Dec 2015 Archive, part c

Are...are we still doing it?

Ah, screw it... GRAB THE CHAIR, BOYS, WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUCKET-KICKER!

HIT IT!

Happy Birthday my olde friend.
It seems this horror show will never end.
Any moment's your last breath,
Here is to another day closer to death!

Hope you had a good one, so sorry for being late.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU
ON THIS DEAR DATE
MUCH HAPPINESS
MANY YEARS OF LIFE!

Also, it has been a while since I saw you, mostly because I vanished from the Board. How are you?

Happy Birthday!

And as your birthday gift, here is a Delibird Present! There's an 80% chance of it exploding, though, so handle with care!

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*

And happy anniversary, too!

Here's your NG+ Starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiit's Dedenne!

And your starting item is:-

Interstellar Desk Plant from Risk Of Rain!

... Yikes. I'm sorry, mate. Dedenne is just not a particularly good mon, though Interstellar Desk Plant is a decent held item for it. It gives you a couple of Berry effects when you kill an enemy, so try a set with Substitute, Recycle, Thunderbolt for STAB, and Grass Knot. Your ability, Cheek Pouch, will activate twice with each use of IDP, so it's about the only 'mon it's viable to use it on. Sorry, man. Them's the numbers.

I don't think we have met before. I was gone for nearly a year myself. So,it's nice to meet you! :-D

WELCOME BACK DATA YAAAAAAY

*offers returnbie SPaGhetti*

Good luck with your mission! May the gods of writing let your keys pen type flow freely!

Welcome back Boarder! Have some Hot Bleepolate for your troubles.

Well, jobs are good, at least! Just got a zookeeper position starting next month, which ironically means I'll have less work hours! So hopefully I'll see you in chat.

Any idea what mission number one will be?

Wow, that's seriously a long time to go between getting Permission and completing your first mission. What kind of job do you have that you stay that busy?

Have this pot of black-hole coffee. It should help you to make the most of your time.

Welcome! Here, have a slice of Infinite Pizza.

...some nice fluffy pillows, while I'm at it, grab some hot chocolate and enjoy your stay! Welcome, mate! :D

Have a Bag of Holding, so you can store all the gifts you're getting and a Rorschach Book, which can change into virtually any written text in existence. You just need to close your eyes while holding it, think about what you wanna read and then blink three times.

Welcome aBoard! Have this non-sentient hoodie!

Do not worry everyone here is friendly.

Please take this bag of black-hole chocolate. Iximaz asked the importants questions, but there's more to be said. For instance, what are your fandoms? Any verse or spin-off you particulary like?

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

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. We like it when newbies do the research. ;)

Hope you like it here! :D

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Welcome new friend! Have a warm mug of Hot Bleepolate!

*high-fives* Glad you found your way to us. Here's some movie-theater popcorn to eat while you read all the important links at the top of the home page!

Here's your starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiiiiit's Quilava!

And your starting item is:-
Imp Overlord's Tentacle from Risk Of Rain!
(My alleged phone won't let me get an image of the item. Bloody nuisance. =] )

IOT is a pretty OP held item for certain mons; it has a 25% chance to replicate your move, at half damage if it's a damaging attack. However, it only works if you have a Substitute up. SubCM mons can get a lot out of it, but Quilava doesn't really have the movepool to make it work. Stick with Eviolite. =]

Welcome to the board and here is a hrown light pen.

"But we're doing it anyway, boss?"

...GRAB THE CHAIR, BOYS, WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUCKET-KICKER!

HIT IT!

Happy Birthday my olde friend.
It seems this horror show will never end.
Any moment's your last breath,
Here is to another day closer to death!

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU
ON THIS DEAR DATE
MUCH HAPPINESS
MANY YEARS OF LIFE

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*

The casting for the trio is excellent in general, andNoma Dumezweni is a fantastic actress, too.

This is truly thrilling.

... that I didn't get tickets for next year. A group of me and my friends were going to purchase tickets and then travel together to Britain (from Denmark) but there were issues with the webpage and then everything was sold out for the next couple of years. :(
It's still an option of course, but it won't be for the foreseeable future.

But enough of me moaning like Myrtle. This looks like a great casting and I wholeheartedly support it!

I'm honestly so glad that this cast was picked. As a long time supporter of POC Hermione, this felt like winning a little bit. The fact that JK is so excited about it as well makes the news all the sweeter.

I know there are so many anti-sjw types who are gonna cry and whine over that and it makes the casting even better.

I has not yet stopped squeeing.

So if any of you can hear a high-pitched ongoing shriek of excitement, that's probably my fault.

There's a sequel? I take it this is an unofficial one, since JKR has been pretty adamant that she's not writing any more Potterverse stuff—though there might have been a qualifier, "unless I think of more stories to tell"? And, it looks like this is gonna be a stage play?

But, but, but, sequel? More Hogwarts?? I can haz???

And the casting choice for Hermione is also very exciting, but this is the first I'm hearing about this at all!

~Neshomeh

Probably Best of Both Worlds.

BTW, that was an especially suspenseful cliffhanger at the time since there were apparently rumors that Patrick Stewart might leave the cast.

I guessed what "News From OFUDisc" would be before I clicked it, but still. Right in the feels. And now I'm dreading the day THIS comes to pass.

But at least you made it all better with the SWFFA post. That one made me grin. :3

Let's hope it stays that way, yeah?

Glad that you're better now! :D * hugs*

Happy to see you again Matt. Is black-hole chocolate allowed for you? Take them anyway that's a gift. And thanks for your messages (the band accidentaly destroyed some paintball guns, but now that was a party!).

Glad to hear your heart's OK! Here's hoping your liver stands up, too! :D

though that's a crying shame about the binary vascular system

That's odd about the biopsy thing; I only felt kind of sore after mine. Anyway...

*hugs gently*

I played cricket at school and was actually pretty alright at it until I got my arm knackered. The problem that you have is that cricket is a very, very, very poor choice for a song like Casey At The Bat (Casey At The Oval?), entirely because of how it works, particularly in the time in which this is set. Not only that, but the scenario you talk about here actually happened. In the last ball of a match, needing a six to win, the Australian bowler decided to roll the ball along the ground, something that was entirely legal at the time. It nearly sparked an international incident. =]

If you're set on it, though, then put Casey in as a night-watchman and have him bludgeon the opposition's bowling attack all over the park. Might be a bit more feasible. =]

I do know you have to know about crumpets first.

(sorry for being unhelpful but hopefully that'll get a chuckle out of you.)

Agents from continua I don’t know much about disentangling continua I know even less about – that’s not an easy read. But what confused me most is the part with the Simulation Generator. Usually the SimGen is used before the killing happens, so that the simulation is killed when the character has already been taken to a safe place. (NSFW references here and here.) Why do Solvig and Yuuna need a simulation of the dead Kyle Rayner? Would somebody miss the corpse?

Also, I stumbled over so many missing words and other technical errors that I don’t intend to post the list here. My e-mail address is on my user page. If you want this mission report edited, send it to me.

HG

Let me give you both my black-hole chocolate and my black-hole coffee for both of these events.

The mission was entertaining, though I find it get a little confusing towards the end (you really have got an eye for Supah-powered glitterbags, haven't you?). Your notes are the end were very useful though, and the concrit is interesting.
I'll be waiting for more missions.

P.S.: Since you saw SW 7 what's your opinion about the suggestion I posted on the thread about the movie? I would like to know if other people share my opinion about this.

Glad to see you again, bro! Here, have a slice of Infinite Pizza

Hopefully you will be allowed to come back. I hate it when stuff like that happens.

But don't worry. I went through something like that and here I'm again. Parents forgive eventually. So hopefully we'll see you again soon! Best wishes!

Hope we'll be hearing from you sooner than later.

—doctorlit

Hopefully you'll be able to find a way to keep in contact. And eventually, you'll return, the prodigal child, the rightful ruler.

What does your father think, that you use Internet for Suvian fantasms and the Rule 34? We'll miss you, Voyd. I hope you'll come back, sooner better than later.

Dear Arceus, that's horrible! And I had such good news to tell you next time we talked... I may be able to text you, but no promises. :(

Keep safe, good sir. Your stalwart metallic avian friend will surely await you upon your return! *salutes*

One thing I know about parents is that they eventually give up. Even the toughest kind.

First off, for every Christmas my family has the same special breakfast: egg San Francisco. It's a combination of eggs, bacon, angel hair pasta, and Hollandaise. Trust me, it is far better than it sounds. But probably just as unhealthy as it sounds, as well.

There is also the movie tradition. My family watches multiple holiday films during the run up to Christmas, ranging from classics like White Christmas to slightly more modern fare like The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It all caps off with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation on Christmas Day itself.

Some of my family's traditions have fallen by the wayside due to the inexorable march of time, unfortunately. Cookie baking and stockings have both been allowed to lapse this year. Same with putting up the venerable artificial tree (my folks bought that thing in the 1980s). But that's how things go, I suppose.

There is a tradition of both Christmas entries for the logs and also for New Years. ;) Some people even fight for the right to be on watch for that turnover just to do that entry.

Until... basically until anyone can be bothered to put them away, all the yachts and little boats in the marina are bedecked in coloured lights. It's only small, and there's no really organization to it, it just sort of... happens, really. And it's beautiful.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Singing songs, baking cookies and pie, enjoying each others company. Although, this year, we all admitted to not really being in the holiday spirit. Not that we're all grumpy or anything. Just sorta... Collectively apathetic. Still, we're trying, and still enjoying each other, even if it's not particularly festive.

Although, thinking on it, I suppose we do have a couple of traditions that are different. Some with a story too.

The biggest one is actually all my fault. When I was about five or six, I was practically bounding with excitement for Christmas. There were so many presents under the tree that year! Big, tall boxes, full of goodies, surrounded by wrapped books and CD's (even back then, I was an avid PC gamer. LEGO and Humongous games were the best, man!) Well, and cloths of course. Never liked those. But the toys! I decided, I could not wait a whole eight more hours. I had been patient for over a month! (We don't play the Santa game, so I had to endure seeing those wrapped goodies since Black Friday.) No, I had to have one, now. I begged my mother. Begged and pleaded. "Just one, mom! Just one present!"

"No, not until the morning."

"But there's so many! Just one of them, mom! Please!"

Eventually, she relented. "Fine then. One present."

I was about filled to burst with joy! What would it be? A LEGO set? A castle? A robot dragon!? When she came back with the present, I descended upon the poor wrapping paper like it was my personal enemy. And, what was inside?

A vacuum.

A small, blue, portable vacuum.

My heart shattered.

"Why?"

My mother laughed. "So you can clean your room easier!"

"That don't count! Where's my real present!"

I want to quickly defend my character, and insist that this was a particularly greedy year. Usually, I'm happy with whatever I get. Were it Christmas day, I would have probably liked the vacuum. Not loved, but liked. But this was such a letdown, such a blow to my hopes and dreams!

Rather then chastising me, my mom thought of another idea. "Alright. But no more! This is all you get until morning."

She walked back to the tree and looked through the mound of colored paper. At that point, I would have taken just about anything. After the low that is a vacuum, there's only up, right? When she came back, she held a bulky bundle of paper in her hand. I carefully pealed the paper, cautiously optimistic.

Inside the second present, was a set of brand new, warm pajamas. While it wasn't disappointing, it wasn't exactly thrilling ether. "Thanks, mom," I said, unable to hide the lingering letdown from my voice.

Mom pushed the pajamas closer. "Now, while you sleep, you'll have a warm new pair of jammies. That way, you'll be nice and warm when you wake up! I want to see you wear them in the morning, OK? Now, go to bed. I'll see you in the morning.

Ever since then, we all get one present on Christmas eve. No, not a vacuum. A brand new par of pajamas and slippers, to wear on Christmas morning.

Let's see, what else do we have? Well, Mom's family used to drive around the city, singing Christmas songs, and looking at the decorations. Sadly, Anchorage has very few people who decorate their houses at all, much less elaborate decorations for neighborhood lights completions. So, that slowly died out, though we still try to find some houses.

I can't really think of anything else we do that most others don't. Still, thinking back on previous years has made me a little more into the spirit of things. This was a nice exercise. Thank you.

Anyway, merry Christmas to all, have a happy holidays, and a merry new year.

From what I figure, it is usually on Christmas Day that people go to church.

Not so with us Haitians; we go to church on Christmas Eve. To be exact, my church usually has a service on Christmas Eve starting from 7:00 PM to around 11:00 PM or 12 midnight. And when we were younger, my little brother and I would head straight for our presents once we arrived home from church, given that it's technically Christmas Day when we return home from church.

I live in Seattle, and to my limited knowledge the closest thing we have to a christmas tradition is going to see Pacific Northwest Ballet's yearly performance of The Nutcracker.

Even though I live in the Central Iowa area!

I also have plans with the gift cards I'm getting this year.

Certain plans include getting a LINK to a good time in a certain game myself and Des play.

(Feel free to shot me and/or request anything under 100p Des)

So I live in Kentucky which you can imagine is just about as Christian as a state can be. Christmas Eve is a pretty regular day where I live. For people with multiple families to visit, today would be one of those days that would be spent with extended family. The only thing out of the ordinary would be every single store closing about five hours early.
For my family, I usually spend Christmas Eve with my mom's side. We have a brunch with my German grandmother and my mother's sister. We also usually have a Christmas Eve dinner with my grandmother. So I guess, for me, Christmas Eve is the "Oh God, time to spend time with your cousins" day.

My family used to identify as Roman Catholic up until a few years ago when I got Confirmed, had an absolutely horrid time of it, and went "**** this I'm outta here" and declared myself agnostic. It just so happened that around the same time, my parents became atheists, and my brother was only going to Sunday Mass so he wouldn't get grounded. He's not got a label or anything for himself; he just doesn't care either way.

We still enjoy a good bit of holiday cheer and mom's got a ton of traditional Christmas songs on her iPod for when we're making cookies, and we put up the tree and everything this year, but we celebrate just a general time of being together with family and friends. So... for us, it's like Thanksgiving, but with presents and music. And presents. :3

(And after I counted the ornaments on our tree and found only nine of them weren't fandom related, I decided to declare December 25 as "The Doctor Saves London From Aliens Yet Again Day", since we celebrated Regeneration Day on Easter. What can I say, we're in it for the commercialism.)

We don't have Christmas here — Christians are a minority group and a small one at that. Most people celebrate Hanukkah, but DawnFire could probably tell you more about it, since she actually celebrates it (I don't, I'm irreligious, secular and a bunch of other things). Today and tomorrow are just regular days for me.
Though, I did see that the café I frequent decorated the bushes they have outside with strings of little lightbulbs, and that cheered me up quite a bit; I spent the next half an hour humming (foreign) holiday tunes.

Have a Bag of Holding and a Muggle-use wand!

Nice to see some fresh blood! I hope thee holidays are going well for you.

Ah, Percy Jackson fan, I see. I need to re-read the books. I'm starting to get rusty.

As a gift, a Camp Half-Blood goblet. Same restrictions apply, even outside camp.

i'm norkas, and i only share two fandoms in common with you
anyways, i'm pretty sure it's custom to give gifts to newbies, so...
have a bar of chocolate

Ah, another PJO lover, eh? I've been a fan of the original series since I was in my teens, and I've started reading The Lost Hero! Glad to meet a fellow fan! :)

Aside from one of my own shed feathers, have a Golden Snitch with a Poke Ball engraving and a replica of Riptide that doubles as a working pen!

Glad to have you here, newbie.

Please accept this 'ere starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiit's Nidorino!

And your starting item is:-

Spirit of the Master from Ascendant!

The Spirit of the Master is a really useful item for Nidorino's evolution, Nidoking, since it grants a +33% damage boost to STAB moves. However, Nidorino itself doesn't have access to Sheer Force, so you have to work around it. Try a physical attacking set with 252 Attack, 252 Speed, and 4 HP, running Hustle with Hone Claws, Poison Jab, Drill Run, and Body Slam to spread Paralysis. You'll need to get a boost out, but it can work. =]

Welcome, welcome! Never enough PJO and RA fans!

Here, have a slice of Infinite Pizza!

Have a cup of black-hole coffee. If you search crazy and fun, you're indeed to the good place.Only thing left is now to enjoy yourself with us.

It's almost Christmas, so here's a Gryffindor scarf and a bag of peppermint bark chocolate to eat while you read the important stuff on the homepage! :D

Welcome, &c. I've nothing important to ask you, except maybe for you preferred pronoun? Anyway, here, have this cup of confused Lapsang Souchong tea. It's not quite certain whether it smells like a campfire or not, so be gentle to it, aright?

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

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. We like it when newbies do the research. ;)

Also, Harry Potter, PJO, AND Ranger's Apprentice? I think you and I are going to get along just fine. :D Say you watch Doctor Who

Please accept your NG+ starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiit's Hariyama!

And your starting item is:-

Lusty Blood from The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth!

Lusty Blood is a very strong item for a lategame physical sweeper like Hariyama, effectively giving it Moxie in addition to its other abilities. Try a physically attacking set with Guts, using Close Combat, Bullet Punch, Earthquake, and Facade. It can work pretty well!

Have a cup of Early Grey tea as a welcome-back gift.

(I am, obviously, still here.)

Let me give you some black-hole coffee and chocolate.

Hello.

*offers SPaGhetti*

I'm giving out footie pajamas, emblazoned in every fandom sigil imaginable! They're soft as angel wing down and they have hoods. Beautiful things. No I didn't get footie pajamas for Christmas that's silly I'm more mature than that OOH LEGOS.

-Alleb

To everyone who hasn't one already, have a Rorschach Book, which can change into virtually any written text in existence. Just close your eyes while holding it, think about what you wanna read and then blink three times.

Additionally, Aiko sends everyone candy like the ones from the Inoue family's store and Henry sends boxes from Honeydukes!

It's been a relatively miserable day, but only because my computer/space heater (I'm not joking; that's part of what I use it for) decided to boot from the wrong device, and didn't want me to fix it. Other than the temperature, it's been pretty good. Anything new with you guys?

*tosses candy canes to everyone* Most of December has been unseasonably warm here in North Carolina, and the last couple days have been rainy and gray. The rain isn't so unusual for the South, but the temperatures are. Seriously, Arizona was colder than North Carolina yesterday!

And a very happy new year to you and your loved ones!

It's overcast, we didn't get the promised White Christmas, and it's still the most awesome day of the year.

For gifts, I will be handing out Death By Chocolate cookies, as well as resurrection services for those who actually do die.

And many happy returns.

It was fun, didn't get much.

Delibirds for everybody!

Already have a Delibird? Then have a Stantler instead!

*gives everybody high-quality Earl Grey*
This time it ain't predatory, I swear.

heya, i don't know you, but here's some chocolate flavoured chocolate

Have both of my black-hole coffee and chocolate, and may this return last.

*flying glomp tacklehug attack*

*passes out chocolate chip cookies to everyone, because she made a ton today and then ate herself sick*

I hope you get whatever presents or wishes you were hoping for.

I love how it's a surreal experience even by PPC standards. Which is saying something, really. This is a lovely interlude to have read and thank both of you for sharing. c: I've been out of the loop, and I don't know if there's history with Algie, but he's dearly entertaining and it's also excellent to see Library again. She always takes things in such stride.

additional: I am continually in awe of Philomene's matter-of-factness and cool-headedness in the face of everything. I am not surprised she is related to our Library.

And overall I enjoyed reading both of these very much! Happy Christmas.

(Socks are actually amazing Christmas presents >.>)

Meanwhile, at another trans-dimensional organization...

It seemed prudent to pair with this, considering both are concerning Library. :)

Though one can never have too many socks.

-July, sockful

Though one can never have too many socks.

-July, sockful

WEEEEE!

Sounds like a worthwhile time-consumer. Consider me interested.

(It's also nice to have you back) :)

If I had the time to do forums, I'd definitely hop in and start contributing - one of my original fiction series takes place in basically an AU of World One/Earth in which it's been infused with magic for a few million years with life evolving accordingly. I've been meaning to do some worldbuilding with this new Earth and its life forms for a while, but Real Life kept happening, so yeah.

At any rate, welcome back! I hope to see you around here more often as well. :)

Here, have this cup of Early Grey tea.

*hugs* Here's a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies!

Christmas is bringing back a lot of people here. Have some black-hole chocolate, please. And a belated Merry Christmas, of course.

You came BAAAACK!

Glad to know you're doing okay! :D Have a fresh hot plate of SPaGhetti!

Alas, there may be some technical errors:

... gloated that Kaitlynn would never be as good as archery at him, smirk and all.
Should be "at archery as".

Za’kiir blinked, shocked once more by the sheer illogical possibility Sues possessed that enabled them to say so much in one breath.
Is "possibility" the right word here? I believe you meant "ability".

Is devinstangingly a word? I couldn’t find it in a dictionary. Is it an intentional misspelling of "devastatingly" and I don’t get the joke?

The Fellowship looked each other, stunned, before Legolas had his bow strung again.
Missing word "at"?

HG

Good mission. We haven't see a good old LOTR Sue in a while. (How old was this one? I hope that these things aren't still being written after all these years?!)

However, there are quite a few errors.

First of all, formatting. Partway in, the text color changes to gray and never turns back.

As for the story itself:
1) After thwarting of a surprise attack from Aragorn,

A rare double error. First, misspelling: That "of" is obviously supposed to be "off". Secondly, misuse: "thwart" is not followed by "off". The verb should just be "thwarting" -- no "off" -- or else a verb phrase that ends in "off," such as "fending off".

2) the Mini melon was born
As minis are created by misspelled names, "melon" shouldn't be a mini.

3) changing POVS without warning
It should be "POVs"(note the lowercase S), or better yet, spelled out as "points of view". As currently written, the "S" is part of the acronym.

4) Za’kiir deactivated the tool and looked across the lake at the characters. “It worked, thank Alkosh. Their eyes are distant, but canon will resume in a moment.”

By "tool," I am guessing you mean the neuralyzer? If so, then that clause is unneeded. Unless I'm misunderstanding something or Za'kiir somehow turned the neuralyzer into a flashlight, there is no need for him to "deactivate" it once the flash has come and gone.

The mission, and the death, were interesting, but I have some nitpicks.

-It was pointed out before, but Agent Cadmar is a textbook illustration of why you need Dummies.

-I'm not so sure the Watcher would actually remember the PPC.

I also spotted a typo here: “Oh brother,” Natalie muttered as she got up. Pretty sure you meant bother.

since I betaed this. But I feel like I should be facepalming or something, as some errors still slipped through!

1) Godling!Hermione had turned blue, the scarf tightening around her neck with every breath. And by the time Sarah had finished reading off the charges to her, she’d gone limp.

Tense shift (pluperfect to present back to pluperfect). It should read thus:

Godling!Hermione had turned blue, the scarf having tightened around her neck with every breath. And by the time Sarah had finished reading off the charges to her, she’d gone limp.

2) Apparently, the two of them had been fighting as Sarah had predicted earlier.

I'd suggest a comma before "as".

How the duck Potter fics manage to attract such crazy fans? I swear, it feels like they cannot write anything without destroying anything set by the canon. Great ironic deaths for the replacements, continue like this.

P.S.: Backslash, never your name was so deserved. Let someone he's not a person people explain to you how wrong your behaviour was... *beats some sense to him with my training cane* (I'm calm, I'm not using a sword.)

If so, welcome back! How have you been?

Which has resulted:

Me being conscience during the operation (I blame ADHD meds, it wasn´t that bad).

General Pain in the Mouth region.

A stomache.

which resulted in my hurling.

And worst of all...
...I COULDN´T PLAY WARFRAME TODAY

(Actually the hurling was the worst part.)

Being in Israel and of Jewish descent and whatnot, so the only difference I feel is that everybody abroad is acting so slow. People are away, etc.
*shrugs*

I got a load of shirts and books and things (my Christmas tree was made of books), but what really made it was my girlfriend getting me an embroidered, ridiculously soft stuffed tiger and rhino. Their names are, in my usual imaginative vein, Tiger and Rhino, or occasionally Striped Friend and Pointy Friend.

Stuffed animals are good. They're friends when you're too young to really know what friends are. They're there, and they never stop being there, even after they've all but disintegrated from years of snuggles. I adore them. I've lost a lot over the years due to my parents thinking I'd outgrown them (At twenty-three, you say? What a preposterous notion), but I remember them. Big Bear, an enormous polar bear I'm willing to swear blind I learned to read while sitting in; Rooball, a kangaroo who could fold up inside a soft felt rugby ball; Mister Octomapus, who is still up in my nana's house safe from parental depredations; Duck, who was a big fluffy mallard duck; Steggle, the green and white striped stegosaurus whose species name I insisted on pronouncing stegglesaurus until... well, frankly I still do it sometimes when in a whimsical mood; Professor Wol, who has emerged from his hiding place behind a filing cabinet and is sitting next to me.

But you had a favourite. You always had a favourite. Wombat was mine. He was my Wombat. He still is. He's... he's staying with my girlfriend now because it's not a safe environment for stuffed animals at my parents' house. And he's old, and his fur is slowly leaving him, and he's missing an eye from when I was playing with him at my uncle's house and he slipped out of my hands and bounced around on a stone floor. And he's my favourite, because he's mine, and he's been mine since I was less than two years old, and I remember my mother telling me bedtime stories of him being a Gallifreyan Time Lord who went on adventures in the back of the black sofa we had in our living room.

He's my friend and I love him, and it's probably pathetic but it's background information for why the introduction of Striped Friend and Pointy Friend left me crying with happiness. Because that's what you should have at Christmas, and all the rest of the year too.

Something soft and safe and precious you can hold when the world's too much for you to take.

VJ put all her weaponmaking and destruction artistic skills to work and will bring a Suewhip, made out of real Sue hair.

After days of asking, and one or two bribes, Will also agreed to join the fun. He's bringing a Magician's Hat, which is just his old top hat that was enchanted to access the Hammerspace.

Chris: Part of the giant sack of candy he won at the Halloween Masquerade. (lots of fun-size Babe Ruth and 3 Musketeers bars, three packs of Atomic Fireballs, a pack of Starburst, candy corn, some lollipops, fun-size Milky Way bars, and a handful of Jolly Ranchers for good measure)

Ami: A line drawing of Toon Link and a Great Fairy

Miguel: His mom's quesadilla recipe

Violet: A 750-piece puzzle depicting the Parthenon

Three agents for you:

Gaspard will be bringing a dozen of his home-made chocolate éclairs-- made using his baker great-grandfather's recipe.

Harris will be bringing... a thing. He's not entirely sure what it is, but it purrs, it coos, it's fluffy, it loves eating, and it seems to mysteriously multiply itself in a very short period of time. A Trekkie agent will immediately recognize it as a tribble but Harris is neither a Trekkie or particularly observant.

The Guardsman will be giving away some firepower in the form of a pre-patch R8 revolver, from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Before Valve obliterated the R8 with the nerf bat, it boasted near-perfect accuracy, did as much damage as the AWP sniper rifle (which is a one-shot kill to anywhere but the legs), and plunged the game into a dark age of the wild, wild west for three days straight as everyone used the revolver since nobody in their right mind would use a regular gun only to be one-shotted by a 850$ sidearm.

He thinks it's funny.

Because Rashida has yet to return to active field work, let alone RC #227, the scorekeeper for this year will be Rayner. Again, if anyone wants their agent to be the moderator, let me know as soon as possible - if nobody comes forward, Rayner will also be the moderator.

Falchion, in a bid to recoup his dignity after last year's gaffe with the mini-Boulder, will be bringing a box of Squawkie Talkie rubber pelicans, which will be referred to as the Duck Box until further notice.

Velociripper will be bringing Dark Yagami's skull.

Sarah will be bringing the mini-Omnidroid, Underminder.

Cupid will be bringing an unopened bottle of vintage Bleeport Chardonnay.

Lapis will be bringing a handcrafted shark's tooth necklace. Those teeth come from her, by the way, so it's 100% ocean-friendly.

E.V.L. will be bringing a vial of her own extracted glitter.

Backslash will be bringing a Tough Glove from Undertale.

Whitney will be bringing (what else?) an animated Wii Balance Board.

Oh, and I forgot to set up the GDerp for our cowrite because I am smart. I'll do that now. =]

Oopsies a miss click, my bad.

Anywho Puzzle and Dragons is a F2P iOS and Android game released by GungHo, which involves solving puzzles and fighting monsters with your own monsters.

Not only that, but it has had some crossover, called collabs, with multiple franchises, including Attack on Titan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Final Fantasy, Dragon Ball, and the DC Universe. It also has multiple gods of several Mythos, you can probably guess what these mythos are.

Their is also a friend feature, which allows friends to use another friend's leader monsters

Speaking of which my friend ID is 341,068,390, and the monsters I can provide are Psychopomp Commerce Deity, Hermes, and, once you reach rank 40 ingame (the levels go by quick, I promise) Crimson Lotus Mistress, Echidna.

It's an awesome game and I love it, if that wasn't already obvious .

One canon that knows about us is The Puppet from FNaF, on the basis that it has power over life and death. Seeing as Death itself and its various avatars know about us, the Puppet was given the same honor. (Probably due to the fact that aside from being able to stuff spirits into animal suits, we have no clue what the Puppet is capable of, so he's put there just in case. At least, that's my theory.)

Another one would most likely be Hermaeus Mor from Skyrim. Seeing as he's the daedric lord of knowledge and memory, I doubt neuralyzers will affect him.

Also, the Outsider from Dishonered may qualify as well: given that he's said to be all-powerful on many, many occasions in the game, he definitely fits.

I do believe they should be more special then your regular canon character. After all, the knowledge of the fact they are in a fictional story is important. However, this does not mean they should be aware of the PPC. So, what to do? I say, make them able to see agents, but not know who they are. Canon helps to cloak the agents from the average canon character, unless they make themselves known. However, because of the interesting nature of fourth-wall breakers, this cloak fails to hide the agents from those who can already see far more then they should.

What does this mean? That Deadpool will always harass any agent in the Marvel cannon? Well, no. He likely would not care about them. And not because of the SEP field (which I am on record for thinking as cheating, and am not a fan of their usage in missions) but because, well, why would he? Does he interact with literally every single person milling about the local block? Well, sometimes, but that's besides the point. Unless the agents are in a conspicuous location that he is clearing out, say something that would be funny of he were to interject, or otherwise draw his attention, he's likely to notice them and just move on. Why do you think agents have disguises? Here you go.

What does this change? Unless the author wants it to, not much. It opens up an avenue for character interaction and agent danger, while not necessitating a interaction if the mission writer does not want to be bothered.

The one exception to this (that I can think of) is Pinkie Pie. Not that she should know about the PPC, mind you, but that she would force an interaction on you if you are in Ponyville. She knows everypony in town. Everypony. And if you're new in town, she will make sure to give you a big welcome. And yes, this would include folks under SEP fields. New ponies in town are her problem. Always. How can you justify not having a surprise party forced on your agents every time they enter Ponyville? Well, for one, have the agents be careful. Two, she may not fully recognize them, but something tells her that it would be a really bad idea if she were to bother the new ponies right now. She may leave a small gift for them instead. Third, there is something very familiar about return agents...

Just my thoughts. It makes fourth wall characters a little more interesting, without making PPC knowledge a badge of being *specul*.

Don't introduce them unless you have a really good reason. They're a lot of headache. If possible, Hand Wave around them.

The following points include mild spoilers/speculatons about the Dresden Files and Persona. You have been warned.

For characters indoubtly in the know about PPC inside the DFs, there is one I would like to have an opinion about, The Archive, Ivy during the main series.

The Archive is a woman who holds inside her mind a perfect copy of any information ever written, plus the memories of the preceding Archives, and who in the past, could play the Pythie of Delph thanks to this knowledge.

I think she would be in the know because anything written means the charges lists. Now, you could say "Don't write anything then.", and you're right (It's even the 1488th thing not allowed to do inside PPC.). Te catch? It also means the canon material necessary to exorcisms, and once even one book is brought inside this world, she would know about this (And with the slash you can find about Dresden and mafioso Marcone, you bet that exorcisms are in sore need here.) . Now, the Archive can 'delete' an information from her mind once it's the only place where it's left, but couldn't she keeping PPC awareness from this experience?

My other question isn't about canons in the knows, but who could be able to see through SEP Fields and would know if they're faced with a glitterbag: Igor and the Velvet Room attendants inside said Velvet Room.

Gameplay-wise it's a hub where you can fuse new Personae, check Social Links progress... Lorewise, it's a construct inside the Collective Unconscious, manned by Igor, servant of Philemon, supposed to be the embodiement of any good inside mankind (check Jung for more information), and the attendants, other beings from this other world.

Now, the VR is a place who, judging from the implications in-game, exists within the main of the Persona Users linked to Philemon (Persona 1 and 2), or whoever inherited the Wild Card power and passed a 'contract' with Philemon (Persona 3 and 4, for now.).

Now, they also seem to know anyhing about the people(s) linked to the Velvet Room, so the intrusion of a glitterbag would rise their eyebrows. Not only that, but they also say something without a complete psyche cannot enter the VR, and they're aware of the mind of any person entering, and since glitterbags were always stated to be less than complete on that matter, they'll see them as something closer to Shadows than anything else.

Now, it doesn't mean PPC knowledge, but in my opinion, it means no SEP Fields inside this room, and necessity to neuralize Igor and the attendants every single time. Am I right?

Last note, what's would be your opinions about the 'gods' inside the Collective Unconscious, beings like Philemon, no actual gods, but enbodiement of some type of thoughts from mankind, like grief, desire to die...

It was meant to be a Warrior's-style name, but I decided to have it be with one t instead of two.

The basic premise is that there's a world that mirrors ours, called The Realm, and travel between the two is possible but rare. Each human has a Glimpse twin (a Glimpse is basically a human, but they all have ghost-white skin and their eyes flash different colors depending on their ultimate loyalty) that can be a different age but is physically identical and dies at the same time. It's a great trilogy, and the audiobooks are wonderful.

An Alleb is a Glimpse from the city of Alleble, and my full name is Alleb Knight, meaning (duh) that I'm a knight of Alleble. In The Door Within, it basically means you're a Christian (although this universe has some really interesting doctrinal differences that I've only recently begun to notice). But anyway, that's a super long backstory to my name. ^_^

-Alleb

My name came from my first DnD character, which came from me misspelling my actual name's original Latin variant.

I have a shoebox containing a marionette that my dad gave me when I was a kid. When I first joined the PPC, I looked around for something to pick for my screen name and saw said shoebox. The puppet's name was "Mr. Wizard", so I took "Mister" and "Shoebox". There we go.

My handle came from an in-universe handle used by an author avatar of mine.

Well "Cattomboy" is actually a shortened verison of a super long username I had on gaia back when I was 13. The name is meant to read "Cat tomboy" i.e. relating to cats and the tomboy stereotype,but more often it ends up being read as "Cat tom boy" and people just assume I'm a guy.

"Jebboy" is just the name of one of my old cats my parents had when I was a little girl.

By an old punk rock band from Denmark called Sort Sol.
I like the song (couldn't find it on YouTube) and it's a practical handle because I can use it anywhere and it's never taken.

Sergio's my first name, and I was already a car enthusiast so I went with Turbo.

Not that original, but I'm so used to it I don't feel like changing it.

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. I though the letter itself looked cool, and have used it in a few random places.

I just played a little bit with my first name, Richard. Nothing more.

The knife birb is basically my all-time favorite Pokemon, ever. It's my Pokesona, one of my top picks for a Pokemon team, and in general, well, it's me. Silver came into the picture for the sake of alliteration and the fact that I joined the Internet pretty close to the release of HeartGold/SoulSilver.

I also use this handle on Tumblr and for my Gmail address, though when I joined Smogon, I went by the name of my current "birbsona", Falchion.

Squawk!

Mattman is a portmanteau of "Matthew" and "Man," I was 7 when I came up with it. Comet originates from my Superhero persona.

They wouldn't let you use anything that even resembled a 'normal' name, but that wasn't going to fly with me. I didn't want to be 'CamelotOrc3327', no thank you! How was a brave adventurer supposed to be taken seriously with a name like that?

So I played with letters until I came up with something I liked. I haven't played Runescape in years now, but Iximaz has since upgraded to a World of Warcraft hunter. :)

Wish I had an old nickname to go by, but that's what happens when you're not socializing enough.

Matt comes from 'Matthias', which is the closest English equivalent of my actual name - Maciej.

Cipher actually has two reasons: One is that at that time i just got into "Gravity Falls", and the character Bill Cipher quickly became one of my favourites. Second is that I love puzzles, riddles, etc., so it kinda suits.