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I liked how inventive you were with the pizza delivery concept. It's hard not to like Tess or Matterhorn, and this was very funny. I definitely think this one set a very PPC-accurate tone. Reading that Pakura bit really makes me want to see her properly missioned. Ugh. I did like the "language" line from Matterhorn. Funny bit of meta there.

Oh, and typo time:

"As the fight went on, it became more and more clear that for all her cybernetic bits, Tess was not a trained ighter."

"ighter".

--Ls

Good story! I should really finish my PAL mission lol

If you hung around in the Discord sometime between 2020 and 2023, you might be familiar with the fic series this interlude ‘references.’ I use that wording specifically because the PAL series, standing for ‘Pokemon Awakens Love,’ is a megacrossover that features a recurring cast of dimension-hopping Suvians who attempt to solve inconveniences in ways that make someone like Empress Theresa look wise and pacifistic. Sometimes they’re a family, sometimes they’re parents of adoptive characters, and the series thrives off ‘references’ that are just renamed powers or caste systems stolen from anime. There might be a chance that even if you’re a Board-only poster that you’ve heard of it, as it’s been brought up a couple of times before.

Anyways, here's a Cafeteria piece. Enjoy!

She's a new character who will appear in the next Demonly Kings arc. In fact, this mini-spin-off is partly to set up her appearance.

I’m definitely feeling bad for Arare now. He hasn’t been the nicest person, but I wouldn’t want to see him completely drained of power, either! Hinata is cool (as are gashadokuro in general), and it made for a fun excuse to see a fire vs. ice magic fight in HQ. (Though I’m sure the Janitorial Division won’t find it as amusing!) I love that Arare extinguishing the fire in that Courtyard interlude had a greater significance than I realized at the time, with consequences paying off in this story!

I forget if the “seemingly a little girl” has been mentioned before or not. I’m guessing she’s another yōkai, and another of the Wonders?

As for mini-Balrog adoptions, we aren’t really in contact with Miss Cam nowadays, so there wasn’t any formal process to go through to adopt them! Honestly, it’s probably true for most minis at this point. If a mini has been sitting on the wiki for years, no one’s likely to contest a new adoption!

—doctorlit, yearning for an updated passport

That was one time, and it was during the Shipfic Fest, so it doesn't count. Who among us can honestly say we haven't had underpants (our own or otherwise) on our head during a Shipfest at least once?

(( I am "legally" "obligated" to state that this post is 100% the product of my imagination as far as I'm aware, but it wouldn't surprise me if there has been an actual Shipfest fic where this happens. ))

~Neshomeh

Good humor, twists, lots to enjoy. A good number of references probably went way over my head, but I will most certainly be getting more Pratchett books for myself soon.

--Ls

As someone who also did this kind of move, I know how complicated it is - technically, I'm not done yet, since I didn't move yet IrregularS from Fanfiction.net, but that's not PPC stuff so yeah.

AO3 is perhaps the best option currently - we had people here who lost stuff with Google hiccups, and other hosting places aren't necessarily welcoming of PPC missions. But AO3, instead, is extremely welcoming, since its stated goal is to archive all kind of fanworks.

And they're here to stay, while I had platforms go under on me. I used Wordpress until somewhat recently, but it wasn't my original mission hosting site - for a while, I used an old Italian blog platform, Splinder. Luckily they announced the closure in advance, so I managed to backup my stuff and move it to Wordpress, But AO3 really is giving me peace of mind.

Just one thing: activate all kind of moderation options for the comments. Not on the levels of Fanfiction.net, but there is an issue with botted accounts asking for "collabs" which are actually art commission scams.

I placed a request for 3 mini-Balrogs here to prepare for this chapter, but was not replied to. If the appearance of said minis here is against the rules, I'll remove them from the story.

Prepare to be amazed as Arare faces off in a duel against another member of the Seven Wonders of PPC HQ.

The Aviator

1) "The Aviator. Or Arinorelivandrisar."

2) "My parents gave me a human name. I picked the new one—the Aviator after my dad. These goggles are his, did you know? Arinorelivandrisar I just picked because it sounds nice."

3) "Well... changing it, I suppose? And then having to come up with a proper Gallifreyan name for paperwork. That was a long night."

4) "I get called Ave a lot. I get it, rolls off the tongue easier. Emiran calls me Arin."

5) "Zeb."

(-Hey!)

Zeb

1) "I'm Zeb! Hello!"

2) "I... actually don't know! I never asked my original trainer. Hey, Ave! You remember that Nuzlocke I came from?"

(-What about it?)

"Do you remember why you named me Zeb?"

(-That was almost four hundred years ago and I was still human, I really don't. Sorry.)

3) "Getting it! I'd always just been Shinx up until that point. And I suppose I would be Luxray now if not for the nickname."

4) "Technically, Zeb is both my name and a nickname! ...By game mechanics, anyway."

5) "We've always just named the minis after their misspellings. I never really thought about it."

Decided to use my old inactive AO3 account for something, and I decided that - around the fifth anniversary of my PPC writing, no less! - I'll be uploading my old PPC pieces once every day or so on there, in chronological order. Honestly, if all goes well enough with my beta-phase drafts I might even have another Interlude to add here before this thread drops off the front page. Here's a link!

It's been an interesting experience, learning how the tags and formatting works. I ended up looking to other PPC writings on there (mostly Nesh and Ekwy's stuff) for reference. Also, looking back on my old writings's helped me realize just how much I've changed, and how messy my style and character consistency were back then. It's a bit painful at times, and I recieved a bot comment and a weirdly projecting paragraph of insults in just four days, but it feels nice doing something PPC-related again, even if my writing for the setting's taken a shift away from straight missions.

I want to go ahead and thank y'all while I'm here, since this place helped me find a hobby that I not only enjoy, but am actually decent at for once. I'm not quite where I'd like to be yet, but I think I'm slowly improving. In fact, I'm going for a certificate in creative writing at my college, and I think being here's the catalyst for that. The people here also helped me move away from certain aspects of my personality that I am not very proud of having when I was fifteen, haha. In the grand scheme of things the PPC is such a small corner of the Internet that it's a wonder I found it at all, but I'm very glad I did.

I admitted procastinated on this one a while (it was meant to be finished two months ago) but I have another ready for a beta read. This one's a more slice-of-life type Interlude involving volunteer work at the Nursery. However, I am unsure if I did justice to the Nursery or how children generally behave (I am inexperienced with writing them). It's 12k words and doesn't require prior knowledge of any canons, I believe.

I and my family went to a really nice holiday resort and stuff. No cake though.

1. Rebecca Buch

2. I was named after my mother. There are multiple Rebecca’s in my family.

3. When I was in school one of the boys decided to call me Chewbacca because I was the tallest girl in class and he misheard my name.

4. Chewbacca was my nickname in elementary school, but I don’t have a nickname now.

5. My cat is named Onions. I don’t remember what 10-year old me was thinking, naming him that.

It is, indeed, the theme Lyrical Nanoha's authors kept for the series. To stay with characters you might remember, being canon characters who featued in The World without Authors, we have Fate Testarossa (named after the Ferrari Testarossa), Signum (Opel Signum), Vita (the Japanese market name of the Opel Corsa) and Shamal (Maserati Shamal)

When I came up with the idea for Sergio's original partner, I really wanted a silly Unison Device from that series, and so I decided to keep in theme (helps that I'm a car enthusiast myself). So I literally went for the cutest option among the various market names the Toyota "AE86" (chassis code) had (The "Sprinter Trueno" bodystyle, the one with popup headlights, is called the Corolla GT-S in the US, and the fixed headlight bodystile is called Corolla Levin in Japan and Corolla GT in Europe.)

It goes without saying that someone like our beloved Corolla would indeed also try to keep to the theme in-universe, since she would become aware of it once she ended up on the opposide side of the fourth wall!