'PPC emergency' is an ill-defined term at best, since it basically depends on why it's being used. Pejoratively, 'emergency' can mean anything up to 'I don't think you should do this so I'll say it's an emergency because moratorium'. Originally (and I think the term was my fault), it meant 'anything I want to put on the Catastrophe Theory chart to prove that the PPC would explode in'... I think it was 2012, actually. ;) So the 'Tangled Webs fiasco' is on there (a large IC mission which the rest of the PPC ignored), as is the Assimilation Crisis (about a dozen agents involved in that one)... but so is the Crashing Down invasion.

If I was making the graph again, I'd probably include the Great Genderbend, as well as the Door to the Future RP - because they're moderately big events, and because Dafydd and Constance would be very upset to hear the Genderbend was 'fun'.

Basically, this answer boils down to: is Pluto a planet? If so, so is Ceres. Is the Genderbend an Emergency? If so, so is your idea.

hS

PS: The thing about capital-E Emergencies is that they can be kind of cool - if they a) don't impact absolutely everyone (so people can opt out of it having happened to their agents) and b) don't make permanent changes to things anyone cares about (Hi, Makes-Things!). Oh, and c), aren't all role-plays.

My point here is, if (say) someone wants to write about, or even just mention in passing, the time the Department of Out-Of-Character Hobbits were possessed en-masse by robot ghosts and had to be forcibly restrained by a coalition of DAVD and DIAU agents before they could reach the DoDAEG and steal Tolkien's shoes (or whatever) - brilliant! That's clearly an Emergency (the shoes must be preserved!), but it also doesn't impact anyone who doesn't want it to.

But if that was made into an RP, you'd have the inevitable person who takes their possessed DOOCH agent into the air shafts and drops a bomb into the cafeteria, and then someone would write an announcement by the SO that the department was shut down, and it would all be Big Seriousness, and everyone would have to acknowledge it or get out of sync with the rest of the PPC (which we all know is an awful crime which must be punished by public mockery) - and that would be the sort of thing we put a moratorium on.

... my post-script is longer than my script, isn't it? I don't even know where I was going with it any more...

hS

I don't think it would be an emergency. It seems like the kind of thing one could easily opt out of. One reason the Emergencies were so problematic was the fact that they were so very to ignore. It would be a temporary thing, and probably would not threaten to destroy the PPC or Multiverse. So, thinking about it more as a Genderbending incident seems about right, to me.

Some questions you will want to answer, for yourself, before/if this happens are:

1) What is the mechanism of the change? (A Breaking Bad fic I saw recently used magical pot to turn a character into a child...I wouldn't recommend it.)

2) Why does it change them into the food they eat most often? Why not a random food? Why not cats?

3) Why would it affect Agents in other worlds (on missions, for example)?

Just some things to think about.

-Phobos