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((Are you sure you want to engineer a way for him to survive? I mean, it’s the PPC, anything can happen, but you’re gonna have to come up with something. The way I see it, you have two options—let David die—or—find a scapegoat. Perhaps a Troll Alliance takes credit for it? I mean, since trolls just want chaos, this would be a great thing for them to say “Look at that! It was us!” even though it wasn’t.

Thoughts, —Ls.))

(Also, usually crap is “holy”, not “holey”. But “holey” is very amusing. )

((But, anyways, geniune question that does deal with the subject line: how exactly am I supposed to keep David Null from getting killed by agents? The CPP is more mad at him than any other PPC agent, but they don't have knives or guns or swords at their disposal, and I'm pretty sure a fair amount of agents have wands that they can use the killing curse with. Would this be a guard job? Or would the PPC not care if David Null dies?))

((-kA))

...is the best alignment ever.

Eventually, she lowered her wand, and spoke.

"Alice, press that button again, it'll cancel the alarm. Are you seriously telling me y'all weren't involved in this?"

Alice, a teenage girl with long black hair, chimed in: "We kind of assumed it was some PPC superweapon."

goldiebot: Situation sorted! Probably. Good luck out there!

“Because I’m immortal and you can’t?” She shoved her messy hair back out of her face. “Actually, we could use your help. All of the Suvians have disappeared, includin’ our colleagues and we wanna know why.”

"Uh, we have books if you want to read them?" K said.

((Sorry for short replies. I'm at play rehearsal.))

((-kA))

As Rose turned to the newcomers, she paused, and eyed them for a moment. Then, wordlessly, she pulled out her wand.

"Alice." She didn't turn away, but the girl cleaning the bar behind her reacted. "Red button above the sink, now."

As a red light started flashing behind the counter, Rose continued, wand firmly pointed at the PPC agents.

"Gimme one reason not to kill you."

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goldiebot: EMERGENCY — Hostile invasion reported at Goldie's Coffee Shop. Urgent help needed!

Zara is chaotic neutral, Diamond and Doom are lawful neutral, and Thalia… is just chaotic chaos.

There was a pop and then silence. “Here we are!” Meg said cheerfully, not at all affected by the dizzying shadows and creepy whispering.

"Of course," he muttered. More out loud, he said, "Yeah, you can take the top bunk. It's been vacant ever since my trainee moved out." The trainee that shpxing disappeared due to my- He cut his own thoughts off. "The bottom bunk's mine, so be careful."

"She's been sleeping in the halls?" K asked David.

"Look, I don't need any more bullfuvg from you," David growled. "You're just as at-fault as-"

"David!" K interrupted, panicked.

David paused. To him, it didn't really matter that much on who knew what, but to K? K didn't want his share of consequences on what happened? He brought the qnza coin in the first place! He is just as at-fault for the issue as David himself.

"I'm gonna take a shower," David muttered. He walked to the cabinet, opened the door, and walked through into it.

"The cabinet is the entrance to the bathroom," K explained lamely.

"Maybe they both dissapeared before I got there. The thing is, they only told me that I was going to be in the Department of Floaters. They didn't tell me where my RC was or who my partner is or anything. Thanks for the offer. I haven't slept in a bed with actual sheets foe a while. I've just been rolling up in my cloak and sleeping in out of the way corners."

Boadicea is probably some sort of combination of neutral and good. She's done some unherioc things, but she has some sort of moral code.

((I’d like to use Chiaroscuro from Legal as a way to prevent any swearing in my stories. Humor, and all that. —Ls))

But have an overlarge pair of rose-colored glasses!

But their relationship to the PPC heirarchy is... tenuous. There's a scene in Crashing Down which explains why; I may as well quote it here:

~~~

The Sub Rosa bowed her primary blossom to the Fern in front of her. Thank you for your cooperation, she said. I understand your difficulties...

We must enforce the Laws, the Fern replied. If we did not - if we, as you'd have us, openly aligned ourselves on your side... what would happen to the Multiverse? The Organisation was set up to keep the worlds free from rogue plotholes; for us to bias the Laws in such a way would destroy all that we have worked for. It gestured with one frond at the Legal Chao painted on the opposite wall. Order, disorder. We allow a certain degree of disorder - the antigravity apple, you see - but all for the purpose of maintaining overall order - the ferns, with our fractal patterns, are excellent representatives of such. It shook the frond in the Sub Rosa's direction. I am sorry the Legal Department is unable to do as much as you would like.

I do understand, Fern, the Rose Bush said. I am grateful that you're willing to do as much as you are.

The Fern shrugged slightly. The Black Cats are a dangerous group, it said, and those who are coming even more so. The Sub Rosa looked at it curiously, but it said, No, don't ask. But... if we are truly neutral, they are certain to win. We know what happens if they are in control - the DIS nearly killed Agent Aspen under the Mysterious Somebody's rule. So we will... bend the odds. Your forces, and those of the Sunflower Official, will have certain chances and opportunities given to you. Your opponents will not. If you take them, you will be victorious. If you miss them... then Legal will be looking for a new home. The Trans-Normal Accountancy Division tell me that your chances of victory are... slim. But you have a chance.

Once again I thank you, the Sub Rosa replied. We are in your debt.

So is everyone, everywhere, the Fern pointed out. We don't call in our debts. Now, Sub Rosa... in a purely unofficial capacity... I wish you the very best of luck. I've grown fond of this place. It paused for a moment, and then added, And don't come back here. Its frond depressed a button on the desk, and the Sub Rosa fell through a blue-fringed hole in space-time to find herself outside Captain Dandy's camp, watching a pair of Dandelions rush towards her.

~~~

Legal (at least in my view) has divisions which deal with contract law and the like - they probably wrote the Ispace Accords, for example, which ironically enough deal with the treatment of Suvians - but most of their work is the laws of reality itself. They can bend probability - and therefore, do their level best not to, because that could lead (literally) anywhere.

Thinking aloud... I suspect the Poofening is a massive Ispace Accords violation, as well as everything else. I never wrote out a full version of the Accords (largely because the story that produced them is still unfinished), but a key provision is that Suvians are treated differently depending on their origin. Specifically, Suvians suspected to have actually arrived from the Real World are not acceptable targets for the PPC, but must be sent to the... can't remember the name now, but there's an organisation out there for de-programming Real World Suvians.

The only known meeting under the Accords happens in part 12 of Talk Like 15 Pirates. I don't think it's terribly relevant to the Poofening, but you might be interested from a multiversal legal perspective.

hS

And I think it depends on the Flower and the threatener.))

((Even though the Legal Department isn't a part of PPC per se, it still resides with it (or close enough to it) that, I think, the Multiversal Laws would fine the PPC anyways.))

((As for the "just reversing it" part, that's gonna be, ah, difficult. Just wishing the Sues back will, presumably, just wish the Sues back, not the recruited deSueified agents, not the badfic agents. True, if one wish could reverse it all, that wouldn't be punishment enough for David, but the "wishing it back" is too complex. Besides, the coin is a potent, one-time use item; not many other wishing items exist that have that much power. What is the saying? Something along the lines of "you can start with a Deus ex Machina but you can't end with one" or something? Basically, it's easy to wish the Sues away, but David's gonna have a uryy of a time to to bring them all back, including all the canons and badfic characters that were lost.))

((Speaking of the interlude, I am stuck on a part. How would a Flower respond to a stranger threatening to fine their organization more than it's worth just for trying to handle it themselves?))

((-kA, who is not angry (there I go again lol) and may have rambled, but they did just wake up.))

Ah, a new continuum! You definitely had fun with that description at the start, and it works as a contrast to the gothic OC when she shows up later.

One thing: I suggest clarifying what "sparrow men" are, for those of us unfamiliar with Disney's Cash-in-on-girl-toys Hollow. I was picturing the agents disguised as birds until I hit the "buff male warrior" line, and had to look up a wiki to find that "sparrow man" is just the word for a male fairy.

—doctorlit

Then, as one, they reached out and took it.

((We can move up to the Elsewhere thread, then?))

What alignments (that is, DnD Good-Neutral-Evil+Chaotic-Neutral-Lawful) would your agents have?

My (upcoming) agents, Mina and Carlisle, would probably be Chaotic Good and Lawful Neutral, respectively. (Well, when they're sane-ish)

I'll let someone else speculate as to Jay and Acacia's alignment.