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Once again...

... we return.

1.

After managing to lose everything to Google earlier this year, I have spent the last month painstakingly restoring the WicDiv: PPC Edition records from the Board. Now that it's all there - and all backed up - and seeing as today would have been the very last day of the Recurrence ("Within two years, you will be dead"), I am very pleased to present:

The Wicked + The Divine: PPC Edition

No knowledge of the comic series The Wicked + The Divine is required, and equally, reading WicDiv: PPC Edition should not spoil the comics (but see point 3).

2.

I have also finished the story. Issue 13, Curtain Call, includes all-new scenes: one with Tanfin (no longer Yavanna), and one with Ananke, explaining at last exactly what happened in August 2020. Note: I have also put in one-line farewells to the six gods whose authors didn't choose/have a chance to write one last year. If Alleb, Granz, Cicada, Iximaz, Silv, or Mikelus are around and want to write their god's depowering, you can use Tanfin's from last year as a model. You can also read Issue 13, but be aware that you will finish it knowing more than your god - or the kid they once again become - ever will.

3.

After Issue 13 comes Issue 14, Liner Notes & Album Art, which forms an extended Author's Note to the event. This is where I need a Spoiler Warning: the RP itself was deliberately written with no spoilers for the WicDiv comics apart from the general setting, which you can glean from the first three issues or so. This does not remain true for the last section of Issue 14, entitled Within Two Years.... To discuss how the Recurrence would have unfolded if the gods hadn't been depowered a month in, I have had to discuss major revelations from the comics, including touching on one from the final three issues. If you plan to read the comics (you should!) and want to do so unspoiled (you also should!), you should skip over this section.

4.

After the allotted two years, this is the conclusion of The Wicked + The Divine: PPC Edition. Every line of RP has been collated, except for half a sentence from the very beginning. Please do not start any new RP threads; or rather, you can always use August 2020 as an RP setting, but they won't be collected into the The Wicked + The Divine: PPC Edition issues.

But... if there was an ongoing RP which was nearing completion but petered out, and enough of the participants are still around, I'm happy for you to finish it off, and I will still add it. This is the same offer/request as for Issue 13: the more complete the story can be, the better. (But don't feel obligated! There's nothing in there which cut off too abruptly to work, so feel free to leave things as they are if you prefer.)

And that's it! The End of the Recurrence is at hand. Thank you to everyone who took part, and everyone who followed along; and if you've only just discovered WicDiv: PPC Edition, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did creating it.

Once again, we return.*

hS

*Having just reread the entire run of WicDiv, I think they actually use "Once more, we return" more often than "again". But I prefer this version, so here we are. ^_^

Heh. Jasmine's plan really is a decent one . . . at least it would be, if not for the fact that it can't actually work! But she has no way of knowing HQ is gone, so she earns points for formulating it all the same.

Oh, Baker Street is here! But "unseen arms" . . . maybe not Holmes's Baker Street?

Good to see the remnants of the British government are immediately cracking down on disorder with authoritarian militancy, and closing the borders to exclude foreign travel. 10/10 fellas, stay the course, I'm sure your marching drills will intimidate the Fey once they roll into town. Just have to hope Constance and Jasmine can make it out of town without anyone freaking out at their clothing, now . . .

—doctorlit, chugging the last of the milk out of the carton

Had an idea as soon as I saw the prompt last night, and wrote this as soon as I woke up this morning (after food to get me awake enough)

Have at it:

Two Force Users Walk Into a Restaurant

Nova

Gray Orange

This is fun.

I read all the entries, and they were interesting.

—Ls is considering joining the Discord. (It’s capitalized, right?)

Because I've already written a mission for The Nutcracker 🤣

Informally and abruptly, the PPC Discord began doing the Write-off. This may or may not once again become a regular thing, and therefore may begin to be announced on the board. For those who are not aware of these (which is fair, we haven't done them in a while), the Write-off is an event in which people are given a short prompt and 30 minutes to write something, anything. After the time is up, we all get together and share what we wrote and provide feedback to each other.

The prompt this time was: "Isn't attachment an interesting thing?" and it was donated to us by Calliope. You are encouraged to give feedback if you want to. And if you like, follow along: spend 30 minutes trying to fill the prompt, post your results, and see about giving feedback.

The responses are as follows:

• Thoth
• Literature's Hanafuda
• The Legendary EL MOSCO!
• R3negade X
• The Foolish Maker of Worlds
• Tomash
• Calliope
• Granz (Language warning)
• Damien Thorne
• Delta Juliette

I'm hardcore about that right now.

I like orange, purple, and green.

It took me a while to figure out how to make text bold.

—Ls

Not sure what happened there, AO3's text-box is something of a mystery to me. I've fixed them (and a few others) now. :)

hS

This was fun to read. I’m not familiar with the canons, but I still enjoyed it.

In the passage:

”Sure, Dad ." Jasmine rolled her eyes. "No, you need to seduce a canon character."

" Jasmine !" Constance gaped at her.

(Bolded for emphasis.)

It looks like you added an extra space in both sentences.

—Ls

I think that if a continuum’s fandom is small enough that you can’t find a badfic with minis, then you can create your own. Minis are fun, and besides, it seems unrealistic to have an artificial badfic that has horrible spelling...unless it’s a character’s name, in which case it’s always spelled correctly.

—Ls’ two cents, a bit late

In which our heroines finally get a chance to sit down, have a nice cup of tea, and catch up on the gossip. Granted, the gossip is two centuries out of date, but it's still better than walking.

London, Unreal: Chapter 3 - The Magician's Wife

hS

but right now, various shades of red.

Mine is turquoise.

I don't see why we'd ban missions to explicit works. Heck, even if there isn't much plot or characterization, supposing someone took an explicit canon with well-written, healthy sex in it and wrote bad slash or het for it, I can imagine wanting to spork that. Assuming a hypothetical sporker knows what they're talking about and accepts that they're probably limiting their readership, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

~Neshomeh

I'm talking about straight-up pornographic (porn with plot) canons.

I'm Lily, I wandered away from the Board back in 2013 and came back last year. Nice to meet you!

If you do a mission to a religious text, you run the risk of offending someone in that religion by claiming yourself the arbiter of what constitutes the religion's canon. It's a similar vein to the ban on RPF -- we prefer not to claim to know more about irl people or a religious belief than others.

Fictional canons with NSFW in them are just like any other fictional canon. Pretty sure the reason why people haven't missioned Fifty Shades fic yet is because the canon is already promoting unhealthy perceptions of BDSM and it would be painful to protect that in a mission. (Cue the Ironic Overpower rolling out a very sporkable 50sg fic...)