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I guess is was my fault for putting there word clone in there, let me rephrase, they are synthetic people created with the DNA of canon characters as a base. Their abilities really does actually require them to be artificial; their abilities require specific bloodlines that don't have members married to each other, so I need them to be synthesized with specific clan combinations as a base.

I mostly don't do betaing any more because of time constraints, but if it's short enough, I'll consider it.

—doctorlit, not feeling very helpful overall

. . . Why doesn't his lawyer just represent himself?

The fanfic is to be found at https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11731712/1/doomguy-...s-a-cacodemon and is truly painful to read.

Hope Dawn manages to get a partner eventually.

I can try to scrounge up actual detailed feedback later, but I figured a post like this is better than nothing.

- Tomash

...is a Jewish holiday. It celebrates the salvation of the Jews of the 4th century BCE's Persian empire, and of the Jews of the capital city Shushan (often written as Susa in English). King Ahasuerus' advisor, Haman, had plotted to destroy them all on a specific day; in the end, the actions of the secretly (until that point) Jewish Queen Esther saved them. There's a good deal more detail than that, which can be found in the biblical Scroll of Esther or in various summaries online.

Today, Purim is still celebrated all over the world. Its name comes from the word for 'lots', which were cast on Haman's orders to tell him which day to choose. The requirements are to hear the Megillah (scroll) read, to give gifts to friends and to the poor (generally food items for the first and just about anything for the second), and to have a festive meal. Traditions include dressing up (as anything remotely appropriate, with the Purim story's characters being popular especially with children--basically, anything goes but it's not generally like Halloween with its rash of "sexy ____" costumes), eating three-cornered cookies with filing which are called hamantaschen in English (via Yiddish...), and drinking until you can't tell Haman, the villain, from Mordechai, a hero (Esther's uncle who raised her after her parents died and saved the king's life once and--well, for all that he has two recorded bits of dialogue, he's quite important). The drinking is "ein ohNESS"--not obligatory. (The wording comes from a feast in the first chapter of the scroll--basically, there's plenty to drink but no one is forced to drink it.)

In the PPC... basically, it becomes a themed party RP. Somewhere, someone in the PPC is throwing an annual Purim party. And everyone is invited! Including Boarders, if they're a bit discreet--not that the agents know that. Permission is not required. Costumes are highly encouraged. Refreshments are provided. I keep meaning to put in a bit of personally recorded megillah reading--it's sung, as all Jewish biblical texts are--but haven't gotten past making the recording to date. Maybe I'll post it in the next one.

Hope that answers some questions! Past that--go forth and learn, if you so choose! (Or ask me more questions, I guess. That's a thing too.)

~Z

Because being only slightly exposed to Naruto, I can only do so much. :P

-Twistey

Sorry, I'm new to a lot of these Board traditions.

-Twistey

Maybe people think of your OCs as Sueish because of cliches and abnormalities, not actual overpowered-ness or canon breaking. In that case, be sure to check your OCs for anything cliche, and for all your OCs' traits, if the same effect could be achieved without using an uncommon trait, alter them so you don't use it. For instance, I haven't seen too much in the backstory that depends on them being synthetic humans specifically (and I'm still confused on why they have to be attempts at cloning a canon), so maybe they could be some other kind of criminal before they were caught and asked to work for Naruto and crew. Or maybe they could still be synthetic, just not cloning attempts; I think that connection to a canon is part of what triggers the "Sue!" response in most people, no matter if cloning actually can happen in canon. Let me know your thoughts.

-Twistey

What it says on the tin.

First, the proper story, with thanks to Karen DuLay and PoorCynic for their betaing:

In the interlude What'll I Do, Dawn turns to one of her oldest friends for advice. (Set March 2017).

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Next up, the re-releases! These are all related to the Purim RP. I’ve been running it every year since 2014, and I’ve generally opened with some form of drabble. I thought it was about time that I gave them their own documents and posted them as semi-canonical. There’s also one in the list that’s never been seen before!

So, without further ado, save to say that I have no record of any betaing (but that if it happened, I’m quite grateful):

The Purim Party Invitation (2014)

Two Elves and a Song (2015)

Tales in the Nursery (2016)

Come As You Aren't (set Purim 2017), not previously posted.

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As you may have guessed from both the last story on the list and the fact that it’s now almost July, I will not be running the Purim RP this year. Should anyone else want to make it happen, you’re quite welcome to; I ask only that you (a) check with me first and (b) let me look over the opening post for accuracy. I can also provide you with the collected past opening posts (and the partially drafted one for this year), if you want; I’m pretty sure all or most of them are now off the Board, and I’ve got the formatting preserved. Those contain the usual rules, as well as bits of introductions (like "what is Purim?" and "what happens at this party?")

There will at some point be a post explaining why the Purim RP isn’t going to happen (at least, not by me) this year, but I’m no longer sure when that’s going to go up. I’ve been drafting it since…well, it was certainly in the works by May. However, I then proceeded to go on vacation, and right now I’m in the last days of packing to go abroad for a year and don't have much time for anything else. At this point, it’s just going to take as much time as it takes: packing takes precedence.

In the meantime, stories! Enjoy? Comments welcome!

~Z

So... can we all start coming up with a way to structure these videos so that they're somewhat uniform (in the way that missions have generally the sequence of events?)

To both you and doctorlit, I suggest that new departments should be created eventually, once a good number of these have been published, just because of what I said earlier about video games and fan animations requiring a different skill set than fanfic. Once I've got my Google account for Newgrounds stuff up and running, I'll probably start doing game critiques and label the fan-mod or fangame ones as PPC, so you can most likely count on me as someone in this operation, if not maybe the first to be prepared in that way.

About the donation thing doctorlit said, I guess that each of us could donate to whatever we feel would be best to donate to. I personally try to stay away from anything to do with world issues, which probably makes me a very heartless person, but on the other hand decreases the stress of having to decide which problem I want to help solve.

Hmm, I just realized something. These let's-plays are going to be quite a bit more like MSTs than missions, and unless the Boarder reacting is good at doing voices and being in character, we ourselves are going to be the reacting party, not our agents. Is there a way that we can, er, write missions about fixing fangames? Or something? I guess those would just be written, since missions are narratives. Any thoughts?

-Twistey

Britte from Skyrim can.

But Gru from Despicable Me can, as I recall.

• Ripper's gift is supposed to be an indication that he's still getting the hang of PPC social customs, even after all this time, and probably never will entirely gel with the human ones at least. It's inspired by some depictions of theropod dinosaurs offering meat or carcasses to potential mates, so as to avoid violence during courtship (the T. rex "date"
  from Walking With Dinosaurs is a good example). I too am slightly disappointed that I didn't get to do more with this gag, but I may reserve the meat itself as a Chekov's Gun of sorts for a later date.
  - Rosh is actually Falchion's new nickname for Rashida (I have to thank Dalton for coming up with that one). And Rashida's growing out of her habit of being mean is definitely intended as part of her character development. She's absent from the RC in this scene, though, so it's Lilac who's talking.
  - I guess the moment Falchion realized it was his birthday, his mind defaulted to a slight "It's All About Me" mentality, something which I myself am guilty of from time to time. It's a bit inconsistent, sure, but it fits us both. XD
  - I wasn't planning on including Valon and Kala, but since Voyd was online at the same time as eatpraylove and I when we were writing the interlude, I decided it would be neat to ask if he was willing to have them included and I'm glad I did. :)
  - Lilac's smooch isn't entirely out of nowhere, but mum's the word about the build-up to that. I will however say that it's the first of a few clues to her origin that I'll be scattering throughout my writings about her once I properly introduce her to the PPC. I will ALSO say that her in-universe debut was in late 2016, shortly after a certain thing I have planned for Falchion and co. that I'm not going to spoil. ;)
  
  Thanks again, both for your feedback and the birthday wishes! *hugs*

It's a Narnia mission, Éowine and Steormægð with two Eldarin newbies, and a very derivative Sue.

same as everyone hosts their own missions.

And, as a slight amendment, the act of publishing such a multimedia sporking could create new departments if the creator felt that it was needed.

- Tomash