Oct 2015 Archive, part c

In Bad Fics in which the Sue possesses say THE SETTING ITSELF the an army of agents would be summoned to assist.

All Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha characters here are replaced, but some are bits. Depends on your count, it might/might not be a bigger number.

Jay and Acacia once took out nine Sues. Not sure if there have been more.

I don't understand. Are you talking about possibly doing another riff on that movie or possibly turning that movie's plot into an actual, well-written story? (I think I saw a clip of the Pumaman episode one time...) Either way, I don't think it'd be worth the effort.

However bad it is, it's still a canon universe, after all.

I'm not familiar with the plot or lack thereof so I can't really offer my advice on whether or not the movie can be made good.

Heck yes.

AGENTS
I have a few qualms about the character of Meg. I found her personality to be abrasive, especially when in combination with the prompts. I get that was the point, but I would argue that even the most bristly jackass of a character needs to have some redeeming features (or failing that, be either super interesting in some other way or prone to falling flat on their face). The little "thank you" text didn't really do enough to endear her to me. I will admit that's something that would probably come out better in a longer piece, but I'm still bringing it up for you to think about.

Michelle seemed quite good, although I should note that I know nothing about Kingsman. I like a good "ditzy" character every now and again.

One more minor thing. It was a little confusing for me to have characters named "Mitchell" and "Michelle." Is that going to be a plot point later on?

PROMPTS
"Going Postal" had some technical issues that stuck out to me. The first paragraph, for example, has a sizable run-on sentence that is very clunky to read. The texting was also somewhat problematic, especially in one exchange that occurs without any intermediary text. Since it's all in italics, it can be a little frustrating to suss out who's saying what.

Clarification question: why did Michelle have such a positive reaction to Meg writing "Thanks Mitch"? I would think that being called by Meg's ex-partner's name would have the opposite effect.

I also didn't understand why Michelle needed to lie in order to see Meg. I don't see how that would have worked better than saying "I'm her partner, are you sure I can't see her" or something. Unless she's trying some sort of escape attempt, which I don't see working at all.

The second prompts better, if a bit insubstantial. I feel like there wasn't enough interaction between the agents before the mission alarm went off. It was also confused why Michelle was clearly referred to as "not Shelly" in the text and yet as Shelly twice in the disclaimer.

In both prompts, you had several one-sentence paragraphs that did not need to be as such. It's not a strict grammatical rule, but I've always felt that those should really be reserved either for dialogue or something so serious that it needs its own paragraph as a form of emphasis. Otherwise, it can feel out-of-place.

FIC CHOICE
I know nothing about the Brotherband Chronicles, but I saw more than a number of technical errors while skimming the first few paragraphs. That works for me.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
No complaints here. Gold star.

It took no small amount of back-and-forth deliberation, but I'm going to have to say that permission is denied. While your writing shows promise, I feel it needs a bit more technical tightening before you submit again. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The games are the main thing - like the movies for Star Wars. If you want to read the books but can actually read the physical novels, I'd recommend eBooks.

*adds to reading list*

If you want more steampunk to go with this, I'll suggest the Aeronaut's Windlass, last-born of Jim Butcher's books. Post-apocalyptic world of towering spires and flying ships (Valon would faint after reading the first chapters), crystal magitech, and cats who decided to remind us that they are the dominant species on this planet.

What more could we ask for?

I can't see it working very well. It's tough enough with mixing two plot-lines, let alone four.

I think it was talked about a while back. I'm not very impressed by it because not many (If any) good fics have been written in it.

ROTBTD began its hideously mutated existence as a reaction to the prevalence of SuperWhoLock on fandom blogs that "claimed" (read: vomited all over) non-fandom stuff on Tumblr. Because Tumblr is one of those places where people believe they are always right about everything ever (I fitted in rather well), this led to stuff like ROTBTD attracting a serious fandom rather than the more tongue-in-cheek one it had had previously. See also: the obsessions with Paul Blart, Bee Movie, and Shrek. Me neither.

I understand your concern. Thinking about it now, I probably wouldn't be the best choice of person to spork something like that, anyway-that kind of religion makes my blood boil.

Your command has been received. So shall it was typed, so shall it be done.

Yep, it's happening... I'm finally getting into RWBY. I feel like my LO list will be gettin an update soon.

I saw it, and last night I connected a few dots in Nora's Character.

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If Nora doesn't get panic attacks to big things like... going to beacon... or to missions in a Future!AU story as a mother (ReNora ftw), there's probably some OOC going on there.

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...If I over did the spoilers I apologize

A nice start to the new season, and the artwork is looking better than ever.

Can't wait to watch the rest of it.

- Irish

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*runs around in circles*

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That is all.

*runs off to watch*

I feel you deserve another exclamation point. Welcome back! I missed you (even though I don't believe we ever talked...typed...thingy.

Have some Bloffee toads to your stockpile!

I missed reading about your stuff, so yeah. Hope to see more from you soon!

I'm glad that you were able to return. :D

Please take this anti-angst generator, it should divert any angst you may expirience

Will you have my special brand of dark chocolate or black coffee? Both of them are delicious and will suck up light.

It's good to see you again, Matt.

I've never tried using this site on a mobile, but yeah, it's happened to me twice now, even after I reloaded the page several times.

It's gotten worse since I fixed my phone. I can't really speak for my computers, as I use Adblock Plus on all of them, for anti-virus reasons. At any rate, I hope the T-Board will be usable soon. I keep getting redirected to some rather... risqué pages. None of them seem to contain harmful scripts or other things, beyond the usual ad-targeting stuff. If I find something harmful, I'll update.

It's been going on both on mobile and desktop for quite some time on my end. Must be a server thing for all I know, since apparently I'm not alone in this assessment.

I've had times on non-Adblocked-browsing (thank you, university computers) where I get a page full of the same two or three ads repeated again and again. Usually if I two Board pages open and one's loading, the loading one gets swamped with ads every time I click back to it. Those are pretty rare, though, and I'm not being redirected to the Google Play store every third page on my phone anymore. Mostly it's just infolinks everywhere. :/

I know that adds will invade your mobile the very moment you go on this site, but I never had any problems with my desktop. Do you have Adblock activated too?

IMPROBABLE CROSSOVERS AND BAD SLASH GET ON THIS THING NOW!!! GET SOME WHATTHE AS WELL!!!

Cause I have several.

Alice and the Nightmare - In this reimagined Wonderland, Alice Heart is a new student at Phantasmagoria University, where she and her classmates will learn how to enter and harvest the dreams of humans. The art's gorgeous and I love the slightly Gothic atmosphere.

Girl Genius - Mad scientists rule Europe...with mixed results. Absolutely brilliant, hilarious, and a distinct vivid color style. If you like steampunk (though the authors call it "Gaslamp Fantasy"), you'll love Girl Genius. Also, the Jagermonsters. Notable for being hilarious supporting cast members without stealing the show from our hero, Agatha.

Manly Guys doing Manly Things - Follows the ridiculous shenanigans surrounding Commander Badass (an original character), who runs a facility that helps integrate macho video game characters into real life, Jared Kowalski (either the dumbest or the smartest Pokémon trainer ever), Sarah Jones "Jonesy" (Commander's girlfriend), and a host of others. I particularly recommend reading the Nomura Syndrome arc and the arc where Commander and Jonsey go back to his generic space future, though the comic itself is great. (Also check out Platinum Black by the same author!)

And some other stuff. But the birds are important.

Hatoful Boyfriend. The best pigeon dating sim, and I mean it. While it's originally intended as a joke/parody of VNs, it actually has a pretty good plot and interesting (if, of course, somewhat clichéd) characters. The storylines can be funny, but also creepy and feels-inducing. And then, of course (hey, it's a parody of visual novels), there's the hidden "true" ending, but I don't want to say much about it because SPOILERS. Seriously, it's hard to explain why this game is good without spoiling half of the plot away, but I strongly recommend playing it.
(No, it's not just that I'm obsessed with this game. I also found some badfic of it that I'd like to spork if I ever get Permission, and it probably wouldn't be as funny if no one else is familiar with the game.)

As for another relativelty unknown work (well, it's kinda well-known, but not as much as most stuff we see here), there's Schlock Mercenary, a comedic hard(ish) sci-fi webcomic. As with most other webcomics, the earlier stuff isn't as good, but It Gets Better™.

The Infinite Loops Project: A fairly small community (roughly our size, probably,) collectively writes/reads, mostly reads, shared universe massively multiplayer crossover fic. Time is looping because the universe which is also a computer is broken, and shenanigans happen. Pretty much everyone is overpowered but it's fun to read!

Thomas Was Alone: It's a game that makes you feel bad for squares. Also fun to play and only 7 fics on FFN.

The Phantom Tollbooth: not so much a fandom but an integral part of my childhood. Go look it up it's hard to explain

First off, Brandon Sanderson. All of his stuff. All of it. I cannot stress how amazing his books are: everyone on here should read them. They are beautiful.

The Door Within Trilogy by Wayne Thomas Batson. This is where my handle came from; it's a Christian YA series, and it had a really deep impact on me. I heartily recommend the audiobooks. They're read by the author, and they're really immersive.

The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg. This has one of the most interesting magic systems I've seen, and a great story to boot. It's part of a series, which makes it even better. It centers around Ceony Twill, a young magician in the early 1900s (1901, I think) who is forced into learning paper magic, rather than steel, like she wanted. The love story moves a little too quickly, but other than that it's wonderful.

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. These are futuristic twists on the old fairy tales: now Cinderella is Cinder, a cyborg in a country where being a cyborg makes you second-class, at best, and the entirety of Earth has to deal with the Lunars, a race of advanced humans with terrifying mental abilities. These books are awesome, and the next in the series comes out next month! Yipee!!

Brandilyn Collins is another Christian author with some really interesting mysteries: Eyes of Elisha was very good, as was her Kanner Lake series. Oh, and Exposure. That one was awesome.

C.J. Hill, another YA Christian author, and her Slayers series. I also really enjoyed Erasing Time. The first centers around a group of kids who are descendants of knights imbued with special powers for the purpose of fighting dragons, the second is about twin sisters who are dragged forward in time to a dystopian city-state. Both could be better, but I enjoyed them.

Well, that's all for me. Oh, and if anyone cares, all of the books are fairly clean. Nothing egregious, anyway. If you read (or have read) any of these, tell me! I have almost no one to talk to about any of them.

-Alleb

Pure Pwnage: Kind of a weird online video series that flip-flops back and forth between being a mockumentary that criticizes gamer stereotypes and a high-stakes action series that aggrandizes gamers and gives them real world superpowers. Often within individual episodes.

Contains lots of swearing and some verbal references to sex, but no nudity, and most of the violence is special effects beams. Oh, but since this is the PPC, I should also warn that the main character, liek, talks liek this, liek, all th'time, an' stuff, lol.

The web series (click the tab under the big video), which is unfortunately unfinished due to the death of one of the recurring actors. Although, it's supposed to be continued in a movie soonish.

(There's also a TV spin-off on Hulu, but I didn't find it as good, and it didn't feature any of the uber micro fantasy fighting of the web series.)

Marble Hornets: This is an amazingly well done horror series on YouTube that uses the Slender Man stories as background to an interesting psychological mystery. The camera work and editing is superb, and really sells the realism of the series. (It's sort of fourth wall breaking, as the actual YouTube accounts are also the ones supposedly being used by the characters.)

Link to the main series. (That account has just started a sequel series, so make sure to go to the end and start at the beginning.) There's also a side account (again, go back to the beginning) where another character sent messages to the protagonists. Never fear: here is a list of the two acconuts' videos in upload order, so you can watch in proper revelatory order!

-I dunno if Worm counts as obscure, but I'm going to plug it anyway. TW for basically everything under the sun — I can make a list, but I'll probably miss some — and incredibly grim, but superbly well-written. Can be described as X-Men's grim, better-written little sister.

-Lord Demon and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. No connection despite the similar names. The first is Zelazny's take on Chinese mythology, the second — on Indian mythology and Buddhism. Both are really well-written, and Lord of Light has a character called Tak the Archivist, AKA Tak of the Bright Spear; what's not to like?

-Speaking of Roger Zelazny: everybody needs to read Jack of Shadows now because it's that awesome. It's also a short read so you really have no excuse. Seriously, go read it now.

Narbonic - a webcomic about a mad scientist named Helen Narbon and her hapless assistant Dave. The comic is now complete, and it's really fascinating to watch it build from a mostly light-hearted strip about wacky mad science hijinks to an extremely powerful conclusion, without abandoning the humor on the way. The art improves dramatically as well. There's also a sequel, Skin Horse. I also find the artist's commentary on the strips to be an interesting look into the process behind creating a series, though only read it if you've already finished the story once.

Saya no Uta - a visual novel that depicts the heartwarming story of a young man who finds true love and rediscovers the beauty of life after a traumatic car accident. Or alternatively, Gen Urobuchi's take on the Cthulhu Mythos. It's definitely not for everyone; aside from the nearly constant gore, there's a great deal of explicit, frequently non-consensual, sexual content, and Saya looks like she's about all of twelve. But if you can get past that, the story is both horrifying and deeply moving. It's also fairly short, only about five hours long.

Young Samurai - Based on a real-life story of William Adams, the first ever Englishman to reach Japan, the story is an eight-part series about Jack Fletcher - a young sailor who finds himself shipwrecked off the coast of 17th century Japan, and tries to adapt to this new culture and survive in an environment unfriendly to foreigners.

The Secrets of Immortal Nicolas Flamel - Another urban fantasy with magic and mythology. We have monsters, magicians, Immortals (e.g. Niccoló Machiavelli, Jeanne d'Arc, or William Shakespeare), and of course gods... or maybe technologically advanced aliens? Both? Who knows, it's a really interesting and fun series.


AND NOW FOR SOME POLAND-EXCLUSIVE FANDOMS:
(If anyone's interested in looking into those, let me know - I am in the middle of creating a non-profit, fan translations)

The Liar - What happens after you make your Destiny come true? Why, join your former enemy and spread the chaos again! Meet Loki, formerly a Norse god of trickery, currently a hitman-for-hire serving the Armies of Heaven. After the Ragnarok it's time for him to play his part in the Apocalyse and trust me, even St. John didn't forsee that!

The Boys - From the same madman who brought you The Liar comes the story from your childhood punching its way back into your adulthood! The Lost Boys, once loyal companions of Peter Pan, grew up (but, of course, didn't mature) and decided to form a biker gang. Under the rule of Tinker Bell they'll do everything to live on their own... and have fun doing it!

Flander's Company, about an enterprise recruting and providing villains for superheroes, and all the troubles plaguing them. The plot only begin with season 2, however.

Noob, it's about a guild of... well, noobs, and their adventures in the MMO Horizon and their long, long quest towards level 100.

The two of them are a perfect mix of fun and awesome, just enjoy.

The Divide Trilogy - A thirteen year old boy named Felix has serious heart problems and likely won't live for long. One day while on vacation with his parents, he gets separated from them and passes out--right on the Continental Divide, which turns out to be a portal to an alternate world where myths are true, but humans are the myths.

The Tail of Emily Windsnap - Despite living on a houseboat all her life, Emily has been forbidden by her hydrophobic single mother to learn how to swim. One day (man, those 'one days' happen a lot in fiction), during her seventh grade gym class' first swim lesson, something strange happens when Emily gets in the water. Her legs seize up and she feels paralyzed from the waist down. Though terrified by the incident, she wants to know if it will happen again. So she sneaks out to go swimming at night, and it turns out, she turns into a mermaid whenever she's in the water. She befriends another mermaid and together they learn the truth about Emily's family. (This is the first in a series.)

They're both written for middle schoolers, so they're not the most amazingly amazing thing to ever amaze, but I read them multiple times as a kid and still love them to bits. :)

... What are you talking about? This is the best story ever! The plot is so original and captivating, with an incredible amount of worldbuilding, the characters are so realistic and deep, and the shocking revelation at the end of the last chapter was completely unexpected! Not to mention the incredibly well done formatting!
I just can't wait to see more of the adventures of... Huh, it's weird, whenever I try to remember her name, I keep coming up with "Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way." Ah, whatever.

Whoever sporks this thing is gonna get a medal! I'll make a virtual one.

BUT WHAT IS THIS? Ebony, you got competition, gal! Never ever thought i'd say that...

I really don't even have a reaction to that level of sueishness. All I know is that flamethrowers can solve a great many problems. A great many problems indeed.

I've been told you're a Returnbie - hi, I'm Dorano. Have some Bloffee!

(Also - sweet Eru that is one atrocious 'Sue!)

Welcome back Returnbie, I will now roll for your complementary Space Ninja Set.


You got a Limbo, Sancti Tigris, Atomos, and Atterax. All of these are quiet awesome weapons in game. I also used Limbo's "Banish" ability in the title blurb thing.

I think we have to make a page for Wattpad now. I even thought of a funny PPC nickname for it: "The Litter Box." (Also, I'm told you're a returnbie. Hi! Here's half a case of Bleeprin. I think you'll need it.)

Please accept this starter Pokémon:

Iiiiiiit's Musharna!

And your starting item:-

Solar Bracer from Darkest Dungeon

Now, the Solar Bracer is a very, very good item... on sun team 'mons. It's basically a much bigger boost, with it boosting the damage output of damaging beam moves by 50%, or by 75% in sunlight. Musharna, however, doesn't learn a lot of moves that can effectively utilize it, but what it does learn is Trick Room. Try a set utilizing that on a Sun team, with Psybeam, Charge Beam, and Signal Beam as the remaining moves. Charge Beam's a really good move for this set, but it does mean you're vulnerable to Ground-type switchins. Still, it's worth a try, so enjoy! =]

... I guess. I haven't really been here for long. Have one of these Non-Euclidean Cookies! You might want to eat them without looking at them too much.

Also, wow. I actually kinda want to read this... Oh, wait, apparently, you need to have a Wattpad account. Too bad, I guess.

Nice to see you back! Take a plate of welcome-back SPaGhetti!

Well, well, well... glad you've decided to join the insanity! :D As I did not see a question for a preferable pronoun, I'm gonna ask it right now!

As for your gift... umm... hold on... *checks his pockets* Ah, shoot, it seems all the Heads That Are Always Screaming are gone... well, okay, we'll do this one.

Have a slice of Infinite Pizza.

My faith in humanity just got dropped in an Sphere of Annihilation. Sporking this just became an obligation, would you kindly post the link to... this? Oh, and what's the fandom?

Welcome to the PPC! Sanity, as you might have noticed, is optional.
The Original Series and Constitution are required reads; we also have a spiffy Wiki to which you should turn before asking any questions (we like people who do the research). Links are on top of the Board.
To answer your unasked question, it looks like you've encountered another Egogy knockoff. For some reason people keep ripping Enoby off; maybe they think it's funny.
And, last but not least — have this cup of Earl Grey tea. Leaves aren't predatory. Promise.

Wow. Also, never trust a Sue that says " enough about me ". After all, she is a Sue, everything in the Glaurunging world has to revolve around her by definition.

What's the connection between assessments and chemicals? I suspect that each assessment has multiple chemicals involved, but are chemicals referenced by multiple assessments? If so, there should be a third table called a cross table, which is just a giant set of assessment-chemical ID pairs to keep track of what is associated with what.

If there's just one assessment per chemical, you'll want a query that looks something like:

select (a.id) from assessments a
join chemicals c
on c.assessmentid = a.id
where c.hazardous = true;

(The table might be set up the other way around, with a.chemicalid = c.id)

If there are multiple assessments per chemical, and a properly set-up cross table, you'll need something more like:

select (a.id) from assessments a
join crosstable r
on r.assessmentid = a.id
join chemicals c
on r.chemical_id = c.id
where c.hazardous = true;

Hope that helps!

Or brave warriors, if that be the case, as I hope it is.

—doctorlit loves plot.

I assume this is going to be something epic :D

Is me cackling somewhere in the vicinity of Turkey.

I'll say nothing else (but to email me!)

-July, who is apparently quite loud.

It sounds like it'll be really painful, though, so good luck and here's a small bag of Bleepolate bars!

For Supernumerary's sake, if nothing else. =]

...but I'm super excited to see what happens next.

This is what I think it is, isn't it?

It is.

You have no idea how excited I am for this.

Good luck. There is nothing else to say. Good luck.

And so am I.

Meanwhile, he around in his bag and took the D.O.R.K.S. out.
There’s a word missing.

I’m confused by the spare RA. What happened to the primary RA? Did the Librarian take it with him? I got the impression that Des had the RA and opened all the portals, so why would he need another RA to send the corpse to Romania?

HG

I liked it. Especially the ending with... Uh... Arinaviator? Three names in one, I'll go with this, and Des letting stuff out and having a shoulder to lean on. It was nice, they both deserve to start feeling better and this is starting to move in that direction.

Looking forward to reading this later. I've already read some of Des's stuff so reading a collab should be interesting.

I love both the more emotional moments and the humorous ones. It's good to see that despite all the changes, the humor is still there, too.

Also, since the Librarian calls Rina the Aviator "faker" on occasion, I'm now picturing him as Gilgamesh.

First mission for Third Aviator and Cyber!Desdendelle, great to see them again. Yeah, life seems to like hit them with the spiky end of the stick. Don't give up guys, you still have your friends, and the Sues and the Flowers would be too happy.

Speaking of the latter, their wonderful scheme of killing the Aviator thanks to the intense hate she and the Librarian share seem to have failed. Could this troll ship concreting itself?

P.S.:*slightly whacking the Librarian's head* Stop calling her faker (I'm calm, I'm not using the blade).

Aviator and Des are adorable. They're both such sweethearts...

The ending with the two of them was the sweetest part, and it's nice to see that they relate to one another. Especially now that Des has been changed as well.

He offer the two Time Lords an Extendable Ear
Should be "offered".

I said we needed to make a page on the PPC Wiki for Wattpad, like the ones in this link. The "Litter Box" comment was because most of the websites we have pages for have funny/insulting names, like the Pit of Voles or the Circle of Lemmings.

Thanks for making the group, though. I wonder if I should start posting my missions directly to Tumblr, for security...

...notes about fictional worlds are found that were thought lost! I wonder how they found it to be genuine...

I wish I could read the notes. They're too faint. {= ( I also wish I had $92,000 dollars, but failing that, I hope whoever does buy the map is nice enough to share. Is it just me, or is it sort of irksome that it isn't just being given back to the Tolkien Estate?

~Neshomeh

-Des' teapot. Who would be good to talk to...or rather, who would be good to talk to who wasn't already talking to someone else...

Aha. Roman legionary, two o'clock. Perfect.

Despairing of the fact that she had come as Iroh rather than as Asterix or Obelix, Dawn made her way over to the tall, dark-skinned man in the Roman legionary outfit, and gave him her best imitation of Iroh's grin.

"Would you like a cup of tea?"

We'll be bringing this whole thing to a close on Saturday evening! See you all then; I hope you've enjoyed the RP!

-Alleb

Yet another extension to the RP! ^_^ The entire thing is going so well, I don't want to cut it off. Plus, I want to give everyone a little more time with the mystery. Since the "one day extension" didn't work last time, I'll leave this one a little looser; I'll post ahead of time when the RP feels like it's drawing to its natural conclusion. Does that sound alright to everyone? I apologize for flip-flopping on this; I've never run an RP before. But hey, I know what not to do next time!

-Alleb

Originally today would have been the last day, but it's going very well so we're extending it by another day. Have fun, guys! ^_^

-Alleb

It took Michael a minute or two to reach the stage again, but he managed. He climbed up and motioned for the band to quiet down, which caught most of the crowd's attention.

"Good evening!" he said, in his best Dracula impersonation. It didn't really fit with his costume, but hey, it was Halloween! There had to be a Dracula voice somewhere. "Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time for the Costume Contest! Write your name on the list at the base of the stage, and we will call you up at the end of the night to show off your costumes!

"Now, if you will excuse me, I--"

"Oooh noooo!" came a very bland "scream" from the food table. Mia stood nonchalantly beside the desserts, looking bored out of her mind and holding up the table cloth. Beneath the table was the Aviator, dressed as Princess Azula; her eyes were closed. "The Aviator is deeeeeead. Whateeever shall we dooo?"

Michael coughed slightly, then put on his best "spooky" grin (and no, it wasn't spooky) and resumed talking in his Dracula!voice "That is right, Ladies and Gentlemen! For tonight, we have not only a party, but a murder! It is now up to you, most distinguished guests, to catch our culprit and bring him to justice! All we yet know of the crime is that the Aviator was murdered and stuffed under the desert table with no witnesses, and not a mark on her. There are also several candy wrappers scattered around her, opened and bereft of sweet goodness. Who could have committed this atrocious deed, murdering the PPC's top agent and not even leaving any candy? That is what you must find out.

"Our suspects are three: Perhaps our killer is the famed Luxray Zeb, the Aviator's partner and best friend, who just so happens to know various electric moves that could kill someone without leaving a mark. Rumor has it that he and the Aviator had a recent falling out: perhaps anger bred violence?" he gestured towards the Agent, dressed as Zuko and caught mid-step holding two cups of tea.

"Or perhaps it was Chase Miller." Michael pointed at a young man beside one of the food tables: he was dressed as a lumberjack, complete with an axe, and was with a woman about his age with no obvious costume. "No one knows who this mysterious man is, but he looks very guilty, and the chocolate stains on his hands match the chemical composition of that on the chocolate wrappers found next to the Aviator’s body. Is he our killer?

"Last but not least is Amris: this little unfeeling Drone has a love of seeing insides come out, and he was seen near the dessert table just before the Aviator was found. Is he innocent in all of this, or did he just want to see for himself the famed double hearts of a Time Lord and was interrupted before he could finish the evil deed?

"Here is your task, party-goers: question these suspects! Find the truth! And do it before the night ends."

With a swirl of his cape that tangled around his legs and almost made him trip, Michael exited the stage. "Wow," he thought. "this stuff sounds a lot better when Alleb writes it down for me."

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((In other words, hooray, murder mystery and costume contest! Reply directly to this thread with a description of your character's costume to enter the contest, and find and ask our three suspects questions to solve the murder! Post your final guess here as well. Don't take too long in your questioning, please: other people might have want to ask as well. Your character will be rewarded with massive amounts of candy if they win or figure out the mystery. ^_^ Enjoy yourselves!

-Alleb))

"Stephanie, WHY did you feel the need to bring me here? I have no desire to dance..." Chakkik tugged at the sleeve of his white shirt, and at the yellow tie decorating it. "And furthermore, why did you have me dress as that virtual singer? I am far too bulky."

Stephanie Podd was currently pale-skinned and blonde, with a big white bow in her hair. A yellow bow decorated her cut-off sailor suit, and her "legs" were currently black. "I'm too big to be Rin, but here I am. We're here to have fun, Chak!"

"Correction: YOU are here to have fun with CUPID, should he arrive. I am merely present to ensure that you stay out of trouble."

"And yet you agreed to dress as Len."

"Don't push me."

((Yep, the DMS team is dressed as the Vocaloid twins, Rin and Len Kagamine. Both are way too big for their chosen character; Chakkik is six-four and built like a tank, while Steph is eleven feet tall and squishy.))

Mally yawned. Midnight was rather later than she was used to being awake, and she hoped she would be able to avoid falling asleep.

She tried to blend in with Zaddella, Jeremy and Basil so that no one would talk to her until she got her bearings. Looking around the crowded dance hall, she took in all the costumes. At the other end of the room there was a man in an impressive suit of blue armor. There were a few legionnaires, some brown- or blue-suited characters she didn't recognize, and many others. Her own merchant's costume suddenly seemed rather boring. She smoothed her skirts nervously.

A ballerina suddenly appeared and struck up a conversation with Basil.

"It's great to see you, Alleb!" Basil said as she adjusted her dilapidated pirate's hat. "These are the friends I was telling you about."

The Lethan Twi'Lek who was standing next to Mally introduced herself as Zaddella. "I'm not in costume," she said pointedly. "I wasn't told this was a costume party until this afternoon."

Basil cleared her throat and shot Zaddella a glance to match Zaddella's tone before introducing Mally, who waved awkwardly and mumbled something that she hoped sounded witty and interesting.

Jeremy, Basil's Assistant, fluttered just overhead in his parrot costume. "It's most exciting to be here! I've never been to a party before. This is wonderful! Is that punch? What are those people doing on that white mat with the colored dots?"

Jeremy chattered on, and Mally quietly excused herself to get some food. She almost bumped into a tall, robed figure with a death's head and put her head down as she walked to the table.

"I hope the punch is good," Zaddella said behind her.

Mally didn't realize Zaddella had followed. "I hope so too," she answered lamely as she looked over a promising cheese tray.

"We need to find something to perk you up," Zaddella said, picking up a paper plate. "You need to enjoy yourself. This is a fun party. I mean, look at these decorations- a dragon breathing fire! Hmm...do you think it was a good idea to make it out of paper? Anyway, this is a way more lighthearted party than some I've been to. Some of the ones I've been to end up with several casualties and all of us getting kicked out of whatever establishment we've taken over."

Mally rolled her eyes and held the tiny golden chains from her facial jewelry away from her mouth as she ate.

Heeeeere's what they look like:
http://irfrenchfries.deviantart.com/art/OCs-for-PPC-Masquerade-569407390?ga_submit_new=10%253A1446304702

"This is it, I guess," said Nick Jacobs (who was doing a poor job of impersonating the Tenth Doctor) as he and his band of friends entered the dance hall. There was silence for a few moments.

"What now?" rumbled Dirk. The prize-winning boxer was in a Link costume, for some reason. Nick couldn't figure him out.

"We might mingle," Chi-won supplied, tugging on the leather strap over his chest and skillfully bringing his ukulele into his hands. He was dressed as one of the hippie nomads from Avatar. "If we stick to 'Song of Storms,' we'll make some sweet lightning outside!"

"I would advise against that," Hasina said. She had opted for Cleopatra, and had spent over an hour getting all of her dark hair into tiny braids. "We are guests here, after all, and there is already a band playing."

All four of them turned to their fifth member, Skye, but found that she had already fled to the candy station.

"I'm going to get some food," Chi-won announced, letting his ukulele return to its normal place at his side. He then went in the opposite direction from the food and made a beeline for a gaggle of pretty girls.

"I think I will follow him," Hasina half-muttered; she took it upon herself to make sure that Chi-won didn't embarrass himself or others. The guy was a great ukulele player, but he had the social graces of a drunk emu.

Dirk followed Hasina without a word: Nick had noticed the two of them spending a lot of time together in recent days. He wondered what that meant.

"Well," he said to the empty space in front of him. "This is fun."

-Alleb

Despite being one of the tallest and most imposting figures present thanks to his powered armoursuit, Gaspard was sticking to the edges of the hall, casting furtive glances at the crowd while carefully loading his cardboard plate with food and treats with an oversized robotic gauntlet. Despite being bulky, blue, and making him stick out like a sore thumb, the CMC-300 suit made him feel safe and comfortable. People didn't look at him-- the looked at the armour and talked positively about it (unless they were right next to him, in which case "watch it!" was more often said than "check out those pauldrons!"). Being the centre of so much positive attention was a rather new experience for the Spy, and he was savouring every moment of it. He looked up again. Maybe he'd see someone he knew and strike up a nice chat. Or meet the gaze of someone who wanted to talk about his suit and also have a nice chat.

Gaspard paused, looked down, and went back to shovelling food onto his plate. No, that was a dumb thought after all. People just didn't cold-approach others like that-- this was real life. He'd better just stick to enjoying the food. There was less potential for social awkwardness that way.


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Another Roman legionnaire walked into the hall. Clad in sandals, a red tunic, and lorica segmentata, the Guardsman looked around the room and sighed when he saw Michael. "Great," he grumbled as he adjusted how his helmet sat on his head. "And I thought I was being original. Oh well."

The former soldier then noticed the massive amount of food laid out on the tables nearby. His costume woes forgotten, he made a beeline towards the nearest table and grabbed a plate. This was going to be a good night.

Dressed as Trainer Red and holding a Petilil in his arms sheepishly walks in. He wants so socialize with the oterhs but is quite shy.

Five women, all young, were arguing in the corridors of the Nouvelle-Caledonie section of HQ with the addition of one very definitely male young man. He was ostensibly there to keep the peace, but mostly what he was doing was glowering at a slightly charred map and muttering to himself about asking for directions from a damn plant.

"I can't believe this," came the same voice as before. It belonged to a small, wiry Goth who'd come as the Spectre Of Friedmanist Economic Structures, something that looked uncannily similar to a bedsheet with eyeholes and a load of currency symbols sprayed on it in multicoloured car paint. "We're hours late. Hours. We'll miss the midnight countdown at this rate!"

"Tess, deep breaths." This from a taller girl in a thrown-together witch's outfit, somewhat spoilt by the work polo-neck underneath with a nametag reading 'Hello! My Name Is Trainee Jo'. "It can't be far away now, can it? I mean, New Caledonia's not that big."

"Besides," came the Home Counties RP tones of someone who, with the inevitability of the passing seasons, rejoiced in the name of Araminta Twizzell-Pole (TwiZELL-Powell, she insisted, a pronunciation used by family members and precisely no-one else), "you're making an awful fuss for someone who didn't want to come, eh? Did this week's union not survive the first meeting?"

"Sod off, Minty, it was my study group and it finished early," Tessa grumbled. "And I didn't want to see you in a dancehall dressed as some sexist wazzock's idea of Aphrodite so you could flash your bits at any of the built ones."

"Y'know, if we join hands and chant in time, I'm sure we could call upon Mother Earth to guide us."

"Yeah, thanks for the input, Starlight." That came from Sam, the aforementioned very definitely man. His accent, one born of a Nigerian family and a Hackney childhood, was adept at making the word sound like 'earthworm'.

Starlight, as was her wont, just tossed her hair and wandered off, her enormous, billowing dress trailing seedlings of rare fruits. Jo caught up with her, the rest of the group wandering behind.

"Star, wait. That, that's actually not a bad plan."

"Thank you, Joanna, I know. Saturn is in the 8th house for the next fortnight, so my decision-making's getting a boost." They were the long, languid tones of someone who spent most of their days sprawled on a sofa listening to whalesong; the kind who thought thick ginger dreads looked really good against pallid skin.

Jo ignored the rest of her comment (ignoring Starlight was a skill one picked up over time) and concentrated, her hand on the floor of the corridor, arcane runes gathering around her in a maroon circle that slowly spread across the width of the corridor. She straightened and fished in a pocket for some herbs and, while muttering in Latin, blew them straight up into the air. When they fell, they formed bootprints on the ground... which promptly trudged off into the middle distance.

"Er, are we going to follow those?"

Tessa scowled. "No Minty, we're going to sit here and wait until it comes back with a chauffeur-driven bloody hovercraft. Jesus wept."

"Oh. But I thought you all didn't want me to ask Daddy for a lift-"

"We're following the footsteps!"

The six trudged off, Tessa in the lead. Jo could feel the pull of the spell like something tugging on her forehead, so she stayed at the back to make sure people didn't get lost. This meant she was next to the last member of the group, dressed as she was in a Dracula costume.

"Are you going to be okay, Sally? I mean, we've checked for allergies, and I can cast a detection charm for garlic, but it's more that... well, y'know... that I want you to have a good time tonight," she finished, rather lamely.

"It's fine," Sally replied. "One thing though."

"What?"

"Should the vampire have gone as Dracula?"

"You're not 'the vampire', Sally, you're my friend and you just have some problems." Jo's smile was bright and warm, and she accompanied it with a one-armed hug.

Sally's enhanced eyesight could see how shaky it was at the edges, and she didn't say anything.

"Aha! Got something!" Tessa's Northern twang cut through the quiet of the corridor.

"Tess, you okay?" Jo called. "What did you find?"

"Something on my scanner. Alcohol concentration. Been scanning for it since we arrived; big Halloween bash with students going? Got to be booze about. Long range, but we're closing in on it. Wouldn't have picked it up without your spell, though."

Jo preened a little, despite herself. "Thanks, Tessa."

About ten minutes later, and amidst plenty of chatting, the Southeastern University Amateur Heroics Society (minus faculty rep, who was attending a lecture on the importance of flans in Early Modern European warfare) arrived in the dancehall, just in time to see Michael's announcement.

"Ooh, he's yummy," Minty whispered, and tried to make a beeline for him.

"Make sure you use protection, Minty!" Tessa yelled. "You don't want to give 'im that weird rash you've got!"

"Thank you, Lenin, always an unutterable pleasure," grumbled a beetroot-red Minty as she came right back.

Sally tapped Tess on the shoulder. "Please not with the shouting, Tess," she said, "enhanced hearing over here." And with that she returned her hands to their position over her ears.

Jo decided to take charge of the situation, trying frantically to remember how the article she'd read online had said to do so. "Look. We know why we're here. We know that we're here. Let's just do what we came to do and-"

"Get plastered?" Sam cut in.

"... Yeah. Um, yeah, that."

And so the six made their way to the bar, whereupon Sam found they didn't have any lager and accidentally set fire to his nun costume.

"I'm just saying, it seems kind of unbalanced that we're both dressed as characters from your home continuum." He was currently wearing a short red wig and a tan Japanese school uniform; his conversation partner was a rather androgynous-looking man with dark skin and white hair, dressed in black body armor and a red overcoat.

"It was better than any of your ideas," "he" replied in a decidedly forced baritone. "I did say we could dress as Survey Corps members, but you shot it down."

"I get enough of that on missions, Nat," Aaron said sourly. "There wasn't anything wrong with my Firefly suggestion."

"There wouldn't have been, if you'd been willing to go as Mal. Simon and Zoe isn't a pair costume, it's just two characters who happen to be from the same show."

"I guess I just don't see how Shirou and Archer are any different."

"That's because you haven't got to Unlimited Blade Works," Natasha said firmly, reverting to her natural alto range. "Now come on. Let's enjoy ourselves."

A slender young woman gently elbowed the man next to her in the ribs. She was pale and almost everything she had on her was black: the coloured contacts, the lipstick, the tank top, the jeans, the boots. The only exception was a silver Ankh pendant on her neck and silver brads on her belt.

"Will, I didn't believe you, when you said you had this in your wardrobe," she said, looking at the man, "and I still don't believe people would actually wear this on a daily basis."

"Whatever, Elvira," William replied. For the sake of the costume, he used Glamour to add more colour to his skin and turn his hair black. He was wearing a black Ulster coat with cape, and a three-piece suit underneath it. The entire outfit was completed with a top hat on his head and a fake carving knife in his hand.

He looked at VJ. "Besides, it was your idea. You kept asking me about Victorian era clothes."

"Hey, my idea was brilliant! Come on, can't you see it!? Jack the Ripper and Death?" she said, pointing from William to herself. "That's like the greatest combo ever! Even better than jam and bacon!"

William raised his eyebrow. "...Don't you mean eggs and bacon?"

"I know what I said. Now, follow me, Jack!" VJ faced her partner and took a comically exaggerated bow. "I shall point you towards your next target."

"You mean towards food?" The warlock rolled his eyes but smiled nonetheless; she was having fun, who was he to deny her that. He followed the perky goth to the savory part of the buffet.




((The clickable names show you Will and VJ before and after putting their costumes on.))

...wandered in several minutes after Michael's announcement. They were dressed in the red and black armor of Fire Nation royalty, and the taller male agent had a nasty-looking fake scar over his left eye.

"Ugh, this itches so much," he complained, reaching up to scratch at it.

"You're the one who wanted to go as Zuko," the woman beside him replied. "And stop picking at that, Zeb, I'm not helping you reapply it when you scratch it off."

"I'm not Zeb," Zeb said, drawing himself up to his full height. "I am Prince Zuko, heir to the throne of the Fire Nation, here to regain my honor! And you, Azula, shouldn't get in my way!"

The Aviator blew a strand of hair out of her face and rolled her eyes. "Sure, Zuko. Whatever you say." She looked around and sighed. "Let's get this over with."

"Wow, Azula, and here I thought I was the grumpy one," Zeb said, elbowing her.

The Aviator gave him the stink-eye. "I'm only here because you asked."

"You'll never have fun with that kind of attitude. Come on! Aren't you looking forward to the thing later?"

The Aviator shrugged unenthusiastically.

Zeb looked around and gasped when he spotted the food tables. "POFFINS!" He took off, dragging a resigned Aviator behind him.

Here.

Oh where do I start?

- A fanfic where 8 canon female characters go on a journey with Sora and get their own keyblades. The story was their boyfriends and friends are getting kidnapped for being 'Princes of heart' by "Feelers" a rip off of heartless and nobodies who were made out of the feelings of someone who died.
At one point one canon female was just tossed onto the ship with memory loss. I never got far in it thank goodness.
- Really early designs of some of my ocs.
- A fanfic where every mafia related anime character meet up in a meeting to hang out. There would then be a murder and Li'en and Wonrei from Gash/Zatch Bell were going to solve it with a detective so underdeveloped I never described anything but their tench coat.

Not to mention the stuff I never wrote down, like my fantasy of becoming Aragorn's apprentice by finding him injured somewhere and nursing him back to health in Bree, thus proving how competent and useful I could be. Obviously Aragorn can take care of himself, but that doesn't mean he should have to, right?

At least I was never a luster by nature...

~Neshomeh

Carnage was a complete MESS when I first thought him up. He actually started out as a Gary Stu self-insert of myself in a Magic School Bus fic. Yes, really.

The gist of it was that he was turned into a Megalania during a canonical episode involving reptiles, then all of the other students turned into kaiju. He got thrown into a volcano, where he found a giant ruby that controlled the element of fire (Yes, really) and was appointed its guardian by some kinda spirit-I guess that it was the Earth, but I'm not sure.

Anywho, Carnage got transformed into a giant dragon that could turn invisible, fly faster than the speed of light, and was somehow able to terraform Mars with the help of Calvin and Hobbes.

I wish I was making this up.

Ok, actually the first if you consider what I call "first" wasn't even named that way (and was a character I came up with at five years old, so I never wrote anything on paper and if I did it's long disappeared into the trash bin).

I think I still have his old stories around in my PC somewhere, I have wondered if I should kill him for good or not.

... The bad thing is, I made more of him, and all the other ones got published.

*shudders*

I had a Yu-Gi-Oh (the game, not the manga) phase, and I made a homebrew card for it. It was basically a Magic Rainbow Queen who had way higher attack and defense than any other card.

... I was really little, okay?

I swear, that damn first chapter went through five different rewrites (the last one including Shadow Pokemon, of all things) before I just said "Screw it, deeman45 did it better and there's no way I can do this without all three of them being Sues."

There's so many...*shivers*

The worst one is the ridiculously OP Jedi who was trained by Dooku until he turned to the Dark Side, then found out and ran back to the Jedi, where she was trained by Yoda "to counter the darkness within her". Then Order 66 happened, she went to Dagobah with Yoda, and eventually went back in time to the Clone Wars to hijack the aid of Anakin Skywalker and the 501st. The only good thing is that she died at the end.

...what even was I thinking. What. Honestly. What.
(I'm so glad I hadn't heard of FF.net at that point...)

I guess it's better then never chiming in, eh?

Sorry for the late reply, I don't keep up with the Board all the time. I was surprised to see me mentioned at all :P

Re-reading my old mission, aside from the usual cringing, and looking over some old notes was an interesting experience. I did use one capitalization Mini, a Jurassic Park one, but aside from that one early on, I decided not to use them for the most part. During a mission, at least when I wrote them, I find ones with silly names like Brandyduck, Gordor, Grimli, etc, etc to be much more interesting to have pop up.

It's also far funnier to see a name like Legoless pop up multiple times in a mission, since the odds of it happening are a lot lower then legolas.

So, I guess that's my stance on minis. Hopefully I didn't ramble on my reasoning too much.

In any case, I don't think I will go back and change it to add it, since I would have scooped it the first time anyhow. Having one-of-a-kind things was something I was all about back then, as silly as it seems now. Though I did go over the doc, and fix a few typos, and generally sweep it up a bit. Rather embarrassed with myself it needed them.

Though, once you get permission, feel free to do a mission there! The section in the Pit is /ripe/ with stinkers, including one with a country above the clouds! : )

I also agree with what a mini would be. Originally I was going to do some more missions there, but eventually decided not to, for whatever reason.

Caddy-Shack, who always enjoys finding a fellow fan of something

I just now got around to clicking this, and the first thing I see is a would-be PPC mission. Don't you think it might be necessary to, you know, get Permission first?

There's been debate in the past over whether capitalization minis even count; I know I'll usually skip them, because they're just boring.

But more than that: if a PPC author has chosen not to use a certain feature - such as minis - shouldn't you respect that decision, rather than making it for them? Would you also say 'seeing as OC #3 wasn't that bad, they should have been recruited, but it was never mentioned. As such, I am adopting them for myself'? Or 'seeing as Agent #2 is a former Mary Sue, they should suffer from occasional regressions to their Suvian personality, but this was never mentioned. As such, I am declaring that they are now permanently in FicPsych for repressing it for so long'?

I don't think that mucking with other PPC writers' stories like that is... well, polite.

hS

PS: As per usual, just my opinion, do with it what you will, etc.

I've got a decent amount of Dresdenverse knowledge, so I'd be more than willing to help out with that.

SpaG and creative knowledge are more than enough, but knowledge about the Dresdenverse would be useful too.

An Ornithomimus has been found which preserves plumage patterns. Not particularly surprisingly, it has basically the same feather patterns as an ostrich - bare legs, feathers elsewhere. Which will no doubt continue to upset people who want dinosaurs to have been demon crocodile-lizards, rather than the amazing creatures they actually were, but I find it hard to care. ^~

The specimen apparently has a 'three-dimensional keratin structure to the feathers'. If that means proper complex feathers, then according to the <a href="http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?pageid=2">Saurian feather chart (scroll down), complex feathers have just been pushed back three branches on the tree, and are now only one branch away from the tyrannosaurs. Cool? Cool.

The picture for this one is pretty good. Not as good as the official Dakotaraptor image, which was drawn by Emily Willoughby and is fantastic, but pretty good.

-- and, haha, speaking of Ms. Willoughby: 'Ornithomimus being restrained by Dakotaraptor'. Because dinosaurs! (And yes, Ornithomimus is a Hell Creek dinosaur, so the folks at Saurian may well be frantically updating their models of it.)

You can't read the paper because it costs $40. Because that's how science works, apparently.

hS

The idea of being able to wander in a world where dinosaurs are allowed to be dinosaurs, rather than being forced to be movie monsters... yes, please. And I've been really impressed with how hard they're working to make it accurate, too.

And, hey! Dinosaur discovery fills in gap in ecosystem, nice going, guys! Shame about the name, but I guess Utahraptor's cousin was never going to get a good one... ^_~

hS

Although my experiences with the fun-hating cretins called feathernazis have made me somewhat cynical to accurate dinosaurs in games, I can proudly say that I'm stoked for Saurian!

Also, I wonder how Suta and Ripper would react to Ark: Survival Evolved?

Also, who's Suta? She sounds like you adopted her from "A Bad Taste In the Mouth," but I don't remember you deciding to adopt anyone from that mission...

Along with one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes, have a replica Golden Snitch and a magic ring that totally doesn't make you invisible!

The lair in which you will see a lot of stuff that will make your head hurt. Enjoy your stay!

Glad ter see ya!

Have an urple ocarina from me! Kills with a single note; great party trick!

-Alleb

Welcome aBoard! Have these Bleepolate-coated Bloffee beans. For when you want to stay up all night and forget why!

... Yeah, I should probably get a better marketing plan.

I can't give my usual newbie gift because my phone is a derp. As soon as I sort it out, though, you'll get it. =]

Enjoy the RP! I know I am. =]

This shovel digs up hearts and Rupees!

... I've been playing a lot of Link's Awakening.

Welcome to the madhouse! I'm Dorano, also relatively new. Have some Bloffee - you'll need it soon enough, I'm sure.

Here, have this cup of Lapsang Souchong tea. It's not quite certain — yet, anyway — if it smells like a campfire or like something else, so treat it gently, aright?

Here's a bag of mini Kit Kat bars!

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

Since Hadric covered the usual questions, I'll just leave you with a 'hope you like it here!' and a 'Happy Halloween!'

So you'll always look awesome! :) Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard, please take this weaponized Puzzle, multiple ways to solve, multiple ways to slaughter.

Since Hardric already covered the usual questions, I will just give you your newbie gifts: A Bag of Holding, for the truckload of gifts you are about to get and a Rorschach Book, which can change into any written text in existence. Just close your eyes while holding it , think about what you wanna read and then blink three times.

Have this pot of my special brand of black coffee. Oh, the lights? That's a normal reaction.

Did you read the Original Series, the Constitution?
Do you know about the Wiki?
What are your favorite spinoffs and fandoms?

Welcome, welcome, welcome~! Have a slice of Infinite Pizza! :D

Because as it stands I can't tell whether you're planning to ask 'should Harry Potter eat sauerkraut?' or 'if you walk 300m into the New Forest from its northernmost protrusion, what would be the most likely animal you'd find?'.

hS