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Would you like to have your agents make an appearance in a zombie apocalypse Sherlock Holmes 2009 slash badfic?

This one is a rather Implausible AU, with lots of bioinfected fast zombies out for blood.

I know your characters are specializing in Star Wars, but I thought they might like to kill some AU zombies in their spare time.



Oh, speaking of Star Wars! There is this series of stories that is downright terrible. The last one in the series sends these same characters to the Sherlock Holmes continuum. Would you be interested (sometime in the future, like after this month) in teaming up to take these all out at the same time? I don't know enough about Clone Wars era Star Wars to handle the first three in the series.

This is the first in the series.
World Guardians the warrior

Sorry about that. I know you were only trying to help.

Hello! Nice to meet you. I'm almost the person you're hoping to someday meet, as I love The Next Generation and did read some of the Starfleet Academy books... but for Voyager, not TNG. Sorry. But close!

Anyway, good to see you - it's always nice to get a new victim member around here. Not to mention the fact that we get to be creative with presents ;)

Also, The Links - which, if you don't know, are the lot of 'Go Read This Now Please' urls that we throw at every newbie since they actually do give Useful Information. In relative order of sensible-reading-ness, they are:

* The Original PPC Series, which we assume you've already read.
* The List of Killed Badfic, which will direct you to a large number of non-Original PPC Missions.

The Board:
* The Board Constitution
* The FAQ: For the Board

The Wiki:
(which you've already seen, of course, but specifically:)
* The very-important-to-read-before-requesting-Permission Permission article
* Our Guide To The PPC
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.
When you are ready to edit the wiki, make sure to read Neshomeh's excellent editing tutorial.

And finally, but very usefully,
* The List of Everything PPC


(I seem to be the Official Link-Giver right now. Hmm... Well, I hope it's helpful.)

Yeah... yeah, I think I just did...

*blushes and slinks away*

I was hoping someone else out there still remembers those books fondly. I've been picking them out of the fifty-cent clearance bin at the local used bookstore lately.

As your traditional gift, have a broken Escafil Device! It doesn't give you the ability to morph, but it sure glows a pretty shade of blue. Don't get it near any Geiger counters; it seems to have acquired the tendency to emit negative amounts of radiation. Somehow.

I was only referring to the "for no reason" aspect, and the point that if it's too Sueish, it could fall apart due to lack of logic after recruitment. How that's dealt is up to the author's sense of humour, but as long as it's not a SueperPowerExcellentFighter! sort of thing, it's not going to be a problem.

I just wanted to make sure; if they don't update, you may want to look around for another one, but that's up to you. As for the second one, my only concern was that it might be too short for your agents to properly 'stretch their legs', so to speak, but that's entirely up to you.

No worries about the Speech, either. It sounds like you've got a good grasp on what would and wouldn't be allowed.

Welcome to the Board. I hereby present you with a shiny new Frying Pan of Doom^tm and a freshly baked Portal cake, which in this case, anyways, is not a lie.

Hello,

I've been aware of the PPC for a while, via OFUM and the HFA, and then a few days ago I randomly thought of it again and have been obsessing over it since. I am fond of making impulsive internet "commitments" that I don't actually keep up. We'll see how well this lasts (I am hoping well). For reference, of my six Firefox windows open, three are PPC-related things, either directly (this one has PPC wiki pages and two Mary Sue litmus tests, another one has The Fantastic Saga of SNAOL and a terrible Animorphs fanfic, and the third is bad Dark is Rising Sequence fanfic). Normally I don't keep this much stuff open, but I'm on dialup for the month, so I'm just not closing tabs. >.> OH WELL.

Anyway, here I am. I've never actually gotten around to WRITING fanfic, except kind of sort of a flash fiction story written with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books in mind. Mostly the closest I get to writing fanfic is reading someone else's story and thinking "I wish I'd written that". When I actually write it's by and large original fiction.

I don't tend to get righteously angry at bad fanfic, more...confused. Especially by the reviews. Do people actually think these are good? Or that they make any sense whatsoever? Call me stupid, or something, but I don't see it. If in chapter 2 of your story literally nothing even remotely relevant to the plot happens, and you yourself acknowledge it, why did you bother to write it? It boggles the mind. And you created a mini while you were at it. Nice going!

Um. I like books. I like some movies. I like not too many TV shows. My favorite books include the Dark is Rising sequence, Animorphs, the Graveyard Book, anything by David Levithan, anything by Diana Wynne Jones, things by Tamora Pierce, Ender's Game, the Ender's Shadow books, the Young Wizards books (and the Feline Wizardry books), the Riddle-Master trilogy, and No Great Mischief. To name a very few. And to not name some that I feel like I must be the only person who's read. I'm still hoping someday I will meet someone who read the Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starfleet Academy books. I also enjoy role-playing games, although the last time I have been able to play one with any consistency was a number of years ago. Seventh grade, perhaps. My current RPG obsessions are Young Gods of Old Egypt and the Marvel Universe Role-Playing Game, but I am also a fan of both 3.5 and 4E D&D and a number of the other 24-hour RPGs. Also Darksword Adventures, which I am dying to play.

I could list movies and TV shows, too, but I will not, as I think I have already rambled enough at you all and it r laet. Hence, to bed! Which is to say, to lie on my bed and skim through "Killed Badfic" on the wiki. >.
Respectfully yours,
Lleu Llaw Gyffes

Just been thinking about this myself with my current mission.

The basic strategy seems to be never to play to their strengths. Don't try to fight a Warrior!Sue, or cast spells at a Witch!Sue--get sneaky, distract them, use the technology, get the canon to help you. The canon, as you know, hates 'Sues; and if she's stronger than your agent, but weaker than some canonical danger, then just charge her (while running away if necessary), then open a portal right under her feet to the location in question and let the canon squish her for you. Beautiful irony.

'Nother thing. Sues are horribly written, by definition. That gives the advantage to your well-written agents, because your agents can be flexible, think on their feet (heck, think, period), and the Sue is little better than a pre-programmed cardboard character. Creativity is always better than power. Get irony and comedy on your side, and all but the most powerful God-mode Sues should be easy pickings.

And most PPC agents carry one because it's impossible to learn the languages of every continuum you could possibly be sent into--and in some cases, your own partner doesn't speak your language!

Which makes me think I really need to try a mid-mission Universal Translator failure one of these days. It could be hilarious!

I figure that someone has to be good at doing something besides making things explode if they might be dealing with unfriendly OOC and Author-Posessed canons who have lightsabers and the Force. Anyway, it could be worse. She could be one of those Sues with huge Force powers. I'm pretty sure that would have been taken away.

The reason I said I need that one to be updated is that it hasn't *clearly* messed up the story yet. Sure, it makes no sense, and I can see that it's about to change everything, but I want to make sure I can find enough AU charges.
The second, while it doesn't last long, is concentrated horribleness. Elena would probably consume her whole store of Bleeprin, knowing her.

I expect Elena to use the Speech to talk to objects from HQ or to do what she needs to in YW. I had originally had the idea that it would help her talk to SW aliens, but I don't think that's acceptable. (I could have her try and get in trouble for mixing continua.) I figure it would go over much better in Lord of the Rings, where language is powerful, but she won't be going there. No, she isn't a wizard (though she really wishes she were). She just studied it.

Sorry for giving you that idea!

I forgot to put this in my original post...

What I was basically trying to imply was that he's mixed, and nobody really knows what his ancestry is (except his parents, and they're dust). I would have invoked some African traits, but I couldn't think of how to do that without getting way more stereotypical than I'd've liked to.

Also, I have no idea what time period the Piper's Children are actually supposed to be from, and since I've been assuming that they came through in multiple batches, it's entirely possible that he's from a time when Sino-European trade was going on, thus giving him an excuse to have an Asian mother and European father.

It's not at all out of the ordinary for a PPC agent to be good at combat, either because they've practiced (veteran agents) or because they were recruited from a continuum where it's normal to be a competent fighter (for example, one of my agents is a LotR dwarf, and a good fighter).

Agents who are good fighters can still face serious challenges because they need to be realistically good fighters, and that means that they will still have to deal with things like being outnumbered or facing Sueperpowers. Plus, a good chunk of PPC work doesn't involve fighting at all. Doesn't matter how well you can swing a sword if your current obstacle involves not throwing up all over your partner because the Suethor just perpetrated eleven tense shifts and a run-on sentence in the space of one paragraph.

The Speech probably doesn't work nearly as well, if it works at all, outside the YW-verse. Continua where other kinds of magic exist might support it slightly; continua where many different kinds of magic exist might support it fully.

There's also the question of whether she just knows the Speech, or whether she can actually use it to tell the continuum what to do. If she's a full-fledged (if weak) wizard, then that means she's got all the obligations that being a YWverse wizard entails, and her loyalties are actually divided between the fight against badfic and the fight against entropy.

On the other hand, if she's not a wizard, then the Speech is probably good for communication and little else--a substitute for the Universal Translator and a way of talking to (usually non-sentient) objects.

You weren't exactly forgotten - threads get lost, especially when they're pushed to the second page. But generally, if comments and problems are brought up, we wait until a new post is made with all those problems remedied - which is exactly what happened.

Anyway, I'm not entirely comfortable with Kath retaining her author-endowed "very good fighter" traits just because it seems like the sort of thing that Canon and Reality (and the Flowers) would revoke. Similarly, as you say, Elena's 'Speech of Wizards' should probably not be used, at least in Star Wars, but other than that, they look fine. Just be careful with how you write them and there should be no problem.

In your writing sample, I like how you've done Yoda - "Sometimes," Yoda replied, "laugh one must. - that's the kind of silly-without-being-absurd humour I look for. The end made ma laugh Very nice :D

Concerning the badfics, that second one looks too short to be much of a mission, but that's up to you. I'm not sure why you want to wait until the first is updated (I see enough OOCness and punctuation errors despite it also being fairly short), but either one will work.

Go forth and write! :)

"Scenes from" would work, but a quick summary would make it feel more complete, in a narrative sense. How about a scene with the Flowers where someone is listing the damage, the casualties, and so on?

:D

Good to meet you! You sound like you'll fit right in.

But... no one has given you The Links yet? With all these posts, no links? Shocking. Must remedy this...

THE LINKS, in case you don't know, are the lot of 'Go Read This Now Please' urls that we throw at every newbie since they actually do give Useful Information. In relative order of sensible-reading-ness, they are:

* The Original PPC Series, which we assume you've already read.
* The List of Killed Badfic, which will direct you to a large number of non-Original PPC Missions.

The Board:
* The Board Constitution
* The FAQ: For the Board

The Wiki:
Which you've already seen, but these articles in particular are important:
* The very-important-to-read-before-requesting-Permission Permission article
* Our Guide To The PPC
* The Mission Writing Guide
* The Slash-Sporking Guide
* The FAQ: For Newbies.
When you are ready to edit the wiki, make sure to read Neshomeh's excellent editing tutorial.

And finally, but very usefully,
* The List of Everything PPC


Anyway, welcome, welcome, welcome. Enjoy the pineapple. :)

But I can't imagine anyone will mind; as long as we can see last year's work on FfL and this year's stuff on the Board, nothing will get lost.

Should I make a new thread on the first page to ask?

I didn't even do anything - it just fixed itself. Strange. Thanks, guys.

I'm not sure what to do with him. I was thinking maybe putting him in Bad Slash...

-snuggles birdie- It's okay, you can grow however fast you want to.