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Have a plush Lupe! I promise it isn't magical!

-kA

• Damespoin. Sounds French, or even Greek (by way of "Despoina"). Hopefully it's not French inspired, since French comes from Latin. Greek... well, it has me thinking "Atlantis".
• Enike Sen. Still feeling Greek, and, um... that's not a surname, surely? Surnames - as in, inherited family names - are really uncommon historically in Europe. The Romans sort of had them, they seem to have been relatively common across the Arab world, and of course China and its orbit, but... not native European cultures so much. (Of course, it could just as easily be a title - that's about as common at this point, if not more!)
• Taiya. Does not feel Greek. Doesn't feel Celtic either. Not sure what it does feel, to be honest! (I'm just running into "taiga" constantly.)
• Rhod Kore. I'm sorry, I keep wanting to call him Kod Rhoe. ^_~ "Kore" is an actual Greek deity, of course. That he's a Captain indicates that if the 'surname' is a title, it would have to be one of status, not military rank.
• So with all the vaguely-Greekish, I'm thinking... lost Phoenician/Carthaginian colony? They spent a lot of time mucking about in boats, and Carthage settled a lot of southern Spain. There's no obvious reason they couldn't have sent feelers out into the Ocean Sea, and it could be long enough ago that it's beyond cultural memory. If Taiya is a goddess, she could be a renamed memory of Tanit, for example.
• "parade rest". Almost certainly wildly anachronistic. The idea of parade rest ("standing at ease" outside the US) requires a formal military which practices close-quarters formation fighting - ie, Roman style - and even then, the specifics are almost certainly a historical accident.
• Claudius Messala looks fine, but he didn't serve in the Legion "many years ago". The minimum stint appears to have been 20 years, so at most it was less than a decade. (Presumably he is from a pretty important family, if he's a Governor so quickly! I guess that's another Imperial name right there...) I see he brought 'servants' rather than slaves - is that just you being unhappy about slavery? Because I totally get that.
• I can't really comment on the Latin, but "sire" is looking very weird. Are you sure you didn't want "sir"?
• A denarius was about a day's wages for a legionary in the early Empire, declining in value after that (then ultimately going out of use in the mid third century, by which point ten denarii would just about buy a cup of wine). The size of the wager seems to put us somewhere in the second century, which has been my guess all along.

So yeah, once again no real problems, and it continues to look interesting. :)

hS

Hey guys! Sorry for being rather inactive, I managed to: Get incredibly involved in Neopets, spend a lot of time on Reddit, fall down the hololive rabbit hole and some other stuff. Despite all this, I'm still a fan of One Piece, and here's a little observation of recent events concerning the franchise.

• First, I must talk about the pivotal events of Chapter 1044 of the manga. MAJOR SPOILERS EVERYBODY It's unknown how this might affect fanfic, but expect fix-it fics from people who aren't really fans of this reveal.

• Then, there's also the upcoming Netflix live-action adaptation. If enough people discover it, we probably need to brace for an upcoming fanfic explosion, and when you apply Sturgeon's Law, we're probably gonna be inundated with lots of badfics.

• And last but not least, there's the upcoming movie One Piece Film: Red. It introduces a brand new character called Uta, who is supposed to be the daughter of Shanks. Once again, look out for fix-it fics.

Plus, I noticed on the wiki that Jinbe is still not mentioned as part of the Straw Hats. Could someone fix that for me?

-AstralCat, your resident One Piece aficionado

...made you laugh or were helpful.

-kA

Unfortunately, I'm not on Reddit, so I can't give you awards.

"Where--" she panted. "--are--we--going?"

((I'm bringing M-T and Alberta over into this thread, as they abandoned the last one.))

"Yeah, that works." They walked closer to the scene, picking up the discarded flamethrower and (somehow) managing to cram it into their bag. Jiwon, still a fox, crawled out from under the table and followed them.

Charlie knelt down by Neo, staring at the puddle that used to be Carlisle. They dipped a finger into the stuff, ignoring Jiwon's look of concern, and gave it a lick.

"Well," they said. "Kinda tastes like glitter."

...Pirates of the Caribbean. Does that mean I should just make generic pirate agents?))

Once hS irons out the details.

The Pirates of the Plot Continuum first appeared in 2012 (at the same time as the TCDA and the first Magical Girl PPC). Hope they see a bit more action this time around!

(Under the current version of Multiverse Theory, the pirates are classed as an incarnation of the Fandemonium: a multiverse where the PPC is continually reinvented to take place in the latest hot canon. Obviously, they are interpreted as being the Pirates of the Caribbean version. Whether this revisiting of the AU will change that theory is unknown at this time.)

hS

One of the more troubling early PPC departments, Despatch is one which really makes a strong link between authors and their fic. Nobody's ever been too sure what to do with it since.

Tales from Despatch: Prologue & Sleepover!!! - A Girl Named Bob, by Meg Thornton

I think the badfic is long gone though...

Also, this is a good point to mention that I do now have a plan for Despatch, and how to make it fit in properly with our modern PPC. Watch This Space. (But it'll probably take a while.)

hS

Octavia and her men land at the shore of Dreopis, with a welcoming committee who are not entirely pleased to be there.

Chapter is here, and mostly safe to read except for some minor old-timey harsh language.

In fact, I might write it.))

"Hmm?" David responded, looking up from his copy of Hamlet.

"There's someone at the door," K said. "They have a torch."

David abruptly sat upright. "Who goes there? Reveal yourself!" he shouted. "We have no time for shpxing games!"

((I don't mind at all. Just be warned that I'm gonna be slow replying.))

((-kA))

"I'M GOING TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO GET OFF ME!!!!!!!!! IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY FLAMES YOUR A MARY SUE!!!!!!!!! WAIT, What is going o--"

He disappeared in a puff of green sparkles that quickly turned into a sticky layer of goo.

((Wow, Carlisle's first RP is a disaster. For him, at least. And yeah, he's been Poofened.))

Boadicea walked down the dark hallway, holding a torch in front of her. She didn't think HQ had nights, but she wasn't sure. She stopped when she came to David's open door and looked inside.

“Maybe in HQ itself for starters. Maybe wotever did it is still there? ‘Cause I’m not takin’ a kid into any of the big Suefics.”

((Early Happy Birthday BBQ party and late Graduation party. I'll try and update when I can.))

((-kA))

It was a good day to be Captain Edward "Jolly" Sharpe of the Golden Gamble. It was always a good day to be a pirate, after all. Salt air on his face and treasure in his hold, his cutlass honed to a razor edge and his pistols sitting snug on their bandoliers, what more could a man possibly need? Most pirates plied waters, but Sharpe sailed the seven seas of canon, plundering those who would step in that nebulous space between. Many called them Sue, Stu, 'Oo, but Ol' Jolly Sharpe called them "easy plunderin'."

So Sharpe sat on his ship and watched his newest target, making sure to write on his Treasure Map all her misdeeds and where the gold was found - so that Port Authority wouldn't want his head or his hoard. So Sharpe laughed and sang sea shanties as he sailed behind that fishing ground for targets called Black Pearl, and so when it was time, he leapt up from an ambush (as all good pirates do) and emerged with his cutlass and pistol.

"Ay, scallywag! I'm Cap'n 'Jolly' Sharpe an' I'm 'ere to keelhaul ye on the followin' grounds: Seducin' Cap'n Jack Sparrow, gettin' yer timeframes for telecommunication mixed up, character assassination, an' not with a pistol, worse grammar errors than proper pirate speech, whackin' everyone's personality more adrift than William Bligh, makin' hills 'ave eyes and Liverpool smell like anythin' but rottin' fish, makin' a glittery version o' the Pearl, acquirin' a big bag o' shinies for me to take an' of course, fer bein' a no-good glitterbag. To Davy Jones's Locker with ya!"

Soon the deed was done and old Jolly Sharpe had a few new swords, a golden cannon, and an entire glittering ship for his collection. His old messenger pigeon crowed that there was a new target in the My Little Pony continuum, and Sharpe turned the wheel of his ship up and into the stream of consciousness once more, as the canon forgot all about his target behind him.

To be a Pirate of the Plot Continuum was the best job ever.

It's the PPC, but pirates. Why? It's fun.

Feel free to write your own Pirate!Agents.