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Edward asked “So how do we decide who gets to listen to music today?”
Edward and Kat were always arguing over which music to listen to. They both liked musicals, but that was about as far as any similarities went: Edward preferred more classical ones, his favourite being The Sound of Music, and Kat loved anything Disney, particularly Aladdin.
“A race?” suggested Kat. “First one back to the RC wins?”
The agents had just left the SO’s office after having introduced their recruited badfic characters. There had been four or five of them, the Suethor of that badfic having clearly enjoyed creating OCs.
Edward nodded and said, “Okay. See you there!”
But Kat had already taken off.
There was no time to lose, so Edward hurried after her, wishing there was some water around. As he ran, he was pleased to note that he was focussed enough on running to not think about directions and so find the RC.
Kat, however, was a long way ahead and, although he was faster than she was, if he got close to her she’d just turn into a bird and outfly him.
As he followed the corridor through Headquarters, the gap gradually began to close until he was neck and neck with her. He also recognised where they were: nearly at the RC. Third door on the left, one more corridor and they were there.
Edward pushed open the door and Kat became a golden eagle. Edward’s advantage was that Kat had lost all her momentum in the transformation and he now had a slight lead over her. The RC door was in sight and Kat was closing rapidly.
But there were only three more strides until he was there…
He slammed his palm against the door triumphantly and said “I win!”
Kat was still a bird and waiting for him to open the door. He realised her clothes had been left behind in the transformation and decided seeing his twin sister naked was not an appealing prospect.
He opened the door and turned on the CD player. Kat flew to the bathroom where she always kept some clean clothes in case of a short-notice transformation.
Edward put his feet up, but of course, the Ironic Overpower being what it was…
[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!]



Note: Edward and Kat are from the Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children continuum. Edward can control water and Kat is an ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) and can turn into a bird and manipulate time.

The wings on the engineer’s back indicated that that he had avian genetics.

Besides "I liked it" I have nothing to say that Larfen didn’t already say in more eloquent words than I could find.

HG

(I seem to be saying that a lot.)

The main thing running through my mind is: what does the Lone One want? This can't all be just to muck about with a fledgeling wizard; Ordeals are more about wizards stumbling into Its plans, not the other way round (though as always, Cousin, there are no accidents...). So what sort of plan would include the step 'entice a bunch of wizards to leave a pub'...

... I can't wait to find out. ;)

hS

(Timesliding us back to the present - not that 2014 isn't a fun place to visit, but I've got a later point on the graph. :))

I decided it would be fun to put together a timeline of... well... us. ^_^ I've not put in too many details (and most of the ones I have included are about me), but I figure it gives a decent sketch of what's been doing on in our world.

1999 - Summer - Neshomeh's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - Huinesoron's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - Kaitlyn's Ordeal
2000 - Summer - The Lone Power regains access to Great Britain.
2000 - Autumn - The 2000 Invitational. With over 200,000 wizards in their first six months of the Art, hS and Kaitlyn definitely don't make the 300 participants.
2002 - Spring - Jay and Acacia found the PPC
2002 - Autumn - The PPC Board is founded, including (Errantry) tags and a spell to camoflague them.
2004 - Summer - Huinesoron moves to Bath and takes up watching the temporal anomaly in the Avon Valley.
2007 - Summer - S.M.F.'s Ordeal
2008 - Spring - The sun goes out for a brief period during an Ordeal in New York.
2009 - Summer - Huinesoron moves back to Essex to take on an Advisory role.
2010 - Spring - The Pullulus War. Adult wizards progressively lose access to wizardry, forcing younger wizards to take on senior roles.
2010 - Summer - First Jupiter impact event of the year. Multiple Senior wizards are pulled off-planet to deal with the cause. Huinesoron is 'frocked' to Senior.
2010 - Summer - Mars is very nearly repopulated by its archived local species.
2010 - Summer - Scapegrace's Ordeal
2010 - Summer - Second Jupiter impact event of the year. The Seniors of Earth return, allowing Huinesoron to drop back to Advisory status.
2011 - Winter - The majority of Earth's wizards are pulled off-planet to assist in the evacuation of Tevaral.
2011 - Spring - The 2011 Invitational.
2014 - Winter - Delta Juliette's Ordeal
2017 - Spring - London 2017 PPC Gathering brings together at least 4 PPC wizards (albeit Kaitlyn in eidolon form only).

Ix, I forget your date of Ordeal; sometime 2008-2010, wasn't it? And Tomash... I don't think you ever said, I think you just sort of showed up. (Or maybe that's just my bad memory?)

hS

I love those; never quite got my hand in, though. I always figured you needed bark and roots to shape the characters right, but you've just proved that wrong.

My version's going to look a bit shoddy by comparison, but never let it be said I'm one to go back on an offer of a gift...



hS

'British evening' for you.

hS

I've put it down as 'order (mind)', which hopefully captures the idea without being too big for the circle. :)

hS

With a certain fictional(?) inspiration...

(I didn't quite go so far as to write 'Time Lord' in the final slot, but I wanted to.)

hS

"... whee."

(Once again sketched directly from Mark Witton, this time from his launching Pteranodon longiceps.)

hS

October 1st, 1987 (3:43 AM, as Mom has made sure to tell me), maple-leaf crimson, and... you know? I think it's changing things. Setting them rightly into the universe by changing them. Or, in other words,

Fitting that it's sort of on Pratchett, at the end, being you've got some very Pratchetty-bits about the story, ay? It was a fun story all around, and I especially liked how you described the space station - real evocative, really speaks to a lot of passion, I suppose, on the part of that particular character.
Also, that little insight into the workings of the technicians. It's very, Iunno, relateable, there?

Though I got a couple nitpickies about here and there:
'the advertisements the sold the dream it embodied' - probably ought to have it as 'the advertisements that sold the dream'

And, errr. I had another one but now I can't find it. Can't have been that bad of a mistake if I can't find it though, eh?

Lost by a landslide https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7doublesou-742131239

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen7doublesou-742131239

I definitely agree that from what I've seen, hS writes quite formally, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say people have been assuming he has anything but the best intentions. He always comes across to me as someone who just thinks deeply about things and is good at conveying what he means, but the sheer power of his Aura of Mysterious Oldbie-ness (plus the fact that, let's face it, the things he has worked on are nothing short of legendary in a good way here) makes some people feel that a thread like this would be a good idea.

I may be wrong. Maybe people have jumped to bad conclusions about Huinesoron a lot. I don't have the best track record of checking the Board, but that's just what I've seen.

That said, I think this thread is helping a lot. At least, I'm having a lot of fun learning things about the oldbies, and I'm willing to bet that a lot of other people are, too.

I love his little crown, it's so cute!

All he needs to do is go "Whee!" and then he'd be Wheenesoron! :P

Let me know when is best for you, and we shall see when we shall duel.

The results don't do EPL justice. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7doublesou-742035570 I did my best, I have no regrets. I might even use this team for random matches in the future :)

November 23rd, 1992

British Racing Green

As for my specialization, well, that's connection and communication. I spent so long lost in my anger that I forgot about it.

I was in a bad place.

But I'm okay now.

Scapegrace
It has been 2736 days without a Not Being On Errantry incident

https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen7doublesou-742035570 Come watch!

I'm very clearly a Pteranodon.

Huevilsoron/Huevosoron/Huinesauron/Huinesaurian/Huinesoarin'. Rumours that he is infested by irritating bugs are completely unfounded, thankyouverymuch.

(Sauron-crested Pteranodon sternbergi after, and in fact mostly sketched directly from, Mark Witton.)

hS