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...Something related to Hetalia, maybe? Or just tiny models of the full-size country?

We've never met, but I'm glad to see an original PPCer stop by! What were/are your fandoms (or was it all LOTR back then)?

The Fourth Wall is the "veil of perception" tha Doc mentioned,.. Also, you didn't answer my first question... I guess I should have specified both questions were for both Agents, I guess...

And Doc: What's so wrong with eating crayons? I ask not because I eat them... nope... uh... I totally don't eat'em... right writer?

(OOC:Yup that's right. You totally picked your nose and ate your buggers, though.)

Ah, okay! Wait... Eeeeewww!

(OOC: Yes, she can see past the Fourth Wall. No, I'm not sane.)

Michael: On the first question, it was rather unsettling the first few times he died, but he has become more skilled at avoiding death, whatever he may claim, and I have become somewhat adjusted to it. I cannot say it doesn't disturb me to some degree, but that degree has gradually lessened over the course of our association.

On the second, he can focus. However, unless it interests him, he usually chooses not to. Therefore, I endeavor to make our missions as interesting as possible, and, when that fails... I endure.

My glasses, at the most basic level, alter the information entering or exiting my eyes. For example, my Tracker's Lenses highlight the point at which the soul and the sole of the person I am tracking met the surface they were walking upon, assuming they were walking. There are, of course, other means of transportation. Unfortunately, when someone takes them, it has a tendency to give one a headache. I do not recommend trying to track someone who has decided to go for a swim in the ocean.

Apecian: Well, basically, I've got a store of soul energy stored in my Philosopher's Stone. Not how Philosopher's Stones are supposed to work, but the idiot who made me didn't know that, and that's one glitter side-effect I don't want fixed. But, anyways, that energy is used to heal me whenever I get injured. As for favorite death? Nah, that one still rules. Seriously, it was awesome.

Michael: I have not noticed any patterns in the kind of work we receive, no.

Apecian: Unless you call the lack of pattern a pattern, in which case, yeah. Also, we usually don't ever get the same kind of thing over and over and over again. The one time we got stuck in a fandom for about a dozen missions, first it was a Sue, then it was Bad Slash, then Bad Slash again, then a Crossover, then a Troll, then Bad Angst, then a Sue again, and, well, you get the idea. Usually, I'm the one who kills the Sue, or whatever we're going for at the time, since if I mess up or she pulls a random power out of her purse, I'll be fine. Mike? Not so much. So he stands back and takes and reads the charges. Most of the time.

Michael: I am not sure if there is anywhere in particular that we are sent particularly often. We have a tendency to visit relatively obscure fandoms more often than those that are more popular. I would suspect this is because the Flowers have many Agents who can work in Harry Potter, but they have fewer Agents who can work in Angel Beats!.

Apecian: I'm not sure I've really got a favorite? I mean, it's great to see home sometimes, but other than that, I don't really have a preference, and besides, if I had to do one place over and over again, I'd get bored.

Michael: I have a few continua I enjoy visiting, but that does not generally affect where we go.

Apecian: Oh, come on, Mike! Don't dodge the question.

Michael: Very well. I do have a general preference for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and I also enjoy visiting the world of Tortall.

((I should note that what Michael says about Lenses is part canon, part not. The bit about it altering the information entering and exiting the eye is canon. The bit about exactly how the Tracker's Lenses is something I made up and I hope sounds plausible.))

*tidies up Camaroon*

Hi! My name is Calliope - I'm the new one. Lu (she's my partner) said that I was in charge of writing a response to this. I don't know why, I'm the one least able to answer your questions! But I'll do it as best I can.

Signed, Calliope I.

"The Commander and myself have primarily been working with teams sent to obscure fandoms whose power levels are rather more dangerous than initially surmised. Beyond that, I am given to understand that the Commander has been working closely with certain of FicPsych to set up a dedicated outreach-cum-demobilization program for refugee bits and OCs from militarily-inflected badfic worlds, a duty that hitherto has been left to more general practitioners of psychological medicine. For my part, my time has been taken up by building scouting reports for the Department of Intelligence in certain magic-rich continua; English magic is of a certain utility in such travails, being near-on undetectable, though limited in other means. When we have the leisure for it, the Commander and I often dabble in the other's interests: I am now a quite acceptable shot with small arms of various calibre and continuum, if I do say so myself, whilst the Commander's truly agile mind makes her a formidable theoretical magician and scholar of English magic. Her efforts to engage in practical magic are, for reasons I begin to hypothesize are related to her total lack of psionic capabilities and even Force presence, sadly unfruitful thus far; however, hope is the thing with feathers, as the poetess Dickinson put it. I trust this is a full and suitable answer for your needs."

"I remain, "Yr. obdt. svt., "Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne, Special Response Officer, Department of Internal Affairs."

She does not know these people, but feels she can understand the scribbling over the first name--having kept up with the Das Sporking community, she knows the unfortunate associations one might have recently with the surname 'Steele'. Well, that and there are many grumpy agents in HQ--one wishing to have nothing to do with the Mailbox service is hardly unusual. At least one Time Lord comes to mind.

She turns to go.

When opened, the message (addressed to all three names, or rather, to CS, LG, & CI as the brim was a little hard to write on) reads:

Hello, all three of you! I don't know you, so I assume at least one of you is new. Or new-ish. But welcome either way. Who are you all? What are your favorite things to drink? What department(s) are you in? Have you ever run into the Sunflower's Witness? I did that some years ago, and it was...

It is signed, barely legibly, Dawn McKenna, DMS

Dok: "For mein part, I am beink most excited to engage in zer protection uff zer vider vorlds-und-mirrors-uff-vorlds from zer ravenous menaces uff beinks from beyond zer veil uff perception whose very presence is enough to be drivink zer sanest of us into zer grips uff full-bore, wall-clawing, all-hyu-can-eat-crayon-diet insanity! I am findink it ein most useful application of mein particular set uff skills!"

Gabrielle: "Uh, is the Fourth Wall a rising tide of the absence of things that isn't even black because black is a colour and a concept and it's slowly dissolving everything around you and also it hurts? Because if so, uh, I totally have! Yay!"

Hi! What have you been doing recently? And what's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you in HQ?

Hullo, hullo, hullo! If you have questions for any of the following characters (or any I've forgotten to list but also write), this is the place to do it!

Agents taking questions:

-Dawn McKenna -The Reader -Kozar -T'Zar -Abaddon (T'Zar's partner) -Jacques Bonnefoy -Brenda Loringham -Charlie Shoe -Edgar Sullivan -Agen____t -Gurnirel (female elven agent in SIELU) -Naergondir (male elven agent in SIELU)

Non-agents taking questions, since they want in on the fun:

-Ruby Sato -Owain Sato -Seren Sato

(All three are Nursery children. Ruby is six years old; Owain and Seren are five.)

You can also leave questions for Dawn's fire-lizard, Gwilithiel, though of course her replies will have to be conveyed through Dawn's translation...

Ask away!

~Z (& co.)

Hey folks! So, for those of you who follow me, I may have mentioned the FBA, or the Furry Basketball Association in passing. And despite the fact I tend to talk about the drama that's happened there, I still think it's a pretty cool place where you guys can open your creative minds up for anything!

So, because of that, I have a proposition for you PPCers: you may not know this, but the FBA runs a draft every year, at which the community gets to add new characters to the player rosters. The form opened a little bit late this year, but we're still accepting submissions, and in fact we'll be accepting submissions until July!

So, if you're at all interested, here are a few pointers:

1) Hardcore sports knowledge is NOT mandatory. It will certainly help, but it's not mandatory. Hell, I first jumped into the FBA not knowing anything about sports. The only thing you'll need for sports is knowing playstyles if you hope to develop a Top 24 Character, and even that isn't much of a problem: the Draft Form itself will have links to resources that can help you build your character, and the committee will contact you if you mess up some things.

2) The FBA is ICly big on diversity. It's a heck of a place here, given that the FBA is very equal opportunity: it's a co-ed league, most of the players and staff members in the league these days fall somewhere on the LGBTQA spectrum, and international players from the UK through Camaroon and American Samoa all the way to Iran inhabit the league. So if you want to make an international character/a female character/an LGBTQA character, go for it!

3) No, there is no betting pool for money here. (And yes, I'm bringing this up: this was one of the first things my parents brought up when I told them about the FBA.) It's not just that this is a story clique that writes story: the amounts of conflict of interest would pretty much mean a betting league is out of the question.

4) No, you don't have to create a player character if you don't want to. Some people find they fit better doing other things in the FBA. Hell, we have one contributor who basically has a jackal at NASA who just talks about space all day. So if you're not feeling especially confident giving a basketball player a spin, we're always looking for ways to flesh out the FBA universe! (And on a side note, this actually means you don't have to fill out a Draft form: just jump right in!)

So, if you're thinking about creating any characters lately, consider submitting something for the FBA today!

And as for the links, well... here's a link to the FBA's home page: http://furrybasketball.net/wiki/index.php?title=MainPage

We also operate a chatroom on Slack, the link for which is on the FBA's home page. You'll need permission to get into that, though, but if you want to join in on the FBA's slack chat you can email dorourkie@gmail.com for access to that.

And as for Draft stuff, well...

Here's the Draft Submission Form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeQEMMzB3sfaAout6nkyv6SyexO7dguv5Za4op39eG5oaEw/viewform?c=0&w=1">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeQEMMzB3sfaAout6nkyv6SyexO7dguv5Za4op39eG5oaEw/viewform?c=0&w=1

Here's a resource page for making a Draft Candidate: <a href="http://furrybasketball.net/wiki/index.php?title=DraftCandidateResource">http://furrybasketball.net/wiki/index.php?title=DraftCandidate_Resource

Here's Draft Express, a site that produces stats for incoming NBA draftees, and can serve as a jumping off point for creating FBA draftees; http://www.draftexpress.com/

If you guys have any more questions for me, throw them at me in the comments below!

Why!? Why in the heck would you do that!?

Anyway, I've been... okay. Needed to take a break away from here, but... I'll be posting something else on the board soon. Let's just say I may require your character-writing services soon, PPC!

Over here.

As I pointed out to The Random Stranger, all the images except the last two (which I linked there) are in the articles they refer to. And as I pointed out to KittyEden, this is a Photobucket/Board issue, not something I can fix. I'm sorry that so many people are having trouble with them, but I genuinely am not able to do anything about it.

hS

(Shoot, when did I turn into Vriska?! Or... hmm, maybe "eyyyyyyyyyyyy" is different from "heyyyyyyyy". Maybe I'm safe.)

Hello there, newbie! I'm Twistey, a really-soon-to-be Newgrounds developer and lightly-used-bie. I write stories, create games, draw characters, etc to get all the weird and wonderful ideas out of my head and into reality. It's really nice to meet you! Welcome to the PPC! I'm kind of interested to hear about those characters, tell me more please? :D

-Twistey

Hey Doc and Gaby! How does it feel to be Pokémon fighting to protect the Multiverse? Also, have you ever seen the Fourth Wall? Is amazing!

To Micheal, how in the world - or worlds, depending on the continuum - do you deal with a partner who can't seem to avoid getting himself killed? A partner who won't - or, to his credit, perhaps can't (medical issues are a possibility, I've met a few with them) - stay focused on what he really ought to be doing, for that matter. And how do those glasses of yours work?

To Apecian, how does that regeneration power of yours work? Has your answer to "Favorite Death" changed since the last time the question was asked?

To the both of you, are there any patterns in your work? Who generally takes care of charges and who generally takes care of assassination? Which continuums do you get sent to most often? Which continuums do you prefer to get sent to?

I've been dying to meet you two! Well, okay, not literally, because that wouldn't have worked very well. I think. Would that have worked? Huh. Now I really want to know that, too.

But the question I would have asked originally! Rather, questions. I'm a little nosy. Sorry about that, you don't absolutely haaaaave to answer all of them if you're made a little uncomfortable. After all, it's not like you know me or anything!

One, what mission of yours was your favorite? Two, which mission was your least favorite? Three, for those times when you can't seem to get along and you're not on a mission, what do the two of you do? Four, what do you do when you can't get along and you are on a mission? Five, I've noticed you seem to spend a lot of time doing missions in the Harry Potter world - d'you know why?

I'll probably send more questions later, but I can't think of more now. (I would like an answer on the death thing though.) Cheers until then!

South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay (Con) charged with electoral overspending.

This is my constituency. The local Tories have all been bent as nine-bob notes for years (his predecessor, Laura Sandys, resigned rather than face investigation into some deeply dodgy property deals), and I've been seeing more and more Vote Labour signs in the local area. We might just take it back from the Tories, and I say take it back because this used to be Stephen Ladyman's constituency under the Blair and Brown governments before the Tory councils gerrymandered all the districts into Tory-voting ones through a series of boundary redraws the likes of which are normally only seen in North Carolina.

Raushan Ara, we are with you. Please, PLEASE let Nasty Nigel's attempted constituency go instead to an Asian woman. Please.

Unfortunately I can't make them fix it. :(

Alternately, the Board has been loading slowly for me today, so there may be a problem at our end. Regardless, I can confirm that there are images, and they're lovely. ^_^

hS

Partly because I'm planning an actual vacation the last week of June, so it seems like a good time, but also what hS said. I was having this phenomenal writing streak before all the drama broke out, and I'd like to get back to that.

So, if at some point I agreed to co-write with you, beta something for you, or anything of that nature, now would be a really great time to poke me about it over e-mail (neshomeh dot soul at the gmail). I plan to try and make a little time for everybody.

I'll still be doing the Mailbox Game, too, because that's fun. {= )

(Also, eeee, Beren and Luthien! I know what I want for my birthday!)

~Neshomeh

P.S. The images were broken for me the first time I looked, but then they worked. I have no idea why.

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Barid: Vol'jin was da best of us. Dat ol' bastard bin aroun' foreva an we expected'im ta be aroun' for anotha foreva. Wit'im gone...I jus hope dat Banshee does right by da Darkspear. Vol'jin didn' trust'er, but da Loa say she's da one, an' I trust da Loa.

Brightbeard: King Varian will be sorely missed. He was a great, if troubled, man. Light guide his son, Anduin, as he takes the throne.

...I did not expect to see the phrase "next year, NASA will be shooting the sun" in any context, ever. But the universe tends to surprise me in that way. :P

Have a pleasant break, hS- it's important to take care of your mental health says the person who systematically wrecks her own on a near-daily basis nah but in all seriousness, I wish you all the best in getting your projects done. We'll take good care of the Board while you're gone- it'll be barely dented by the time you get back!