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I'm pretty sure in past years I've been shipped with the Wiki, and I know I've been shipped with the Board. Glad to finally "round out the trifecta" ifyouknowwhatImean.

hS

Name: Rebecca Buch

Gender: female

species: human

preferred weapon: bow and arrows

reason why she's here: she is not sure how she got here, and now this seems to be a nightmare coming true.

"Well, I have to say, it's wonderful having a good spectacle!" A long, confusing looking creature said. Although serpentine, he had the hand of a human at the end of its tail, and it was wearing a headset with a large microphone and camera dangling off of it. He was sitting next to an equally strange humanoid creature, a grey, clay-like entity with a massive yellow cybernetic eye and no discernable facial features.

The grey thing laughed, "well, it's always good to get stuck in again," he said, waving a hand, "you'd be surprised how few good fights you get out on Missions."

"Mind stating your name, RC, canon of origin, and preferred weapons to the crowd?" The snake asked.

"Sure thing, uh, Sarkan. I'm Agent Noman. First name Agent, last name Noman, of SOM167168. I'm here from the AAHW, and Madness Combat," Noman said, "and, while I can use pretty much anything as a weapon, my favorite thing to use is an ax. Or a submachine gun. Or a nuke, but I don't think we have any of those sitting around."

"You'd be surprised!"

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COMBATANT

NAME: AGENT NOMAN

SPECIES: NEVADEAN

HOME CANON: MADNESS COMBAT

PREFERRED WEAPON: AXES OR AUTOMATIC FIREARMS

GENDER: MALE

COMBAT STYLE: HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE

PICTURE: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/madnesscombat/images/3/3e/OBSV_basic.png/revision/latest?cb=20130420224230

INTERVIEWER

NAME: SARKAN

SPECIES: SNAKE PERSON

HOME CANON: ALL TOMORROWS - A BILLION YEAR CHRONICLE OF THE MYRIAD SPECIES AND VARYING FORTUNES OF MAN

PREFERRED WEAPON: N/A

GENDER: MALE

COMBAT STYLE: N/A, INTERVIEWER

PICTURE: (Probably not him): https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/9/93/SnakePeopleAll_Tomorrows.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171020135405

I wouldn't mind having furry ears, actually.

doctorlit/Bilbo Baggins

doctorlit/Frodo Baggins

Bonding over books and tea.

doctorlit/Gandalf

Also bonding over books and tea.

doctorlit/Neshomeh

hanging out being absolute book geeks

Probably the 4th doctor, because the both have doctor in their alias!

-kA, who is just throwing things together at this point

although which catgirl is the question.

-kA, who is bored in class because everyone is watching basketball and they don't like basketball

No, the clear choice is Kittyauthor/Twipire, because Re-bel-ion! /j

It is kinda funny though. I live in a town that is over coal mines. We deal with mine subsidence at times. The former high school building is former because of said issue.

-kA, who made a joke nobody would get but whatever

Eledhwen noticed that the canon kept getting repeated over and over when she was a side character, which suggests (at least in my version of events) that the major players have no idea what's happening and just keep repeating their actions, but side characters can have more autonomy. But that metacognition led to her getting captured by Factory Sues, so...

But I think recently I've fallen more on the side of Word Worlds having some degree of separation from the canon, since fics getting deleted doesn't mean the canon itself is deleted, but that specific Word World still ceases to exist. Maybe a superimposition theory?

The Protectors of the Plot Continuum are a bunch of trigger-happy maniacs.

This one's "are" not "is" in American English, too, because "Protectors". ;P

The miner may be another PPCer covered in coal dust and wearing a hard hat.

hS

Huh. Interesting mission! I've never heard of Pusheen, and based on this mission, I wouldn't have thought it would have enough canon to it to work as a mission. But by focusing on the disparity in tone between the canon and the fic (as well as all the nicked gifs), I think you made it work!

I'm also amused by how hilariously opposite the personalities of Urato and Inasuke have grown! Urato being so hyper-masculine, and Inasuke enjoying cutesy stuff . . . they really make a great pair! By which I mean, "great to read about," not "they're going to get along so well!" : )

—doctorlit

Taking the Council as the example, the PPC has to stay on top of things. We have to keep killing the badfics, because if we let them stick around, poor Elrond will indeed be swamped with Suvians. Once they're dead, they never happened, so the problem is solved!

... yeah, it's not an idea that holds together overly well. I seem to recall Suedom takes the route that the canon is looping - that Lord of the Rings runs from the Long-Expected Party (or maybe the departure from Bag-End) to the sailing of the White Ship, then resets and repeats. Or maybe each location loops, so Rivendell is an endless cycle of Councils of Elrond, with nothing actually existing outside that. If a Suvian injects herself into the Council, then she's part of the loop now - she'll repeat until an outside agency (the PPC) comes in and removes her. If we don't do so before another Suvian tries to enter the same scene, they'll meet each other and we'll all be in trouble.

It's a theory. It explains the observed data about as well as the many-universes theory, especially if you add some caveat that a PPC mission extends the loop until the agents leave (somehow? Maybe in a literal, fourth-wall breaking "because the mission is a story too" way). I don't particularly like it, because it makes the canons into puppets just acting out their creators' words endlessly - but it also means the PPC are fighting against a concrete threat wherein a Suvian is literally affecting the main canon, and has to be stopped before she loops and everyone notices. The current 'slight destabilising effect' is a bit less urgent.

Since Suedom was never finished, we could even argue that the unseen, unexplained Bridge in that story is where things changed - before that, the canons were just endlessly repeating loops, but the Bridge made them into something new - worlds of their own.

hS

Name: David Null

Gender: male

Species: Vampire

Preferred Weapon: Dagger

Reason why he's here: "I was forced to by my trainee because" turns towards the side "he's a coward!"

Matt, shouting from the background: "Am not!"

David: "Then submit yourself!"

Matt: "Then I'll die!"

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Name: O'Ryan Keys

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Preferred Weapon: Scythe

Reason why he's here: No comment.

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Name: Matthew

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Preferred Weapon: "Guess I'll find out."

Reason why he's here: a bit of grumbling

Paye: "Hey! It'll be fun!"

Matt: "Being murdered is fun?!"

Paye: "Well, you have to be able to take what you dish out, anyways!"

abrupt cut to black

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Yeah, Matt is the type to be a coward when it comes to being murdered for somewhat obvious reasons.

It'd be funny if David kills Matt or visa versa.

-kA

Huinesoron/Discord

Huinesoron is quite famously the only major Boarder not to use our community server on Discord. This is clearly because of the torrid yearning Huinesoron feels for Discord as a piece of software. Truly, their love can never be, for one is a married man and the other is a pile of code held together by baling wire and hope.

See this for an example of a previous season.

In this experimental sixth season, we’ll see 24 (or 48, depending on interest) characters simulate a PPC-style Hunger Games, made possible through Holodeck technology and being broadcasted live on Nutmeg TV!

But in order to make this work, we’re going to need some competitors. So!

Each Boarder can enter anywhere from one to four Agents into the event. Permission is not needed, though it would be convenient. If you want to enter some folks, you can go ahead and reply to this post with sign-up entries for the characters you're submitting.

The entries can contain a bit of the following: name, gender, maybe species, preferred weapon, stuff like that (This is solely for flavor, so don’t worry about it too much).

In addition, if you want, it’d be nice to have a little snippet from your characters. Like an interview! There’ll be a chance to write one of these after each day in the arena, plus one for when they’re signing up, to help the audience understand the characters and their mindsets a bit better. Maybe they can say why they’re competing, or what they want to do there, or something of that likeness.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them, and may the odds ever be in your favor!

Male pronouns, you can see me slightly de-aged on my wiki profile.

(Weird to see me wearing a watch, my current one lost the straps so I just keep it in my pocket. Which is actually incredibly convenient, because it can't get caught on stuff at work and slow down my work speed!)

—doctorlit

I'm pretty face-blind, and don't tend to notice details of people's appearance. Hair and eyes are fairly easy for me, since they're both colored, and hair can have shapes and texture. But like, noses? Mouths? A mouth is just mouth-shaped.

Much easier to describe places and things! Because I am a rampant materialist!

—doctorlit is also maybe kind of intimidated by people and maybe tries to avoid looking people in the eyes because people scary though

I wasn't altogether sure about the timing, since I didn't want to take attention from/be overshadowed by the Shipfest sign up thread, but... i guess I can try it, to see what happens. I honestly think I'm just worrying too much about it

I'll get the sign-up thread bit up soon!

-OrangeFox on mobile

On the one hand, that could make for some really cool, complex co-writes with a lot of working parts!

But it gets a little weird for certain big fandoms. Like, even if we said that all the existing Tolkienverse missions are the only ones to ever exist, that still means the Council of Elrond is going to have probably ~25-30 Suvians all crashing the party at once, with roughly twice as many agents eavesdropping on said Council, in addition to Samwise, Merry and Pippin, who need to be left enough space to also eavesdrop on the Council without noticing any of the agents. That's getting to be one crowded terrace!

And over in the Wizarding World, no one can actually get through the wall to Platform 9 and 3/4, because there are just SO many muggles dressed in black loitering around the train station . . . And the house elves of Hogwarts can't understand how the Great Hall ran out of food! There should have been plenty for everyone . . .

—doctorlit, taking things to their illogical conclusions

The general rule is that American English treats organisations as singular, while British English treats them as plural.

In slightly more detail, the BBC says that it depends on whether you're talking about the group as a unit (singular), or as a number of individuals (plural). So:

• The PPC (individual agents) are coming to get you.
• The PPC (organisation) is run by the Flowers.
• The Protectors of the Plot Continuum are a bunch of trigger-happy maniacs.
• The Protectors of the Plot Continuum is the creation of Jay and Acacia.

But J&A themselves could have said 'are' in that last one, because they'd be talking about their own agents, not necessarily the organisation as a whole.

(But in American English, all of those would probably be 'is'.)

hS

Because I am thinking about throwing a certain grumpy vampire into the mix.

-kA, who just realized that they need to update said vampire's wiki page. Oops.

I see where you're coming from with this. The PPC is, technically, a group of many people/creatures, but I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong, anybody) the rule for most groups is to treat it as one thing.

For example, we wouldn't say "The Bad Pay organization are against...", we'd say "The Bad Pay organization is against..."

If PPC wasn't in acronym form, then I could see it going either "The Protectors of the Plot Continuum belong to Jay and Acacia." OR "The Protectors of the Plot Continuum belongs to Jay and Acacia." But, since it is an acronym, then it would be treated as singular, I think.

(And then there's the whole discussion of whether each memeber is acting individually or not. In the former, it is plural. But that's a whole 'nother discussion.)

-kA, who nearly wrote "The Agents Against Bad Pay" and wonders how long it would've stayed up, if that was the case.