To clarify, is it alright to have one of my agents recieve the Message (from the Swan's Egg trilogy)? I'm not sure when/if it would happen, but I'd like to know if it's alright :)

Also, can the connection between Boarders and agents be expanded upon? For instance, could a Boarder potentially know that their agent had gained sentience/reality, and amused him/herself by sending the agent gifts and the occasional message and watching said agent freak out trying to figure out what was going on? (Ok, that's not exactly what my idea was, that's more of a 'could this happen?' question. The actual idea is that Agent Dawn has a supply of NM&NMs that mysteriously replenishes itself, and that one day she recieves the Message and--I'm not really sure what happens next, beyond someone--possibly her--becoming deeply suspicious of the NM&NMs, and possibly having some sort of conversation on the Board with the Boarder who 'created' her wherein she tries to convince the Boarder that she does exist, until reality reasserts itself. It would probably go in an interlude of some sort).

Although, on a different note, how can agents have NM&NMs? Do they just not know where they come from?

Also, is there such a thing as an agent who doesn't forget? Outside of the former DIO agents? That's not to say that I have a candidate, but it would be an interesting idea to explore...As would the Boarders' perspective of this. I mean, yes, we'd probably either call troll or just assume it was a crazy roleplay, but...it could be very funny.

That's all the rambling and questions for now, I think...please let me know if any of this could be plausibly used in a PPC story.

~DawnFire

For plot purposes in my current superproject (Blank Sprite), I was going to need Defectives. However, I have a little question:

- Is it possible to make Defectives deliberately, to be used as mooks?
- And it is possible for a single Sue (with the help of two other character with Suvian characteristics but not full-blown Sues) to set up all what is needed to produce them, during the course of rougly 4 years?

... I certainly don't mind you using the idea of the Factories. The League itself itself is fairly fragmented these days, so an 'Independant' Factory wouldn't be a problem either - and being cut off from the League would explain why they were also cut off from the (former) PPC Biotechnology Inc. and its supplies.

As to your summary, I'm assuming the Factory wants your character because she has some characteristic they want to breed into their Sues (the Mysterious Somebody bred for Force sensitivity at one point, for example). That's fine as a motibe, as long as you make sure not to make it a SuperAwesum!!!Trait ("They want here because she's the BEST and PRETTIEST violinist in the historyoftheWORLD!!1"). I suppose the other reason could be to use her as a test subject for the Sues to practice being Mary-Sues on - but in that case, I'd imagine her kidnapper would use charm and so on, not sleeping potion (unless the charm failed?).

Using 'it' to describe a Mary-Sue - even one from the Factories - is dubious; they're very definitely She (or He), unless they're a Defective. Defectives, if you recall, are the colourless workers in the Factory - they're Sues whose breeding process went a little wrong. Calling one of them It would make perfect sense - and would explain why it didn't use Suvian powers to kidnap her.

So in general: I think it's a good, workable idea, and I certainly don't have any objections to you borrowing my ideas. Just be sure you've got people's motivations pinned down in your head - even if they don't show up in the story! You've got a good motive for your character to join the PPC, but make sure you know why the Factory wants her - either specifically her, or just people in general. What experiments? And, equally, make sure you know what Lux is even doing there (although, yes, 'plothole' is perfectly acceptable).

And I'm glad you like Crashing Down! It took a bloomin' long time to write, so it's good to know people are still enjoying it.

And have you taken a look at the PPC Permission Self-Check? It's an awesome (even if I do say so myself) way to check how deep your understanding of the PPC is - and quite fun, too!

hS