I was wanting to use a strange set of CAD. Basically they would be a set of analog equipment that is difficult to read, but has easy-to-fix failure points.

Basically most agents go after the digital devices because the risk of explosive failure is worth not having to do the math.

I'm seeing some stories that seem to have trainees follow along with an established agent pair before getting paired up.

I'm assuming that it's rare to just take two people who have never been on a mission before and hope they survive?

If you go into a fic, are you required to do the fi...il the end, or just build up enough charges?

What if there is a sequel to it? Do you need to do both? Do you even need to start at the first one?

What if another author took up the badfic's continuity and kept going?

My vampire is allergic to water, and I'm not comfortable with saying that pills or chocolate are digestible.

I would like to introduce two new bleep-products based on stop-smoking aids.

One is a dermal patch. Useful because it could also be forced onto a raging agent.

The other is an electronic cigarette and might catch on because it works faster than the pills.

I was reading about the all-purpose department, and noticing the part about "When a fandom is so underrepresented that it requires anyone who can cover it to cover all of it." http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/All-Purpose_Department

I was wondering if there was a division for things so obscure that the head is a non-action agent whose sole job is to keep track of the floaters who would know about these barely-represented areas. It looks like Gargoyles and Iron Giant would be too small to have its own division, and I would have stuck Legacy of Kain in there if it didn't already exist. (I'm thinking that my own agent would bounce between the Legacy of Kain and whatever fandoms her floater partner would be covering.)

I was reading through two of old shames, and wondering something.

What happens if the story is intended to be stupid, or the author is aware that it is stupid and continues? Mine don't fall under parody; I start with a stupid idea and try to drag it into a well-developed story. (It would be tolerable if I knew how to stop the snowball.)

... can be answered by the first, unspoken one: 'Where do I find PPC fics?' There are two answers:

This is The Original Series. This is where it all started. It's one of the three links at the top of the Board, and it's really a good idea to read them.

More generally, the Killed Badfic list is probably the best place to look. Each mission is sorted by the fandom the fic was from, so you can prioritise. If you find an agent or department you really like, look them up on the Complete List of PPC Fiction to find the rest of their adventures.

And since other people have covered your other questions, I'll leave it there.

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1. Yes.
   2. Agents can have powers; Agent Cali Still, for example, dropped in from the movie Mystery Men, and the Continuity Council is entirely Time Lord Agents. You don't want to make them overpowered, though. (Read the Guide for Newbies)
   3. A mini is a small version of a canonical monster created when an author misspells a character's name. As far as I can tell they cause chaos while in their fic and comedy relief in HQ/Official Fanfiction Universities.
   4. Generally at least one of the agents is familiar with the canon being warped, and the mission report provides a brief description of the fic. I have seen research occur on a mission, though.
   5. I have no idea. Sorry!

I imagine the Powerpuff Girls agents would have all of the powers that come from exposure to Chemical X. That is a very large number of powers for a PPC agent to have, so it wouldn't make it very challenging for them to defeat a Sue. They could just be near-invincible at it until they got close enough to hit it with their ice breath.
Agents of any given species or distinction have all of the powers that that species or distinction would normally possess, with extrapolations for changes that can occur within their home continuum(a member of a magically capable species being raised as a wizard), or something that only occurs once they enter the PPC(an agent from a non-supernatural universe beheads a Gil's All-Fright Diner-verse werewolf and as such is transformed into a werewolf themselves), but there are no powers that are given just for being a PPC agent. They can generate portals through the use of their Remote Activators, but that's not really a power.

You can find all currently available PPC stories linked somewhere on the wiki. Some of the links might not work, because some stories have been deleted or made inaccessible, but most of them are there.

World One is... sooort of the "real world". In simple terms, it's the equivalent of our world as it exists in the PPC multiverse. Self-inserts of Boarders are native to World One, World One experiences all of the same social events and intakes all of the same media that our world does, and it has all of the overall tells of the "real world", but World One contains doors into Headquarters, a few retired PPC agents living in seclusion, and a PPC-colonized city in France run by a Flower version of one of the plants from Myst, among other things. It's not the same place, but it's the "real world" for PPC story purposes.

A mini behaves differently depending on its species. Most of them are somewhere between animal intelligence and full-on sapience, with a few even having the ability to speak. Most minis enjoy causing trouble and eating raw meat, most famously bacon.

The Department of Intelligence goes into the fic beforehand, scouts out potential dangers, and sends a summary of the events to the RC of those who are going to clean it up, with notes on particular canon breaks, potential dangers, and the categories that the badfic falls under. It doesn't tell them everything, of course; that would ruin the fun!

When you try to exorcise a character replacement, nothing happens to it. Well, it gets mad at you, but it isn't depowered or anything. Still, that's better than assuming a canon character was replaced and then killing them when they were only possessed. You would get in the worst sort of trouble for making Medical need to take out their resurrection equipment again.