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...is getting wonky? Just for that, i'm going to pour libations to the Ironic Overpower just to spite it. Maybe burnt offerings as well, starting with one smashed laptop.

No. Not really. But it's getting close...

Potter Sue of the Day regularly holds the Golden Bubotuber Awards, picking out the worst of the worst of the fanfics they find. The awards have such categories as "Worst Title", "Most Implausible Premise", "Worst Prose", "Silliest Name", "Most OOC Canon Character", and "Most Quotable Line". Everyone nominates their favourites, and then everyone votes for the winner in each category. I thought we could do something like that, except we have a much broader range of fics to choose from :) Any fic can be nominated for as many categories as you think it can fit in.

The full list of categories and rules is here: http://pottersues.livejournal.com/637226.html

WElcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here's a Sharpie marker. Muahahaha.

Alot of people have dogs and cats, so...I have a dog that's, like, 9 years old and little grey, but still looks and acts like a puppy. She's a lab/collie cross with these BIG BROWN EYES!!!

I just sat down and read it all, and I've got to say I'm absolutely thrilled. This is brilliant work, and I'm delighted to see Crashing Down reach such a conclusion. And the Twisted Skein stuff - talk about a way to inspire spooky Unnamed Dread about what could happen...

Excuse me. I'll be off squeeing in the corner.

Well, I count some Sith, a seven-foot Barabel lizard-man with huge fangs and claws, a drow and a few other oddities among my Agents.
I point you to Cavan Shenn, my Zeltron Sith. Capable of doing all kinds of nasty things to a person, up to and including a lust whammy before the murder.

Sorry, no disrespect intended, just an observation. Anyway, very well-done, hS, and congratulations on finishing CD! Amusingly enough, I'd been reading the myth stuff just before you plugged it. Still, very enjoyable, though it makes me ponder what the PPC itself is like a thousand years in the future. And what they're doing, since it doesn't seem likely to me that people on World One would still be writing fanfics in a thousand years, if there even is a World One any more by then. The pondering aside, thanks; they were all very good reads.

I read at least one Mission with Ilraen in it. I wasn't sure what an Andalite was, but his difficulty with morphing definitely took away from his power potential. Just curious, what and how do they eat with no mouths?

After reading Verra's entry on the wiki, I have read something with her in it. It was her first day as an Agent, I believe.

Have vampires and other dangerous, potentially human-eating, Agents ever been or had a problem around HQ? As a human, I'm not sure I'd want to be around a hungry vampire or dragon, no matter how civilized they normally are.

Um. My brain is drowning in awesome now.
So much awesome, and reading material for a while -- now I have to go reread Crashing Down, and. And.
*reduced to incoherence*

I think I'll start Crashing Down again from the beginning in order to fully appreciate the end. ^_^

Also, this totally deserves a March Madness prize. What's your preference?

~Neshomeh

*poke*

I don't know what you've already read, of course, but there are a few things you should definitely make time for. First, there is the Original PPC Series by Jay and Acacia. It is our canon and that which started it all.

Second, we require that everyone read and abide by the Board Constitution, because it's nicer that way.

After that, there are several helpful documents on the Wiki designed to help acquaint newcomers with us and our habits and behaviors and general weirdness. Sedri's Guide to the PPC is particularly informative, especially when combined with the FAQ for Newbies and the Mission Writing Guide. If you do want to write PPC missions, you should also see the article about how to get Official Permission.

And that's probably quite enough to start with. {= ) Welcome! Have a bumper-sticker! *sticks one on you* ^__^

~Neshomeh

Congratulations for finishing, and thanks for remembering to tell me what prize you want. {= ) Just drop me a line when the next NCIS mission comes up.

~Neshomeh (exswyzie14 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I think we should bring the Manual up-to-date, especially since lots of people seem to be using it as reference material these days. That's the benefit of having it online as opposed to printed, after, all. {= )

~Neshomeh

Goldenrod explained it pretty well--the only danger of a powerful species is that they'd have it too easy and it wouldn't be any fun to read about them. However, power can be made up for in any number of ways, such as personality, the Laws of Narrative Comedy, and/or the Ironic Overpower preventing them from getting out of hand.

For example, my Agent Ilraen-Aroline-Fothergill is an Andalite, which (if you don't know) is a centaur-like alien with four eyes, no mouth, telepathic speech, and a very fast and wickedly sharp tail-blade. He also has the ability to morph into any species he comes into contact with, which has the potential to get really ridiculous given the access he has as an agent to the powerful races of the multiverse. HOWEVER, due to being "born" in a badfic and getting his personality from sessions in FicPsych, and the fact that he sucks at morphing, he's kind of a woobie. (He is getting better, though. Character growth and all.)

Another powerful-yet-fun agent I can think of off the top of my head is Agent Verra Rose, who was a frickin' dragon. I don't remember precisely how Kippur handled her, but I think she just didn't go on missions much due to being a wife and mom.

And then there's always the option of just not using one's superpowers. My character Jenni is one of the Powers That Be in her own universe, but the most she's ever shown of it in HQ is a bit of telepathy. She has Rules.

~Neshomeh

Some of the people are here are crazy. For you, a watch that stops time when you look at it while your waiting for something you really want.

It's a bit stunning to see "Crashing Down" finished. Congratulations on completing it! (I'll have to reread the whole thing sometime soon...)

IThe Myths of the PPC are great, especially the one in alliterative verse.

Good job MSTing.

I really like the 4, 5, and 6! Reminds me of "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", from B5.

1, 2, and 3 are awesome too. Good job on finally finishing Crashing Down!

I don't have anything to give to you unlike everyone else.

That was pretty cool. Made me wish I knew more about the A-team.

Agent Selene is the vampire agent I've seen referred to most, a Stokerverse vamp with the ability to drop lightning around. While ostensibly not separate species, there's a number of shapeshifting Agents as well, both 'lycan'thropic or through more plainly magical means, although most have been forcibly retired. Marsha is dangerous simply by being a several-ton dinosaur. Agent Chliever is an avatar of a Chaos God of Disease. There are also a limited number of Time Lord agents. Agents Kana Yuuishizu and Kobayashi Risa are Bleach shinigami.

Dunno if that helps.

Don't worry. I'm pretty sure that it no longer exists: As far as I can tell, it was hosted on Yiffstar- a site which, mercifully, no longer exists.

I think we drain the Glitter out of them with genetically modified vampire bats.

At least, that's what was recommended in the last DMSE&R report.

(DMSE&R is the sciency department you mentioned.)

As in, I too have finished a mission: The Look Of Love. A-Team mission: Allison and Tasmin meet Amy's Stu father.

For my sprakly gift I would like a beta-read. Not for this mission, but for the next NCIS mission I finish. Is that okay?

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

Please use them IRresponsibly!