Nov 2017 Archive, part a

Hey Quincy! Since I don't frequent the Discord server, I don't know as much about you as I would if I did. So anyway! What brought you here? What are your fandoms and/or other interests? Do you have any OCs or potential agents? I'm interested to know!

As for me, I'm Twistey, a chaotic goodish lightly-used-bie who has too many ideas for stories and whatnot and not enough time to do all of them. I am very easily dragged into fandoms, but currently my biggest one would have to be Wolfenstein 3D (and to some extent, anything else iD Software did in the 90s.) I tend to be more skilled in the character aspects of stories rather than the plots themselves, but I hope to get better.

Anyway, for your newbie gift, here is a random pile of blueish metal, straight from Castle Wolfenstein. Do whatever you wish with it!

-Twistey

Welcome, have a hatchet that returns to your hand when thrown, and leaves a stream of particle effects in its wake with a color of your choice.

Have a bag of black-hole chocolates. Hope you'll enjoy the Board as much as Discord.

Welcome to the Board! Here, have some chocolate, and enjoy your stay!

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Welcome to the show, Quincy.

Have an altimeter from Aircraft Spruce. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/menus/in/altimeters.html Then you can land gracefully next time!
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Sorry, my account settings did a weird thing. Just thought I'd clear that up.

Have some popcorn! :D

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

Hallo Quincy! How are you doing?

Take a chainsword and a mug of Klatchian Coffee. Relax.

Hi newbie! Here, have a very generic weapon; it could be anything you want it to be, within reasonable limits of course.

Just out of curiosity, what fandoms are you part of?

*tackles*

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I'm doing it, although I'd prefer not to share details in public because to do so would be mixing anonymity modes.

I find that usually the hard part isn't generating the words, the part I find the most difficult part is actually paring them down after I'm through and remaining on course without going all over the place. NaNoWriMo usually gives me a good excuse to just toss that out the window and just go completely hog wild on everything. Usually the editing is where I have the most fun, but I've taken to viewing NaNoWriMo as the time where you find the pieces that you'll be writing, and editing the next month as a matter of when I get to actually put them together. A lot of parts naturally won't get used, but I view that as being perfectly fine, since just because some of my ideas won't get used this time around, it won't mean I won't get to use them in the future.

My first drafts will always be a little disjointed but that's to be expected. I'm looking forward to it.


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Rather than doing NaNo proper, I'm dedicating this month to sewing things. Gonna do a weighted blanket and first drafts for a costume for cons next year.

Last time I attempted it was back in 2012/2013 I think. Going to be writing the latest revision of the story that originally created Apollo (who unfortunately doesn't have a major part in this one).

Storme

I've had an idea floating around since 2015 but I've never attempted a NaNo before.

I'm going to hate myself if I don't get it finished. >.>

This sounds like a good kick-start opportunity. My ultimate, perfect, innovating urban fantasy of perfection ideas may finally take a solid form.

I'll be writing in Malay though. When you first learn a hard task, use the tools you wield the best.

Hoping to get to a write-in tonight, too (my first ever! Somehow I've never gotten to them before). Should be fun.

~Z

I mean, I don't consider it to be a real force of destiny, but I make "don't jinx it" jokes whenever someone says something like that.

-Twistey

I came from a rather spiritual family, so while I wouldn't necessarily call myself superstitious, I do find myself hesitating before making definitive statements. Especially things along the lines of, "I will never do this thing! Ever!" Because that's just asking for life to prove me wrong. And I swear, some days I can just feel the Ironic Overpower looming over me. Just waiting for me to make some dumb comment and make it all go horridly wrong.

This first impression which was right after all?

This thing you lose/don't hhave right when you need it?

The uncanny odds that everything will go wrong spectaculary?

Doubting the IO, and its aspects, like the RNG, is madness and it should be feared.

(But as a rolist, I reserve my respect and admiration to our two god emperors, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.)

I try not to speak of anything in definite terms if I can avoid it, for fear that the second I think I know something for sure, I'll turn out to be wrong. This has been a bit of a problem at my job, where my boss wants me to be sure about things. ^_^; I think she might be getting used to the idea that I always double-check, though.

That, and I tend to operate on the principle of "it's better to have and not need than need and not have." I don't mind carrying a bit of extra weight if it means I don't get caught out by the unexpected, or the ironic.

~Neshomeh

I SWEAR, it has it out for me. *shakes head, hides behind barrel* I have carried an umbrella in my backpack for the last two weeks. The day it finally rained? I gave it to my dear parental unit in the morning because they wanted to take a look at how it worked.

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong - and is exponentially more likely to if you happen to draw attention to the idea that it can't go wrong.

You'd be foolish not to.

Although as a gamer, I'm a bit more concerned with the Random Number God.

Too many examples to even share by this point. For me, it's no longer deniable that reality runs on authorship.

—doctorlit, mere player on the stage

The (partial) conclusion of Charlotte's Becoming Human arc, that is. Also nice to see Charlotte's learned a little bit about how relationships work outside her canon--you just *know* that proposal would've happened right then in the Twilight canon (well, ignoring the fact that they wouldn't be a likely couple there. Shh.) It's also nice to see Charlotte's character development.

Anyway. I kind of forgot this was coming, and it was nice to see it. And I'd say more, but I read it...uh, yesterday? The day before? Anyway, this is what I remember wanting to say, so...yeah.

~Z

I also forgot that (Agent) Kaitlyn wears glasses - I had to go and check. ^^ But she does, so that's fine.

This is the first time in... a while I've read a new PPC story end-to-end, so well done on keeping my attention? I have to say, my absolute favourite line goes to the Marquis for his cookies comment. ^^

Agent Kaitlyn says: Ooh, I get a favour? I wonder what I should ask for! ... no, asking for mushrooms would be silly...

Anyway, here's hoping the locked-morph doesn't have any weird interactions with the Disguise Generator!

hS, disjointed and not all that coherent, shaddupitsfriday

but I wanted to point out three things I think are very well done:

1a. The constant attention to detail you gave in comparing a Twilight vampire's senses to a human's. It hadn't really occurred to me how big a change this was going to be for Charlotte—partly because I haven't read the Saga yet, and the vampires seem so human compared to the older styles of vampires, I didn't realize they are actually dead. But you really put it into perspective for me. Although one thing I only just noticed as I wrote is that no mention is made of Charlotte's voice after the morph. I would think it must have changed at least a little, yeah?

1b. Following from this, I really like the contrast between Ix, with her physical disabilities, managing to outperform human!Charlotte, despite Charlotte's "healthy" body, due to the lack of practice and exercise yet on Charlotte's part. And I really like Ix's simple explanation and the implications behind it: humans are adaptive; we don't succeed through superpowers or unnatural abilities, we just keep trying until we stop sucking. Very nice!

2. And that, I'm sure, will flow nicely into the continuation of their ESAS service. It was a lovely twist, coming from the perfect Flower to deliver the bad news and not care. But I look forward to Charlotte learning to use her wits and perseverance against uber-Sues now that her strength and speed are gone.

—doctorlit, probably going to maybe read Twilight, someday, eventually, perhaps, if he finds the Saga for cheap in Goodwill, all in one visit, without any movie characters on the covers, paperback only, if they're all in good condition. Then maybe.

What say you we "kik" his illegal butt of our Board?

*airhoooooooooooooorns*

-Twistey

Hey there Emilia! I'm Twistey, a lightly-used-bie with too many fandoms and too many ideas. I write a combo of fanfic and original worlds (mostly original), absolutely love MSTing and otherwise reacting to things, and have actually lost friends to my fervent insistence on fanfiction excellence. True story.

Anyway, enough about me, who are you? How'd you find us, what fandoms are you into, etc. I'm interested to know more (I think all of us are.)

And finally, your newbie gift! Currently I'm feeling ready to kick the butts of some blonde villains (and the blonde heroines of some franchises that show obvious favoritism - but why I'm in this mood is another story for another day), so here, you can have a virtual version of my BJ Blazkowicz cosplay outfit, and a nerf gun that resembles Wolfenstein 3D's Chain Gun as well. Your virtual self or your agents may be equipped with this gift. Use it wisely.

Anyway, nice to meet you! I hope you have a great time here. Welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

Hi there! I don't have a predetermined gift yet. Um. Um. I'm at my friend's barn, take this free-roaming chicken!


What do you get when you fire a hairdresser and a chicken out of a cannon?


Feathered bangs.

Have some hot cocoa. I'm sure we're going to love having you around!

Well, someone already offered you coffee, so please have a bag of black-hole chocolates.

Hi there newbie! Have a replica of Pumpkin! Like the original, the output gets stronger the more trouble the user is in, just point and shoot and try not to kill yourself from the recoil.

Out of curiosity, what fandoms are you a part of? Do you speak any other languages?What are your genre preferences?

With warm welcome, I gift unto thee a buckler made of the finest Gundanium alloy,
with an emblem of your choice embossed upon it.
(http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundanium_Alloy)

NEWBIE!

Hey Newbie!

Fandoms? Tastes in fic? Tastes in videogames? Tastes in tabletop games? Hobbies?

Okay, that's probably too many questions :-P. Take a chainsword, a mug of Klatchian coffee, and a flagon of mjød. If you drink both at once, you might just live. :-)

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

Please be sure to read the Original Series and Constitution if you haven't already. What are your fandoms?

Hello, and welcome aBoard! Here's a plate of fresh SPaGhetti for you.

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.

How'd you find us, by the by?

I love the idea, but I don't handle chaos well, so I'm afraid I'll have to sit this one out even though some of my characters would dig it. Have fun!

~Neshomeh

On a more serious note, reading the Bryant and May books taught me a huge amount of trivia about London, which is always fun.

My oldest son who pre-dates all the Peter Jackson Tolkien movies, is named after a character from the Hobbit. Middle name, but still there.

I was named after a dragon in a D&D game my parents were in when they first started dating

I can't think of anything specific I've learned directly from fiction, but I can think of lots of things I've learned because of fiction. HTML, for example. I originally taught myself HTML to help out some friends of mine from a Farscape fan forum. I've maintained and sharpened my coding skills over the years because of RP interests and the PPC, which all goes back to fiction. I'd be an inanimate husk without a soul full of stories.

~Neshomeh, waxing poetic lately.

...hopefully all the logical thinkers I've been reading about have rubbed something off on me.

Oh! Ah yes! I know somewhat about the concept of breaking strain, thanks to Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon. I guess that's it?

-Twistey

I learned to spin thread with a drop spindle because I was inspired by Sandry in the Circle of Magic books.

I've never had formal instruction, but I used a lot of the information in the book to help me learn how to shoot. I somehow managed to take third place at the local Renaissance Fair's archery tournament.

Well, fiction gave us all Google Earth... But I don't think that's really what you meant.

Fiction also gave me a lot of my odd language and such. Clannerscum, BLAM, feth, frak, and so on - fiction is good for swears, insults, and so on.

Fiction is also responsible for my giving out of zorkmids to people who get my references, and my silent cursing of Toey when I misspell words. I firmly believe in THE HEART OF THE CARDS! (or a least the spleen), the Random Number God is not to be messed with, and god help you if you steal my Nat 20.

And I wear a lilac on the 25th of May. Every 25th of May. And if you don't know why, you weren't There.

Only about half of that was joking. I don't know which half.

...a whole bunch of random knowledge that sometimes comes in handy in my life has come from Tamora Pierce books. Also a number of others...most recently, though, I think, was the moment when I was cleaning part of the apartment and remembering Tris teaching Briar how to lift up the things on the shelf to dust them (and under them) rather than just poking around the spaces between them. Also, the bit about dusting before sweeping, though I didn't do that (there wasn't so much dust, though). So that's a thing. And I'm pretty sure I've tried the horse thing, too, though I think I learned it from a different book of hers.

Essentially: yes, definitely. Also, have you read any other Tamora Pierce books? We could talk about it! :) Shared fandoms are always great.

~Z

I sadly don't have a list.

It's been a pretty good election for the Democratic Party, really. Hopefully it signifies a move away from Trump-style populism.

Meanwhile, we had an election recently down here in New Zealand. That ended in pretty much the weirdest way possible - right-wing incumbents National got ~46% of the vote, but the loosest of our loose cannons, Winston Peters, decided to screw them and go into coalition with our Labour Party instead.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this. I mean, I'm glad that National's out - screw them and their wrecking of our national parks - but I'm not keen on Winnie having so much influence. I'm just hoping the new government can get some good things done in the next three years.

... she's 33, and kicked out a 73-year-old. As a resident of the country where the anti-EU/age graph looks like this:



... I think I'm entitled to say that the gerontocracy can go boil its head in a duckpond. Someone in their seventies has absolutely no business making laws on behalf of a population where the people who will have to live with them the longest are the ones who most disagree with their positions.

hS

You know, the standard "kids go into restricted places because there's a Pokemon there", "people walk off cliffs", "people walk into other stupid situations", "Koffings can be caught wild in the Holocaust Museum", "steals all the prominent locations from Niantic's previous AR game" and all that other "we're a big corporation, screw logic" stuff that happened.

But otherwise, I'm really excited! The idea is great, it's just... not too bright of an outlook from Pokemon GO's legacy.

-Twistey

Also, while some characters have a degree of OOC Resistance, only omnipotent and omniscient deities are fully immune to it. I'm thinking being immune to mind control would give this character at least some OOC Resistance.

What show are you talking about, by the way? I can't think of any characters immune to mind control off the top of my head.

Hello newbie! Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay!

Hi newbie! Have a block of katchi katchin, the hardest metal in the dragonball multiverse. You have one opportunity to change its shape.

Take a bolter or chainsword, a flask of mjød and a mug of Klatchian coffee. If you drink both of them at the same time slowly maybe they'll neutralize one another and neither of them will kill you.

Welcome! Have a seventeen feet long wool knit scarf and a bag of jellybabies. Use them irresponsibly!

The answer to your question is the latter, basically because of what Twistey said: Sues don't play by the rules.

A metaphor springs to mind. Normally, your immune system lets you fight off infections the way your main character normally throws off mind control. However, certain viruses mess with your very DNA in order to disrupt the immune system, and then you can get sick. Sues mess with the DNA of a canon, i.e. its Words, so your main character may be susceptible to malign influences they otherwise might not be.

I'm sure it's not a perfect metaphor, but I hope it makes sense!

~Neshomeh

Hi! If you plan to join, welcome! If you don't, I understand. (I myself almost didn't join because my parents don't really like the very idea of sporking.) I'm Twistey, and I haven't been there for that long, but it seems to me that I'm the only one here to answer your question, so I will do so.

It depends on what your story's plot is, but in most circumstances, I think that the canon would definitely fall under the Suefluence, because of the following truth: Canons play fair. Sues don't.

Also, from a writing perspective: Since canons never really play a major part in a PPC fic (and they're not supposed to, since agents aren't supposed to disrupt them), they would probably be best just acting like the other canons do when under Suefluence, otherwise they'd risk trying to help the agents (which is not too good of an idea under most circumstances.)

Anyone else feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

-Twistey