What I want to know is if a Console can be an agent, like have them go humanoid in some form.
I all ready have ideas of where I want to go with this character
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So we all know that Consoles can achieve sentience by
on 2015-09-21 02:08:00 UTC
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Well, assuming you can pull the hard drive... by
on 2015-09-21 14:45:00 UTC
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Or closest equivalent. I'm not sure how compatible PPC tech is with other stuff, so DOSAT might need to create an android, or something. But, I don't see any explicit rule against it, and besides, having a sentient console trying to take (very petty) revenge on their newfound partner for all those times it was smashed could be very funny indeed. I'd say go for it.
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*pokes* by
on 2015-09-21 02:22:00 UTC
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In the future, you can ask your questions all in one thread. They won't get overlooked, promise. We just don't want the Board getting cluttered up with a bunch of single questions that shove bigger topics off the front page. Cool?
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Sentient Consoles? by
on 2015-09-21 02:19:00 UTC
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Don't be absurd.
That technology is limited to use in Headquarters.
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Why, sir... by
on 2015-09-22 05:46:00 UTC
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...it's almost like you don't trust us!
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Some questions about an OFU by
on 2015-09-22 23:52:00 UTC
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Both versions of the Pokémon OFU (the one by Warrior of Many Faces and the Official Fanfiction University of Kanto) have been inactive for a few years now. My third mission is going to bring home a small horde of mini-Missingno, and I need someplace productive to use them. Plus, there are plenty of terribad Pokémon fanfics around, so clearly we need a Pokémon OFU.
How might I go about "rebooting" an inactive OFU? Do I contact the original authors and ask their permission (or for help) first? If they've vanished from the Internet (as I assume at least the author of OFUK has), would anyone be willing to assist me in writing a new Pokémon OFU? -
Basically... by
on 2015-09-23 06:24:00 UTC
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You have to get the original author's permission to reboot an OFU; it's no different than rebooting any other story. Back in the day you could ask Miss Cam, but it doesn't look like she's around any more.
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She doesn't want you to any more anyway. by
on 2015-09-23 07:14:00 UTC
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Per (the backup of) (portions of) her website:
If you want to do a spin-off of OFUM, it's quite easy:
-No longer any need to ask permission - if you want to do one, feel free.
-Do remember to add some credit to Miss Cam, as otherwise it will be plagiarism.
-Spell check is vital - as is minding your grammar
-Remember "learning through pain" and do not engage your own fangirlish/fanboyish impulses
-Have fun!
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As much as I'd like to help... by
on 2015-09-23 01:22:00 UTC
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...I'm a little short on time due to Real Life, I'm afraid, and I'm already making plans for a Smash Bros. OFU myself (which is long overdue!). I'd be happy to volunteer one of my OCs as a student, though!
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Introducing a PPC AU. You might need high grade bleepka. by
on 2015-09-23 00:24:00 UTC
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Namely the "Magical Girl AU". I introduce you to... Pretty Plot Continuum Protectors!
Wherein... actually you know what, not very much changes at all, between the continuance of there still being Flowers using (generally) teenaged girls for the work, lots of charges and fancy speeches against the bad guy of the week, and so on.
Of course, there are probably some... additions some might find questionable (after all, Magical Girl universes do have a natural high glitter content, and awkward crushes on boys and such), but it's clearly a great idea!
Fighting against bad guys in the name of love (of canon) and justice is totally a Magical Girl thing!
Here's some artwork.
First up, the Aviator:
One of my own, Library:
..Err.
Well, I did say this was a Magical Girl AU, didn't I? Sorry, Nesh.
Aaand sorry Huinesoron.
Actually I might not be sorry at all, and will endeavor to send this one to your wife if she doesn't find out on her own through you.
For those of you who do not want to go through the trials of trying to do the designing and drawing on your own, here's a Sailor Moon Senshi Maker.
-July, who mighta traumatized herself a bit with this one, actually. -
Princess Hild and Shania Bellman by
on 2015-09-24 18:32:00 UTC
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I'm not totally happy with it, especially "Shania". And it would be nice if there was a choice of proper weapons. But this will have to do. -
Magical Girl!Zeb! by
on 2015-09-24 14:47:00 UTC
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Actually... by
on 2015-09-24 15:09:00 UTC
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Modified Zebbie-Zeb a bit and genderflipped Ave.yes I know it's a magical girl AU but the temptation was too great shhh -
Almighty Gygax. by
on 2015-09-24 16:13:00 UTC
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So much shining. So much what. It's just perfect, but Zeb really takes the cake here.
I assume the thing in the Aviator's hand is this AU's version of a sonic screwdriver ? -
You'll definitely need Bleepka for this one. by
on 2015-09-24 08:12:00 UTC
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Sailor Sunflower Official
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What. The. Duck. by
on 2015-09-24 16:12:00 UTC
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This would be the SO ? On one hand, it perfectly fits the setting, but on the other, imagining him like this ... *go in order to drown my brain in Bloffee*
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Color scheme says villain... by
on 2015-09-24 14:47:00 UTC
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...but face and hair don't say villain. I guess that makes sense for a Flower, doesn't it?
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Thanks. I don't know much about the colour scheme by
on 2015-09-24 18:26:00 UTC
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because I'm not really a Magical Girl fan. But the grey outfit was because the SO wears grey suits, and the green skin suggested a plant's stem.
As for the face, I figured a Magical Girl would be cheeky rather than outright sarcastic, so went with that.
But it's good to know the end result works. -
...good job it's not for this AU? (nm) by
on 2015-09-24 11:05:00 UTC
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"HUMAN! EXPLAIN! NOW!!!" by
on 2015-09-23 11:21:00 UTC
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"Uh, I guess you're the... villain who gets redeemed about halfway through the third season-"
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Since we're talking about AUs by
on 2015-09-23 22:24:00 UTC
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Is the Pokémon AU still a thing? Or are you in the midst of researching to find appropriate themes for the remaining gyms; it is clear that you put a lot of thought behind them.
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Yeah, it takes a lot of work. by
on 2015-09-23 23:31:00 UTC
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I want everyone to like their Gyms, is the thing; not just because being a Gym Leader is hella rad, but because it's the kind of Gym they didn't know they wanted, based on things they love. That takes work and thought, and don't even get me started on balancing the movesets. =]
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In that case by
on 2015-09-23 23:39:00 UTC
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Thank you for the effort, and I will be awaiting the remaining Gyms.
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Ahahahahaha! by
on 2015-09-23 10:11:00 UTC
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Ahahahahahahahaha-excuse me-hahahahahahahahaha!
That is absolutely brilliant. If I had any idea how to write a Magical Girl, I would be sending Dafydd to meet her immediately.
Yes, that is an invitation for someone to give me pointers.
(In the even that you're completely bonkers and want to draw more pictures, I'll make a note here that Constance has two pet fire lizards to draw on... ^~)
And since I'm not supposed to just talk about myself: I love the difference in poses between the Aviator and Library. You've really pulled off the dynamism of the Aviator, and the 'prim and proper' Library.
Assuming that's what you were going for. ^^
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Hee. by
on 2015-09-23 13:13:00 UTC
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You should do so!
Magical Girls just have extra friendship. And such. This is of course post-transformation. Otherwise would just be... female!Dafydd honestly. However you decide that would work.
But yes this was completely why I needed bleepka and had to find some other places other than the wiki for references for what Maglor specifically looks like. All your fault.
(Hahaha. We will see.)
Library has no interest in dynamic posing. So you aren't wrong.
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If it is Magical Girls you seek... by
on 2015-09-23 11:21:00 UTC
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All you need is a little friendship.
And it gets even better! (Second one is spoilers for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.) -
Oh, I FREAKING LOVE that second scene. by
on 2015-09-23 16:25:00 UTC
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It always gives me some karmic sastifaction. Take THAT, Quattro! That will teach you not to mess with Vivio!
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*resists the temptation to link you to Sailor Nothing* by
on 2015-09-23 10:52:00 UTC
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*somehow*
Anyways, writing tips for magical girls... well, it varies depending on the overall tone of the series. Pretty Plot Continuum Protectors! and the sequels, Fuwa Fuwa Pretty Plot Panic!, both series of Brave Continuum Plot Defenders X, and the underrated BCPD GT, are very lighthearted in tone, having more in common with the '80s classics than anything else. Since PPCP!-verse Huinesoron is a protagonist-ish character, you have to write them as brave, determined, and kind of a ditz on occasion, but fundamentally good-hearted.
Filtering Agent Huinesoron through that will be... interesting. >=]
Also, for the benefit of Sailor Moon fans: Dark General Notarite.
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I've been assuming... by
on 2015-09-23 11:49:00 UTC
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... it's Dafydd, based primarily on the arm thing (it does rather scream 'mystical replacement construct' at me). But I am open to being proved wrong.
Not that there's that much difference between Dafydd and A!hS...
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I thought July said it was A!hS undern- by
on 2015-09-23 12:32:00 UTC
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Oh. Oh, I am the unsmart rn. =]
It would also make sense that she's using flaming arrows that kinda-sorta match the DOGA flashpatch, too. Derp.
In which case, you've got to play up certain aspects. Dafydd is Feanorian, so Davisu-chan is easily distracted by shiny things; Dafydd likes burning stuff, so Davisu-chan IS FUELLED THE PURIFYING FLAMES OF A LOVING HEART!!!, and so on. =] -
Well, A!hS is DOGA too. by
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Hence my own uncertainty. :)
[Scribbles notes]
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The wiki didn't help. by
on 2015-09-23 13:14:00 UTC
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I had to look elsewhere.
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Also: by
on 2015-09-23 11:49:00 UTC
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Loving the series titles. ^_^
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Pfff.... by
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Okay, that was hilarious! :D Also, this dollmaker is pretty neat... Introducing genderbent Senshi VJ and William! :D -
Bleepka, here ? Don't be ridiculous. by
on 2015-09-23 05:51:00 UTC
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It's funny as hell, and your pictures are great free-hand drawings, and the way you did Nume and Ilraen... I'm pretty sure HE'll be downing his Bleepka, though.
It could be presomptuous from me, but let me contribute with something who is an indispensable part of Magical Girl universes, an opening : Card Captor Sakura, I watched it when I was a kid, It was a really cool anime. -
CCS is one of the best. by
on 2015-09-23 09:35:00 UTC
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Though the fact that I like it should be pretty obvious, considering I'm the board's CCS specialist?...
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Greetings. by
on 2015-09-23 17:09:00 UTC
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Sakura was so good in my opinion that I asked my mom to record the episodes I could not see when they were airing, and this opening is just awesome.
I didn't read all of your missions, but Sergio's hero streak and Corolla's... let's say personality quirks. A pity they've retired, but it's a good thing they did alive and well. -
Corolla is not retired. by
on 2015-09-23 22:07:00 UTC
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She's still around in DoSAT (and occasionally on the field, see below), it's Nikki who will retire alongside Sergio at the end of Blank Sprite. (Which, by the way, is still not over so there will be some more of them! Not to mention that I can always write more missions set before their retirement)
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Bad wording for me. by
on 2015-09-24 07:36:00 UTC
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I mean, now Corolla's in DosaT, opportunities for killing and eating Sues won't be as numerous as before, though your co-write with Ixi and Des was funny (I hope she'll can create a new M.O.O.O.). I will be waiting for this new Blank Sprite then, and we'll see if you find missions to do that will imply Sergio and Nikki again.
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It indeed is. by
on 2015-09-23 16:28:00 UTC
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And you're pretty awesome at that speciality, let me tell you. By the way, since I just got back after months of not checking anything PPC-related, do you have any new stuff up?
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Well, Blank Sprite stuff and a co-write with Iximaz and Des. by
on 2015-09-23 22:05:00 UTC
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I'm currently at Chapter 4 of Blank Sprite (Chapter 5 is in the works, but for reasons I'll have to wait a bit before publishing), and I partecipated with Corolla in this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3IJGyEfp5hS-Qt2b5xLHp-nffgRP92dFqPrkk0ymlg/edit -
Awesome! by
on 2015-09-24 04:42:00 UTC
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I will have to be honest and say I haven't actually read any of the Blank Sprite missions, so I will to catch up for this.
But fortunately that cowrite is set right after where I left on your main series so I will definitely read it tomorrow. -
Yay, another Sakura fan! :D by
on 2015-09-23 07:28:00 UTC
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There aren't many of us here. Up until now I think there was just me and Sergio. Seems like we have even more in common than we though! * high-fives *
Oh gosh, this brings back so many happy memories. I also watched it when I was little. Thank you, thank you SO MUCH for posting this. -
That's a pretty impressive reaction. by
on 2015-09-23 17:09:00 UTC
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However, I didn't see them for a long time, and I didn't see all of them either. My most recent contact with the Clampverse was Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, and it was not really yesterday.
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It doesn't really matter. It is still awesome. by
on 2015-09-23 22:02:00 UTC
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That sort of thing tends to happens when someone joins and they turn to be a member of a fandom that doesn't have that much a presence here on the Board. When I joined, I was the fourth Nanoha fan and also as previously noted, probably the second CCS one. I can't imagine how much excited I could possibly get if someday a Boarder joins and they turn out to be a Kana Little Sister fan too, for example.
I saw the Portuguese dubbed version quite a long time ago, back when I was in elementary school. A few years ago I watched the subbed version and the movies and read the manga.
Oh boy, Tsubasa... I won't get into spoilers here because I don't know how far you are into it, but by Clow, that series can really screw your mind when it wants to. Did you know that things got so confusing in there that even the writers have admited that they will need to go back and read it because even they are confused sometimes? -
That's not so surprising. by
on 2015-09-24 07:33:00 UTC
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I mean, Clamp wanted connect every single one of their worlds here, they used temporal loops if I understood this right, so no wonder it's a complicated story. Don't worry about spoilers, I found the whole series in a public library.
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That's the understatement of the century. by
on 2015-09-24 17:10:00 UTC
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Complicated doesn't even begin to cover it. Oh, the temporal loops... that part got so complicated that Clamp sometimes broke the rules of their own time travel system.
This is the kind of stuff that the Timey Wimey Ball trope was made for. As tropers often say when taking about this series, putting what is confusing about it into words is in itself extremely confusing.
I am glad you have the entire series at your disposal, but how much have you actually read of it? Because if you aren't even past the first half yet, I would rather not spoil WHY it is so complicated. Plus there is the fact that this conversation is a public one on the Board and I would rather not unwittingly spoil it for anyone else. If you don't mind the spoilers, I guess we could take this over to e-mail. -
Not really a need for this. by
on 2015-09-24 17:40:00 UTC
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I read the whole series, so yeah, I know how much this can be messed up. But the story is so great, it's totally worth it.
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It's indeed totally worth it. (Spoilers for Tsubusa) by
on 2015-09-24 19:19:00 UTC
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Just including the official spoiler tag so we don't accidently spoil this for someone else. That would be just awful.
So, what about that situation with Cloney being retconned as R!Syarion's father? I still don't quite get that part.
Or whole thing about Acid Tokio being the past of Clow County, either. -
Finished dusting off my memories. by
on 2015-09-24 20:22:00 UTC
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So, the way I understand it, after their deaths, both of the clones were taken away by Yuuko, who resurrected them, with their memories, in another world, a world that was NOT CCS world. The price was Clow Reed's magic. They become parents of Tsubasa, then became aware that their son was actually their Syaoran when Clone!Sakura was entrusted with CCS!Sakura's staff as a way for paying for their son's world-jumping.
Acid Tokyo seems a lot simpler in my opinion, there you have a post-apocalyptic world who evolved in his own way after the passage of the protagonists, with a feather left to purify the reservoir's water, enabling their survival, and this feather is found again in Clow Country's ruins.
Yep there is some major mind-screwing here.
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Okay, so maybe Acid Tokyo is not THAT mind-screwing. Sort of. But it still is pretty confusing at first chance.
Determining Tsubasa Li's genetic make-up is also really mind-screwing, though we can probably just chalk it up to Clamp failing at biology. Just head over to the Fridge Logic section of the Tv Tropes page for Tsubasa and read the first three spoiler filtered portions to see what I mean. -
*drinks his third bowl of Blofee* by
on 2015-09-24 21:14:00 UTC
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It was really horrid, you could almost see the logic unravel itself, as if it was putting itself out of misery.
The only thing I can find more illogic is that one DF badfic I pointed out, and it's only worst because of the beige prose and the bad plagiat. If we could see the way time plays out in this mess, it would be over. -
Logic has almost no meaning when it comes to this. by
on 2015-09-25 03:38:00 UTC
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The only worse thing is the Fridge Squick described in the Fridge Horror section of that same page. Read the filtered parts at our own risk, you will need an extra-strong dose of Bleepka if you do.
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Apropos nostalgic openings... by
on 2015-09-23 06:22:00 UTC
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Have Pokémon's Hebrew opening.
Or, if you want Magical Girls, there is a White Devil in the woods (mildly NSFW). -
That was interesting. by
on 2015-09-23 17:09:00 UTC
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I never heard Hebrew before, and it felt funny seeing this old opening with this language.
The other one is already bookmarked, now I'll have to add Nanoha to an ever-growing list of things to see. -
Since we are sharing nostalgic openings... by
on 2015-09-23 16:59:00 UTC
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And we are also talking localized versions, I can't let this discussion pass without sharing The Brazilian version of Sailor Moon's or Digimon's.
And since the post that started this was about CCS, Have that one too!
And thanks for sharing Nanoha's. I can't get enough of watching it or its openings. -
Did you say Digimon? by
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Have the Hebrew opening!
Ahh, insta-nostalgia. Amusingly enough, there was a guy in my course that could imitate the singer perfectly. He was funny. -
Thank you. That version is also rather awesome. :) (nm) by
on 2015-09-23 20:39:00 UTC
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I WANT. Also, relevant: by
on 2015-09-23 04:44:00 UTC
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http://blue-bower.tumblr.com/post/124855406651
"Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?"
"Even when I was little, I was thinking 'Hey! Attack them now!' I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell 'Dual Aurora Wave!' and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM! And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.
"When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well. When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g. But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.
"So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations... It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2. While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW. So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.
"So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation? He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.
"DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION."Am I the only one who thinks a Tuxedo-Mask-esque Falchion who doesn't actually do anything to contribute would be hilarious, btw? -
Sweet mother of pearlÂ… by
on 2015-09-23 04:44:00 UTC
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I feel like I should look away, but I can't. My mind is blown. Were it not late and people nearby trying to sleep, I would be on my feet applauding.
Dangit, I gotta get to drawing now. Gah, why did I think it was a good idea to have three agent pairs and various non-agent extras?! -
You could always write snippets. by
on 2015-09-24 13:18:00 UTC
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Though now I'm trying to imagine Danny as a magical girl....
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Oh! by
on 2015-09-23 04:36:00 UTC
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As memory serves, I actually came up with a Magical Girl AU for the PPC many a moon ago. I rather like this one better since it's got those completely wonderful Magical Girl!Agents.
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You did. The Magical Plot Protectors, wasn't it? by
on 2015-09-23 09:31:00 UTC
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I remember 'cause I kinda wanted to use the setting, but never managed to get around and actually write anything...
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Something like that! by
on 2015-09-24 01:10:00 UTC
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I don't remember much of the details, but I think instead of a charge list there was a Sailor Moon-style [snappy summary of what the Sue did] followed by "In the name of canon, we shall exorcise you/kill you!" or something, and there were purifying attacks instead of exorcisms. Also I think the Flowers were fairy princesses and CADs/Consoles/What-have-you were cutesy mascots.
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Something like this! (details courtesy of the Board archives by
on 2015-09-24 09:20:00 UTC
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Specifically, the 2012 archive.
It looks like you wrote 2 chapters in the tale of the Magical Plot Protectors (the archive seems to have done something funny to the formatting, so I've tried to correct it quickly).
First up:
Well, I've always been a fan of the Magical Girl genre, so...
Magical Plot Protector Agents Anne and Emma~
Anne was sleeping in her and her partner's shared room at the Protector's Garden, an interdimensional fortress that served as the hub of the Organisation, run by the Flower Princesses. She rolled over and had just gotten comfortable when...
"DI-IIIIIIIIIING!" squeaked out the small, furry animal sitting on the desk.
Anne moaned and turned to face it, when it spoke in an annoyingly high-pitched voice. "Protectors! There's a disturbance in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha! A Sue-wraith's possessed Momoko Takamachi and made her a magic-phobic abusive mother!"
Emma frowned. "Oh, for crying out loud. Anne, get out of bed," Anne growled and stood up. "You really should be nicer to CAD. Without him, we wouldn't be able to find out where the Stus were, or teleport, or anything!"
"Yeah, thanks for the exposition, Emms. I just wish that the Princesses had thought to make them a little less annoying. How'd you even figure out it's name, anyways?"
"CAD--Canonical Assistance Doodad. Where're the transformation thingies?" asked Emma. Anne grabbed a pair of small, black discs, each with a green cactus engraved on the front, and tossed one of them to Emma. The two girls said in unison, "Magical Guardians, Canon Protection Powers, Set Up!" In a flash of light, the two were dressed in black, frilly dresses. The black discs were now on chokers, and the two girls looked, well, like stereotypical Mahou Shoujo whose outfits had been dipped in black paint. The large gun and sword that Anne and Emma (respectively) were holding looked somewhat less stereotypical. Emma grinned. "OK, CAD! Open the portal!"
"Why do you have to be so cheerful about this?" muttered Anne.
CAD started to glow brightly, and within moments the glow had expanded into a bright-blue circle, with a slightly darker spot in the middle where the animal floated. Anne and Emma held their weapons carefully, and walked into the fic.
And secondly:
The two Magical Girls hid behind a couch while Emma recorded charges. "OK, we're ready to go! CAD, set up the Wraith Extraction Spell!" she chirped.
CAD nodded in assent, and opnede its mouth, reciting at high speed:
"MynameisTakamachiNanohaIwassupposedtobeanordinarythirdgraderbutasmallincidenthappened--"
As CAD recited the opening narration of the anime, glowing words began to flow out of his mouth. They quickly formed a net around the two canons, though Nanoha's was considerably more comfortable-looking than Momoko's bonds.
The two girls jumped up and yelled, "Sue-wraith! For the crimes of cruelty against the English language, messing up the relationships between Canon Characters, and almost replacing Momoko Takamachi, in the name of the Protectors, we will exorcise you!"
They struck poses in front the two canons. Momoko had just enough time to look confused before the canon recitation forced the Wraith out of her. "i dont get it shouldnt I be mahou shoujo themed t--" \*BANG!\*
Anne blew the smoke away from her gun. "I don't get why they think that we'll let them monologue--we don't really care why they're doing this." Emma shrugged as Momoko and Nanoha woke up.
"Ugh--what happened?" asked Momoko.
Emma looked at CAD. "Would you mind?" The small animal nodded and floated over to the two canons. Its eyes glowed for a moment, before flashing brightly.
"All done!" it squeaked.
Anne sighed. "Fi-nally. That took entirely too long. Just open the portal." CAD looked less than happy about her appreciation of it, but quickly opened the portal again. As they stepped back into their room, Emma turned back to the still-floating animal.
"Aren't you going to come down?" she asked. CAD seemed to give the impression of a smirk towards Anne, before squeaking:
"DI-IIIIIIIIIIIIIING! Protectors! There's a disturbance in Puella Magi Madoka Magica! A Gary Stu is trying to set himself up as a love interest for Mami!"
Anne groaned and buried her face in her pillow.
We also have what is possibly the only example of PPC AU Crossover fic, with this little piece that references both the Magical Plot Protectors and the TCDA:
"Princesses being the Big Goods is a well-established Magical Girl Trope!" yelled Anne, dodging the gunshots from the TCDA. "Just look at Pretty Cure!"
"Likely story!" called an Agent. "I've seen way too many Princess!Sues to believe something as fake as that!"
There may well have been other stuff too, but this is what I could find easily.
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Absolutely hilarious! July, you're amazing, this is fantastic. I think Nume is my favorite.
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By Neo-Queen Senerity, this is HILARIOUS! XD by
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I really wish I had an agent just so I could submit them to this somewhat questionable but totally funny treatment. Well done, July, well done.
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Pffffahahaha! {X D by
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Awesome. I love it. ^_^ I love that Ilraen has a giant magical scythe, and that Nume has a long skirt. I'm a little unsure about the bun and lack of glasses, but still, much love for the unsolicited silly fanart! *hugs*
May I host the Nume & Ilraen pic on my Photobucket and display it on my site? (And, retroactively, is it okay for <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/Neshomeh/PPC/PPC%20Characters/GallandSnerriby_JulyFlame.png">this pic, too? If not, I'll take it down.)
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Hehehe. by
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Those were the same things I was unsure about too. (Without the bun, someone's reaction was "who's the girl next to Nume?" Which changes the whole setup entirely.) Though I would suspect a female Nume to keep short hair as well. Hmm.
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That is actually pretty hilarious. I love the arm swirlies on Dafydd's arm. It's all... Elfy. And that fire bow? Just perfect. I love it.
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I laughed so hard my roommate thought there was something wrong with me. Oh dear lord, this is beautiful.
Ave looks gorgeous, but it was Nume and Ilraen who sent me into a laughing fit. They're just so perfect. Especially the scythe for Ilraen's weapon, that was a nice touch. But... I think it was Nume rendered into this stern librarian-type figure with the severe bun that really did it.
And since Dafydd is hS as an Elf, I'm getting another fit of the giggles. 'Scuse me, need to go laugh some more.
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That was Agent!Huinesoron, not Dafydd.
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This just makes it even funnier. :'D
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Beta Request. by
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So, I have decided to retry for Permission soon, and I'm looking for people to beta my character profiles. If you're willing to help out, I think my email is there if you click my name.
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I'll shoot you an email as well!! (nm) by
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Yeah, I'll have a go. =] (nm) by
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I met Ben Carson! by
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No joke, I have met Presidential Candidate Ben Carson. He was scheduled for a speaking event here at my College, and I got to meet him. It was awesome.
Say what you will about the man, but as a Political Science student, this was an amazing opportunity for me. And there are certain issues I disagree with him on, but he is a very approachable man. He seems to be reasonably humble, and his life story embodies the American dream.
Not saying whether or not I'll vote for the guy. In fact, the only reason I am mentioning this is because I wanted to provide an explanation for why my return was delayed. In upcoming days, in fact, I have a lot of homework and assignments to take care of. So I may be down for the next few days as well.
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I'm glad you got that opportunity. (nm) by
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Tell you what... by
on 2015-09-23 21:36:00 UTC
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I'll issue an apology, if everyone tries to understand what I was trying to say, and admittedly, doing a horrible, horrible job at saying it.
To be clear, I was not saying that I hate gay people, nor do I consider them to be subhuman, or second-class, or anything like that. As a matter of fact, the Bible specifically says that we are supposed to be kind to everyone, regardless of who they are, or what they believe, or what they have done, or anything.
I will admit that I put out what sounded like the exact opposite, and to that, I will apologize, contingent on everyone understanding what I was TRYING to say.
What I was trying to say is that there are a select minority in the gay community that are, for political reasons, trying to impose gay marriage on people who have religious objections to it. These individuals give homosexuals a bad name, and they cause a lot of grief for people like me, who are, I would like to point out, perfectly within the law to deny service based on our religious beliefs. Now, any actual, real, genuine Christian will understand that this doesn't mean that we should be (insert expletive here) to them. In fact, it's actually a good business move to point these people in the direction of other businesses who will work for them. Anybody who doesn't do that, and instead grabs the torches and pitchforks, ought to be locked away for trying to deprive citizens of America of their lives, or limb, or whatever.
I am not an advocate of hatred in any way, merely one of many millions of conscientious objectors to the interpretation of a certain law.
That some people would try (and appear to be succeeding at) turn people against us is an unaddressed part of this travesty of the gay marriage debate. (Why can't it be just that anymore? A debate. If things can go back to the point when we could discuss things like gay marriage like mature human beings and not blast each other for being politically incorrect or for being Christians, that would make many people happier, I think. We can be free to disagree and discuss these things like adults, and come to some compromise, like we're supposed to.)
If nothing else, I think we can all agree on two things. First of all, people ought to be free to live their lives however they see fit. People should be able to make their own decisions, like whether to be part of a gay marriage or a straight marriage, or not. Secondly, I think we can all agree that it is not right to try and force people to do something that they, by Constitutional right, they should have to be allowed to decide whether or not they want to participate in something. For example, it has been said that America is a Judeo-Christian nation, but the most appealing part of the United States is that nobody is forcing the citizens to be Jewish or Christian. Likewise, you're allowed to practice whatever religion you want to, and everything that entails.
If we can all agree on these two points, then I will issue an official apology to then entire Board.
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Dude, you're missing something. by
on 2015-09-23 21:43:00 UTC
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Your apology is for showing that you understand that you've erred and regret the error — in this case, hurting people. It should not be a part of any deal or contingent on anything.
As things stand, you did something wrong (and no, it has nothing to do with your political opinions) and it is expected that, first and foremost, you will rectify the matter; the rest comes afterwards. -
In what way have I hurt anyone? by
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Explain that to me, please, so that I can better understand where you guys are coming from? Because obviously, I am missing something.
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I think I need more explaining on this one (nm) by
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I think Seafarer said it pretty eloquently. by
on 2015-09-24 00:20:00 UTC
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"Also: people don't want you to apologise for having different opinions. They want you to apologise for being rude to them."
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Actually, hold on... (nm) by
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That's fine, just... by
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I understand that part, and I'm perfectly willing to apologize to each person individually (since the deal thing didn't go down). I want to clear the air and move on, so anyone I owe an apology to can come to this thread and tell me what I said to be rude to them, and I'll apologize to them.
What I don't understand is how me being an idiot and making logical fallacies is offensive to people. That's all. -
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Alright then by
on 2015-09-23 22:42:00 UTC
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I probably should apologize for that, yeah.
I'm not very good at apologizing (if that wasn't obvious from my previous ranting that started this whole thing), but here it goes.
Huinesoron, I would like to apologize for being insensitive to you and your previous study of the Bible, and I think that any disagreements we have had previously got very much out of hand. And I take responsibility for that. From now on, I will do my part to be respectful and to engage in more mature, wholesome discussions about things that we may or may not agree with.
Is this apology any good? Did I do it right?
(By the way, I'm joking when I say I don't apologize very much. Clearly, I do and say things that call for me to do so.)
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Um... Hello? by
on 2015-09-23 21:58:00 UTC
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Hi. I'm a friend of Matt. I was invited through DeviantArt. I have read two stories so far, those he sent me. I think this sounds like a very good idea?
I was told to introduce myself on this messaging board, but I do not really know what to say.
My name is Marie. I am from New Brunswick, Canada. I used to run a blog with my twin brother critiquing Percy Jackson OCs, but it got too much to handle, and real life issues got in the way.
I like to draw, but I have not in a while. I like to read. I would like to try writing at some point MAYBE. My English vocabulary has been out of practice though. My favourite colour is blue... Um, is this enough?
I was told this board updates on a daily basis and I cannot do that, but I will try to check in as often as I can. -
A very late hello! by
on 2015-10-02 17:28:00 UTC
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Here's a Dome Fossil, a Helix Fossil, and an inexplicably dark blue canary!
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Hello! Have some Generic Candy! by
on 2015-09-25 01:46:00 UTC
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It will turn into your favorite candy. Welcome aboard!
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Greetings. by
on 2015-09-24 19:15:00 UTC
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Welcome. Have some sonic screws. (You'll have to provide your own sonic screwdriver for them.)
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*Switch Teleports with Iximaz* NEWBIE!!! *Glomp**Boop* by
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Welcome, fellow twin. Have some Ion-Trail in a jar.
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I am instantly reminded... by
on 2015-09-24 22:02:00 UTC
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Of This. Clem, Grakata!
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TWO GRAKATAS (nm) by
on 2015-09-24 22:27:00 UTC
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Yiss. by
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Ch-ch. Clem. Grakata!
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I do still play yes by
on 2015-09-24 23:47:00 UTC
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My IGN is MattmanTheComet on the PC version
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Oh, nice. by
on 2015-09-24 23:50:00 UTC
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Desdendelle there as well, PC. I'll drop you a friend request the next time I open Warframe.
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Hello, fellow newbie. by
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Let's begin the show.
I can't really say much about your fandoms, being a newbie myself, though I read Percy Jackson and Harry Potter too, but you seem to be a really nice person. However, it's now time for a gift, so please take this bag of a special brand of dark chocolate. If it seems they're sucking up light, don't worry, that's normal. -
Welcome to the board. by
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As you mentioned, the board does update frequently, but everyone posts stuff at their own pace. Now, for your gift, I present to you... The Hamster of Destiny! I have no idea what it does, but it has destiny in its name, so it must be cool.
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Hi! by
on 2015-09-24 04:05:00 UTC
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I'm Dorano, and I give you Bloffee - Bleep-Coffee. It's wonderful stuff, it really is.
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Hella by
on 2015-09-24 00:59:00 UTC
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Welcome to the board and here is a smood gred light pen.
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Welcome! by
on 2015-09-24 00:51:00 UTC
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Here's a box of popcorn to eat while you read the documents linked to at the top of the Board. What other franchises are you interested in?
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Welcome to Creation, here's your shovel. by
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Have a... perfectly ordinary shovel.
It's not magical, but it's made of adamantine! -
Welcome to the PPC! by
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So, another Hunger Games fan? Nice! Are you looking forward to the upcoming movie?
As for your newbie gift...
*rummages through bag of holding*
Here, have a snowglobe with a replica of your favorite fictional locale inside!
As for your English, you've come to the right place; we love good writing here, so feel free to ask for help. Given that you're Canadian, I'm guessing that your first language is French? Then from one francophone to another (I am Haitian), bienvenue chez les Protecteurs du Continuum de L'Intrigue! -
Hello! by
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Merci~ Oui, je parle le français! Ehhh, un petit peu différent; je suis Acadien. :P
I am bilingual. :) My mother is English and my father is French. I speak good English, but I have not used it in a while so I am just rusty is all. I will get better; it is like riding a bike.
Yes, I love the Hunger Games! And while I am excited for the last movie, there are... certain parts I am not looking forward to seeing... -
Welcome aBoard! by
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And I see you're familiar with Percy Jackson! Awesome!
Here, have one of my own shed feathers, along with a working replica of Riptide that can actually conceal itself as a pen! -
Hiya! by
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Have an urple ocarina! The name's Alleb; I arrived back in May, so I'm a semi-newbie still. Welcome to the PPC!
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Finally decided to show up, huh? :) by
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Good to see you here! As your newbie gift... no, a head that's always screaming won't be a good idea...
Oh, I know! Have a Senzu Bean! :D -
Lots of Gifts by
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Why thank you. :) I will add it to my growing collection of strangely charming gifts.
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Yeah, we're kind of weird like that. by
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We like newbies, they're always so shiny. :)
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Hmm, not bad... by
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Welcome to the PPC! by
on 2015-09-23 22:13:00 UTC
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Here's your starter Pokémon:
Iiiiiiit's Chesnaught!
And your starting item is:
Experimental Treatment from The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth!
This is... weird. It's basically Moody in item form, with one stat being raised and one stat being lowered at the start of every turn. This can be good, especially on stall teams. On Chesnaught it can work as well, especially given its bulk. Try a Physically Defensive set with Substitute, Drain Punch, Leech Seed, and Spiky Shield. =] -
Welcome aBoard! by
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Ixi has as always kindly pointed you towards the required reading and asked about your fandoms, so let me just give your Newbie Gift: A Rorschach Book. It can change to any text in existence. Just hold with your eyes closed, think about what you wanna read, blink on purpose three times and it should have changed.
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'ello there! by
on 2015-09-23 22:10:00 UTC
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Do you like tea? Here, have this cup of Earl Grey tea anyway. No, the leaves won't try to eat you. I killed them quite thoroughly this time.
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Welcome! by
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... and again, Ixi beat everyone to it.
It's always nice when we have new people, and don't be too worried about missing anything. The board moves fairly slowly anyways. -
Newbie! *glomp* *poke* by
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Hello, and welcome aBoard! For your newbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!
Don't know what to say? Well, why not tell us about your fandoms? :)
If you haven't yet read them, may I point you towards the Original Series and the Constitution? They're pretty much the only required reading around these parts. Another useful resource you might use is the Wiki; if you have any questions, just look here before asking. As for potential other spin-offs for you to read, have a list of my favorites!
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Thank You! by
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I have read the constitution. I have not read the original series but I will take a look! I will also check out your list.
My fandoms? Well, I used to be a kind of prolific figure in the Percy Jackson fandom, with the blog. http://judgementpavilion.tumblr.com/
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Harry Potter, Hunger Games AND Divergent!? by
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I think we will get along very well, my friend. :D *high-fives*
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On the topic of Fantedo: by
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Would it be OK to spork things from there?
For those of you not in the know, Fantendo is a Wikia specializing in fictional games that are supposed to expand on a Nintendo series, but usually just end up being not-very-good. It's all text-based, so it shouldn't be very hard. If this is allowed, would sporkings from other fanon sites be allowed as well? Because I believe I found a Pikmin one at the age of 8. Or something. -
An example- by
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This game is spectated to have alot of Mii customization etc.
Yep, I'm spectating this game, all right.
But you also have the things people spent days coming up with, and it shows. So, it's really a mixed bag.
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Putting something to bed, as the saying goes by
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Okay, so, hi again, everyone.
I realize that people are still upset with me about things I have said about a week ago, so I'm here to put this whole ordeal to rest.
To anyone I have insulted in some way during the discussions about political stuff, I want to just say that I am very sorry, and I will refrain from doing anything like that again.
I realize that many people here on the Board have opinions different from mine, and while that is perfectly fine, the way I expressed my opinions was far less than ideal. Therefore, from now on, I will try to stay away from threads like that, and unless someone specifically asks me my opinion on something in politics, I will keep it to myself.
On the surface, this isn't what anyone wanted, I know. However, I have come to realize that I need some serious practice telling people my opinions without making it a "right vs wrong, good vs evil" sort of deal, which should never happen in a discussion thread. Especially among people I consider to be friends.
In short, if I have said something mean to anyone here on the Board, please post it in a reply to this thread, and I'll apologize to each of you individually sometime in the near future (because I'm getting loopy from my cold medicine right now).
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Heh. by
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Okay, so obviously, I'm a socialist,
hermaphroditeintersex, genderfluid, bisexual, polyamorous heathen, and I don't know you very well, so I'm probably not one of the friends you're concerned about offending (that's okay!). I was not happy with your insults of Huinesoron, and other learned Christians who disagreed with you, but … well, I'm glad this went down when it did. Like, incredibly grateful, for all the wrong reasons.
My dear friend, a priest in the Episcopal Church, very gay and the first person I'd ever heard extend a literally universal welcome to the Communion altar, died yesterday morning. He was going into the hospital with pneumonia and an as-yet undetermined lung disease when all this nonsense got started, and since I frankly don't give a rat's latter-most tail-piece what people think of my sexuality or religion, debating you and others was a relatively relaxing, nonchalant distraction from being scared and worried for him, and caring for his dog.
So, in an indirect fashion, thank you for being kind of a jerk about issues we disagree on. I don't think you owe me any kind of apology. You just worry about finding a center of some kind, spiritually, so you don't get so angry. That's what Vern would have said. (You should still probably apologize to the people who you did hurt, though.) -
That's a unique response by
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First of all, I'm confused with your sexuality classification, but I've learned not to care about it anymore.
Second of all, I'm very sorry for the loss of your friend. And I guess, your welcome, in a weird, indirect sort of way.
Lastly, I have never heard a Christian say to find a spiritual center. Not saying anything about the guy or his teaching, just saying I have never heard that before from anyone but a yoga teacher or a Hindu. His services must have been pretty interesting.
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Then you can't have met too many real Christians, eh? :P by
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Kidding! Well . . . mostly. I had meant to explain this, because I think there's a fundamental disconnect missing, and as someone raised in a background very similar to yours, I, perhaps arrogantly, think I might be able to clear it up.
But first - don't worry about that part, it doesn't matter all that much.
Second - thank you.
Last: his sermons focused on two things more than anything: the all-importance, over and above everything, of love. And the way one must meditate and pray without ceasing on the Bible, especially Jesus' parables, in order to allow them to touch your spirit - because they must be taken as literature, poetry, and that requires thought. (He was a professor of Russian literature for many years, and it never quite left him.)
So, on the disconnect! I think the issue many people have with your position (I'm going to leave out the tone issues now, they're irrelevant to a discussion of rhetoric) can be broken down into the three categories of response. This is more or less applicable to every issue discussed (maybe except Israel).
The first, I think you are probably very accustomed to. It goes something like this:
Amen, brother! Love the sinner, hate the sin. It's sad, but if they'd only come back to God we'd welcome them. I pray for their souls every day.
You're on the same page, you may disagree about particulars, but more or less you agree.
The second, goes more like this:
Well, your position may have some internal logic if you are [insert sect here], but your Holy Book/Sacred Scriptures mean nothing to me, I don't believe in your Messiah/Deity, and so I wish you'd stop talking about the Bible/Apostles and use a form of reason that's applicable to both of us for your arguments.
This person disagrees entirely with something you believe to be not only true, but the foundation of reality, given to us by the Creator of aforesaid reality Himself. That's obviously very, very difficult to wrap your head around. You're more or less trying to argue about the nature of something neither of you has seen - one has touched, and the other heard. You cannot have rational discourse unless you both have the same frame of reference. You mentioned, at one point, that all ofWestern civilization* American culture has been heavily influenced by Christian thought. You are absolutely correct about this! Very, very correct. And I'm glad you know this, since many atheists often argue traditionally conservative Christian positions with no good reason whatsoever, save their cultural bias, which they are maddeningly blind to - but I digress. The point is, just because American culture is steeped in conservative Protestant values, does NOT mean that everyone agrees with conservative Christianity. They're still missing the agreement with you, that everything in the Bible is true. This, you have to understand, is a position not held by the majority of Christians, let alone the majority of Americans or Europeans.
So you literally cannot make an argument they'll agree with without converting them to your specific worldview, which is unlikely. You really need to either go a different route, arguing by some other principle, or let the matter drop. I recall you tried this with the "gay gene" studies, but I think you'd read them, or had them read to you, with a predisposition to see the article as a negative, and there was no textual support for that, so it failed. But that was the closest I saw you come to a frame of reference both people can understand. Similar efforts usually go "but humans are made for reproduction, and gay couples can't reproduce," which implies that love = reproduction, i.e. sterile, elderly, etc. people cannot love - but you understand, it relies on something other than quotes from Scripture. I really hope this is making sense.
The third position is, essentially, this:
Yes, I'm familiar with that passage/book/chapter/verse, but I disagree with your interpretation of it.
This is the one that seemed to confuse you the most. I understand why. Your entire life, if I guess correctly, you have been taught that the Bible says this specific thing, and the passages' contexts support it, and to you it is so obvious that you don't understand how someone can read the Bible, and not see the same thing in it that you see, and that your pastor sees, and that your family sees, and that your professors and classmates see. What you have to understand is that everyone you're talking to does not see it that way. Everyone experiences things they read differently, and that's no less true of the Bible than any other written word. These stories are thousands of years old, from a world that bears almost no resemblance to the one in which we live. That's their context. Then they were collected into one volume or another by different people. Argued over. After Christ, and then after the Apostles, people argued over who to include, which of their letters mattered enough, etc.
If you believe those arguing over who to include were divinely inspired in their final choice, that's okay. But don't be naive about your decision to do so - always bear in mind, and you can tell by reading Paul - that even the disciples, even the Apostles, disagreed with one anotherconstantlyfrom time to time. Anyway, the Council of Nicea was put together to make all the sects stop their interminable disagreeing over the nature of scripture. Then other councils after that decided what mattered enough to keep and what didn't. More and more, until King James, which for some reason is the version Baptists stuck with. But everyone who's read that book since it was written has had a different interpretation, and many, many of them are absolutely certain that theirs is the correct one.
To either of the people with the second or third responses, you saying "But this is correct because the Bible, read correctly, says it!" about gay marriage, abortion, etc., sounds exactly the same as someone saying "But this is correct because the Bible, read correctly, says it!" about interracial marriage, or whatever else. To you, there's a world of difference. But in order to communicate with others who disagree, you have to think very carefully about their perspective, and stop thinking in your own worldview. Otherwise, no one in the world outside of your college and church are going to ever make any sense to you.
Ugh. Obviously this got away from me. But it was bothering me, because you're obviously quite intelligent, and you seemed interminably frustrated - as did your opponents - by an inability to communicate. It's differences in worldview. That's pretty much all it is. You and an atheist from Scandinavia or an Anglican**-turned-CLDS from England aren't even going to be able to disagree properly unless you start taking into account the vastly different interpretations of the Bible, or the world including the Bible.
*You said Western Civ - I disagree, as the entirety of the European sphere of influence cannot be so generally categorized. But since American culture is so influential, and what you're coming from as are many, if not most, of the 'Board, I think the substitution works.
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I'm not sure either apology actually covers the fact that you called me an idiot, but whatever. Thanks.
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About the charges by
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Just asking but if a word that appears in a fanfic postdates the setting of the story, is that a charge? I am not asking for permission.
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Yes, anachronisms without good reason are charges. by
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As in, if someone in a Skyrim fic says 'dude' or 'sup' then, yes, it is a charge. Although, the thought of a guard saying 'sup, brah' is just so funny I might let it slide. Might.
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Is this what you mean? by
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Sorry, had trouble parsing the question- did you mean that a word was used in a fanfic that doesn't appear in the actual canon until after when the fanfic was set? In which case yeah, I'd say that'd be a charge; probably something to do with continuity or something :0
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So, I've been thinking... by
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What, in theory, would happen if an agent were to kill a goodfic? Not (necessarily) on purpose, just say a fic got sent down the wrong way and an agent was all, "Well, it looks good to me, but, dems the rules," and kills it. What would happen both to Canon, and to the agent?
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For one thing, most Agents will decide on their own who to recruit or kill. Agents generally don't get a 'kill this absolutely dead' order, and there's a lot of expectation to use your best judgement on a mission. So an Agent who killed a fic without sufficient charges just because it had gotten sent to them would be something of an outlier!
In addition, I think a lot of the rules don't apply to both goodfic and badfic. Like, badfic warps the Word World while goodfic makes its own copy-world to play in. Also, I'm not sure that the protection-from-view thing would work in a goodfic? The World messes with the canon characters to make them not notice Agents in order to protect the Agents so they can get the invading Sue out, and that wouldn't happen in goodfic.
Disciplinary actions... Probably some visits to FicPsych to see why they wanted to do that? If they've just snapped, then, well, such things happen, and help can be given. If they were infiltrators the entire time then things get more complex.
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Random Snapshot: What Are You Doing? by
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At the time of reading this post, what are you doing (or watching, reading, listening to, daydreaming etc.)?
Right now, I am playing my 120th hour of the Binding of Isaac (which is totally normal behavior, I am assured) and zoning out yesterday's YouTube posts. A shower is also in my near future.
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Good morning by
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I have just woke up. I'm in my sleeping clothes and about to go make some breakfast. Hopefully before my brother wakes up and asks me to make something for him as well.
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I begin the day in pretty much the same way.
I didn't expect this silly question to get as much response as it did. Thank you all very much for for sharing!
Now, I have another question, just for the fun of it.
Imagine yourself a year from now, on this day, at this hour, answering the same question. What would your answer look like? In a year it might be interesting to revisit this question and see how close we all came.
It's early. I'm laying in bed with my laptop. There isn't much reason to be awake yet. That's never stopped me, of course.
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"Our mission is to kill people and break things."
A July, spacing out: Huh, that sounds familiar. Oh, right, the PPC. -
Waiting for class to startÂ… after scarfing another salad. by
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And thinking this is WAY too unruly for a 300-level class.
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Hopefully, by
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the same, but with less sleep deprivation and more PPC stories being churned out.
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Hmm. by
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Well, my answer hasn't changed from yesterday; just woke up, and am munching cheerios. I have to scram for class in twenty minutes.
...come to think of that, I should get dressed.
It was still dark outside, and as such, Iximaz was still asleep. She briefly woke, once, when her roommate slipped out the door, but she wouldn't remember this later.
She yawned and rolled over, snuggling further under the covers. It was good to not have classes on Fridays.
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I'll either be working again or something else has happened.
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Next year? by
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I figure I'll be studying. Woot for Law.
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Same here! by
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Did you get into Law School, Des? I am currently already in it myself. *high-fives*
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Because my Bagruyot were so-so.
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Congratulations then! :D by
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Obviously your juridical system probably is very different from mine, but my own experience with studying Law has been pretty interesting. I am actually studying the Civil and Penal Codes this semester. First semester was mostly just laying the groundwork and theory.
Do you have any idea of what role you want to take once you graduate? I am leaning towards civil attorney myself.
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Hm... by
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Being a lawyer doesn't suit me; too much intrigue and dishonesty. I'd rather find some area of expertise that isn't widely known but is in demand (like, IDK, international law) and become a consultant.
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Alright then. That definitely sounds interesting. by
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I hear international law is in great demand, so that probably would be a good field to work.
I am still on my first year, so it is likely my inclinations will shift greatly towards the end of the course. Still have 4 and a half years to go after all.
Probably will depend on finding out just how much corrupt the system really is. Though considering how much I already know about how corrupt my country is in general... -
Corruption is endemic to democracies, it seems. by
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Me, I have four years ahead of me. Probably more since I'm planning on an LLM abroad (preferably in Oxbridge).
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It indeed seems to be... by
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Just do me a favor and look up Petrobras Scandal sometime to see what I mean.
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... nasty. by
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Then again, look at this page and you'll understand why I dislike politics.
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Ouch! by
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That is also really nasty. I can definitely see why that is.
It should speak to how bad the situation is here that I seriously expected to find a similar list for Brazilian politicians. Since, surprisingly, there is not one yet, I will just have to go with this instead. -
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That's very nasty indeed.
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It indeed is, sadly. :( (nm) by
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College apps. :||| by
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I literally just finished about two hours worth of chem homework and now I'm debating on whether or not I actually want to apply to Dartmouth. I just want to fast-forward to February-ish when the sports season nothing counts any more for school and I can relax aughhhh. . .
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Doing... nothing. by
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I'm just really sitting here, Archer going on my second monitor. Just doing whatever random action comes to mind. Like fiddling with the counterweights in my mouse. I need a life.
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Conquering the Bane of All Existence by
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...also known as homework. A shower and hopefully the beginnings of a fifth game of Dishonored is in my near future.
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Well... by
on 2015-09-24 23:03:00 UTC
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Monitoring 3 chat rooms, including the VSTF feed for Wikia, and trying to write a chatbot framework.
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Nothing. by
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Except feeling lethargic, faintly ill, and putting off homeworkfor as long as I can.
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Back home... by
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After a day in the army. Almost done with that...
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I'm feeding my dog. (nm) by
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Eating salad and reviewing my syllabi for the term. (nm) by
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Getting ready for work. by
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Since I work a somewhat terrible job from home, this "getting ready" consists of opening all the necessary computer programs, grabbing some snacks/caffeinated drinks, and looking for other work.
I spent my morning watching episodes of "Gotham," which just came out on Netflix. I'm enjoying it more then I thought I would. -
Working on homework... by
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...with the DOOM soundtrack playing in the background.
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Just got up. by
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Really early, I might add. Currently having breakfast. Next thing is taking my two-year-old to day care. Maybe he'll gain a few levels from all the walking I'm going to do today...
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Super Dangaronpa 2 reference? (nm) by
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Pokémon, actually. (nm) by
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Oh right, the Pokewalker. by
on 2015-09-25 03:23:00 UTC
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Daycare and leveling up from walking instantly made me think of the pet mechanic in DR2, that's all.
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No, the Day Care. by
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Put Pokémon in the Day Care, they level up. It's not just a breeding ground, y'know.
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Oh! by
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Sorry. This part right here " from all the walking I'm going to do today ", got me all mixed up.
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Drinking. Have been since 2. by
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This probably explains a fair bit.
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Just finished writing out the alphabet in Gothic calligraphy by
on 2015-09-24 19:43:00 UTC
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In a second I'm going to open up my DM Guide (on the last chapter, woot!) and continue my study of DM-eryness. It's quite fun!
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At work (Work-Study, that is!), drafting Interview Questions (nm by
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Drinking a Lemsip for my cold. by
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And listening to Radio 4 Extra while putting off cleaning the litter tray.
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Multitasking. by
on 2015-09-24 18:32:00 UTC
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I'm here on the Board, I'm chatting with Iximaz and Darkotas in Google Hangouts, I'm trying to figure out something to write, and I'm also hanging around the Monster Girl Encyclopedia chat.
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Just (mostly) finished my number theory homework by
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and now I'm trying to figure out what to do next.
Eh, avoiding studying for complex it is. And avoiding applying for internships. -
A picture is worth a thousand words. by
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Okay, I'll bite. . . :p by
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What exactly is happening here?
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The ultimate in busy work. by
on 2015-09-25 02:55:00 UTC
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Scrubbing rust off gripes that will probably be super rusty again within a week.
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I know ultimate-er busywork! by
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Clearing a clearing full of dead leaves (and a pretty large one, too!) when you know that, by tomorrow, it'd be full of leaves again.
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I'm sitting in math class. by
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I decided not to complete the review packet my teacher gave me. I just finished my book and was starting to get bored.
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*noogies* by
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You haven't been on for forever!
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Cuddling my kitteh. by
on 2015-09-24 16:52:00 UTC
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Her name is Christy, she's a pretty little calico, and she is sitting on my lap and purring.
In a few minutes, I'll have to displace her so that I can get up and go to class. Staying here and continuing to stroke the very, very soft fur right between her ears is very tempting, though. :) -
Partly doing work. Mostly avoiding doing work. by
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It's a fine balance to achieve :)
Specifically on the 'doing work' front, I am producing a new range of standard drawings for one of my company's products. And cheating massively by basing the new standard on an existing non-standard design that has a lot of the features I want; I've been able to produce some of these 'new' drawings by just renaming old ones, which has significantly cut down on the time it'll take me, which has in turn allowed me to...
On the 'avoiding work' front, spending my time occasionally checking the Board, and e-mailing one of my friends about the made up rules for faster than light travel in a sci-fi setting I'm working on.
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I have recently woken up. by
on 2015-09-24 16:19:00 UTC
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This month, Thursday is the only day I don't have a day shift; only a night shift at 5:30. (No, I haven't had a full day off all month. We're understaffed, okay?) I'm going to spend the day keeping a friend company, so I've been getting ready to go since I woke up. I just made dinner for my night shift (cheese melted between two tortillas), and once that cools, I'll pack it in my lunch box. I'm about to shave. Oh, also, I've had my DS in my hand this entire time, biking back and forth in a Pokémon game so I can max out my Kingdra's happiness and teach it Draco Meteor.
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Just woke up. Wanna go back to bed. Can't. by
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I'm a little chilly, because autumn in Alaska has arrived. Yay. Other then that... Not much.
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Work. by
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I've just answered an email about a sales specification for an unusual dilution of sulfuric acid, I've got another one about a certificate of analysis for something that goes in deodorants, and I just interrupted that to answer one from Kaitlyn (which was much nicer, let me assure you).
And then I'll be prodding at a database of chemicals. And they say adulthood is dull...
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Attending a company info session. by
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Because hey, I need to take control of my life SOMEday, don't I?
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Eating breakfast. by
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A bowl of cereal, if you want to know. I just got out of the shower and fed my cat, and in about half an hour, I'm off to work.
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"Working" at the university library. by
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No seriously, I'll have to work... After I checked up on Gabrielle Aplin's new album.
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Literally just woke up. by
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Poured a bowl of cheerios and am glad I don't have class until the afternoon. :)
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On a train headed to work. by
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Checking my webcomics and Facebooks and stuff.
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Listening to Dropkick Murphys' "Rose Tattoo" by
on 2015-09-24 13:06:00 UTC
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Also, editing my second mission. Oh boy, this one's a kicker :D
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Is there something wrong with the board by
on 2015-09-24 22:29:00 UTC
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because randomly, I keep on getting redirected to a different page. Normally this wouldn't worry me... but the most recent redirect was one of those "Virus Trap" pages, which worries me
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Nope, but I will investigate. by
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This board has been having all sorts of problems. I've solved it with adblock, and sometimes (when I'm patient enough) Tor. I still hope the T-Board finds some place to get hosted. Hanging around with possible redirects is not among my favourite activities.
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Hm. by
on 2015-09-24 22:58:00 UTC
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Do you experience this in different sites, too? Have you tried a different browser? Do you have a working anti-virus?
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Nope by
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It's just this sight. As I entered the sight just now I got hit with a redirect, followed by a Chrome save from a malware attack.
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You know this sounds a lot like the situation... by
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That gave rise to the debate on the future of the board. Do you have add-blocking software? It usually helps.
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And yes that's a nope on everything you asked by
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I'm on the Chrome OS on a school laptop, so generally it doesn't need a anti-virus software, nor do I think there is one purpose built for it
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It was my birthday yesterday! I'm 17! by
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I'm sorry I forgot to tell you all earlier.
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Happy late birthday! (nm) by
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Have a Mark II K-9! (nm) by
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- Crazy Ivan has something to say! by on 2015-09-25 12:02:00 UTC Link to this
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Happy Birthday! (nm) by
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Congratulations and Happy (belated) Birthday! by
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You've now gone seventeen whole years without dying. If you can keep that up for the rest of your life, you'll be immortal. (That is how it works, right?)
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Happy Birthday from two days in the future. (nm) by
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Happy Late Birthday to you! (nm) by
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Awesome! by
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I remember when I was seventeen. It was awesome. Of course, I was living in a trailer at that point but my family and I got to travel, so that was good. It was the point when I really began to think about what I wanted to do with my life.
I still don't know what I'm going to do with it, but that's beside the point. Being seventeen was awesome. -
A Very Merry UnBirthday to you! by
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May there be many more like it to come!
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Happy (late) birthday! *tosses Spikes* (nm) by
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:D :D by
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Happy birthday! [uses a t shirt cannon to dump confetti on you]
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AAAGH! HELP ME! by
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And thanks, everybody!
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Happy Belated Birthday! :D (nm) by
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*cakefetti* by
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!
*blows noisemakers*
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Pottermore's Sorting Quiz by
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I'm going to have to stay off the Board for a little while because I have exams coming up. But in the mean time, I have a Harry Potter quiz for everyone who wants to take it. This one is based on the Pottermore quiz that sorts you into the Houses.
Let me see if I can put this in correctly.
http://www.quotev.com/quiz/4910241/Hogwarts-Sorting-Hat-Quiz-Pottermore-style/
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I did some counting... by
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And, not taking "I should've been in House X" and "other quiz says that I'm in House Y" answers into account, we so far have:
-Two Gryffindors
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Which, at the time of posting come out to:
-33,457 Ravenclaws
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-14,756 Hufflepuffs
-14,563 Slytherins
It would seem a disproportionate amount of a people in general are Sorted into Ravenclaw, almost double the amount of the next largest House. This appears to imply, unsurprisingly, that more Ravenclaws in general care to take quizzes like this in the first place.
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I believe... by
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...one of the questions asks for a preference of various activities, with one of the answers indicating a love for books and reading (which counts as a point for Ravenclaw). Considering that the source material is a book series and that fans of said books will be taking the Pottermore quiz, chances are the grand majority of them will like books and thus give that answer. Because of this, Ravenclaw is by nature of the quiz going to have an advantage. (This is just me spitballing, though - feel free to tell me I'm wrong! ^_^)
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Also, according to site analysis: by
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Merlin was in Slytherin, but most Ravenclaws are going to put the book of merlin as the first item they would save because, well, it's Merlin, duh! Also, you are more likely to get Slytherin if you choose the river in the forest vs river question. This is most likely because Slytherin's common room is under the lake. The point is, most Slytherin-like answers are the ones a Ravenclaw would naturally choose.
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Well, it's not only a book series. by
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There are the movies too, remember. : P
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As it currently stands, Pottermore shows... by
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*pops over to have a look*
WHOA WHOA WHOA WAIT. What happened to the old format? D:
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Let us share a moment of silence... by
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In mourning the loss of Old Pottermore. May the memory of all the FireboltChasers and ThestralCrimsons live on forever in our hearts.
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Ravenclaw. Not too suprised. by
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I spend way too much time theory-heading about abstract stuff.
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Ravenclaw here, Slytherin on Pottermore... by
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and Gryffindor on the personalitylab test that no longer exists. I still have to find a test that puts me into Hufflepuff :-)
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Hufflepuff, as usual. by
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I'm just that kinda boring, run of the mill, guy.
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Naw, that's not Hufflepuff at all! by
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In an interview of some sort, the Queen was talking about Hufflepuff, and she mentioned something that really redefined the way I looked at the House. (Spoilers for Deathly Hallows, but I somehow doubt that that's an issue for anyone on here.)
She mentioned what the different Houses did during the Battle of Hogwarts. The Gryffindors all stayed, of course: but she says that their bravery is, in some sense, fool-hardy and show-offish. Most of the Ravenclaws leave, interested in their own skins, and a few stay. The Slytherins, of course, all leave. But Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff stays almost to a man, and for all the right reasons. They're fighting for their school, for their families, for their friends. They're fighting for loyalty. That's the opposite of boring and run of the mill.
Hufflepuffs are awesome, and I shan't let you forget it. =]
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Burb. Er. Ravenclaw. by
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A July is not surprised. Others may be.
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'Nother Ravenclaw. by
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Though I was half sure I'd end up in Hufflepuff, since I kept picking 'Puff answers. What's the point of wisdom if not to do good, after all?
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Ravenclaw on this one, but Hufflepuff on Pottermore. by
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I'm a Hufflepuff! And I've always been one; I like both Houses equally.
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Gryffindor, followed by Hufflepuff. by
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I always thought I would be a Ravenclaw, but both this and the official quiz gave me Gryffindor. *shrugs* I ain't even mad.
My answers were all distributed rather evenly, though. Gryffindor had 14, Hufflepuff had 11, Ravenclaw had 10, and Slytherin had 9.
...Can I call myself Divergent?
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I had one more Gryffindor answer than Ravenclaw... by
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...but the bridge troll one was a hard question to answer.
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I think we're the only Gryffindors on here. by
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...Weird. But hi, fellow Gryffindor! *waves*
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Not particularly surprising.
I am a Slytherclaw by this hybrid house quiz.
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Gryffindor. (But I'm totally a Ravenclaw, you guys.) by
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I only had one more Gryffindor answer than Ravenclaw, so I'm like an in-between. Like, a Ravenclaw with a hero complex.
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So you're like Hermione. ;) (nm) by
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Now that you mention it, yes! (nm) by
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Ravenclaw by
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Though when I took the actual Pottermore Quiz I got Slytherin. I always have seen myself as a Ravenclaw personally.
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Ravenclaw, but... by
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I've never been overly-impressed with the Sorting Hat quizzes, if only because I think they place too much emphasis on 'liking to read' as a Ravenclaw trait. *coughs and looks at Hermione*
I think I'm actually a Gryffindor, but only because I don't really fit any of the other Houses. I'm not particularly drawn to schoolwork or learning (don't get me wrong, I like learning new things, but I don't go 'hmm, what should I learn about today?'), I'm not patient and I'm definitely not hardworking, and I'm very much not cunning or ambitious. It's less the fact that I'm brave or chivalrous and more the fact I'm the leftovers from the other Houses. -
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I took the test just now; I said Ravenclaw because that's what Pottermore put me in, and I figured the results would be the same.
Apparently now I'm a 'Puff?
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Everyone knows that Hufflepuff is where the leftovers from the other Houses go! =]
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Yeah, join us, Ix! by
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We have plenty of room left: we're the "rest of the lot" House after all!
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Long live the bumbling badger of mediocrity. =] (nm) by
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Hear, hear! (nm) by
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You know... by
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I wouldn't have minded ending up as a Hufflepuff — I greatly respect loyalty and the ability to work hard — but, alas, I do not lean that way.
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Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure! by
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That is, Ravenclaw. It's been consistent for years; no surprise, here.
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Ravenclaw by
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I questioned the legitimacy of that Sorting at first. I spent most of the quiz trying to figure out how the quiz worked. That seemed a bit cheaty to me at the time, but upon completion and further consideration, it only serves to support the Sorting. Learning is most prized by the Ravenclaws after all.
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I am a Slytherin. This makes sense. by
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I suppose it's only inevitable that I am entrusted to a House that is the sole preserve of those children in the school's care who are evil. Of course, this is not the true nature of ambition, cunning, and manipulation. It is merely what that House descended into via a spiral of radicalization and militant fascism, which is the best way to raise a child.
A Slytherin ought not to be the villain. A Slytherin worthy of the name is not even in the story. Whether the hero or the villain of that story triumphs, the Slytherin uses that triumph to further their own goals. A Slytherin does not even necessarily rule. To be the one in charge is to attract attention that may not, in fact, be desired. The true Slytherin tempers ambition with carefulness, calculation, and a meritocratic attitude. To the true Slytherin, the idea of a blood-based hierarchy is there only to be used for personal advantage. Since young Slytherins rely on the patronage of older, more experienced players of the game, however, it is necessary for the true Slytherin to show gratitude, magnanimity, and generosity of spirit to those less fortunate than themselves - unless they are a threat, of course. The key colour of Slytherin is not the green of poisons, potions, and curses, but the muted silver - the silver of our tongues, the colour that fades into the background. Let the products of other houses bicker and squabble amongst themselves, jockeying for position loudly and proclaiming victories with fanfare and bluster. These triumphs are temporary. For the master Slytherin, all triumphs are one's own, and in this, our victory is inevitable and eternal. -
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Slytherin, duh! by
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Only one time I had Ravenclaw, so I guess I'd be close to a Hatstall :D
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Hufflepuff. by
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I always get Hufflepuff whenever I do these tests. Not that I'm complaining: it's a pretty decent house. It may not have the smartest students, or the most cunning, or the most brave, or... or...
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There are plenty of awesome Hufflepuffs! by
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Tonks and Newt Scamander have already been pointed out, so let me just say this: Remember Cedric Diggory!
There also were Bridget Wenlock who was a very famous Arithmancer and Grogan Stump, former Minister of Magic.
The fact that Hufflepuff has produced the fewest number of Dark Wizards out of all houses also helps. And Hufflepuff was second only to Gryffindor in the numbers of students who stayed behind to fight against Voldermort's forces during the Battle of Hogwarts. Loyal indeed. -
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Ravenclaw. by
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Happy to know I would be in my favourite House, although Hufflepuff was a close one too.
P.S. : Tonks was a Hufflepuff too, if I remember it right, so don't worry about Hufflepuff's qualities. -
I like Hufflepuffs by
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They're extremely loyal, and loyalty has always been most important to me. Besides, Newt Scamander was a Hufflepuff, if I remember my trivia correctly.
Of course, I ended up in...
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Hufflepuff, of course. Go Puffs!
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I got what I always expected to be in. by
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Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure, after all~
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New interlude! (finally) by
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About time I got back to writing. Anyway...
RC 211 Interlude 3: It's a Beautiful Thing
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Who officiates? by
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Well you could go the fully secular route, and just get a legal official. Why not get someone from the Legal Department to do it?
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Honestly? by
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The Notary is the funniest option.
Seriously, I can see Kala thinking "HER!? No, not her, why her, Valon what the hell were you THINKING... wow, Valon looks handsome up there..." -
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(Urge... to kill... rising...) (nm) by
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Give in. Let us have a show. (nm) by
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"No, no, focus on the handsome devil at the altar..." (nm) by
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You're absolutely no fun at all. (nm) by
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Congratulations to the young couple by
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I have no idea how marriage works in the PPC.
And I found a tense shift:
He gets up from his stool with the bottle of rum.
Should be "got".
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Long live the soon-to-be happy couple! by
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Love is such a wonderful thing.
I hope I'll have characters suffficently concrete for participation in December.
The question about who will office would sure be funny, I mean, will this marriage be valid for the characters' universes too if a Flower was dragged in for this ? Morever, how girtablilus plan their weddings ?
But hey, these questions wouldn't be asked if Valon and Kala didn't really cared for each other, it's so sweet for them.
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That was spoilers!
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Ask any old person. =]
Anyways, I'm really looking forward to it, especially since the Notary will likely have progressed further along her arc by this point, in a way that will be in keeping with the PPC's general aesthetic and mood.
Promise. =] -
Crawling Chaos, I forgot the warning.. by
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Yeah that was quite the surprise when I found this out. However it was not exactly in plain sight on the web, I only found it because I did a search with Aviator's Gallifreyan name for the hell of it.
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*pokes* Hey, dude? by
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Next time you happen to find things of a spoilery nature on the interwebs, please don't post them for the entire Board to see.
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I done really goofed here sorry. by
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I'm already like this IRL, I should have thought longer before posting. If there is anything I can do for amend, just say it.
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Who could possibly officiate... by
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((Ficlet response))
"No."
She had prepared for this.
"Absolutely not. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes. Why would you possibly consider me suited for this? I have only ever conversed with the two once, and it resulted in six per cent third degree burns. There has to be a better candidate. Indeed, human, the first question is how a damned clown got onto the guest list."
"You could do a Gallifreyan ceremony... and, uh, 'cause it's a CHE, you can get a grant from the A/V Division's arts funding program. I think. Maybe?"
"..." The Notary thought as quickly as she could, which was surprisingly fast for those who had only been on the receiving end of her mule-headed obstinacy. She began muttering under her breath, to her partner's confusion and sense of impending doom.
"Uh, you okay there?"
"... carry the two, take out the cake fund..."
This continued for several minutes.
"Human, the unthinkable has happened. You have swayed me."
"YAAAAAAAAAY!"
"I may retract this statement if you continue to bellow at me."
"Duly noted." Then Wobbles sniggered.
"Was something funny?"
"Well, you're the Notary, and I said 'duly noted', so-"
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Very late in asking, but what's a CHE? (nm) by
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Cultural Heritage Event. by
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I considered spelling it out, but people talk in acronyms when the other person knows what they mean, and quite often when they don't as well. I did, however, mean to put it in a footnote. I forgot. Derpgrace gonna derp.
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Oh lord. by
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WHAT HAVE I UNLEASHED
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Well, you know how they say "Hell is other people"? by
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It's actually one specific person, and that person is the Notary working on a plan. Don't worry, she's not going to deliberately screw the happy couple over.
Probably.
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I definitely want the Notary to officiate. Simply because it would be both awesome and hilarious.
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Paging hS by
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Did you receive my email, by any chance?
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Doesn't look like it, no. (nm) by
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Still no? by
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If you still haven't found my e-mail, please e-mail me (link is above) and I'll re-send you the original e-mail. Thanks.
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It showed up eventually. by
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Not sure what was going on there.
Anyway: thank you for the offer, but no. This isn't a good time for me; I don't really want to be doing anything.
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Odd. by
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Did you change your e-mail address, perchance? Because I know that we've communicated by e-mail before, and I sent it to that same e-mail address.
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Ever had that feeling? by
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Did you ever feel like you're the only sane person in the world because you read a badfic that mostly has good reviews for some reason?
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Yep, it already happened. by
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One of the way I found for coping with it is the investigation of some reviews. They seem to matter less when they praise the bad aspects of the story, or are rife with typos.
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Too Glaurunging often! by
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Very few reviewers ever bat an eye about the issues I've raised about a certain HP badfic that I have discussed at lenght in this thread of mine.
Even worse is the sister fic of the one above, called Positive, which basically is a rehash of Breaking Dawn in the Potterverse, only somehow it is probably worse. No one bats an eye when the Suethor just declares that the Weasleys simply don't exist in the story, for no apparent reason, or when Dumbledore threatens to force Hermione to either have an abortion or completely isolate herself until she has her child, only to give up said child to Muggles "for the Greater Good" (The child in question is the Sue herself, but still...) No one bats a Glaurunging eye when Harry can suddenly speak telepathically with his unborn daughter or when said baby reaches just about every single important developmental milestone impossibly early. -
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Let me put this in context.
An Aunt's Love, which I won't link to because doing so on mobile is an almighty pain in the neck, has close on twenty THOUSAND reviews on ff.net, most of them positive. And it squandered genuine promise. What could and should have been a frank discussion of mental health and its stigmas in two very different cultures turned into stupid, rambling garbage involving ninjas, gun-toting doctors, vile bashing, and DRACULA for some damned reason or another. Oh, and Harry is even more The Special than normal because of some genuinely insane segments involving Merlin's tutor and his dog. God it sucks.
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I DO! DO I EVER! Also, Scapemobile, swearing is not allowed by
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..on the Board.
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...where is Scape swearing, precisely? (nm) by
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For reference: by
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...and DRACULA for some d*mned reason or another...
It's milder than that rule is usually applied to, but it is there.
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Ah yes. by
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That is definitely the sort of word we wouldn't use among under tens.
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None of it makes sense!!! by
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Heck! I made a review about how a certain badfic is bad but then I got flamed. What? The author does not even appreciate one of the canon characters' actual persona and then shamelessly change it! Who gives them the right to say I don't know about the canon?
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Yes by
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This is often what happens when I go scouting for badfic to take down once I get off my lazy butt and actually apply for Permission.
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Ha ha ha! by
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Well, at least you'll be on your sarcastic side when you spork it.
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There's a side that's not sarcastic? (nm) by
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Well, if you think about it... by
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When one reads a badfic, he'll go berserk. But when one sporks it, sarcasm takes over (with a mix of anger). So, yeah.
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True by
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Didn't think of that. Sarcasm tends to be my default mode...
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Could a story about the Whoniverse being realÂ…. by
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…be written logically?
My main problem is how one would explain the Doctor ending up in a time-stream where he's so popular. All I can come up with is a parallel universe, which are impossible to travel between, except via TARDIS once, and then there's those time-warping medallions, which the Doctor doesn't like because of what they do to the fabric of space. Also because as the show keeps doing more episodes in the present, the show does not have a fandom in-universe there either.
So… Any other ideas? Because it's not something you can handwave. The audience, not to mention the Doctor, will certainly want to know how he got to such a place in time.
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Two obvious possibilities. by
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Remember the Doctor's words in Rise of the Cybermen: "It used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind."
If travel between universes is getting easier again, it could be a sign that Gallifrey is returning.
(A variation on this would be a pre-Time War Doctor travelling to our reality, and meeting a NuWho fangirl who refuses to believe this idiot in a long scarf is really the Doctor until she sees Sarah Jane with him.)
Or...
Perhaps the TARDIS has been sent to this universe by someone who doesn't care what this does to the fabric of space.
Missy and/or Davros (depending on which, if either, is alive at the end of tonight's episode) sets a trap for the Doctor. Detecting the approach of the TARDIS, and unable to destroy it, they open a wormhole in its path, sending it to our reality. Then they close the wormhole behind, trapping it and the Doctor here.
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I can't get cableÂ… So Dravos and Missy were spoilers. by
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I don't even know who Missy is!
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Oops... Sorry... by
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(Still, by the time you see the episode, you'll have forgotten exactly which one I was referring to, so it'll still be a surprise for you.)
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As far as I'm concerned... by
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Once the next series starts, the previous series' events do rather stop being spoilers. I mean, there are limits.
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Yes. But I just started Series 7. So I don't know her. (nm) by
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Series 8... by
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Aired between August and November 2014. That's roughly a year ago. No, I don't think that counts as spoilers.
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You do realize not everyone has access the BBC by
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And Series 8 has only been on Netflix for about a month, I think.
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Well, it's your fault for not being British. =] (nm) by
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THANK YOU! (nm) by
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I meant, thanks to EvilAI for pointing that out. by
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Sorry for the confusion.
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Well, I live in Israel... by
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Which, FYI, in such matters? It's the back end of nowhere (and no, no Netflix here). Anyway, it's an Americanocentric thing to say, what you're saying; why count stuff as spoilers just because it didn't reach the US of A yet?
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Didn't July's census show... by
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... that most of the Board is still American?
61%, apparently.
That's probably why, right there.
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But one week ago is. by
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Which is when we found out who's in this two-parter.
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I haven't been following this conversation from the- by
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I'm pretty sure that... by
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...on IMDb, Michelle Gomez-as-Missy, at least, was listed as being in a certain two episodes for the past...oh, several months, at least. I definitely didn't find that out a week ago; I'd known for a while. Rather ruins the two-parter, actually, having seen the list of actors...
Apart from her, Clara, and the Doctor, though, I don't remember anyone else being listed by character name from the beginning. That might have been added in the last month, though, for all I know.
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You do have a point there.
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Woopsie! (nm) by
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Mary Sue Origin by
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It was my understanding that Mary Sues originated from a poorly written Star Trek fanfiction.
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Well, not exactly. by
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The term "Mary Sue" comes from a parody of bad Trek SI 'fics called "A Trekkie's Tale".
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I don't get it. by
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It's a nice comic, but I don't get it.
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I think ... by
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That since this idea is literally free of any sort of bond, you get an average glitterbag with it, bound by no rules. (If you find I'm intrusive, says it).
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Today is a special day! by
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Have a snippet thing. :)
***
Zeb yawned and opened his eyes to be met with a world of whiteness. After a bit of flailing, he managed to extract himself from under his sheet, and he sat up, yawning again. The smell of something delicious hit his nose and his eyes snapped open to see the Aviator standing by his bed, holding a giant platter of freshly-baked Sweet Poffins. The top three each had an unlit candle stuck in them.
“Happy birthday, Zeb,” the Aviator said, smiling softly.
“Huh?” he said blankly.
“September 26th, right?” The Aviator held out the platter. “Thought I’d do something to celebrate; it's not every day you turn three. I hope this is alright.”
Zeb blinked several times. “Oh yeah, it’s my birthday!” A huge grin spread across his face and he jumped out of bed, bounding over to the Aviator and almost knocking her over in his attempt to hug her. She yelped, but somehow managed to keep the Poffins from falling to the floor.
“Careful!” she said, holding the platter out of the way while bending down to return his hug. “But yeah. I thought you’d like the surprise.” She paused and looked down at the Poffins. “Um, you still like Sweet Poffins, right?”
“Still my favorite,” Zeb said, grinning broadly (and showing off an impressive set of fangs in the process). “Thank you so much!”
“You’re welcome.” The Aviator headed over to the coffee table and set the platter down before sitting on the sofa. Zeb jumped up into the spot next to her while she fished a cigarette lighter from her pockets. With the candles lit, she began to sing.
Zeb waited until she was finished before leaning forward and blowing them out. He looked up at her. “You want to share?”
The Aviator hesitated. “Are you sure? I made them just for you.”
“I’m sure.” Zeb used his teeth to delicately pluck one of the candles out of a Poffin before grabbing the pastry in his mouth. “Go on,” he said around the food in his mouth. He nudged her shoulder.
The Aviator shrugged and picked up one of the Poffins and bit into it. “Later, we could go to Rudi’s if you like,” she suggested. “Drinks or whatever you want will be on me.”
Zeb swallowed and grinned. “That would be awesome.” -
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Happy birthday, Zeb! by
on 2015-09-27 15:15:00 UTC
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My agents send their best wishes and a photo of Meganium, Mareep, the Delibird I got for my birthday, Kitty, and Miguel's Cyndaquil playing together. Look at it if you ever need to restore your sanity and/or good mood. ^_^
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Agent Falchion sends Zeb his regards... by
on 2015-09-27 03:54:00 UTC
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...and some birthday Leftovers! :D
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Congratulations, Zeb! (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 03:52:00 UTC
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Algie let out a long, contented sigh. by
on 2015-09-27 01:31:00 UTC
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After a hard day of scrying the various badfic worlds (with a break for tea at four; one had to have some standards), he was content to kick back, relax, and engage another wonder of the modern world. His favourite chair was still his favourite chair, the enormous red leather wingback still tinged with Generic Fabric courtesy of its previous home in his billiard room, but the clanking Suetech steam-powered La-Z-Boy was a close second. For one thing, its mildly ferocious riser-recliner action could, with diligent preparation and the application of trigonometry, catapult a smallish coconut or similar object the entire length of the corridor, though he'd had to stop his experiments into optimal flight paths when that poor Time Lord woman with the irascible demeanour had been taken amidships with a ballistic grapefruit.
He cast his gaze at the perpetual calendar on the wall, filled with postcards and wishes of good luck from the garrison of his partner's old base under Cheyenne Mountain (what was left of it, anyway), taking a slurp of his tea, then stared at the date while making a noise like a poorly-maintained tugboat engine.
"Drowning again, are we, your Lordship?" Lola McCandless' mild tone belied the enormous grin she was wearing.
"N-no!" Algie replied after some effort. "It's the twenty-sixth!"
"Yeah, cob. All day - wait. Didn't you say you had something on?"
"Indeed I do! Oh, d*mn it all, Commander, I was so wrapped up in my work it completely escaped my memory. We must make haste to RC 3-Apple-14 immediately!"
"Algie," she said, worry creeping into her voice at the edges as the Earl bustled about and laboured with a large blue-and-grey box, "if the next words out of your mouth are 'I recommend we travel by chair', I will be very-"
"I recommend we travel by chair!"
"-unsurprised. Totally unsurprised. God, you're like a kid with a new toy."
"This will make a very interesting test, though! We should be concentrating so much on screaming that we arrive at our destination in moments!" Algie cranked a few brass levers on the back of the chair and prodded its firebox with a letter opener. "It's glowing blue. Should it be? Can we get it to do it again? Oh, what fun! Would you please be so good as to help me manoeuvre this contraption into the corridor?"
"You're insane," Lola said as she grappled with the La-Z-Boy.
"I cannot help but notice, Commander," Algie replied with a glint in his eye, "that you are still helping me."
"Well, that's because I'm insane too. Used to fight space invaders for a living, cob, and before that I used to - well, never you mind about that."
After a few minutes of shoving and the Earl fussing with a protractor, he pronounced them ready for takeoff and started feeding yet more coal into the chair, which began vibrating in odd ways. Lola sat down and made herself as comfortable as she could, wishing she'd thought to requisition her armour.
"I'm going to switch it to full power!" Algie shouted over the rattletrap clatter of Suvian gears as he took a seat beside the Commander. "Never done that before! Exciting, wouldn't you say?"
"Are you sure this will work?"
"Not even remotely!"
Well, thought Lola as the riser-recliner creaked into position, I have technically heard worse last words.
But before she could respond, there was a terrible, ghastly-
creeeeeeak
"... Huh. Was that i-"
KA-CHOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOINNNNNNNG!
Over the next few seconds, which Lola was convinced were going to be her final few seconds, she still clung onto the large birthday present. As they landed, though, she had to let go before hurtling face first into the door of an RC.
Only a moment later, she got up, with the help of her three partners. "Ow," she said, eloquently.
"Commander, are you quite well?" The various Algies coalesced into a single, worried-looking form. "I failed to calculate for our differences in weight -- arcs of trajectory and so on -- and arrived in time to hear the most appalling crash."
"Ow," she repeated, shaking the stars out of her vision. "The, the thing-"
"The package is secure, as I believe the modern expression has it. Come now, lie still." Algie grabbed a couple of small splinters of Generic Surface from the Commander's crater, picked one, took a small stick from his pocket, tied them together with a single hair from Lola's head (eliciting another brief "Ow" when she remembered to notice), and began to chant, placing the makeshift cross upon her brow. Almost immediately, the wounds began to close, and when Algie completed the spell and keeled over backwards, she was there to catch him.
"You know how to take a lady to a party, you know?" She was smiling when she said it, but then Lola smiled a lot in general.
"I think... I think a chartered ship for the Grand Tour next year, don't you?" Algie struggled to his feet and dusted himself off. "Now then, we await only friend Zeb and dear Miss Aviator. I believe you knocked already."
"Har har. You're so smart, how do we get back?"
Algie's expression trickled from satisfaction to horror. The door took the opportunity to open, and the two spun to face it, looked at each other, and said "Happy birthday!" in perfect unison.
They were just kind of like that. -
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on 2015-09-27 17:38:00 UTC
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"You never told me he was so FLUFFY!"
Algie just smiled as Lola scritched and fluffed Zeb's fur, the heavy-bound, lovingly illustrated one-book edition of the Inheritance Cycle all but forgotten as it sat smugly on the table.
"I thought I might surprise you pleasantly for once." -
Awww... Happy Birthday Zeb! (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 00:39:00 UTC
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Awww! by
on 2015-09-26 20:57:00 UTC
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That's so adorable! Zeb's such a sweetheart - sharing his birthday Sweet Poffins. And the Aviator, for remembering those were his favorite.
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Happy Birthday to you! by
on 2015-09-26 18:40:00 UTC
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Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthd...
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This is a sad reality we are living it. by
on 2015-09-27 04:00:00 UTC
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Glaurung, they even tried to sue GIRL SCOUTS for it! And instantly regretted it, but still...
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Dunno why everyone's so upset about this. by
on 2015-09-27 08:38:00 UTC
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The Disney Company, it has emerged, never owned the copyright - and all its lawsuits are therefore invalid.
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Couple things by
on 2015-09-27 17:22:00 UTC
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It was actually the Summy Company then Warner/Chappell (Part of the Warner Brother's Conglomerate) claimed that had the copyright, not Disney. Further the decision stating that the copyright was not valid was published on 9/22 (Not everyone knows about it yet).
You are right in saying that the decision does say that Summy did not acquire ownership when they thought they did. But it is very important to note that this was only at the District Court level. Warner/Chappell has at least one appeal of right and possibly more (rehearing en banc and SCOTUS). Importantly it is very likely that Warner/Chappell appeals and there is a non-zero chance the decision will be overruled, thus validating the copyright. -
What's more... by
on 2015-09-27 17:36:00 UTC
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The intentions behind the lawsuit are very, very sad indeed.
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They are, indeed. :( by
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Okay, so on a happier note, as far as I know our local version is not copyrighted, so allow me to share it with you to cheer things up, since I was the one who introduced this topic anyway.
Here is our Happy Birthday song:
Portuguese English
Parabéns pra você = Congratulations to you
Nesta data querida= On this dear date
Muita felicidade =Much happiness
Muitos anos de vida =Many years of life
At the end of the song, there are variations to add joy and excitement to the celebration. For example, let’s say that it is Mariana’s birthday. At the end of the birthday song, the group will sing:
É pique, é pique É pique, é pique, é pique É hora, é hora É hora, é hora, é hora Rá Tim Bum Mariana, Mariana, Mariana
Let’s see if I can explain what this means:
Pique = enthusiasm, peak momentum
É hora = it is time
Rá Tim Bum = a play with the sound of drums playing
(Translation and explanation copied from this helpful Portuguese as a second language blog.) -
This does assume we are talking about the same thing (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 17:25:00 UTC
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*Arrests former copyright holders for kidnapping* (nm) by
on 2015-09-26 18:46:00 UTC
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Awww! (nm) by
on 2015-09-26 16:14:00 UTC
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Right in the feels. by
on 2015-09-26 15:57:00 UTC
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It's good seeing them together again. Happy birthday too Zeb!
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Aw. This was sweet. by
on 2015-09-26 15:50:00 UTC
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(Pun retroactively intended.)
Happy birthday, Zeb!
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Fanmix game! by
on 2015-09-27 00:51:00 UTC
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Let's try something that combines the PPC and sharing music at the same time!
Here's how it goes.
Share one (or a few) songs. Ideally with a link to Youtube or something.
Someone (not you) replies with who (or what) they think that song should be uses for, PPC wise. Then they offer a couple songs as well for others to pin on.
However! Several people can reply about the same song!
For instance, say someone who is most definitely not a July links The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy.
July comes along and says "I think this should be used for Dafydd." Perhaps a July cites a lyric as evidence!
Another person, who is not July in a most excellent hat comes along and says, about the same song "How about the Aviator, too." This person who is still definitely not July also cites a lyric!
Both of them offer songs in return, and other people come along and do the same thing.
There's only one rule, though! You cannot give your own characters for a song!
Makes sense?
Anyways, to start off with, here are a couple songs:
The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy, because I already had the html there.
The Pretender by Foo Fighters.
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Some musics! by
on 2015-09-27 16:15:00 UTC
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Not sure any of these would work in a fanmix; just wanted to share some songs/videos I like.
"Oscar Wilde" by Company of Thieves
"Going Under" by Evanescence
(Evanescence: not just for bad songfics!)
"The Kill" by Thirty Seconds to Mars (Warning in the music video for blood imagery, due to Kubrick!The Shining references.) -
A'right, here goes, five from me. by
on 2015-09-27 10:22:00 UTC
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One of them is so obvious, I'm gonna be surprised if somebody doesn't associate it with that person.
"Almost Human" by Aurelio Voltaire.
"Mr. Pinstripe Suit" by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
"Red Like Roses (Part II)" by Jeff and Casey Lee Williams.
"Halfman's Song" by Gavin Dunne AKA Miracle of Sound.
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Some interpretations! by
on 2015-09-29 05:42:00 UTC
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"Almost Human" - This sounds like Diablos to me! He's barely on the Wiki; I'll have to fix that. But anyway, Diablos is an AU version of the DIA's Irvine who wound up in the PPC one day. He tried to insert himself into the lives of our Irvine and his acquaintances, but his origins* and rather villainous demeanor set everyone off their ease. He eventually became a danger to the group, all while acting like he was the victimized one. Hence:
What did I ever do to you
That you should treat me this way?
Is it really such a crime
For an angel to speak his mind?
. . .
What did I ever do so wrong
That you should cast me from grace
Though I love to rule in Hell here
How I miss the taste of Heaven
And of course, the repetition of "I'm just like you."
"Mr. Pinstripe Suit" - I'm guessing this is the obvious one you were alluding to. This is the Mysterious Somebody: Voodoo = the Force, and the way Mr. Pinstripe Suit strolling into town all swag-ly matches the MS's rise to power in HQ. Plus, the MS was keeping all kinds of secrets from the PPC—he's "got the answers we all wanna know."
"Red Like Roses Part II" - Ugh, first I need to go listen to Part I. *Is reminded he's multiple seasons behind in Red Vs. Blue*
Anyway. Since these seem to be canon characters singing to each other, it's a little tricky assigning the lyrics a PPC meaning. It's mostly calling to mind the relationship between the Reader and the Aviator, from what I've read about it. Haven't been keeping up with modern PPC stuff while I work on the archive, so my info may be off.
"Halfman's Song" - I would say this was a bit of an anthem for Mary Sues, but I think it's just a little too self-aware of the narrator's faults. (There are some who are born distinguished/There are some who are raised in praise/But me I was always the last in line) It's definitely got the themes of envy for canon and manipulative tactics down, though.
Beware, beware of the words I twist
I am small but my reach is long
. . .
The land is a blooming orchard
With fruits so juicy and ripe
With a clink of a coin loose the lion’s loin
. . .
Molding puppets from their minds of clay
I’m no man of honor
Myself is my true king
"La Bo—seriously? You're just being mean, now. This is literally a song about dancing. Oh, wait, no. This is "Bomba," not "Bamba." Huh.
Haven't kept up on my Spanish, but this first stanza is mostly familiar. A drink that changes your life, something drives you madly delighted . . . "smile water?" Blah blah blah, it's Bleepka, obviously.
BLEEEEEEPKAAAAAA
—doctorlit tiene una poca de gracia por él y por ti.
*Considering our Irvine is a copy of the Final Fantasy VIII canon, and Diablos is literally just an evil version of him/them, do you suppose he hails from the Mirror Multiverse? If he's a copy of an evil Irvine Kinneas, aka an FFVIII where Squall's group are the antagonists, that seems to match what we know of Master Who, where the Daleks were protagonists. -
Well, this came out yesterday, so why not. . . by
on 2015-09-27 05:08:00 UTC
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I personally feel like The Pheonix (love FOB by the way, ahhh) is pretty indicative of the PPC as a whole; it's super pumped-up-y, perfect Sue Slayage Jams. . .the lyrics translate to the PPC really well, too. For example, "we can take the world back from a heart attack" thing really hits a chord with me regarding the whole saving the word world thing. :P
My own music recs:
Broken Bells' new single "It's That Talk Again"
Choice lyrics: "Another chance for me to learn
Another bridge will have to burn
It's not about an eye for an eye
Because the normal rules, they don't apply"
And in the same vein, one of my favorite Danger Mouse songs (he's half of the Broken Bells duo) "Two Against One"
Choice lyrics: "Make no mistake I don't do anything for free and
I keep my enemies closer than my mirror ever gets to me"
"And if your foot soldiers, syncophants and yes man
For them to break into the middle of this little plan
Then they should plan to hear me say that I wont play around
But wait anyway I planned a plan to drown them" -
Interpretations! by
on 2015-09-28 16:08:00 UTC
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"It's That Talk Again" - To my mind, this calls up chronic FicPsych patients (Jeanine Guiles, Chelsea Miller, etc.) The early lines are the psychiatrist trying to nurse the agent's mental health back, with the agent resisting:
I never meant for this to last
We turn around, a year has passed
And now you've got these thoughts in your head
You never heard a word I said
It's that talk again
The chorus is the patient fighting treatment, afraid to face whatever sent them there:
When all I have to say
Would fill your heart with pain
So let's just walk away
The last verse is the former partner visiting with their friends/current partner, being supportive of the patient's recovery.
I see you in the crowd with your friends again
...
It never really ends
I might have a girl on my arm again
Then you'll want to weave and pretend we never met
But don't do it, don't do it
It's that talk again
"Two Against One" - A lot of the lines here remind me of the "clashing mindsets" dynamic the Flowers like to use in partnering people.
I keep my enemies closer than my mirror ever gets to me
And if you think that there is shelter in this attitude
Wait til you feel the warmth of my gratitude
—doctorlit means to sign his posts from now on, but keeps forgetting. -
The Pretender for Tango Dioxide and Blue Photon by
on 2015-09-27 02:08:00 UTC
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No, they're not pretenders themselves, but they helped expose how the Mysterious Somebody and his henchmen were all pretenders keeping the PPC in the dark.
"Keep you in the dark, you know they all pretend. Keep you in the dark, and so it all began."
Anyway, my suggestions are:- Shakin' All Over by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
- See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes by Handel
- Idiot Control Now by MST3K
Yes, I do have a very eclectic taste in music. How did you guess?
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Interpretations! by
on 2015-09-28 15:28:00 UTC
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"Shakin' All Over" makes me think of brainwashed canons being forced into a 'ship from an author wraith's influence.
When you move in right up close to me
That's when I get the shakes all over me
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Just the way that you say goodnight to me
Brings that feelin' on inside of me
"See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" - For some reason, my brain is adamant that this played ironically over the Master Who Daleks rescuing HQ from the Macroviruses.
"Idiot Control Now" - This makes me think of the line-up of vehicles DoSAT keeps. (We've seen the spaceships; I figure they must have road-based stuff, too.) The things those vehicles must see/be used for when agents are using them on missions . . . Not to mention how some agents must treat them!
Steady as a goat
We're flying over trout
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Numbah 2: (I also like this idea.) by
on 2015-09-27 01:52:00 UTC
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Definitely, DEFINITELY the charging and assassination. Expecially the way agents like to taunt Sues. "We are temporary" followed immediately with "WHAT IF I SAY I'M NOT LIKE THE
OTTERSOTHERS!"
And a dump of songs!
Impetus from BIT.TRIP RUNNER
The Writing's On the Wall by OK Go
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
Give Me Your Eyes by Brandon Heath (Yes I mostly picked this video because it starts with "just wait for about 10 seconds" onscreen) -
Number 4 by
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I can just imagine this one playing when a Suethor or a recruited Sue finally realize how much harm they have done to canon and they want to atone for this.
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Loving #2 here. by
on 2015-09-27 02:59:00 UTC
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All of those optical illusions make it look like something out of HQ's Escher Room!
As for me, this is what I've got:
Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Magnificent Seven by the Clash
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Option 3... by
on 2015-09-27 01:02:00 UTC
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... for modern PPC in general.
Just the title of the song... we've come so far from the early days.
We started as just a gimmicky little corner of the internet.
Now we're a community, building a massive, interweaved world.
The Vengeful One by Disturbed
Drop Pop Candy, originally by Reol and Giga-P (this cover by JubyPhonic and Kuraiinu)
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"The Vengeful One"... by
on 2015-09-27 06:29:00 UTC
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I can just imagine this playing when an angent snaps,takes a flamethrower and goes "argue" with the Flowers about the Duty.
And now for the next salvo :
-Maze of Life by Yumi Kawamura, Shihoko Hirata for the song and Shoji Meguro for the composition.
-Unbreakable Tie by Lotus Juice and Asami Izawa
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Hum, should have added more explanations. by
on 2015-09-27 06:52:00 UTC
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The video, the lyrics about the dark biker who is calling himself "Dark Messiah"... He snapped, completly.
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Drop Pop Candy for Kayleigh and Salamander. by
on 2015-09-27 02:46:00 UTC
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...even though it means admitting I ship Kayleigh/Salamander. (Poor Sal.)
The song definitely has the sort of cheerfulness I associate with Kayleigh with some of the random.
Geek in the Pink. Jason Mraz.
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By the way hS look here, right here. by
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That is... terrifyingly amazing. by
on 2015-09-27 18:34:00 UTC
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"SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" Kayleigh paused for breath. "-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" Another pause. "-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!"
A very long silence, and then:
"... yes?"
"SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"Yes, Kayleigh, I got that part."
"Oh, right. Sheepish grin. Ahem: WE GOT FANART!"
"... say that again."
"Fanart! Waves sheet of paper in the air. Look! Oh, no, wait. Um... listen!"
Salamander cocked his head. "... you're crumpling a bit of paper up."
"Right! It's our fanart!" Kayleigh scrutinised the picture. "And it's perfect. The way the straight lines complement the curves, the subtle play of colour and shade, the dedicated attention to detail..."
"... Kayleigh."
"Mm?"
"Is there anything in the picture apart from your mace?"
~
It's Kayleigh. She's gonna Kayleigh.
That is amazing. ^_^
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Poor Sal had to get redrawn a couple times, even. by
on 2015-09-27 18:41:00 UTC
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I am glad you liked it!
Aaand that it thrilled Kayleigh. Yes. Definitely that. Alas that Sal can't see it.
(While working on it and showing people occasionally: "Who's that supposed to be?" "Can't you tell because of the mace?"
And then after: "Where did she pull that out from? I can't say that on the board!" "Hammerspace. No, really." "That is The Question and Answer in universe. Usually before getting it to the skull.") -
"That's mace-space!" (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 19:24:00 UTC
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Shush, you! I know that! It's not my fault they don't. by
on 2015-09-27 19:26:00 UTC
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Also, if you're breaking the fourth wall again-
You know what maybe I should not do the thing.
Congrats on somehow succeeding at finding the thing, though admittedly at this point it's both past and future and also largely by default of no one else making a run for it. -
...Oops. (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 19:27:00 UTC
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...Did I fix it? by
on 2015-09-27 19:27:00 UTC
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*checks*
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I like Shatter Me for the Librarian. by
on 2015-09-27 01:47:00 UTC
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I think it's the video that sells it - all that stilted, unnatural formalism.
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guess who forgot the songs in the song thing yup it me by
on 2015-09-27 01:51:00 UTC
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Option 1: Constructive Summer by The Hold Steady
Option 2: New Born by Muse
Option 3: Get Better by Frank Turner - "Get Better" reminds me of... by on 2015-09-27 03:25:00 UTC Link to this
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I Burn... by
on 2015-09-28 10:59:00 UTC
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I can't help but thinking about Third Aviator here, I can just imagine her fueling her cold facade with Yang's snark. Besides, there is only so much agents who literally burned here ^^.
Next salvo :
-Backside of the TV by Shihoko Hirata, and the complete lyrics here
-Human by Gabrielle Aplin
-More Than One Heart by by Shoji Meguro (composer) Benjamin Franklin (lyrics) and by Yumi Kawamura (vocals.
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I MAAAY FAAAAAALLLLL~ by
on 2015-09-30 21:16:00 UTC
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That sounds like an agent with high glitter levels, on the cusp of being Sued.
Anyway, more songs.
Onibi/Demon Flame/Will-o'-the-Wisp by Masa-P (WARNING: DISTURBING)
Don't Drink the Water by the Dave Matthews Band
Hide and Seek by Lizz (original Korean artist unknown; also disturbing) -
Hide and Seek by
on 2015-10-03 13:29:00 UTC
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The clip and the lyrics make me think of a Sue tracking a canon character for remplacement/possession.
Et maintenant pour quelque chose de commplètement différent :
-Qui on Devient by Alexandre Poulin.
-Où Le Vent Souffle by Alexandre Poulin (bis). (Only video I found sorry).
-Au Grand Jamais by Bensé. -
It's not Wildfire, it's WILDFIRE!! by
on 2015-09-27 17:32:00 UTC
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For DoGA. The reasons are obvious.
You think by now, that I would have learned
Not to play with fire if I don't wanna get burned
But I'm a pyromaniac
And your veins are full of gas
You're burning higher, higher
I'm storming this WILDFIRE!!
Anyway, new song selection.
Hibikase/Resonate by Reol and Giga-P
Angel with a Shotgun by the Cab
Babylon by Gemini Syndrome -
"Wildfire"... by
on 2015-09-27 05:10:00 UTC
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For Tacitus. Lyrics, I think?
One: UNIT Rocks
Two: All For One
Three: Concerto for two harpsichord and orchestra, BWV 1060 -
"UNIT" by
on 2015-09-27 07:35:00 UTC
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For agents gearing up for a mission, or just about to take down a Sue/Possessed Canon/opponent. It just sounds like a song that plays right before evil butt is kicked solidly into the ground.
Now...
This Means War - Avenged Sevenfold
Out of the Shadows - Sarah McLachlan
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Hurts, if it was instrumental... by
on 2015-09-28 00:19:00 UTC
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Would fit a sci-fi mission's establishing shot extremely well, particularly the opening. If I had to pick a continuum, I'd say Mass Effect. Good stuff.
More options:-
Colonialist Legacies: Vietnam (War Theme) by, er, Antti Valakainen. I think.
Steredenn: Steredenn by Zander Noriega
Shovel Knight: No Sense Running by SuperSquare
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Colonialist Legacies: Vietnam... by
on 2015-09-28 11:51:00 UTC
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For any mission set in the Dynasty Warriors continuum.
Apropos DW...
-Dynasty Warriors 4 OST: The Wall of Fate
-Might Morphin' Power Rangers opening theme
-Dynasty Warriors 5 OST: Great Red Spirit
Bonus song!
-Dynasty Warriors 6 OST: Lü Bü's Theme
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DMS Double Feature! by
on 2015-09-27 17:02:00 UTC
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I'll be taking a short but sweet hiatus from PPC writing starting today, for personal/Real Life reasons, but in the meantime, have some new missions!
* Agents Rayner and E.V.L. get a quirky new C-CAD - and a double-eyeful of "Artificial Stupidity".
* Agents Backslash and Whitney venture into Tomb Raider, or rather, "Womb Raider", to stop a Stu in pursuit of a different kind of treasure. -
More errors. by
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Womb Raider
1) “Don’t disguises always change your outfits? And your species too every now and then.”
Punctuation errors. Consider this: “Don’t disguises always change your outfits? And your species, too, every now and then?”
2) He did so albeit rather reluctantly, ultimately asking about her research instead of confessing his true feelings to her.
Missing comma before "albeit".
3)The agents scrambled for cover behind some random stalactites and watched them struggle.
So the agents can walk on ceilings? If not, the word you're looking for is "stalagmites." Remember: "C" for ceiling (stalactite); "G" for ground (stalagmite).
4) “unsafe bondage removal method i.e. risk of accidental immolation”
Missing commas: “unsafe bondage removal method, i.e., risk of accidental immolation”
5) “Is nearly being impaled by those things a commonplace work hazard?” asked Backslash, glancing nervously at her line turned makeshift javelin.
Missing hyphens: "glancing nervously at her line-turned-makeshift javelin"
That aside, that was a very interesting mission. It was certainly better written than the badfic! -
Why, HTML? (nm) by
on 2015-10-04 04:15:00 UTC
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Just pointing out possible technical errors by
on 2015-09-30 08:52:00 UTC
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Artificial Stupidity:
Y’know, for a little piece of plastic, wires, and computer parts, you seem to have as much of a personality of an actual agent.
Shouldn’t this be "as an actual agent"?
Then let’s get this pile of Schiessdreck out of the way...
German spelling error, should be "Scheißdreck" (or "Scheissdreck", if you don’t know how to type ß).
Womb Raider:
After she wiped her perpetually bare feet on the Animal Crossing welcome mat and made her way into the main room, the first thing she saw was her partner on the sofa, enjoying their Wii U as usual.
I think this should be "she had wiped" (past perfect), because wiping her feet happened before Whitney made her way into the room.
After the radio conversation ended, the Stu and Lara made their way to an underground bunker, where they found Sam, an older guy she was apparently talking with.
I don’t understand this sentence, maybe because I don’t know the canon. Is Sam female? Or is he the older guy? Who is "she" then?
"... where they found Sam and an older guy ..." might make some sense?
“But but I love her please you gotta undrstand” James screamed over the wind.
He handed the notebook back to his partner and unsheathed his disguised Monado replica.
Who is "he"? The last male person mentioned was James.
"No no, it’s fine," she replied, before turning give him an apologetic look.
Missing word "to"?
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Thanks! All fixed! (nm) by
on 2015-09-30 19:04:00 UTC
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Error on the Dragon's Triangle thing by
on 2015-09-28 01:28:00 UTC
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DISCLAIMER This boarder has no interest in the Lara Croft games, and is only reading the spork for the heck of it
The Devil's Sea, otherwise known as the Dragon's Triangle, is known as the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle," due to similar occurrences in that sector of the sea -
Oh balls, thanks for pointing that out! Fixed ^^; (nm) by
on 2015-09-28 03:58:00 UTC
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Sweet Philemon, there is so much awesome here. by
on 2015-09-27 18:10:00 UTC
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PPC always needs more sentient pieces of tech, they can be so funny and crazy. You're a genius, creating all these characters, all of them being unique in their own twisted way. I discovered Backslash and Whitney here, and I already like them as much as your other teams.
It's really a pity if you're really downsizing the number of your agents, but hey, if you think it's for the best...
I hope you'll enjoy this break from writing, and you'll come back with other great ideas. ^^ -
Thank you kindly! by
on 2015-09-28 03:58:00 UTC
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And oh, you haven't seen nothing yet with regards to my future PPC plans. Mark my words. ;)
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Another newbie by
on 2015-09-27 17:16:00 UTC
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Hello! I'm Quihi, a newbie to the PPC. I actually discovered the PPC about 2 years ago and posted once or twice on the board as Quiet Hiker before discovering I was really too busy to ever visit the Board. Now I've been looking at the wiki and the Board regularly for about a month, and I'm hoping to actually stick around this time. I'm not sure how often I'll actually be able to post, but I feel awkward just stalking the PPC.
My favorite fandoms are pretty basic: Lord of the Rings, some Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, and Percy Jackson along with some smaller ones like The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Secret Series.
I have indeed read the Constitution and some of the FAQs, and the Original Series (and saved that to to my iPod so I can reread it again, for that matter).
I can't think if I'm missing anything, so hello! -
Greetings! by
on 2015-10-02 17:25:00 UTC
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Sorry for the late reply, but welcome to the madhouse! Here's a T-rex tooth, a fist-sized ammolite stone, a model hydra skeleton, and a wall map of Middle Earth!
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Thanks everyone! by
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Thanks for all the gifts!
I don't really want to reply to each post individually since I think I've gotten the hang of posting. -
Have a welcome-back plover! (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 16:38:00 UTC
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Hello! by
on 2015-09-29 01:20:00 UTC
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Have some Swiss Chocolate.
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Welcome (back) aBoard! by
on 2015-09-28 03:17:00 UTC
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I was quite a bit of a lurker myself. We also share the HP fandom, so... *high-fives*
Have a Rorschach Book. Hold it with your eyes closed, think about what you wanna read, blink on purpose three times and it should have changed. -
Welcome! Have some chocolate! by
on 2015-09-28 01:47:00 UTC
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I love the Secret Series and the MBS Series as well. So good!
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Yay! by
on 2015-09-28 11:38:00 UTC
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who has read those books!
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Isn't the end of the Secret Series so INFURIATING? (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 03:02:00 UTC
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Well by
on 2015-09-29 18:39:00 UTC
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It was odd, but I'm not sure a "normal" ending would have been satisfying after that series. It was infuriating, but... no Secret of everything could really be entirely satisfying!
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Hi there! by
on 2015-09-27 23:34:00 UTC
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Welcome aBoard! Have this pomelo. Uh, no, wait, that's a grapefruit. No, wait, that's a pomelo. Uh, no-- Oh, whatever.
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Hiya! by
on 2015-09-27 22:16:00 UTC
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Have an urple ocarina, shrill as a Sue's singing voice!
Another Chronicles of Narnia fan: wonderful! I love those books. Anyway, welcome to the Board!
-Alleb -
Hi! by
on 2015-09-27 21:56:00 UTC
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Welcome (back?) to the PPC! Have some Bloffee - I'm sure you'll need it soon enough.
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Hella by
on 2015-09-27 20:45:00 UTC
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Welcome to the board and take this invisible light pen.
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Welcome to the realm of madness. by
on 2015-09-27 20:15:00 UTC
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Now, for your gift... A pen that does stuff. Uncap it to find out what. It will most certainly not hurt you. Maybe. Just point it away from your face and I'm sure it will be fine.
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Welcome! by
on 2015-09-27 20:05:00 UTC
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Hope you stick around! Here's a pack of index cards and a generic blue pen! (Sorry for the lame presents. College is hella expensive.)
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Welcome to the PPC! by
on 2015-09-27 18:42:00 UTC
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Here's your starter Pokémon:
Iiiiiit's Cloyster!
And your starting item is:
Soldier's Syringe from Risk of Rain!
Now, Soldier's Syringe is a pretty nice item in both in-game and competitive play. What it does is act like a better Hone Claws, with a 50% chance to boost your Attack, Accuracy, or Speed by 1 stage every time you take damage from a contact move. On Cloyster, it works quite well, because you can switch into one and get a free boost before you Shell Smash and sweep 4 daze. =] -
Newbie! Oh, Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! by
on 2015-09-27 18:36:00 UTC
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Glad to have another Percy Jackson fan here. We sure need those!
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Thank you! (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 19:51:00 UTC
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Willkommen, Bobby! by
on 2015-09-27 17:35:00 UTC
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Hey, newbie! Welcome to the community. What's your preferred pronoun? Here, have this cup of tea, which most definitely won't shout at you like a drill sergeant then try to eat your face when you're not looking, no siree.
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Um by
on 2015-09-27 19:49:00 UTC
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Thank you for the tea! I think!
Depending on the situation and speaker, I like she, her, and hers. I also like I, me, mine, you, your, yours, and the appropriate corresponding plural pronouns. *checks old English notebook* Oh, and my. -
Newbie! (ish!) *glomp* *poke* by
on 2015-09-27 17:33:00 UTC
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*head tilt* We interacted on the Pit a few times, didn't we? Nice to see you on the Board!
Anyway, welcome (back) aBoard! For your returnbie gift, take this plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti!
Let's see, since you already know where to find the required reading, I'll just leave you with a list of my favorite spin-offs.
Hope you like it here! :D -
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We did indeed interact there.
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Welcome to Creation, here's your shovel. by
on 2015-09-27 17:32:00 UTC
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Have a shovel that can fly!
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Thanks! by
on 2015-09-27 19:40:00 UTC
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Out of curiosity, can you ride on the shovel while it flies, or does it just go and have underground adventures on its own?
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It's like a more practical witch's broom. (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 20:07:00 UTC
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Hello fellow newbie. by
on 2015-09-27 17:24:00 UTC
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I hope you're here to stay too, especially if you were lurking around for so much time.
Let me give you this bag of a special brand of dark chocolate, with so much cocoa they're sucking up the light. -
Yum; thanks! (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 19:37:00 UTC
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Welcome aBoard! by
on 2015-09-27 17:23:00 UTC
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Have one of my own shed feathers, a working replica of Riptide, a One Ring expy that turns you invisible, and a Golden Snitch with a Poké Ball engraving!
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Wow by
on 2015-09-27 19:35:00 UTC
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Thank you for the gifts!
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Anyone else want an agent ID? by
on 2015-09-27 20:43:00 UTC
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Some of you may have missed the thread where I developed a new agent ID with the help of hS and Iximaz, based on Artemis' original version as seen here (scroll down).
Well, I think we're officially out of development. Here's an example of the final product:
You can see more examples, including some variations from "standard," here. If you like what you see, I'll be happy to make them for your agents, too. I'll just need the following:
Front
- Agent name
- Species & home continuum
- RC number
- An image at least 100x130, preferably a mugshot. I really, really, especially need this from you.
- Age (if in doubt, use years of existence, even if this does not equate to their biological or mental age)
- Height (in feet and inches)
- Eye color
- Sex
- Build
- Hair color (or fur color/other identifying feature for non-humans)
- Department
- Division (if applicable)
- HoD
Back
- Psych Eval number as generated here. Make sure to select 8 bytes, hexadecimal.
- Blood Type (if non-human, I'll use X for Xenos)
- Organ Donor (Yes/No)
- Partner(s)
- LO(s) (If your agent has a lot of LOs, please only give the top three. There's only so much space to work with.)
- Special Status (if any), such as a special license, restriction, watch status, etc.
- (Optional) Your choice of font for your agent's signature. I'll be happy to download and use anything from DaFont.com, if you want something custom. I recommend looking in the Script > Handwritten section.
I'll also generate a custom QR code with their name and department abbreviation here. This adds a fun interactive element to the card, since the QR code can actually be read back out by submitting the image URL here. Really—give it a try! And thank hS for suggesting this bit of niftiness. ^_^
So, anyone interested?
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I can has? by
on 2015-10-01 21:59:00 UTC
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Chris
Human - Pokemon
RC #2319
(picture: http://sta.sh/020wfpwq4kuy)
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Height: 5'9"
Build: Trim
Eyes: Gray
Hair: Black
Department: Floaters
Division: none
HoD: The Floating Hyacinth
Psych eval number: 8DED50D80DF4822B
Blood type: A-
Organ donor: No
Partner(s): Ami Seeker, Miguel Correa, Violet Rose Greenfield
LOs: Gym Leader Jasmine, the Black Widow, Mikasa Ackerman
Special status: None
Signature: #1 Ichiro font
Ami Seeker
Unicorn - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
RC #2319
(picture: http://sta.sh/01m20fravnvt)
Age: 20
Height: 5.5hh (hands high) ((This is where I get my information))
Sex: female
Build: stocky
Fur: green
Mane/tail: brown
Eyes: blue
Department: Floaters
Division: None
HoD: The Floating Hyacinth
Psych eval: 3F78CE0D2114CF40
Blood type: X
Organ donor: No
Partner(s): Chris, Miguel Correa, Violet Rose Greenfield
LO(s): none
Special status: none
Signature: Angelface font
I'll reply to this with Miguel's and Violet's information tomorrow. -
Chris and Ami by
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I had to make some decisions about which info to include for Ami, but in the end I think this makes the most sense. I also only listed the actual partners, not including their trainees, since there's no way I was cramming all those names in there. "Violet Rose Greenfield" is a lot of characters all by itself.
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YAAAAAAY! *Kermit-flailing* (nm) by
on 2015-10-06 18:54:00 UTC
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Oh, if it's not too much trouble... by
on 2015-09-30 03:03:00 UTC
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Could I please get one for Alex as well? :3
Name: Alexander Dives
Species and Continuum: Human - World One
RC: 007
Age: 15
Height: 5'3"
Eye Color: Blue
Sex: Male
Build: Lanky
Hair: Blond
Department: DoSAT
Division: N/A
HoD: Hornbeam
FicPsych Number: 5DC336C10406AD28
Blood Type: O+
Organ Donor: Yes
Partner: -
LO(s): None
Special Status: Intern
Signature: Aaron's Hand
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Alex Dives by
on 2015-10-05 02:08:00 UTC
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No trouble at all.
And, in case you didn't see this when I told Des, feel free to download and use the actual images on your agents' wiki pages. It's less fun if they just sit in my Photobucket. {= )
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*flying glomp attack* by
on 2015-10-05 17:38:00 UTC
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AAAAAAAA YOU'RE THE BEST THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!~
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Double whoops by
on 2015-10-04 06:49:00 UTC
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He's 6'3", not 5'3". >.>
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Whoops, addendum. by
on 2015-09-30 03:05:00 UTC
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He'd sign it "Alex Dives".
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Hild and Sean by
on 2015-09-28 20:47:00 UTC
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OK. Here goes.
Hild
Human - Arda
RC4
Age: 21
Height: 5ft 5in
Eye colour: Blue
Sex: Female
Build: Slim
Hair: Blonde
Department: DMS
Division: Freelance
HoD: Sunflower Official
Psych Eval number: e574d2cc145cce79
Blood Type: O
Organ Donor: No
Partner: Sean Belman
LO: Boromir
Special Status: None
Handwriting font: Anna
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Sean Bellman
Human - World One
RC4
Picture: can you crop this image?
Age: 27
Height: 6ft 3in
Eye colour: Brown
Sex: Male
Build: Muscular
Hair: Black
Department: DMS
Division: Freelance
HoD: Sunflower Official
Psych Eval number: 363f7b33924a4322
Blood Type: A-
Organ Donor: Yes
Partner: Hild
LO: None
Special Status: Under observation by FicPsych
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Hild and Sean by
on 2015-10-04 03:55:00 UTC
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Aaand that's all for tonight. More tomorrow or Monday!
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Thank you. You're amazing! (nm) by
on 2015-10-05 08:56:00 UTC
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Might as well start with my very first team! by
on 2015-09-28 04:16:00 UTC
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- Name: Falchion
- Species: Skarmory, Pokemon
- RC: 227
- Age: ~22
- Height: 5'7"
- Eyes: Navy blue
- Sex: Male
- Build: Average
- Hair: Silver (armor), Venetian red (wings)
- Department: Floaters
- Division: N/A
- HoD: Floating Hyacinth
- Psych Eval number: cf573e8a154aba7c
- Blood Type: X
- Organ Donor: No
- Partner(s): Rashida Mafdetiti, Velociripper
- LO(s): N/A
- Font: Acki Preschool (Closest I could find to my handwriting. And yes, I really do write that horribly XD.)
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- Name: Rashida Mafdetiti
- Species: Androsphinx, Undisclosed
- RC: 227
- Age: 37
- Height: 5'3"
- Eyes: Rose
- Sex: Female
- Build: Muscular
- Hair: White (albino fur/feathers)
- Department: Floaters
- Division: N/A
- HoD: Floating Hyacinth
- Psych Eval number: d0f10e8917b1a71c
- Blood Type: AB
- Organ Donor: No
- Partner(s): Falchion, Velociripper
- LO(s): N/A
- Font: Halo Handletter
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- Name: Velociripper
- Species: Deinonychus antirrhopus, Jurassic Park
- RC: 227
- Age: ~17
- Height: 6'
- Eyes: Saffron
- Sex: Male
- Build: Shrink-wrapped
- Hair: Scarlet (feathers)
- Department: Floaters
- Division: N/A
- HoD: Floating Hyacinth
- Psych Eval number: 9f4ddc3bece07c45
- Blood Type: X
- Organ Donor: Yes
- Partner(s): Falchion, Rashida Mafdetiti
- LO(s): N/A
- Font: M's Hand
- Name: Falchion
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Falchion, Rashida, Velociripper by
on 2015-10-04 03:20:00 UTC
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You and your fancy color words. {; P I honestly appreciate the use of words other than "slim" in Build, though! Lots of people are going for that one for some reason.
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Definitely interested! by
on 2015-09-28 04:15:00 UTC
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If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to get Gaspard's card done, please.
Front
-Gaspard De Grasse
-Human - World One
-RC 22
-Mugshot
-19 years old
-5' 10"
-Brown eyes
-Male
-Slim
-Black hair
-Department of Intelligence
-N/A
-Sub Rosa
Back
-7F9D18A51F479B9A
-AB+ blood
-Organ donor: yes
-No partner
-LO: none listed
-Special status: N/A
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Gaspard by
on 2015-10-04 01:29:00 UTC
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At long frigging last!
Because I hadn't realized a simple thing about my image manip program, generating the DoI patch silhouette took me about a thousand times longer than it should have. Argh. And I was determined to do a new one, because I didn't think the single upright flower on the current design would look very nice on the card. Well, anyway, it's done now, and I'll never have to do it again!
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Thank you very much! by
on 2015-10-05 14:36:00 UTC
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It looks fantastic! Thank you!
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Could I get one please? by
on 2015-09-28 00:35:00 UTC
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Front
- Antrilovorasilendar (The Notary)
- Time Lord (Gallifreyan) - Doctor Who Canonical
- RC 1875
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((AAAAAH OFFICIAL NOTARY ART AAAAAAAAH I AM FLAILING))
- 682 subjective (Fifth Regeneration)
- 6'5"
- Dark green
- Female
- Gaunt
- Black hair
- Floaters
- Division not applicable
- Floating Hyacinth
Back
- 0d004152d064b06d
- Blood Type X
- Organ Donation: Yes
- Partner: Agent Wobbles
- LOs: Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter), Tanith Low (Skulduggery Pleasant), Kristine Kochanski (Red Dwarf)
- Special Status: Official PPC Thing Ruiner Level Y-O-Y-O-Y
- Sig font (in English): Angelique ma Douce Colombe - that perfect mix of over-elaborate capitals and swift, practiced, barely legible scrawl. -
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The rest will probably have to wait until the weekend. Le sigh.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! by
on 2015-10-01 09:14:00 UTC
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*flails around the place like an electrified pool noodle*
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In the event that you can't see the art: by
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I was just about to mention that.
Also, you've given me several very long answers, and the card has very limited space. Could you please reduce the answers to the shortest, simplest possible form? Otherwise, if it doesn't fit, I gotta improvise.
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Abbreviated! by
on 2015-09-28 08:47:00 UTC
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- Antrilovorasilendar The Notary
- Time Lord - Doctor Who
- RC 1875
- 682
- 6'5"
- Dark green
- Female
- Gaunt
- Black hair
- Floaters
- None
- Floating Hyacinth
Back
- 0d004152d064b06d
- Blood Type X
- Organ Donation: Yes
- Partner: Agent Wobbles
- LOs: Minerva McGonagall, Tanith Low, Kristine Kochanski
Hopefully that's more acceptable. =]
- Antrilovorasilendar The Notary
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Thanks! by
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The Gallifreyan name might not fit at a legible font size, but I got Ilraen's on there, so I'll give it a shot and see what happens. If it looks terrible, I'll just use "The Notary," since that's how she's generally known.
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She would also accept "Oh no, not her". =] (nm) by
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In the morning, for sure. by
on 2015-09-28 01:32:00 UTC
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I'm on my phone rn, so stuff like that takes an age. Loath as I am to go to sleep, it's probably better that way. =]
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Also I really need to figure out how to resize images (nm) by
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OK so! by
on 2015-09-27 23:29:00 UTC
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I actually made one for Des for the other thread, but I deleted it for some reason.
Des
Front
-Name: Desdendelle
-Species: Human (cyborg), World DW2K
-RC: 0.4342944819
-Mugshot
-Age: 22
-Height: 6'
-Eye colour: Golden (visors)
-Sex: Male
-Build: Average
-Helmet Colour: Black
-Department: Floaters
-Division: N\A
-HoD: The Floating Hyacinth
Back
-Psych Eval Number: 46B935D9DFA625E5
-Blood Type: X
-Organ Donor: No
-Partner: The Librarian
-LO: Agent Dawn McKenna
-Signature
Navare
Front
-Name: Navare
-Species: Human (mage), Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
-RC: 3^3
-Mugshot
-Age: 32
-Height: 6'1"
-Eye colour: Brown
-Sex: Male
-Build: Lean
-Hair Colour: Teal
-Department: All-Purpose
-Division: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
-HoD: The Queen Anne's Lace
Back
-Psych Eval Number: 165BB3E83CC3E3B0
-Blood Type: AB+
-Organ Donor: Yes
-Partner: Amris
-LOs: None listed
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Des and Navare by
on 2015-09-29 21:36:00 UTC
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Another new flash patch created from scratch. This one shows the "rubber" component by means of a dotted line indicating a bounce, which of course you can barely see on the front side of the card. Woo!
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Awesome! by
on 2015-09-29 21:38:00 UTC
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Thanks a lot, Nesh!
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You're welcome! BTW... by
on 2015-09-29 21:50:00 UTC
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You guys can download the images and use them on the wiki and/or wherever you host your spin-off if you want to. I made 'em to be used. {= )
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Thanks. by
on 2015-09-29 22:31:00 UTC
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I linked to them on the agents' respective pages; since I basically have a GDerps page as a home-base for my spinoff, I don't think anything else is needed.
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I saw. by
on 2015-09-30 05:28:00 UTC
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That's what I meant: you (and Ix, and anyone else) can put the images themselves on your pages instead of just linking to them, if you want. Credit in the image description would be appreciated by me and anyone who wants to find out how to get one of their own in the future, but I'm not fussed about it.
Come to think of it, maybe I'll make an ID Card article...
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More hm. by
on 2015-09-28 01:27:00 UTC
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... So Des is stuck in a suit of armor now? Huh. I am sad for Dawn. {; P
I'm wondering about including the subclasses "cyborg" and "mage." Maybe "Magic-user" in Special Status? Dunno about cyborg. How integrated are the cyber components? For lack of better words, how important is this?
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'Mage' is a subspecies, at least in my headcanon, because Nanohaverse mages have an extra organ.
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on 2015-09-28 15:10:00 UTC
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I might just put "Mage" and "Cyborg" respectively, then. In the first case, it might even let me spell out the canon's full title. {= D
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on 2015-09-28 11:28:00 UTC
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Navare's HoD is the Foxglove Official, not the QAL. I derp.
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Uh, derp. by
on 2015-09-27 23:41:00 UTC
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Only saw the bit about 'canon LOs only' now; in this case — Des has no LOs.
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Ah, vhy the hell not. by
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- William Grey
- Warlock - The Mortal Instruments
- 42-Omega
- Here
- 149
- 6'3"
- Green
- Male
- Slim
- Red
- DMS
- N/A
- Sunflower Official
- 05C6E61B6ED29E08
- B Rh+
- No
- Venus Jones
- Nymphadora Tonks
- (Signature Font) Jack Ripper Hand
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- Venus Jones
- Human - World One
- 42-Omega
- <a href="http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/ppc/images/d/d7/VJ2.0.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150923140650">Here
- 25
- 5'7"
- Blue
- Female
- Slender
- Black
- DMS
- N/A
- Sunflower Official
- 249E50912C828F4F
- A Rh+
- Yes
- William Grey
- Leo Valdez
- (Signature Font) Julius Thyssen
- William Grey
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William and Venus by
on 2015-09-29 16:23:00 UTC
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These two came together pretty quickly. ^_^
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Eeep! :D All hail the mighty Neshomesh! (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 16:32:00 UTC
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"Warlock" is a species? by
on 2015-09-28 05:23:00 UTC
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Just checking, since being a magic-user doesn't generally make you a different species in most settings. Potterverse wizards and witches are still human, for example.
While I'm writing, do you prefer the "Omega" in the RC number to be spelled out, or would you like me to use the Greek character Ω ?
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It is, and I think just the character will be fine. (nm) by
on 2015-09-28 07:11:00 UTC
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It does in 'Cassie Clare changes the names'-verse. ;) (nm) by
on 2015-09-28 06:49:00 UTC
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Yee. by
on 2015-09-27 21:55:00 UTC
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Calpurnia Library
Human-Undisclosed
- RC 2985
- Crop from this? Despite the fact that is amazingly bad trigger discipline. We'll say it's from a shooting range in HQ or something.
- 24.
- 5'6/ 66in
- blue eyes
- Female
- Slim
- Blonde
- Department of Floaters
- Floating Hyacinth
- N/A on division.
Back
-41dcc9829b5e02d
-A pos
-Organ donor- yes
-Parter: None
-LO: N/A
Special Status: Solo Agent (Unless you can find a better way of putting it.), Interorganizational loaner
For signature, uh, something suitably fancy cursiveform but still legible. Would be signed "C. Library". -
Library by
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I messed with the color balance on the image to get it less dark. Hope it's okay.
The font I went with is Edwardian Script. It's a standard font, but it seemed appropriate. {= )
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I appreciate this greatly.
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on 2015-09-29 15:44:00 UTC
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Hm... by
on 2015-09-27 22:24:00 UTC
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I can use that image, though it'd be better if her face weren't obscured. Lemme know if you have anything else.
You meant 5'6", right? There seem to be some extra characters there.
Possibly related, there seems to be a character missing from her psych eval number. I count fifteen, and there should be sixteen.
FYI, I'm putting "Freelance" for Division (Floaters does have divisions, so it is applicable) and "None" for LOs (similar logic).
Not sure if "solo agent" needs special notation, since it's already down that she doesn't have a partner. Were you trying to get at something else?
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Knocking this out super quick, it was quite lucky I had all my art things with me (not that I leave the ship without them)
Yes, supposed to be 5'6". I was under the impression you also wanted inches?
'14 1d cc 98 29 b5 e0 2d' Recopying from the window.
Got and got.
It's special notation in the sense that she won't be being give future partners on more than a temporary basis for the other person in question, rather than just currently not having a partner. So she works by default alone, now, rather than being in between having an actual partner. -
Asking for my Agents! by
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Sergio and Nikki's are as they were before retirement, Corolla's the current one.
The weird RC number for Corolla is because, thanks to her usually being in pocket-size, she basically built a mini-house into a cabinet near her working table. (She probably got it authorized as "I don't risk getting lost and losing working time on my way between RC and DoSAT this way". She loves tinkering with stuff.)
Agent!Sergio:
- Agent name: Sergio Turbo
- Species & home continuum: Human, MDF-2006-413-QT
- RC number: 1587
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- Age: 21
- Height 5'11"
- Eye color: Brown
- Sex: Male
- Build: Slim
- Hair color: Brown
- Department: Floaters
- Division: Special Operations Division
- HoD: Bonsay Monkey Puzzle Tree
Back
- Psych Eval number: 2c839d8ca8ec7299
- Blood Type: 0
- Organ Donor: No
- Partners: Corolla, Nikki Cherryflower
- LO(s): Sakura Kinomoto
- Special Status: Order of the Mochi, GCMG; Fighter pilot license
- Signature font: Alligator sky, italics
Nikki:
- Agent name: Nikki Cherryflower
- Species & home continuum: Human, Card Captor Sakura
- RC number: 1587
- An image at least 100x130,
- Age: 17
- Height 5'7"
- Eye color: Green
- Sex: Female
- Build: Slim
- Hair color: Brown
- Department: Floaters
- Division: Special Operations Division
- HoD: Bonsay Monkey Puzzle Tree
Back
- Psych Eval number: 45d6f57ddfba43f3
- Blood Type: A
- Organ Donor: Yes
- Partner(s): Corolla, Sergio Turbo
- LO(s) None
- Special Status: None.
- Signature font: AFE Jen
Corolla:
- Agent name: Corolla
- Species & home continuum: Unison Device, Lyrical Nanoha
- RC number: Workshop 86, DoSAT
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- Age: 5
- Height: Variable
- Eye color: Blue
- Sex: Female
- Build: Average
- Hair color: Light blue
- Department: DoSAT
- Division: None
- HoD: Hornbeam
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- Psych Eval number: fbf4e29fc2ad2384
- Blood Type: X
- Organ Donor: No
- Partner(s): None
- LO(s): None
- Special Status (if any): Order of the Mochi, GCMC; Fighter pilot license
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Sergio, Nikki, Corolla by
on 2015-09-28 20:23:00 UTC
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Phew! I had to create a bunch of new flash patch silhouettes and stuff for these. Also, there was just no way to fit anything but "Nanohaverse" next to "Unison Device." Sigh.
Hope everything's okay otherwise!
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Thank you! by
on 2015-09-29 17:28:00 UTC
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They're perfect.
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You're welcome! (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 19:04:00 UTC
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Question by
on 2015-09-27 22:45:00 UTC
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Would you explain Sergio's continuum? The format looks like one of Tawaki's CICs, but since I'm not using those across the board, I hesitate to deviate that way here. If it's an original universe that doesn't have a name yet, I'd just put "Original fiction" like I did for Jenni.
The images are fine. {= )
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It's... complicated. by
on 2015-09-28 09:13:00 UTC
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It was originally a massive crossover, but at some point I and the other writers started removing canon characters and stuff (the main characters, both good and evil, were all OCs so the story could very well work as an original. In fact, it probably woul'dve been much better as one)... however, we lost interest in writing it before the "transition" from crossover-with-OCs to original was fully done.
So the only way I came up with identifying it was the CIC I made up for plot reasons in Blank Sprite.
If you prefer, you can use the story's name - Mai Dire Fine - but can you make it look like it has been heavily scratched? Agent!Sergio isn't quite proud about being from there, and would've surely have "accidentally" damaged the ID card just there... -
I can do that. by
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I'll enjoy figuring out how to make the scratches look realistic. ^_^
Thanks!
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P.S. I hope the images are good. by
on 2015-09-27 21:42:00 UTC
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Had these already lying around, though i don't remember why I made thme.
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PPS Forgot some bits. by
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Blood types are 0- and A+
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Eeeeeeeee! by
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I added links to my agents' cards to their profile pages.
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Count me in! by
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Valon Vance
Species: Human, World One
RC: 211
Age: 22
Height: 6'6"
Eyes: Blue
Sex: Male
Build:SkeletalSlim
Hair: Brown
Department: Floaters
Division: N/A
HoD: The Floating Hyacinth
Psych Eval: 2194E829B76B15AA
Blood type: O+
Organ Donor: No
Partner(s): Kala Jeng
LO(s): Kala Jeng, Jinx, Rin Tezuka
Special status: N/A
Signature font: #1 Ichiro (reads as VVan)
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Kala Jeng
Species: Girtablilu, Monster Musume
RC: 211
Age: 21
Height: 4'7" (legs to head)
Eyes: Black
Sex: Female
Build: Stocky
Hair: Blonde
Department: Floaters
Division: N/A
HoD: The Floating Hyacinth
Psych Eval: ED575DCF14FA1850
Blood type: X
Organ donor: No
Partner(s): Valon Vance
LO(s): Valon Vance, Kimihito Kurusu
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Valon and Kala by
on 2015-09-28 01:55:00 UTC
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Let me know if there's anything wrong.
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*too high-pitched to hear* by
on 2015-09-28 02:01:00 UTC
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*nearby dogs and bats are complaining, though*
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^ .^ (nm) by
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LO clarification. by
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The Flowers don't particularly care if you're attracted to other agents, so I'm only including canon character LOs. {= )
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Ah. Fair enough. (nm) by
on 2015-09-27 22:19:00 UTC
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I have some stuff about Emergencies... by
on 2015-09-27 21:45:00 UTC
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So, considering that I wasn't here for the Emergencies, I may not be the best person to say this (But I will anyway, because it's important.) But has anyone every written a non-canon Emergency-substitute? Like, a non-canon zombie apocalypse, or something? I feel that the PPC canon is a little stagnant, and that by writing non-canon stuff like this, we would get the best of all worlds (A good status quo, and an evolving canon... as little sense as that makes.) I feel that, based on my research, the Emergencies were a good theory, but were not put into practice in a good way. Because it's not canon, you wouldn't need to drag everyone else into your story, just get permission to use stuff in the non-canon spin-off.
Because, I mean, drama can be just as entertaining as comedy, and you can even use these things for comedy. I also think I am terrible at getting my point across, so if anyone decides to ask further, I would appreciate that. Also, please don't lynch me for posting this. Thanks. -
I have an Important Message!! by
on 2015-09-28 09:25:00 UTC
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Over the past year I have received MANY messages saying that 'your Catastrophe Theory is wrong, it's been proven wrong, it's three years after your proposed 'DOOM', there are no more Emergencies in HQ'.
Well, I beg to differ.
FIRST: Catastrophe Theory is not 'mine'; it is a proven FACT. Look up the SCIENTIFIC meaning of the word 'theory' sometime.
SECOND: There are, too, emergencies. Does no-one remember HQ nearly being eaten by meatloaf? Does no-one have a problem with the fact that I just spent a week trapped in the body of an animate slime mould - or that a few years ago I got turned into a GIRL? Did no-one notice that little WAR we just got into? All of these things and more impacted the work of the PPC as much as or more than the invasions of Mary-Sues.
THIRD: You ARE correct that there are some minor mistakes in my previous graph. The date of DOOM is not, in fact, 2012 HST.
It was 2002.
It already happened.
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REPENT! by
on 2015-09-29 15:47:00 UTC
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You can repent slightly less than everyone else, Sambar. You know things about stuff and are trying to get the word out!
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Aw, but I repainted everything last time you came over! (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 16:17:00 UTC
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You did? by
on 2015-09-29 17:32:00 UTC
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Well...keep up the good work...I guess? I don't really know anything about paint,. Have you tried crayons?
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Wait...what? by
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What war? How does you getting turned into a girl or a living slime creature count as an emergency? (I'm sorry those happened, of course, but...) How could your "date of doom" have possibly been 2002 when like half the agents around here joined after that date, including me, my partners, Falchion and company, Rina and her partners, that Desdendelle guy I keep hearing about, and Printworthy (among many others)?
And besides that, we've killed five legendary badfics just this year. FIVE. I don't think that's a sign of doom.
Last of all, since you asked: A scientific theory is a hypothesis with enough evidence to support it. It is not a fact; it's the scientists' explanation and interpretation of the facts. (Source here.) Therefore, your Catastrophe Theory is not a fact, and it's socially acceptable for me to say that I don't believe it. Which I don't. >:) -
Yeah, sure. by
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I'll believe it when you guys approve our budget and expenditures before they're massively late.
How you guys pretend to do anything involving finances is a mystery.
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Are you aware that capital letters do not constitute proof? (nm) by
on 2015-09-28 10:35:00 UTC
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Uh, hellooo? Did you not see the bold?!? (nm) by
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I was endeavouring to ignore it. (nm) by
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Re: Important Message by
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So, the run of catastrophes started just a couple of years after the Reorganisation, barely giving just enough time for the new-style PPC to come into effect.
Interesting. So are you saying that the only way to prevent them is to bring back the DIS to take a firm control of things? If so, I'm right behind you. Whatever it takes. There's just no way I'm gonna be a hydra again!
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Interesting. by
on 2015-09-28 14:40:00 UTC
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Thank you for sharing this with us, Bellman. I'm sure there are a lot of people in HQ that would be very interested to know that a DIS sympathizer lies in their ranks. Yes, this information should sell quite well...
Have agoodday.
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Nnnnope, no thanks. by
on 2015-09-28 11:21:00 UTC
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I'd rather risk my life — that's what I'm doing anyway, in case you've forgotten — than live in a police... well, not state, HQ isn't a state, but you get what I mean.
I shudder to think what would have happened to Rina or Anebrin were the DIS in control. I shudder to think what would have happened to me after TSAB DOWNFALL if the DIS were in control three years ago.
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hS's commentary. by
on 2015-09-28 09:33:00 UTC
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(Yes, he's one of mine.)
There was no such thing as an 'Emergency' before they were clamped down on. In fact, unless someone remembers differently, the only 'Emergencies' that got anyone upset were Tawaki's Macrovirus epidemic, and the Mary-Sue Invasion that followed immediately on its heels. The 'moratorium' was never intended to be permanent - it was a temporary thing to stop people trying to do more 'I can top that' things.
The definition Sambar is using is 'incident which seriously impacted the performance of the PPC or any individual department' (the latter is just there to catch Jay and Acy's 'Tangled Webs' mention). Yes, yes, July's body-swap RP is 'strictly voluntary' - but it still clearly hit most people, and it impacts the ones it didn't, by taking out Intelligence, FicPsych, the Board of Flowers... That same (lack of) difference applies to the Blackout (which was in exactly the same mold as the Invasion in '08) and, well, most things.
Yes, you can argue some of them away - but that's true of the ones before '08, too. There are also other things you could arguably add - Morgan's little meltdown, the Robecca(?) and Alumia exorcisms, and I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I've forgotten about.
(Oh, and what happened in '02? Er... Jay and Acacia did! ^_~)
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Funny how when you observe a story things happen, eh? by
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But yeah. The moratorium had to do with people getting burnt out on everything turning into massive drama, like people has to go out of their way to be even More Dramatic and PPC-Changing.
The bodyswap definitely had potential to go that way which is why I checked for interest, emphasized it being for fun and crack and asked people to not get dark with it.
Of course it isn't perfect, but it helps.
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Yes. by
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The Sundering
The Wrong Trousers
Triple Prime
Catastrophe Theory
Continuity: Gallifrey Imminent
And I'm sure there are more.
I don't feel up to discussing the background on the so-called 'Emergencies' right now.
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Actually this has been discussed before by
on 2015-09-27 21:50:00 UTC
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See this discussion.
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Huh. Seems what I proposed might actually work. by
on 2015-09-28 02:23:00 UTC
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And, I think I participated in that discussion. This might be what finally makes me not lazy enough to ask for permission.
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I'm going to take a bit of a vacation. by
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Just so everyone knows, I'm not leaving (temporarily) out of anger or resentment: quite the opposite! Y'all are too darn interesting. I find myself thinking about the PPC a little too often, especially when I'm trying to focus on other things. I think a little time away will do the trick.
Here is my exit music, and I also leave you all with a riddle.
The wise and knowledgeable man is sure of it.
Even the fool knows it.
The rich man wants it.
The greatest of heroes fears it.
Yet the lowliest of cowards would die for it.
What is this upon which I ponder?
Oh, also, I will not be gone from Gmail, so to anyone with whom I chat: I'm still here!
See you guys in a few weeks!
-Alleb -
Riddler! Here are some questions for you: by
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How do you catch an answer?
What does the wise man always know?
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Amusing thing! by
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The first thing I saw was a page comprised of almost nothing but the word "spoilers" in various states of capslockery :p idk, gave me a chuckle.
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Whoops, premature post-- by
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Have a good vacation!!!!
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What word is the same when you remove its begining, middle, and end?
Good luck with this one. -
A mere bagatelle. by
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SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERSSPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
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its veins are harvested for its riches.
Yet it never dies.
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As so often occurs in puzzles, you find yourself shipwrecked on an island. The population of this island can be partitioned into two groups: knights and knaves. Knights answer all questions truthfully; knaves always lie. While wandering, you come upon a building with two doors, each guarded by one native islander. You know that one of the doors leads to a pile of treasure, and the other leads to a hungry, man-eating lion. You may ask a single yes/no question to one of the guards. Then you must select a door, and meet your fortune/death.
Challenge: If you know nothing about the distribution of the two islanders (maybe two knights, maybe two knaves, maybe one of each), what question do you ask?
Hard challenge: The island also contains some residents who reply at random. You happen upon three islanders, and know that there is one of each type (Knave, Knight, Random). You may ask three yes/no questions. (Each question can be addressed to only one of the islanders.) What do you ask in order to determine their identities?
I turn polar bears white
And I will make you cry.
I make guys have to urinate
And girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
And normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
And make your champagne bubble.
If you squeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
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Why am I asking questions? by
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The fact that I'm still wandering this island (rather than visiting the harbour and getting a ship home) indicates that this isn't a sci-fi setting or anything else with decent construction standards. So I climb up onto the roof of the building and peel back some of the thatch, or pull off a couple of tiles, or whatever, to see what's inside each section.
Then, since the knights are clearly a bunch of sadists (they let the knaves wander around lying about everything, rather than instituting some kind of legal system), I pop the 'lion' door from above and let it eat them.
Then I leave. I don't take the treasure. I'm trapped on an island, what am I going to do with treasure?
To while away the time until a ship passes, I write up a treatise on the bizarre social system which has led to lying being acceptable to the population of the island, to some people literally never lying, and to huts with lions and treasure in them being 'guarded' by people who will happily let you be eaten by lions.
Because seriously.
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However by
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After you leave the building, how are you planning to avoid being eaten by the lion? Since fighting it would defeat the point of your solution and the whole puzzle, and hiding in the building would likely delay rescue and be inconvenient to survival.
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[Shrugs] It's just eaten two guards. by
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I figure that's enough to put it to sleep. If not, since I'm on the roof I can sneak out the other side of the building.
The main problem is going to be that the lion is now loose on the island. That's going to make it tricky for Phobos to figure out how many fingers anyone is holding up - he's going to have to watch out for the lion.
Though the fact that they managed to lock the lion away in the first place... are we sure it's a lion and not a Pokemon or something?
Or maybe there's a lion tamer somewhere. With a hat. That says 'lion tamer' in neon letters when you push a button.
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You forget... by
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I am not trapped on an island with a deadly lion. No, it is trapped on an island with me. Poor thing doesn't know what it's in for.
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No... by
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...I am going to ask it complicated yes/no questions (totally different from convoluted, you know) that are still totally within the rules of this ridiculous island because only by guaranteeing that the lion is lying to me can I begin to find truth in the world.
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The line between genius and mad is a thin one. :) (nm) by
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Because it is a Glaurunging logic puzzle? by
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You can just brute force your way through a logic puzzle. That is like, as you noted in the Mecha thread above, an agent just brute forcing their way throught a Sue instead of just being clever and resourceful despite being stuck in a ridiculous situation. Something exactly like the situation created by this puzzle.
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Who brute-forced it? by
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I didn't attack the guards, I didn't smash the building. I carefully worked around the presumed restrictions placed by you.
If your only solution to killing a mech-using Sue is to destroy the mech with her in it, it doesn't matter how clever you are about doing it - you're still being narrow-minded.
Portal her out of the mech. Peek in through the thatch. Start a people's revolution to provide apples for all. Don't let them dictate what you're 'supposed' to do.
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But with a logic puzzle, just about the only way to go is to "let them dictated what you're 'supposed' to do" and find a way to solve within those rules. Otherwise, it isn't
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The problem(?) is goals. by
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Let's take an example from last time we did this. There was a puzzle wherein you were stuck in a room where the door was only unlocked for one minute every hour, trying to turn the handle any other time would electrocute you, and all you had was a match and a rope that takes two hours to burn. Something along those lines.
The logic puzzle is 'how can you use a 2-hour rope to measure 1 hour?'. In that situation, there's not very many solutions (though it occurs to me that you might be able to make a pendulum...). But:
That wasn't the goal we were given. The goal was 'escape with only these things'. Following the unspoken rules (you must escape by timing one hour) is... silly.
You, the puzzle creator, get to set the stage. You say what the building is like. You say what the guards will or won't do. You say how many questions we're allowed to ask. And a solution like 'I repeatedly ask the guards the same question until they crack and answer it anyway' would go against the spirit of the puzzle, absolutely.
But doing something that the puzzler didn't account for? That's fair game, as far as I'm concerned.
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Since this is supposed to be a practical thread, not just a theory one: here, have a puzzle.
You are on a classic desert island - a small 'hill' of sand surrounded entirely by deep water, clear out to the horizon. A single coconut palm grows on the island. You have nothing else except the clothes you were wearing when you came there. There is no ship in sight (nor the wreckage of one), but you know that ships can appear briefly on the horizon at irregular intervals.
Escape.
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Can you tell me if there any coconuts growing on the palm tree?
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I'll be generous and say yes. (nm) by
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All right, here goes. by
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Step 0: retrieve arms from chest.
Step 1: Retrieve coconuts from tree.
Step 2: Break open coconuts. Somehow.
Step 3: Eat their flesh and use the shells to fashion tools.
Step 4: Devise a complicated mechanism to desalinate water using coconut shells.
Step 5: Survive long enough to grow your hair long. Drink water and eat fish.
Step 6: Make ropes out of hair.
Step 7: Go looking for turtles.
Step 8: Using hair-harnesses, domesticate turtles.
Step 9: Make boat out of palm tree.
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...but how about this?
Step 1: Punch tree for wood (plant any saplings you find to ensure tree farm)
Step 2: Craft crafting table
Step 3: Craft shovel and pick
Step 4: Channel your inner Dwarf and diggy diggy hole
Step 5: Stone and coal
Step 6: Iron
Step 7: Diamonds
Step 8: Get lost in massive branching cave system
Step 9: Give up and dig a new exit, discovering that you are back on the mainland
Step 10: Have no idea how to get back to your island to retrieve your chests full of stuff
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Well then. by
on 2015-10-01 21:34:00 UTC
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I now have a mighty need to go and start a new Minecraft world.
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Would you like some ideas about this? by
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Because I know some Youtubers who showed you can have great fun with an island. (They're French, but Minecraft is universal).
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C'est pas grave, je parle français couramment. by
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Merci pour le lien! Ch'uis plus habitué à entendre l'accent québécois lorsqu'on parle français mais bon: ça fera changement.
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Hmmm... by
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Climb up on the tree, grab a full-grown coconut and a palm tree leaf, rip out the green parts of the leaf, keep the inner part as a spear, jump out onto the ocean, hold onto to the coconut (and hope this does not cause you to drown and die), use the spear to fish and thus obtain food and fresh water, and wait out until a ship appears?
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Oh gods where did my signoff go? [Flails] ~hS (nm) by
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Go not to the Elves with logic puzzles (nm) by
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I'm starting to get the feeling... by
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... that everyone would rather I shut up and stayed out of this thread.
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They give me a reason to wake up in the morning by
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Well that and the fact I would be dragged out by my ear if I didn't but still.
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I actually find your answers amusing. by
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Same here. by
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They are just not in the realm of possible and correct solutions, that's all.
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Seconded. by
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Besides, once you know the right way, these challenges become really easy. ;)
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First challenge is rather simple. by
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"If I asked the other guard the question, which would they pick?"
The hard challenge is, of course, solved by having thought to bring a loaded quad-barrelled elephant gun in one's hand luggage. =] -
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May I remind that you are limited to 'simple yes/no questions'?
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For the first challenge, pick a guard and ask "Would the other guard say your door leads to treasure?" If the answer is yes, pick the other door. If the answer is no, pick the door you asked about door.
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Really? by
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This is a solution if there is one knave and one knight and each knows who the other is.
But didn’t the challenge include that there may be two knights or two knaves?
(I don’t have a solution for this).
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Ask a guard, "If the other guard is the opposite of you, which door would he choose?" and then take the other door. -
That was me. (nm) by
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How does that work if they are not opposites? (nm) by
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Because you ask "If the other guard was the opposite..." by
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You're forcing the guard to answer as if they're opposites, so it doesn't make any difference whether they really are or not.
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Ah, yes. You're correct indeed. :) (nm) by
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Actually, wait... by
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The logic behind the question is correct, but the actual question is not.
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Supposed the other guard were the opposite of you (and male :-), would he say that this door leads to the treasure?
CASE answer:
WHEN "no" THEN take this door
WHEN "yes" THEN take the other door
END-CASE.
Thanks to Phobos and Pippa’s Ghost for doing most of the work.
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That's better. You're correct. :D (nm) by
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You are absolutely right. by
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Somehow I missed that in my initial reading. So, I will need to re-examine the question and come up with a better solution.
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You know what, he is indeed right. by
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Don't know how I, who proposed the challenge, missed that one either. I sort of had doubts of this exact nature. So I goofed up too. Sorry.
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My thinking and hard challenge answer by
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Well, it occurs to me that you need two pieces of information. 1) Which guard is the Knave/Knight 2) Which door has the treasure.
Asking either guard which door has the treasure is not going to do it. What if that guard is the Knave? You die. Wouldn't want that to happen. So, the only way to ensure that you know the truth is to guarantee that you are being lied to.
Asking Guard 1 what guard 2 would say works because if Guard 1 is the Knave then he will lie about the Knight's response (which would have been a truthful answer. Likewise, if Guard 1 is the Knight, he will tell you the truth about Guard 2's response (which would have been a lie). Either way, you are being lied to, making the actual identities of the guards irrelevant. That being the case, take the door they say is certain death.
The hard challenge is much more interesting. Now you only need one set of information, but the sources of said information are less reliable.
So, let's try talking it through. Label the islanders A, B, and C for simplicity (we'll need as much of that as we can get).
Question 1:
Ask A, "Would B say he is certain he could predict C's answer, if B knew what I was going to ask C?" Complicated, but a Yes/No question none the less.
What does A answer? If Yes, then you are either talking to the Random and B could be either of the others or you are talking to the Knave/Knight and B is the other non-Random. We really don't know a whole lot here, just that B is not Random. Worst case scenario. We'll come back to this in a moment.
If No, then you are talking to the Random. Neither Knight nor Knave will ever answer this question with a No. Proceed to ask B "Would C say you are the Knave?" This guarantees you are being lied to, just like the first challenge. Just switch the answers and use your last question to find out if there's a nice place to get a drink nearby.
If anything else, you are talking to either the Knave/Knight and B is the Random. Neither the Knight nor the Knave can answer this question with a yes or no, because they don't know if they would be lying or telling the truth. In that case, guarantee you are being lied to and go enjoy that drink.
Worst case scenario Question 2: We know B is non-Random in this scenario, so who better to ask? Let's try that same trick again. "Would A say he is certain he could predict C's answer, if A knew what I was going to ask C?"
What does B answer? If yes, then both A and B are non-Random. Use your last question to guarantee you are being lied to.
If no, then you did something very wrong. This should not be a possible answer.
If anything else, then A is the Random. Ask B about C for the Phobos Guarantee and go home.
Convoluted? You bet. Effective, though.
As for the third riddle, word play is less my thing. I prefer the logic puzzles. I might take a look at it later, though.
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Very impressed with this solution. It seems you are really good with these logic puzzles. In that case, let's try this one for good measure:
You are on an island populated by knights and knaves. Knights always tell the truth; knaves always lie. You meet a inhabitant of the island who you know is holding up either 1, 2, or 3 fingers behind his back. You don’t know if this inhabitant is a knight or a knave. By asking two yes-or-no questions, determine how many fingers the inhabitant has behind his back. -
I'll think this over on the train tonight. (nm) by
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Oh! A game of riddles, is it? by
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Oh, but this one is so boringly simple! The answer, is Nothing. The sheer number of "nothing" riddles is astonishing.
Shall we play another game of riddles, PPC? I think we shall. I'll start you off simple.
I roll, but I am not round.
I roar, but I have no mouth.
I crack, but I am not fragile.
I have a deadly companion, yet I am feared more than he.
He strikes, but has no hands.
He always arrives before I do.
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Hope that's enough.
Anyway, the answer is Thunder and Lightning.
... If we're doing this again, I don't suppose Hal Jordan is around, is he? We had such a nice moment the last time. ○^_^○
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You are Thunder and your companion is Lightning.
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Oh, you want a challenge, do you? Well then. I can oblige. But not quite yet. Another, simpler one. Though more difficult then the last.
There is a story that a man and not a man
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You'll have to let me know if it's any good or not. {= )
I swim in the sea. I am an eater, though I do not hunger. Too few of me, and the sea will die; too many of me, and the sea will die. Who am I?
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... is 'an oxygen atom'. Dissolved oxygen is present in the sea, is the ultimate 'eater' (in that most forms of destruction come back to 'combining with oxygen'), will kill the sea by either too little (suffocating the critters) or too much (oxygen toxicity, away!).
But this answer is obviously wrong,since I'm saying itsince you said (later) 'animal'.
hS
PS: Spoiler attempt in white goes here: You are a white blood cell. Or a platelet, even. Or a red blood cell; frankly, any component of blood fits the description. But I'm going with white. That was longer than I expected. ~hS -
My try to this problem... by
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Could it be salt ? I mean, it corrodes things, without salt no sea, and too much salt... Well, they call the Dead Sea this way for a reason. -
Nope! See my reply to Fasoula. (nm) by
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Could it be plankton ? The first step of the food chains in the ocean, and I guess an excess of them could hurt with an excess of carbon released in one zone of the ocean. -
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Zooplankton are animals, but they eat 'cause they need calories like any hungry thing.
The designation "animal"might beis slightly misleading. Here's a proper hint (highlight to read): what "sea" am I really talking about? {= )
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Must admit I saw Huinesoron's take on the answer, and in my opinion it fits. White blood cell "eat" the bacteria, but are not complex enough for hunger, they are organisms, the lack of them... well AIDS is a glaring example, and an excess of them, for example after a transplant will kill the patient.
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Phew. I was starting to worry my logic was too twisted, or the answer was too obscure. ^_^; I figured this group would get there eventually, though. What do you think, is it good enough to share around?
Also, here's another one, with a false rhyme, even:
First I was a stranger, then I was a brother.
Now I am an outcast, but secretly a lover.
Who am I?
Hint in white text: Inspired by recent science news that was shared on the Board. End hint.
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Could it be Pluto? An unknown planet for a very long time, who was then banished from this little club several years ago ? -
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"I eat, though I do not hunger" suggests to me this is not some sort of aquatic animal. I think I'll take that a step further and say it isn't an organism of any sort.
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perhaps thinking a little too hard. {= ) The answer to "animal, vegetable, or mineral?" would certainly have to be animal.
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Iiiiiiiiiiinteresting. by
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Hm. My first thought was something along the lines of blue-green algae, but that might be taking it too literally.
Also, while you're here - I hope you're feeling better and that the dragon RP might get going again. I mean, ngl, it was all just so cute. Just wall-to-wall cute. =] -
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I am, thanks, and I might! I'd convinced myself it was too late (having previously worked myself into a real state over how badly I'd screwed it all up and maybe shouldn't even have started it to begin with, but I'm better now)—but if y'all want to, it would be nice to wrap it up and put a bow on top. {= )
Re. the riddle, yep, that's a tad too literal. I am heartened that it wasn't instantly transparent and super-easy for you. {= )
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Precisely how you think you screwed it up, considering it was so fluffy and cute and heartwarming that even the bloody NOTARY got a sweet moment or two. Whatever you decide, though, I enjoyed the RP immensely and feel privileged to have been part of it. =]
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I'll e-mail the details. I'd actually really like to talk about it, but I don't wanna dump my neuroses on this fun riddle thread. {= )
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I am always willing to talk things out. by
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You may find me at... well, actually, I think you've got my email address. You certainly betaed my first mission, so maybe it's still lurking. If you can't find it, it is harry heath 99 at that email service where the mail is hot.
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Thanks. {= ) (nm) by
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Yes, yes, Plato is Plato, so far so Eurocentric by
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My son is crying in the woods, I can't see him, only hear him.
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Ah. One familiar with african riddles! by
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I do admit, I am rusty on these style riddles. So different are they from many European formats I am so used to.
This one is a classic. To assist our fellow westerners, I shall say this: This is not so much a logic puzzle, as a metaphor.
The answer to this one is:
The wind.
I shall respond in turn:
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The first person is a woman, an expectant mother to be exact. The second person is the child the mother carries on her back. And the third person is the mother's unborn child.
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If the wind is your son, then that makes you some sort of supernatural being like a god or goddess. You should be able to use your supernatural powers to see the wind.
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Things are often described as family members. Another example would be:
I have many children who run after each other, but never overtake each other.
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...so that metaphor makes sense.
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Anyone can rustle leaves, hear it, but not see the rustle. by
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So why does it have to be the wind?
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Try this riddle then, and see if you can make sense of it:
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Hmm. It seems we meet again. by
on 2015-09-29 00:26:00 UTC
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A pineapple perhaps?
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on 2015-09-28 12:19:00 UTC
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These African riddles vexed me at first. The answers made absolutely no logical sense, at least by any logic with which I am familiar, but I think I have figured out the way I need to think to solve them.
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Hm... by
on 2015-09-28 14:02:00 UTC
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Then I will stay the plant course. If it is not a rosebud, then perhaps a cactus?
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You're actually moving further away. by
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Rosebud is definitely closer to the answer than cactus.
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It would amuse me... by
on 2015-09-28 16:32:00 UTC
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If the answer were an acacia flower. {= ) They're yellow like an egg, aren't they? Or, well, can be. There's like a million varieties of them.
Alternatively, the egg (read: white round thing) is the moon and the thorns (read: tiny points) are stars?
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Nice ideas, though. =]
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Oh, boo. by
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At least I was on the right track.
The phrasing of that one is a bit misleading, though, isn't it? The hen laid an egg on thorns, not covered in thorns. -
It could be any "Good News/Bad News" situation. (nm) by
on 2015-09-28 10:48:00 UTC
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Oh, how fun to watch your mind unravel! by
on 2015-09-28 10:55:00 UTC
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A little hint, before the reveal: this is a descriptive riddle.
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Descriptive? The sunl. by
on 2015-09-28 11:01:00 UTC
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Or, rather, a sun symbol: a circle surrounded by pointy rays.
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*sunlight (nm) by
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For a second, I thought you were the elf. by
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Then I realized, that was an actual logical deduction, rather then narrative trickery. However, despite heading in the right direction, you are nowhere near the answer.
You are on the right path of logic though. I will give you one more guess, before I (or Scapegrace, she has my permission) reveal the answer. -
A coronet by
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The head wearing it is the egg, and the pointy metal bits are the thorns. (OTOH I'm not sure what the hen is, so it's probably wrong.)
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A hint, if you want it. by
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There is no hen. The hen doesn't matter; it's just a vehicle for creating the image of an egg within thorns. Same way the "son" doesn't matter in the other one; it's just a way of setting up the metaphor of the wind "crying" in the trees.
I think figuring out which bit of the setup to disregard in these African riddles is analogous to figuring out where the pun is in a lot of Western riddles.
~Neshomeh - Click the link below to see if you're right! by on 2015-09-28 11:13:00 UTC Link to this
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Your hen appears to be an idiot. (nm) by
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The hen, like the cake, is a lie (nm) by
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Ooooh, I love that one. =] by
on 2015-09-28 10:40:00 UTC
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Then again, it's an intrinsically funny word for me. =]
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We read the same journals, it seems. by
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The first is a pregnant woman, who searches for a safe place. The second is her child, who she carries on her back. The third is her unborn child.
Have one from the Yoruba tradition:
Ancient ditch of my father
Ancient ditch of my father
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I never did answer your riddle, did I? by
on 2015-09-28 11:33:00 UTC
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How rude of me. I was puzzled for a while though. The "Ancient ditch of my father" threw me off. However, once I came back to my senses, the answer was simple.
Oh, yes, a solution warning for those who wish to solve the riddle for themselves. This should be sufficient.
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Bravo! =] by
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A couple more for you:
"My short grandfather overthrew my tall grandfather"
(Fulani)
"A lake that has reeds all around"
(Luo)
And finally, another more metaphorical one:
The great packer of loads, king among divinities
He packs two hundred yams with a groundnut shell
He sends people to tell those in his house
That he is just learning how to pack loads
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Short grandfather/tall grandfather:
An ant toppling a plant.
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You're halfway there on the first one. by
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And I think you're on the right lines with the other. =]
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... is 'a gerbil'.
It's a metaphor.
Well, three metaphors.
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What's the Sindarin for "u mad, bro?" =] (nm) by
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Gerich ruith, haun? (nm) by
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I think I found the second one. by
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Give the man a small cigar! =] (nm) by
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The riddle said "The second one...does not cross" by
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If the child crosses on the mother's back, that's still crossing it!
No wonder African riddles never caught on over here if they're all like this! -
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But, if you're looking literally, the child does not cross by himself. His mother does the crossinng, but he's only carried on her back, he does nothing (African riddles are like demons and Faes it seems, the letter supercedes the spirit.)
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Ah, but did it willingly, actively cross the river... by
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...or find itself carried over it?
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You never said anything about "willingly, actively". by
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Sorry, but I seem to prefer the Western tradition of riddles that actually make sense.
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If we're talking about metaphors... by
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The one who sees but does not cross is a tree.
The one who crosses the ford is it shadow.
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A clever answer indeed. by
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One that would grant many smiles. And, yet, not the answer I seek.
Read further only if you need a hint:
Think along the lines of the Riddle of the Sphinx -
A great clue... by
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Once I saw Scape's answer and I did the comparaison (I really should stop refreshing the page during this sort of game ^^).
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A wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. by
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(The wolf, of course, can swim.)
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Hmm... by
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It it because you're blind ?
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Alas, that would be too simple. =] (nm) by
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I think I finally understood. by
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I can only hear the wind going through the leafs. I can't see him because he's dead. -
... that's because there's trees in the way, Scape. (nm) by
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I should perhaps mention: by
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It's much rarer for African riddles to be phrased as a question; generally, they're a bit more of a gnomic utterance kinda deal. The one I posted is a traditional Swahili riddle. =]
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Try again. (nm) by
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Your son is the Invisible Man. (nm) by
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No. ^_^ by
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There are trees in the way. Your son is in the woods; you aren't. You need to go in to be able to see him. That's why we call it 'looking for' someone, see?
Or don't see, if you're still hanging around outside the forest.
(You do remember MacGyver hS, right? I'm gonna be here breaking all your (plural) riddles until it's time to leave. >:D)
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This state is implied in the riddle itself. by
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"My son is crying in the woods, I cannot see him, only hear him". At no point is it implied that I am not in the woods; merely that my son cannot be seen.
I write the Notary, I think I can out-Rules Lawyer a bloke whose primary characteristic was getting locked in sheds full of things he needed to get out. =] -
Incorrect. by
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It is only implied that you cannot see him. The most logical solution to that is that you are looking in the wrong place.
But if you want illogical solutions:
You are an alien from Tau Ceti d, with 27 eyes atop each of your 9 legs. While escorting your son-cousin (so designated due to him only having seven legs, each of course with 19 eyes) to a garden party (the plants in Cetian gardens throw the best parties), you dropped him over a waterfall. The predatory trees in the pool at the bottom devoured three of his legs, and you had to sacrifice all of your eyes to regrow them. To disguise his shame, he has donned a robe of woven branches, and now circles your head weeping his acidic tears in an effort to prompt your amputated eyes to regrow.
He is crying. He is, idiomatically, 'in the woods' out of shame. You cannot see (him or anything else). You cannot feel his tears (obviously, because your legs have no nerve endings). You can only hear him on your tympanic membranes.
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Hey, remember what I said about African riddles? by
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And how they're not generally phrased as questions?
You're taking this waaaay too literally. -
Is your son standing behind you? (nm) by
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Please point to where my answer is incorrect. (nm) by
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It's correct in a literal sense. It's also wrong. =] by
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African riddles of this nature are more metaphors than the word games common in Western riddles. Compare and contrast the mu-koan, though traditional African riddles are generally less abstruse; they are, after all, part of an oral history tradition, not an exercise in self-contemplation.
As our question mark-wearing friend further up the thread put it, the answer is "the wind". The son is not there and I am not looking for him; all I am hearing is the cry of the wind between the branches. -
No, no, no. by
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You don't get to make a vague statement and then say the interpretation of it is wrong. Otherwise this counts as a riddle:
~I am blue. What am I?~
The only correct answer I will accept is 'the lid of a jar of Morrisons peanut butter'. All your other answers are wrong, because I say so.
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Well, yeah, because that'd still be wrong. by
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The crunchy peanut butter has a red top. =]
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And the wind doesn't rustle leaves in winter. (nm) by
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The branches move, though. by
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((Gosh, is doing stuff like this deliberately always this fun? =]))
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But then you'd see it. (nm) by
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Do not bother arguing with this one. by
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For he is tricky, and throws all forms of allegory and tangential logic streams into a rational, reasonable riddle, and ruins the entire exercise. One of these days, I will have to put him against some of my greater riddles in person. See how his fruit rebellion fares then...
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Do not go to the Elves for counsel... =] (nm) by
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Was it (and was it not) "perched and not perched" then? by
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This one is a bit tougher, but I think I've sorted it out (many thanks to my Skype friend for inadvertently planting the seed of this solution.)
There is not one, but two stories, one of a man and one of "not a man", which could instead be a child or a woman.
These two stories would go as follows:
There is a story that a man
Saw a bird
Perched on a branch
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An interesting attempt... by
on 2015-09-28 04:44:00 UTC
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...that did not pay off. No, this is, indeed, the same story. Think on it some more.
((If you just cannot beat it and give up, look at the my response to Iximaz. I believe in you, though!)) -
I was feeling so clever for sorting that out too. by
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Unfortunately, I've gone and ruined it for myself already. Curse my wandering eyes.
I don't think I'd have figured that out any time soon. My mind was on the completely wrong track, assuming that all factors of the story had to be empirically true. I suppose that's a drawback of literal thinking. -
Such a shame. by
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Still, if you are of a literal mind, perhaps you will enjoy my mathematics based riddles! However, now is not the time. We must play the game proper, no? Let us give more people a chance to answer first.
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You again? by
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Well, we'll see how long you stay around once the Justice League shows up. Hal Jordan had better watch himself, though.
Anyway, until they show up, I might as well match wits with you. So let me tell you a story.
A man was looking at his reflection in a lake. He saw the reflection of a bird on the reflection of a branch. He decided to throw a rock (and thus the reflection of said rock) which hit the bird's reflection in the lake.
Am I getting close?
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I'm just playing some games! by
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Surely, they will see some reason!
You are actually nowhere near the answer. I do have to say, very clever. But no, not at all what I am looking for. -
Hmm... by
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A crossdresser with bad eyesight saw a bat on a twig and threw something that looked like a rock at it, but missed?
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Amazingly close. Not there yet, though. But very near to it.
((For those who do want to solve it legitimately, do not read any farther. This is a very clever riddle, one that I hope you would choose to solve on your own.))
((This riddle was created by Plato. That's how you know it's good. Anyway, the answer is:
A eunuch (castrated man) who did not see well saw a bat perched on a reed and threw a pumice stone at him which missed.))
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I think I know! by
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Thunder and lightning! Or, alternately, a storm. :) -
This took me a minute, but I think I've got it. by
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The wise and knowledgeable man is sure of nothing.
The fool knows nothing.
The rich man wants nothing.
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DMFF Creatures by
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Just a quick question: does anyone know of any creatures contained in the DMFF? The only one I know of is King Krok, but there has to be more.
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The first possibility that came to my mind... by
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...was Bad End, from Neshomeh and Tungsten Monk's "Ring Child" mission. Though I honestly have no idea what happened to that thing, or if they had any plans for it after the fact; it's been years since the mission was published, after all.
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What about... by
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That basilisk from Ripper's first mission? What happened to that thing, anyway?
Hopefully, the MH crossover that you and Voyd are working on, as well as the one I have, should provide enough creatures to fill the department.
Also, I do have a Prehistoric Park badfic in mind that could definitely supply some species...
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Concerning Mecha by
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What department would handle problems, like continuities where mecha is the main form of conflict, and the agents working the case would need a mecha to combat the sue
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The "Make My Monster Grow" trope is in full effect
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I have a solution! by
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It is a well known established fact, that whenever a huge enemy appears, it will ALWAYS have a glaringly obvious weak point that is very shootable.
Alternatively, just open a huge portal to a Daemon World, in Warhammer 40k. No sue is going to be able to last more than a few minutes, tops, on one of those. I don't care what kind of mecha you're driving, several billion daemons, coupled with the laws of physics (or lack thereof) will annihilate anything. Best part is that, as long as the agents keep their heads down, their SEP fields will keep them alive (Maybe) long enough to make sure.
Upstairs might not like it, but until they get the PPC some mecha-killing weapons, they should just be glad there's a way to dispose of sues like this at all. -
'mecha-killing weapons'. by
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-A diamond tipped drill. One agent keeps her talking (Sues love to talk), the other drills holes in the mech's ankles and shoves sticks of dynamite in.
-Tripwires.
-Pit traps, for the non-flying variety.
-Acid.
-EMP.
-Persuading her to try and do something that overloads the mech's abilities ('oh no, your Lust Object is trapped under that falling mountain!').
-Rewiring the mech to rip its own arms off.
-Dropping her into Flatland for a minute.
The PPC isn't about using brute force to solve problems. It's about the people who don't have brute force available, and have to be clever instead.
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Wobbles is more than happy to help people out in that sort of situation. =]
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As mentioned earlier... by
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Agents can open portals from anywhere to anywhere. Creativity is the name of the game; you hardly need anyone else.
"What good is a mecha without a pilot?" asked Aggi the Agent. He then opened a portal; one end was beneath the Sue, while the other led to the Earth's core. The Sue was fried before she could utter a word.
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Can I add another one ? by
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I don't really know if it's allowed, but could you disguise yourself into a Dresdenverse wizard, then see the mecha utterly failing before the Walking Techbane?
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Hm... by
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I think that, in theory, an APD division specialising in a mecha continuum such as Gundam would be equipped with the proper tech (However, there is no such APD division — yet). Otherwise, Floaters' Special Operations Division or the Eclectic Subdivision of Advanced Species spring to mind.
That said (and like what VM said): I reckon the agents would just take the Sue out before she got into her Mecha. Makes everything so much simpler. -
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The theoretical sue never gets out of the Mech, and said Mech's cockpit doesn't really have enough space for the agents to hide in
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Open a portal into the cockpit. by
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Drag the Sue out through the portal, charge, and kill.
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Sounds like DoSAT. by
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However, I'd be careful assuming that just because the Sue is in a mecha, the agents would need to be in one as well - an agent specializing in such a 'verse would be just as likely, I think, to bypass the Epic Mecha Battle and make handy use of a blowtorch and a wrench to disarm the Sue before dispatching them.
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Returning (honestly this time) by
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Okay, I know I've popped in a couple of times in the past couple of years with proclamations of a return that nobody wants, but this time I actually mean it. I've finally gotten around to setting pen to paper, or I suppose fingers to keyboard is slightly more realistic, and picked up my agents stories.
I do however have one general question. Do people actually still use the IRC chat? I've tried to log onto it a couple of times in the past few days and it's constantly empty. Or has it just moved? -
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Have we met? Doubt it. Anyway, yeah.
Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes! -
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It's the one who makes one of my favorite spin-offs! Glad to have you back once more, and I can't wait to see what happens with your characters!
The chat just doesn't see much activity anymore. Most of the oldbies have grown up and gotten jobs, so we don't see much time to sit around talking anymore. But it's not, like, officially closed, or anything.
Re the babysitting question: Doc would claim he had too much canon research (aka, reading) to do, and that having a kid around would disrupt his concentration. Vania . . . would probably volunteer for it, to be honest, so if you're wanting negative responses, Doc would be the one to use. -
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You probably already noticed, but I added a bunch of your minor characters to the Glossary page at some point because they were missing. Hope you don't mind!
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No problem by
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I have no problem with you adding the minor characters to the glossary in the slightest, in fact I thank you for it. The story I'm finishing now has three of my old rookies as agents so I'm planning on updating the bios for them soon, or adding in the case of Wallis.
Also I'm a tad overwhelmed by the fact it was one of your favourite spinoffs, thank you most kindly. As soon as I've found some new recruits the training sessions will resume. Have we rescued any young people from badfics lately that may need training. -
Proooobably. by
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Honestly, I haven't been keeping up with recent spin-offs. I rescued a pair of kids from an Epic Mickey mission, but I'm planning to write them in the Nursery's school myself before they start training. Sorry!
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Never heard of you before, but I hope you're staying.
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Greetings! by
on 2015-09-30 00:22:00 UTC
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We have never met, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say 'Welcome' 'Welcome back' or just plain 'yo', but here's some Bloffee for you.
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Welcome (back) aBoard! by
on 2015-09-29 20:32:00 UTC
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The earliest I was ever here was last year, so I figure we have never meet before. So, It's pleasure to meet you then!
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Oh, and one other thing. by
on 2015-09-29 20:12:00 UTC
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I love to try and stick references to other agents and HQ goings on into my stories here and there.... So if you're agents got a message asking for a last minute babysitter, how would they respond negatively?
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I'm... not sure what you're getting at. by
on 2015-09-29 20:37:00 UTC
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Last minute babysitter as in someone messaging them and telling them 'please babysit so-and-so', or as in 'would you like being babysit'?
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*Facepalm by
on 2015-09-30 00:24:00 UTC
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That's what happens when typing on your phone and you don't check the auto correct. I meant if agents were asked to babysit for a child at the last minute.
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In that case? by
on 2015-09-30 00:41:00 UTC
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I think Marvin and Printworthy would be OK with it, if confused. They have plenty of material for a child to watch, possibly a shared interest in cartoons, and Printworthy being a fluffy unicorn would make a little child very happy.
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Also, wecome back! (nm) by
on 2015-09-30 00:42:00 UTC
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Welcome back! by
on 2015-09-29 20:01:00 UTC
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I can't answer the question about the IRC, so here's a pack of notecards for some reason!
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Old agents or new set? (nm) by
on 2015-09-29 19:55:00 UTC
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Old first by
on 2015-09-29 20:10:00 UTC
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The story I'm working on features three of my old agents, although given that they had only just graduated training last time round and three years has passed since, they've changed a little. I'd like to get back to writing some more training stories too, which would mean a new set of rookie recruits at some point though.
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Haha, yes. by
on 2015-09-29 20:16:00 UTC
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They definitely would not be rookies anymore!
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Welcome back! by
on 2015-09-29 19:55:00 UTC
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Looks like I haven't seen you around at all, so hi, nice to meet you.
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Returnbie! *glomp* *poke* by
on 2015-09-29 19:43:00 UTC
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Haven't seen you around before, so you probably don't recognize me. Nice to meet you! Have a plate of freshly-made SPaGhetti. :)
As for the IRC... I've heard it's still used, but I've poked my nose in several times and it's always been dead silent. *shrugs*
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Thanks by
on 2015-09-29 19:51:00 UTC
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I've not been particularly active since the middle of 2012, although I've popped my head in on occasion to keep up to date with the goings on. Knowing what internet memory is like I doubt many folks remember, so don't feel bad. :)
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An indefinite leave of absence (Computer problems) by
on 2015-09-30 01:28:00 UTC
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Well, I think my actual, nice, usable computer has finally bought it. I've got some serious issues going on with it, as in, I think I need a new hard drive. Just like the Terminator, I'll be back, but when... Who knows. This thing is so unpredictable that it might not even be the hard drive. So, yeah, I MAY be on here once in a while (Still got my Pi, and some old laptops) but you shouldn't count on me being here much until this thing gets fixed. Save some badfic for me.
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That's tough. Hope your computer gets fixed soon. (nm) by
on 2015-09-30 16:38:00 UTC
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Tough luck. by
on 2015-09-30 09:31:00 UTC
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Yeah, computer problems can be really harsh, I saw my brother going through two of these things, and mine shows it age. Hope you will be back soon. As of the badfic, there will never be a lack of such things, there is only directions where they were never serched before.
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That's unfortunate. by
on 2015-09-30 03:21:00 UTC
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I hope you get to fix this problem soon enough. And like EPL said, I don't foresee any sort of badfic shortage anytime soon.
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That sucks. I hope you get your computer fixed soon! by
on 2015-09-30 02:16:00 UTC
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And don't worry, there's plenty of badfic to go around. This is the Internet, after all.
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So... Something happened. by
on 2015-09-30 19:09:00 UTC
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So, you all should know by now that I live in Anchorage Alaska. The frozen north. Well. Not normally... this frozen
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ACK! Posted too soon! by
on 2015-09-30 19:11:00 UTC
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Anyway, we have round about three inches of snow on the ground. This is super early. Usually, it's around Halloween when the snow sticks like this. This is unusual, to say the least. But! We can use this to have some fun! Since we have plenty of snow to go around, why don't we have a...
SNOWBALL FIGHT!! -
*pelts Scapegrace with a snowball* (nm) by
on 2015-10-01 02:43:00 UTC
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*looks up from textbook* by
on 2015-10-01 09:09:00 UTC
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Please don't drag me into this, I'm busy.
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Sorry! ^^; (nm) by
on 2015-10-01 19:57:00 UTC
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Surprise by
on 2015-09-30 21:25:00 UTC
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*props a surprise bucket of snow above the nearest door.
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* throws snowball at you * :P (nm) by
on 2015-09-30 20:14:00 UTC
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...*Double Snowball Sneak Attack!* (nm) by
on 2015-09-30 20:53:00 UTC
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"Duck and weave! Duck and weave!" by
on 2015-09-30 23:36:00 UTC
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I hoped, sipped, and jumped, as snowballs whistled through the skies, desperately attempting to avoid the barrage of unexpected snowfire. Which aptly explained why I managed to be absolutely covered head to toe in snow. "Oh, come on guys! Let of a little, will ya!?"
My answer splattered all across my face. "Oh, just you wait! You'll get yours! Just you- OW!"
I looked to my right. Good, the fort still stood. I rushed for the old snow fort, taking a few more hits for the team. "Hey! That one had ice it it!" Thankfully, the door to the fort was mere inches away. I busted through the door, a break from the unrelenting flurry of balls. I wiped the dribbling snow of my brow. Now, to plan, until reinforcements arrive. As I took another step, I stumbled over a rope. "Why was...?"
SPLAT!
"..."
"This. Is. War."
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Paging eatpraylove by
on 2015-09-30 21:00:00 UTC
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Did you receive the e-mail I sent you last week?
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* Pages EPL once more * by
on 2015-10-05 20:47:00 UTC
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I just sent you another important e-mail.
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Yeah, I'm looking at it now. by
on 2015-10-01 01:32:00 UTC
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I think you picked a good first badfic. Also, according to the wiki, Permission prompts should be about 400-800 words long, and agent bios should be about 200-400 words. They link to a document that describes the kinds of things you can write about, and agent recruitment is among them.
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Alright then. I glad to know. by
on 2015-10-01 04:01:00 UTC
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Yeah, I looked at the doc that contains the prompts earlier and I don't know how I missed the given lengths. I was kinda asking if I could combine the agent recruitment category with another, but with that sort required lenght I guess I had better stick to the basic idea and save rest
for after Permission.
Don't worry, I know how that feels like.
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PPC Contest Proposal: The 1st PPC Annual Skeleton War by
on 2015-09-30 23:56:00 UTC
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It's gonna be that time of the year starting tomorrow, and in light of that, I thought of a brilliant idea for a contest RP/event thing a little while ago! Basically, from 2013, Tumblr has a habit of circulating tons of skeleton GIFs and pictures in a period dubbed The "Skeleton War". In particular, the skeletons are pitted against an enemy faction known as "f***boys" (not unlike Resistance vs. Enlightenment in Ingress). This got me thinking... Why don't we have an actual PPC Skeleton War, in the form of a series of competitive events as part of a Halloween festival?
This of course would mean we'd have to set up a variety of games and tournaments for agents to play. This would probably mean I'd have to get a number of other Boarders to help, especially because I was thinking that each of the games would be moderated by a different person and an agent of their choice. I'm not sure how many games there would be, but I imagine at least five would provide something for everyone. Possible events could include a corn maze escape, pumpkin curling, a spooky scavenger hunt, a "last man standing" survival event in a haunted house, and maybe even a poker tournament with tarot cards (yes, they have those).
Of course, this means that Boarders who are willing to volunteer can choose whether to moderate a game or not, as well as propose which game to host if they do. And all of these games will be compiled into GDocs format in the end. Who knows, maybe we can even have opening and closing ceremonies like in conventions!
The game I'm definitely moderating would probably be the grand finale: the Skeleton War itself, a nonlethal combat tournament between the two respective factions participating in the festival. These factions are "Skeletons" (duh) and "Bratboys" (a watered-down variant of the original term, which is much more appropriate IMO). All agents participating must choose from one of these factions at the start of the festival, but not all of them need to participate in the final battle. They're more than welcome to spectate and cheer for those who do, though!
Also, there'd be candy and costumes. Because Halloween.
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Scavenger Hunt? by
on 2015-10-01 08:45:00 UTC
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The idea of a scavenger hunt through PPC HQ sounds rather entertaining, especially how difficult it is to navigate around the halls at the best of times. I definitely think my agents would be up for that. Of course the real question is just how many agents will we wind up losing just to the halls themselves?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but... by
on 2015-10-01 00:43:00 UTC
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I thought our strange run-up-to-Halloween tradition was the Badfic Games. =]
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It doesn't seem like anyone's interested in that, though. by
on 2015-10-01 09:02:00 UTC
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A grand total of no-one mentioned that it didn't happen last month...
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I certainly missed the Badfic Games by
on 2015-10-01 09:50:00 UTC
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For once I was prepared, but somehow I got the impression that you are busy with other things, and I didn’t want to bother you.
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Heh. by
on 2015-10-01 10:37:00 UTC
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What I've been 'busy with' is a death in the extended family; that's why I've been sort of spotty about what I respond to.
I'm still not exactly in the mood to go through the frankly grueling task of uploading a Badfic Game to FfW, but if people actually want to play it, we can do what we did in '10 and '11, and just use the Board as the archive.
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You have my condolences too. I'm sorry to hear that. (nm) by
on 2015-10-04 20:00:00 UTC
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I'm so sorry! D: *hugs* (nm) by
on 2015-10-03 00:27:00 UTC
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on 2015-10-02 15:57:00 UTC
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Sorry to hear about the death. Hope you're coping OK. (nm) by
on 2015-10-02 08:48:00 UTC
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Sorry to hear about your loss too. :( by
on 2015-10-02 04:18:00 UTC
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I went throught that in recent years myself and it feels just awful. *hugs*
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Aw. by
on 2015-10-01 23:00:00 UTC
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I'm very sorry here to hear that.
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Aw. {= ( by
on 2015-10-01 15:24:00 UTC
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I just figured you were waiting because there was a bunch of other game-type stuff going on on the Board. I'm sorry to hear the bad news. *hugs*
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Sorry for your loss... by
on 2015-10-01 14:26:00 UTC
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I know I'm just here since a really short time, and I doesn't know you really well, but this sort of events never get easier to deal with. Take your time about this.
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That's... awful. Sorry to hear of it. by
on 2015-10-01 13:59:00 UTC
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And while I haven't participated in a Badfic Games myself for obvious reasons, I have enough trouble with Real Life myself to say that if you wish to delay them to a better time, that's fine by me.
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Sorry to hear that. *hugs* by
on 2015-10-01 13:52:00 UTC
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As for why nobody mentioned it... I just thought you'd get to it when you got to it, and me badgering you wouldn't make it happen any faster. :P
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IÂ’m sorry for your loss. by
on 2015-10-01 13:28:00 UTC
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Actually, delaying the Badfic Games until a more suitable time (same month next year, if necessary) would be fine with me. Since the preferred epilogue for the "Department of Inaccuracies Trilogy" depends on an event that apparently has not happened yet, I’m not really eager to post part three soon. You should just know that we’re not generally "not interested".
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Too late, it's up. ^_~ by
on 2015-10-01 13:47:00 UTC
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Though there's no obligation to post this year; it's not like badfic writers are noted for their ability to stick to deadlines...
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I'm very sorry to hear that. by
on 2015-10-01 10:54:00 UTC
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For whatever it may be worth, my thoughts are with you.
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That's not a Halloween-centric thing, though. by
on 2015-10-01 01:08:00 UTC
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And furthermore, I don't think it was in-universe, either. If holidays like New Year's Day *coughNewYear'sGiftExchangecough* are celebrated in HQ, I bet the same can be said for Halloween, too.
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I... see. (nm) by
on 2015-10-01 01:19:00 UTC
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...I'm not sure I understand? (nm) by
on 2015-10-01 00:33:00 UTC
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The idea here... by
on 2015-10-01 01:07:00 UTC
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...is basically a Halloween festival held within the PPC HQ (or in New Caledonia, if outside is better). Participants are divided into two teams which compete against each other in various games throughout the festival, and the team with the most wins among its individual agents claims the overall victory.
So, kinda like the New Year's Gift Exchange, but with multiple games instead of just the one.