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I don't expect many replies tonight, since you're all probably out being Irish (as age restrictions permit), but as the resident teetotaler, I don't really care. {= D So, here we are.

For those of you who may have missed the memo, two weeks ago I threw down a challenge to write a mission if you have Permission, or just write anything at all, as long as you complete it during the month of March. Could be something you've had on the back burner, half-finished, mostly finished, completely new, whatever--just so long as it gets finished and made available to read before midnight of March 31 in whatever your time zone happens to be. There is no word count. There is no word limit. Just get it done!

For those who make it, I am offering your choice of fabulous prizes! I will:

a) beta-read your piece (since I'm not requiring entries to be beta-read ahead of time);
b) draw something for you (e.g. a character or simple scene);
c) write a drabble about the topic of your choice (provided I know what you're on about).

Only one reward per person, though, because I want to get them all done sometime this year. Make sure to tell me what you want when you plug your piece! For things completed before this post, go ahead and tell me what you want in a reply here. I'll start a list.

For the record, I have finished my interlude, but I'm going to wait before posting. Partly this is because I have plenty of time and other things to worry about, but also because I was silly and sent it off to bother Sedri before I remembered my own challenge terms. But then again, I haven't got anyone offering me fabulous prizes, so perhaps it's okay. Or maybe my brain is made of feathers. >.>

Meanwhile, how are the rest of you doing? Have you selected your target? Entered the fic? Alternatively, have you chosen your subject? Characters going where they're supposed to go? How far are you? Inquiring minds well, just mine, really want to know!

~Neshomeh

If an agent does steal or otherwise commandeer a vehicle for assassination purposes - for example, if there's no way to take the Sue down without one - one could always get some humour out of the agent trying to figure out how to pilot it. To expand on your example, Agent Clark Kent taking a TIE and desperately trying to figure out how to fly the thing and shoot Pink Five down without crashing into something or getting blown up. Just my opinion, though.

Ah, I remember EOI. I loved that comic, probably because I've tried to run IRC rooms before. I should go back and read it again sometime.

*apologizes to thread that has now been shoved off the front page*

I've been wasting spending my time reading a few webcomics, so I decided to promote two that I don't think have been mentioned here in a while.

Mary Sue Academy

This one is an obvious spoof of Mary Sues and their world, but it goes into the Mary Sues' points of view, as well as the Mary Sue Hunters and other people who appear. The art is good, as is the plot line. Also, it's quite funny, especially if you've read any Sue Slayer fics or PPC missions. (And yes, you will start to like some of the Mary Sues.)
Warnings: Some content is NSFW, but the hosting website should let you know what is NSFW by the mature content block. It's mostly gore and language, really. Nothing to seriously worry about.

Elf Only Inn

I just barely began reading this webcomic, but it's definitely worth the time spent reading it, from what I've read so far. It's a funny cut and paste webcomic about roleplaying chatrooms. Watch out, though. It will suck you into its vortex of side-splitting humor. (The webcomic isn't updated any more, but there's plenty of past comics to read through.)
Warnings: Some content isn't for kids under the age of ten, I guess. I don't think there's anything else to warn about.

Who has heard of these two webcomics and who hasn't? I'm interested to know because I haven't seen these discussed on the board since I arrived here last April, (I think).

Ah, the joys of a collaborative writing effort. We all get to be right, too.

*goes back to read results of last night's belligerent drunkenness*

One of these days I'll learn to only come here sober, I swear...

... is that three people have given equally fervent responses to question 1. But all three are different.

hS

It would be appreciated if you could tell us, at the very least, what fandom your mission is for in your plug, preferably in your heading - I usually don't bother to open links if I don't know I'm going to recognise the fandom. Details such as department and focus characters would be good, too.

And that fic... ow. Someone's mind is terribly twisted. Though considering the incident in OFUM, I could see the squid taking a career as an actor...

Ah, big explosion. I like that big explosion - and you had every cause to create one. :)

(You still have a few little tech errors, though - missing a full stop after and a pad with a Big Red Button, for example. Nothing serious, but you should probably do another round of beta-reading next time.)

1. No.
   
   4. You run the risk of getting dangerously philosophical. Are we not all made simply of words? For the purposes of this shared universe: the words make reality, here. We are all words, yet all we are is words, and so shall we be, whether within or without fic. We write in a collaborative written community; every world is made of words. Real people in World One are just as much merely words as any agent; we are all, and we all write, mere words.
   
   What matters is the weight you attribute to those words.
   
   (Or: every continua is written. That's kind of half the point.)

1. Only if there is a well thought out plot related reason for it.
   
   1. Because... ... You know, I haven't words for this. You do *know* our MO, right? Protect the canon from the Suefluence, etc? World One is the canon of canons; it's reality. It's the canon within which all other canons are formed. It's the canon most agents come from. It's the canon that has, like, biology and physics and shit that, er, works. We abandon it at our peril, because to abandon World One is to abandon logic and sanity and maths and physics and biology and pretty much everything that gives one a basis by which to judge a deviation from canon.
   
   If you have to ask this, I feel you may be missing something. Rereading is in order.

You know your opening AN contains a horrible tense shift, right?

Also, there are a few moments where it's kind of obvious you're trying to avoid the Pronoun Problem.

"Giant squid bang Hogwarts."

I would read further and complain about more, but that sentence put too many images in my head, and none of them end in a good place, and oh Glod giant squid WHY my brain may never stop screaming.

Glad to see someone finally killed that fic. I didn't think of charging a building with public masturbation.

Yo, welcome to the PPC! I've only been here about a week, but I think original characters from original canons are cool. One of my agent hopefuls is entirely an OC.

As a gift, please take this bag of correct grammar and a hatful of outdated slang.

Okay, one more chapter down. One to go. Tried to thin the literary chaff a bit, cutting some of the more meaningless junk. (I know. Meaningless junk in Buffy/Harry Potter/Tomb Raider fan fic!? Say it ain't so!)

http://terrofen.livejournal.com/950.html

As always, crits are appreciated. Also, is anybody interested in learning the backstories of my sporkers? I was thinking about posting origins for Caroline and LJ.

Hi! Nice to see another newbie here. It's a pleasure meeting you. Here's a locker to put your sanity in!

Cheers, nyx

I still can''t believe you suckered me into reading the original fic over on the chat. I'm sending this message from the Bleepka Fountain.

Anyway, nice job killing it. Boom! I like explosions. :D

Hey, nice to see another superhero fan here. JL and JLU were two of the best superhero shows ever to light up the small screen.

This is a good place to get better at writing. You see a lot of examples of what not to do...

(From our victims, of course.)

Anyway, have a bag of punctuation. You'll need it.

A very strange 'fic indeed.
I'm highly entertained by the killing of it. Nice, straightforward, amusing.
I might have preferred a bit less cut-and-paste, though, and more Agent interaction.
Still, definitely fun times. For readers, not Agents, one thinks. And explosions are sweet.
I look forward to other missions.

Here is the first of (hopefully) many Missions from myself and Maslab.

*WARNING* The Fanfiction has NSFW and NSFB content. Had it not been the entire focus of the piece we would have skipped it. There is minor swearing and adult content.

Mission Link: http://docs.google.com/View?id=df4qxpsx0hhxpjff3

Fanfiction Link: <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3096379/1/FirstEncounter">http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3096379/1/First_Encounter

Notes: Please don't read unless you have copious amounts of Bleeproducts nearby. This mission was written in the small hours of the morning (1-4 AM-ish) back in January and was only just finshed. Many thanks to Gattsuru for braving this. The only upside to this fic is it's length and it's lack of SPAG issues, it makes up for it via brain-breakage though.

*rattles chains while trying to poke Neshomeh back, but eventually gives up*

Don't worry. It seems that the only way to leave HQ is if your destination is a padded cell, and I have no intention of going into one of those. I don't seem to be that far from it, though--I doubt that the little sanity I have left would be enough to feed even a newborn warg. I do enjoy Tolken--I'm not that crazy. I probably won't venture into that canon for a while, though. I still need to read most of the non-main-series books.

Thanks for the information on recruiting one of my characters. I was going to use a plothole if there wasn't some other established method of recruiting agents (excluding contacting the target--that would be harder to explain than a plothole!) I think I will attempt to insert whatever humor I can get into finding the plothole and my character's reaction to it. I don't think that he will be over-powered; he's a werewolf, but characterized in such a way that it might actually be more of a threat to his sanity than the Sues! Finding a nickname for him shouldn't be too hard--he currently doesn't have a name for it to replace!

I'm trying out that update-mailing link you gave me, gattsuru, but it does seem like the classic method is best. *adds page to home tabs*

It makes sense to ask for the RC in the same post as the permission. I was just wondering if there was a partially-reserved state for the rooms. Oh well. It's an odd enough number that I can't imagine anyone (other than me, that is) asking for it.

I found the answer to one of my forgotten questions (the postal department is in Infrastructure, not in the Discontinued section) and remembered another (below), but I do distinctly remember having three questions. I wonder if I'll remember it, or if it is gone forever.

I'm going to use FictionPress for posting my non-PPC stories (yes, I know that it's the Pit's sister, but the stories there are generally of a better quality. Who would have thought that creating an original world requires a higher level of coherence?), but I have not seen a list of rules. Where are they? I would hate to be deleted through ignorance.

Finally, thanks for all of the gifts, and especially the bleeprin! I'm compiling a list, and challenging myself to fit everything in the story. Expect to see them in print! Now...how many ways can I think of to get a Sue to meet a venomous arthropod?

You also have some capitalisation issues - mostly things in lower case when they shouldn't be, and some random capitals Where they make no sense - and the occasional weird comma use. Nothing a good beta couldn't fix.

I also quite like your story :)

It's a fascinating little question.

Presumably, agents don't vanish into nothingness in between missions, yet those are not points at which we Boarders are writing them, so that could be evidence that they are more autonomous than pure word-only creations.

I think, though, that in terms of various canons, I lean towards the notion that they are alternate-ish universes which aren't supposed to interact with our World One (except through the harmless transmission of their greatest stories by the honoured natives we call authors), except that they have, hence the tangled mess we call the Multiverse. It seems to make the most sense in terms of the world we play in at the moment.

I'm just wondering 'cause it freaks me out a little, that's all. ^_^;

~Neshomeh

I think they're Easter eggs. From games.

And now I present you with pie.

Or it could be that, while non-functional, it doesn't harm or hinder her in any way, and so the overworked Medical staff gave her some aspirin and told her to go away.

Here, have a large nest of assorted, unexplained eggs! I don't know what's in them, probably not safe to eat.