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I'm already aware of the general differences between missions and MSTs (missions are more actual story, MSTs are like reaction videos), but thanks for clearing that up further.

I'm pretty sure that writing a mission about fixing a fangame would be pretty easy - just remember stuff about the fangame, then write a mission about fixing the fangame (which, if the fangame has a story, would be pretty similar to one for a fanfic), and then if you want to make it a video, get some people to voice act and animate it for you! (Or live action with cosplay, if you're okay with a face reveal. Sadly, I'm not.)

Okay, about the first question, it would be somewhat similar to the fanfic missions: in the RC, console beeps, the agents go into the game, find out whatever's wrong with the game (and if there's no character they can target, they just so happen to find the developer and corner them, or do whatever departments that don't deal with characters, like DOGA, do), and then read the charge list, and then restore things to their ordinary ways. Any thoughts about that?

-Twistey

(Meanwhile in my brain, Inside Out style...)
Joy: Restrain The Thing before we start typing, otherwise it might take over our keyboard.
The Thing: I am not an 'it'- *gets shoved in a cage*
Joy: Now, all of you stand back. I'm going to take the lead here.

Huh! That's actually quite interesting, and a pretty cool story, too! Stories from religious texts are always fun to hear. (I'm atheist, but I love learning about other people's beliefs.) These requirements sound almost too easy to be true (and yeah, I agree with your lament on today's Halloween trends), but I think I could probably join the RP if it happens this year, since I don't have any agents yet...

Joy: If we can keep The Thing under control.
The Thing: CALL ME BY MY REAL NAME! I REFUSE TO BE DISRESPECTED SO!
Joy: (looks back) Shut up! Now back to typing...

Anyway, are there any requirements I need to know about other than both what you said and keeping The Thi- I mean keeping myself from screwing up? Please respond ASAP, it won't stay in the cage for long and it's tiring for us to put it back in again.

-Twistey

But still, is there a way to get through these challenges without creating characters that people accuse of being Sues? I gave you a few ideas in the doc. If you want to, you can read more missions so that you get ideas about how an underpowered character (PPC agent/Hypothetically!Your OCs) can defeat an overpowered character (Mary Sue/main villain) by outsmarting them.

-Twistey

Thank you for reporting this fic, and welcome to the PPC, here's a chain gun for you as a newbie gift, and I hope this fic gets sporked soon.

-Twistey

So, if you've posted on here before and I've just forgotten your name, sorry about that.

If not, welcome to the PPC! We're glad to have you. As your newbie gift from me, have two cents, so you can put them into discussions.

What're your fandoms? (I'm assuming DOOM is one of them, given what you've linked to.)

- Tomash

So a lot of you guessed this. So many of you. Special kudos go to Nova, who guessed after the third person - I think I chose a really easy theme this time!

Anyways, as basically everyone could tell, the theme was twins. The party was excellent.

for a few reasons. The big one is that when it's personal, you might be a bit less objective and miss some legal thing you should/shouldn't do. Another is that not everyone's an expert at all types of lawyering: corporate merger lawyers should probably not try to defend themselves from bank robbery charges since they don't really know how criminal stuff works.

Missions have a lot more of a narrative around the agents, who do a lot more than just snark at the bad, and don't usually show most of the badfic (Unlike a MST, where you just interleave the commentary with the whole badfic/badmod/...).

Well, as to if you can come up with a way to write (and video-ize) a mission about fixing a fangame (and you have Permission, generally), then I'm not sure there's anything stopping. Might be rather hard to pull off, in that I can't seem to think of a format off the top of my head.

That is, to your initial question, initially, "we" is mostly "you" (but once you have some thoughts, we'll be glad to hear them, offer our opinions, elaborations, etc.). I have some vague thoughts on how a videogame mission could potentially work, but they're not very coherent at the moment and I'll gladly hear yours.

- Tomash

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