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I'll definitely not remove any of those then. I couldn't find anything with Erena Lechenham in, and I must have missed the agent profile (and indeed the agent herself somehow) in the glossary for Laurel. So sorry about that.

I know the Wiki isn't the source of PPC canon, however I figured I would ask just in case anyway. I have also just read the top of the wiki article and realised it says "You may not remove RCs or agents from this list unless they are yours." Which, I guess makes this whole thing invalid, so once again I apologise.

Storme Hawk

P.S sorry for some of the typo's in my post, my laptop's keyboard is slowly dying and I'm not always picking up on the mistakes I am then making because of it.

I recognise RC Molybdenum and Agent Kit 'Not the God' H, so I'd rather you not remove them. Erena Lechenham is named (with RC number) in the first Playscripte. Agent Laurel appears on the Glossary, and has a link to her profile; did you not spot her?

More generally: the Wiki isn't the source of PPC canon, and it doesn't contain everything about it, despite various people's efforts. These agents were added by their creators, who we can assume had Permission; I don't think we have the right to take them off again.

hS

Sorry, only just found this out, otherwise I would have added it to the previous post.

There are several RC's whose Agents don't appear on the Glossary of PPC Character's or in any other page of the wiki. Is it OK if I delete them from the list (unless anyone claims them)? I'll list them all out below:

0.19587repeating485 – Agents Weasel and Dina
32C – Agents Aeram and Hale
37 – Agents El and Tater
58 – Agents Dez and Gon (although these have adopted 2 mini's)
69 – Agents Seren and T’Pira (Seren appears to be a different character from Dawnfire's Seren Sato, but I may be wrong)
95.94 (Molybdenum) – Agents Brian and Katie (Katie appear to be a different character from JulyFlame's Katie Cray and Brian appears to be a different character from Brian McMaolin, but I ma be wrong)
0220 – Agent Kit ‘Not the God’ H and Agent Treeleaf
256 – Agents Leas and Hane
434 – Agents Meilijk and Tak
612 – Agent Kurdah Graill
616 – Agents Nosferatu and Nazaruth
1024 – Agents Chigiri, Hikari and Seirei
1210 – Agents Eledhiel and McFarley
1881 – Agent Laurel (Who I'm assuming is not the Sue in Agent form)
4213 – Agents Kip and Beofre
7777 – Agents Maelor and Akhana
16186 – Agent Erena Lechenham

Storme Hawk

Apparently, waking up after being sedated kinda confused my brain.

The scary thing is, I was fully aware of the fact that I wasn't speaking Italian and despite my best efforts I could at best say aa couple words in Italian before involuntarily switching to English.

Luckily, that lasted for only a couple minutes or so, I guess the time my brain needed to properly wake up.

The two agents hit a junction with a conveniently placed mirror.

Floating above the mob of monsters was some sort of very tall, although gaunt for its size, humanoid monster. It wore a tatterred trenchcoat with traces of blood on it, and chains were rattling around it. It also looked like it hadn't feet, or legs, for that matter. It had gloved hand which looked like they were dripping blood which were holding what looked like revolvers, but these weapons had the size of rifles. On its head was a paperbag with a grin painted where the mouth would be, and one opening for a red right eye looking like a gunshot, with traces of dried blood.

The other ways forwards were left and right.

English is my first language, and that was picked up with relative ease. After that, I began developing an interest in alphabets and other languages, specifically dead ones.

Being obsessed with ancient Egyptian culture, I began looking into Middle Kingdom heiroglyphics, and became relatively capable of reading it. I still have a copy of the book I used. "Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide-" I used it all through middle school, and it's quite good. I could write to some extent, but it was easier to work in the non-symbolic transliterated form. To this day, I can sound out Tutankhamun's cartouche, despite his having been a useless bugger of a pharaoh whose name deserves to vanish.

I took four years of Spanish, and after a few minutes of conversation I can usually follow what's going on, and participate to a horribly stunted degree. Never got much practice using it in conversation.

I learned a little Hebrew syntax in the church I did setup for when I was younger. I can recognize basic words like Jerusalem starting with the yud on the far end, along with the more iconic characters like shin and lamed. From there, I have context, and I am VERY good with context.

I also took a year of Mandarin in high school, but my teacher developed cancer, and I was unable to complete the course.

I also have a strange ability to work out most German, and most romance languages I can pick up quite easily, thanks to my spanish and ability to recognize roots.

So I suppose you could sum my ability as a linguist up most succinctly with the phrase "Jack of all trades, master of none." If I get any ground whatsoever, I can usually read pretty much anything.

Maybe not the most relevant post, but I think it's interesting what you can figure out with a little basic knowledge.

The only sounds were the Detective shouting "D'you know, I think we've upset something! Probably around when you shot it!"

Jack just kept running, muttering "Must go faster, must go faster," under his breath, eminently grateful that there was no rearview mirror to tell him that the approaching objects were even closer than they appeared.

So first up general editing question, does anyone know the command to find out and/or change the size and font the wiki pages use? If not then the RC numbers are going to be a different size and font to everything else on the wiki. Which is also going to be a problem as I'm not maths-ifying the two RC's in "Not a Number/What Is This I Don't Even" that are phrases rather than numbers.

@Mattman, do you want me to maths-ify 1337 in the description of RC637R3K7M8? I can if you want.

@Dawnfire, in the RC list Edgar and Agen____t are in RC 2.1459 (Pie) but on their character pages they are in RC Pie-2,1459, which is correct?

Also the RC number for Luana Starlight and Orange Plaid is 27 ½.5 does anyone know if this is intentional or if it is just meant to be 27.5?

Finally, please correct me if I am assuming wrong, but several RC's have essentially two numbers associated with them, the string of digits and then in brackets a more succinct way of putting those digits (for example Des and The Librarian are in RC 0.4342944819 (log e)) I am going to put in both ways of putting the number, but if you only want one or the other then let me know and I will do it.

Storme Hawk
Who is remembering why he switched from LaTex to Word when it comes to mathematical typesetting

The thing was actually wearing a blue mask with round eyes, a bar making up a nose, and a sad expression. Something was also seemingly carved on the forehead's mask.

The monster tried to slash with its hands the Detective as it jumped over him, but missed him. It then made a strange hissing sound, and suddenly, some sort of ice crystal formed in the air and was shot towards the two agents, passing a few inches over their heads. Some of the other monsters began shooting other ice crystals, but were fortunately inaccurate.

Meanwhile, a roar began to accompany the chains' rattling.

“Any ideas?”

“Well,” the Detective said calmly, though he had to raise his voice over the rattling of the chains. “Totally unaffected by gunshots, and probably rather irritated that we’ve tried it to find out.”

“Those don’t sound like ideas, D!” said Jack, slowly stepping back and away from the shadows.

“Well, they do in fact add up to one inescapable conclusion, Jack, if you could be bothered to think it through.”

“Yeah, and what’s that?” demanded Jack, aiming his thoroughly useless pistol. Some people had safety blankets. . .

“LEG IT!” shouted the Detective, and together they sprinted through the corridor ahead.

“Any ideas what these are?!” shouted Jack.

“Not a one,” the Detective returned, jumping over one of the shadowy blobs. Aware he was still in his medical gown under that coat, the Detective glared at the blob to keep it from looking up.

And with some rather interesting linguistic evolution, too. As an example, ASL is based on French sign language and is completely different from British sign language.

You find some kind of issue with the possibility that the world is actually flat, in spite of evidence being garnered from simply looking at the ocean?
And that the government is spending millions of dollars making sure everyone thinks it's round, just because they're a bunch of nobheads?
Or that the real truth behind everything we know actually sounds like really poorly written sci-fi?

Pssssh. Enjoy your cage, sheeple!

Lots of crazy people knocking around, too. Quite the perfect environment for breeding that sort've stuff.
I mean, a swimming pool? In HQ?
Psssh. Everyone knows water's a myth.

I mean, there's also that Rule of Funny. The more someone believes one, the more bollocks it'll be, and vice versa. One've the best parts of PPC, that!

"I will eat the fork I found inside of a salmon if the ghost of the dead cabbage comes."

Oh yeah. I may have gotten the verb conjugations wrong, but I assure you: the nonsense was quite intentional.

—doctorlit trataba y trataba, no podrìa volar

So, for it to be a continuum, it needs to have a proper, consistent canon?
That, there, is intriguing. Hadn't thought of that.

I still reckon they ought to have some presence, though, right? Especially considering how closely related they are to actual continua.
P'raps they're ridiculously ridden with plotholes, being all inconsistent-like. Constantly warping all over the place, and practically unreachable.

Dunno what RPF is, or what the Rwandan Patriotic Front has to do with any of this, however.

Isn't ASL just English, only with hand gestures instead of words? I don't know much about sign language, so I'd like to find out.

I was born and raised in New York, so obviously, English is my first language.

Besides English, I know five other languages (to varying degrees of proficiency): Haitian Creole, French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek.

Being Haitian, I'm surrounded by Haitian Creole: my parents speak it at home and I go to a Creole-speaking church. (Oddly enough, as a child, I had no desire at all to learn Creole. My thought process was something like this: I'm American, and Americans speak English, so why do I need to learn some mumbo-jumbo language that nobody speaks?) I really got interested in learning Creole in my teenage years, and of course, taking French has only helped my Creole. Add to that the fact that my grandmother moved here from Haiti when I was in high school, and Creole is now my number-two language.

I started taking French in junior high school, as my only foreign-language options were French and Spanish. I took two years in junior high school, two years in high school, and a few courses during my junior and senior years in college to brush up on my skills.

I took two years of Spanish in college because I thought that it would be useful for me to be able to speak Spanish. I currently can read Spanish and speak enough to carry a very basic conversation; I need more practice.

Latin and Greek I took in college. I took them for the same reason: I was interested in Biblical languages. At first, I did not know that my college offered Greek classes, so I took Latin. When I saw that Greek classes were available, I started taking Greek as well. Nowadays, I can pick my way through a text in either language Greek Bible--as long as I have a dictionary by my side to help me with unfamiliar words or word forms.

I live in (and was born in) the US, and I'm actually a bit hazy on whether my first language is English or Polish. My parents mainly speak Polish at home, so obviously I picked it up. I'm not sure if I'd describe myself as 'fluent' in Polish, but I can certainly hold a conversation without sounding too silly. The occasional trips back to Poland to visit family certainly help with that.

I also learned some Latin in high school (because I didn't feel like taking any of the foreign languages that required actual speaking), but I forgot most of it, I think.

I will tonight, though. Work has gotten in the way.

My native language is English, but I'm most comfortable in American Sign Language because my hearing is rather poor. My hearing started to decline after high school, and, while I can typically understand English if it's quiet, even if I might mishear a few words, if there's any noise above my hearing threshold I can't understand at all. I also know some Spanish, but it's limited to writing because I can't understand spoken Spanish well enough even in silence.

but what year are you in law school?

English is my first language, but I know French and I can read and understand a good deal of Latin.

As for French, I needed to learn a language in High School, and my choice were Latin, German, French, or Spanish. I had a bad experience with Spanish in grade school, didn't care for the way German sounded, and Latin is virtually useless. I also wanted to visit France so I chose French and stuck with through High School and College.

As for Latin, one of my schools required me to learn Latin for a few years and I also had to pick up a fairly large amount of Latin in Law School.

bit I seem to remember that you posted on the Board that one day, you woke up in a hospital in Italy, but spoke to everyone in English?