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Thanks for the recommendation.

But yes, she wouldn’t be going on any missions yet. And I’d imagine that for this interlude her parents are on a mission, not watching her. So, in a word, yes.

—Ls

Black and Irvine's first appearance definitely started in the DIA offices and had them sent out to get someone. Apparently Artemis had a very specific view of what their job was!

hS

I can write her as just sort of hanging out?

/Ekwy

On the one hand, there's leaving room for other people, but on the other hand, there's expecting other people do all the work. {= P

... You know what, I was gonna say more, but I remembered I wrote a guide for RPing a while back that covers everything I had in mind. It's nothing official, just my own thoughts based on my experience with online RPs, but maybe give it a look?

~Neshomeh

P.S. Haha, Linstar, I didn't know you'd commented on it! Thanks. ^_^

"The Misadventures of Talia," innit? Talia has an RA (she thinks of it as a "portal generator") that's on the fritz, and Makes-Things warns her to avoid using it, but of course she does anyway and of course it fails at the worst possible time. {= ) And yeah, Black comes and helps her out.

~Neshomeh

In "Cosmic Love," the agents' RA takes an Avada Kedavra for the team, stranding them in the Word World. Since one of them is a witch, they attempt to Apparate through a plothole to get back to HQ. They make it... eventually... but they would not recommend it. Waiting for rescue is definitely a saner choice. {= )

~Neshomeh

Who's hosting the wedding pageant? Where is it meant to be hosted? Why is one being hosted at all, considering how allergic to dresses so many PPC agents can get? At least establishing some ground rules, or a question like "what would your agents do if they had to be runway models" would help in getting some responses. :)

I intend to leave as much room for others' imaginations as possible))

HQ sent aid out to them. I’ll see if I can dig up the link.

...so they’d be stuck in a bit of a lurch.

but thankfully the agent team also has a TARDIS. :P

Here's the Other Board.

(Sorry, just wanted to remove any confusion!)

I’m thinking of having that happen on one of my missions. Not anytime soon, though. And yeah, that’d make for a great co-write. Could be fun. And, given that CADs explode so often, it’d be interesting to have something else break for a change.

—Ls

... but yeah, they'd be stuck. If they had a communicator of some sort they could call for help (might be a fun way to launch a cowrite); otherwise they would just have to hope someone at the DIA* or something noticed they were missing and came to get them.

I have a long-in-progress mission where the RA gets damaged and the agents have to avoid portalling around in case it goes for good, but I don't think I've ever broken one.

*I think it exists only in my memory now, but Artemis' first DIA story with Black and Irvine had them going into a mission to rescue the agents. I don't think it was from a busted RA, but it would definitely be part of their role. If they found out about it.

hS

Would the agents be able to get home? Would they have to wait for backup? Would they be stuck in the fic? Has this happened before in a mission?

—Ls, curious.

I’d like to throw in Mina and Carlisle, but I can’t see how. —Ls))

You may not be getting responses on this for a couple reasons:

1. You haven't given any information about where and when this event is taking place, or what the rules are.
2. You haven't said where your characters currently are. I'm assuming they're in their RC, but if so, that makes it difficult for anyone to interact with them.

If you flesh out the scenario more and give people a hook they can interact with, you might get better results. {= )

Please consider doing so on the Other Board so it doesn't make the main Board hard to use if it gets big like the World Without Suvians RP.

~Neshomeh

Where does <u> come in?

Also <ins>, which I learned is <del>'s partner and also has the effect of underlining text, but the usecase for those is suggesting edits. That, at least, makes sense to me. Reminds me of the pre-Google Docs days when we had to email Word files with Track Changes enabled.

I actually quite like the idea of distinguishing italics for tonal emphasis and italics for offsetting technical terms and such, though, especially if it can improve the reading experience for users with (some) screen readers. I don't know if I'll go back and edit all my old works with that in mind, but I probably will implement it in the future.

And I'm now even more irritated about AO3 automatically converting <i> to <em> for what is definitely no good reason. Alas.

~Neshomeh

One theory I had for why they had both <i> and <em> is to handle the case where emphasis doesn't necessarily mean italics in the format the page is being viewed in. For example, if the webpage were being viewed on something that acts like a typewriter, you as the author may want to make a distinction between "this next is italicized, go get the italic font" and "this is emphasized, and while that means italics if you can and feel bothered, I won't complain much if you underline it instead"

That's not really a relevant usecase today, but it probably was when HTML was being designed, so that's my speculation about where these weird duplicate tags come from.

(And in theory the typewriter-like usecase isn't dead ... Braille displays exist, for example)

I’m picturing him yelling at kids to get off his nonexistent, Generic Surface lawn.

... will run at least through to the final TOS mission, which went up in August 2003 (less than a month before I joined - oof). Whether I continue it after that point depends entirely on how fed up I am with it. Doing okay so far, but it's only been 4 months.

(It would be nice to hit my own first PPC story, in October '03, but... well, who knows.)

hS

I took a one-semester XHTML elective in college (c. 2006), and yeah, I think I was definitely taught that about using <em> and <strong> over <i> and <b> because of semantics... and then I ignored it, basically out of stubbornness and maybe something about not wanting to use tags with more characters in them as long as the more concise ones still worked. Offends my editorial senses, y'know. ^_^; Good to know the lesson was wrong even though it doesn't make me any more right, haha.

~Neshomeh