Shenanigans At FicPsych!

Subject: Shenanigans At FicPsych!
Author: SkarmorySilver
Posted on: 2015-05-24 18:28:00 UTC

In light of a little thing that happened in the PPC Agent Mailbox Game, I thought it would be a fun idea to explore the happenings at the Department of Fictional Psychology. So on that note, I present to you a fun little informal RP thread: "Shenanigans At FicPsych!"

With that in mind, let's set up some ground rules:

1.) NO MAJOR EVENTS ARE ALLOWED IN THIS RP. No surprise Sues, no giant microbes, no nothing. If you want your agents to have fun and goof off at FicPsych, go on ahead! But don't do anything violent or otherwise distracting for other characters.

2.) You do not need permission to be involved in this thread. However, it is desirable that you have a character who works in FicPsych like I do. If you don't, you can always send in one of your characters to talk with another FicPsych worker.

3.) Be respectful of other PPCers. Do I have to explain this one? Your characters can be demeaning as long as it's in character, but please don't make OOC drama.

4.) If you have Permission, feel free to use any threads you have contributed to for interludes and such. Just remember to talk to the people you roleplayed with, or work together on such content if you can.

5.) And last, but not least, have fun!

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Shenanigans At FicPsych! by SkarmorySilver on 2015-05-24 18:28:00 UTC

(( So, uh... )) by Neshomeh on 2015-05-25 05:22:00 UTC Reply

However, it is desirable that you have a character who works in FicPsych like I do.

Unless I've missed a heck of a lot, you realize that's just me and SeaTurtle, right? And mostly me, at that? {; P

That said, some of the staff are free to use, and anybody can borrow Nurse Parwill or Nurse Immac if they want to. I might even let Elms and Mirrad out to play if anyone's really keen on them. Just ask first, please (right here will do!), and follow the characterization I've already given them.

I dunno if I'll be able to join in myself. Maybe if something interesting happens I'll get inspired, but you haven't given us anything to go on, and I don't have the time or energy to come up with a starting scenario.

~Neshomeh

(Well...) by SkarmorySilver on 2015-05-25 20:01:00 UTC Reply

(I know several other Boarders, including myself, who have characters who work at FicPsych. This isn't a strict requirement, however - as a starting scenario you could have one or more of your agents walk into FicPsych and wait for someone to take care of them. Those of us who have FicPsych employees can then interact with these agents, which is also an opportunity to get to know Boarders that you haven't done much with up to this point.

I'm also tempted to explore what happens to canons that get taken to FicPsych in the wake of missions in this RP thread, but that could open up such a massive can of worms that I'd rather not risk it.)

(( Really? )) by Neshomeh on 2015-05-25 23:44:00 UTC Reply

I mean, I knew about Sister January, and having caught up some more on the mailbox thread I see Edhelistar has Nurse Chan and her Pokémon... but who else? ~~And what the heck was wrong with the ones already there, I made them to be used, dangit...~~ Ahem. Don't mind me. I've just been the only one with an interest in FicPsych for so long I've fallen into the bad habit of thinking of it as mine. >.>

Anyway, would you all mind terribly updating the FicPsych Personnel and Nurse pages? Mine or not, I do like to know what's going on in the department, and I'll want to figure out what all my characters think about the newbies and how they slot into the existing subculture. ~~Especially if they've supposedly been there for two years already and include small lightning-rat-creatures, why does no one tell me these things.~~

I've been trying to figure out how to write a good story (or more probably a series of shorts) about the nurses treating canon characters for about twelve years. Somehow, inspiration has never struck. If you can manage it, more power to you!

~Neshomeh

((Actually Nesh...)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-26 02:52:00 UTC Reply

I was planning to tell ya, but the RP happened and I was like "Oh what the heck let's test'em," and then this happened. We can still get something agreed with my Nurse's backstory within the Department, after all, I still think of you as the maximum authority regarding that Department and my Nurse's full backstory will be the subject of a future interlude.

And there's nothing wrong with your characters, in my case is that feel very uncomfortable writing other people's characters, so I decided to use my own.

(I gotta thank SeaTurtle for being my rather unwilling test subject, thanks to that, I know think that Gallifreyan!Corinna is not that fun of a character and decided to reset Nurse Chan back to her original human self.)

(( Hehe, thanks. )) by Neshomeh on 2015-05-26 03:52:00 UTC Reply

Like I said, don't mind me, I'm just old and crotchety. I actually found myself pretty interested in Nurse Chan's backstory, and the idea of her being drawn to the PPC and FicPsych because she heard about Jenni (although I don't quite know how she could have; Jenni doesn't really go around advertising her history that much). Powers know Jenni wouldn't mind having someone around who could relate to her on that level.

But, what with all the woe and angst, I support scaling her down a bit, too. {= )

Actually, the person Nurse Chan is really going to have to contend with is Suzine. I can't see her being overly thrilled with the notion of Pokémon in her department, especially ones that purport to be members of the department but refuse to communicate properly. (Immac will love them, though!)

Also, Suzine, Dr. Freedenberg, and the Kudzu want to know when they got a Paidopsychiatry Division, and doesn't the Nursery handle all that? I mean, sure, there's the odd canon character who's a child, but the nurses can deal with them without needing a whole division set aside for it. It's not at all a bad idea to have someone who specializes in the needs of younger people, but calling one person and a couple critters a division is a little silly, IMO, and the nurses each have their style/specialty without divisions anyway.

Oh, BTW, I just caught up on the bit with Shui-Hua (hope I got that right) having an appointment with Jenni. We could totally RP that here if you want. I'm all caught up with AtLA:LoK, so I (and Jenni) get what her deal is. You'll just have to excuse me if I take a long time between posts, is all.

~Neshomeh

((You're welcome)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-26 05:29:00 UTC Reply

And to the crunchy part! Well rather than drawn, she was actually thrown into the PPC. And the "two years here" part, has an explanation. Is a reference to about how much time ago I last did anything related to her (September, 2012), so what happened to her? She was exiled to the PPC of course!

Anyhow, now that I removed the Time Lord part from her (And exorcised Cookie Chan, my actual Jenni Robinson analog), I removed 4 lifetimes worth of woes and angst, but I also removed anything she had in common with Nurse Jenni. She could still be her assistant during those two lost years though, and we could say that she just got her flashpatch and Solvig is the first patient that treats by herself.

She would have to contend with that and more... The Pokémon AU she comes from is from 160 years in the past and has WWII era technology, standard Poké Balls might as well be sorcery for her. And yes, there's her Pikachu suddenly deciding to be obstinate, but there´s something else: The fact that her Gardevoir is a trained War Pokémon. And there are other number of stuff that should be addressed in her backstory, to explain why she is what she is today, and to give closure to her original story.

Well, I can remove the "Division" part and call her a "Paidopsychiatry Specialist", in other words, she would specialize in minors under 16 years old. And the critters? Her therapy style is "Animal-assisted therapy".

Of course! It would be great! (I pretty much chose Nurse Jenni there because she's the one specialized in PPC Agents. =P)

(So...) by SkarmorySilver on 2015-05-28 05:06:00 UTC Reply

(...Does all this mean we'll have to update the FicPsych page on the Wiki before we can get started?

I'll probably make a post on the Board about this in that case. We'll see how it goes after that!

And yeesh, a trained War Pokemon? None of my agents would wanna mess with THAT one, methinks D:)

(( Not necessarily? )) by Neshomeh on 2015-05-28 16:15:00 UTC Reply

I was waiting for Edhelistar to kick of the RP, actually, and came here to say so once I realized I hadn't. IMO, it doesn't make much sense for me to start if Jenni's just going to be sitting in her office waiting for her patient to show up. ^_^;

If you want to go rustle up other people who've created nurses and haven't bothered putting them on the wiki, I wholeheartedly support that endeavor. Maybe make it a general post about infrastructure agents, even.

I don't think it's necessary to do it before RPing, though. I just asked for updates on the basis that a) I want to know who's who in FicPsych these days, and b) keeping the wiki up to date is a good idea in general.

~Neshomeh

((Well, Shui-Hua said her appointment...)) by Anonymous on 2015-05-28 16:53:00 UTC Reply

((... was next Friday, didn't she. ^_^ The one that actually is late for her appointment is Lapis actually.
Now, on the other subject, I will formally include in the Wiki my Nurse onceshe makes her first named appeareance, which that means once I post my first mission. She already makes an unnamed appeareance in my Control Prompt.))

(I was meaning to set that up, actually...) by SkarmorySilver on 2015-05-28 18:16:00 UTC Reply

(...but I'm so flocking busy these days that I don't have much time to write, let alone RP. It isn't helping that my parents told me just this morning not to use the laptop late at night because I end up sleeping at 2 AM and ruining my sleep schedule otherwise, which is a Bad Idea if and when I get a 9-5 job.

Anyway, I've decided that starters CANNOT be posted on this thread until the FicPsych page has been updated; I've just posted a thread on the Board to help rectify this issue. Hope that helps, everyone!)

((Well then, that may take a while...)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-29 03:10:00 UTC Reply

Considering that adding characters to the Wiki that have no known appeareances, outside of RPs and those don't count, would not be well received. Meaning, that I will not update the Wiki, until my characters are formally included into canon with the posting of Mission 1.

((*facepalm* Sorry, that was me...)) (nm) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-28 17:10:00 UTC Reply

((It's a good thing the Mailbox is non-canonical.)) by SeaTurtle on 2015-05-26 03:11:00 UTC Reply

((On the other hand... there's quite a lot of good material for a number of agents there. Maybe it could be considered canon-ish for them?

Anyhoo, glad I could be of assistance. Your characters are a blast to interact with!))

((Thanks!)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-26 05:43:00 UTC Reply

Now, may I ask a question: How many Agents from the Department of Internal Affairs you have?

Five. by SeaTurtle on 2015-05-26 14:03:00 UTC Reply

-Fire Flash, an Earth pony from MLP: FiM. A former Generic Canterlot castle guard rescued from a badfic after she described herself into existence.

-Taldaris, a protoss High Templar. Fell into HQ in 1998 along with a dozen of his kind following a botched warp-in while fleeing the destruction of his homeworld by the Zerg.

Both serve in the DIA's New Caledonia division under the Yertis.

-The Guardsman, which you are already aware of.

-Terabyte, a geth trooper containing two major canonical upgrades (if you've played Mass Effect, you know which ones) to its AI and a bevy of DoSAT improvements. A true artificial intelligence and fully sentient.

-Naya'Keegan vas Iktomi, a quarian markswoman. She comes from a different save file than Terabyte and bumped into it after she was swallowed by the massive plothole left by the original ending to the ME trilogy.

These three share an RC and work in Special Response.

((And the most active as far as I can tell...)) by Anonymous on 2015-05-26 15:24:00 UTC Reply

So, what would you think if I give them some back-up? ;) They won't be coming soon though, I need to do at least my first two DIC missions and the full backstory of my FicPsych "team", then I will introducemy DIA team, and I humbly ask for your help in creating and writing them. So far I only have the idea of what I want them to be. =P

((Derp! Sorry, forgot to put my name there.)) (nm) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-26 20:25:00 UTC Reply

((Derp on my part as well.)) by SeaTurtle on 2015-05-26 20:47:00 UTC Reply

((I'm forgetting some of my folks!

- Benoît, aspiring Pokémon Ranger. Leads a team of ~~four~~ three on the Coutyard beat:

-- Buck the narcoleptic Skiddo
-- Maxwell the hyperactive Jolteon
-- Victoria the wise Gardevoir

- Meryem, a Turkish woman from World One. Survivalist and Search-and-Rescue operative extraordinaire.

What you want your DIA team to be is entirely up to you-- but if you want actual, concrete advice on how to write for DIA, page Ekyl on the board. DIA is his pet project and I'd defer to his vision for the department: he's got a ton of ideas. I'd be happy to assist, of course. Have you got any agent ideas right now?))

((Yup, I do.)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-27 01:26:00 UTC Reply

Snowrrlbecca, a Wookiee Royal Guard, from Rwookrrorro, Kashyyyk, Star Wars Galaxy. He's a warrior trained in the traditional Wookiee weapons that had never left his homeworld before. He enjoys nature like a good Wookiee, and likes to get philosophical every once in a while. Arrived to the PPC after falling in a plothole during the Imperial Assault on Kashyyyk in 15 BBY.

Xóchitl Martínez, an Operative from the Mexican branch of the Digital Accident Tactics Squad (DATS) from Digimon Savers. And as such, she's trained to use whatever means necessary to bring down Digimon (that includes heavy weaponry). She also has a Digivice iC, in which she carries her Digimon partner, a Floramon. She's an optimist and a jokester, that likes to put nicknames to anyone she mets, and doesn't like to miss an opportunity to say a joke, even in the middle of combat. She and her partner Digimon arrived after a botched attempt to use the Digital Dive and enter the Digital World, that landed them in the PPC.

And there´s the Floramon, which aside from its Digivolutions, Sunflowmon and Lillymon, I have nothing else yet.

Considering their firepower, they would be probably good in the Special Response Division.

((Sounds sweet.)) by SeaTurtle on 2015-05-27 03:54:00 UTC Reply

Unfortunately, I know nothing of Digimon and my knowledge of Star Wars is restricted to the movies. I might have to do a bit of wiki-binging to catch up on that...

((Well....)) by Edhelistar on 2015-05-27 16:35:00 UTC Reply

Getting information for Wookiee stuff, would be quite easy, Wookieepedia is well organized and has a lot of info.

But Digimon on the hand... err... Wikimon and Digimon Wikia, have some problems with incomplete information regarding Digimon Savers. Apparently that series wasn't that popular in English speaking countries. In Latin America, well let me put this way, the most used language used in chat in the MMORPG Digimon Masters, is Spanish. So to be able to even create that character I had to cross reference information from Wikimon, English Digimon Wikia, Spanish Digimon Wikia, Wikipedia and TV Tropes. And I'm not even taking into account the continuity snarl that the Digimon franchise itself is (Five different continuities! And that's just taking into account the Animated Series!).