Stay out of the Dog Park.

Stay out of the Dog Park. by Karen DuLay on 2013-10-07 23:47:00 UTC

No, it's not the PPC, it's Star Trek: DS9 by hermione of vulcan on 2013-10-12 04:26:00 UTC Reply

The 'real world' AU.

DS9 as Night Vale, a weird, isolated town where crazy things happen and everyone is neurotic.

With Garak as Cecil and Bashir as Carlos.

And Gul Dukat as Steve Carlsburg. And the Dominion as Desert Bluffs.

And security personell as radio station interns. And Odo as the Sheriff of the Secret Police. Because Sheriff Odo has an awesome ring to it.

Of course, there's probably no point in posting this seeing as I don't think there are many DS9 fans on the Board, but hey. It makes sense to me. Did I mention it's almost midnight right now?
I do! by firemagic on 2013-10-10 00:31:00 UTC Reply

Hmm... Interesting point. However, I doubt the Flowers have the budget to outfit their entire secret police with black leather baclavas. They'd probably just give out some black cloth stuff and tell secret police to improvise.

What secret police? by the Irish Samurai on 2013-10-10 12:24:00 UTC Reply

They were disbanded months ago, just after that-

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Uh... what was I talking about again?
If the PPC were "can't afford balaclavas" broke, they'd be - by Ekyl on 2013-10-10 09:51:00 UTC Reply

"out of business" broke.

I'd just been about to make an amendment along the lines of by Ekyl on 2013-10-10 12:16:00 UTC Reply

"We could probably get that many balaclavas by just sticking one in a replicator" anyway. An interesting point, though what about stuff like maintenance costs, building up the New Cal city, etc.?

And of course the fact the PPC can just take everything from everywhere does raise the question of why Finance even exists, except for the purposes of (not-very-highly) paying the agents. Which is fair enough on its own, nobody likes working for free, but to get back to my last post I think the point I was making essentially boiled down to "there's no reason the Flowers wouldn't be able to afford - or simply take/replicate - that many ski masks if they wanted them".

Replicators, you say? by Agent Skeet on 2013-10-10 16:12:00 UTC Reply

I'm intrigued by these 'replicators' that you mentioned, and I believe earlier you also mentioned 'agent salaries' - now I must admit, I'm not entirely familiar with the concept of a salary, but after having it explained to me I can't help but wonder if these two things could be combined in some way...

Don't Personnel run archives? by Ekyl on 2013-10-10 13:21:00 UTC Reply

I suppose we could go about assuming the Flowers just like money for the sake of having it in their lairs, a la Smaug the Magnificent, but somehow that doesn't quite fit. ;)

(And yeah, I might have been habitually thinking in terms of by Ekyl on 2013-10-10 12:17:00 UTC Reply

a World One business that DOES need money...)

A friend of mine does. by Ailavyn Siniyash on 2013-10-08 07:46:00 UTC Reply

She talks about them a lot, so I sort of know what you're talking about. I'm actually sort of in the process of getting her into the PPC. I might just have to listen to them now, though.

-Aila
I do! by Pretzel on 2013-10-08 06:39:00 UTC Reply

It's one of my favorite things to listen to out there.