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Combining the aforementioned spice, a concoction meant for eye surgery and a wee bit of scumble, my fevered brain has concoccted a proposed sequel for the Film interpretation of the Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy movie.

(I read the first book and have the movie and i expect to be laughed at... I welcome it, but here at least you people will understand my rambling)

The Title: (Mostly) Harmless. Where the book is regarded in some circles as Adam's most depressing work, the movie version is... depressing, but more for the video record of a young woman grating at her own nerves in imprisonment.

The Main Character is one Ramdom Frequent Flyer Dent. As in the book, she is the biological daughter of one Authur Dent and one Tricia Macmillan. Unlike in the book (as far as I can tell), she has been raised by both in a four-and-a-half parent household aboard the Hart of Gold (two parents who never quite got into the whole "wedded" thing, two Betelguese-ian "uncles" and an android nanny who occasionally got his vocabulator shut off to keep Random from crying).

Now, at 16 years, 4 months, 25 days (and pocket change) old... she's in the tanty. A super-secret, M15-run, white-corridored tanty deep underneath her fathers hometown. But for her, it's an alien world.., she even did the whole "I come in peace" schtick by landing in a very public place in a mid-range shuttlecraft. Almost immedatiatly it got called a hoax (if not performance art) in all the papers.

What started as a "simple" joyride is now leading to her recording a daily video-diary on her wristwatch (on such diverse subjects as the evolution of the Vogon bureaucracy and the ultimate question)... while spending the days in her cell between examinations, interviews, interrogations and her entertainment mandated by the Geneva Convention (whatever the heck that is).

Meanwhile, her parents are just finally beginning worry about where she is... and where she took Fenchurch, the (government property)AI that she loaded into her shuttle's computer.

(tunes out for a minute and then back it)

Could someone check my eye colour... and I swear that my mouth feels and tastes like the inside of a cinnamon grinder.

I recall that Agent July Flame recruited a self-insert version of herself from a fic she wrote.

I don't know much more than you do, but here is what I think for each of your questions.

1. It depends on the continua involved. Assuming similar atmospheres, the character should only suffer minor discomfort when moving to a different Word World. In World One, anyone who can pass through the Reality Room should be fine. I imagine that, just as long as the writer doesn't actually describe bad biology, the character still defaults to functionally accurate. I hope so, anyway. I intend on having one of my agents repeatedly break the disguise generator.


2. Like you said, it depends on the temperament of the traveler. Randall (one of my agents) comes from a world where magic is common, and maybe a year or so before he fell into HQ, a lot of his perceptions of his world were broken (story coming eventually). For him, the PPC wasn't too strange of an adjustment, but it could definitely be bad for other people.


3. That sounds like it has a lot of great potential! I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed—repentant Suethors are not uncommon, and a large portion of the other agents are recruited from badfic. I can see the author getting confused a lot (“But you aren't supposed to like doing that!”, “You should be doing this a different way!”).

For instance, Vambiolaria (mentioned somewhere else in this thread) is a contagious 'Sue disease. So perhaps we could find a cure which is more convenient than the one we have, which involves hard-to-find plants.

--anamia

1. A lot of Agents (most self-inserts, for example) would be from World One or a similar world. I'd expect that as long as the atmosphere of World One is similar enough to the Agent's home continuum they'd be able to survive. Different gravities may make it hard for them (or cause some long-term bone problems), and there's always the potential for a War of the Worlds style "oh no, the bacteria, they kill me!", but I guess Medical would be able to immunise against that.
   Bad biology is bad biology, though. If the Agent could only exist in a highly-magical environment, or in very low gravity, entering World One may prove fatal, but YMMV.
   
   2. Shock, insanity and craziness, one would assume. Whatever is the funniest (keeping in mind that the Laws of Comedy are more-or-less pre-eminent in HQ).
   
   3. Agents can be recruited from basically any continuum, so I see no reason why you couldn't recruit and author AND a character from one of their fics. In a slightly-less canonical example, PPC Boarders and Agents have been known to socialise together (usually in the Shipfest or so on). I agree that this definitely has a lot of potential for hilarity to ensue.
   
   Elcalion

1. Depends on the person, I believe. A lot of agents *come* from World 1, so that's no problem. And, personally, I work under the assumption that biology is correct until proven otherwise. It's when you get blatant biological aberrations that you have problems. For non-World 1 natives, it would depend on the species. If the original Canon has them visit World 1 (I'm thinking Animorphs and such here), then I would think they'd be fine. And most canons are at least partially based in World 1, since authors tend to be human. It would be harder, I think, for people to function in places other than World 1, but, again, I imagine it's more of a case-by-case thing.
   
   2. Speaking for my own agents, they accepted it more or less easily because, a) they were recruited by an agent who sort of explained it, b) they wanted to be there anyway, or c) they're bonkers anyway. I can't speak for anyone else, but I assume one of the qualities you want in an agent is the ability not to break.
   
   3. Ooh, that sounds really fun. Especially if the character is mad at the author for putting him/her/it through some kind of hell. -evil laugh- If you don't end up doing so, I think I might.
   
   --anamia

You know the drill.

1. Would someone from another continua be able to function at all, yet alone live in a completely different one, for example World One? (I'm assuming, nastily enough, that most agents would die instantly if they entered World One without a disguise, and I'm assuming THIS because someone said Suethors, and probably quite a few authors/creators don't know much about biology.)

2. People fall into HQ through plotholes all the time, right? What's the usual response from someone who does this? (I'm expecting that most aren't going to be able to accept the existence of fictional characters, and probably go more than absolutely bonkers because of it, as compared to someone a little more fantastical/disconnected with reality/imaginative, who might not break from it.)

3. I've been experimenting with an interesting concept with two agents. One's an aspiring, overimaginative writer who has written some fanfiction or something in his spare time, and the other is one of his creations, taken from the fanfic some time before its creator entered HQ. Would this be allowed in my writing, or should I scrap it altogether? (In my opinion, it has an insane amount of potential for all kinds of hilarious things and other stuff.)

There's some more, but I can't really remember them right now. In the mean time, have some music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDE1VcuBi6o

Social experiments are kind of my thing. It was a pretty good facade. I didn't post because my inability to say something without failing made me fear that I would offend someone who may seriously be repentant.

... but that is an awesome idea. {X D Good one, Max!

The comic just brings it home. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Thank you, so very very very much. *returns hug and basks* I'm so glad that's what you thought of it, and that you think so well of me.

Mini-cardboard boxes. That would be awesome. In an OFU setting, they would probably be underestimated until something happened along the lines of this: http://zarla.deviantart.com/art/box-HUNGRY-37681875

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus

Basically, when a virus reproduces, it uses the host cell to reproduce its own genetic material. Sometimes that genetic material stays in the host cell. If it does that, and does it in a reproductive cell (sperm/egg), it can be passed to the next generation, hitching a ride in the genome of the organism the virus has infected.

Viral DNA is part of the reason for the junk DNA in the human genome. Viruses also play a role in transferring genes from one organism to another, especially for little one-celled organisms that just divide instead of swapping genes through sexual reproduction.

Disclaimer: I am in biomedical engineering, not genetics or virology. So this is from an amateur perspective. Someone who knows more about it than me can probably correct or elaborate on this.

Nin and Lux just finished a mission--see above--with a pregnant Sue. (The post is above--it's marked "Finished Nin's final mission for her!") The infant's being kept at HQ; the Sue's been killed. Maybe if you're lucky they'll still have blood samples?

Then feel free to write it yourself. -grins-

--anamia

Shiny! That may be useful.

--anamia

Thanks. With luck Yahoo won't fail on me...

Thanks!

--anamia

Though, if he ever meets Cocoa again, he might end up right back in FicPsych. She tends to do that to people.

Thanks for looking. We need all the subjects we can find.

--anamia

Especially since my other team of agents works for Bad Slash. Though, they do tend to stay away from mpreg stories and deal mostly with possession 'Sues or just very OOC characters. Maybe I can outsource the research to Trojie and Pads.

--anamia

I just sent in my application. My character was a navy pilot before going to school.

http://chelonianmobile.livejournal.com/101975.html

Finally! Yay! I agreed to do this about a year ago, and only now got round to it. Well, hope you enjoy it now! Should note that it's not-work-safe, for cussing and references to furry sex.

I thought I posted this already, but either my memory is playing tricks on me or Firefox is malfunctioning, because I don't see it and I've refreshed the page a dozen times.

agent (underscore) tomato5 (at) yahoo (dot) com

...have the science bounced off of me. I studied biotechnology in high school.