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Do you have an LJ? by
on 2009-03-03 00:43:00 UTC
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Help! I need somebody... by
on 2009-03-03 00:42:00 UTC
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...to help me with three things.
THING THE FIRST. One's mother, having been told of the PPC and its activities, believes firstly that the lot of you are child molesters and secondly that writing MSTs and other sporkings is bad for the soul. How to rectify this situation?
THING THE SECOND. How does one deal with a badfic in which the POV changes every few paragraphs, the tenses shift every sentence, and as for the first-, second-, and third-person views... ah, frag it all. Can someone lend me a DOGA mod CAD?
THING THE THIRD. While flipping through a gardening catalog, I came upon this.
It is called the Dark Lord Geranium. Am I right in assuming that it should be made an honorary Flower That Is? With spiky black armor? Spiky....
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...and always the Great Eye, watching, watching! by
on 2009-03-02 00:39:00 UTC
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
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Ah, here you are. by
on 2009-03-01 19:38:00 UTC
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*creepy voice, evil grin* I've been waiting...
I do hereby give you a lot of chocolate, a towel, a sharp and pointy object of your choice, and, since you mentioned it, a ferret. It can live in your RC, and you can probably train it to like eating Sues.
Glad you're here. This is going to be fun. =D
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I liked it too by
on 2009-03-01 03:49:00 UTC
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Nicely done. I actually preferred the ork. He makes a very enthusiastic agent.
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*showers you with welcome! lembas* (nm) by
on 2009-03-01 01:21:00 UTC
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Re: What's the order of killing? by
on 2009-02-28 23:45:00 UTC
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Feel free to. Of course, the author's prose could also be described as "urple" in places, which might very well have tinted the fog.
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Re: What's the order of killing? by
on 2009-02-28 23:33:00 UTC
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- No idea.
2. My missions have all-obscuring fog, but it's white not urple. Mind if I borrow the urple idea for the fog?
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Some ideas... by
on 2009-02-28 11:23:00 UTC
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Portal-wise, the City of Heroes Universe has the Rikti, essentially evolved humans, who were able to make portals of essentially any size appear wherever they wanted, required a large power source, but hey, we have that in the Department of Dead Author Electricity Generation.
Superweapons, on the other hand, might be a little harder, especially on a scale that large. In your shoes, I'd probably actually delve into a Goodfic and see if they have something that might help you. Permission from the author, obviously.
Or, as an alternative, use something that both / all groups are completely unused to. In this case, magic. If you're after a group that would know what was going on (From the PPC point of view), I'd recommend the Crest Holders from 'Worlds Apart', by Articunomew. They're powerful enough to actually fight a fleet that big if need be, but would be able to send them back to their correct Universes if that's the choice you want as well.
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Re: What's the order of killing? by
on 2009-02-28 10:58:00 UTC
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I'm thinking the Vindicator!Sam dies first.
The Sue idiotically jumps into the middle of the fray (ROFL at melee clothie) and gets separated from the group. (A blood elf shoots her in the back with a poisoned arrow; however, the eredar takes a shine to her and heals her.)
This leaves the Vindicator!Sam (who doesn't have the good sense to heal himself) with no direct backup. At least one agent has a crossbow (it's a canon weapon) with some power to it; the Vindicator!Sam is in chainmail, which (IIRC) is not great at stopping bolts. I thought that one agent who's a good shot might be sufficient here; however, I'm beginning to think that one can't be too careful.
The Vindicator!Sam uses a sword, not a hammer. Its quality is not specified.
By this point, the Sue has been shot, and staggers into the area where the Eredar!Sam is. The Eredar!Sam is currently seventy freakin' feet tall. In the actual Suefic, he somehow hypnotizes the blood elf who had the good sense to shoot the Sue (one of the two times in the story that he seems to use any offensive magic at all) then steps on him, heals the Sue in a way that leaves them magically linked, and vanishes.
I'm thinking the agents need to stop the Eredar!Sam before he can heal the Sue...while avoiding getting stomped on themselves. But, as you see, I don't tag him as an Eredar!Sam lightly. (In the initial MST, it was joked that he could only be beaten by someone who out-Sammed him...such as the Vindicator!Sam. And it probably wouldn't be a good idea to leave him alive that long.)
My best bet is probably to somehow drop him through a portal—preferably one that leads to other demons. I don't think the Burning Legion takes any too kindly to their junior officers becoming infatuated with airplane-headed Anchorite!Sues.
And...two more silly questions:
1) If a Suespawn is conceived in the story, and the author has created a time paradox that gives the Suespawn more than enough time to gestate...what are the odds of the Suespawn being spontaneously generated? Or has the situation simply never come up before?
2) If an author's skill at setting a scene is such that readers sometimes wonder where, exactly, the characters are...what would this mean for the mission? My thought was that the agents' surroundings would be blurry and warped, and that there would be urple fog.
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Anti-Lustin, you need. (nm) by
on 2009-02-28 09:48:00 UTC
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What's the order of killing? by
on 2009-02-28 09:44:00 UTC
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If you kill the Vindicator!Sam first, you can get his blessed crystal hammer, and use it to kill the Eredar (he might change his size, so you should still siphon his mana). Then you can charge the Sue, taunt her with her lover's hammer, and kill her. Lol at irony as needed.
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Always watching. (nm) by
on 2009-02-28 06:49:00 UTC
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Yes. by
on 2009-02-27 21:15:00 UTC
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That's the incident I was thinking of, but the fleets in this fic are probably canon.
On a more practical note, if there's a superweapon out there that can take out 100+ Mon Cal ships and 23,000 ImpStars...
Sun Crushers- belong to DOGA
Darksaber-bad joke
Thought bomb-No. Just no.
Malevolence/Devastation-both either destroyed or in use for all known instances in canon. Also, ridiculously outnumbered.
the Little Doctor/MDD-No.
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Weeeelll ... by
on 2009-02-27 20:04:00 UTC
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Trojie and Pads employed an AU Wash from Firefly, the Defiant from Star Trek DS9 and eight satellites containing modified portal generators to dump an entire uncanonical planet into a canonical destruction of planet-y things in an SGA fic ... perhaps you could use some method like that?
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Awesome, a new newbie. by
on 2009-02-27 19:16:00 UTC
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Welcome, welcome to you, PVOD.
I hope your stay is less traumatising than it promises to be.
...what?
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First plover! by
on 2009-02-27 18:38:00 UTC
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BTW, will your Agents be in a TARDIS or a Response Center?
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Welcome! (nm) by
on 2009-02-27 17:25:00 UTC
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Greetings! by
on 2009-02-27 17:24:00 UTC
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I salute you as a sister - that is, as if you were a sister, not as if I was your sister, or maybe the first one, or maybe both...
Hang on, let me start over. I'm Cassie, and I am overenthusiastic. I welcome you into our ranks and hope that you don't miss your sanity too much. Here is your gift of greeting; a bag of pebbles and a Random Shiny Object.
See you around!
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Re: agreement with kgarrett... by
on 2009-02-27 17:20:00 UTC
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Somehow I don't think a personal remote activator will do the trick...
How would we stop the Imperial Navy fleet from going trigger-happy? A third OOU fleet, while good for the lulz, might result in Bad Things happening...
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In fact, they're following you right down the hall (nm) by
on 2009-02-27 16:41:00 UTC
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Come into the darkness! by
on 2009-02-27 16:39:00 UTC
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Welcome to the PPC! Be peaceful, sister, for it is righteous. I gift you with a shiny bit of crystal and some chai tea. Use them well. Please deposit your sanity in the provided receptacle. *holds out bucket marked "Warg fodder"* I think you'll find you're better off without it.
And aren't ferrets "sharp knife/sword-like objects" anyway?
-Mad Maudlin