Subject: Triple plug! (And a graph!)
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Posted on: 2014-05-01 11:06:00 UTC
First up, the second chapter of The Ispace Wars is up (and the first chapter now includes a summary of OFUDisc, for those who haven't read it).
Second, this was actually posted a few years back, but I'm only now getting it properly filed: a pair of Assassins take on a Mary-Sue in promise ring.
Third up, we have this:
Ephemerals
We all know there are defunct departments in the PPC - but for a lot of them, we don't know much about them. This is a look at some of them - two which already existed, and three concocted for this story.
The departments mentioned here are, well, defunct - they no longer exist. But they did exist, and are available for backstories. All agents who aren't otherwise accounted for are designated Free-to-Use, as well, though what they're up to these days I have no idea.
I've also used the opportunity to resolve a few outstanding issues. The Department of Godplayers now has a shutdown date (and a reason), way back in 2003. The Department of Floaters also has a launch date - and prior references to it are implicitly retconned by 'floaters' being a nickname for the Department of Multiple Offences. However, this opens up a pair of possible conflicts:
-Sebak is claimed to be 'from Godplayers' in 2008. Since his other stories don't mention this, I'm assuming this is in the same way that J&A are 'from the PPC' nowadays - not current, but what he's best known for.
-More seriously, Tomato's Agent April Halloway claims to have joined the Floaters three years before the Reorganisation - or a full seven years before it was formed. My preferred explanation here would be that she means the DMO. However, if Tomato objects, I can tweak the story so that the Floaters existed as a minor department before the Great Consolidation.
With that out of the way... a graph!
A plot of unique IP visitors (black) and posts (blue) per day on the PPC Board, since March of last year. Strangely, we're in the middle of a plummet in both right now - which also happened this time last year - and, according to another graph, the year before (in terms of post counts). So... apparently something happens between ~March and May that either causes people to leave en masse, or causes people to stop coming to join us. Is it American exam season or something?
hS