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are pretty long and much bigger than the average rowboat. For example:

Two boats is fine, though! An elongated swan boat would also be kinda funny.

... or rather Alquamorë in Quenya. Constance's was originally just the White Swan (in English), but if she gets it operational again she's naming it Galadriel's Revenge just to troll Dafydd.

I have realised that technically, the question wanted all my agents in one boat, but that boat would be too big. :(

hS

Given that he was good at wandering around lost in thought even before he reached HQ.

I have no idea if I've actually given him a non-trivial wiki page, but to summarize the physical appearance section: stereotypical ancient math professor in black monk's robes.

In terms of small shiny things, he may have a pen that he's using to scribble notes about something that's pretty theftable.

And if you want suggestions, he might be in the Escher room attempting to do science at it, with no success.

Strikethrough with the <s> tag is supported and we have updated some dependencies to slightly less ancient versions

They certainly don't taste as good as lime, but not that bad either.

I'll have to go add it to the list

For one, they don't get run through Markdown, so you have to use the HTML tags. For another, the set of tags you can put in subject is limited to exactly the highlighted list here

So yeah, having looked, you can strikethrough, but it has to be spelled <del>crossed out text</del>

This is designed to massively limit the amount of nonsense one can put on the front page.

If we're including all the characters I've written for the PPC? Ocotillo, being a dragon, would sink the boat immediately. Without her, though, the rest of the group would do... not great, but okay, I guess.

Charlie's an enthusiastic sort and would probably end up doing most of the rowing work. Jiwon would tire in minutes if the sun was out, Matterhorn's more likely to lose focus and start rambling, and Dr. Glocktopus would probably be too busy for rowing.

Liu Siyuan would name theirs the Eight Immortals, except the only actual immortal in the boat is Eledhwen. Also, the addition of Muriel and John means the One and a Half Eight Immortals would get too competitively fast, and so the IO probably intervened and caused them to accidentally spring a leak or something halfway to the finish line :'D

The Team Turbo boat was, as expected, brought in and named by Corolla, and so would be the SS Corolla's New Toy II (Corolla's New Toy being the temporary name the Plot Device got when it was commandeered to get rid of the troublesome Sue that had created it in the first place)

In fact, more than Team Turbo I think it is Team Corolla, since our beloved hyperactive techie signed up her old partners for it without asking them first...

...both the badfic and the mission. But yeah, setting it then makes the most sense. But I’d wait to do any of this.

But wait. When did the term Ironic Overpower originate? I can’t figure out when. I think Lady Contrivance already existed, thanks to potcsues. Right?

(Wait. Would that kinda make Mina Jaycacia’s sister-Sue?)

—Ls

... would be to make her part of the very first Badfic Games, meaning she was created on 16th April 2004. The in-universe story there is that Fanfiction.net very briefly had a PPC section*, and the Suvians who invaded were from there. That includes Jaycacia herself, who was of course killed by Jay and Acacia.

*To be clear: they didn't really.

hS

I think I was working through options whereby a PPC badfic character could be in HQ, which of course requires them to manifest somewhere. It's entirely possible that the PPC is so good at making these things that they can just quash all PPC fic - but then, why don't they do the same to every badfic and save all the canons forever? (Lily may have partly answered that one.)

For #2, it depends on the operation. If it's a bubble universe, then you could probably program the Shield from this side to allow a specific person to cross. If it's a separate Multiverse, then it's just a standard Multiversal travel; those happen often enough that it's not implausible.

hS

Wooooo, a whole bunch of cameos! It's especially cool seeing Ranger again, and a bit of page time for Robyn, since their spin-off is gone. And I love that the community had a bit of an Infinity War moment to tie everyone together in the wake of the deletion! Hm. "Clefe and Ash," who seem to be spies . . . I don't think I even remember those names. Must be another lost spin-off? : (

Ent disguises were definitely a great choice for this mission. Perfect for hiding in the magic forest, and jump-scaring the Fellowship and Suvian at the end! Shame about that arrow, but it gave the authors an opportunity to introduce Medical, too!

My inner reader voice kept wanting to read "Pangaea" in an Elvish pronunciation, but uh . . . it doesn't come out very well. I love the fact that Honey-Bump and her cubs were left in Middle-earth. There's something calming and peaceful about remembering that these settings with warfare and dark magic still have nice, normal wildlife wandering around, living their lives, raising their young, oblivious to all the awful things humans and humanoids do to each other.

— doctorlit, making a lunch break post

... if not for three-year-old Gadrik deciding to try grabbing something shiny in the water and pitching head-first overboard before anyone can catch him. Derik dives into the river after him, leaving Gall to pedal her boat by herself. She does, because everything's fine and there's a race to win (for family pride!), but she probably doesn't have a chance by herself.

Jenni, Jacques, Henry, Simon, and Cai, now... That's a team that might have their act together. Unless, of course, Henry decides to try giving them a magical speed boost that works incredibly well... in the wrong direction. {= D ... Can I call the boat the Bonny Robin? {= DD

~Neshomeh

The idea was mostly to hide the means of transport - the portals - rather than make her believe everything was a dream. For years, Keiko believed that the boat race held by Auntie Corolla's coworkers happened in her world, and that the non-human looking partecipants were wearing costumes for fun.

Years later... "Wait a minute, it was the All-HQ Boat race! The elf guy was really an elf!"

she'd... have been around during TOS times and beyond. Granted, a quasi-deity of Suvian origin probably wouldn't show their age, and there could also be some bad luck spells that get her skipping out on things through timey-wimey plotholes.

It's interesting! But I'd love to hear other people's thoughts, too.

Lack of shinies isn't a problem!

/Ekwy

I'll see what I can do with them!

/Ekwy

I don't suppose a bald head counts as a shiny thing

As long as there is a Wiki page, I have plenty to work with!

/Ekwy

...but that person would have to be a PPCer to have knowledge of Contrivance and the IO, as those are PPC-only concepts.

However, I think I’ve found an even better solution, in a reply to one of the other posts.

—Ls

Doot! (That's me, blowing one of those little celebratory rolled up paper thingies.)

Will send links to the Google doc when the interlude starts to take shape. Nothing will be posted without everyone signing off on it.

Congratulations again on getting Permission! Woo!

/Ekwy

The perfect solution: Mina arrived in the PPC before the Creativity Shield was put up.

That way, I can make her a badfic rescue without any Creativity Shield issues! I’ll just age her up a bit.

—Ls, who thinks he’s got a good idea.