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Yes! I have the exact same level of salt mine with Jekyll and Hyde! I mean, the musical adaptation wasn't THAT bad, but it got so many things wrong that it's just not very enjoyable for me!

I'm sure I'll enjoy them, I love over the top stuff since I'm a bit of a theater kid. I always appreciate a bit of scenery chewing.

Or maybe that's just cause I come from the Circle of Lemmings.

Actually, the original Phantom novel is a pretty solid work of Gothic literature with some absolutely amazing imagery (ghosts playing the violin in snow-covered graveyards, that scene gets me every time). The musical is also good, but I've got an entire salt mine about the way it overshadowed the book. The novel is also a bit over-the-top in places, but if you're able to view it as an opera in book form, it's actually a real thrill to read. If you do check it out, I hope you'll enjoy it, and the same goes for the Hound. :)

Yes I would love to screech with you. I've been wanting to check out Phantom of the Opera but I could only assume by the Phantom simps out there that it's been utterly destroyed. Let's screech together.

I first read Poe work last year in English class, we read Tell-Tale Heart fo our short stories unit and loved it.

Thank you for the book recommendation! I can't wait to expand my library! Glod knows I need it... :D

Hey, a fellow Gothic lit fan! Nice to find someone else who's interested in that kind of stuff. I literally grew up with Edgar Allan Poe stories (been reading him since I was, like, 13), but yeah, Dracula is also amazing. And Northanger Abbey is the greatest Gothic novel ever written. :P Also Phantom of the Opera is a huuuge favorite of mine, right from my childhood (I super wasn't supposed to read Gothic lit when I was ten, but I never let that stop me). If you don't mind me screeching about what has been done to the Phantom in pop culture while you screech about Hyde, I think we'll get along.

Also re: what you said to Lily about Sherlock Holmes, I actually think you'd like Hound of the Baskervilles if you haven't read it yet. No spoilers, but it's actually pretty darn scary for a detective novel. Borderline Gothic literature, I'd say.

My LOTR hobbit love and Sherlock Holmes obsession have fused to create this. 10/10, amazing, waiting on the edge of my seat for the next chapter :DD

I’m more active on the Discord than here, but I pop in from time to time. Have a rainbow trout, since I’m listening to Far Cry music right now.

I also like Edgar Allen Poe, which reminds me that I've hardly read anything written by him besides The Raven and The Telltale Heart.

-Claire

Good to meetcha! I saw you like Warriors, I also have very fond memories of those books. I had OC cats, OC clans, the whole thing.

Surprisingly, I have yet to read Sherlock Holmes. I dunno, I was always drawn more to the gothic stuff than typical mystery. That doesn't mean I don't like it at all! There are some mysteries I do like, but, well, I typically like the creepy things more. Also thank you for the graduated cylinder, yes I do have lemming repellent because the Sues get WILD over there when it comes to what they do.

I actually read through the Killed Badfic list last night! I'm still surprised at what I saw... reading through the mission regarding that one Death Note ripoff (y'know, the wish granting book) made me wish Bleeprin was real (in a good way)-

For reasons I did not understand, we left our ponies with the Shirriff and made the trip to Newbury on foot. It was a pleasant enough stroll, and by the maps I had back home I knew it to be less than three leagues all told, but we could have ridden to the Starry Wain in less than an hour.

But Hemlock Holmes would have none of it; and furthermore she refused to keep to the road. Before we had gone a mile she had me climbing fences and pushing through fields of corn, cabbages, and carrots, and the High Hay was looming close on our left.

"Miss Holmes!" I stumbled over a ploughed furrow, caught myself and hastened after her. "Should we not return to the path? Even if anyone came this way, we could hardly find trace of them in these fields!"

"Traces?" Hemlock barely glanced at me. "We are not looking for footprints, Whitson; I already told you where the killer came from! But why - ah, that is the crucial question." She stopped suddenly and pointed at the Hedge. "There! Do you see?"

I stumbled up alongside her and peered at the wall of greenery. "There does seem to be something hanging there," I said uncertainly. "It catches the light, but I cannot make out its shape."

"It is a spoon," Hemlock told me, though she could have no better view than I. "A ladle, I should hazard; and quite likely unused, if you can imagine such a thing."

"I am having difficulty doing so," I confessed. I had rushed out of my hole after only one breakfast, and had since eaten only a hurried elevenses at the Floating Log. I had been looking forward to a leisurely lunch at the Bridge Inn, but Hemlock's haste had put paid to that plan, and my stomach was protesting the lack.

Perhaps Hemlock heard its grumblings, for she smiled kindly across at me. "I believe we can return to the road now," she said, and glanced up at the midday sun. "If we cut through the mushroom grove over there, we will come upon the track right by the fork - and that will place us less than an hour from Newbury."

As usual, my friend was entirely correct. Half an hour later, we pushed through a small copse of fruit trees and found ourselves facing a signpost. The three wooden hands pointed north to the Bridge, west to Bucklebury, and east to our destination. Hemlock nodded in satisfaction, and was about to take the third way when I caught her hand.

"Look!" I exclaimed, pointing at the grassy verge beneath the post. "Another spoon!"

"Excellent eye," Hemlock said, stooping to collect the ladle. It seemed entirely unremarkable to me, other than its unusual location, but she turned it in her hands as if fascinated. "Yes, just as I thought," she murmured. "Miss Whitson, see if you can turn up any more of these."

I frowned down at the grass, and caught another flash of sunlight on metal. "Yes, here is a second - and a third, down by the post…"

"If you will address yourself to the question," Hemlock said, tucking her own spoon into her pack, "I think you will find there to be seven in total."

A quick rummage through the grass brought my count to five, and when I spotted a sixth ladle leaning against the back of the sign I knew the great detector had done it again. "How in all the Shire did you know?" I asked her, straightening up.

"I should have thought it was obvious," Hemlock said with a slight smile. "Come, Whitson - I am certain now that our quarry awaits us at the sign of the Starry Wain."

"The Sign of (the) Four" being the second Sherlock Holmes novel. I'm not doing all four novel titles, mainly because I can't make "The Valley of Fear" relevant (though "The Valley of Fëar" is a funny option).

The story as a whole is now A Scandal in Buckland, and the next chapter will be The Hound of the Brandybucks.

hS

I'm Kittyauthor! It's nice to meet you! Here's a can of sillystring!

Welcome to the Board! I would give you lemming repellent, but you come from the Circle, so I assume you already have some. In which case, please have a graduated cylinder!

I note you like Victorian literature. I think... Agents Kelok and Unger tackled some ACD!Sherlock Holmes. My agents handled BBC Sherlock mission back in the day when the show was still considered good. So I'd definitely recommend the TOS and then maybe just... checking the Killed Badfic section of the Wiki to see if any of your fandoms have missions?

Again, hi!

*At least in the mature Legendarium. If you go back to the earliest versions of the story, you find things like Rog and the House of the Hammer of Wrath killing them in job lots. Admittedly they also die in the attempt, but it's a different view of Balrogs to the final version which takes down Gandalf.

hS

I have plans. I just read one spinoff regarding a Kirby Sue and went hysterical when Agent Backslash screamed about the awful nicknames the Suethor gave Meta Knight.

As for my fandoms, I'm in the Kirby fandom as one of my mainstream fandoms. In terms of other fandoms, when it comes to other mainstream stuff, I like Danganronpa, and used to be a huge fan of Warrior Cats back in the day, still kinda enjoy it. In terms of the more obscure stuff, I enjoy Trauma Center, Slime Rancher, and Madness Combat. I have a habit of finding very niche things.

Oh, also I'm a huge fan of Victorian Gothic literature. I'm talking Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, that kinda stuff. I LOVE that stuff and need to ramble about it.

...ok maybe i just need to ramble about jekyll and hyde and also scream because of the sheer amount of hyde fangirls i've seen-

Hi! Nice to meet you, Kat. I'm Oculus (just Oc to friends), your friendly neighbourhood peddler of terrible literature and scary stories. For your newbie gift, have a lucky penny!

And for the record, generally speaking you can read spinoffs for fandoms you're not in, because my experience is that PPC authors are good at making their missions easy to follow even for those who are in different fandom circles. I read The Original Series without knowing much about Lord of the Rings, and it was so fun I decided to check out the Board. Three years later, here I am. Reading The Original Series is a good way to get some context about how this setting works. The PPC's methods have changed a lot throughout the years ("no comments about authors during a mission or a sporking" and "no RPF missions" are two important rules we've agreed on since then), but that series is still the foundation it's built on. So I'm not saying "read it or else", but you might still find it fun even if you're not really into LotR.

Anyway, yeah, glad to have you here! What fandoms are you in?

Hello there! I'm RippleStarShards, but I mainly go by Kat, so please refer to me as any variation of that. I'm still relatively new to the PPC, and am really excited to join. I haven't read the Original Series or any spinoff yet, mainly because I'm still trying to find a fandom I'm in or used to be in that has sporked fics. I HAVE read the Constitution though, so if I break a rule, just assume I either missed it somehow or skimmed it due to being sleep deprived.

I also happen to inhabit the Circle of Lemmings, and can provide a healthy amount of badfics from it, as well as Sues to slay. I happened upon the PPC while browsing TVTropes, and after reading a bit of the Wiki and going hysterical over the incident involving Agent Len (may he rest in pieces), I decided to join the community! If there's anything else I should do, please direct me to it because I'm sleep deprived and pants with directions. :D

Honestly, threads like these tend to die out naturally, so it isn't too much of a fuss. The enthusiasm for this has (mostly) seemed to die down anyways, but I'm glad it got this far to begin with, really, and we were close to the end anyways. But thanks for participating, at least! Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, and who knows? Might try this again next year.

-OrangeFox

I guess there's the option of asking for the RP to be pushed a bit higher up again, we did that once with the Wicked+Divine thing last year. I guess if people are still interested in continuing, I can always ping whoever's next. So I guess I'll see if said interest is still there?

-OrangeFox

In which the only way I could get myself unstuck from writing a chapter that didn't want to be written was to bring in a new plot thread. I regret nothing.

Check it out here. Content warnings: swearing, a mention of drowning, and while this chapter isn't a particularly Blacklist-heavy one, I actually managed to scare myself while writing it, so yeah. Make of that what you will. Comments are welcome as always, although frankly, I'm considering only sharing new chapters on Discord from now on. That's not me being passive-aggressive or guilt-tripping, for the record, I'm aware that I can't demand anyone's time or attention for a project written for a genre that's not everyone's cup of coffee. But to be met with complete and utter silence is... Well, it's suggesting that this isn't necessarily something folks here are interested in, so it might be better not to start another thread when this one drops off the first Board page.

I don't know. If you do check this out, I hope you'll enjoy it. I wouldn't be working on this story if I didn't love doing that.

Oh dear, what are we gonna do? Is this year's RP just going to stay unfinished?

I only recall Glorfindel, Ecthelion, Gandalf.