The PPC Posting Board - Latest posts

NM&NMs, which are basically bleepolate versions of M&Ms in, I believe, various Sue-created colors like urple and wilver, came from people not realizing the (nm) was automatic and adding it themselves, resulting in subject lines that ended (nm)(nm). More (okay similar and a little more) information can be found here on the wiki, under the bleepolate entry (second subentry).

~Z

PS: ...am I somehow an oldbie now? I mean, if Iximaz is one...and Novastorme is one...oh man. I guess we 2013ers are old is now. Help? It's a weird thought. Though not quite as weird as the thought of fifteen year oldbies. Speaking of which, congratulations, all of you--shouldn't we celebrate sometime this year? That's quite an anniversary!

As for the story itself... actually, not feeling like a title was worth the effort sounds like a fairly Marisa thing to do, but it does make things a little complicated.

While I'm on the subject, is the version on the Board (as amended in a couple of places) what you'd consider the final version?

hS

In “Agents and RC“:
His family was descended, through distantly, from the blood of a hero who had ascended to become a Heroic Spirit.
I guess you meant “though".

HG

Once again, conga rats! I knew my dude would do it! *all the hugs*

Since he's had to assume full household responsibilities and also run around after his pitiable wife, who has food poisoning. Does it demystify him if you imagine him queuing up to buy Pepto-Bismal?

Anyway I'm also an oldbie, but I cleverly avoid intimidating people by never posting. Strategy! I don't really write much anymore, for the PPC or in general, because I'm a nursing student, which absorbs 100% of my energy.

hS and I met on the Board, and I can confirm that he's always been quite a formal poster. However, that was more scceptable in the early days--microblogging and facebook and Tumblr didn't rule the internet yet. You definitely typed on a keyboard, not a phone. Social media was more long-form, and communication was a bit less pithy. Think of hS and I as cranky old people relics from another age.

Of course hS is also pretty evil. Or should I call him... Huinesauron. :-0

-Kaitlyn, too old and tired to move with the times

You didn't reply to my email about the new challenge date. Fortunately I'm free for a good chunk of tomorrow, so let's agree to meet up in the writing room @ 8:30 pm your time on that day. We cool?

That's gonna be one pretty archive. ^^

I've been seriously impressed by the magic circles, by the way. The amount of work you're putting into making the geometry harmonious is very apparent, and good grief, you actually invented a script to use for the Speech. Stop making us all look bad with your awesomeness! ^~

(Don't stop. Never stop being awesome.)

~Neshomeh

Another Gathering is definitely in order. We'll look forward to seeing you when you return to this green and pleasant isle.

I am... definitely playing fast and lose with volcanology and rocketry to make the narrative plausible- but the underlying theory is vaguely sound. I do not recommend trying it at home.

My imagined outcome is that it would have functioned- not perfectly, some things would have gone badly, some people would have gotten hurt. But it would have been a serviceable solution. Except, of course, when you're throwing around terms like "no power limits" and "cubic kilometers of rock", you really need to put the right name in the circle.

And that breezy "oh, nobody will get hurt, it'll be fine" is so very in keeping with the other big theme of the piece! Julia needed to do a lot more listening- starting with listening to herself. She'd been deliberately ignoring herself for years.

That is an amazing work of art and I'm deeply impressed by your handwriting skills- thank you for putting it together!

I applied for film school to study cinematography in London a few weeks ago. The admissions team said "Cool, we like your application, and we'd like you to come in for an interview but since you can't do that, finish a script and a storyboard for us, and send us examples of your past work and you're in."

I got my second round sent to the head of the film program last week, and today, I got the news: I'm in.

Term starts in September and I'll be staying there for three years—and hopefully making the move permanent once I graduate.

You know what this means, right? We'll have to have another Gathering sometime in the future!

Though anything along the lines of "Even Younger Wizards" is right out. ;)

And I'm pretty sure I intended that emote to be that chapter's title. |D "Assurance" could work otherwise, though.

... is there a title for the whole story?

This section also lacks a title. ^_~

hS

hS

Congratulations, both of you!

See, I told you guys you had nothing to worry about, now didn't I? :-D

Re: how the granting works, I'm not a PG, although by my recollection they're both granted permission according to the wiki. I could be misremembering, though.

Do I know you?
I've certainly seen you both around, at least. Check.

Can you write (technical)?
I didn't notice any SPaG errors or run-on sentences. Solid.

Do I like your agents?
Their profiles look solid (Though I did raise an eyebrow at the 'warped' sense of morals for Alexander until you clarified it was thanks to his medieval upbringing), and I particularly like the detail about Ce'rana needing to carry an acorn from her home tree to survive. The control prompt mentioned her keeping her tree in the RC... I assume it's either been shrunk down and potted, or it's rather young?

Do I like your prompts?
I liked them! The bickering over how to move into the RC in the first prompt was fun and gives me a sense these two are going to argue about the 'proper' way to do things a lot, especially since it felt like both of them were convinced they were right and their partner was wrong. I liked the second prompt better, though—it showed how they work together, and it was creative in how the agents interacted with the Minecraft world to take down the Sue. And it made me actually laugh in places— “You know, this would be a lot nicer if you were a Ghast.”
The brightly-colored Blaze took offense to that, if the number of fireballs focused directly on him was anything to go by. in particular made me giggle.

Badfic?
Even I've heard of this. Looks good to me.



So, it is with great pleasure, I get to say...



(Other PGs, this does bring up a question, though—the last time two people applied to write together was for me and Randa, but since I was the main writer I was the one who got the Permission—I assume that, since Mikel and Cali are both going to be writing, they have Permission independent of each other?)

This is actually an excellent spell. It blends wizardry with the sort of deep knowledge of physics and engineering that most wizards won't have. It's also a relatively cheap spell, since the power node (at bottom) indicates that it should take its energy from the volcano itself. (In full, the power circle reads: "Power source: [volcano] at focus of circle - chamber and flow. No power limit to ensure safety.")

Unlike Jacob and Lise's wizardry, this one is stuffed with arguments and persuasion, as well as technical data in the joined circles. They're not perfect - notably, it simply asserts that the spell won't hurt anything, without actually addressing the question of how the volcano feels about it (so to speak) - but with a bit of tweaking it could be a first-class spell, and be included in the Manual as a named spell.

Except for the minor fact that the name is all wrong and so it went very badly. But other than that--!

hS

When you don't put anything in the actual message section of your post it attaches the little (nm) to the end of the subject line. It's just an abbreviation of 'no message'.

I've been wondering for a while what the (nm) thing some of you put on the end of your posts actually means. Can you help me out with that, please?
Sorry, I'm far too curious for my own good.