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Welcome to the Board! Please dposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't need it here. Also, here's a...
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Whatever works for the name. I was just suggesting a general type.

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 cuppa. Don't ask.

Have some portal guns.

Greetings from another Newbie!
Hope you have fun here. Sanity is not needed so I am told. Anyways, hope you're well. Have a nice stay!

One question though. Since you are a fan of Stargate, are you a fan of Battlestar Galactica?

I found I learned a lot about writing from PPCing other fics. So, you're in the right place for learning.

Do with it what you will.

gattsuru seems to have stolen my fire with regards to Link-giving, but that's all right - as long as you're well informed.

About your second question - sorry, no. This is an old-style board and we like it this way. General policy is just to scroll down the main page and look for updates on the threads that interest you. Once things fall off the first page, they're generally not updated anymore anyway.

It's a good biscuit. It's chocolate chip.

Hereby I bestow upon thee The Links. They are Important. And fun. A lot of fun. But also Important.

Firstly, there's The Original PPC Series, which I'm assuming you've already read. Linked up top here is the The Board Constitution, and there's an FAQ: For the Board if you have any questions on that front. Another very useful page is the List of Everything PPC, which is, not surprisingly, a fairly complete list of everything PPC.

Please also take the time to look through our PPC Wiki, particularly the Permission article), as well as the Guide To The PPC, the Mission Writing Guide, the Slash-Sporking Guide, and the FAQ: For Newbies.

Also, a complimentary DMS hat, coat, and flag.

While I don't have any answers to your questions I do have an internet gift for you: Taffy!

Hey there

I'm brand new to Wikia, and of course, PPC.

My fandoms are NCIS, House, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Discworld, Stargate, The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Kelley Armstrong's books, Artemis Fowl, Justice League animated series and much more. The list will probably expand with every book series I collect, or television program I watch.

I enjoy writing original fiction and occasionally fanfiction, I like reading these areas, and I especially enjoy learning about writing.

I look forward to meeting you all!

Cheers, Nyxix

I've not got Permission yet, but this is the general feel I've gotten so far :

There are a number of canon-recruit agents, as well as those recruited from badfic or the real world. Most canon recruits from published works are very minor characters destined for death, or AU versions of a minor character, and it should be well-justified. See this part of the Newbie FAQ. These rules aren't hard-coded -- there's an Agent Wash from a Firefly AU, for example -- but it's a good guideline. Those recruited from the canon or from badfic do typically pick a nickname of some sort.

From worlds that you've created or your own fanfic, however, it's a bit easier. Some agents have been built like that, or they can even come from entirely made-up works.

There's a "Receive Daily Updates" option at the bottom of the main forum page, but I've not tested it personally.

It's best to wait until you're requesting Permission to request a RC.

On the more general greeting side :

You've mentioned the PPC wiki's a great place to start, and it'll eventually get you everywhere. I'd recommend the Board FAQ if you've not already seen it. If you plan to write PPC missions, take a look at the Permission article and the Manual -- it's a good guide on what the PPC does, and the humor they try to do it with. The Mission Writing Guide can be a great help at figuring out answers to the more common questions, or finding questions that you wouldn't have thought of otherwise. There's also the Big List of Everything PPC if you want to find new PPC missions to read.

You've mentioned the wiki, so I'll assume you may have already see the article on Legendary Badfic. Either way: before forewarned that they really are that bad and you don't (and if you want to keep whatever good taste you had, maybe shouldn't) feel like it's a test. Reading normal badfic is enough of a masochistic thing; it's better to stay at stabbing insanity rather than brain-breakingly flamethrower crazy.

And, in the tradition of providing newbies with random goods... *hands Goldenrod111 a mug of dandelion fizz*

This doesn't answer any of your questions, but I'm just letting you know I'm not allowing you to leave.


...Ever.

*chains Goldenrod to the board*

I haven't written anything on here in ages, just happened to stop by for a bit and read your writing sample. Wanted to say that I really enjoyed it. The character had such a clear, strong voice. I was fascinated. Good job.

*returns to lurking*

A cooking mini-rayquaza! Nice! If you don't mind holding on to one of them for a not-yet-recruit (and if there is not any paperwork to fill out first--I don't think that there's a Pokémon University), I would love to have one. It could definitely be a great addition to my RC. I wonder what a Suefflé would taste like?

By the way, how large do they grow? I would still enjoy being able to get from one side of the RC to the other.

I'm crazy, letting myself in for this. I've heard that insanity is an asset, though? Anyway, I would like (hah!) to join PPC, after the month or two of board presence required before requesting permission. This might actually turn out to be longer, as the short story I believe would be the best style submission is currently only a few sentences and a well-planned idea (my others are idea-and-few-sentence-long chaptered stories).

Anyway, a bit more introduction could be helpful. I'm called (as you can see) Goldenrod111 (nicknames derived from that are fine, though including the "Gold" is the best way to get my attention). The hundred and ten (or two) other "Goldenrod"s are, to the best of my knowledge, unharmed--I just really enjoy that number. I enjoy well-written stories and am planning rather enjoyable things to the Mary Sues who ruin them <gollum>Curse them! We hates them!</gollum>...Sorry! I have tried (see above) writing several stories of my own, and love hearing about a character's inner conflict, rather than the external (read "often artificial") problems that most stories revolve around. The department I think I would enjoy the DTE the most, but I don't have quite the attention to detail required for it (I would have completely missed the hull-full misrhyme), so I think I will write in the DMS. Now <abrupt topic change /> I have a few questions to ask.

1. What are the rules regarding recruitment from an original canon? I have seen at least one agent on the wiki with that designation, and I know that several other agents were taken from the real world, but what about using a character from a world that I have created (don't worry--I won't go easy on him)? Are there any special regulations regarding these characters? How would the PPC and my character learn of each other for the recruitment, or should I just not mention that?

2. Is there a better way of tracking messages across the board than using the five-entry RSS feed? I have clicked the box below this box for the daily updates, but I have a feeling that that is only for this thread. With the amount of messages that go through here, there really should be some better way of tracking new information.

3. Can I put in an early request for RC #421? I know it looks random, but there is some sense to it (one part is earlier in the post, the other is 5. Who can come up with the reason?)

I am sure that I had a few other questions, but I can't remember them at the moment. Maybe in the next post!

The interested recruit laughs maniacally and drags his hand--the last sensible part of his body--from several buttons that would delete the message, before forcing it to click on the "Post" button.

I, Bronwyn do hereby swear to uphold the laws and Canon of the Multi-verse and PPC.
I swear not to kill a Mary-Sue before gathering appropriate charges nor pull a Mister Rogers without due process. I now put my Agent Eileen up for Judgment:

Agent Eileen

Species: Human
Home Continuum: Lord of the rings, was rescued from sue story as child bit-character and brought to the nursery, where she was promptly renamed via the song on the radio.
Height: 5’8”
Hair: Red, Frizzy, shoulder length; Kept in a loose ponytail,
Eyes: Gray
Age: approx. 16-20 (age was unspecified in Fic)
Department: Mary-Sue Research and experimentation (RaE for short)
Previous Partner/Department: was raised in PPC Nursery
Partner: Agent Aisling (sometimes)
Weapon of Choice: Scimitar, Daggers
Music of Choice: The Who, Janis Joplin, Franz Ferdinand,
Books of Choice: L.o.t.R. trilogy, Simarillion, Terry Pratchett
Pet peeves: Mary-sues, idiot writers, plot holes you can drive a truck through, Dexy’s midnight runners jokes,
Phobias: landing, cows, things-that-always-brush-past-your-leg-while-wading-through-water,
Lust Object: Adric (Doctor Who), eleventh Doctor, Charlie Weasley, Trevor (from unseen academicals)
Mini: Reaper: Marsha, Myssa,
Personality: Very hyper, and a sort of… bouncy individual. Literally, when excited she has a nasty habit of bouncing on the spot. Quick to apologize for things that aren’t necessarily her fault, but she can sulk with the best of them. Due her brief stint in a sue-fic as a child bit-character she tends to not grasp sarcasm as well as others, and has a thin skin when it comes to insults. Has a tendency to Squee occasionally and in extreme conditions will stampede.
Special quirks/abilities: Has a third Arm due to general bad writing in her brief description in Sue-fic as a child bit-character.

And now for the Link to the writing sample: http://docs.google.com/View?id=df4qxpsx_7wvxfdvf2

But it's okay, because that was all just a simulation, like the Matrix. ^_^

I should start collecting misspelled Unforgivable Curses. I've got two so far.

~Neshomeh

I suppose the Wargs will dine on Sueflesh tonight.

were the agents killed in those DIO fics actually written by suethors or were they created by you specifically to be killed?

i was thinking if, say, a sue was trying to destroy the death star. Her X-wing would only have room for one person, so the agent would need to bring a separate ship (or steal one from the death star), read her the charges over the radio, and shoot her down.

Before you start thinking about how to get a spaceship into the mission, try this question:

*Is there a way to do the mission without giving my Agents high technology?

If, for instance, it's a Star Trek mission, could the Agents spend all their time on the Enterprise? The only situation I can think of where a spaceship would be needed is if the canons are all space-faring robots, and thus don't have internal corridors.

Remember that the PPC is hideously underfunded. If there's a low-tech way of doing things, they will not use a more expensive method instead.

As to stealing a car from a Sue -- loot is part of the fun. Although a car isn't quite as decorative as a magickckck dagger...

hS