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I'm thinking Moses will grow up to have all the strength and abilities of a Taggerung (since his badficcer creatrix was apparently under the impression that Taggerungship is hereditary), but the personality of Ralph Wiggum. So, out of a super-strong-but-dim otter and an actively-malicious ferret, who do you think will cause more damage?

http://chelonianmobile.livejournal.com/76781.html
And the followup, if you wanna see more of Hemlock:
http://chelonianmobile.livejournal.com/77472.html

When you say it depends on how much the fic is warping the world, are they more likely to be seen if the characters are more warped, or less so?

Welcome to the PPC! Here's a sabre from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin. Have fun in the insanity!

I think it depends partly on how much the fic is warping the world, and of course on the Rule of Funny, but there are a few things that always work--touching them, for instance--and agents always seem to be able to get their attention when they actually want to. Being really loud right next to them for an extended period of time would probably do it.

~Neshomeh

I guess - since noone's written for him since TOS.

What fandoms do you need - I have more agents than I'm ever probably going to write for, so you'd be welcome to borrow some if the fandoms fit.

I know, but they're sort of yours on permanent loan. And they are hilarious. And hmm, a lot of PPCers seem to be tropers (I am too). Oh dear, two evil babies running around? Do you have any specific plans for Moses?
And while I'm babbling about my favorite agents and TvTropes, the PPC page over there made mention several times of an incident involving Stormsong, Skyfire, and some gender-bending, and my immediate reaction was "This I have to see!" but I'm having some difficulties hunting down the link, although it's probably right under my nose... but anyway, could you perhaps help me?

How far would the agents have to push the canon characters before they couldn't help but notice the agents despite the SEP field? I ask because I thought of a scene in one fic I was thinking of sporking where the agents are hiding in a closet, hear the characters say a particularly stupid-sounding line, and fall out of the closet because they're laughing uncontrollably. I'm not sure whether the characters would notice this. I'm thinking they would, but I thought I'd better ask.

I'll make a note of that on the new and improved Manual article on the wiki. Thanks! {= D

~Neshomeh

They're all in FicPsych, but:

Dr. Freedenberg
Head Nurse Suzine
Nurse Parwill
Nurse Immac
Nurse Nathonea Dewstan

Oh, and there's Alice the meara, too.

Failing that, I don't mind loaning my agents out occasionally, provided I get a look at their lines pre-posting. Maybe someone with agents in the requisite fandom(s) would let you borrow them?

~Neshomeh

Probably.

I actually like all baby cats, dog-like creatures (including foxes) and baby bears are cute as well.

I miss my dogs.

I'll help out. If I remember this in the morning, that is. Kinda drunk right now. Depends on my writing brain coming back off holiday though.

I created Agents Carol and Sylveste for Michel's backstory, but have no plans on actually doing anything with them.

Their only characteristics are that Carol is female and Sylveste is male. Also, Sylveste is at least somewhat friendly and doesn't speak French. I never named their department, but I think they're Floaters.

Anyone is free to use them, if they want. I have enough Agents as it is.

Armed with the Mary Sue Litmus Test, I'll get a rough draft of Chapter Five thrown up soon, as well as something for Expanding That Acronym. Those feel like the ones I'm most qualified to write without having read the spinoff archives yet.

In one story, Arwen had been replaced by Child!Arwen, a Sue who warped Elrond way out of character. They found the original Arwen imprisoned in a nonexistant room on the other side of the plot hole that had allowed Elrond to sip constantly from a glass of wine without ever refilling it. So all you need is to find a plot hole, and the other side could be the prison of the original Legolas and Obi-Wan.

Are there any agents other than Lux and the late Makes-Things who are free for anyone to write about?

I ask because my Bad Slashers would only be familiar with a few fairly limited fandoms, I've found a few fics in fandoms they wouldn't know and/or wouldn't like which are Bad Slash and have no Sue for my assassins to get, and I don't particularly want to create more agents from scratch.

If there aren't any free agents, I could find a workaround - kitsune106 and I are working on a fic from which our agents are going to take some new recruits, so I could skip ahead a bit with their story and make their agent profiles now.

I'd be interested. You can find me here--of course--on Giant in the Playground with my same username, or if you want to cheat and do things the easy way you can e-mail me at arlanstutler@gmail.com, which is probably the best option unless your e-mail happens to be something like Notspampleasedonotdelete@dethronednigerianprince.com. Which it probably shouldn't be unless you have a really warped sense of humor.

Hey, I'm no longer the Official Canon Fodder!

...uh, I mean I'm no longer the most junior agent. Yes. That is what I said, because that is what I meant...

*Hands nice watch and runs*

It's established, both in the original stories and in the Manual, that Agents in the guise of Ents are largely impervious to arrows, just like an Ent would be, although they're advised to pull the arrows out *before* deactivating the Disguise Generator.

Thanks!

'Course we'll have to remember to update the wiki page (there already is one for the Manual) at appropriate times. Meh. *goes to add the list*

Incidentally, you really should watch the spelling, or I'm going to have a heart attack laughing at the typos. "Manuel Project" makes me think of Fawlty Towers, though I can't imagine what kind of project the PPC would initiate having to do with a small, nervous Portuguese man. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

In the immortal words of Bruce Willis.... "Welcome to the party pal." Have a stuffed Emu. Obviously he didn't say the bit about the Emu, but have one anyway. It's called Ringo.

... given that S&S were borrowed from someone I knew on a board I used to go on and Molly and Moses were effectively stolen from she of the spear incident, but thanks anyway ^_^ And yeah, violent things are cute. I have a thing for what TVTropes calls the "Enfant Terrible" (nothing to do with the art movement in this case, they use it to literally mean "terrible child"). Writing Molly is a lot of fun. Moses is more difficult, given that all he's currently able to do is look cute, go "peep" and pee or vomit whenever his caretakers least want to deal with it, but once he's walking, he'll be fun too.

Have a venomous arthropod! You may not need gloves to handle it.

I just find birds hilariously adorable, for some reason.