First, is a DMS, LotR spinoff by someone named Aramel. Honestly, it's not too exciting, and a lot of stuff is just flat-out uncanon to the PPC now. (Not that that's very unusual for older spin-offs.) Of greatest interest to me is the Angel's Trumpet, a Flower which serves a Hermes-like messenger role. Which is pretty much redundant, since it does it over consoles, which we use ICEP for now anyway. Still, it's kind of a cute idea; I've listed it as free-to-use on the wiki, by virtue of it being a Flower. Maybe someone can find something fun to do with it.

The other find is a backup for Lothy's missions, which were hosted on a freewebs site that has gone down recently. Fortunately, the backup not only had all the known missions, but two more! (I haven't read these thoroughly, as I am desperately tired, so be aware they may contain swearing or other NSFW things. Don't read them out loud to your parents or children!)

"Love Conquers All" is a Pirates of the Caribbean mission featuring a guest appearance by Agent Jeanlily.

"Iriniel and Legolas" is a mission in the continuum that contains a Legolas okay I need sleep now goodbyezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I don't think I recognise any of these, and I'm pretty sure HonorH's missions very nearly predate me (which would explain it)... well done, the both of you (and Sedri and Tawaki and bears, oh my!).

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Actually, having now read "Finding Hope" - wow, mission-writing has really changed in the past decade. That's barely more than an MST in places; except in a few scenes, the agents are pretty much disembodied voices. There's also way more direct quotes than we normally use nowadays.

An interesting project might be to examine, say, five missions for each year since '02, and see if there's a way to quantify that sort of change. Length of quoted material vs total length? Maybe factoring in 'length in HQ' and 'length where the badfic is off-screen'? In fact, let's see...

Finding Hope - HonorH & Kippur, December 2003
Total words: 6,302
Quoted words: 1,765; 28% (!!!)
Pre-mission words: 1,006
The Duty: 716
Post-mission words: 236
Ficless mission words: 567


Put together, that means that the badfic is on-screen for 3,777 words, or 60% of the report; a staggering 47% of those words are directly quoted. There are two scenes when the agents are separated from the story (after the jump to Moria, and while they try to find the way out), which I've excluded from that count.

So, equal word-counts for badfic and agents - you see why I compared it to an MST? By comparison, this is my most recent full mission:

Of Wolves and Fellowship - Huinesoron, 2014
Total words: 8,213
Quoted words: 797; 10%
Pre-mission words: 411
The Duty: 915
Post-mission words: 363
Ficless mission words: 1,105

So in my mission, the badfic is on-screen for 5,419 words - 66% of the report, so roughly the same proportion as "Finding Hope". But in a stark contrast, only 15% is directly quoted. That's quite a difference! Partly that reflects more paraphrasing, and partly more of the agents discussing and reaction - sometimes at length while the badfic runs ignored.

Interestingly, this is something Jay and Acacia noticed in their own missions; in the A/N to 'Why am I Here?' we read 'Is it just me, or do these things get longer and longer...? J & A used to just be... semi-observers that eventually killed the character. Now, they dominate the story. Is that a bad thing...? Is that a BAD THING?'

Jay didn't think so. And neither do I. ^-^

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I'm glad to see the Q missions online again. Lord knows when I would've gotten around to it, with the backlog I have. Thank you! The idea of Q becoming a Christian will never not be funny. {X D

For the record, it's not exactly thanks to me those were saved—it's thanks to Sedri and/or Tawaki, who sent me a bunch of stuff from their hard drives back when we found out about GeoCities going down. It's actually my fault they were missing so long, since I didn't go through those files very thoroughly until this summer. >.>

I will take credit for digging up the Buffyverse missions, though. It's amazing what turns up when performing Google searches with PPC + assorted other terms.

One correction: "Mucking the Wanderverse" is a co-write between The Lovely Beta and Aeneas, another poster on the forum, who's responsible for Agent Annie. Or at least, that's the impression I got reading through the posts. I guess it's not explicitly stated anywhere, looking at it again.

~Neshomeh