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I'll be making a more detailed entry post in a bit, but Dee and Jack are totally in with the ego to try it themselves

... I'll withdraw Dafydd as tribute to make him presenter instead. Might come up with a new fourth if... I do? I'unno.

hS

This being one of the Notary's plans, well...

The Notary: I AM NOT HAVING A VERY GOOD DAY.

I'm gonna toss one of my eventual agents into the mix. Evelyn Portia Juliana. She's a sister of battle, but without her armor or bolter, the she's only human.
"As long as I can get my hands on some fire, this will be the most fun I've had in months."

... to cook the books to get a Suta-Kyaris faceoff, am I?

hS

Suta: "...Do I get to eat my enemies, at least? That'll be fun!"

(Because I figured a. a non-Action department member would be neat, b. Suta needed the screentime, and c. A FREAKING TYRANNOSAURUS REX IN THE TOURNEY. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE?!)

(I'm volunteering only three tributes this time around, instead of the four from last time. I'm doing things with my Floaters team that would be spoiled if any of them participated.)

Evangeline von Lilith: "For the record, I blame Pony Boy for this one."

Backslash: "If this is anything like what Whitney told me, I don't think I'm gonna be having a good time. I swear, if I die in the opening fight I'll never speak to her again..."

Cupid Carmine is also volunteering, but was unavailable for comment due to passing out on the Rudi's bar counter from one Bleeport too many.

Restoration of reaching and grasping movements through brain-controlled muscle stimulation in a person with tetraplegia: a proof-of-concept demonstration

They rewired this dude's arm to his brain. That's pretty neat.

Ave's staying out of this one, but she'll be cheering Zeb on from the sidelines. The last few years she was kinda pressured into playing, but she's got a kid to look after now...

Jacques (Jack Harkness replacement) is one of Zing's characters; I was including him and Lux as rough outlines of Dax's general personality. Lux as a tribute again would be great, though... :P

I assume this means Zeb isn't dragging Ave into the arena by force? ;)

Also, are you suggesting Lux (and Jacques? I don't remember if that's an NPC or not) for inclusion?

hS

The Aviator: "I have a daughter to look after, I can't take god knows how many days off to run around a holodeck and die again! No, no, no, no, no!"

Zeb: "Well... I guess it'll just be me this year, then."

If we're allowing more agents, I'd like to also volunteer a few hypothetical ones I've been working on:

Rhysaria and Rhyslea, a blood elf paladin and death knight respectively, identical twins, and partners in the DIA Patrol Division.

Dax, a changeling from D&D, Intelligence worker who gets along very with Jacques Bonnefoy and Luxury, if you know what I mean.

Ah, back in the old days of... four months ago... XD

hS

I think I'll give my regular cast a break this time, but for lulz, I'll throw in Shimon and Caprice, who are respectively a male Nosgothic vampire of the Razielim clan and a female 20-something human of the pretty-average clan. If you have no idea who the heck these people are, that's because they've only appeared in this prompt piece, which I wrote on a dare as a challenge and posted anonymously to see what would happen. {= )

(Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get away with a stunt like that these days...)

~Neshomeh

Except... not my main ones, this time. I want to introduce...

Team Misplaced Teenagers!

Keiko Turbo, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE

*looks at her Remote Activator* OK, I'm starting to think that this think really is broken. I've just managed to portal myself into past HQ again, didn't I? And this time I've even managed to drag Shiro and Saki with me. I really hope Dad and Mom don't watch Nutmeg TV...

Shiro Turbo, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE

So, Keiko messed up with the RA so bad that now we're in the past and everyone is mistaking me for my alternate self. And we somehow got enrolled in a computer simulated deathmatch.
*glances at Saki* She's gonna get killed again, isn't she?

Saki Cherryflower, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE

Ok, aside from the fact that people keeps mistaking me for either Sakura or Nikki, this trip to the past has been great so far! And of course we're entering the Games, this is gonna be fun! Saki's ready and aiming for the top!

Ami Tanegashima, Department of ERROR AGENT NOT IN DATABASE

... I have no idea why I'm here. Actually, I'm not even sure what I am right now since I'm... well... supposed to be dead?... half ghost and half computer simulation, you say? I'm blaming Corolla for it.


(Ok, submitting Ami is actually sort of cheating as she isn't quite an Agent, but she's a character of mine, featured in a mission, and has been a coworker of one of my main agents so...)

"Sergeant Major" and "Guardsman" are capitalized when they're first given and then not at all because they're used here as rank rather than the sort of chosen title that renegades (see: the Doctor, the Master, almost every HQ Time Lord) tend to use. They're capitalized when given with the name of each Time Lord, but then are used not as a title but to denote the rank of each. Think of...let's say 'professor,' since I'm leaving for class in an hour. You would call your teacher "Professor Lieber" (unless it's a really informal class, I guess), but when you're referring to them, you'd say "the prof" or "the professor"--no capitalization. Unless, of course, your prof recently turned out to be a Time Lord who uses Lieber as a false name and actually goes by the renegade name of the Professor, but that would be kind of odd in the real world.

(Fun fact? In SeaTurtle's story, the sergeant major is actually the character we know in the PPC as the Guardsman. His real name is Emiranlanoamar.)

Hope that clears things up a little.

~Zing

Agent Matthew Welch, DMS

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD THRONE! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD!

...That was correct way of saying that, right?

Agent Ellie Davis, DoSAT-T&A

Ooh are doing this? Great! Let me get some things!

*Ellie proceeds to grab several various spare parts off of nearby shelves at a breakneck pace, none of which looks like it could do much damage. Though knowing Ellie, she could probably jury rig a mechanical dragon with enough Duct-tape*

Agent Ajax, DMS

I got pretty close to winning last time, let's see if we can't do it again.

Agent Levy, DF-ESAS

Well this is going to be fun, hope I don't bleed out again.

((For reference, Ellie and Levy))

Apollo: "Again? Yeah, this was fun last year. Want to try and last longer obviously, but Kelly, Theo, Kaatah and I are holding our own small competition to see who can kill the most as well. I'd die early if it meant I won that. Just give me a bow and arrows dear sponsors, I hate using hatchets."

Kelly: "Well of course I'm entering, everyone else is and of course I'm going to try and beat them all, Apollo is talking these weird tactics stuff, Theo is saying about Mandalorian honour and whatever else it is he talks about from his home 'verse in a lot more detail and Kaatah is worrying about puncturing her suit. Me? I just want to support other people and win.

Theo: "Now this should be introduced to the Mandalorians! Not as much fun as the Grand Hunt I'd wager, but it's still going to be a lot of fun. I imagine even Torian would love this. It reminds me of the time when Blizz, Mako and I had to fight in an arena on Hoth for these pirates. THAT was fun, never fried someone with my flamethrower whilst encasing them in carbonite before that. You NEED to try it."

Kaatah: "I don't actually remember volunteering, but there we go. I was probably Theo who did it for me. Not that I mind, I mean so long as my suit doesn't puncture, or I have to survive on what you humans call 'normal' food, or I have to handle anything that isn't a clean environment... Quarians weren't built for this. Krogans would call this fun... I wonder what would happen if the Krogan and the Mandalorians met..."

I can get behind this.

[Pops over to Wikipedia]

... yep, apparently he also has plans for a VTOL supersonic electric jetplane, so TB1 is in the works. And you just know there's a set of blueprints for how to turn Tesla cars into the pod vehicles.

(Unless you prefer the new canon, and want the module vehicles, AKA pods, to be modular. But he's probably got a plan for that, too.)

Elon Musk is Brains. Now he just needs to find himself an ex-astronaut to act as front-man.

... omuguh please tell me we can put him in touch with Chris Hadfield.

hS

Alleb

Finally, some solid training! Even with the wonders of Medical at our beck and call, most agents hesitate to throw themselves into a match. I have seen only one so far--oh, is Sir Yocherry participating in this? Wonderful! I must seek him out in the arena and challenge him once more!

Jesse

Well, Alleb got all excited 'bout it, and I figure when I die horribly in there, the pity'll keep 'er from tryin' to get me to spar with 'er for a week, at least.

Errant

Ha, Catcher doesn't know I entered too! Hehehe! He'll be so surprised when I see him, and then he'll probably yell at me, and then he'll grumble about "batty nuggets," whatever those are, and glare at me. I hope he doesn't shoot me; I heard there were no respawns in this. Not even restricted respawning, like with boss fights. It's gonna be awesome!

((Errant and Larfen's Eneverated Rat-Catcher are, if anyone is confused, partners.

-Alleb))

but I'd say it'd be best to count them as one.

Lou is a woman and Duane is a rock she carries which she is very certain is sapient. They're in the most recent RP on the T-Board, if you need specifics. Pardon for that mix-up!

I remember, I once had to do an assessment for my Ancient History class, where we had to choose any sort of site, and do a powerpoint on it. I chose Skara Brae, in Orkney:



And I've wanted to go to Orkney - Orkney in general - ever since. So windy and cold, they don't get much trees there, and their mythology and folklore is so bloody fascinating. Just - anywhere, look anywhere on this here site: http://www.orkneyjar.com/
There's a certain old-fairy sort've mystique to it all (bit of influence from the Celts and such,) but with an added focus on the wild seas and waters that surround the islands. Lots of selkies and mermaids and such, but it's the Finfolk that entice me the most - mysterious, nomadic, amphibious sorcerer-types, unparalleled in boating, blamed for various mysterious disappearances. Some rowing silhouette, dark under the moonlight, vaguely human but you know it isn't. Also:


The Old Man of Hoy!


The Ring of Brodgar!


Puffin Island, the legendary Orkney island that is famous for looking exactly like a puffin with a fish in its mouth!


I, er. I also feel like I should probably see my own fancy sites, too, so, ah. Here's Uluru!



It's a rock!