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... or as one long story?))

"You're a smart one, I'll give you that. Yep," she says, waving an arm at the forest around you. "Welcome to the next world. This planet's called Nesvir, and you," she says, gesturing to your body, "are now a Nesari."

When you look at yourself, you realize your body has changed—a lot.

It definitely isn't human, by any stretch of the imagination. Well, the basic configuration of limbs is there: two legs, two arms, and a head, though there's an extra set of arms right under the first. Your skin is green and covered in fine scales, like a snake’s, and unless you are very mistaken, it feels like you are sitting on a tail.


((Anyone else who wants to jump in as "you", feel free to join!))

"I mean, there are multiple ways to have died, but not be dead. I could be a vampire, or a lich, or any kind of undead, really, who have died, but blur the boundaries between life and death to the point where you have to wonder if they really count as dead. I could have died, but come back to life, meaning I've been resurrected, which would be weird, but possible, but I don't know why I'd get it. I could be dead and in some kind of afterlife where you don't count as dead once you're there, or the world could be some kind of Russian nesting doll, except with worlds and lives, so you die, then move on to a world and life. Or, who knows, maybe I was dreaming and I died in the dream, so now I'm in the real world. Is it one of those, or something else?" I ask, looking at the girl quizzically.

"Interesting," she says, and smiles. "Finally, someone who asks the right questions. You died, but you're not dead. Make sense?"

Of course, if this is a dream, there's no harm in asking, so I ask the girl, "Am I dreaming, hallucinating, dead, or in another world?"

This isn't a forest like any you've seen, though. The sky overhead is purple, and the trees are silver leafed, tall beyond imagination yet slender as saplings.

Beside you sits a little girl, barely seven years of age, barefoot and clad in a white dress.

The last thing you remember is walking home from a party, and then a car speeding away, leaving you bleeding on the pavement.

What do you do?

English is my first language. I am conversant but not fluent in Spanish, which was required at my elementary and middle schools, and I chose it over French in high school, because when I do a thing, I like to get really good at it, and the idea of only half being able to speak Spanish was viscerally horrifying to me. Also, there's so much great Spanish literature that I can barely read even after six years of serious study (I'm not counting kindergarten through sixth grade as serious; I was such a small child). I've mostly learned through classes, and a couple of trips to Spanish-speaking countries, and have only recently realized that, hey, it would really help if I read and watched and listened to Spanish in my free time. (By the way, I have found so much Spanish badfic that I may have to eventually write an agent who speaks the language.)

--Key returns to her homework

The original was 0.19587repeating485 I was using the superscripted . to denote the repeating whilst I worked out how to insert the proper symbol into the text (which I can now do thanks to Wikipedia).

Why did I never think to look at Wikipedia?

I don't mind, I know how to use LaTeX stuff, but I don't necessarily understand it, so it's interesting as far as I'm aware anyway.

As per Wikipedia: \ddot{u}

I fixed it!

Sorry to keep spamming this thread with multiple replies. I'm kinda just nattering as I learn stuff. {= /

~Neshomeh

I don't suppose it would work to write it out in HTML as ü, would it?

Also, to avoid an edit war: Weasel and Dina's RC should display something like 0.19587^.485, shouldn't it, reading "zero-point-one-nine-five-eight-seven to the power of point-four-eight-five"? The way I had it, it did, but with your latest change, I only see the decimal point in superscript, the following 485 in normal font (0.19587^.485). Does it display differently to you?

~Neshomeh

However it's the fractions and powers etc. that are a bit more difficult. There's also a limit on what can and can't be put between the tags, which is why I haven't done RC Sp'Nüff(24), it doesn't like the ü and I can't work out how to make it either a) accept it or b) change the rest of the RC number to make it look alright, without replacing the ü with a u which is something I'd only do as a last resort. The only other thing I need to do is find out what symbol I can use to denote 'repeating' when a decimal is repeating some numbers in itself as I can't find the symbol I normally use.

What did you think about it, provided you saw it?

As for the season finale, sorry, but I'm still playing catch-up for the moment, although form I heard about it, it looks like a great finale.

I thought it was overall FANTASTIC! Everyone was in character, the episode was well written, and that one part when Discord goes "where is Fluttershy" was adorable (who can tell I ship Fluttercord).

The one complaint I do have is the final design for the Changelings. I wish they had looked slightly less bejeweled, and I frankly liked their previous design better. But, that being said, you also have to keep in mind while watching this show that it's target audience is young children. Plus, Hasbro has practically been screaming "BUY OUR TOYS" since this show started, and I feel like, sadly, that has a lot of influence over character design.

The Reaper was barely annoyed by the gunshots. But it was enough for it to answer in its own way. It leveled one of its guns. Purple orbs of energy formed in front of it, before it used them to bombard the crossroads, wrecking havoc and blasting the poor mirror to oblivion.

In front of the agents was a room with big stairs inside. Unfortunately, it also looked like a pretty long sprint to do.

I poked a couple things on the list of RCs to see what would happen. Anyone CAN place and, with the right syntax, alter a "math" element. It just generates a new image according to parameters I neither understand nor know how to change, if it's even possible.

I assume the difference in font and size is deliberate, since this code is probably meant for setting off actual equations and such, not for mere aesthetics. It may not be meant to be changed?

~Neshomeh, seriously gonna leave this alone and do what she's supposed to be doing now.

On further inspection, elements with "math" tags are actually images with the class .tex and the alt text of whatever is set between the tags. This... is not something I can easily fix. I can change the height of elements with the class .tex, but that results in some of the fractions becoming too small to read, so it's not a good solution. Nor am I certain now that just anyone could set anything between "math" tags and expect a result. I might give it a try sometime, but not right now.

~Neshomeh

So in source mode, the change appears to be setting the numbers between <math> </math> tags (which means anyone can do it on a one-off basis without needing to use a program—neat!). It should be fairly simple to change how that displays using the wiki's CSS. I'll give it a go right now, before I forget.

~Neshomeh

RPF = Real Person Fic, usually involving popular actors or musicians. It's a fairly controversial subject, as many people (myself included) feel that it's an invasion of privacy at best, and profoundly creepy at worst. It is outside the purview of the PPC.

The requirement of consistency is just personal interpretation, largely based on the way that you see movieverse vs. bookverse canon in some fandoms, and occasionally charges for being inconsistent as to which one is being referenced. I imagine that, depending on the fandom, it can get massively more complicated; just think of comic books, for example. But even still, there's an expectation that there's a specific version being referenced, instead of a conglomeration of multiple versions. It seems like it'd be hard to enforce stability in something that doesn't have stability in the first place.

What kind of presence are you thinking of, and what kind of close relations? I admit that part of my confusion stems from the fact that I'm really only familiar with urban legends and conspiracy theories as they relate to fictional canons. And different canons tend to put extremely different spins on the same story. Look at the different versions of Bloody Mary in different series, for example. They're all based on the same source story, but they vary pretty sharply.

Jack was patting at the mirror, horrorstruck. “How the hell did we not see our reflections running down the hallway?” he demanded of the Detective.

“What, you think I know? It’s obvious we’re dealing with some kind of reality warper with an Alucard complex,” the Detective snapped, turning back from the mirror to face the monster.

“Although. . . there’s a chance the mirror was there the whole time, and the low-lying fog obscured our reflections. . . Dammit! Multiple variables, screwing with my brain. OKAY- from the beginning.”

The Detective stood, dead-eyeing the creature, as Jack looked at him like he was mad. The Detective stared, taking in every detail. The wear of the trench coat, the obvious fact that the bag had been used to cover someone’s head in a previous shooting. It had shot several victims, apparently, as the blood around the eye was dry, but its gloved hands were dripping. No other bodies apparent. So observing, the agent opened his mouth to speak, then tilted his head.

“Ah, screw it,” he said, “OPEN FIRE!” and Jack slammed his spare mag into the pistol, firing three shots into the wailing, chain-ridden monstrosity, before they legged it into the left corridor at random. Every good Whovian knows to turn left, after all.

Done almost all of the List of RC's, and am hoping to finish it off by Wednesday, then I'll move on to the rest of the wiki to see what can be done.