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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!

The last Star Trek prequel series was Enterprise, and we all know how THAT turned out. Additionally, one of the guys at the helm is the same guy responsible for the travesties of Into Darkness and Beyond. The whole thing is going through production hell, and frankly, none of it may matter, because the only way to even watch the show is on CBS All Access. Restricting your viewership is always a stupid idea, whether it's through awful and inconsistent time slots or through insisting that people have to be members of your private club to watch. (It's going to be pirated anyway, including by people who wouldn't normally stoop to that, simply out of frustration. Game of Thrones proved this.) The whole thing sounds like a recipe for crash and burn.

That said . . . the premise is interesting. From their vague hints, it looks like we may be exploring the Treaty of Armens, in which the Federation signed over several planets to the Sheliak Corporation. Perhaps we'll be focusing more on diplomacy than monsters of the week. The story is going to be told from the perspective of the first officer rather than the captain, which may offer fresh storytelling possibilities. We're definitely getting a more diverse cast and characters, finally practicing what Trek has preached all along. There are hopeful signs.

We'll just have to wait and see.

— Agent Supernumerary

I will be taking questions for all my agents:-

The Notary

The Time Lord Inglorious, the Lonely Sod, known to the Daleks as the Oncoming Form.

Wobbles the Clown

The happiest, luckiest, and somehow also goest of happy-go-lucky children's party entertainers.

Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne

A man of decency, breeding, good character, and a tolerable skill as a practical magician.

Field Commander Lola McCandless

A woman of considerably less breeding, a complete lack of decency, and a tolerable skill as the commander of a ragtag organization devoted to shooting horrible gribbly space things.

Doktor Trollenfisch

The Department of WhatThe's resident neon-pink pufferfish with a German accent and a love of the sousaphone Biggenbrassenparpenthingen.

Gabrielle

An adorable and engaging little ball of cute with a dark past full of trauma and sadness; can you tell she was originally one of Ix's characters yet?

((One rule before we begin: I really must insist that messaging parties do not inform the Notary of Lola's existence within the PPC, and vice versa. There will be a story in which they meet; this ain't it. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but it does get irritating.))

All four of the news articles contain the images I use to link them, anyway; the two under Not News are this and this.

hS

Yes, I'm back with another dose of the weekly news and views.

Please remember that, when it comes to the state of the world, not everyone will agree with you. You're free to state, discuss, and defend your viewpoint (provided it does not violate the Constitution), but please don't use that fact to attack others.

Fandom News


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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it's here it's here it's finally here.

Ahem.

The standalone Beren and Luthien novel went on sale yesterday. This is the book I have been longing to see ever since they announced the Children of Hurin, ten years ago. I was certain it would never get made - that the stories were too fragmentary to pull it off. But it was! And it's out! And that's amazing!

Now all we need is a Fall of Gondolin novel...

Silly News


(The sun & the troll)

Next year, NASA will be shooting the sun. Or rather, they will be sending a probe - now named the Parker Solar Probe - closer to the sun than we've ever sent anything before, dropping into the corona (atmosphere) of our star. Nicola Fox, apparently a very quotable NASA scientist, described it as "the coolest, hottest mission under the Sun".

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Jeremy Corbyn is a huge troll. After weeks of saying he wouldn't attend the televised debate in advance of the UK General Election unless Theresa May (the Prime Minister) did, he announced on the afternoon of the debate that he would be showing up after all.

... which meant he, and everyone else, could rag on Ms. May for her decision not to come. "...where is Theresa May, what happened to her?" "The first rule of leadership is to show up."

Serious News


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We're less than a week away from the UK General Election, and what in the name of Cleisthenes is going on in the polls? I have never seen such a massive spike in one party's ratings. I mean, I'm happy the Labour Party (left-wing) is gaining ground on the Conservatives (right-wing, the government)... but I don't think I really believe it.

Or is this just the world we live in now? It happened with Trump, it happened with Brexit, it happened with Jeremy Corbyn leading Labour, it happened with the French election... did someone push a button somewhere that means the less-likely candidate will always win now?

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While driving Kaitlyn to work this morning, we saw these on a lorry next to us. I didn't know this sort of thing actually existed! It's like something out of Animaniacs.

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Finally, I'm going to be taking a break from the Board during June (and I believe Neshomeh is, too). It's been a stressful few months, and I need a rest. Hopefully I can dig out some of these half-finished projects and get something completed... there will be a Plort thread when I get back, so don't panic about that. :)

I'll hang around on this thread for a couple of days for when something interesting comes up, but after that I won't be posting or reading until July. Iximaz, if the Sunflower Cup wraps up in the next month (^_~) let me know who won, and I'll send you the certificates.

"Farewell! I go to find the Sun!"

hS

So, there is this new Star Trek series, Discovery, which is about to be released. What do you think about it?

Um... yeah, leave questions for Will & VJ, Hip & Hop aaaaaand the soon-to-arrive duo - Matt & Izzy

Henry: I wanna go to Hogwarts and learn magic! I'm a wizard, you know. But then I wanna be an agent like Uncle 'Raen.

Gall: Yeah, he drops scales all the time. Kinda has to, since getting set on fire isn't exactly good for them. Some of the bigger scutes are cool, but mostly it's annoying. The little buggers get everywhere, especially when he full-on molts. Ugh. ... Why? Do you want some? What'll you give me for 'em?

(( Disclaimer: This is my headcanon as of this post. The HtTYD wiki didn't have an answer I could find [and it's horribly written], and I'm not caught up on the series. ))

Ilraen: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood. ... Tongue-twisters are not so difficult if you do not speak with a tongue. This comes in very handy when reading Fox in Socks to small children for the nth time in a row.

You stand before a mailbox. Or at least, you think it's a mailbox - it has "MAILBOX" on it, obviously printed out and pasted on. The following names are written in varying scripts:

Chikara Steele, Lu'ci'ten Gyrvain, Calliope Istoría

The first one has marks over it, as though someone has tried to scribble it out; the last one looks far more recent. You wonder what happened, or if the scribbled-out person would get any letters deposited.

You shrug and drop in your letter(s) regardless of scribbling or lack thereof.

I still need to find the way to make her stop biting people I want to be quiet, though... Now that think about it, that one might be my fault, due to my lack of patience...

I donj't hang out with Alex Dives that much, now you're touching the subject, we work in different areas from the Department. I'm from Testing and Applications, as head (and only Technician) of the Danger Room Project, he works lending equipment, last time I checked.

I guess I could, but I think I'd have to disguise away my Stone completely to let that happen, and then stay there for... well, however much I wanted to age, I guess? But, yeah, not really worth it to find out, especially since I'm not as good as you guys are at not dying, and I'd probably just reset as soon as I got back to HQ and the disguise dropped.

Since you can't age, does that mean any disguises you take on can't, either?

When you're old enough, do you want to become an agent, or move to a continuum and integrate?

For Gall:

Does your dragon shed its skin? And if so, how often?

For Ilraen:

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

What are your thoughts on

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Varian Wrynn and Warchief Vol'jin's deaths to the Burning Legion? I was devastated because I loved them as characters, but what about you, as canon natives?

She and I work in different areas of the department, so we don't see each other very much. I know Zeke runs off to play with Feysuei when he's not napping on my desk, but Liu and I don't really talk much.

...actually, I don't think I knew Liu's first name was Shui-Hua until today.

I don't talk to many of my fellow techies at all, come to think of it. I should probably change that.

Since I've asked others about their fire-lizards, how's it going with Galakrond? Does he get along with Barid? I bet he loves hanging out near the forge.

Oh, also, any news of Earwig since you went on that mission with him, which totally happened even though there's no story evidence for it?

~Neshomeh