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Who is forgetful, and forgot to put her name in.

I'm afraid I'm a bit of a sucker for these sorts of games, and I'd like to try my hand at it.

The seven wounds left by Fingolfin?

I'm going to be horribly embarrassed by my awful memory when you tell me, I'm sure. ^_^; ... Unless, Silmarils? (Is that vague enough to not be spoilery? I dunno. Maybe it's okay at this point anyway.)

My guess was something like "transformative near-death experiences." Except then Gandalf would definitely fit.

We should totally invite Frodo, though. Sam, too, I think. Maybe all the hobbits?

~Neshomeh

...I don't think you understand the knowledge required. I very clearly specified that I need someone who's up to date with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , that means up to Season 7, Episode 7 of the US broadcast or Season 7, Episode 8 of the Canadian broadcast, at the date of this writing, at the least!

For clarification, required secondary knowledge, in order of importance, are:
1.- All Equestria Girls movies and shorts.
2.- All G3 specials and shorts, the Meet the Ponies series of shorts, all G3.5 shorts and .
3.- The G1 show My Little Pony Tales.

The original show is the one I require the least. And you didn't mention to be up to date in G4, therefore I assume you don't have enough canon knowledge to beta this fic.

Second, according to the anecdotes and recounts above, you seem to have issues with characterization and narrative, the things that worry me the most to get right. If you can't get your own characters right... How can I trust you to know if I got a character (which isn't even mine) right?

Third, research won't help you know how a character acts and reacts, you need to watch or read them on action. And if you couldn't keep up with four agents, much less you'd be able to keep up with five plotlines happening at the same time. And if I need to clarify stuff like this, you're not fit for beta duty.

Fourth, you seem to have a very bad reputation among the Boarders, and that doesn't exactly fills me with trust. Yes, that means I don't trust you.

And for all those reasons, I decline your offer to beta my work.

If her eye went, there'd still be scars - the art style just isn't good at depicting them. Yes, she has a bionic eye now, but the operation to put it in would also leave scars.

Eternally boiling eyes do have a purpose. Great conversation starters at parties like this one.

...now I want to write some dialogue from this party.

Thank you for the game! It was very fun! :)

Spoiler SPOILER spoiler spoilER SPOILer sPoIlEr SpOiLeR spOILer Spoilerman Does Whatever A Spoiler Can don't spoil my er How do you solve a problem like a spoiler? Spoi spoi spoi spoi spoiler SPAAAAAAAACE! Sorry about him. ~spoiler block

Yes, as several people have guessed, everyone who's invited has scars, most - but not all - on their faces. There are some borderline cases in there - is Picard scarred as a Borg? - but I did my best.

I am impressed both by how quickly the Board homed in on this - even those who didn't get it were clearly in the right ballpark (though Novastorme, I'm curious who you thought made just 'scarred' impossible; you kept trying to tack things onto it). I'm also impressed by how many people replied. I guess you are all still here after all... ;)

Also: I have never spent so long trying to find scarred characters I'd heard of. Yikes.

hS

I don't think the permaban angle was made explicit either when zdimensia was banned nor when she reappeared. I don't like the way she came back, but I also don't feel that retroactively imposing a permaban that wasn't clear at the time is... fair.

I also think - know - that zdimensia wasn't banned for being unable to listen; she was banned for racism and pro-Nazi statements. Neither of those have shown up anywhere near Bramandin, so I don't feel good about the idea of saying she's 'done it again', when she hasn't. (I know you haven't said that; I'm just explaining my thought process.)

That said... I don't like Bramandin's behaviour in this thread. I don't like her behaviour in the Iximaz thread. I don't like her behaviour in the chat logs with Neshomeh, and I don't like her behaviour in her two failed Permission threads.

She makes all the right noises for someone who is trying desperately to understand why people are mad at them, but when people sit down yet again and explain it... she keeps making those same noises.

I don't know. It just feels like some of the ban suggestions across the thread are less 'ban her for doing bad stuff', and more 'ban her for not taking it back very well'.

Let me be clear: I don't think Bramandin fits into this community at all. I think she should take the advice she was offered right from the start of this thread, accept that she's just not meshing with the PPC, and leave. But I don't know that I'm able to vote for us forcing her to do so.

hS

And also Fire Lord Zuko?

Come on, tell me that's not tempting enough as it is! :P

I accept your apology for being forceful in your latest e-mails.

However, I can't bury the hatchet while you continue to insist that my treatment of you in 2014 was abuse. I understand that you didn't like it, and that it upset you very much, but that does not ipso facto mean that my behavior was unjustified or inappropriate to the situation. A parent insisting that their teenager do their homework completely and correctly before going out to party is not abusive, even if the kid yells and screams about it until their face turns blue. In the same way, me (and everyone else) insisting that you follow the Permission process completely and correctly before doing whatever you want with our universe was not abuse, no matter how upset you got over it.

Maybe I could have expressed my objections to your requests better. All right. I apologize for my ignorance, and I am sorry for your distress. It was never my intent to give you pain. However, saying that I abused you is insulting, offensive, hurtful, and false. If you want me to bury the hatchet, you're going to have to change your mind about that and take it back. You've said you want to be friends, but a few shared fandoms alone isn't enough of a foundation for friendship. Trust and respect have to exist on both sides, and right now, that is not possible.

One more thing. I want to talk about the word "like," since that seems to have been a serious bone of contention for you. "Like" is a real workhorse of a word. It does a lot of different jobs in this language. It's a preposition, an adjective, a noun, a verb, and an interjection. It's got at least 40 definitions, according to Dictionary.com.

I was using it in the second form, third definition, "to prefer." You did not prefer any of the prompts. You did not find any of them suitable for your purposes. You did not wish to use any of them. Right? Therefore, you did not like them. It is a completely normal and expected use of the word to which no reasonable person should have any objection. It's you who keeps insisting it carries emotional weight. Sure, it can, but it doesn't have to.

I used a simple, common word in a way that most people understand perfectly well. The fact that you have a problem with it reflects on you, not on me. Please adjust your perspective accordingly.

~Neshomeh

He got scars on his arms in OotP, when he summoned a brain from the Department of Mystery and it went all boa constrictor on him.

(Maybe we should invite Dumbledore with us to the Gathering?)

I bet it shows the Circle Line as a proper circle, not the horrifying Lasso Line they turned it into. >:( Still mad about that.

I can confirm all of these except Ron, mostly because I have no idea what you mean by 'brain attack'.

hS

These are Warriors characters (Author is Erin Hunter).

Would I be correct in guessing that Brokenstar or Tigerstar could come but Puddleshine couldn't?