I share most of your listed fandoms! Yay! (Except Castle and Criminal Minds, but they sound cool.) I don't know if I'm allowed to give gifts per se, so you can have this Nelson Mandela quote:

"If you speak to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you speak to him in his language, it goes to his heart."

:)

Hi, have some fudge!

Good to see another tabletop gamer, do you have a favorite system? I started with 1st edition AD&D, finally quit that system with 3.5. These days almost all my regular gaming is with Hero System, but I've played a lot of other systems at conventions.

Feel free to bum around as much as you like, I promise we won't bite :) I'm still pretty green myself since I've yet to claim and-or spork a fic (though I do have one in mind but I want to take my time).

Personally I think it wouldn't hurt to lurk around the wiki some more--familiarize yourself with the smaller (and funnier) details in the PPC lore before and if you decide you want to create your own agents and go sporking.

(The Things I am Not Allowed to do in The PPC in particular is a perfect comedic gold mine. Seriously I was reading them while eating lunch at the campus cafe and some of them had be laughing so hard that my soda almost came out of my nose!)

Since others have answered your questions, I don't think that I need to regurgitate the same answers yet again.

As for your newbie gift,
*rummages through bag of holding*
Here, have a wilver replica Death Star!

Bronies of the world unite! ;)

Welcome to the Board; your present from me is a barking penguin. Make sure to feed it lots of anchovies.

Also, feel free to get involved in the shipficfest; this is my first time, too. Heh heh, first time. *ducks flying tomatoes*

Looks like you've got a fun list of fandoms. Have a cup of infinite (insert drink of your choice).

Well, first you need to collect your gifts as a new boarder! They are crucial to your success on your missions!

*Dumps a mixing bowl, a bar of bleepolate, and a tangled skein of yarn on you.*

Second: I've been bumming around the board for well over a year now without bothering to get permission, but reading/helping to grammar pick missions is always a good step in the vague getting permission. So is writing in one of the event threads when they come up, knocking around reading other missions, and finding goodfic. (Finding badfic is also good, but mostly people like to be able to pick and choose some of the most amusing samples of badfic, and let's face it, we don't see enough goodfic when we only focus on that.)

Welcome!
Put your feet up and make yourself feel right at home. Ummm, just don't put your feet there. Thats kind of a arton energy naquada reactor. Bit dangerous.

In any case, have a silver ink fountain pen. Works on black notebooks and werewolves both. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome!

I give to you now a lined Infinite Notebook, complete with urple covers and wilver binding. Enjoy!

(And yeah, basically you just sort of insert yourself in to the community. Not that that's hard.)

-Aila

Here, have this collapsible unicycle and Bleeprin-dosed custard pie. You never know when you'll need either one of them. Possibly never. Possibly now. Possibly an indeterminate number of years ago, and looking at them now engenders a feeling of deep regret, made worse by the memory of laughter and the ringing of small bells.

As for your other question, well, you've pretty much answered it. What's next is becoming part of the community. I only joined fairly recently, but I'm already welcome. It happened to me, it'll happen to you, much like the screaming and possibly-weasels. =]