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I think it's only one M&M game at this point. Mine is pretty much dead. :P Although, now that you mention it, there may, in the future, eventually be a D&D campaigns springing into existence, since Alleb mentioned considering running one relatively far in the future, although who knows if it'll happen, and if it does, how long in the future it will actually be. There's also an Adeptus Evangelion game that is currently on pause before the episode has actually begun, due to one of our players actually having a life. Unlike me.

For your newbie gift, take this Royal Ice Cream Container! It will give you any flavor you desire, and can double as an indestructible shield in a pinch.

As for how I decided it... weeeell... I mostly just went through a long period of revising and toying agent concepts that eventually lead me to my current pair. I can't really point at one spot and say, "Here, I decided here," except that I thought at one point, "Hey, what if I had a silly guy from a serious canon and a serious guy from a silly canon?", and I think it was at that point that Michael's home universe (which is the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series, by the way) was decided on for me, but I wouldn't be willing to swear by it.

It actually is currently over ten years old. If you're feeling like checking how old it is, check the Plort page on the wiki, grab the link to the Plort Wiki itself, then check the changing maps of the Baronies and the years said maps represent. I think that should give you an accurate idea.

It's one of the various forms of third-person, gender-neutral pronouns that people use when someone either A) is neither male nor female, or B) they do not know someone's gender and don't want to assume. I believe it is similar to the 'xir' set of pronouns, but I am not sure, and admittedly am not familiar with either set.

I think that September, at the very least, is the soonest I'm willing to change my mind. Part of this is because, as others have said, we are people who laugh at bad fanfiction and praise the good, not therapists, and I really don't see how coming back here in order to laugh at fanfiction is going to help a marriage. Part of this is because, as far as I have seen, which, admittedly, is not far, Bram usually feels very strongly on a position at any given time, but these positions can change. As someone who has all the consistency of a d1000000, I think that Bram not only needs to spend some time away from the PPC, but some time not thinking about the PPC. I know that Calliope isn't the only one Bram has contacted, asking to be let back into the Discord and/or the Board, which, to my mind, indicates that even while they have not been posting, they have been thinking about the Board, which isn't going to help with purely rational decisions. For myself, at least, when I feel particularly strongly on something, I have been making an effort to take in everything and let my emotions get blown about like a kite in a hurricane, walk away, do something else for a long while, come back, be blown about again, and walk away again, continuing this process several times until I've exhausted my capacity for violent emotion and can actually get logic and emotion to work together like they're supposed to. To me, it sounds like Bram has spent more time on running through the different emotional areas without taking the time to back away and truly not think about the PPC.

To sum it up, I do not think Bram should be allowed back into the Discord chat or the Board, both because it seems they would be looking for emotional assistance of a kind that we are not equipped to give, and because I feel they haven't distanced and distracted themselves enough mentally from the Board and their feelings about both it and everyone here to be able to reach a purely rational decision.

The sign of an actual Mary Sue is that they face no real challenge. The plot, the characters, and reality itself is structured to benefit and glorify them, and even if they face an insurmountable enemy, said enemy only exists to make them look good. Basically, what matters is the execution.

Is the "eim" thing some kind of in-joke or reference? I keep seeing it on Snapchat. Just wondering.

You get a wingsuit... for one level. You get a climby sticky hand thing... for one level. You get a robot drone thing... for one level. See the problem here? Having loads and loads of abilities that are only used once and never spoken of again is not necessarily the hallmark of a Mary Sue, but it is bad writing.

Bram is bad for the PPC and the reverse is equally true. Besides, whatever eir actual motives may be, it really comes off as trying to manipulate a newer member into letting em back in without the appropriate time having passed - a timescale to which e agreed.

I'd like to say I feel sorry for em, and a part of me genuinely does, but I really don't feel like being allowed back into a internet fanfiction community is going to save someone's marriage. If ey're saying e made a mistake with the timescale and that e thinks e should be allowed back into the community basically because reasons, then I've got three words:

Suck. It. Up.

I disappeared from six months. I learned. I grew. I changed. E can and e should and, if e wants to come back, e really rather has to. Sorry to be blunt about all this, but I'm just sick of the constant drama e causes, whether intentional or not.

Hey there! For your newbie gift, have a replica of the elder wand. Although, it has no function except for shooting harmless, but pretty, sparks.

So let the theorizing begin! (Not yet, since we know so little, but let's get this hype train a-rolling!)

In terms of characters, aside from the already familiar cast of Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, Credence, and Grindelwald, we're getting:


Jude Law as young Albus Dumbledore


Zoe Kravitz as Leta Lestrange


Callum Turner as Newt's brother, Theseus Scamander


Claudia Kim as "The main attraction of a Wizarding Circus and Freakshow."


Ingvar Sigurdsson as Grimmson the Bounty Hunter


William Nadylam as Yusuf Kama


Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Skender, Head of a Wizarding Circus and Freakshow.

The PPC is not meant to be a therapy group, and personally, I wouldn’t know how to help with any mental problems. I would abstain rather than actively oppose Bram’s return if this very request didn’t imply that the "finding help and personally improve" we had hoped for did not happen yet.

HG

I will keep all this in mind as I write. Also, that thread I started wasn't actually about my OCs, although there is a connection. I just thought it was unfair to many fanfic authors that their balanced characters get called out for having one or two outstanding traits, not necessarily my OCs which I know need a lot of work. Thanks again for taking your time to help.

'ello, 'ello, 'ello! Nice to meet ya!~

Here, have some pudding. Useful in dealing with pesky Glossarycks.

Did you have any particular tabletops in mind? I've been thinking, after I finish up my current campaign (in which Granz is the only player), of starting up a Call of Cthulhu campaign in the PPC. We also have, at this point, two Mutants and Masterminds campaigns, a Pokemon Trainers United campaign, and a Warhammer40K Dark Heresy campaign at present. And those are just what I know of.

The original series is good to have read, seeing as it's, you know, the original.

As to spin-offs, if you want to read some good stuff without massive archive panic, I highly recommend "everything Neshomeh or Phobos ever wrote" (Supernumary & Ilraen; Derik & Earwig/Gali; etc.) and "everything Scapegrace ever wrote" (The Notary & Wobbles; Doktor Trollenfisch & Gabrielle).

If you have more time on your hands, I'm just going to second this set of recommendations Iximaz wrote up, but also add Iximaz's work (The Aviator & Zeb; Ix & Charlotte; etc., but be warned, there's a lot of it).

- Tomash

I read the For Your Eyes Only mission by Laburnum, I believe? And then the Forbidden Fruit mission by PitViperOfDoom. I need to read the original series, I can't decide what to read first.

Welcome to the PPC, we're glad to have you here!

As your newbie gift from me, have two cents, so you can put them in during discussions.

Out of curiosity, what mission did you read first (if you remember) and what spin-offs have you started going through?

- Tomash

Thank you very much!

I appreciate the dice! I've been meaning to get into tabletop, thank you~

I know my handle is the Triumvirate, but the namey-name I use is Calliope (often shortened to Cal). So don't worry about calling me some shortened version of that long probably-Latin word!

For your Newbie Gift from me, have a full set of roleplaying dice! We have a massive group of tabletop gamers here (so many, you seriously have no idea, it's insane), so with these, maybe you can join in! Feel free to decide the pattern and texture and whatnot on your own.

While I do feel bad for Bram, we've already mentioned that the Boarders are not therapists. Given that Bram apparently wants to rejoin because of the issues in their personal life, I feel that Bram wants to use us that way, and I don't think that will end well.