OI! OVER HERE! Welcome a'Board, and welcome to the PPC! One, for your n00b gift, have one coupon for a free custom gunblade of your choice, smithed by yours truly. Also, I'm thinking of buying Fire Emblem: Awakening. Should I? Pokemon... What's your starter? Metroid, been meaning to pick one up. Zelda? HELL YES. Ace Attorney, memes abound, and that's about it. Etrian Odyssey... never heard of it. Doctor Who? EXTERMINATE! Torchwood, heard of it, and that's all. Harry Potter. Hello fellow Potterhead! A Song of Ice and Fire, been meaning to read it, too busy. Last ones I have also never heard of. Nearly done here, but do you have ANY IDEA how much text 16 Kilobytes holds?! Easily any of the posts. You weren't anywhere near. Last but not least, watch out for the tea leaves.

Is there any sign of the Wii U Zelda game yet? What is Fire Emblem anyways?

But, who cares. Welcome! Have a fluffy vilociraptor! Have a lovely time here in the PPC!

Seafarer, welcome to the PPC! It appears that you're already familiar with the Wiki, and hS already told you about getting Permission, so that leaves me with two questions:
1) Have you read the Constitution and the Original Series?
2) How did you first run across the PPC?

*rummages through Pokémon-Trainer-issue bag of holding*
newbie gift, newbie gift...
*continues rummaging*
Man, for something so small, it sure cam hold a lot of stuff...
*pulls out Poke Ball*
Here you go; have a Ditto! Perfect for a multi-fandom Boarder such as yourself!

By the way, are you only a fan of the books, our do you also watch Game of Thrones? My brother got me hooked on the series, but unfortunately, I do not have HBO at home.

Hi! Welcome to the PPC.

Oh, I like Harry Potter as well.

My Immortal?! Yeah! My Immortal is an example of so bad it's good, and I like that about it. Very, very bad story, but very enjoyable to criticize and stuff. It gives you a sense of superiority, even though you really ought not compare yourself with those who are not as good as you are.

I knew someone from New Zealand back in my Fanfiction.net days. The story "The Gratest Pokemon Master" wouldn't mean anything to you, would it? Because that was a fic he wrote as satire.

Welcome a'Board, matey. I give you a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and a replica of the Wave Guitar from Majora's Mask. (We share lots of fandoms! Tell me more about Etrian Odyssey, it sounds cool)

You taste delicious. Next time, though, bring mustard. ;)

Welc

I bring you... answers to questions!

-Alas, Trojie left a long time ago.
-The character limit, as someone else said, is absolutely massive. I once posted this entire story in a single post - so nope, you weren't anywhere near it. ;)
-Permission... ah, Permission.

You're right, Jay and Acacia were a lot more lenient about it. But when Rome fell, like a writhen oak Jay left the Board, she appointed Miss Cam, GreyLadyBast, and Thalia Weaver as Official Permission Givers (all right, Cam technically already had it). From that point on, Permission has been a requirement, not just a suggestion. The way we give it has evolved: I got Permission by basically saying 'I've got a great idea!' and having Cam & Bast approve.

The thing is, Back In The Day(TM) the PPC was just a bunch of stories with a vague theme. Architeuthis could write about the Security Dandelions who patrol the walls of HQ without anyone worrying, because no-one else had gone anywhere near that part of HQ.

Since then - and largely (he said modestly) as a result of my work - we've turned the PPC into a true shared universe. You can't (say) decide to found a Department of Multiple Offences, like Nenya and Rosie did - because that job is already filled by the Floaters. The only ways to maintain a working shared universe with so many writers are either to vet each new story regarding canonicity... or to require Permission to write for the PPC at all.

With that said, getting Permission isn't all that hard. Once the revision goes through, the process will be as follows:

-Stick around until we know who you are. That's not hard, and if you want anyone to know your story exists, you'd kind of have to do it anyway.
-Read enough that you know what the PPC is, how it works, etc. It's kind of common sense to do this for something you want to write about, right? The 'Permission Self-Check' or whatever I called it is just that - an optional check for you to see for yourself how much you know. It doesn't even take your name.
-Come up with some agent characters. You'd have to do that anyway, since without characters you can't, y'know, write anything. (Though I'd be intrigued to see someone ask Permission in order to write solely about Free-to-Use characters...)
-Write a couple of short - 200-300 words - stories with your agents. Since you want to write PPC stories, saying you have to write some PPC stories before you can do so - apart from being oxymoronic - isn't terribly strenuous.
-Post the stories & a summary of your agents and ask for Permission. That takes... about a minute?
-Wait for one of the hard-working Permission Givers to put in the time to read your stories and form an opinion.

That's a lot of words, but it's honestly not a big deal. It comes down to 'stick around, get to know us, and show us you can write'. The basic goal is to stop you spending weeks on your first mission, and then having someone point out that your agent is a Mary-Sue. Because no-one wants that.

Lots of words? Lots of words. Permission isn't hard if you know what a decent character is and know how to spell-and-punctuate. +++End of message.+++

hS

Hello and welcome!

You don't need to have Permission to hang around here; I joined a year ago and I haven't even started drafting my request. I'm too lazy. Also, I'm pretty sure the character limit is very large indeed. There've been entire stories posted on here.

Anyways, I give to you a lined Infinite Notebook for your newbie gift. It features urple covers and wilver bindings. Don't look at it straight on!

-Aila

Hi! I'm kinda new here too! Welcome, and I hope you like it here. As a welcoming gift, have some chocolate (in case of dementors, needing bribe material, or the munchies).

Also have some homemade apple pie. I hope you like pie.