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I'll try to learn it. Thanks :)

Speaking of HTML, you should know I've got your stories up in the archive, with some other stuff, here: Lost Tales: DoSAT.

Let me know if it's okay. DoSAT is yours by association, so if you want the "keys" so you can do stuff in the section, you have but to ask.

~Neshomeh

<font color="[colornumber]"> , where [colornumber] is the color you want in hexadecimal: #000000 is black (00 red, 00 blue, 00 green), #FFFFFF is white (FF red, FF blue, FF green), and any other color is somewhere in between - #FF0000 is bright red, #009900 is a darkish green, and so on. There's a useful description of the things here.

Font colors work with a hexadecimal color code, meaning a six-number code of numbers 0-9 and letters A-F. All 0s is no color, or black; all Fs is white. Between, you've got red, green, and blue. For example:

produces red text.

produces green text.

produces blue text

I've also bolded the text so the color shows up better. Numbers produce darker, more saturated colors. If I want really bright colors, I switch over to letters:

Bright red!

Bright green!

Bright blue!

Always use to close a font tag.

You can combine numbers and letters for different results:

Dark green.
Brighter dark green.
Darker bright green.
Bright green.

Unfortunately, that's as well as I understand it, so if I want more complex colors, I cheat.

~Neshomeh, who advocates cheating as a method of learning HTML.

I know how to italicise i > and bold b >, but I'm no code expert, and changing colours ie beyond me.

Yeah, I guess you have good points. According to the book(it's formatted as an illegal, unauthorized guide to everything Pandora, with warnings about the RDA), Earth is slowly dying in a toxic sludge pit, and not just the ground, it's also the atmosphere. So, either the ozone layer has left the house completely(something that I kinda doubt), or there's just so many heavy metals and dangerous/toxic/unsafe chemicals in the air that it wouldn't make a difference either way. According to aforementioned book, the masks that the humans on Pandora were wearing are one step away from becoming standard wear on Earth, to go with crappy carb/you-don't-want-to-know-what-the-hell-it-is food supplements and like ten people to a room housing conditions. The only upside seems to be that basic gengineering, like getting your eyesight enhanced, or getting bioluminescent tattoos(very popular with the Pandora-lovers/tree hugger set) is fairly easy and a mainstream type thing.
It's actually fairly cool to think about that, but then these blasted teeny-boppers come along and ignore the rules set up by the canon's parent-figure for the universe. If I ever get my novel finished and published by Baen(I shoot for the moon, lol!), I'm going to state that fanfiction for my work will result in instant legal action... Hmmmm. This is what the lack of caffeine and an all-night internet-trawling session has done to my coherency. I'm going to log off now, before I *completely* loose my mind.
*wanders back off her soapbox, muttering about Nyquil and bed*
-Honu_Wahine

I agree with you about the stories. And no, as long as there are teeny-boppers, there will always be sue-fics.

But an observation.

Some have cited the existance of Dr. Augustine's cigarettes (tobacco and wood paper) as evidence of a plothole vis-a-vis the existance of Terran plantlife.

However...

This could be fixed by saying that Earth has basically fallen into neglect in comparison to the off-world, in-system colonies. The oceans have been maintained somewhat to keep the oxygen cycle going, but most plantlife is now found on these self-same colonies (except for the "breather" algae and plankton in the oceans, of course).

However, due to the depression cited, even thesde steps may be flagging.

It may be Canon, but I just find it unbeleivable... if only for the fact that we as a species are too dang vain to let the earth become a city-world without it being maginally attractive (if horribly overcrowded in the style of Tokyo).

But that's just me. I just don't like senseless dystopias... sensible ones, yes, but it's a quirk.

Actually, to your point about Earth still being "green"-- nuh-uh. It ain't happening. There's a guide-book to the movie that just came out(20 freaking dollars, damnit...) that said that Earth was basically an over-crowded cesspit that was just barely liveable. Think one of the worst slums you can find on Earth, doesn't matter where, multiply it by ten, and then spread it all over the entire world. Wait....That does fit the Nar Shaddaa thing pretty well, doesn't it? Eh, who cares? The book was good, but damn expensive, more's the pity.
Yeah, I guess it is a Toruk. Heheh. I've watched the movie twice already and plan to go a third time....*epic fail!* I suck.
The sad thing is, this once pristine, shiny new fandom sparkling with light has now been hit with a plague. Ye gads. Do suethors ever take a freaking vacation? Wait, no, don't answer that.
Travesty one: The Girl That Never Lived. *beats head against a wall* Oh god, make it stop. The main OC is Jake Sully's sister, which has no canon backing, has created her own Avatar body(in 3 to 4 months, when it takes about 6.9 years to make a full-grown one...that might explain something...), and her lack of description/story sense makes me sad.
Number Two: Pandora's Box. Why? Because the first person POV stinks, and the writing and some of the descriptions are horrible. Or it's just the lack of descriptions, except in the first paragraph where there's no pacing to speak of, and the only good descriptions are of the main antagonistic bastard and her stupid gengineered pet wolf. In the last two or three paragraphs of her first chapter, there's a description completely at odds with the entire freaking Avatar 'verse Earth. I'm sorry, but there is *no freaking room* for a godsdamned ranch! AHHHHHH!
Excuse me for a moment. I have to got beat my head against a wall until the pain stops. I may be prejudiced against most authors, but these two stories deserve the mile long rant. Both of them just seem....horrible.
*walks off stage, muttering about tylenol and a large hammer*
-Honu_Wahine

…and it seems that you must change the color of each letter individually

That dissapearing font thing? I didn't know you could change text colour here.

1. Could I add a new page to PPC wikia to describe this new Fandom? Of course you can! Everyone is allowed and encouraged to edit and alter the wiki and add to it if they want.
2. If there are badfics, where do I list them? Right here. Add the category where appropriate if you need to.
3. Could I make up a new type of minis, such as mini-Knightmares? Of course you can, if there's no OFU for the canon in question. If there is, they usually list what the mini is in the first chapter or so. (Oooor you can just ignore that.) Try to not choose anything common or not unique. Like mini-Dragons.
4. Does anybody know a Permission Giver's email? I MIGHT need Permission sometime. I know many PG emails, and would amuse myself by giving some of them to you, but you can also ask for Permission right here in the open on the board. I believe that's the usually preferred way of doing things.

*Disappears!*

As to your points:

A) I also like the way Quaddritch died

B) The "dragon thing" is a Toruk or (if you want to go all Linnean on us) the "Great Leonopteryx"

And as for me...

I liked it, but the inconsitencies got to me in a few places, such as the mention of "Bad Bush" in Venezuela when Cameron says that Earth is basicvally a slimier version of Nar Shadda.

What I choose to believe is that Easrth is still "Green"... but much of the planet has been so throughly domesticated that farms cover most of the rural landmass in a modern three-field system, most meat is now cloned in vats and most major megafauna now exist mainly as clonable genetic samples.

venezueala... tree plantations and fields gone feral due to the war most likely.

I'm basically ignoring Cameron on this one just because it seems so unbelievable.

Have a couple of questions, hope you don't mind answering them:

1. Could I add a new page to PPC wikia to describe this new Fandom?
2. If there are badfics, where do I list them?
3. Could I make up a new type of minis, such as mini-Knightmares?
4. Does anybody know a Permission Giver's email? I MIGHT need Permission sometime.

Thanks,
~Xanthia B.~

i'll go with depressurizing the aft compartment

You just kind of have to deal with that. The dock method is the only one that doesn't seal interior doors automatically, but they'll probably seal the interior doors anyway. Unless you can hack the airlock open, you'll depressurize at least one compartment unless you fix the door.

the thing that gets me is that an airlock is made of two doors and both of them would probably closed. You would have to cut through both of them and then leave the enemy ship with no way to stop venting oxygen. For some reason I don't totally understand this doesn't seem right. I'm trying to find a way to board the ship, steal all of the cargo, and leave without depressurizing the ship (Although the engines are disabled.)

You could cut through the hull, using an airlock designed to allow you to do so without depressurizing the compartment, or just cut through the hull in a spacesuit.

...dock against the airlock, then come through your airlock, maintaining a hard seal so no air escapes.

I guess you could wear a spacesuit and cut through the interior doors as well, or go through an inner airlock that doesn't seal you out, but there are obvious problems with both approaches.

I've mainly seen the first one, sometimes the second one. Third is rare, but not impossible.

In my fic I have a scene where the protagonist boards another ship by breaching the airlock, but I never really thought about how this would be done. If you simply destroyed the airlock with a bomb, the adjoining room would probably be sealed off to prevent the atmosphere from escaping the ship. In your fandoms, how do people usually breach an airlock?

I was a bit hasty there, wasn't I? So, have you read the fic now?

Yeah, July's OC got recruited, much to the real July's chagrin. Cant remember if she lost her mind though

I'm not certain, but I believe someone - July, maybe? - was ordered to PPC one of her own old fanfics and ended up recruiting. I'm not sure. I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea - after all, badfic is badfic, and it'd be a good lesson for the agent - but I imagine you'd want to wait until either your agent is sufficiently experienced to handle it or until they've done something for which the Flowers punish them.

But be careful - I don't think any PPC agents ever go into a fic for the sole purpose of saving an OC. Mary Sues and Marty Stus are often unsaveable - it's usually the bit characters we recruit. Your agents would probably have to go in and make the decision to recruit him while on the mission, not beforehand.

I suppose it doesn't matter to me how many PPCers read my missions - unlike fanfic, I do them entirely for my own fun. I was actually thinking more about how you can be the one to decide how the minis manifest or be the first to make observations about typical traits, or how you can drag anyone you like into the mission for sheer lack of other options - I wheedled Trojie into joining me for a Wicked mission even though that's entirely out of her norm just because I know no one else who'd even seen the play.

Especially if a headcrab jumped mercer.

Totally go for it. Throw in The Many while you're at it. It'd be interesting to see a headcrabbed hybrid. The zombie virus from the urban dead MMORPG might also be interesting, though given the way those zombies can come back from anything and effectively coordinate large-scale actions, it'd probably involve them destroying the other infections pretty fast once it really got going.