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Let me see... oh! I know! Has anyone told you about the Urple Shade that lurks in the shadows of the Board? They say it hides behind the Return to Messages buttons... they say it can smell your cursor when it clicks on a link... and they say, in the dead of night, you can hear it coming... coming for you!

Nervous again yet?

hS, mad as a hatter

Okay, thank you. I am avoiding a third one.

Don't worry, it is a pretty unrelated thread. But it'd be good to try and avoid a third one. We've had people post two threads and then make a third to apologise, which is a biiiit much. Of course, we've also had people who think "mary sue" is a good screen-name on the PPC Board, so that's not saying much...

hS

I haven't checked, but I know my fellow Boarders, so you've probably been handed a dozen links, and twice as many rules in various forms. However, what a lot of people seem to forget is that trying to set rules for the PPC Board is like trying to herd cats when the cats are on fire and swimming in treacle. Possibly they are also all possessed by insane aliens. In other words, it don't work, and the results wouldn't be pretty if it did.

So. This is the Board. You make threads with the Post Message button, and you reply to posts with the Post Reply button. And then the Board moves along and hopefully people reply to you.

We have a Constitution. No one ever links to it any more, but it's still linked at the top of the Board. Look! We also have a vague rule about not making two threads in a row, or too many in a short period of time, but apart from that -- nothing. You're free! Free as a bird! And not even an on-fire-treacle-wading-insane-alien-possessed bird. You lucky thing, you.

hS

Thanks, I was a little nervous, but my nerves are fading now.

Nice to meet you! I... wait, hang on.

[Shuffles through boxes] I know I've got it around here somewhere... aha!

[Dons a Crotchety Old Man hat; Pulls out a walking stick and starts waving it about]

Now then you youngster, you listen up well! When I were a lad we didn't have these Pii Pii See Boards, no siree! We had to write our missions in stone tablets! Uphill both ways, unless that was something else.

... aaaaanyway.

If I know my fellow Boarders, you've already been bombarded with links, rules, guidelines, recommendations and presents. Well, I've been here longer than most of them (hence the walking stick), so I can get away with saying chuck 'em all out! Except the presents, obviously.

While the PPC has certainly gotten very large (some would say cumbersome) over the years, it all started with two people. They're the ones you need to read about. So if you haven't already, read Jay and Acacia's missions.

Also, since you're posting on the Board, you need to read The Constitution. Sadly it's not signable any more, but still. And that... is it.

Seriously. You can look over the other stuff too if you want, but the only things you need to read are those. The Board is a place to be silly (again, hence the walking stick), not a world of rules and regs and so on. So relax! And be thankful we don't have editing access for the Constitution, otherwise it'd be about a hundred times longer now.

hS

Sorry, I already posted before you put that note, but I won't do it again, I promise. Not exactly making a good impression on my first day, am I?

Because... because... because...

... be...cause of the wonderful things he does?

(That was either thoroughly irrelevant or incredibly insightful. I choose not to choose which).

hS

All right, I was reading fanfics written by Rorschach Suethors and I ended up creating this idea. I was thinking that a girl gets saved by Rorschach and creates this fantasy in her head where she's a princess and he's her knight in shining armor. In reality, he couldn't care less about her and thinks of her as nothing more than a stalker whore. Unfortunately, she doesn't get the hint and let's just say this fanfic does not have a happy ending. Here are my OCs if you're interested. I want to make sure they're not Sues.

The psycho stalker
http://community.livejournal.com/ocanalysis/357612.html

The best friend
<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ocanalysis/357612.html">http://community.livejournal.com/oc_analysis/357612.html

We don't mind people suggesting 'fics for people to kill. Nor do we mind people talking about their own fanfics. Of late some people on-Board have seemed a little strict, but we're not actually like that. So go on, have fun.

(That said, if you want to talk about your OCs, you might want to stick it onto this thread rather than making a new one -- I mentioned strictness, and recently quite a few people have gotten tetchy about multiple threads by the same person on the front page, especially if it's two in a row. Just heading that one off before it starts)

As for me, I've never really worked in Crossovers, and I'm not all that familiar with Todd anyway, so I can't help. Also my mission-writing skills haven't so much atrophied as been abducted by epicplotians from the planet WhydoIwritesomuch. Sad but true.

hS

I think I see a money-making opportunity here...

hS, running off cackling

Is there any chance that someone could delete this entire post? I was a little nervous about what I was going to post, so I ended up deciding that I would give fanfics to other users until I can go on my own PPC missions. I was going to post about my Watchmen OCs, but I wasn't sure if the board really cared about a fanfic a user was working on.

I'm not thinking straight. I'm pulling a 24-hour right now, so you can't expect me to be very focused.

I do, but I don't see a reason why I can't give another user a bad fanfic.

No, I wasn't requesting to do it myself, I was giving it to another user.

Uh, I forgot to tell you about the LJ comm...

http://community.livejournal.com/the_ppc/

Other scary thing: dressing like Bono from U2. One of my agents does that, down to the hairstyle and awful sunglasses.

I thought you wanted to work in DMS?

I wear a fedora, and anyone with a fedora is inherently scary and/or badass.

Not my fault if the newbies are scared, really.

But the best would be Indiana Jones.

I think it's waaaay too early. The one-month rule can be bent, but you still have to prove us that you know enough about the PPC community.

We can put this fic aside for you, though: there is no shortage of badfic for us to spork. And of course you can write your mission immediately, though you still have to wait for permission before posting it anywhere.

Better Rorschach than a dream demon serial killer.

I thought you did.

I'm not. In fact, I hope for neither.