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Two questions, for each and every one of you. by SkarmorySilver on 2016-12-24 03:48:00 UTC Reply

Which PPC mission which you have either written or helped co-write, if any, are you most proud of? And

2. Which is your absolute favorite mission published by anyone except yourself?

I figured since the end of this godawful year is nigh, I'd take a bit of an informal census, so yeah.

For me personally, while I do enjoy most if not all of my missions, my personal Crowning Moment of Awesome as a PPC writer will always be my very first posted mission, "Connecting the Dots" (I can't do links on mobile, sadly :c). Not just for sentimental reasons but also because it represents a momentous occasion in my history as a writer. Up to this point I had never really published any story which would've been added to the official continuity of any long-lasting community, nor had I gotten a beta reader for any of my writing. This mission changed all of that. On top of this, it also represents closure for my turbulent history on the Internet, sort of - I felt I owed it to myself to spork my old shame, to atone not only as a writer, but as a person as well. (I mean, I was a horribly immature and reckless @ssh@t when I co-wrote that fic in the first place, so...) Plus, I got two awesome agents out of it, so I suppose there's that, too!

My favorite mission written by someone else is, of course, "Ring Child" by Neshomeh and Tungsten Monk. The character interaction between two amazing agent teams was fantastic to read, and their antics and arguing more than made up for how utterly horrifying the original fic was. Plus, that mission is the reason why Ficubi (and E.V.L. by extension) exist! Hilarious read, great pacing, and a solid ending, complete with Bad End taking up half of DoSAT.

Re: Two questions, for each and every one of you. by eatpraylove on 2016-12-24 17:49:00 UTC Reply

I think I'm most proud of the cowrite we did with James Shields. I got to explore my characters a little bit, something my solo missions tend to lack, and now I have some ideas for Violet's gemsona that I could explore if I do a Steven Universe fic in the future. Plus, I find cowrites more fun than writing a mission solo in general.

As far as my favorite mission ever? If I had to choose, I'd say Sergio Turbo's Blank Sprite, for the same reasons he said it was his favorite.
Alright... by Hardric on 2016-12-24 17:47:00 UTC Reply

1°), Wrong Start. Yeah, I had some problems with it, but that was my first one, and I was rather proud of finally writing my onw PPC missons. Closely behind is He Burns.

2°) Well, since you cheat by asking us only one mission out of all the ones here we like, allow me to cheat back by giving the whole Rose Potter series. RinArin is still my favorite agent, and this mission is just one big cornerstore in her and Zeb's story.
A couple of thoughts. by Scapegrace on 2016-12-24 14:06:00 UTC Reply

1) Ein Fröhliche Weihnachten mit Doktor Trollenfisch und Gabrielle! (Link.)

I'm a comedian. This is not blowing my own horn - I do standup, and have done on and off for years, and I'm pretty good at it. Fröhliche Weihnachten is just about the funniest thing I've ever written, at least in part because I bounced off of Iximaz so well. This is the mission wherein I took on a Legendary Badfic by accident, and rather than make it all about how infamously bad it is, it's mostly about the Doktor und Gabrielle and building their character through sharing a very, very stupid fic. I reckon that's a good way to do it.

2) ... I plead the Fifth. (Link not here.)

It's really hard for me to pick a favourite from the stuff I've read. Anything from Driftwood, Derik and Gall's missions, mid-period JulyFlame... it's all excellent stuff, and frankly I don't want to pick a favourite. What I love most about the PPC is that it's all shared; the individual missions all serve to build a massive, sprawling world-and-mirror-of-worlds that enhances every subsequent mission after it. This is a wonderful setting in which to write, and I'm proud and honoured to be a part of it. =]
An addendum: by SkarnorySilver on 2016-12-24 14:03:00 UTC Reply

Those of you who haven't published anything yet, or haven't gotten Permission, are still free to answer Question 2. This is a question about your favorite mission you've ever read, after all!

*tidies up the mini-Agent* (nm) by Scapegrace on 2016-12-24 14:07:00 UTC Reply

*Mini-Boarder, I should say. (nm) by Scapegrace on 2016-12-24 14:07:00 UTC Reply

Re: Missions by doctorlit on 2016-12-24 13:28:00 UTC Reply
1. Well, my least favorite of my three is "The Adventure of the Misplaced Musical Miscreant". I didn't really get to work with the canon much, as the badfic pretty much forced me to focus on the OCs. It came out all right, for what it is, but I'll have to come back to the Holmesverse someday and do a proper mission. My other two missions come a lot closer to the kind of mission I really like, exploring the canon world outside the parameters of the fic.
  
  2. Honestly, I've never really thought about a single favorite mission. There are too many, and too much variety of style and cleverness between them. I don't think I can really answer this. Sorry!
Hm. by Desdendelle on 2016-12-24 11:03:00 UTC Reply

I think my best mission is Of Course I Still Love You. My favourite mission of all time is Sue be Nimble, Sue be Fast, the PPC’s coming to kick your – by Insanegrrl.
Let's see... by Sergio Turbo on 2016-12-24 10:07:00 UTC Reply

I'm not sure it qualifies as it's not exactly a mission and it's still ongoing, but I'd say Blank Sprite. Why? Because I've come up with something very complex on meta level, and turns out I'm actually making it work.

On normal missions, it's a draw between Legendary Illogic (cowritten with Firemagic), because we found a way to hoist an extremely powerful Sue with her own petards (and we had fun deliberately keeping every charge to see if it could reach record chargelist lenght. IT DID... and ended up being an hassle to read as a result), and An Overabundance of Turbochargers and Cherry Flowers, because... well, I've missioned an old shame of mine. Makes me feel much better about Avalon: Last Rebel having ever esisted, especially since I got a second chance to write the characters from it RIGHT by recruiting them.

Favourite mission by somebody else?... But I like ALL OF THEM! Ahem, let's see. I think it might be All Through With This Niceness and Negotiation Stuff, by Desdendelle, Firemagic and Maslab, because of the sheer determination the Boarders and their Agents needed to get through that terrible trainwreck, and how the Agents used every single bit of their skills to get it done. You can feel how desperate their stuggle is. Well done, guys. Well done.
Oh that's easy: by Matt Cipher on 2016-12-24 07:44:00 UTC Reply

1) My own writings suck. Bad. I'm not proud of any of it. The closest runner is Hip and Hop's first mission - "Lady and the Tramp: Jurassic Edition". As for co-writes, I've only done one with eatpraylove - "Canon's Bane" - and one interlude cameo with Ixi so... that's it.

2) Oh that's also easy... The absolute favourite is the Holy Grail of Appropriately Ironic Assassinations - "He Was Practically Asking For It" by our one and only Ixi of the Mazes.
Two answers! by Iximaz on 2016-12-24 04:32:00 UTC Reply
1. I'd have to say my favorite mission to write was "What's Latin for You Suck?" with Neshomeh. Partly because I was still an ickle newbie and kinda hero-worshipped her at the time and was all "Woo I'm working with Nesh!" and mostly because I think it turned out supremely well. *finishes tooting own horn*
  
  2. Is it any surprise I'm gonna mention Nesh for this one as well? "The Dark Side", cowritten with Phobos, is hands-down my favorite mission, though "Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern" is a close second.