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Have a half-kilo of lembas.

Huiensoron suggested more people should post games, so here's my attempt at a Warhammer 40,000 quest thread for the board:

You are Guardsman Siegfried Cortez, of the 56th Armageddon light infantry, a man of little skill and no renown, mocked by all who oppose you. You were ungracefully disgorged into a spire of some inconsequential hive city on a planet whose name you've forgotten, for a purpose the Sergeant saw no reason to tell you. He sent you to scout ahead while he went to loot a liquor store, and you have no idea where the rest of your squad has waltzed off to. And yes, they were waltzing last you saw. It was bizarre. Now you are in a corridor with just your gear and your wits. Your swarthy good looks and dashing accent can't save you now. What do you do?:

a) Go back the way you came, in search of your squad.
b) Go back the way you came, in search of the Squats.
c) Check your inventory.
d) Proceed deeper into the hive.
e) Bust some funky disco moves.

I was very curious to see how it would go. Turns out, really well! Pasting into the Rich Text Editor makes the process fairly quick and painless. And, look, check out how much information from my site I'm able to cram into this thing, links and all:

https://archiveofourown.org/series/990105

It's beautiful. ^_^

And, like, check out the mission. You can indicate that your story is "inspired by" another work, right in the story-posting architecture. It's like it was designed for this.

And BTW, I'd suggest to anyone else doing this that they also include a mention that the spin-off is authorized by the PGs on the PPC Posting Board, so it's quite clear that is expected. Y'know, like all the OFUs back in the day would say "authorized by Miss Cam" or something to that effect. {= )

~Neshomeh

Heya! Take a bolter, a flask of mjød, and some Klatchian coffee. If you drink both of the latter two at once, you may survive with minimal ill effects.

Another note is that most canon episodes can be watched on nick.com

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12877174/1/Loud-House-One-Angry-Person

One Angry Person is a fic that has a mean Lincoln Replacement Stu who goes around destroying his sisters' possessions and gets away with it. This fic's biggest issue is Stu!Lincoln.

We don't write missions based on numbers, we write missions because it's fun. So, first of all, we'd have to have an active PPCer who's into Loud House, and second of all, they'd have to find a fic bad enough to spork that they actually want to write a mission about. Not every badfic makes for a good, fun-to-write mission.

Also, the presence of fanfic doesn't necessarily indicate the presence of missionable badfic. My impression is that small fandoms (4,000 fics isn't really that many) tend to have a higher ratio of goodfic, or at least meh-fic, to outright badfic.

That said, if you've spotted some badfic that you think would make an entertaining mission, post it here! Make sure you tell us all about why it's bad, too. That way, you might get someone's attention. Just dropping a link with no context is really boring.

~Neshomeh

I define a Mary Sue as a character that exists to gratify the author, and does so in a way that detracts from the reading experience.

Hi, everyone (if anyone can still remember the pen name)!
I really need to catch up; the first year of pseudo-college was pretty busy.

I tell Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon that Maul has taken Anakin. The Sith have returned!

I know I said I'd put lots of battle links up here and I haven't. I either haven't had the time or have forgotten to actually get the links after the battle.

What I would suggest is trying the Random Double Battles Tier instead, while it may not have an entire team you'll be happy with, it does give you an idea of the tactics used, and can show off some Pokemon that otherwise don't get much competitive viability limelight.

I could have sworn we'd included enough mentions of the agents hiding behind trees or in empty rooms? I'll go back and look, though. (Didn't help that the Sue was way too preoccupied with showing up to bother describing the settings, either, but that's no excuse on the mission's part. ^^;)

The tent scene was honestly my favorite to write—even if it wasn't the best part of the mission.

Thanks for the review!

With over 4,000 fics on FFN alone and 0 missions, I think that we should start missioning fics from this fandom.

I went back and forth on whether to explicitly mention that incident and that I felt I'd learned from it. I ended up not bringing it up because I didn't want to reopen old wounds (with some other past incidents we seem to just not bring them up anymore for that reason).

I'm not sure that was the best idea, now that I think about it.

- Tomash

I know I made a serious effort on "review more" and "post more" initiatives, but then just about no one else took me up on it, and so my attempts to jump-start the place fizzled out.

Also, Ix and Patsy, sorry about not getting around to your missions. Things have been busy for me the last week or two.

- Tomash

when I've bothered to look, the span of thread post dates on the front page of the Board has usually been around two and a half to three weeks (it's currently at around three). There were times it dipped down to nearly a month, which got me concerned, but I didn't really say anything because I thought it was just me going "Are we dying?". And it's now not entirely clear that we're not.

It looks like several of us are concerned that the PPC is withering away, and so it's good we're saying it and trying to have a discussion about what to do about it.

It's also good that 61516 is participating in this thread.

(That was a poor choice of words, and I apologize.)

- Tomash

Okay, so my big comment is that you did an excellent job of cowriting. Too often, Cowrite Disease strikes, and characters end up rattling off half-page paragraphs to which their temporary partners flawlessly respond point-by-point. (Not that I speak from experience, hem hem.) This story doesn't do that - it feels like all three agents got the opportunities they need to respond and to comment. (The advantage of having one person write the two in a relationship - when they start talking only to each other, it's for valid reasons!)

That said, time for a flashback: remember all my comments about missions that sound like MSTs? Well... you didn't do that either! The agents were definitely more than talking heads, and I don't feel like you over-quoted.

The vestige of MST-disorder that I did notice is that I had a hard time connecting where the agents were to where the Suvian was. Partially because I'm tired, of course (always tired), but it didn't feel like they were occupying the same space. I didn't flag any sneaking around, or having to peer through windows, or suchlike.

I want to throw a particular highlight on the scene in the middle, where I did know where they all were - the whole 'spend the night' section. It was an excellent portrayal of the agents, and kept them firmly anchored in the physical world. I couldn't say whether it's the best scene, but it's certainly the one that stuck in my head.

hS

You just survived an encounter with a Dark Lord of the Sith! That's something very few people can say, given that they've been ruthlessly hiding themselves for the last millennium.

So! What'cha gonna do with yourself?
-Tell Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon everything that's happened.
-Go full-on Evil: attempt to kidnap Queen Amidala and take her to Naboo yourself to buy a place in the New Order.
-Go back to that plan of selling yourself into slavery.
-Set things up so Jar-Jar Binks takes the fall for your betrayal.

Right, if you're doing this, you're going to do it properly. Get to your feet and get your best proclaiming voice out, and tell him this:

Matimo, Nossenehtar, nel ata nahtuval Eldar i Silmarillinen. Carni maicar Lestanóressë. Narwa rúnya i Londessen. Ar Russandol colë i Noldomír i Nárenna.

"Matimo, Kinslayer, thrice more will you slay Eldar for the Silmarils. Red swords in Doriath. Red fire in the Havens. And the Red-haired to bear the Jewel into the Fire."

You've just tarred Maedhros with the worst name his people have to offer, pairing it with the names his mother and his siblings used for him, and told him he's going to earn it at least twice more (assuming his suicide doesn't count). I don't know what reaction you're going to get, but you're definitely going to get one.

How did he react?
-He just fainted in shock.
-He seems to think I'm a deity and has fallen to his knees.
-He's threatening me in Quenya.
-He's laughing.

((I really wanted to directly quote the Doom of Mandos here, but apparently Quenya doesn't have the words for 'Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them'. This ought to do the job, though.

((There is a Sindarin version out there, which renders that line as 'I ‘waedh tegitha hain, dan gweriatha hain'. It certainly sounds ominous! ~hS))

Or evil deed, for that matter?

Maul's taken Anakin to his master, and left me stranded on Tatooine with a couple of angry Jedi.