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Hello, fellow sailor! (I have not had the opportunity to sail on an ocean or on anything bigger than a dinghy, though.) Have a Clown Car Bag!

Here have a seventeen foot long, multi-colored, wool, knit scarf (curly wig not included), and a bag of jelly babies.

Glad to meet you. I must say that I have enjoyed being on a ship the few times that I have been aboard one (though admittedly that was always a cruise ship).

I bestow upon you a Gelatinous Dodecahedron, use it well.

Welcome!

...Yeah.

Welcome to the PPC! Here's an archery set from the Raven Armory and a bottle of bleeprin! (Wow. The middle of the ocean? That's super cool!)

Wow, a sea bound person! That's pretty awesome! There's a member around here who is pretty liberal with the dispensing of boats, so that'll work.

Anyway, nice to meet you! Here is the first, or depending on how long it takes to type this and how busy the boards is today, the second or third, of many gifts, a bag of punctuation! It comes in handy. A lot.

Oh dear. I ran out of exclamation marks. Oh well, see you around.

Lurkers that introduce themselves are preferable to those that don't, right?
Bein' a long-time member of the 'People That Think the Seamanship in POTC Fanfics Should Be Slightly Realistic Club' (long name, short member roster), and havin' had some interest in the work of you fine people for a while now, I figured I should introduce myself. That way if I see something of interest to post about, nobody will be confused as to who I am. Nobody much, anyway.
I have more of an interest in history than I do nonfiction, these days, but I do enjoy pirate movies (POTC, etc.), science fiction, and Redwall.
That's all. I do have a habit of dissapearing for long periods of time, due to the fact that the internet doesn't work well out in the middle of the ocean, but otherwise I at least attempt to show up sometimes.
And that really is all, this time.

Do you have any connections to the DMSE&R? I already have enough things for my agents to collect, and don't think that giving one of them a fascination for Sue sanity would add anything (a sense that many Suethors strangely seem to be lacking). However, if there is some way to get the DMSE&R involved, we have a semi-reasonable sequence of events. Somewhat off-topic, but this discussion is reminding me of a line from a song. <singing>Lucy, please be still and hide your madness in a jar...</singing>

I actually thought that fic was kind of funny. But your sporking is funnier by far.

I've yet to start, unfortunately. I really need to get around to writing both the story and the MST that I've been planning on, but procrastination plagues me so.

Strangly, St Patrick's Day isn't that popular outside the Anglo-Saxon part of the world.

Yesterday, I typed up about 40% of what I had written so far, that came at about 2200 words. Even the long hand version isn't finished yet, but I have started to look for a point where the agents can ambuse the Stu. He's a bit of an elusive fellow, not much of the centre point of the story, but does make everyone else out of character.

...I guess I'm the assistant resident teetotaler?

Anyway, I had a couple of older, unfinished stories I was working on for March Madness, but then my hard drive decided I had too much saved on my laptop, and deleted itself--to death!

I am now working on a new story, but it will be shorter and maybe not quite as professional as it would have been otherwise. It's a little different, and I don't know that everyone will like it, but it's been fun to work on, and I hope it will still be mildly amusing.

How...why...how?

How did you even read this? Just the parts you quoted in the mission were enough to make me want to shotgun myself in the heart. Twice. You, sirs (or madams, or persons), have stomachs of tempered steel.

And now, I will go back to assuming that fic was an intentionally cracky parody, and not something the author wrote for personal enjoyment.

I personally haven't tried it for a sue's sanity. Maybe you could test it out for me.

I agree. You can do things with an OC that you would never be able to do with someone else's agent, customize them to an extent that would otherwise be impossible. Does anyone know where I can find a preferably female, not very Sueish Sue, possibly with some love of pointy daggers (I got a nice set of them from Cinnia Aine), that shows promise as an agent? It's difficult to find someone that matches what I'm imagining, but I hope that I'll be able to find someone that is close enough in a mission-worthy badfic.

Thanks for the grammar and the slang! I'm sure that the grammar will give my agents a bit of comfort in the turbulence of a badly-written story, and I'm sure that I will be able to come up with a use for the slang once I learn what it is (time to talk to my parents!)

Still, I'm working on a couple miscellaneous PPC stories, if they count, though I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish them by the end of March.

If right to give permission is measured in a numbered scale, I'm in the negative, but I just wanted to know where, exactly, the third arm is meant to BE. Middle of the back? Middle of the front? Out of one armpit? Out of one shoulder? This I must know.

Let's see if I can stop myself from falling behind this time!

Thanks for the locker, though see my previous posts for how often it will be used for that purpose. All gifts are welcome, though! Will work for a Sue's sanity as well?

I must've missed the memo.

Anyway, I might still manage to get something done; would have to be short, though. And I like your interlude - I'll send it back soon as I can.

I posted an interlude a few days ago. It is just under the Aster Selene thread. Now I'm working on a mission in Stargate: Atlantis. :D

Read both, but not recently. Should probably get back into them.

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).