Subject: Explanation
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Posted on: 2011-01-28 22:06:00 UTC
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I would like to be given permission (Not Permission, just permission) to give the Marquis a personal assistant. I'm not thinking of him/her/it becoming a major character or anything, but if I could fit them in, it would make the Permission piece I'm thinking of a lot easier...
Now, I was thinking of making a cyborg. I'm not talking Terminator here, more along the lines of Lobot. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lobot for those of you who've never heard of him.) My reasoning is that, though the Marquis really does need a computer to play matchmaker for the hundreds-strong throng of Agents subject to his every whim, he's still a little too haughty and old-fashioned to learn how to use one. Since he uses telepathy instead of talking, system that uses voice-commands is logically out of the question. Enter our Lobotic look-alike. It's enough robot to run computer functions and keep the agent database in its head, but still enough human to be communicated with telepathically.
Additionally, he might be sort of a confidant. The Marquis is the sort of man...plant, rather, whose idea of asking for advice is getting someone to listen to him talk...think, rather, about himself (Apologies to Mr. Pratchett, holy horns, etc, etc). That sort of cyborg would be perfect. It's enough human to look interested and answer his rhetorical questions, but still sufficiently cybernetic to keep the whole vexed question of 'Is he doing this to me on purpose' from the Agents.
I'm also thinking of adding some glitches, to keep up the fight on the humor front. You know, the classics - skipping and getting stuck like a broken record, the ol' neck-snapping nervous twitch, stuff like that.
I appreciate all feedback; approval, disapproval, additional or alternate ideas (a name would be nice, my mind's blank at the moment), the (slightly unwelcome, at this point) news that the Marquis already has an assistant, and that I've been wasting my time...All that good stuff.
Well, that makes it six paragraphs, including this one, and I think that covers everything, so...Au revoir, y'all.
Agent Quen, secretary to the Department of Personnel.
Sorry. You might see if you can borrow her from Araeph for a cameo, though.
~Neshomeh
Ah, well. At least I'm getting this information now, as opposed to after I write my whole piece. Wooops.
also for my permission request, I want to ask for permision to use the concept of Mary Sue Factory, and, just in case, to use a shadow and give it to understand that it may be Mysterious Somebody.
The Mysterious Somebody is dead, but if you're in the market for shadowy nemeses (Nemesi? Whatever.), then might I suggest the Mystery Assassin? (http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_Assassin)
See what you think. As far as I know, he isn't dead, and anyway, I've always thought it might be interesting to have the lil' bastard back after all this time...Let's see how this plays out...
Not to spoil things, but he was killed in 2006. The Factories are currently organised in a league led by the Venomous Tentacula.
You wouldn't be the first to portray Factories, or plan to do so, in PPC stories.
...Who are you? I don't mean to be rude, but I'd really prefer to know who this is. I just find the whole 'anonymous' thing just a little bit creepy...
A mysterious somebody posts in a comment thread partially about the Mysterious Somebody.
There was going to be a joke in this post, but I forgot that I wasn't funny. >_>
But I have a strange sense of humour that makes me laugh at somebody else's misery and... Oh, I shouldn't have said that. I'll try something else *doubts for a while*. There, there *pats Aster on the shoulder*
I don't think I've ever logged in, or even created an account.
I think I actually did create an account at one time when we were particularly worried about spam and trolls, but I haven't actually logged in since. It's completely unnecessary.
I'd say deliberately not providing your username would fall under the "one penname only" rule in the Board Constitution, personally, since the effect is the same whether you post under a different name or anonymously. Let's not be that disrespectful to each other, shall we?
~Neshomeh
Ken Trow (an anagram of network), Trace Ryes (an anagram of secretary), Patch, Crash, Listener...?
I hope that this was helpful.
I can't see any problems with it, and I like the idea about glitches.
"Yes Marquis Calrissian."
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