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Welcome to the Board. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket* You shan't be needing it here. Also, here is a hug. You shall get that whether you like it or not. Yay! I got to the newbie first! It's mine, all mine! Ahahahahahaha!

Welcome to the Board! Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *indicates bucket marked "Warg Fodder"* You shan't be needing it here. Also, here's a coconut. You probably shall need it, but it's useless if you have no hammer.

There is a Mini-Balrog cookbook where every dish requires pieces of a Sue (on the topic of chopping a Sue for ingredients).
Can be found here: http://www.freewebs.com/wildrose68/MiniBalrog%20Cookbook.htm

I really liked the soundtrack. I went to see it with Zotz, and he griped about how it was so closely tied to African history. My response: "Nine-foot-tall blue alien catgirls dressed in feathers. Don't tell me you didn't like it."

You know what? You're not the only one.
I like the Inheritance Cycle, too, and have even written a little something about the dragons of that continuum. It's clichéd and everything, but still a nice story. And has decent grammar.

Sorry, there was a small mistake. The question should have ended with a question mark. didn't find the mistake in time.

I have a question. What is the specific difference between a Character Analysis Device and a Canon Analysis Device. I never quite got that.

Best way round that is to do a select all once you've finished writing and then apply one font to the whole document. That way you don't have to worry about editing fonts manually.

Loved it. The 3D version is great. I especially like the landsapes, and in the credits it was fun to notice that WETA did the special effects, as they did in the LotR movies.
Unfortunately, I could only watch it in German (from Germany myself), but as soon as the DVDs are available, I will watch in English.
This whole concept of a forest interlinked is fascinating, I think. I wonder how that works biologically? And as Honu_Wahine wrote, it would be interesting to learn Na'vi.
I'm probably going to watch again for the fun :).
Elorie

Heheh. That was a formatting problem with the words. I pasted in the author's words, and then my spacing and size and font and pretty much everything else got shot to hell.
I'll try and fix that at some point.

In that mission Hogan and the Heroes did not make an effort to help the Sue either. Though there the agent notes in relief that Hogan was angry with the Sue and thus not so inclined to help, I may have set a bit of an example for this fandom.

First my introduction:
On the web, I mainly go by the name of Elorie. I have turned 18 in October, finished school and at the moment study physics at University. I live in Germany (so please, do point out whatever mistakes I might make with my English) and stumbled across the PPC by chance.
I am a fanatic when it comes to Lord of the Rings, and know the continua of Harry Potter, Narnia, Naruto, Avatar The Last Airbender, Bleach, One Piece and The Inheritance Cycle quite well.

How I came to know the PPC:
I had found the German translation of OFUM and read it in English. The references there led me to discover the PPC and I started reading.
I immediately liked the idea of killing these horrible, horrible characters. I have fanfiction for years before I found you guys, and I have seen quite a share of Mary-Sues and other abominations. I am truly glad someone deals with them. I has also made reading badfic more entertaining, because now I tend to imagine what an Assassin would do or how some typos would visualise. That can get really funny.

By now I have covered the Original Series, lots of DMS Lord of the Rings continuum, the Reorganisation, a bit from Pads and Trojie (will attempt Littlefoot x Cera next), some DMS Harry Potter stuff, SIELU, DOGA, DTE, some of the Floaters (Suicide and Ithalond mostly) and I have delved into the Wiki.
If there is anything to recommend, I am always open to suggestions!

May your tireless work continue until the Evil That Is A Sue is vanquished.
Elorie

Ah, I didn't mean the bold. That's counted under formatting anyway, to my mind, rather than font.

Here's an example, as my computer shows it.

Thanks. Yeah, I've been using the RTF for it.
The font changes are deliberate--the stuff in bold is from the story that I killed.
-Honu_Wahine

Well, I guess after you've worked through mine and Pads/Trojie's missions you deserve a short break.

Have several Dire Wallabies.

Doesn't mean I liked it particularly. But then again, as a film student it take a lot to switch my brain off.

I've actually seen it twice, once in 2D and once in 3D afterwards. I have to say, it's one of those films that you MUST see on the big screen, because at home you're going to loose half of the detail. It was my first film in 3D too, and I have to say that it's definitely worth it - for the CGI bits. The technology still needs some work (particularly with things in the very front), and it looks a lot better applied on the CGI then on the actual footage.

However, I just know in twenty years people are going to be looking back on it and going "... what's so special about the graphics in this? They're awful", and unfortunately that's about the only thing that makes it special at the moment because the plot is so horribly over done. I actually thought that the characters were quite good (vaguely well explored and pretty well acted), and that it was well written, but I don't think that that's enough to save it.

So there we go. Worth seeing, but it won't age. In my opinion. :3 I am, however, waiting for the million and six DVD copies so I can get the one with the most extras on. *_________* Some of the behind the scenes stuff is going to be epic and I can't wait to see.

He's established to be a kid, which would make being an undercover police officer rather unlikely. That said...

Before the late 1980s (and even more so before the mid-1960s), having firearms inside schools in the United States was not as unusual a situation as it is today. For a while there were still rural schools where, during hunting season, it was not unusual to simply have rifles carried around in the halls and stored in lockers during classes, and today those same areas will often have high school students simply store them in car trunks in the parking lot. One discussion of such is available here, if I got my link formatting right. It's currently unlawful in nearly all situations, but that doesn't necessarily stop people from doing it. Joel Myrick's 1997 actions would be one example of this.

Some rural (and rare suburban) schools also have have rifle teams, both air rifle and .22s. These are steadily being scaled down or outright removed, but you can find them places where they'd not be expected still. While the firearms here technically must be locked up pretty well or constantly supervised, the situation in the second arc would probably cause most people to reconsider. There are also occasionally trusted students who... ahem... 'accidentally' get access to the key or combination to these firearms.

It's still a pretty decent level of improbability, but not a matter of complete randomness.

... and no-one's spoken up yet, I'd say go for it :)

It'll be nice to see another one of your missions!

I'm sure someone else will come along shortly with a big load of links for you, although it sounds like you've found most of the main ones :)

It's good to meet you too, and I hope you enjoy our Boardly madness and stick around to join in our discussions and have a good laugh.

Welcome!

-Trojie, for once, first on the welcome wagon

I'm just a new user that found the Protectors of the Plot Continuum through the TVtropes wiki, read a number of stories, and really found the concept of dealing horrible pain to poorly written fanfiction characters entertaining. Probably not bad practice for someone hoping to get into writing again after a relatively long time out of it. I've read The Original Series, the Board Constitution, a good portion of Laburnum's work, some of the wiki, and the works of a few other PPCers. I'm currently working through IndeMaat and the Pads/Trojie works where I can find them. Is there anything recommended or mandated that I should aim for next?

As for continuum I'm familiar with: Redwall, the Vorkosigan Saga, Discworld, the Pokemon Special manga and the games, Kino's Journey, Wolf's Rain, Soul Eater, Ghost In the Shell, and a few others. There are some Star Wars and Star Trek fics out there deserving of a good spork or six, although canon is a bit loose there. I've read the LotR trilogy and a couple surrounding books, but never managed to get through the Silmarillion, so I probably am missing a lot of jokes on that.

Very happy to meet you all, and good luck with everything.

Pretty good, though I don't know the canon.

Are the font changes deliberate? It's a bit... jarring for the font to change from one paragraph to the next.

As for the cuts... are you posting using the rich text editor? That's the usual culprit for effing up a cut in such a way. I don't know how to fix it if you are, besides going into the HTML editor and completely stripping all coding and manually coding everything.

Nicely done; you worked in that bit about Sam's Sueish traits vanishing upon notice quite well, if a bit subtely.

There's one thing I must mention, and which you were probably unaware of (I really must finish that Newbie FAQ soon): canon characters will always remain under the Sue's influence until she is dead, and you had Hogan walk off without trying to help her. It's not too big a deal this time since the author apparently didn't write him as liking her very much, aside from going a bit parental, but next time be aware that one of the main problems for most agents is making the kill covertly, or restraining the canon characters until the Sue is dead.

Other than that, not bad. Congratulations on your first mission.

It is very nice even though I had no clue there was a 'Hogan's Heroes' thing but I like. And the Sue was bad. But the ice pick was a nice touch.

I've completed my first mission in the PPC, and my agents are already developing issues. Ah well.
http://agentsams.livejournal.com/
That's the link to my livejournal for the PPC. Um, there was an issue with the cuts in my journal, and there are three that go to the mission. If anyone knows how to get rid of them, could you let me know, please?
-Honu_Wahine