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Hello, trainers of the PPC! It's that time of year again, where we get to once again determine who will be the very best! That's right—it's time for the 2017 PPC Pokémon Tournament!

Since last year involved Monotype rules, this year, we will be going back to the 'normal' rules—that is, our rules list can once more be found here. The official tournament will begin in April, so the last day for signing up is Friday, March 31st. You may change your team lineup at any point before then.

Good luck, and I will see you in battle!

"See you," he said. He looked down at Duane. "Um. Bye, Duane." With a slightly awkward wave, the Myrddraal departed for his next speed date, his step lighter than it had been in years.

((That was so bloody adorable. We need to get them together again.

-Alleb

P.S. And by need I mean "if you want to do that, we should."))

I've played persona Q but yeah, I mostly play Nintendo consoles.

'Has it? Thanks,' she said, shaking it. 'Um, thanks! Thank you - thanks!' she wasn't sure of what else to say. 'Thank you!' she said, again.

She stepped back, lowered herself to pick up Duane, and looked at him. 'See you!' and she smiled as brightly at him as she could have.

I'm in current need of betas for the new chapter or Blank Sprite. Anyone willing? I need mostly SPaG, flow and consistency check.

Would that happen to include by chance the Persona series, despite the fact your roster seems to strongly suggest Nintendo consoles?

*shooting flaming arrows to knock apples off volunteers' heads.

This is what I get for posting after I wake up.

I always love getting to see Selene and Kaitlyn in action and this time was no different. The banter at the beginning with Kaitlyn waking up her partner was probably my favorite bit, though.

My only real complaint (and it's not so much a complaint as it is a nitpick) is that, well, the fic wasn't bad. You've done a couple of missions into barely-bad and even goodfic, and while I love the idea of just providing concrit to the authors, it does make me wonder if Intel is even doing their job. Otherwise, I like that the fic you chose allowed Kaitlyn and Selene to chat (and Kaitlyn to glomp her cute hobbit-partner, eee), and overall it was entertaining. :)

As for fic recs... haha, I did find one involving a werewolf princess who becomes the Tenth Walker and has Arwen and Boromir both being the Designated Misogynist ("lol wimmins can't fight") and Boromir leering at her and her hitting on Aragorn all the time... But that was something like thirty chapters and way too long. So let me see...



"HOW IN THE WORLD!" (Lord of the Rings—your favorite :P)

So it starts off with a pair of Sues who are performers at a Renaissance fair. Their star act: shooting flaming arrows off volunteer's heads while hula-huping. Yay disregard for any kind of safety! Then they randomly get shot by someone with a gun, no reasons given, and wake up in the Olympus throne room talking to Manwë, who gives them the choice of being reincarnated as a Percy Jackson demigod or being reincarnated into Middle-earth to fight Sauron. There's some rajdom centered formatting , and a couple of POVs, and though the Sues acknowledge they can't speak Elvish they're still somehow able to understand everything else people are saying.

Three chapters, 2,578 words. It's short but obnoxious.

Here, have the master pen, the ink of evil's bane.

Thanks. Perhaps I could use them as a trap.

"Valkyries P.O.V"

I'll leave that with you.

hS

Hi jo to-ho, hi jo to-ho...

... I'm going to Watford this month, on a completely unrelated work trip.

It is the ssswings and the roundaboutsss, preciousss.

hS

Have a 75-pack of perfectly average metal paperclips. Keep your eyes on them whenever possible, however. Whenever they aren't being looked at, they acquire sentience and the overriding goal of making all vegetables into Julienne fries. How paperclips are supposed to do that, I don't know.

Yeah, other than that, they hold paper together.

SECRET MESSAGE 13

I try to make it so you don't need to have read other stuff with them in to understand them, and it looks like I've succeeded. Actually, Selene is pure Draculaverse vampire - but she is currently Clockwork Undead, because she's using Steampunk tech to keep herself sane. (It's also bugged by the DIA, because for some reason they don't trust her. ^_^)

Now, that recommendation... wow. Uh. Wow. Okay. So I've never read SP, but this looks bad enough that I don't need to have. One question before I start: the fic has Skulduggery tapping on his collarbone to manifest a face (and later identifies this as something to do with a 'facade symbol'). Is this an actual power he has? If so, is it physical or just an image?

hS, wandering down weird paths

PS: It has 'General POV'. I think the courtyard Pack may have a new rival...

(Whenever I see "Line Division" being used in badfic - and I have - I can only think of this album cover)

Anyway, this was interesting from a character perspective far more than it was from a "this fic is bad and I shall point at it and laugh" perspective, which is my favourite type of mission both to write and to read. I like how complete they feel, for want of a better term - how they have little tics and nervous gestures that they do without thinking, like Selene's hand brushing against her Key, whatever that is. It speaks volumes that even though I have less than zero idea of what you're talking about when it comes to Selene's original continuum (I assume it isn't quite clockwork undead, but that would be awesome), I can still follow along and understand how her homeverse continues to affect her. I've wanted to do that with my own agents; how successful I've been with that I leave to the interpretation of others, but you pull it off really well and I admire it.

As far as requests/recommendations go, this is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad fic from the Skulduggery Pleasant continuum: Dead love [sic], by Pit user pleasantskull. Six chapters and 4k words, none of which make the slightest bit of logical sense. Plus, I don't think it's a continuum which has been missioned all that much, if ever, so that'd be cool. The plot of Dead love, it goeth thusly: Skulduggery Pleasant is an exceptionally old skeleton man, while Valkyrie Cain is a teenage girl. The author ships them. This should tell you everything you need to know. Have fun! >=]

Also means we'd get to see Kaitlyn's reactions to POVs, which I look forward to immensely. =]

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Yep, it's been a year since last time I did this, but... mission report!

PPC: Driftwood - Three Hobbit Ladies and a Ring (GDocs Link)

In which Kaitlyn and Selene meet a whoooole bunch of hobbits, and Kaitlyn isn't as overjoyed as you'd expect.

Concrit is, as always, welcome.

Secondly: in traditional Driftwood style, I'm taking requests for the next mission. It needs to be 6000 words or less, and at least moderately safe for work (since I'm, y'know, at work...). I will consider all canons, though I may have to turn it down if it's one I can't do justice. (In general, games and anime are going to be non-starters.)

If you've got something you'd like to see missioned that fits the length requirements, go ahead and offer it up! Give me a title, link, and canon (obviously), and a quick summary of why you think it's bad - a paragraph or two will do. The ladies are Floaters, so any style of badfic is fair play.

hS

And there was analysis.

So it looks like the issues fall into a few major areas:

1. Mordor is a lovely place until that nasty dude Sauron comes back after the fall of Dol Guldur. This is massive time compression, obviously - but I think it also follows the precedent of the Hobbit films. Remember 'gasp, there's SPIDERS in MIRKWOOD?!?!'? It's pretty clear that in the Movieverse, everyone's opinion is that Sauron and everything associated with him (eg, the Nazgul) are dead, dead, dead. M-e has been a lovely partyland for millennia.

Is that wrong? Heck yeah. But can we fault a movieverse game for following the movieverse premise? Yes of course we can! It's tricky to justify.

2/ Celebrimbor. The game has him a) associated with forging the One Ring, and b) hanging around Middle-earth after dying.

As far as a) goes, while 'Brim's knowledge was used by Sauron to make the One, that's as far as it goes. The only contact 'Brim had with Sauron after the latter went off to make the One was when he was captured, tortured, and murdered during the fall of Eregion, well after the One was forged. So... no.

For b), this is actually possible! The idea that Sauron (or Morgoth) could stop elven spirits from heading to Mandos - or that they could refuse the call themselves, if they were messed up enough - is mentioned in HoME. And if there's anyone Sauron would one to force to stick around - and, for that matter, anyone whose family history might make him do it of his own accord...

c) Gollum hanging out in Mordor. This is... accurate? I mean, people are complaining about it, but after Bilbo took the Ring, Gollum left his cave and made his way to Mordor. He was captured there, but nothing says he was captured immediately. And we know what a fawning stinker he can be (though the idea that he could see a wraith is... problematic).

d) General feel. Black magic, mind control, Sauron's groovy lieutenants, the "good guy" murdering his way through Mordor, the whole resurrection malarkey... you could probably justify each bit of it by reference to various chunks of canon (Sauron was called the Necromancer, afte rall), but put together it feels... yeah, wrong. The magic in particular - I've just (re)played the Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch-king campaign, and the Angmar Sorcerers, while cool, give off the same vibe: it's something that's never even been hinted at in canon, and feels like an imposition from some other world.

I'm inclined to agree that it has capital-p Problems with canon, and that the sequel will only make things worse. It looks like the issues get bigger in the details, too, which would bother me immensely.

I see it's available on Steam; I've put it on my watchlist. Maybe if it drops down to £5 or so I'll buy it and find out for myself.

hS

Thank you Larfen. I don't know what I'll do wit ha porcupine though. Keep it as a pet?