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More Questions by firemagic on 2012-01-23 18:32:00 UTC Reply

!) If you interrupt a story before its end (let's say, chapter 7) would a mini created in, say, chapter 9 still come into existence?

2) Should neuralyzings, pulling-out-of-plotholes, and other clean-up work be done before or after a Sue's death?

3)Can Remote Activators go into events that happened before the start of the fanfic? (In a Harry Potter that takes place in book4, could you open a portal to the night of Lily and James' murder?)

Re: More Questions by firemagic on 2012-01-24 19:30:00 UTC Reply

Ok. and two more
4) If you have a setting (say MLP: FIM) where magic is very commonplace, would agents have to learn how to use it? I remember in the Original Series, Jay and Acacia had to learn flight, but could use magic as Istari easily

5)If a large part of a story is a flashback to events that happened earlier (but for a different viewpoint) is it possible to interupt the later version without screwing up time?

Some answers, perhaps. by Aster Corbett on 2012-01-25 00:32:00 UTC Reply

4) In the Original Series, the disguises that they used were actual shape-shifting ones meant to blend them in with the canon. Not being able to do magic in that form would stick out, perhaps. Also, it's unknown if they'd ever taken courses in controlling a disguise like that. This kind of disguise is from the Disguise Generator in the console. The D.O.R.K.S. disguises are more holograms than actual body-morph substitute identities.

5) You can do this any way you want, really. It really depends on the context. If it's a character telling us the story of what happened, it might just be that a character is standing there relating a big long winded tale. If it's the narrative then what's happened is that something that happened sequentially 'before' has been put 'after...' and maybe it COULD be a time portal to the past. But maybe the narrative progresses word-per-word and the 'flashback' doesn't include anything more than what it mentions. Or maybe not. It's your call on the context and how to handle it.

Time is wibbly-wobbly, after all.

Re: Some answers, perhaps. by Miah on 2012-01-25 05:43:00 UTC Reply

I once had a flashback manifest by the characters freezing into place and a grainy black and white image of the flashback content be super-imposed over them. Mostly to show that all the flashbacks were stopping the story dead in its tracks while something less interesting happened.

It can take whatever form you need for your mission.

Re: More Questions by Miah on 2012-01-23 19:13:00 UTC Reply
1. The tradition is unfortunately, no. If it isn't covered in the mission, it doesn't happen. This is why you'll sometimes see PPCers detailing things in author's notes that they weren't able to include in missions.
  
  2. Most clean-up is usually done after a Sue is taken down by the agents. If a character is said to be next to the Sue right up until the moment of the agents stopping the story, then they can't neuralyze that character before then. The Suefluence needs to be gone from a character for it to work properly. If a character disappears from a story, then that is a bit different.
  
  I've rescued or neuralyzed canons that no longer appear in a story well before the end of a mission. In the Victorian Zombie Apocalypse story, Mrs. Hudson, Lestrade, and Mary Watson all appeared in the story, then were plotholed out of the story. The agents rescued them and sent them to Medical (Lestrade and Mary both badly needed Medical's help in their last appearance). In other cases, where things aren't so apocalyptic I've pulled canons aside, neuralyzed them and sent them on their way after their last appearance in the fic, under the idea that they have been removed from the Suefluence by the story itself.
  
  There is also the possibility of saving a canon or OC that you are recruiting from an off-screen death (or on-screen if you use a Simulation Generator), and then having that character stay with you for the rest of the mission.
  
  3. I'd say yes, RAs can open a plothole to wherever we want them to, but if the agents don't have permission to go witness Lily and James' murder and the fic doesn't deal with it, then the agents should have a good reason for doing it or be willing to face reprimand from a Flower.
More answers by Ellipsis Flood on 2012-01-23 18:34:00 UTC Reply

!) Well, it's not played out any more, so I'd say no.

2) If the neuralyzed characters don't have any more appearances... in my current mission, the agents drag along a misplaced canon they pulled out of a plot hole. So, really, it's up to you, I'd say.

3) I don't see why not. It's the same 'verse.