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...the higher up don't want excessive collateral damage or civilian casualties.

Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Please use them IRresponsibly!

Hello! Have a seventeen foot long, multicolored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Please use them IRresponsibly!

So what are your fandoms?

Thing is, from certain parts of Germany, it IS possible to get to Poland in a few hours. Berlin to Warsaw is only about 320 miles. At the German speed limit of 80 m/h, that's a 4 hour trip, not accounting for traffic. A train would go about the same speed, if not a little slower.

A 1930s train would, at full steam, go about 70 m/h, so a 4 or 5 hour train ride into Poland is not out of the question. That is, provided you're in eastern Germany. From western Germany, like Munich, it would take almost 9 hours going full speed for a train to arrive in Warsaw.

Please note that this is just an estimate, actual numbers may vary.
(Source: Google Maps, Google, Wikipedia)

I'll third the anti-correcting based on country of origin.

I don't know if this makes sense, but when reading fanfic, I have always read with the expectation of seeing British terms in shows of British origin (including spelling), and American terms in shows of American origin (including spelling).

So, it drives me crazy when I read NCIS or Stargate (okay, it is produced in Canada, but it is based in the US), and a character says something like, "I turned on my torch, because it was dark." or "Rodney loved blue jelly from the cafeteria."

None of the American characters would ever call a flashlight a torch, or Jello jelly. To me it is a particularly annoying, jar-me-out-of-the-story OOC moment. But the opposite is true if I am reading something like Dr. Who.

If we do end up having to pick, would it be reasonable to base it on the standard established by the origin of the canon? So, even though the spelling in Harry Potter was Americanized before it was sold here, its origin is British, so the standard would be British. The standard from canon in NCIS would be American English, and so on and so forth.

Also make sure that the chandelier is electrically powered, and that you cut said electricity before the bolts. We should all know the dangers of flaming light fixtures. *hums* HMMMMM hmm hmm hmm hmmmmm

Department of Floaters and All-Purpose Department.

I'm leaning on Floaters.

Well, it doesn't once you learn how to use it. The character I got it from hardly even had to think about it, and he never got sliced. I'm rather surprised that no one has guessed the yo-yo's home continuum, though. I guess it's not as well-known as I thought, though I guess it is in the "Juvenile" section of my library (I read and enjoyed it a long time ago, but it has lost some of its charm since then, even for me).

The # sign is "sharp" when talking about music. I have no idea why it's called a pound sign, but Sedri's £ sign seems to have more right to the name—the currency is called a "pound" after all. And, yes, improper semi-colon use is very annoying.

... for finding, er, questionable methods which hadn't been specifically banned yet and using them. Monsters which rape their victims to death are apparently frowned on, as L&F discovered after the incidents in question - one with the Redneck Trees, one with Drip Rat. They claimed they fail to see how it's that much worse than being eaten, but still got in trouble.

(I understand why it's frowned on. The characters did not.)

Two partners usually belong to the same department. Which departments were you thinking of?

On forbidden execution methods. Has that subject ever been explored?

Your agents can certainly be from two different canons. One of my agent teams has one agent from Star Trek, one from His Dark Materials, and one from a Harry Potter/Firefly crossover.

(And by the way, "a lot" is two words.)

...I'm not really coming up with a lot. I know of several canons where eyes, magical or not, can be transplanted from one person to another, and I know of at least one dimension-hopping character who should be capable of creating artificial eyes (seeing as she at one point creates a fake arm that can bleed and, for some odd reason, grab ghosts), but I can't really think of any where there's a standardized magical eye replacement.

The fun thing about the PPC, though, is how easy it is to justify whatever type of plot device you want. Not only are there millions of canons Medical can steal from, but HQ isn't exactly lacking in the mad scientist department. Making up some sort of magically powered replacement is not out of the question.

In terms of technological-based replacements, though, my favorites are still the prosthetics used in Ghost in the Shell (specifically in the character Batou). They look sort of like camera lenses embedded in the eye socket and function the same way, identifying, isolating and zooming in on points of interest (such as weapons or writing) in a scene as the user observes them. Of course, they also might require having a computer installed in the user's brain to work properly...

It would only be doing the same thing as the Author did, and would show that we're not any better. So we won't. Mere Exorcism would do, as long as we're not facing any Character Replacements. If so, just use the Heartless, like PoorCynic did in his mission.

You'd be surprised. Cats keep rats outta the foodstuffs. Thanks!

My agents is a robot from SD Gundam and the other is a human mechanic from the real world. The robot agent tends to soak up damage very often in battle so he depended on his partner alot.

Temporary team-ups happen quite frequently. Permanently, I think they'd get lumped into Floaters or a Freelance division.

... I'm after Luigi and Peasley's Summer Blossom as my first target. I go for badfics in less popular fics. Concider that Fic mine.

It contains Mpreg, double sentences on top of the chapters, a Mary Sue (*two more added due to a request), and most of the cast is OOC while Luigi gets the worst of it.

I can't spork on Team Fortress 2 fics because I didn't played it yet.

...well, not my canon, but the one that got me started on fanfic. Poor baby.

(Whoever sporks this, is taking the replacements to the real Holocaust considered in bad taste all things considered? Even if it gets serious for a bit to point out what the real problem is?)

If you have to use a pronoun, it's better to use "I". But it can be a little awkward, and if it is awkward then it's obvious you're using it, which defeats the purpose because it sounds like you're patronizing them...

Better to stay away from pronouns in general, I think. Talking about the story without either "you" or "I" seems to work best for me.

Can two Agents from two different departmants or divisions work together?

I needed something like this - I was going to make pages for my agents, but I wasn't quite sure how to. Thanks!