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Also, while some characters have a degree of OOC Resistance, only omnipotent and omniscient deities are fully immune to it. I'm thinking being immune to mind control would give this character at least some OOC Resistance.

What show are you talking about, by the way? I can't think of any characters immune to mind control off the top of my head.

I laughed just about all the way through this. I love Kitty and Alec's antics, and Library's restraint and deft management of them. Too many funny moments to list them.

Also, poor, poor Alec. Possibly they should have seen the merge coming, but then again, why would they? Most people don't have that problem. (I reckon that's one more good reason to change your name if you're a recruited canon replacement.) I liked how Library dealt with it, too. I think the exorcising of PPC agents as PPC canon characters has probably been done before, but the uncertainty here made it particularly cool.

What is going to become of him? Can't wait to see!

~Neshomeh

Catching up, she hesitated and laughed at herself. "This might be silly, but I'm running with it anyway. Would you permit me to make you a rather ostentatious, slightly personal gesture? You'd need to take a knee..."

(( One final item on the RP Goals checklist, if it is permitted. {= ) ))

"Yeah, I'm pretty worn out. It was nice meeting all of you, though. Thoth?"

Thoth's armor burned for a moment, changing from the colors of the Space Wolves to his regular blue and gold. "I, too, will go. It seems that I have more than ever to learn. And it is good to have my own colors again."

The two men took their leave.

((Ahriman did it to a bunch of marines all at once. As a result I'm working off the assumption that it's not that difficult to change your armor's color.))

Hello again, PPC! I know that I haven't been contributing much recently, but Real Life has a way of doing that.

As for what has gotten me back onto the Board: a fandom question. If there are any Bakugan: Battle Brawlers fans around, does anyone know which episode goes into detail into the story of the Six Ancient Warriors? The Bakugan Wiki is very poor at giving sources...

Members of the PPC! I come bearing a fine gift: a brand new mission, featuring Calpurnia Library teaming up with Kitty Callahan and Alec Trevelyan. Watch as this intrepid team go toe-to-toe with some James Bond badslash! Features drinking, cursing, and an oddly theological twist.

See it here!

And away I go!

It took him quite by surprise, though it really shouldn't have. It had been a drunken and emotionally tumultuous evening, with a healing thrown in to boot, and that would tend to catch up with anyone.

Jenni smiled at him. "Maybe we should all think about going home."

(( I'm pretty much out of ideas. Jenni would love to engage Thoth in a philosophical conversation about the interconnected yet separate nature of the immaterial realms of the multiverse, but I feel like that would be rather dull for everyone else. ˆ_ˆ; Shall we wrap it up? ))

On a more serious note, reading the Bryant and May books taught me a huge amount of trivia about London, which is always fun.

OOOIIIIIIII!

The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.

I will definitely be claiming FaCe ThE StRaNgE. It's finally complete, it's utterly incomprehensible garbage, and the only thing holding me back was not having a working knowledge of Sonic or Yu Yu Hakusho (the fic features Shadow the Hedgehog and Hiei in ridiculous bonktacular fashion). It's also an excuse for me to give Algie and Lola a proper mission on my own terms, since they're basically supports and they're gonna be going in alongside Doktor Trollenfisch und Gabrielle.

Hopefully it'll turn out good. Though, y'know, it's one of my missions, so that's a bit of a stretch even without taking on an insane Bleepfic and trying to make it funny. =]

Take a mug of coffee, given to you by Toth the adorable mini-rubric! Look at him. Stare into his eyes. Can't you see his adorable mini-soul crying out in eternal mini-torment?

Could be, but of course that means they'd have to have the rights to even more of the Books. Which means they have to try and cross the bridge before Christopher smashes it with his staff (I assume Christopher Tolkien is basically Gandalf at this point, right?).

The trouble with the Rohirrim is that they... kind of don't have any stories. Eorl rides, the early Rohirrim conduct an unsuccessful ethnic purge against the Dunlendings, Helm turns into a snowman, and then eventually the War of the Ring happens. You could do a series about the Battles of the Fords of Isen, and the very first skirmishes with Saruman - ending with Eomer being exiled, and potentially even his hunting of a party of orcs to the borders of Fangorn - but other than that...

I think a Middle-earth adaptation that gets away from the best-loved parts could be a breath of fresh air. We've seen time and again how Hollywood/Gameywood (that's a place, right?) deal with the Quest of Erebor and the War of the Ring, and the answer is: not well. They also suck at accurately interpreting Mordor (Shadow of Whatever). I wouldn't trust them to get Beleriand anything close to right, either.

But Arthedain? Numenor? Angmar? Umbar? We know so little about what those places were like. As long as they don't muck about with the broad scope of history (as Jackson's dead Nazgul did), keep the 'magic' to what the Books discuss (as Shadow of Murderdeath didn't), and make an effort to remember Tolkien's overarching themes of a) the fading of the old ways and b) small things being the greatest of all (both of which would be perfectly shown by Helge's Westerness or my Fall of Kings), they can do a lot without 'breaking' Middle-earth canon.

Though if they do any unironic 'we have to adopt evil weapons to defeat evil!' stuff, I shall be bitterly disappointed. I might even scowl at them.

hS

...In case you lot haven't been paying attention to Blizzard, StarCraft II is now free. Like, totally. Well, sort of... You actually get, by my understanding:

-The entire Wings Of Liberty campaign. That is, the original SCII campaign at launch.

-All multiplayer content. That is, free play, competitive ladder, arcade, all co-up campaigns (I think).

So if you want anything you had to buy before, or Heart of the Swarm, or Legacy of the Void - the two expansions/other campaigns - then you'll have to buy them, but if you want to get in on the RTS fun, there should be more than enough content.

Oh, and for the Windows users in the crowd, the original Starcraft and its expansion, Brood War, have been free for a while now and work fine on modern PCs. Blizzard doesn't advertise it very loudly - they're trying to sell you the remastered version, after all - but it's available in the downloads on your battle.net account if you dig a bit. So, if you want to party like it's 1998, go right ahead.

Discussion? Requests for multiplayer partners? Talking about RTS? Fun map suggestions?

Hm.

I guess I'd like to see the story of the Rohirrim, myself. I dig the pseudo-Norse aesthetic, and also horses.

I wonder, given the plural "storylines," whether they might not do a different thing each season? And seasons can be pretty short these days, so it wouldn't necessarily have to be spun out ridiculously.

I dunno, I'm kinda wiped out with people messing with Middle-earth. Probably because so much of it has been awful. Don't want to get my hopes up, but I'll judge it when I see it.

~Neshomeh

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!

*blows noisemakers*

An IGN article from 2007 (here) does indeed put it at number one, and lists the full acronym. Of course, they don't get the capitalisation quite right - it should be TLotRTBfMEIITRotWK.

It's almost as bad as some old-fashioned novel titles:

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Years a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her brother) Twelve Years a Thief, Eight Years a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent

... or those very '60s album names:

My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows

Amazing.

hS

You're actually still 18/16/whatever age you think of yourself as. The past 3/5/x years have been an elaborate illusion set up by, uh... [rolls dice] the programmers of this simulated reality we live in. It's part of the beta release of the upcoming expansion; once they reset the timeline, you'll find it's really [rolls dice] December 21st 2012, and you've just had a very restless night's sleep.

But since we're still in the scenario right now, I wish you a happy birthday and hope no end-of-quest boss monsters interrupt it.

hS

True adulthood, not that pseudo stuff you get at 18 :p

Happy Birthday!

Because, besides from being an awesome game, IIRC it also has the longest title for a video game.

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king

That's phenomenal isn't it?