What would happen if the Ironic Overpower found a copy of the 'Things I Must Not Do At The PPC' list?

And wow, you have a post up! I enjoyed it. ^_^ It's nice to get some insight into those first crazy moments of falling into HQ. Normally we just sort of take it for granted that it happens and everything somehow works out fine for the character, despite how overwhelmingly weird it must be.

FYI, though, it's pretty much never okay to write what someone else's characters do/say without their permission. Referring to stuff they have done, yes; making up new stuff for them, no. I'll allow it in this case, because Ilraen would absolutely help out a newbie who crash-landed in the Cafeteria, but ask first next time, 'kay? {= )

Oh, also FYI, you can set the date of your posts to whatever you want. I think Rina arrived in HQ quite some time ago, so you can backdate the post if you want, to make it more accurate to her timeline. I did that on Ilraen's second entry. It's a really nice feature for this fictional stuff, and it's also handy if you want to have a master post (a table of contents for your missions/other stuff, perhaps) that's always at the top.

~Neshomeh, who simply must comment on the journal now.

Dreamwidth is a journal service very much like LiveJournal, only less stupid, or so I'm told by people who know. I never used LJ enough to see where it was stupid first-hand.

How to RP on Dreamwidth:

1. Create an account for your character(s).
2. Choose a journal skin that suits your character(s), upload icons for them, etc. There are lots of beautiful skins to choose from.
3. Post in-character stuff in your character journal if you want to.
4. Post in-character stuff in comments on other people's character journals if you want to.
5. Post in the RP community if you want to. RP then takes place in the comments, which are threaded. This is usually in third person.

I've got two character journals for my guys, rc999 and jennirobinson. I keep meaning to use them more, but it's no fun if no one else is doing it.

I guess you're a midbie if you feel like a midbie. Being around for three years has to count for something. {= )

~Neshomeh

Originally posted 8/8/2010


OT: Meanwhile in the Cafeteria...

...it is time for a good old-fashioned food fight. Anyone who wishes to join in may do so, no permission is needed.

And now, I give you the instigating event:
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Agent Barid sat at a table in the middle of the cafeteria. He was bored. He was tired of being bored. He sat across the table from a balding agent he didn't know. The man looked run down. Barid felt that he could help.

The troll agent looked at his table-mate and said in his Troll accent (read:Jamaican), "Someone should do somet'in about da Flowers. Dey run us ragged and dere ain't no one saying nuttin'. It's time ta take a stand."

The man looked at Barid. He spoke with a slight Scottish accent. "If we stand up tae them, we'll lose."

"Ya," said Barid, gaining strength as he spoke, "Stand an ya may lose. Follow dem and ya'll live. And when ya console's beepin, years from now, would ya be willin' ta trade ALL da days," he climbed onto the table with a bowl in his hand, "from dis day to dat, for one chance, just one chance, ta come back 'ere and tell da Flowers dat dey may take our vacations, but dey'll never take... OUR FOOD FIGHTS!"

With that final yell he scooped a blue, pudding-like mass out of the bowl and hurled it at someone sitting at the next table.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the real reason Barid isn't allowed in the Cafeteria anymore.

-Phobos

1) Why would there be sudden disruptions in pre-existing stories? True, a large number of plotholes to Headquarters appear when a suddenly-appearing hole engulfs an area or someone topples into it after shenanigans happen, but in order to send massive amounts of notable canon characters flinging outside of their native world into the null space of Headquarters, there would need to be something going on that was more messed up than even the already-enormously-plot-hole-ridden stories of ill repute could handle.
Unless we're assuming that a large number of canon characters just notice as a group the unstable fabric of the universe just tripped on its own proverbial tail in front of them, and they responded with "Ooh, look, a shiny hole hovering in space! Let's walk through it!", but I'm pretty sure that even in very stupidly written continua, the majority of characters would be smart enough not to do that.

2) Would someone have to RP the displaced canon characters? How exactly would they interact with everybody? Would each person taking part in the RP just have to RP a certain character alongside their agent? That wouldn't be very interactive with the other Boarders, but it's the closest idea I can think of that would work, unless we'd ask the Board at large who wants to be the Honorary Galbatorix or the Honorary Jacob.

3) This is probably going to come across as me being a killjoy, but I'll just out and say it: if canon characters got into HQ, what would most likely happen would be that someone from a Security Department would show up, capture them if necessary, and then either restrain them for PPC checks or immediately portal them back home, and wipe the characters' memories once they were back where they belonged. In addition, the natural plotholes dump things into HQ all the time, and that's usually dealt with without large-scale events. It would be sizably scaled for the people who are sent out to contain the breach(and possibly recruit it if it's a sapient being, susceptible to its new environment, and not an established canon character), but it might not even register to more than a handful of other people.
Essentially, what would be making this breach so special compared to all the others, aside from the more-than-usual number of characters it sends through? There would need to be something in particular that keeps the characters from just being rounded up and sent back, especially since the majority of canon characters would express a desire to be returned to their world to complete their story already in progress and thus wouldn't put up all that much of a fight. Maybe this could be tied into the event that brought them there in the first place, but regardless there would need to be some reason why lots of PPC employees get involved here.

4) If the plotholes "finally destabilize" to make this happen... that might just be a phrasing problem or I'm interpreting it poorly(Though there are only so many things "final" can mean, so I'm not sure how else I can interpret it. Maybe the idea was that something integral to HQ's structure has stretched to the brink and just a short time ago snapped entirely, but that isn't much better.), but that sounds nastily irreversible to me. If things start getting "finally destabilized", we might have to deal with parts of HQ vanishing as the plothole-sustained sections start becoming unable to maintain themselves, or things from the outer reaches bypassing the shields entirely, and the last time the shields stopped being able to keep out trouble, we got Weeping Angels in here, and when they failed in 2006, the Black Cats invaded. Shirtless werewolves and prima donna dragons would be the least of our problems.

Also, characters from those universe can already access HQ insofar as anybody can - there's at least a couple (?) Twilight vampires among our agents.