Subject: That'd be Ella Darcy.
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Posted on: 2014-09-03 12:34:00 UTC

She was ten when she became an agent, which is why she was put in Author Correspondence - it was technically Action, but didn't involve going out into the Word Worlds.

Other young agents I'm aware of (due to them being mine) are Elanor Laison - recruited on her 14th birthday, and placed as a Secretary initially due apparently to her age - and Constance Sims, who was 13 and went straight into the DMS.

Basically, agent ages have historically followed Boarder ages, and despite certain people's beliefs to the contrary, there's never been a lower age limit on the PPC Board. There were a lot of 13-14-year-olds around, and a fair few younger than that. So while 12 and 13 is young, it's certainly feasible. The Flowers might make noises about moving the 12-year-old to Infrastructure for a bit, but probably won't force the issue.

Be aware, though, that most agents now are in their late teens and twenties. So your agents will be in an environment where everyone is both taller and older than them, and a workplace where consumption of vast quantities of alcohol and pills are commonplace, not to mention the predilection of some agents for public, uh... 'displays of affection'. And the violence, don't forget the violence. So they may be in for a rough time.

As to your other questions: yes, the control prompts can absolutely be combined, though you do still need to write a random prompt as well. 5.5/apple/26 would (under my theory that all strange RC numbers are just synonyms for integers) simply be a name for RC #5,000,000,000 - which is an exceptionally large number, orders of magnitude above most of them, but is still a number, so yes, it's fine.

hS

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