First off, I want to inform Sedri that she is truly awesome. -nods earnestly- Thank you so much for writing this!
Now onto the draft itself. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have an odd fixation with official-y things, and so enjoy reading FAQs, Rules and Regulations, and similar things. This one was informative and well written. I didn't mind the length, but I suspect I'm in a minority. At least, among newbies. Then again, perhaps if they can't be bothered to read the FAQ they don't belong here...
However, if you're looking to chop things out, I would suggest moving some of the mission guideline stuff to a new post. I know you already thought of that, so basically I'm seconding it. I would put all of part 3 except the emergencies into its own section and link the main FAQ page to that. I think the part about not writing emergencies should stay on the main page, since it's important and writing Epic Stories to impress everyone is tempting.
That should cut it down a bit. Apart from that, I have no useful suggestions that don't concern random spelling/grammar stuff which I imagine you can catch on your own. You seem to have covered everything I wondered and more.
Thanks once again!
--ananmia
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ye gods! by
on 2010-01-13 20:24:00 UTC
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Re: Big Sib, Little Sib by
on 2010-01-13 20:11:00 UTC
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I too would like a big sib, mostly to answer the annoying little questions i have.
Also, I don't know if I get to do this, but I'd be willing look over other missions and check at least for grammar and coherency. I don't promise to be an expert at PPC canon (i'm not, obviously. I've only been here a week, after all,) but I flatter myself that my English skills are good enough to beta.
My AIM name is anamia8742, and my email is thirteenskater(@)gmail(.)com (without parentheses, obviously). AIM's your best bet, since I don't check my email nearly as often as I should.
--anamia
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Welcome, new newbie! by
on 2010-01-13 19:23:00 UTC
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Help yourself to your favorite venomous arthropod!
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Thank you fellow newbie by
on 2010-01-13 18:19:00 UTC
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I really appreciate the link, it's quite useful.
And it's OK. I collect greetings. -Holds up greeting baskets-
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Ah man. Where do I start... by
on 2010-01-13 18:15:00 UTC
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Lord of the Rings (Books, I kinda spaced out on the movies after Aragorn went over the cliff and Elves fought at Helm's Deep)
Discworld
Dragon Age
Fable II
Elder Scrolls
Harry Potter (Off and on)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II
Dragonriders of Pern
Redwall
Various others I can't think of at the moment...
And thank you for the warm welcome.
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DA: O is /Amazing/ by
on 2010-01-13 17:34:00 UTC
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Did you give your wizard a specialization in Arcane Warrior? Arcane Warriors own /everything/, and you get to use your magic attribute for strength when it comes to weapons and armor.
At least now I know what a Dwarf female looks like. (The Noble Origin is /fun/. And mean).
I do have to name BioWare one of the Kings of the RPGs
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List of presents by
on 2010-01-13 17:21:00 UTC
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All you girls and guys are so nice! *happy*
After all these presents I felt compelled to make a list to credit everyone for their kindness!
In chronological order:
A hug (+ a bucket to deposit sanity) by Maudlin Hart (Thanks, and first one!)
A mute button and a bottle of Bleeprin (much oblidged for that!) by Bronwyn
A Mammoth Tank by WikiMaster (maybe for an Autorwraith to experiment on some time later?)
A titanium spork and a box of air by Aztec (Weapon, yay! Where's the next Sue?)
A granite pillow and a DMS flag by Sedri (Yay!)
A sparkly rock by anamia (Whee, sparkly!)
Lembas by The Trojanhorse (The Trojie *gasp* gave me something)
A venomous arthropod by doctorlit (Maybe I can keep that in the Tank?)
A gold-plated egg whisk by Sara (New favourite weapon!)
A tall ship by Khajidu (Wish I could take it to Valinor sometimes...)
Thank you all so much! Such a huge collection already!
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Re: Hello! by
on 2010-01-13 17:12:00 UTC
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Bleeprin! Thank you! *hugs teary-eyed*
I think you just saved my remaining sanity for a while longer!
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*blinks* *recoils from Wall O' Text* by
on 2010-01-13 17:08:00 UTC
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Bit hard to read that the way you have it formatted, gattsuru.
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Re: You're a Welcome Addition! by
on 2010-01-13 17:05:00 UTC
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Thank you! *bows*
Now I can keep a Mini-Mammoth! Or a frozen Mammoth! Wheee!
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Re: Draft for the FAQ for Newbies. FEEDBACK, PLEASE! by
on 2010-01-13 17:02:00 UTC
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Wow. This is awesome.
I think it is perfectly fine as it is, though I have come across a few spelling mistakes. To that end, gattsuru has already commented on that, including quotes.
Again, truly Wow.
I thank you very much for this.
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Re: Big Sib, Little Sib by
on 2010-01-13 16:25:00 UTC
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I can be adopted? Wheee! *bounces happily*
*serious on*
Actually, I feel a lot like being adopted or at least helped a little.
The main thing is fo course getting into this whole PPC stuff and to have someone I can drive (even more) insane with useless questions.
There is another thing though; as I am not native to English, I sometimes have trouble with colloquials, grammar rules or Big Words and thus wouldn't mind someone help me a little in that department.
I hope this is the right thread to post this, if not, kindly ignore my babbling.
Elorie
*serious off*
Yay! Someone adopt me! *puppy eyes*
Am I going insane already? Haven't behaved like that in a long time. Maybe I had to much chocolate...
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Nthing the motion, some nitpicks by
on 2010-01-13 16:23:00 UTC
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Seconded. Wow, very quick to come up with that much detail.
A few SPAG things: "Pleanty of PPC agents have powers," should probably be plenty, "PPC is aboug having fun" should be about, "firey deamons" to fiery deamons, "touch realisim with a ten mile pole" to "realism", "crackier than a crack sandwhich" possibly to "sandwich", "Remeber that writing a mission" to Remember, "No one should be nonchalent" to nonchalant, "I got Permisison a while ago to write" to Permission, "but also many conflicting disctinctions" to distinctions, "We have specific dicisions for" to divisions, "who don’t have at least one such skeleton in their closests" to closets, "the aim is to be entertainings" to entertaining, "panic, near-homocidal mania" to homicidal, "Occassionally it results in laughter" to Occasionally, "More specifc questions are answereed" to specific and answered, "Remeber that this work" to Remember, "PPCing religous badfic" to religious, "division and a deparment?" to department, "Mission Proceedures and Technology" to Procedures, "the agent’s mind will remian unaffected" to remain, "tends to do so rather spectauclarly"
to spectacularly, "Is there a standard proceedure for exorcisms" to procedure, "You can post directly to ourr" to our, "Permission equalls a" to equals, "Remeber, no one around" to remember, and "off Legenday Badfic" to Legendary.
I dunno if laudible is an alternate spelling of laudable, or posessed for possessed, or souveniers for souveniers.
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Re: Welcome. Here's a tall ship. by
on 2010-01-13 16:14:00 UTC
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Sorry, a mistake. Should have been "Now" instead of "No". Sadly these message boxes do not have a spell check...
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Re: Welcome. Here's a tall ship. by
on 2010-01-13 16:12:00 UTC
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Thank you! *Bows*
Whee! I always wanted a ship... So nice of you to give me one! *gives some cookies in return* No to find someone to help me navigate it...
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-Shrugs apologetically- by
on 2010-01-13 14:48:00 UTC
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-Tosses mass amounts of beef into the Warg Fodder- Unfortunately, I lost mine a while ago, and haven't been able to find it yet. (Sanity guys. I'm talking about sanity. Don't let the 'M' fics overwhelm your brain)
And yummy! Root veggies! Just no sweet potatoes/yams, right? -Cautious look at the roots as she starts rummaging- Don't like yams.
Anyone want stew?
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ALTERNATIVE - link to the complete document by
on 2010-01-13 10:56:00 UTC
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Why didn't I think of this before I posted four seperate parts? No idea. Probably because it's midnight. I will now have much more sympathy for those people who post at two in the morning out of sheer enthusiasm and relief for having finally finished.
Either way, here's the link to the entire thing over at my livejournal. Anonymous comments are allowed, so feel free to put your feedback there. Or here. I don't mind. :)
http://sedri.livejournal.com/81214.html