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Or maybe seven... or eight... or, conceivably, as many as nineteen, depending on how you split them up.

1/ About two years ago the Board collaborated to make a PPC Soundtrack (or at least a listing of tracks). I started to put them together into CDs (hypothetical ones), but... didn't finish. The other day, I found them again.

The PPC Soundtrack, a collection of twelve albums, with wiki formatting kindly provided by Neshomeh after I threw up my hands in despair. If anyone actually puts these together into real-life CDs, I'll be awestruck.

2/ Two years ago (in March, actually) was the fifth anniversary of the PPC Posting Board being founded in its present form. To commemorate the occasion, we had a 24-hour all-Board RP, with (impressively) not a single out-of-character post being made during the day. I started to write it up, but... yep, didn't finish. Now I have.

The Fifth Anniversary Celebration, very kindly beta'd by Neshomeh. Oh, did I mention that we were all RPing as Flowers?

3/ The really big one...

Crashing Down is finished!

Chapter Twenty - Rise To Lead
Epilogue - All The Dreams

After more than three years' work, the epic tale of the Black Cats' invasion in 2006 is finally done. You can read the whole thing on the Tangled Webs site, which also hosts cast lists, backstories and timelines. Thanks go to Tawaki for prodding me into finishing it.

But that's not the end of the history of the PPC. I'm proud (?) to announce the launch of a new (well, it's been up for a while, but I don't think I announced it) site: The Twisted Skein, host to my non-canonical PPC stories. They're consistent with each other and with my previous work, but they're mostly set in the future; I'm not going to dictate what will happen, just what might. Specifically, the Skein is host to the following works:

4/ The End of the Beginning, a multi-part work which forms a sequel to Crashing Down and spans nearly seventy years of PPC history. It's almost complete -- the only thing missing is the first part. Since it's a collection of related stories rather than a series of chapters, that's not too tragic.

5/ Time Will Decide For Us, a new, somewhat-shorter-than-my-previous-work story (there will be four or five parts eventually) set around the year 2070 HST. Only the prologue is up, but it should give a taste of what's to come.

As a note to the above two items:

5.5/ The Twisted Skein also has a Cast Lists page. Only the Family Tree version is complete as yet (the other link leads to an empty placeholder), but it's still better than nothing if you're interested. However, it's no use whatsoever if you're reading...

6/ Myths of the PPC. In a thousand years (sometimes I think big) the PPC will be changed beyond recognition. However, they should still remember their origins, right? Well, maybe not entirely accurately. If you've ever thought that Jay, Acacia, the SO, or even Makes-Things should be deified, this is for you. Hey, even if you just want to know how the term "epic haiku" makes sense, this is still for you.

Five of the six plugs above are on the twin Tangled Webs/Twisted Skein sites. They're pretty epic. I recommend them. ;)

hS

We are pretty high in the whimsy factor here. Hope you enjoy your stay. Have a bag of cotton candy.

Welcome! Have a coxcomb. It's a sort of silly hat.

Have a venomous arthropod! You possibly won't need gloves to handle it.

Fair winds!

New board member (that's me)!
I found the PPC wiki through a TVTropes article, and that led me here.
Given that the community here is reputed for its general whimsy and dislike of bad fanfiction, I think I'll fit in okay here.

As said in the earlier reply, that didn't close until 2008, so I was just trying to make sure.

I am, unfortunately, unable to point you towards those interesting agents, but I do think that I can answer the question about your possible recruit. The way I understand it, the main reasoning against super-powered agents is that it is not any fun to read about someone going into a story, making a list of charges, and killing the Sue/exorcising the author if the agent does so with ease and without suffering. As long as the average fic poses a challenge to the agent, I believe that the agent is not considered too strong. Using this reasoning, if you were worried about how strong an agent is getting, you might be able to rein him in by throwing really bad stories at him. Of course, that assumes that you can withstand a barrage of really-badfics, but you might be able to ease off if you can make your agent get more fragile. It seems like it might be a good idea to plan for this ahead of time, and give your agent some disability when he first arrives. I am going to be using this technique when I start writing--I will have a werewolf character who could probably beat most Sues easily, but who's mind and morals are threatened by his condition. It's going to be fun when I get him to snap.

By the way, I apologize for the length and the somewhat rambling nature of this post. I do that when I start getting tired.

I don't believe we've ever starved a Sue and released her at a target--although there is a division for doing experiments on captured Sues, so I could be wrong--but I know some of the milder Sues occasionally get redeemed and join the PPC. I don't know how exactly that's done, though.

Are there any Agents of potentially dangerous species or types? I have heard mention of vampire Agents, but I have not seen their profiles. I saw a potential Agent the other day that seemed to be a rather large intelligent bear, but I didn't know the fandom.

Could someone point me in the right direction for learning more about this?

There is a character that I think would make a good recruit in the Mission I am working on, but he is a pretty dangerous species. The personality and characteristics he has been given in the story make him much less dangerous than a normal representative of his species (and would make it a great challenge for him to directly fight one of his own kind, thereby preserving the non-super powered Agent requirement), but I wanted to know more about similar Agents before I tried it.

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!

Babies always get me. Just about any type of baby. Well, any type of mammalian baby, that is. I think it is the innocence and the clumsiness. It is so cute to watch all types of babies try to coordinate themselves.

I finished them since then, too. No more getting trout slapped-over that anyway-I'm sure I do something to deserve a fish to cranium about daily.

The type of fics that prompt this suggestion are annoying, because they are such an insult to the many folks who write ESL and do really well. I know quite a few, and many of them have better grammar skills than I do as a native speaker. Then there are the people that completely come across as ESL that are just really pathetic native speakers. All of it seems to go back to the excuse list "I'm only 15 and I fail my English classes!" (I saw this on the other day on the pit.)

It might make an interesting bit of trouble for the agents to try to decide if they should send a fic to the Babelfish folks, or just charge as a totally incompetent native speaker. Maybe if it really seemed like the author had some chance of being brought to the goodfic side of things, it could be written sort of like the author correspondence stuff used to be. Not that there would have to be any actual correspondence, just that the agents could claim there was. If any of that babbling made sense.

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

Use them IRresponsibly!

Three things:

First off a fairly MST style badfic rant by my friend Dan-chan, which I'm sure you will all enjoy. Because I have rarely read badfic worse than she found. Non-fandom.

http://community.livejournal.com/badrperssuck/7426965.html

Secondly, a link to an Uber Sue fic written by another friend Pip. It's set in Bleach, suffers from a sugar overdose but does accurately portray how painfully Sues can warp canon-reality.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4667732/1/SparkleMarysue

And an extract:
Yoruichi would never call out her sword, never allow herself to use her supposed 'partner' no matter how dire the situation. Wincing she sealed the oath with the binding words, "Mary…sue…"

--

'Actually' an angelic voice whispered, so angelic that as she spoke the sun brightened and she received her own styling of font, 'my name is Maria Amaya Nefretiri Phoenix Susanna Fire de Pompadour the 4th' Yoruichi's eye twitched…again. 'not 'Mary-Sue'

"See…I would say that but I'd be killed just trying to perform Shikai…"

And in a nutshell: 'Of course!' Chirped the irritatingly perfect voice; 'It is one of my 4,000,000,000 rare powers!'


Finally, although I don't have the attention span to join missions myself, I thought it might be quite amusing to have an agent who was a captured, semi-tamed Mary Sue that could be pitched against severe cases. A muzzle and a power-dampening chain should do the trick. ^^

I'm afraid I don't know whether this has been done already.

Barely made it through myself. I can handle Sues. I can handle purple prose. This?


...this was in a realm of it's own.

Thanks. Sorry about the technical errors, I had to quickly write it during a short break at school.

I love Star Wars, Star Trek, and Redwall (but I hate, "That Series.")

Aw, I can't take all the credit for that. Ansela is the most consistent about it, and July and Sedri and various other people often help, too. But thanks. ^_^;

And I am female, by the way.

~Neshomeh of the ambiguous pen name.

The youngest agents so far have been thirteen, which makes sense to me because it fits with the 13+ age requirement to use ffnet and LJ. Molly will probably end up being partners with PitViper's little foxcub Kieran, at least until Moses is old enough - though Kit and I are also rescuing a hermaphroditic cat-person baby in our current mission, which could grow up to be Moses' partner. Not sure which depts they'll be in. Molly, probably whichever one allows her to kill most things. She might become more Neutral than her current Chaotic behaviour as she gets older (not sure whether she's Chaotic Neutral or Evil, though), so at least her violence can be directed.

Poor weasel really should know better by now. I'm not sure whether it's him or Laburnum who suffers most - the difference seems to be that she brings her suffering on herself, while he just suffers the fallout of everyone else's messing around.

Girl!Drake and Plugg should meet, definitely. Plugg's conflicted about him on more than one level. He's figured it probably doesn't count as gay if Drake looks THAT much like a girl even when he is in male form (ah, rationalisation), but Drake's from the Naruto continuum and therefore counts as a ninja, the pirate's natural enemy XD XD

I had forgotten. So, that's that, then.

~Neshomeh

... the story in question is Brothers In Arms by The Nightrunners. It runs over into Part Two on their profile, but sadly ended, unfinished, five years ago.

It does, however, contain the immortal line about how only the French could make nuclear winter sound romantic.

And I really need to re-read it. Thank you, Dann and July, for reminding me of it.

hS

I don't know if you remember Ella Darcy's departure, but she pretty neatly summed up the purpose of the department.

I'd say don't make it a division; it's gone. Let it rest in peace.

hS

Far as I'm aware, though, the last of its agents retired in 2008. Still, I guess I can't really use that, seeing as the Manual seems to be set before June '06 (considering the Wisteria is still cited as Operations Head). Ah well, I'll dig up whatever info I can get.

Yeah, those first three really need to get done. ^_^; Author Correspondence is tricky, since it's not really active anymore, if it ever was. ... I wonder if it isn't properly a division of Intelligence. Hmm.

~Neshomeh, pondering.