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1. If we're talking about the game system, and by "big enough reputation" you mean the game stat that deals with notoriety, it's no issue. It's not actually canon unless it gets published in a source book or an officially affiliated novel, comic, etc.; everything that happens in people's games (or fanfic, by extension) can be considered AU. (Perfectly valid AU, in fact--but still not canon.) So, essentially, you can do what you like provided you have a decent explanation for it.
   
   On the other hand, if your fanfic is just so popular that you're worried real people will recognize the character, that's different, and you'll have to decide for yourself whether you want to go there or not.
   
   2. As others have mentioned, it does happen sometimes, but usually the sheer amount of paperwork required is prohibitive. This applies to vacations in general. An agent has to be really bloody persistent, and possibly carrying a flamethrower, to make it happen.
   
   3. Calista mentioned Vemi and Penny as a particularly clever example. They had the force of canon behind them; my memory is that the others had something to bargain with, too. Not everyone can find bargaining chips of sufficient worth, though.
   
   4. Doesn't he have a hat? He could attach it to the hat, maybe by means of a hatband.
   
   ~Neshomeh

1. Your canon, your decision, right? But if you want to dissociate yourself as the canon's author from yourself as the author of the PPC missions, you could always have some kind of tech malfunction that duplicated the canon, or recruit him from an alternate universe. One possibility is to recruit him from a badfic where the author has consistently spelled the possessive without an apostrophe, effectively turning a singular into a plural so repeatedly as to duplicate the canon. The extra canon could be recruited (and would probably have a species of "Living Typo".)Canons have been also been recruited to the PPC post-mortem; Team Phoenix is made up entirely of supposedly-dead canons.
   
   2. Yes, occasionally, especially if they're so stressed out that Medical (or FicPsych) says that one more mission will snap them entirely. Other occasions I remember have been honeymoons, graduations, and family illness; and a few agents have taken time off to attend an OFU or a World One university. Younger agents are more likely to get permission to visit home, and often discover that very little time has passed since they left. (OFU time works similarly.)
   
   3. Yes. One pair of assassins I remember became Discworld assassins (as in, the Assassins' Guild), and hired themselves out to the PPC to do their old jobs. Very clever of them, too, I think.
   
   4. You could try a jacket like the one worn by service dogs. Google it if you don't know what I'm talking about; they're quite rugged and will stay on reliably.

I don't think she'll be able to publish an anthology her first time. But short stories are easier to publish than novels. She should look around to see who is trying to create a collection of stories and then which ones she could submit one of her stories to. My guess is that publishing a whole anthology would be like publishing a novel, but in all my searches of agent queries lately, I haven't seen one query or one bit of advice about this.

*drinks* Why do I feel like I'm gonna regret that?

Ugh, pukey looking Shunflowersh. Not good. Extremely very not good. *hic*

Shop? Ha! You finds shop, you is veeeeery lucky!

There's something in the guidelines about us all being aspiring writers, so we need to respect each other, and the PPC isn't entirely respectful. Most people use LJ or their own site.

Wrong side of the Atlantic sadly. I look forwards to seeing the photos.

1)Don't really know.

2)If they take a while off and leave all equipment behind then yes.

3) Some people, on rare occasions have.

4) Some kind of collar or an armband.

So, due to how the story I'm currently writing is turning out, and a few things I've recently discovered regarding a character I was planning on using as an Agent once I got permission, I've got a couple of questions about the PPC.

1) Are there any rules regarding the recruitment of canons you've created? Because, you see, Shadowrun's canon is kind of odd, and it seems like the character who is my maincharacter in the fanfiction I write has become canon by virtue of having a big enough reputation, which could be problematic, given that I was planning on turning him into an agent.

2) Do the agents ever get time off to visit home?

3) Has anyone ever managed to wrangle a paycheck out of the Flowers?

4) How would one go about putting a flash patch on a panda?

I'm sure there will be more questions later, I just can't think of them right now.

I'll probably be early, but who knows. I'll be the girl with the large lime green purse and manic grin. :D I look forward to meeting you all.

Christy's my RL name, but you're more than welcome to call me Chris if you like. ^^

I'm taking the Sounder down from Mukilteo, and then catching the bus over. Thank goodness for the ORCA pass, is all I'm sayin'.

I'm coming in by rail - Light Rail from Tukwila to downtown, and then the Monorail into Seattle Center proper. It'll be fun.

I'll be either wearing a plain black T-shirt, or a PPC Uniformish Black T-Shirt, depending on whether I get around to stenciling it before the departure.

Anyway, yeah! See you all there! Looking forward to it!

--VM

(Patience is my RL name, just so y'all know. I'll answer to VM, but I'll answer much quicker to the RL-- and no, there's no way of shortening it non-awkwardly. Believe me, I've tried.)

Not sure what I'll be wearing, but I'll probably be the first one there, as well as carrying a sign. I'm bringing a friend, but don't worry, he knows what's going on and is perfectly fine with geeking out with us. ^^

To quote the excellent Pretzel:

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The date of the Gathering will be on Tuesday, August Third. We'll be meeting at the International Fountain at the Seattle Center around 10:30/11 ish in the morning. As far as I know, this date/time works for everyone. if it doesn't, please post in this thread.

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I'll see you all there! I'll be wearing tan shorts and a bright red T-shirt. Hopefully, I'll be unmissable. And remember, bring cameras!

-Dann

If their flashpatch is a three eyed rubber ducky or a pink balloon animal, the biker gangs might not take them too seriously. ;)

She had heard about us, but couldn't find any stories in which the Sues die horrible deaths--on the scale of being dropped into Mount Doom, say? That... strikes me as a little inconsistent. She can't have been looking very hard. O.o

~Neshomeh, confused (but glad the disclaimer will be there).

Give her some actual classical music or break out into some glass shattering opera and she won't be around for long. Modern pop music has nothing on anything before 1900.

But I agree. A Mary-Sue would most likely just....lip-synch or something equally as atrocious.

One of the spin-offs was called that, but it has been used more than once to refer to agents in the DMS. So, assuming that's where your agents work, it seems fitting. Also, seconding what Calista said about flash patch logo as back patch. {= )

~Neshomeh

Realism? A:TLA is anime-style (even though it's a Western cartoon).

A motorcycle gang, what would their name be?
It's a serious question, before you ask. My two agents are being tossed head-first into a Sons of Anarchy story (great show, but oh my god, the Sueage in the fics). They're being disguised as a motorcycle club (they might just end up being SOA members...), and I have no idea what the back patch on their jackets/vests would be.
Any ideas?
Oh--here's the fic that I'm killing: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6146311/1/YouretheOnlyOne
(Author's summary) Aurora Scrymgeour is the first and only female member of the Sons of Anarchy. She became president after her father's sudden death, and has to deal with the criticism and advances of the other presidents and members. Can she handle it all?
(My comments) Kill the dirty name thief! And: No female full-patch members. Period. Outlaw motorcycle clubs don't accept women as full patch members. EV-AR. Well, Hell's Angels have (had) at least one, maybe three, full-patch member who were women (but that was in the 50s, no further reports after that, so...).
-HonuWahine

Some people still post them. That is how I found the PPC. Indemaat had stories posted in NCIS, and I followed the links back to the PPC. That series has been on FFnet since the beginning of January. I am guessing that removal of PPC stories is seen to about as promptly as removal of trollfics.