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Wow, thank you. In gratitude I present you a bunch of explosives and C4.

...which fic was it?

I read one of your mission-type-things once. You guys are good.

Have a softnose laser! Er, many softnose lasers!

"Mini Zombrillaz?"

Oh, the band is AWESOME. Even if you don't like their music, you can't not love their backstory. The bassist and singer met when the former ran the latter over. Twice. And they kidnapped the drummer, who has the ghosts of his dead friends trapped in his head, and their guitarist, aged ten, arrived in a FedEx crate from Japan.

Yeah, I sort of stopped doing those when the number of students got sorta unwieldy. I should start again.

Nice idea, though "Mini-Zombie-Apes" is a bit of a mouthful. Gotta trim it down somehow ... Just "Mini-Apes"?

I know diddly about the band, but the art is fun. And that is a ridiculously huge gun he's got. O.o

Say, do you still have OFUR students to draw? It just occurred to me that it's been a while since I've seen any of those pop up in my devWatch.

~Neshomeh

My apologies also.

The thing is, while the PPC is technically a bureaucracy, it isn't like our bureaucracies. It's pretty much just the Board of Department Heads, Department Heads, Division Heads, and the agents. The various Heads might have secretaries, assistants and whatnot, but it doesn't subdivide after that, so far as I'm aware. So... unless the Department/Division Heads count, there isn't any middle management. They got shipped off and crash-landed in Earth's past.

I suppose that's not to say that there couldn't be, but I think the hierarchy among the departments pretty much takes care of it, as far as the assignment of partners and missions. In the case of the former, pretty much everyone goes through the Marquis de Sod in Personnel (though not always). He communicates with the Heads in the other departments and arranges for placement, upon which the new agent is the problem of whatever department they end up with, and they would communicate with that Department Head for pretty much everything in the future, including reassignment (unless it were to a different department).

In the case of missions, the Spies in the Intelligence Department scout out fics beforehand and write up their reports, which go to the Sub Rosa. If it's a Sue, she sends it to the Sunflower Official, who sends it to the first available team with the requisite canon expertise. If it's bad slash, it goes to the Queen Anne's Lace, who sends it on. If it's a crossover, it goes to the Lichen, who sends it on. If none of them want it, it goes to Floaters, or possibly the Department of WTF. And so on, and so forth. And sometimes mistakes happen, which is our excuse for taking on badfics our agents wouldn't normally get, so there's no sense messing with that.

Both of the aforementioned are aided by the fact that the Flowers are telepathic and have access to ridiculously advanced computers. Heck, the computers might do more deciding than the Flowers.

I'll add the caveat that if you think you can get interesting, funny stories out of a guy somewhere in the middle of all that, then no one will object, but I don't see how it could be a position of actual power/authority without nerfing one of the Flowers, and that probably will raise objections. Which is why I mentioned delusions of grandeur. Imagined power/authority can only be amusing and therefore completely acceptable. {= )

Moving on: many agents are based on real people, often the people who write for them. That's totally cool. Even "more extreme" is cool as long as it doesn't edge into Sue/Studom.

I wasn't really concerned with Alaric's strength so much as the abilities with complex equipment and hygiene that you mentioned, because, as you also mentioned, those aren't usual for the armored bears. However, there are probably several perfectly good explanations for why he might be different, such as peer pressure from his partner and fellow agents in the case of hygiene. Also, I seem to recall that Iorek Byrnison was supposed to get them to clean up their act a bit as King, but I could be misremembering that.

Anyway. The cardinal rule of the PPC is humor, so as long as it's all for fun and fun for all, there shouldn't really be problems. It's just that I've seen a lot of new people come through with big ideas that don't follow that rule, and you DID come in guns blazing on the Wiki, so my tendency is to raise my eyebrows and maybe come off a bit harsh until I'm sure I know what's going on. Or rather, until I'm sure that YOU know what's going on. {= ) So, keep reading the Original Series and whatever other PPC stories take your fancy, keep your ideas in mind, and we'll see what happens in about a month, yes?

~Neshomeh

I think it was less than clear that the reason Alaric is much better groomed than his canonical brethren is the fact that he has access to industrial-strength shampoos and a partner interested or bored enough to use it to good effect. If I'm reading what you wrote correctly, that's the only area where he's leaps and bounds ahead of canonical panserbjørne?

(As far as strength and innate metalworking ability go, yes, panserbjørne are very strong and good with metals. It's innate to the species, and not something that's easy to remove. You'll have to dance the very careful dance of how-much-is-too-much with that one, I wish you the best, as the two of them look like they'll be very interesting partners to read.)

If you want paraphrasing, that's what PPC missions are for. {= ) I might know where to find some of those. Maybe.

~Neshomeh

Surely that's not a mini but a combination of "Paula Deen" and "Swalot," then?

I especially liked where she got stuck in the grass until 'finally'. And shooting her with Legolas' arrow was inspired.

The Society thanks you for those and in return gives you a stack of manuals for So You Want to Be a Gary-Stu Killer Who Uses Inexplicably Sharp Weapons to Eviscerate Victims by our resident Gary-Stu Gutter, Michael, and a tribble in stasis. Watch out, because those things reproduce like mad once they're out of it. Rest assured they will eat all your snacks and attack any halflings, Sues, or Klingons in the area.

Welcome to the Board! Glad to see another organization like this one. In honor of our meeting, have an emperor scorpion and a collection of unprinted novels.

In my opinion, it's still a mini-rayquaza, but it should constantly have a "Kiss the cook" apron and chef hat on, plus it should talk in a french accent.

*Sighs* I tried...

Mini-zombie apes, of course. Considering how often those guys pop up in the Gorillaz videos and on the website, it only makes sense.

In the Society we don't have separate departments, so any of our agents are capable of covering bad slash.

That's not my sanity. When I joined the Society I threw all of that into our incinerator.

*goes off to hunt down Pads's writer-brain* Here brainy brainy brainy... *waves teapot seductively*

I'm afraid you can't bring that into the meeting. *points to asterselene's sanity* Please leave it in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"*

Gods, I hate that book. Are The Rabbits Symbolic? Oooh...

So, did they ever get the aardvark off Mewtwo?

I'm working on a badfic with Bronwyn, which is sort of based on Pokemon. There are tons of minis involved, so if anyone has ever wanted mini-Rayquazas, keep an eye out--they are coming!

But we ran into something that seems to us to be really unusual. One of the chapters is written like a cooking show and is attributed to "Swaula Deen"

So the question is: Does this make a mini? If it does, is it a World One mini? What do World One minis look like? Or is it just another Rayquaza?

I know DOGA has a few suncrushers, but what are the rules about sending a vehicle through a portal? If I'm doing a mission that takes place in space, will I be able to enter the story from my response center and generate a ship in the canon or will I have to go to a special hangar and fly a DSAT-built ship through a portal there? Also, if a sue I'm trying to kill has a world 1 compatible car, can I take that back to the real world with me *(Which would require portalling somewhere besides my RC)?

... is that you have to read so much of the original fic. >.>

The banter is infinitely more entertaining than the actual story. I think the sporking would actually be better served by your characters paraphrasing the entries rather than having comments interspersed between them.

Does your association have anyone who covers bad slash? Perhaps we could organise exchanges :D