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Would anyone be terribly bothered if I turned on the chat function for the Wiki? I know we have a proper chat room as it is, but it might be fun to unexpectedly come across another Boarder wiki walking and have a chance to talk. Opinions?

—doctorlit isn't lonely or anything

I'm wondering if it's a "safety feature" Wikia employs on mobile to make sure people don't get redirected to sites they weren't wanting to access—although, I've certainly opened missions from Wikia pages before. I don't know if it's a new "feature" or if it only applies to the navigation bar, although I can't see why the latter would be the case.

Unfortunately, the coding for the header is correct, so I can't fix it from there—unless there's a separate editing space for the mobile version, which I can't find. Neshomeh? Any idea?

—doctorlit really dislikes technology

When I pull up the Wiki on mobile, I can't even find that set of tabs with Community and Terminology and whatnot. Where do you find it?

—doctorlit may be in way over his head here, but he'll give it a shot

... except the usual:

Stopping at first door she found ...
Is there a "the" missing?

He had short back hair that seemed to have beaten any attempts to tame it ...
Did you mean "black"?

HG

Did you have a design in mind? Because all your username has me thinking of is a Gorgon's head, which may not be quite the feel you're going for...

hS

For the first part I said, "The Eye of Argon is unbearable even in this format."

I take it back.

Nitpicks:

Two oddly familiar figures in in an oddly familiar dark room, which is lit up by an oddly familiar small, clunky television.
Repetition.

I don-t know if this-s one of his comedies or a tragedies.
Is this meant to be singular or plural? I guess if it just were the way Finch talks, I should have noticed something similar earlier.

HG

Would you mind drawing up some heraldry for me, and making an impalement of my coat of arms and Ix's?

I heard you were the one making the Plort heraldry, and I was hoping I could get a set for myself. Impaling them seemed like a good way to celebrate recent events, despite the strangely violent nature of some English heraldic terminology.

I don't think Ix would mind sending you my email, if making a set wouldn't be too much trouble.

She perfectly explains the reason why I comment on every mistake I spot in every story I read, even if I don’t have the time for a proper review. I expect that they are corrected to improve the overall quality of PPC writing.

HG

I finally figured out why I've been having difficulties getting to the Board on mobile. The link to it in the mobile "Community" menu is set up like a link to another wiki page, rather than an external link. Can someone with more HTML skills/experience than me address this? Thanks, and sorry for dumping a tech support request on you.

It doesn’t feel like you rushed to get into the mission, so I call this progress from previous stories.

(Typo detected: er uniform came in two pieces.)

(PPC canon error detected: The mission report is what you are just writing. What lucky agents get to read before they go on a mission – while unlucky agents are just sent in not knowing what to expect – is an "intelligence report" or "Intel report".)

But then you rush through the mission. I don’t agree with other comments that the fic is too short for a mission, but we definitely need more description of what Kelly sees and we need to listen to her thoughts. Just for fun, I’ll list what I spot (not being a native speaker, not knowing the canon, and giving the dialogue some leeway for writing the accent of future pirate folks) and what I would do about it.

1. Ambiguously misspelled title "Little Treasuer" (Might be made a running gag: Every other paragraph, Kelly tries to spot the little treasure or to figure out who might be meant to be the little treasurer. Alas, it doesn’t work, because the writer repeated the title in the fic’s first line, and there it is definitely "Little Treasure". Question to more experienced PPCers: Is there a legitimate way to ignore an in-fic title line?)

2. My eyes wonder around our house (No idea. Guessing the right spelling and then taking the "wandering eyes" literally is probably not an option. If Kelly doesn’t see anything weird, she may wonder what eyes "wondering around a house" should look like.)

3. You know the rules, no sitting to the counter. (I’m not a native speaker. Is "sitting to the counter" synonymous to "sitting on the counter" or to "sitting at the counter" or something totally different? In the second case, Kelly may see Jenna in two places at the same time, or rapidly moving between "sitting on the counter" and "sitting at the counter".)

4. Speaking of witch (Kelly spots a witch in the room. I guess Treasure Planet doesn’t have witches, so what the witch does and whether she looks like a Disney witch or a Harry Potter witch or somebody else depends on the canons Kelly knows.)

5. Dropping the plats she was holding. (Probably just a misspelled "plates", not a homophone. My dictionary doesn’t know "plats".)

6. The other on looks at me. (Is there a third robot cop who is "off”?)

7. I run up to my door and push my ear agents it. ("Agents of the PPC! What are you doing here? This is my badfic to spork!")

8. its din heard enough keeping this place a flout be myself (Several lines may be spent on an inner monologue while Kelly tries to figure out what she just heard. "be myself" is probably just talking like a pirate – a language doubly foreign to me – but whose din [retranslating German translations: shenanigans, hubbub, hullabaloo, row, slapstick, ballyhoo, fuss, riot, racket, uproar] is Jenna’s mother talking about, what did it hear and how is a din even able to hear something, who made the Benbow Inn a flout [insult, offense, scathe, affront, defamation, indignity, derision, jeer, mockery, ridicule, scoff, taunt] and why would somebody want to keep it that? Confusing the agent will certainly be one of the charges.)

9. but its never his fault (Again with the missing apostrophe. No idea what to do with whoever’s never – it’s not a noun.)

I don’t see how you got from "a flout" to flutes, and I didn’t spot a door wearing pants, but that may be my different perception of a language I didn’t grow up with.

One last thing: She wondered just how a writer could use so many homophones and expect her story to be read.
Please don’t. We talk about stories, not about their writers.

HG

I haven't written in any serious capacity before stumbling on the PPC. So I think I fit, and if what July told me a couple times is anything to go by, I learned a couple things.

I hope you're right - I find the idea that the desire to write for the PPC is driving people to learn to write quite charming.

hS

People should still feel free to sign their own agents up, but I'm taking the reins back and starting to wrestle what we've already got into coherence and that's easier if it's not twenty people all jockeying for position.

I decided to ring the bell because, beta now than never!

Ah-hah! Ah-hah!

I've been hoping you'd drop in sometime. Not that I actually know why. Logically I should have no idea who you are, and yet, your name is familiar to me.

Half formed memories from lurkier days aside, I hope you stick around. It's always a pleasure to see people return to the fold.

I wouldn't mind speaking a couple lines into them.

But, our members used to largely come from the fanfiction community, and were already writers when they decided to join the PPC. That's less true now, with the majority of our members finding us via TV Tropes (according to the last few censuses). The learning curve is a bit steeper when you're learning to write generally in addition to learning the PPC.

(Incidentally, Key, I think you should go ahead and apply if you feel the urge. I like what I've seen of you and your writing in Board interactions, and I can't imagine that good impression wouldn't carry over to your creative writing. {= ) )

~Neshomeh

Password still PumpkinSpice

I know that in a lot of communities, applying to be a writer is just a formality, but we take the Permission process rather seriously (since we're mocking bad writing, we have to be sure that we aren't writing anything bad ourselves). It's very common to be asked to rework your Permission prompts several times before your spinoff becomes canon. And since currently all you have is a character bio (and not a terribly thorough one at that), I don't imagine you'll be done in time to participate in this project (Ix writes fast). But I wish you the best of luck in the process.

--Key hasn't even applied yet, though, so take what she says with a grain of salt.

Password is still PumpkinSpice

This is a beautiful tribute.

--Key

I can cowrite with Bram, if she'd like to. I think she can learn from it, and I need to get my arse into writing gear again anyway.