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I have no idea if I ever actually talked to you before, but nevertheless, it's lovely to see you! Welcome back! Please help yourself to some Canon Cookies, too. There are plenty for everyone. {= D

~Neshomeh doesn't know what hS was talking about, either.

That's awesome! My partner (known as Phobos in these parts) did some escape-room GMing in the Before Times. His place had the very entertaining theme of time travel, so each room had a different setting in time, and the guests were cast as a team of junior Time Agents pulled together to cover for a senior Time Agent who had gone missing and to recover a piece of future tech or something that wasn't supposed to be there. Fun stuff. Of course, it helped that he had some prior experience with secret organizations that bop around keeping timelines in order, since I roped him into this for awhile. ^_^

(As for me, by day I'm a receptionist at an acupuncture clinic, and also by day I do some linguistic annotation to help teach AIs how to do words gooder. The PPC was very good training for that one!)

No small clones for us, but we like being the Cool Aunt and Uncle to his sister's kids. ^_^

Re. demographics, I joined when I was 18 (or nearly so) back in mid-2003. Pretty sure us 30-plus folks are stubborn, sentimental weirdos outliers and the norm is more like late high school/college-age, but it's been awhile since we did an actual survey, so don't quote me on that! I expect hS will be around with numbers on Board participation eventually, though. He does that.

There is also a Discord, as Midnight mentioned, but I don't know how many people are regularly active there, either. It IS regularly active in general, but I myself only pop in sometimes.

~Neshomeh

Wow talk about blasts from the past! So glad to see you around. I too am a serial lurker these days but check the Board every month or so. Elcalion, nostalgic

I think the general age of newbies is around 15/16/17 (you may guess away where I fit in there XD). I know there’s a bunch of people in their twenties, and, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong oldbies, a couple people in their thirties. There are currently 120-ish people in the Discord, but I’m not sure if all of them are active.

And yes, we did have an Internet Lawyer named Jocelyn! I certainly recall being friends with her on LJ!

Wow, Next Gen PPC for real... That is incredible, congratulations! =D Says a lot about you that you wouldn't start off on The Hobbit, but I respect that, I do.

Well, I spent my time getting knowledgeable about weird things? Studied a whole bunch, a little bit of language, a Bachelor's in archaeology. Then got almost entirely through a Masters in Librarian and Information Science (pretty close to assassin, really) before I got really into Escape Rooms while working at it part-time, so that is what I do now. I host and quite often design escape rooms. =D I am a very nice Game Master. Like, I don't torture people hardly ever. I still write, and recently I started to put up stuff on Ao3 that had just been sitting around on my computer not doing anything for a few years because I didn't feel like posting them on the Pit.

I will admit, if no one of the Old Guard had still been here I probably wouldn't have stopped by. Very different thing to re-introduce myself to people that didn't know me before, though I'm sure everyone is lovely! I am super curious about the new people, though, kind of want to know the demographic... Back when I signed up I was fifteen and that was like... fairly average for a newbie, I guess? And the older people (like Miss Cam) were in their early twenties and Very Cool Adults that I aspired to become. (Mission Accomplished. I am now Very Cool.) How many PPCers do we even have these days? Are there numbers? slams hands on desk Damn it, I want numbers!

Or /we've/ been good, I should say, because hS/Kaitlyn went official back in '08 and now we have two, like, tiny clones running around the house. Haven't started them on the PPC yet, but I have done a full oral retelling of the Silmarillion, so I'm getting the corruption in early.

I've also spent much of the intervening time as a chemist who only /occasionally/ sets things on fire, so the Pyro Department has been appropriately represented.

And how about you?! What's life like in Ekwyville when you can tear yourself away from fanfic? ^_~

hS

They put them down somewhere and forgot where. :-/

(Didn't we once have an actual Internet Lawyer? Jocelyn, right? I'm sure I remember that.)

hS

...and still have absolutely no idea why it was your fault. I think hS is on the verge of diving into archives to try to figure it out.

I mean you must have done something

Otherwise why would we say it

-Kaitlyn's arguments are unassailable

And I can prove it! Just look over there a minute.

[Legs it out the door]

Anyway hiiiiii! It's really good to see you too! I, er, didn't actually anticipate anyone on that thread actually seeing it. [Sheepish grin] Gods know what other time-bombs I've hidden in there. How've you been?

hS

Thanks! I am having Moment after Moment here. It is quite nice, and you should definitely take some credit here. =3

...Yeah I told her. We are having A DAY, aren't we, Moons? A DAY is being had.

I am sure that whatever it is that is all your fault was totally JUSTIFIED and you cannot be held responsible because you were under A LOT OF PRESSURE, and it was all totally someone else's fault REALLY, and I will defend you until the DAY I DIE, and their Internet Lawyers will have NO LEG TO STAND ON I tell you.

comes crashing through the window, glass flying everywhere, does a barrel roll across the floor

I HEARD U WERE TALKING SHIT

I just want it to be known that I have NEVER done anything wrong EVER in my LIFE and anything for which I have been UNJUSTLY BLAMED is a FALSE accusation about which my LAWYERS who are Very Real will be contacted IMMEDIATELY.

...wait who are all these babies and why is that sunflower giving me the stinkeye?

Glad you made it! Have some freshly baked Canon Cookies. ^_^

Ahhh, I love it when Boarders come home to visit, and I'm ridiculously pleased that my story helped this time. This thread is a joy to see. <3

~Neshomeh

I now have Allstar stuck in my head where it will remain until something else gets stuck :).

I cannot even BEGIN to describe the feeling of being told something I wrote sixteen years ago has been discovered and read and stuck in someone's head since then, and I have had absolutely no idea. Thank you so very much for telling me! ...I might need to reread that musical. I am not even sure I still have it rattling around on my computer anywhere. (I checked. I don't! YIKES.)

Ha! Of course I don't mind you using Sparklee! =D It's er, too colourful a place not to use, if I recall correctly. And should your voice ever return, I would absolutely love to hear the songs being sung. I would, um, record them myself, but it's... probably best if I don't. I know my limits.

I didn't join until after you left, but I've been a big fan ever since I discovered the PPC musical! It's by far one of the more cool and unique stories ever published for the PPC. I kept meaning to record myself singing some of the songs in it, but I've lost my singing voice as of late, so I don't anticipate being able to do so any time soon . . . But yeah, just wanted to say thank you for writing my favorite PPC story!

Incidentally, I used Sparklee as a brief background cameo at one point. Hope you don't mind! >.>

—doctorlit will probably have "Minutes in Sparklee" stuck in his head at work today

I don't really have any "good nights" because of how all-consuming work is.

I also have the complete series, so on the rare occasions I'm able to attend, I could take up the microphone if your voice ever needs a break.

—doctorlit thinks the choose-your-own-adventures would be a fun bonus once we get through the series, since we could vote on what paths to take

Oh my god, links to the Gathering Reports that work! I will BINGE READ and also regret basically all of my clothing choices, because tenage me was a hot mess. Still have that little owl plushie, too.

clicks link of disgusting sentimentality

scrolls down

immediately bursts into tears

No this is FINE, I am not ugly crying at ALL, this is TOTALLY FIIIIIIINE. I happen to still hang on the regular with PureDeadThingy and Newmoon, and they HAVE been told of this.

Of course I remember the Canon Nursery School! Even if reading my old fic makes me cringe a bit, I was pretty fond of that one. I, um, noticed that Neshomeh had tagged her fic with PPC Nursery and I was all "...hey wait a minute" and I commented and she linked your Agent Kaitlyn story and I read it and almost FELL OFF MY CHAIR when I saw Gecka's name (she is my sister in real life and has zero interest in fanfic, but she was okay with being borrowed for story reasons and would for sure get a kick out of this). Anyway, Neshomeh was like "you should drop by and say hi!" and that is why I am actually, you know, doing that.

...So how've you been? =D

Well, I had Agent Ekwy Fields, her partner Milano Cricket, and their trainee Nea Forrest, who eventually passed her training and got her partner, a former 'Stu named Loki. And technically I also had Gecka Fields, Ekwy's sister who she was paired with before Milano, in the Cats fandom, but she went insane and is for sure no longer active. (She didn't really go on REAL missions either, the stories I wrote with her and Ekwy were all based on parody badfics that I made up to be able to post them on FF.net.)

Thanks for the virtual chocolate! They don't make it like this anywhere else on the Internet.

It's seriously great to see you again. :D I still think of the first London Gatherings as the classic Gatherings (do you remember the reports? :D); those were good times. I really like your thoughts on fanfic here - I've kind of drifted away from it myself, but you kiiinda make me wanna drift back.

I should probably mention that I took your name in vain a couple years back when the old Board closed down - I'm disgustingly sentimental and nostalgic, so you can find your name on my memorial of the final day.

Oh! And I used the Canon Nursery School (remember that?). Miss Lily was Agent Kaitlyn's teacher when she was 8, and I think Agent Ekwy's sister cameos as well. You're not just archived - you're very fondly remembered.

:D Made my week, this has.

hS

Have some virtual chocolate! (Just out of curiosity, who were your agents?)