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What does the Rubin Vase represent in order for it to be connected to The Improbable AUs Department, anyway? I can understand the other two choices (the lightning and the broken mirror), but I'm just wondering about the vase.
(No offense to anyone).

Now that your agents are good to go, just get prepared for what your agents may find (whenever harmless, deadly, or just annoying little things that's usually encountered in badfics) during their missions in killing those same badfics, okay?

I already knew you could write, and I like your agents. {= ) This is the first time I've seen anyone make practical use of New Caledonia since it started existing. Kudos.

So, if Jenka is not a zombie anymore, but still a stitched-together dead thing, that makes him a flesh golem, right?

Only one thing: you don't have to capitalize every PPC-related term. Console, agent, and response center are all just fine in lowercase unless they're part of a title at the time. (Flowers just get capitalized to distinguish them from the non-sentient kind.) {= )

Go forth and write!

~Neshomeh

P.S. On an entirely unrelated note, were you planning to get back to our thread at St. Dymphna's? Or, as an alternative, what about making up for lost time and hashing out some plot via chat or e-mail when you get a chance? I feel like that thread was dragging anyway, but there is much potential for shenanigans and whatnot otherwise, and I'd hate to let it slide completely.

They seem like a fun pair and I look forward to their first mission.

I probably shouldn't be as nervous as I am... Right, then! Writing sample first! Then, here are my Agents!

Name: Connie "Chalk" Girard
Species: Human
Age: 17
Home Continuum: Real World
Department: Bad Slash
Fandoms: Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls, Harry Potter, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil, and some others.
Skills: Speed, strategy, and an endless amount of enthusiasm.
Anti-skills: Wow, is she bad at aiming that tranquilizer gun.
Weapons: Stolen tranquilizer gun from the MGS continuum.
Appearance: Chalk is tiny wisp of a girl. She's barely five feet tall, and appears smaller thanks to Jenka's bulk. Her forearms are an ever-changing mass of ballpoint-pen tattoos, and are usually bare. She keeps her blonde hair in a ponytail when it's not stuffed through the back of a cap.
Personality: Chalk is a never-ending fountain of energy. She loves musicals, and frequently bursts into whichever song she feels is appropriate for the time. She also has a very bad case of both sticky fingers and pacifism, the latter of which will result in her getting a bad shock when she runs into her first Replacement-Sue.
Backstory: Born in America to French and English parents, she moved to New Caledonia when she was eight. She immediately joined the PPC once her parents thought she was old enough to handle it.

Name: "Jenka"
Species: Ex-zombie
Age: Unknown, mid-twenties
Home Continuum: Unknown
Department: Bad Slash
Fandoms: Harry Potter, Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead.
Skills: Raw power, able to take large amounts of damage without dying.
Anti-skills: He has almost no natural healing skills, and thus needs to manually stitch himself up after being wounded.
Weapons: Fingernails and teeth. He cannot spread zombie-ism anymore, so no worries there.
Appearance: Jenka is, technically being dead and all, rather greyish-green and stitched up. His specific appearance is still stabilizing, and pretty much the only thing that stays constant is his hair and eyes (both brown, the former short). He is tall and bulky, but how tall and how bulky fluctuates. His current clothes are a pair of shorts modified from one of Chalk's skirts, and one of Chalk's uniform jackets worn with the arms tied around his neck.
Personality: Jenka is rather blunt. He doesn't share any of Chalk's enthusiasm, and occasionally finds her annoying. Even so, he sees himself as a bodyguard for her. He does whatever is necessary to get the job done and keep her safe, whether that includes taking away whatever she steals or kicking a bit character off a bridge. In his free time, he looks up zombies in a futile attempt to determine his home continuum.
Backstory: Jenka was a random zombie in a badfic whose sole purpose was to bite the main character and then "vanish." When he did the latter, he ended up roaming the halls of Headquarters. He ran across Chalk one day when she was fresh out of training, and she promptly shot him and the walls full of tranquilizer when he tried to attack her. He woke up in Medical minus the urge to eat people and plus an actual mind. After a personality transplant, he was immediately partnered with Chalk and shooed away.

Especially those long up and downy scales. Eek.

Just to avoid any alarm, I've been restructuring my PPC site today, so if you have any of my hub pages (RC #999, #1110, FicPsych, etc.) bookmarked, you may want to update your bookmarks. The main page URL is still the same, and I believe I fixed all the links on the site and the wiki, so you should be able to find everything you need that way. If anything is broken, or you can't find the URL you need, please let me know.

Thanks!

~Neshomeh

Seeing as the voting is stuck at three (and I never officially cast my vote), I am going to break the tie and make the Rubin vase the flash patch design of the Department of Improbable AUs.*

If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to let me know.

*Because that's my idea and I'm awful like that.

Hey, you only asked a question... my first time on board I wrote 8 or so threads and everyone yelled at the same time to stop spamming.

Takes a few corrections to get it right, that's all.

...but remember: point laser AWAY from civilian/partner's eyes and TOWARDS MarySue/Character Replacement eyes and you'll do just fine.

'Insane' is such a nice, clean, understandable, funny, and leave-it-alone type of excuse for any quirk, oddity, or weird behavior. That's why I (and possibly other PPC writers) like to use it so often.
For example:
*Watch as the insane Boarders veer off on a tangent that has nothing to do with either turtles or newbies...*

Great! I just hate it when promising stories are left dangling.

By all means, finish your homework first. You'll feel easier when it's done, and this will help you enjoy the RP more. 'Sides, it gives me time to watch my 'Night of the Living Dead'-tape again. It's been years...

Post me when you're finished, mmmmkay?

SttQ

My Agents (Whatever, Krisprolls and South) did it many times. As ships. They could explain things to yours (yes, I gave you a sentient one).

Sorry, I've been crazy busy with two D&D campaigns this weekend. I'm definitely interested in carrying on if you still are, but I may not be able to for a couple of days - I've a lot of homework due.

(And yes indeed :P)

See you!

Have a sonic screwdriver and a bag of jelly babies, please use responsibly!

About the canon I think I know it quite well, so there shouldn't be problems there.

But I am Italian, so I'm sure there are some grammar errors somewhere.

When you get permission to take these on, have you thought about what your agent(s) will be like?

It's definitely a more intelligent response than what I was going to say.

... but Card Captor Sakura is not my thing. So if you want typo help and that sort of thing, see my beta contact info, but if not... sorry. Also check the beta pool in the wiki and send out a few messages to the most fitting ones.

Have a box of assorted chocolates.