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Not sure what's going on there, but I'll be sure to let you know when it's gone properly live. Sorry about that... :(

Since he happens to be my official beta reader XD And yes, I did abuse Alternate Universes a bit in TWWA. But, hey, it's working out!

“I’m Othniel Doremus,” said the man in the suit. “But you can call me Spellcheque, everyone does.”

“Cool,” said Mina. She started to make her way to one of the few available seats, next to what looked like a LoTR elf.

It's listing the main item as £20.23 from Amazon US (4-6 weeks shipping time), and then a New listing at £10.99 from Amazon UK which is down as out of stock. Neither are described as pre-orders, so I think I just need to wait until August for the UK link to go live?

hS

And some of my coworkers wanted some too, so . . . pre-ordered x5!

: )

—doctorlit

Hey, alternates! It's kind of surprising that sort of scenario doesn't happen more often in missions, so its fun to see the concept get used. Looking forward to seeing how things go from here . . .

—doctorlit

I thought you said 120,000 words, not 12,000. My email is available by clicking on my name. (Side note: your name is still Neo Skater if you do that. It can be changed.)

I don’t know much about the Simpsons, though.

—Ls

I really don't try to write 12,000 word monsters! They just... happen. The writing takes on a life of its own. And I did publish two things, but I haven't gotten around to updating the wiki yet because of procrastination for the former and me doing something really stupid on the latter that made me not want to look at it again and probably alienated a lot of the people who were willing to beta for me. (I've also decided that the former is non-canon, because it sucks.)

Anyway, I'll try to send it to you ASAP! What's your email?

“Look!” said Mina, waving a pamphlet around. “Look at this, Carly! There’s a talent show! Don’t you wanna come?”

“No.” said Carlisle. “This is just like the time you tried to join the orchestra. I’m not joining you. And don’t call me Carly.”

“Fine.” said Mina. “I can play guitar just fine without you.”

She grabbed her pink guitar from among the many random objects strewn on her side of the floor and strode out of the room.

Well, at least I don’t have to hear the horrible guitar playing, he thought. Only the rest of the PPC does...

Carlisle ran out the door after Mina, hoping that he could spare everyone else from Mina’s horrible guitar playing.

When Mina arrived at the Small Auditorium, as indicated on the pamphlet, she stared in amazement. The auditorium was full of various agents practicing their talents—though most of them were simply sitting and chatting. There was a fire-eater, several dancing zombies, and a large group that was singing sea chanties.

“Please, Miss, take a number,” said a man in a dapper suit.

“What?”

The man in the suit handed her a piece of paper with the number ‘493’ on it. “Take this and find a seat. Madame Marcela will call your number when it’s your turn. You’re lucky, we’re almost out of room here.”

“I’m so excited!” said Mina.

Come one, come all to the PPC Talent Show! All talents are welcome, and any agent (or Flower) can join!

Sign up right here, in this thread!

**What this is: a new character I’ve just come up with, Madame Marcela, is hosting the first-ever PPC Talent Show, which anyone can join! However, first come the tryouts...

I’ll write my first response below this one, to give everyone an idea of the format.**

Canonicity? Questionable.

—Ls

As far as I can tell, Damian, you got Permission in 2020 and haven’t written anything since then. I have not read the Permission Request, but...it got you Permission, so I’d assume it’s pretty good. However, having your first mission be a 120,000 word monster is...not the greatest idea. It’s a LOT to ask of anyone, either to read or beta. If you want, you can send it over to me, and I’ll try to give feedback, but I think it’d be much easier to write a few shorter missions first. (My first [and only (so far)] mission, I believe was around 2000 words or so.) Maybe the intro would be better as an interlude?

—Ls, Not Angry (but plagiarizing a little)

Amazon USA link

Amazon UK link

Barnes and Noble link

Physical copies look like they'll be made available mid-to-late August.

I've also got a sale happening this week—ebook copies are now 99 cents/99p until July 26th!

This is a reiteration of my previous beta request in case people have stopped being busy since then. The mission is 12000 words long, but I wrote an updated version of the 2000-word intro and I feel I could use feedback on both versions as a compare/contrast thing. Continuum is The Simpsons, and if someone could get back to me that'd be great.

Thank you all for the warm welcomes and snacks. I'll be sure to use them only for good.

Welcome aboard! here is the Discord link.

(To be clear, the discord isn't, like, secret, and it is open to anybody here who wants in. The only reason we don't publish a discord link outright anymore is because we've had some really bad issues with trolls in the past, and having people ask to join tends to eliminate that)

Yeah, this really does feel like a very final finale, doesn't it? Looking back over the series, I see how Nath structured things so that the Fellowship and Suvians would be underground in Moria when the worst of the reality dysfunctions would start to occur. The nothingness can't reach underground yet, so the caverns block the Suvians from realizing just how far astray they've led things . . . I guess the one thing I would have liked better is if they had been shown to realize just how far-reaching the consequences of their actions were, but I suppose they would need a crash course in Middle-earth's history first, anyway; I doubt they even know who Morgoth is, to begin with! But yeah, back to my original point, the breakdown was well timed to shield the protagonists from realizing what was happening.

It's rather horrifying to think about the desperation and confusion Galadriel and Elrond have felt in this story to actually resort to putting on their Rings . . . I suppose it would be some comfort for them to find out that Mordor would likely be erased by the nothingness as well, so Sauron would never have the time to move against them once he sensed the Rings.

I am definitely not going to spend time counting (got a primary ballot to fill out today), but those 20 assassins in the final scene: that must be just about every DMS agent who had actually been written at that point, huh? I don't recognize the assassin with the Sith robes, but I wonder if that's meant to be an "Agent Nath" stand-in for the author?

—doctorlit is great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes an aeroplane . . .

A canon character is beat up by borrowed OCs.

Why? Just, why?

Here is a generically-titled oneshot where Mal recounts the entire story of the first film to her (uncanon, probably Suvian) daughter. It’s just...pointless. And it has a weird lack of punctuation in the summary.

I don’t know that it’s too bad. Without knowing the canon either, the biggest things I noticed in the first chapter were the ridiculous “generic illness” and the occasional typo (including the annoying misspelling of allons-y).

Honestly? It seemed a bit more mediocre than outright bad. Maybe it gets worse, but...enh.

—Ls

Give the Board a chance! Please. makes puppy-dog eyes

But welcome to the PPC. Have a donut that endlessly regenerates itself.

—Ls is no longer the newest newbie!

I’m a tad disappointed, but as for updating the wiki article, how about this:

“The game has historically taken place in July, but now occurs mostly in September. If you want, you can start it, provided no other big event is happening at the time.”

Better?

—Ls is looking forward to September 1st