Which makes for two "agents as normal people" AUs. I suspect the theorists are trying to come up with some way the Philharmonic and PPC High share a Multiverse, but I'm not sure they'll pull it off.

Since there are no solid Sparks left over, I'll have to tuck it on the end with no Spark for now. Time to figure out how to draw a concert harp...

hS

No one's written in the setting outside of RPs (yet (though now I'm contemplating what would make sense)) and the getting of the logs would need to be done the annoying way - finding them, copy pasting, cleaning up the OOC tags, and poking folks to ensure they don't mind their old RPs being a smidge more searchable.

(And on a highly tangential note, what are your thoughts about mirroring some core PPC stuff, like TOS, onto plotprotectors.org ? It'd be a Small Configuration Update (tm) or less to add a /stories directory or something and stick arbitrary HTML under it)

Mathology is a perfect name! It makes me happy :)

But, aside from the Sueish-ness I just broke out in, I find it to be acceptable and summarizes it well and simply. Wait.

pause, as Kittyauthor stares at their hands

Oh well, I suppose it's nothing.

Anyways, I really like it. I have not really thought of renaming any agents I shoved in (then again, logically, most of the names make sense. Why is Orian not spelled O'Ryan, as the latter is how it's pronounced: O-Ry-an. David Null is a perfectly logical name. David comes from the Bible (I think?), while Null is German for zero, and you can't get much more mathematical than literal numbers. Kittyauthor (the agent) isn't even here because she got Sued and taken in by Sues (presumably? The official record states she was Sued, although said record hasn't been written yet, so...), so her name needs no logic and can even be seen as her flaw that led to Suedom... if people were being mean.)

Slight worldbuild dump ahead.

Anyhow, if anyone beats me to a CPP fic (which I hope not, as I'm writing the Origin Story (or at least trying to), an actual story, and the basics of a guidebook out), the Mary Sue department replacement is named "Department of Actual Marys" and deals with badfic that have countable sources of breaks in the logic code (AKA one or more Sues). It reports directly to the head of CPP himself, the Sunflower Mathematician. Figured I'd get that out of the way real quick. The HQ is similar to a puzzle cube with how it moves, albeit a 4D cube (possibly, as no one has really tried to get 4D seeing individuals to back this up, and the Flowers have a bunch of words for 4D stuff that can't be translated into English). The "center" is the medical wing, which always stays in the center of the "second" floor, and the "fourth" floor is "extraneous" and always stays the cafeteria. Everything else moves logically, although "gaps" occur that transport someone onto a different "floor" which is intentional (otherwise, agents would need a head to travel floors and that just isn't good enough).

And I think that's it of "basic information in case anyone like hS wants to write a CPP fic before I'm done with the guidebook." Phew.

-kA

They are, in fact, an alternate Multiverse that just so happened to have shenanigans happen that gave the PPC their newpaper and visa versa, not coexisting with the PPC (sorry about the confusion!) Not sure 100% what you mean by "actual Multiversal travel" though. If you mean "traveling between universes," nothing has been written yet involving that but they do so regularly. If you mean traveling to another Multiverse, then no, not yet. Now that I think about it, it would be rather difficult for the CPP in their main timeline to get to the PPC. However, the CPP in a minor timeline could probably get to the PPC-4 pretty dang easy, as long as that CPP had.... omniversal (what's above a multiverse?) scanning abilities. So it probably is a seperate from Prime timeline interacting with another seperate from Prime timeline.

As for "enough detail," CPP agents tend to be more math-minded than their PPC counterparts (the sole exceptions (as of now) are David Null (who is different in other ways) and CPP!O'Ryan Keys, who is math-minded in the PPC Prime timeline anyways), they tend to lean towards "original character dropped into the CPP" and not "badfic rescue" (there are some badfic rescues, but that's not common since most would get logic'd to fit their home canon) so any badfic rescue agent would have to have their backstory modified a bit to include "asked to join and was permitted" or "came from a fanfic that got deleted but they didn't or just plain slipped down a plothole" rather than being rescued, and they tend to be nicer than their PPC counterpart if that counterpart exists (exception is David Null again). In the Flowers' cases, they aren't as sadistic (and they wander the halls time to time and help agents find their RCs). In an agent's case, they're horrified at the thought of murdering Sues. Things like that :P

Oh, and, wardrobe-wise, nine times outta ten, they're carrying the basic CalcLogic devices, which look like Ti-84s in my head. The basic Ti-84 plus model. They display logic equations (AKA just mathematical equations) of the world around them when on. Think of them like a CAD and the ability to read present and past Words combined.

They couldn't coexist with the PPC if they tried. Their universe is a pocket universe and their HQ is somewhat mappable... if you can read and understand moving maps representing 4D puzzle cubes (or you just map the "fourth" floor, which is always the same no matter what). Apologies for the confusion.

-kA, who actually has more planning for the CPP than thet did about two years ago.

(Edit: specified which question confused me)

(Edit 2: There is no basic TI-84 model, only 84 plus. Apparently.)

(Edit 3: Wow, words are difficult today, gods. Fixed the title again.)

(Edit 4: Multiverse, not universe. Them being a different universe is kinda a given lol)

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."

... Okay, no, That's not really what's going in the Unraveled universe. Not gonna spoiler what really went on, But I can say what the Doctor himself would say if he got himself in the unraveled world.

"It's wrong! It's all wrong! Time has become a single wiggly stream, which is not supposed to be - and a stream that only started five minutes ago!"

Or maybe he's actually there and said it, who knows. I can say I'd have Eleventh in, though. Eleventh Doc Best Doc.