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Ooh, Leicestershire. I'm in Hull right now, but I used to live in Derby.

Yeah, steering clear of Legendary Badfic is usually of the good.

That's okay then. Sanity is overrated anyway.

Sorry. Harry/Snape is definitely bad, especially if you ask my housemate.

Thanks for the rec.

KHR! was, and still is, on my list of anime series' to check out. It lost repeatedly, to Code Geass, Gundam 00, Macross Frontier and now Kyou Kara Maou. One of these days I shall get around to watching it.

Ooh, nice mission. And I like the Code Geass reference.

I hail from the fair village of Harby, Leicestershire!

I'll have a look at those links, plenty of reading material! I may well steer clear of the Legendary Badfic for now, I only just ate!

Sanity lost years ago, no need of it anymore!

Hmm.... Harry/Snape. Lunch is off the menu, I feel!

I comes bearing links. *drags out Big Bag O' Links and digs through it*

First off is the link to the Wiki, a veritable fount of information for a newbie to read through. Especially helpful for you if you want to write missions would be the page on Permission (note the capital P).

I would advise against reading any Legendary Badfic, unless you are of strong mind and stomach. Even the summaries have been known to give those of weaker constitution nightmares.

For your reading pleasure, not knowing what you have already managed to find, I have several links for you. The Original Series (not to be confused with Star Trek) is a good place to start, as the PPC did many aeons ago. What do you mean I'm exaggerating? The Department of Geographical Aberrations is another interesting place to visit, if you have the time and inclination. Also by hS is the Tangled Webs site, which contains backstory for the PPC as an organisation. If you would rather visit the Floaters, then July's site is the place you need to be. And last, but most definitely not least, Response Centre 45 is where Trojie and Pads' missions are archived.

Hope you enjoy your stay here. Please deposit your sanity into the container offered to you by another Boarder; you won't be needing it here.

Ooh, the UK, huh? Whereabouts in this fair country would you happen to be, if you don't mind me asking.

Slytherin!Harry/Draco is a pairing that just. won't. die! The only thing worse, in my mind right now, is Slytherin!Harry/Snape.

This explanation is just in case you're not a fan of Medeival History. If you are, please ignore this.

Have a Byzantine Dromon!

e.g. S&S and Redd were perfectly competent with weaponry, but were effectively illiterate, unfamiliar with anything remotely technological, and still weirded out by humans, so they needed some more in-depth help.

Hello all,

I just thought I'd register on here and say hello to you all and introoduce myself a little.

I'm 23 and from the UK, have been a Fanfic reader for many, many years, attempted to write some before, however never posted any of my stuff online, oh, and I get terribly irritated by awful badfic! (it makes my skin crawl in a terrible way!) I remember reading on FF.net a long while ago, a Harry Potter story, where Harry decides to join Slytherin and beds Draco....Need I say more? I definitely wanted to find and savagely beat the author with a rusty spoon!

Anyway, I'm wanting to try flexing my writing muscles again, and see where it takes me. I'll try and post on here as often as possible. Some of you I've already met on the IRC channel - last night was amusing!

Let the insanity begin!

-Sev

I guess I forgot to mention that possibility clearly in my response, but I was thinking about it! I just pulled the page up in IE (I normally use Firefox) and got the same problem. Does anyone get this in any other browser? I did run a test of this, though. The page code alone seems to work well, so check it with the .css (I didn't see one) file(s), or whatever gives the page its appearance. If the problem is still present, I recommend switching to Firefox, as it is likely a problem with FreeWebs.

I've never heard of Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, but you explained in there why things were out of character, so I think I followed it pretty well. Man, that was an uber powerful Sue. Between the two of them, I don't think they missed many super powers.

You know, the "I'm 14 and fail my english classes." (English being uncapped there because the Suethor left it uncapped.) Is probably one of the lamest excuses possible. She's admitting that she knows the story is total garbage, but she's going to post it anyway? Honestly, it takes some special kind of stupid (and arrogance) to do that.

I liked how you took them down, even if it was tense for a bit there at the end. Oh! Also, that mini chameleon sounds awesome!

Thank you, Tooth Fairy.

That is strange, because it's still there, and it looks like the kind of error that comes when an html tag is dropped. It's definitely behaving like a link, though to a non-existant page. (It's "Chapter One: Welcome to the PPC!", by the way.)

And yes, sure, I'd be glad to help. I can't do it all overnight and it'll take me a while to emulate the style, but I'd love to see it finished. (Might I suggest, though, that if there are more volunteers, we list the sections that need filling and claim them, so that we don't get many people writing for the same part, and not for others?)

By the way, do I get a shiny coin now?

It looks like an html tag got lost somewhere; most of the "Welcome to the PPC!" paragraph is a link in itself, and it clearly shouldn't be. Every other link is as red as it should be. For the record, I use IE.

March Madness -- GOAL.
It's been over a year since the last mission I wrote; it was nice to stretch these muscles again. (It's also been a while since I ran into something that made me quite so irate. >.>)
Anyway.

Mission: What Did We Do To Deserve This?
Agents: Katrina and Samuel, DMS
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Probably SFW, though Kat does tend to swear a bit.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! is probably unfamiliar to the majority of the Board. It's a fairly standard shonen manga/anime, about a teenaged boy, Tsunayoshi Sawada, who is wholly useless. Unfortunately, he's the sole remaining eligible candidate for the position of the tenth-generation boss of a large and influential mafia family. Hijinks ensue. I do recommend it if you have spare time and/or a burning need to expand your fandoms. It can be a bit silly/monotonous/etc. for the first ~60 chapters/ ~20 episodes, occasionally called the 'Daily Life' arc, but after that it quickly becomes a whole lot more epic.
Sadly for the canon characters, the majority of them are pretty boys.

I acknowledge that most people probably won't even bother, given how few seem to know the fandom. Still, it got done, and that has to count for something. ^_^

Especially with all the newbies we're getting. The wiki's amazing, but I think it might be hard to tell where to start, and if one doesn't know what to look for...

I'd love to help, but I have the feeling an oldbie would be more useful than a spazzy midbie with a poor attendance record. :P Still, if I can be of use...

Technically hS is in charge of the Manual, and I think there were one or two other people with the password to the account, but I have no idea what hS's feelings are about it these days, and pretty much everyone else moved on. So, yeah.

I don't see what you're talking about either, though. I do seem to recall a strange thing with Freewebs where a mouseover would cause the text to become red (might've been one of hS's sites), but it has nothing to do with links. It's just Freewebs being dumb.

Incidentally, what with a seeming revival of interest in the Manual, does anyone want to actually help FINISH the thing? If so, please please let me know. Send me content and I will bloody well code the thing, and it will be amazing. {= D

~Neshomeh

I'm not sure what you're seeing, but the page looks fine to me. Unlike the wiki, the manual is set up so that all links show red. Is it something beyond this? If it is, what browser are you using? I'm not as good as Techno-Dann, and am not yet an agent, but I do hope that I will be able to help you.

It's rather haphazard, really. It ranges from "here is sword, stick this end in Sue after reading charges" to thorough, intense training that doesn't let any recruits go until they can handle missions confidently and carefully.

Not to be rude, of course, but this is the most efficient way of finding out (I have a feeling it's Neshomeh? Or Dann? Or the PPC Tooth Fairy?).

Anyway, to whomever: A large part of the opening paragraph on this page is a massive redlink. I thought you'd want to fix it.

I feel like re-reading the Manual anyway, so if I see any more such things, I can let you know, if you like. Otherwise I'm just being bothersome.

1. I don't know anything about Final Fantasy before or after VII, so can't help here.
   
   2. I don't know if there is an official stance, but certainly the prevailing stance is that in-story author's notes distract from the story and are annoying; the place for author's notes is at the beginning or the end of the story/chapter, not within.
   
   3. If you mean the wiki, then no, we prefer people to wait until they have Permission to post their characters. However, there's nothing stopping you from putting them somewhere else, such as wherever you intend to post your missions when you DO have Permission. {= )
   
   4. Assuming by "causes" you meant "charges"... But yeah, there are plenty of circumstances like that. It's all about whether the fanfic violates the canon, and how badly. If a character speaking with bad grammar is canon, then it wouldn't be a charge in a fanfic (unless the ENTIRE FIC had horrible grammar).
   
   5. Agent training: possibly one of the most confused issues we have. Technically the answer is "yes," but the fact is that most agents never get it. Mostly they're just assigned a partner and learn everything from them, because if they don't they'll die horribly. For more on this, see the Manual, Volume 1, Chapter 5.
   
   Hope that helps. {= )
   
   ~Neshomeh

I myself am a member of the 'People Who Enjoy the PotC Movies But Wish Disney Had Left the Rides Alone Club' (an even shorter roster).

Anyway, here's a venomous arthropod to keep you company on those long oceanic voyages...

We like knowing who's lurking.
Here, have a leash for your brain; it's flame retardant, and may help keep track if your mind goes wandering. ^^

I'll join the rest of the thread in being a bit awed at the 'middle of the ocean' thing; may I ask what you're doing there?
Nice to meet you~

Direct quote from the wiki:
"Health and Safety consists of giving new agents a few minutes training with their shiny new weaponry before throwing them at, for instance, rampaging Jedi/Amazon Sues."

...so make of that what you will.
I do know that the Nursery has a day-care-type-thing which trains the older kids up a bit, but beyond that... Well, I don't think there's too much in the way of official training. Mostly the veterans teach the newbies in a completely informal manner, often out on missions, IIRC.

Your other questions I am not so certain on, sorry.

How do agents get trained? Is there a section of HQ that's reserved for it? Class-like things?

I liked it. Though the colours are a bit off-putting and don't really fit with the background.

Honestly. The fic is giving me the creepy crawlies. What you chose to copy and paste over is completely and utterly... I can see why you wanted to kill it. :D

Script format is interesting. You're going with humour, so I'm rather enjoying it. Keep it up! I want to see how you squash it!

Okay. As a perpetual questioner...

1. Is this badfic? A friend of mine likes it. I say sic the Department of Implausible Crossovers on it.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5551303/1/OfSleepersShynessandMusic_Motifs

2. I've seen a lot of griping about in-text author's notes; what's the official standpoint on notes that are very clearly separated from the text of the story? I like them - they're sort of like those DVD extras in my mind.

3. I don't have permission and will be lacking in both permission and time for a bit, but would it be okay for me to post some characters anyway in case of roleplays and so I'll have plenty of time to work out all the problems?

4. This last one is more due to my love for weird hypothetical questions, but can anyone think of situations when things that are normally causes might not be? Like, if you were writing from the perspective of a character, and that character canonically had bad grammar, you'd have to. Same goes for urple prose.

So, uh, yeah.