Welcome to the PPC! (Sorry for the delay on getting to you, been a mite busy.)

Key is a fantastic name, so don't worry about your naming skills.

Excellent job on reading TOS, and even the FAQs!

Stick around, participate about the board, and feel free to ask questions if you've got any- my email's clickable out of my name. It might take me some time to reply to that one, because I'm currently out to sea, but go for it if you want to ask anything or just to chat. (This also goes to everyone else, for that matter.)

And as far as gifts go, once a long time ago I used to give bitemarks out, but people objected to being bitten, and after that, it was links to the wiki and such, but you covered that yourself.

So instead, this time you get a currently regionally appropriate camel!

-July

*I am buried under a pile of gifts.* Thank you all so much!

It's not mentioned in the wiki; what's the usual thing to do with these gifts? Is the normal thing to not refer to them outside of this thread? Or will people talk about various objects they've obtained (for whatever reason) in roleplay scenarios (such as a Board party)? (I think the wiki mentioned roleplaying on the Board somewhere. . .) Also, if I were to eventually get permission and write an agent who was my avatar, would it make sense/be okay for them to have some of the things I was given (say, the Black Cloak of Swirly Awesomeness)? These gifts got me thinking; I'm tempted to write a story about every single one. Especially the Cloak. (I like cloaks. Writing about them, drawing them, wearing them. . .)

So you'll always look cool without trying! ;)

Here's some popcorn and a box of pencils! I'm sure they'll both come in handy someday.

Have some strawberry scones! No, I don't make them myself. It's better if you don't try to find out.

This magical shovel digs up...

Oh. Er. This one digs up flames.

ALL FEAR THE PINEAPPLE

Anyway, please accept this starter Pokémon:-

Iiiiiiit's Oddish!

And your starting item is:-

Iron Ratchet Crossbow from Dungeons of Dredmor!

Crossbows are excellent items for mons like Oddish: they increase the damage of non-contact moves by up to 50% (the Iron Ratchet Crossbow, alas, is a meagre 30%). On one of the best Chlorophyll sweepers in Little Cup? It's a godsend. Try a Modest one with EVs in Special Attack and Speed using Giga Drain, Sludge Bomb, Hidden Power Fire, and Sleep Powder to make the most of your item. Just make sure to give it Sun support, and to have fun. =]

Welcome aBoard! Have this pocket portal to the Plane of Unsalted Shelled Peanuts. You could need it at some point, who knows.

Here, have this cup of tea. It's just plain old Earl Grey. No predatory tea, no confused smoky tea, no rodents in the teacup. Just tea.

Have this pot of black-hole coffee, pleaase. Now, every question was asked, so I'll wish you the best in this madhouse.

*pokes Iximaz back*

*feeds Iximaz's SPaGhetti to SkarmorySilver's Italy mochi, as instructed*

Thank you to both of you! I'm fond of the mochis, since they're the only characters I can draw. And the drama is kind of what made me decide to introduce myself -- everything is tense, yes, and zero punches are being pulled, but people are still being polite, constructive, and empathetic. Which is cool. I am excited.

I've read a lot of PPC spinoffs in a short period of time, and I can't remember which author goes with which story goes with which agent. . . . I really liked the one where canon!Spock helped the agents kill his replacement and the Sue. Two of the agents were in a romantic relationship? One of them was ace? One had a name beginning with C? Ugh.

*bandages ears, wincing perhaps slightly more than it actually hurt*
*puts on earmuffs. Winces again from the pressure*
*pulls Larfen J. Stocke, esq. aside, out of earshot of the others*
THANK YOU IN ALL CAPS
*slowly saunters back, badly covering a smug grin by munching on a Schrodinger's cookie, collapsing its wavefunction to "chocolate chip."*

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a really good book (yes, it's only one book. One feels-like-five, don't-drop-it-on-your-toe book. Plus shadowy rumors about a sequel-in-progress). I watched the BBC adaptation, and I thought it did a good job of keeping the spirit of the book, but I'm not as attached to the fandom jokes as a lot of people are. I think it's kind of like The Princess Bride: the screen version is amazing and inspires love everywhere it goes, but the book is STILL so much better because it has a snarky narrator who goes off on tangents which are impossible to include in the screen version. (Here's hoping Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events fits this pattern *fingers crossed*.)

Carry On is, in its simplest form, a love letter to Harry Potter fanon. . . but it's so much more than that. For one thing, one of the main characters is basically Edward Cullen rewritten as a sympathetic, well-developed, lovable character. And the World of Mages is comparable to the wizarding world, but it's also comparable to France in the late 18th century, if you take my meaning. Also, the main characters are boys, but the book passes any test of feminism you'd care to give it. And I'm not going to gush about it here. But you really should read it. You all should read it. *smiles sheepishly and backs away, almost tripping over what I could've sworn was a kitten. I turn around and am convinced that I scoop it up and pet it.*

Have an illusionary kitten! :D

Have some Schrodinger's Cookies - may or may not contain chocolate chips!

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell? I've heard that was a good book series. How do you think the adaptation is doing? I heard a lot of people were disappointed because of pineapples and their not appearing in the show.

Also, isn't Carry On that book which is basically a massive love letter to Harry Potter fanon? I've been meaning to check it out, it sounds really cool.

Oh, God, I'm so sorry. That was a bad idea.
I hope you stuffed red cordial up your ears last night, or something like that.
Have earmuffs. My gift is earmuffs. And bandages.
Er. Asprin.

Welcome.
In lower-case.

Ooooh, and did someone say Hetalia? Here, aside from one of my own shed feathers, have an Italy mochi! Don't forget to feed it SPaGhetti daily~ :D

Heya, and welcome aBoard! Take this plate of fresh SPaGhetti as a gift.

I just want to say that the drama going on down the Board isn't a normal thing here, so please don't let that scare you off.

Hmm, questions, questions. I think you already covered everything I ask, so I'll just ask if you've read any PPC spinoffs.