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Hello everyone, the PPC scavenger hunt has started! If you're interested, head over to the T-board (https://ppc-posting-board-2-proto.herokuapp.com/posts/5694) to participate! I'll leave signups open for the entire duration of the game, so don't worry if you didn't sign up earlier.

Good luck!

If you have any questions about anything, please ask them here.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the PPC scavenger hunt! This is a new game, where boarders look for various uncommon to extremely rare things in fanfic (mostly badfic) and then get points for finding them. Whoever has the most points at the end wins.

There are 50 items to find, all of which are worth one point. To enter the game, make a reply to this post title "[your name]'s finds". When you find something, reply to that post, including the item you found in the subject, and quote the part of the fic that you found the item in and link to the fic. You can't use the exact same thing as another boarder, but using something else from the same sentence for the same item on the list.

Also, to keep the scavenger hunt safe for people verifying finds, NSFW or NSFB fics are not allowed. This is probably going to mean T-rated or below fic. To keep things interesting, any items must be found in chapters that were published at on or after 2017-07-23, and anything from any fic that has been PPC'ed is not allowed. The game will run until the end of 2017-09-24, EST (to match the timestamps on the main board).

Now that the rules are out of the way, here are the items to find, all of which I have seen in fic (although not necessarily in eligible fic) :

1. A mini with three or more letters added, deleted, or removed
2. An object of an impossible color
3. A Suvian reformed within their own fic
4. A sentence with more SPaG errors than words
5. An author's note in the middle of the chapter
6. A heading in the form of "[character]'s POV"
7. A generic weapon
8. An instance of reader bashing
9. A pronoun problem between two characters not being shipped
10. A nonsensical illness
11. An instance of "Canon" misspelled as "cannon"
12. A completely unromantic scene intended as romance
13. A canonical creature described in a completely wrong manner
14. A character with a negative age
15. A piece of figurative language that makes more sense when interpreted literally
16. A page-long paragraph ("pageagraph")
17. An uncanonical character who would be OOC resistant or immune if canon
18. A badfic shorter than 500 words
19. A soap opera cough
20. A character who checks off an excessive number of common Mary Sue traits
21. A character who is over 99% OOC but not replaced
22. A sentence that ends in a punctuation mark not normally used to end sentences
23. A poorly-written poly relationship
24. An unclosed parenthesis or similar punctuation mark
25. An author's note not marked as such.
26. An unintelligible acronym
27. An LGBT+ Suvian
28. A character who is both bashed and a Suvian's LO in the same fic
29. A ship which is obviously a bad idea
30. A ridiculously flimsy excuse for two characters falling in twu wuv
31. A misuse of mathematics
32. A sentence which does not begin with a capital letter
33. A summary (including any tags) which implies at least three charges
34. A series of three or more of the same punctuation mark
35. A comma splice
36. An unnecessary line break
37. A correctly used semicolon
38. Food with an impossible flavor
39. A nonsensical object (such as "Long Table Elrond")
40. A word misspelled as a different word
41. A number used as a word
42. A canonically incorrect romantic custom
43. A completely generic setting
44. A sentence with three or more ambiguous pronouns
45. A character that has no reason to appear in prose (\^, |, _, etc.)
46. An unattributed line of dialogue
47. A statement of something obvious
48. A character with the same name as the author
49. A summary or title with a SPaG error
50. A good CAHQ card (Anything extra weird that doesn't fit one of the above items)

Good luck hunters!

I'm feeling rather sadistic, so, to help you in your um... corageous? suicidal? quest, here's a question: have you heard of Celebrian?

Now, for the actual gift, have a an inkwell for you to drown your resulting suffering in, and a set of quills to match.

Anyways, Multi, I'm glad you joined!'Til the next post,

Diana.

The sun goes dark. Malaysia does not see the shadow. A person looks at the sky and see the clouds gathering. "Time to get the laundry." He remembers seeing the sun eclipsed by the moon as a child before his maid pulls him back inside. "Do not go outside! Dragon wants to eat the moon."

He remembers watching the TV, and Chinese people of his country clanging cymbals and playing gongs to chase away the dragon. The Muslim Malays do the eclipse prayers. He was a child, he did not have to attend. The Indians offer prayers in their temples.

The eclipse was over in minutes. The gossiping goes for years. It will be almost a century before such an event can be seen again. "Will I live to see it again?"

I definitely get how uncomfortable this experience is for him—the body horror works well that way. All that pain and suffering, and years to come to terms with it, and now this fairly ridiculous and arbitrary nonsense. Oy.

He doesn't seem the type to go for hugs, but Nurse Jenni could put him in touch with Agent Derik, and they could go for drinks? I imagine they'd find plenty in common.

~Neshomeh

"Well," thought I, "I've read both Team Phoenix updates, I may as well do the hat-trick and read this Lazarus thing."

"Aha," thought I, "it's Alec "not-the-self-insert" Trevelyan again, I can see how things have changed for him since his recruitment."

"Well," thought I, "that was a great exploration of what happened to Alec - I wonder how closely it relates to canon? Oh, she's discussed that with doc, coolcool. But what was up with that tattoo? Let's check the story this is a direct sequel to."

"Okay," thought I, "that doesn't really answer anything... what's a Valcentica? Maybe there's a previous mission I can reference."

"... what," thought I, "the actual flipping heck?!"

I ended up checking the Board for discussion of it, and finding your conversation with Nesh and Zingenmir when you came back... seriously, that's completely loopy.

Anyway, yeah, you sent me down a rabbit-hole. ^_^

hS

It's actually something interesting that I noticed upon my thousandth rewatch to write this - the two of them are still on first-name terms, even when they're enemies. (They even banter - well, they trade, eh, inside jokes of a kind? Things they used to say on their missions together?) Alec is actually the only Bond villain (maybe minus Spectre, but I really don't care to watch that one again) who addresses Bond as "James" throughout.

(Hello, I am the person nobody ever wants to go against in James Bond trivia, can you tell?)

There's no explanation as to how Alec survived the explosion in the film or the novelization, so I had to make it up out of whole cloth. I hope it wasn't too unbelievable!

And yeah, that's the phrasing I wanted! I'm not 100% sure where I picked that up but I know it's a thing people say...somewhere...probably........

Oh, dear. I wasn't even thinking about it, but there it is! An homage to the Great Ones, such as it is. :)

I definitely did try and think of "hmm, what would be cool and popular around that time...LotR and...idk, cyberpunk? LET'S GO FOR IT." Has absolutely nothing to do with my soft spot for cyberpunk. Nothing at all...

The sun goes dark... then lights up again, before it happens again, always for a short time, but several time in one interval of time. The joy of living in a setting where heroes' summoning darken the sky.

The sun goes dark. I mean, litteraly black, and turns people into stone. The only way to avoid this fate? Take some formula to turn into demons eating each other. (a black-hole cake for the one guessing the game)

The sun goes dark. The generic guy from te future sighs in relief. Right before being burned. 'Of course we knew there was an eclipse today. It makes for more dramatic executions.'

The sun goes dark. Nobody on Tatooine really cares that much.

The sun goes dark. Demons are far calmer now. the it switches again, and they go mad. Really irritating when the final boss uses it for attacks. (another cake here).

That fic reminds me strongly of Jay and Acacia's first crossover - remember Izzy in his randomly-Earthlike Star Wars setting? Hanging out with a Jedi named Matrix? Yes, you've definitely tapped into the same early-2000s vibe.

Which is a good thing. :)

hS

This is an interesting concept, actually. Alec clearly still doesn't like his scars, but he also "sides" with them over the phoenix tattoo out of familiarity. It's an interesting sort of mindset/emotional state to think about. (I would be horrendously bothered by something like that showing up that I couldn't hide, even without a pre-existing mark for it to overlay.)

I also really like the flashback scene to the explosion. I haven't read or watched any Bond, so it was essentially an original scene for me. I love the little detail that Alec calls Bond "James" in his mind. It's still clear enough who he's referring to, but it makes sense that one of Baond's actual colleagues would just think of him as "guy I know" rather than having all the franchising/memeage associated with Bond from our media perspective.

I also like that Kitty's appearance at the end kind of works for the reader the same way it does for Alec: things have changed, but it's still a PPC spin-off. rather cute!

"And now the reminder of that betrayal was altered by the mark that had insinuated itself over top of it like an ink-wash."
I think you wanted a "the" there in "over the top of it," unless this is a phrasing style I've never encountered before.

—doctorlit, not really wanting to track down all the Bond novels to read them, ever

The sun goes dark. A young writer sits in a house, deep in writer's block. The eclipse is right outside his window. He looks up as it reaches totality, and inspiration slowly comes.

The sun goes dark. A young boyfriend and girlfriend have decided to sneak out of school to watch the eclipse in totality. They begin speaking sweet nothings to each other, and at the exact moment of totality, they kiss. Because this is a smarmy romance story. Yay.

The sun goes dark. Since the founding of the lunar colony, this has been the first terrestrial eclipse the citizens have witnessed. It is a time of deep thought and deep longing for home.

The sun goes dark. There are no words to describe this sight. Like all other phenomena of nature, it just... is.

-Twistey

I'm feeling productive lately. Think of it as making up for all those years in exile. Hup hup!

Interlude Title: O Lazarus
Canon: PPC
Rating: T, for swears and body horror
Agents: Trevelyan, A.
Time Period: May 2010 HST
Word Count: 1635
Summary: Change – whether it’s your choice or not – means you have to take a good, hard look back at your past. Even, and especially, when it hurts.

[Immediately follows Interlude: A Changed Man.]

Warning: Discussion of severe burns.

"O Lazarus, how did your debts get paid? O Lazarus, were you so afraid?"

Well, at any rate, the light dims.

The sun goes dim. The sky is strangely bright, but the colors on the ground are somewhat muted.

The sun goes dim...ish. The people gathered outside grumble in disappointment.


If you can see a teeny orange crescent in the lens, that's the eclipse.

The sun goes dark. In a forgotten ghost town, two Barons of Plort tilt their heads towards the sky.

(In short, VM and I, plus assorted friends and family, drove south. It was totally worth it!)

This is the bluest, loudest sky I've seen in months.

The Sun goes Dark. It starts wearing heavy make-up, listening to alternative rock, and wailing on social media that nobody understands it.

The Sun goes dark. And I'm still sitting in my room, hoping to boost my Druid to level 58.

The sun goes dark. Panic, madness, insanity. The Tyrant Star has arrived.

The sun goes dark. Some careless engineer rm-ed /: The outage is expected to last 72 hours.

The sun goes dark. DOGA agents grab flamethrowers to fix the results of a piece of bad description.

The sun goes Dark. The moon thought we were playing MtG.

The sun goes dark. "If you strike me down," the moon says, "I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

The sun goes dark. God fumbles around for the light switch.

Thanks for auditioning, everyone.

Time to get this show on the road, so to speak.

The sun goes dark. Ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes, coveting the tallest of the sterile skyscrapers like packs of dogs.

The sun goes Dark, but the moon counters with Fire+3. As Orion attaches an Ice-IX to his Belt of Dexterity, the people of Earth continue on, oblivious.

The sun goes dark. Apollo finishes the cut and lays the slice on Amon-Ra's plate. He looks round at the assembled gods. "Anyone else?"

((Scapegrace and I are both in the UK. This is my way of not missing out on the fun. ^_^))

hS

Because I live in Australia and I'm missing out on all of the fun, apparently.