Is it just me, or have MSTs faded out of existence? I don't think there have been any since 2012, and MSTs were what introduced me to the PPC.

I'd try to write one myself, but I doubt that one of my agent teams would make for good riffing on their own, and I don't know if I could keep canonical guests in-character.

...I think the idea of a Sue-wraith being purified and turned into a more plausible character would be a fascinating idea. As far as I know, my own Cupid Carmine is the ONLY case of this happening on an official mission. (No, E.V.L. doesn't count. She was an OC I had in the works for YEARS before joining the Board.)

Like I said earlier, I'd like to see how other Boarders would handle the same concept. An agent who was once a Sue-wraith would be similar to an ex-Sue, sure, but I think there's a difference in that the Sue-wraith: 1) had no physical form at all prior to being exorcised and purified, and 2) directly possessed a canon rather than just Suefluencing him or her. Those two aspects were things I think I covered pretty well in the aftermath of Cupid's creation - not just with him being ticklish and the like but also the more obvious prospect of having a physical body i.e. he probably went "OMG HOW DO I LEGS" after not having any for over thirty years in the context of his homefic, and had to start over practicing everything from walking to manipulating objects to wearing clothes and stuff.

So yeah. I would really like to see a purified Sue-wraith happen in someone else's work. They'd probably handle it very differently from what I did, but that would probably for the better. Variety is the spice of life, as they say.

I don't actually know if they have ever shown up outside of that one Florestan and Eusabius mission with the Saw/MLP FiM crossover.

Pulling out one-off things is exactly what I enjoy doing in other fandoms - notably LotR - and it's exactly what I'd love to see more of in the PPC.

Some ideas:

1/ The PPC clan of Nac Mac Feegle. What're these guys up to? Are they employed, or just resident? Do they, by any chance, go on missions?
2/ Intelligence reports. Architeuthis did them. I tried to revive them, with so little success that SeaTurtle later claimed no-one had ever done anything with the DoI. But there's no reason people can't write these when they post a badfic. For that matter, there's no reason missions can't reference bits of (created on the spot) reports.
3/ The Message. It's weird, it's meta, it's been used... maybe once?
4/ Can I be cheeky and say 'divisions'? I don't think there's any agents around these days who go exclusively into one canon. I'm pretty sure it happened originally because J&A were posting to FF.n in the LotR category - but still, it's something that we don't see a lot of these days.

Like SMF, I'm sure there's heaps, heaps more.

hS

There are some things in old spin-offs I've wanted to reference eventually. I probably won't get to all of them, and probably can't think of all of them off the top of my head. But anyway:

Aramel's spin-off is, uh. Quite different. But one thing I do like about it is the Angel's Trumpet. I like the idea of the Flowers having their own "announcer." I know it's been contradicted a dozen times since with human announcers, but I'm just immensely amused by this guy. Maybe he was used before the consoles got an upgrade for ICEP? (Also, Trojie and Pads used another Angel's Trumpet (Warning for drug references!) in one of their stories. I listed them as separate characters on the Wiki, due to their differing personalities, but it's ultimately a question of headcanon, I guess.)

The green man named Greenman! I think he wins the prize for least memorable Original Series character. Yeah, Jay and Acacia wrote him; be honest, and admit you had no idea he existed until just now. (Unless you are Neshomeh or July, because I know you two have read the Original Series multiple dozens of times.) Anyway, the Greenman also appears here, and is involved in weapons training—Wait.

Wait.

"Questions to be filed in the box!" the instructor snapped, waving a frond.

"I wasn't asking anything," Acacia muttered.

"Comments filed in the box!" the Greenman said, his jolly face twitching.

The. Greenman has a. Frond. I. Never noticed before. He's not a. Green. Man. He's. A Flower? is there such a thing as a—Ooooooooh. How much do you want to bet this myth has a Czech variant Jay knew about?

Well. My worldview is shattered. I think it's time for bed now. I might add some more little-known old stuff tomorrow.

(So I don't clog up the board. ^^; )
>behindthename.com> is scarily accurate. O.o Any site that directly associates my name with singing is generally doing things right.