Subject: Definitely.
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Posted on: 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC
I feel like a general expertise thing would work best, considering there's so much out there in terms of fanfic research, and it'd always help to have someone friendly provide basics and point to good articles on the internet and stuff.
As a realative newcomer, I must ask a question. What works best for getting rid of sues? Do you need to change the actual fiction, stem the flow at its source? Or do to hack a cardboard sue to bits, then compost it?
So far as I know, there is no canon that is widely popular that doesn't have guns, bows, trebuchets or the like.
In the original series, ranged kills were the preferred method of Jay and Acacia.
On the subject of questions, can your agent be recruited from a six page short short story?
If so, yes. If it's a published short story that you didn't write, then no.
Doesn't Klatchian coffee strip apart the little lies, and glitter sues are made of?
I believe this was used to kill a Discworld Sue.
:: checks wiki ::
Yep, it was, but there's no mission link on the "Assassination Methods" page. I'll see if I can find it for you.
Another good one is turning the 'Sue's/'Stu's own powers against them. It can be tricky to do, and is only possible under certain circumstances, but it is very ironic and downright hilarious when it works. It is also a useful way of weakening a combat-capable 'Sue so your agents can pin them down to read the charge list.
Ugh, that mission is why I stopped trying to write serious military stories.
Even fantasy or sci-fi ones, though I am tempted from time to time.
How can a guy write about senseless genocide so casually, while at the same time showing clear incompetence at military strategy? It boggles my mind...
My hand slipped.
Strangulation with the Red String of Fate because the Sue thought she was Sherlock Holmes's soulmate?
So. Much. Fun.
If we keep this up, this'll turn into my next big general discussion topic.
"What awesome ways have you killed sues in or out of the PPC?"
I like it.
-smashes flagon of Bleepale into counter like a warrior-
-table breaks-
Screw it. Doin it.
...I wonder. If we do the Sues we have killed through missions, should we write our characters talking about it? Like, they all met in a Ye Olde Taverne and decided to start telling stories?
I mean, I'm already playing bartender in the topic.
Let's see how it goes.
And it'd end in a barfight between the more aggressive Agents arguing over which assassination was cooler.
But my fake insurance (Specs and Co. Financial Corporates, Inc.) doesn't cover barfights!
What I do to my Specs and Co. cast, all the time.
"Oh, sure, you could try and stab me. Just remember, I MADE that sword, and can disarm you very easily... so I've got way more cards in my deck than you, b*tch."
-SC, to Teh Specs.
Kill the Sue. Preferably with a canonical weapon (for example, a longsword in the Lord of the Rings as opposed to a blaster rifle).
...you've got the right guy. I collect and study weapons, from ancient to modern. If you have a question that pertains to anything that goes any variety of CHOP or BOOM, come find me.
A lot of us, you'll find, are either self-proclaimed or actual weapon experts of some variety.
Like: as Riese is a weapons collector of all varieties, I focus mainly on swords of all varieties. Sergio is a gun guy, and there's a few archery folks about, too.
So, by all means, any weapons questions you have, let the board know. We love those questions because we love nerding out about weaponry!
I'm in a pre-med class at my high school and we do a lot of discussions on poisons, diseases, and other fun things, and I recently got a Professional Guide to Diseases thing, so yeah.
If you guys want ways to make a Sue's death look like an accident, I have ideas. :'D
And put each expertise (weapons/non-weapons) as main categories, types (sword/axe/poison) as sub-categories, and people who specialize (Teh Specs/Riese/Lily/Sergio/etc.) could have links to their profiles or sommat.
It's a work in process, but I see it going places.
Is there already a page specifically set aside for people knowledgeable about specific canons, or does the Beta-Readers page pretty much take care of that? Seems to me I can't be the first one to have a little trouble finding a character checker for my latest mission, and if others in the future want to tackle badfics from relatively obscure (as far as PPC missions go) canons, it might be helpful to have a go-to page with lists - by canon - of people willing to character/canon check and beta read from each canons.
Thoughts?
Because I have little Real Life expertise, but I'm an expert on several continua. Star Trek comes to mind, as do Greek Mythology and the Oz series.
Or something along that line. Maybe "Canon-Specific Advisers"?
I'll put myself down as Tales of Vesperia/Assassin's Creed.
Anyone else? I'm waiting for another 'yes' vote. Or two.
Of course my list is always shifting. Last year I would have been able to tell you everything about Hetalia and nothing about Doctor Who or Sherlock. Now it's kinda the opposite.
I can do Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and probably Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra.
And once it's posted, if someone can come up with a better title than 'Canon Advisers', feel free to change the title...
I'm not an expert on anything really interesting unless you want to know about twins. I could rant for hours about that. Genetics and psychology and why it's impossible to have identical twins that are different genders and all that stuff.
I do know general archery and I fence (epee), so I could provide some general knowledge for that sort of thing, but it's not like I've studied swords or bows. And I'm pretty good with survivalist stuff, but again I'm no expert.
And I can still shake my head at the stupidity.
Reminds me of the Circle comment I got in return for pointing out that Galadriel and Celeborn's daughter isn't named Melody.
*guitar medley*
But only on the guns part. In my case, there's no gun ranges I know of in Modesto, so my rifle is gathering dust.
It's always handy to have a mechanic or techie (like the chief technician in my sci-fi comedy, whose nickname is "Techie", hurdledur) when writing vehicles.
The canons will have to be a separate page, but the other stuff, by all means, toss it in!
I feel like a general expertise thing would work best, considering there's so much out there in terms of fanfic research, and it'd always help to have someone friendly provide basics and point to good articles on the internet and stuff.
And since we all have stepped out of our areas of expertise before and tried new weapons and ideas and such, we could help reinforce each other's know-how when necessary. It doesn't just have to be for rookies looking for advice - mods could jump on this bandwagon, too!
I'd do it myself, but iPhone. If someone else wants to start it, I'll work on it when I get home tomorrow.
Because DS.
Where internet capabilities were an emergency scrap-together add-on.
http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/GeneralExpertise
All I did was pull comments off this thread, so the page will need a _lot of work.
I didn't put canons known on the page, because that might go better on a Canon Expertise page.
It's a start, right? There's no rush to get this absolutely right.
Call it weapon freaks, or sommat?
I can toss the idea Kitty's way. We'll have to be sure to submit our skill sets, of course.
And I'll finally have a reason to make a wiki profile!
Could work.
As someone with detailed knowledge of many fantasy continua. If you want to know what a Streeler is or a brief overview of Tortallian magic or even something as simple as the eye colour options for Deverry elves I can help.
(Harry Potter: a large venomous orange snail.) (Tortall series by Tamora Pierce) (Deverry Cycle by Katherine Kerr, blue, green or purple)
The more people who jump on the idea, the better the page will be, in my mind.
And since it's general expertise, we can totally compile continua as well.