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One of the players just felt that some of the choices she may have been obligated to make were too morally grey. 40K is, after all, rather dark.

Apologies for worrying you.

Thank you! I shall definitely make use of him.

-Alleb

1. I could also get you a Very Flat Flamethrower(TM) if you wish. Just as an extra gift because you seem so interested in the first gift.
   
   2. Oh, that's cool. Do you have a Wikia account? Maybe you should edit the page a bit to correctly show the amount of fanfic in the fandom...
   
   3. Yeah... very true. *almost says something speculative about the badness of said badfic, but decides not to because the hopeful statement would give the Ironic Overpower something to do.*
   
   4. I almost spoke too soon. OH MEIN LIEBEN! Come on! Canon gave the idiots a specific place to put their NSFW stuff AND THEY JUST USE EVERYWHERE ELSE?! Sounds like something a stubborn pet would do, like they take a bathroom break everywhere but the litterbox! Man, that's stupid.
   
   5. I'll check that out soon, maybe after I learn some stuff about Warhammer 40k... X'D It sounds cool, though! I've got a friend who's pretty much made me sick of Pathfinder (dunno about D&D, though - I consider it better) and never want to play it again, so Warhammer 40k would be a good tabletop role-playing game for me, since it's nowhere near Pathfinder's genre.
   
   -Twistey
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   "Very Flat Flamethrower(TM)? What even...?"
   Glad you asked!
   http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/Fake_Hitler
   Those things are said to have a flamethrower in their chest to mimic fire powers... how could you fit a flamethrower inside the torso of a wooden puppet the size and shape of a human? The fandom's only answer was the Very Flat Flamethrower(TM). (I don't have any in stock currently, so I'd pretty much have to go back to the bunker and face the risk of burning to death to kill one of those things and wrench the flamethrower out. Yeah.)

(I want a stern emoticon, but the only one I have is the furious one. Alas.)

(Also, I'm joking.)

(Though it's not really a joke. START READING.)

hS

...it seems to be a bit more obscure within my age group. I myself hadn't heard of it until I saw my friend reading it, and she was one of the only friends I knew who had heard of it. So I guess I should read it, maybe, and then tell my other friends about it. That'll fix your problem! :D

-Twistey

So the problem is that the index page was a .htm page, not a .html. Which I don't think was a problem before? Anyway, I've changed it, but am still baffled by it.

hS

The main page is gone. You know, $DOCUMENTROOT/index.html. I assume here that you know what $DOCUMENTROOT is.

So If I don't request a subdirectory (like /Fanfic, which you linked), I get 404ed.

At least, I recall there being a main page when last I visited. Was I wrong?

My Webplex is still there, though; a lot of its images have been lost due to Photobucket being a pain in the neck, but the stories are all still accessible. Or at least they should be! Which bits are down?

Anyway: that's one of them. The other never got finished, but would have revolved around the idea that if characters make it to the real Real World, there's no way for the author to know what they're up to.

hS

The one where the PPC became aware of the board, right? I don't remember the name, and your website seems to have been taken down. (please fix that, by the way)

Yes, that puzzled me as well. Maybe he got corrupted/had to do something awful, and REALLY didn't want to play the bad guy?

I shall consider it.

Thanks for the dice, and the copy of the Imperial Creed (An extra copy of the Lectitio Divinatus always comes in handy. I believe Rogal Dorn uses his as building material). In return, I bequeath to you a copy of the Imperial Truth (to be used as reading material, or as a firestarter: your choice), and any book you want from what I've been able to recover of the libraries of Prospero. With this name, what were you expecting? :D

Be careful with some of that stuff, though. Clever, accurate, and astonishingly prescient though some of it may be, things did NOT end well for its previous owners, fanfiction written by people who really should know better aside.

I shall... try to get something recorded and sent. (It's that 'just sing anything you want!'; it led to massive indecision on what I should sing, and ultimately me just not doing anything.)

For people struggling with microphone quality, I've found that the best microphone in my house is actually my phone! It's designed to filter out background noise, too (being... a phone), so it actually makes not-too-awful recordings.

hS

Hi! I'm Calliope, more frequently abbreviated to Cal. We're both named after writing people, so yay for that!

(Then again, I'm also named for a musical instrument, a Homestuck character, and a missile silo. I like meaningful names.)

Here, have a few Newbie Gifts! You get the standard set of roleplaying dice in whatever color and/or pattern and/or texture you want, plus a calligraphic copy of the Imperial Creed to decorate your Boarder RC (I think we have those, and if not, we do now).

If you decide to join the Discord, you should join us for Dark Heresy at some point! We need another player, because some of ours had to leave - one for moral reasons, one because life got in the way. All we have now is a Tech-Priest, a Psyker, and a Cleric with a budding reputation for seducing inanimate objects (and the occasional heretic, but those were accidental). Plus, you know, Our Lord GM. But he's not a player.

I mean, all I'm signed up for right now is the Unnamed Yenka-Sue and the Agent Choir. I can do another part easily.

Just tell me what you need, Kitty!

I really enjoyed Serafinowicz as Crowley. I can't really say 'I'm surprised they didn't keep him', since this is a completely different company, but it would've been nice. Kaitlyn has repeatedly said it would also be nice to see the kid from Merlin stick around as Newt, too; he certainly has the perfect face for the role.

I find it amusing that our two angelic beings are both non-English Britons - AziraSheen is Welsh, while can't-portmanteau-Crowley-and-Tennant is obviously Scottish. An internet did observe that it's very conservative casting - Tennant is super famous, and of course they're both white (and male - angels are sexless, of course!). Which may be a valid point, but on the other hand, we have no idea what the rest of the cast is going to look like. You can't even say they've relegated diversity to the secondary characters, because (at minimum) Adam, Newt, and Anathema are all leads. In a movie, they couldn't be, but... six hours!

hS

Back when he was still the Doctor, my family watched Secret Smile, a TV drama where he was actually really scarily creepy.

Of course, on the flip side, Crowley's evil isn't all that... y'know... evil. I'm trying to come up with a way to describe him, and actually, I can't do better than his initial character: he's a snake. A snake in a snazzy jacket and a nice car, but still at the base of it all a snake.

I agree that I can't quite see that as Tennant's forte - I can mostly imagine him playing 'charming right up until the moment he sticks the knife in' - but on the flip side (there's lots of flipping in this post), it's David Tennant, and he does act well.

hS

Yes, they probably can look it up themselves, but when trying to attract people's interest to something new, it helps to make it as easy as possible for them. {= )

Fer instance: This appears to be the official Steve Jackson Games site for Toon, which has links to PDFs. The main sourcebook is going for $14.99 through their Warehouse 23 store. Presumably only the GM really needs a copy.

~Neshomeh, not interested in playing, but wishing to help.

He probably can do slick, oily evil as well as twitchy, bug-eyed evil, and I'm happy to give him the chance, but I'm sure there are people who would be more likely candidates?

Still, happy for a GO movie. ^_^

~Neshomeh

And I can confirm that I seem to have subconsciously cribbed plot-points from 1/0 at least twice in my PPC writings. (It might look like thrice, but Lou's nature predates my reading it.)

hS

I remember these guys. :D

I think this is an idea the Flowers wouldn't go for in 2017, but 2003 - at the height of the Fanfic Explosion - I can see it. And if it all goes spectacularly wrong, they only lose, like, one agent, right? Win/win!

~

On an unrelated note: when did you actually join the PPC? 2003-dated people are pretty rare around here, even the ones who left for a while and then came back. Any idea what time of year you showed up?

(From my records, it looks like you were here in 2015 for a bit, 2010-2012 on and off, 2008 for a while, and... were you GreenCat3? I have a couple of records in 2004, though it's very patchy back then.)

hS

Yeah, and Tailsteak's website is still updating semi-frequently as well. It now lives at tailsteak.com, though.

Have you read Tailsteak's... other work of note? It too is hilarious and gloriously entertaining. It is, however, VERY NSFW, and... well, not NSFB, but rather strange. I shall say no more, but merely link it here, and trust you lot to use your discretion[1].

[1]: Thoth is not responsible for what occurs when you click that link. These may include: amusement, disgust, strange fascinations, other euphemisms because I'm not sure if I can use those words, and Obsessive Link-Following Disorder, otherwise known as TVTropes Syndrome.