Thanks for finishing Write the Genre - I'm glad we got so close to the end before you had to jump in like that. It was fun!

hS

Beyond trying to restore the corridors to some semblance of restoration (because nothing like panic and terror to make agents become extra destructive) BM will also have some people trying to look for the darn thing that caused all this!

I'm up for it if anyone would like to be hunting it with any of them, or the rest of mine, for that matter!

That said, mine aren't going to be on the team that finds the body-swap device.

Spoiler: am alive and still lurking, surprise!!

Actually done a few days ago, but, y'know. Stuff.

Although that Political Thriller story might be quite short - I've never even heard of Enda Kenny, so protecting him might be a little difficult...

One thing I did think is that there were a few questions about our writing habits (Do you co-write? Do you reference other events? Etc.) that could have benefitted from a 'not yet, but I intend to' option. The 'No, I don't' answers sort of implied 'no, and I never will' to me, which certainly isn't the case with some of the answers I chose.

- Irish

I'm just a bit busy. :D I came back to fill in the census, though, so all good!

~Kitty

And I have done a thing.

I will try to do more things, and I'm sorry I so abruptly stopped doing them, but last week really stressed me out for various reasons, and now I have a cold that might be the same one I got two weeks ago and came back due to the stress. Not sure.

~Neshomeh, who doesn't want to go on the cart.

Still a bit angry about how you basically silenced me entirely, by the way. Oh, it's been a while... And that's the way I like it. Are you people more open about things that aren't 100% funny now, or are you still not going to want anything to do with anything I write?

Either way, there is a VERY SMALL CHANCE I might attempt to do things here again, but of course, that's only if I'm now good enough to suit your standards. You have no idea how much I've tried to fix what wasn't broken.

...Don't remember me? I'm only going to say two words and you'll probably know who I am.

Anthropomorphic Breloom.

Some very interesting data there... Who put Iximaz as their LO?

...count as Lust Objects?

I have several ideas for some bouncing around in my head but I've barely written anything down.

Was that somebody picked Valon as their favorite agent.

I picked Xericka as mine, by the way, her spinoff is one of the funniest I've read. You're welcome, PC!

The only problem I have with this census is that I can't see who said what. I can infer some things, but most of them are sadly anonymous.

Apparently it has. Done.

Results!

Welcome to the ranks. We hope you enjoy yourself here, where sanity and normalcy are highly valued. *barely concealed psychotic giggle*

But seriously, it's good to have you here. The college life can be difficult, I feel you. I'm a Sophomore myself, and my education is probably why I haven't managed to procure myself Permission yet. I've been devoting myself to my studies. But time management is key, obviously. When it comes time for actually doing the work, stay on top of it, and you'll have plenty of time to unwind and go crazy with us, so to speak (*giggles again*).

Once again, welcome to the PPC! It's customary for PPC members to give newbies "gifts," (even though they're not real gifts, they're little lines of text on a computer). I however, have never given anyone anything, because I haven't had the opportunity.

Nevertheless, here's a, uhhhhhhhhh... Shoe Umbrellas! They're tiny, red-and-white-striped umbrellas you can attach to your shoes so that your feet don't get wet when it's raining. I don't know why someone invented these, but they're honestly the best I have at the moment. (I'm poor! I'm a College student, after all.)

Semper erit insanus!