Took me forever to crank this out--I'm pretty rusty at this writing thing. Blerg. Anyways, here's the first part of my first mission. There isn't much action yet, but I hope to improve on that in the second part. Hopefully, I'll have the second bit out by next Friday.
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It's the very first entry on that page. I'm still getting used to this whole LJ business, so the webpage is pretty rudimentary
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Mission plug! by
on 2009-01-31 00:22:00 UTC
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... oh, all right, then. Permission granted. by
on 2009-01-31 00:15:00 UTC
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You show commendable skill at (and willingness about) editing when there's a problem. So you can have permission, on the condition that you find a beta who's familiar with PPC canon, in case you make any (minor, I'm sure) errors with respect to the Original Series. It's not uncommon, and I've had a great time sorting out some of mine. :P
hS
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We seriously need a FAQ for this. :P by
on 2009-01-31 00:07:00 UTC
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To give a rundown of the usual responses, because:
a) This is where everything links to, including the Oddlots homepage which we can't edit.
b) When we have our occasional heated debates, it's actually better that they drop into said abyss.
c) For the PPC, it's better to have a Board that's constantly moving than one where topics get pushed back to the top when commented on, since it means new topics don't get lost, old ones don't get dragged out by a couple of people, and any particularly interesting ones can be restarted after it falls off the front page.
d) The simple layout is i) traditional, and ii) easy on the eye.
e) People keep coming back after years of absence, and they wouldn't be able to find us.
And f) We're just too stubborn to give up on this place, especially given the weight of tradition behind it now.
And yes, I'm sure I've missed some reasons out. :P
hS
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They haven't realised it's happened to everyone yet. by
on 2009-01-31 00:01:00 UTC
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"Oh, it wouldn't be pointless violence," Constance said with a lethal-looking grin, lifting his sword, but Dafydd nudged him with an elbow.
"Connie," she muttered, "you're acting look... I don't know, like a human male or something."
Constance poked his tongue out at her. "Probably all the testosterone," he admitted. "But come on, they're asking for it."
Dafydd rubbed her temples wearily. "Seriously, guys," she said, "you don't know what this is like. It's insane."
hS
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Oh dear. by
on 2009-01-30 23:56:00 UTC
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Ilraen suddenly felt very naked without her larger male tail-blade, but she instinctively raised the one she had at the moment. <Um... I do not think that would be productive.>
"We didn't do it," Nume said. "We don't know who did, either."
<Perhaps we could assist you in locating the responsible party as an alternative to pointless violence?>
~Neshomeh
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Why do we have our board here? by
on 2009-01-30 23:55:00 UTC
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Why don't we move to Invision or Proboards or PHPbb or something? That way, old topics wouldn't fall into the abyss, and discussions would be somewhat easier to follow. Plus, it would be prettier!
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After just the first paragraph... by
on 2009-01-30 23:52:00 UTC
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...which, incidentally, is the first chapter all on its own, I have only one response:
*aneurysm*
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[Can never resist] by
on 2009-01-30 23:49:00 UTC
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"Um. Er." Dafydd looked distinctly nonplussed. Beside her, Constance grinned.
"Yes, it is," he said. "Full marks for observation, fuzzy horse thing." He looked at his... er... husband? Wife? His spouse and muttered, "Come on, elf, say your thing."
"... oh, right." Dafydd brandished her own sword. "Blah blah blah dramatic and threatening speech," she said, "but seriously, either you two tell us who's responsible for genderbending us, or we start breaking things."
"We're very good at that," Constance said, although his sword hardly needed any further comment.
hS
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Excellent. {= ) (nm) by
on 2009-01-30 23:49:00 UTC
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Don't worry... by
on 2009-01-30 23:46:00 UTC
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... I've already come up with an excuse that will allow me to reply, and it is this:
A /two person/ roleplay is just a collaborative story done in real-time. The problem is when dozens of people try to work together, it gets messy.
Ergo, I'm fully consistant if I allow myself to respond. :P
hS
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Does it need to be an RP? by
on 2009-01-30 23:42:00 UTC
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Although PPC RPs are great fun, I don't think they need to be as common as they are. Wouldn't it be more interesting -- and easier to keep track of afterwards, since RP transcripts tend to be very difficult to write up -- to let people write their own stories about the events and link them all from a central page? Then anyone who wanted to collaborate, either by writing a story together or by writing two that interacted with one another, could do so, and anyone who just wanted to write their own story could do that, too.
Just a suggestion, obviously, but...
hS
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It had to happen eventually... by
on 2009-01-30 23:42:00 UTC
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Why is it, that in just about every fandom or such-like that I have looked into, gender-bending has cropped up?
Not that I mind, since, thanks to a certain trope associated with genderbending, the results are usually pleasing to the eye.
It doesn't hurt that I hold a passing interest in genderbending myself, but who's paying attention to that?
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Tentative update. by
on 2009-01-30 23:42:00 UTC
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While waiting for attention from our IT department, which is notorious for taking forever to do anything, I downloaded the free version of Ad-Aware. I haven't had any more problems so far, but there have been long stretches with no problems before, so I hesitate to say that means anything. Just thought you folks should know.
~Neshomeh
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*can't resist* by
on 2009-01-30 23:37:00 UTC
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At the knock on the door, two things happened. A female voice shouted "No, don't--!", and the door was opened. The opener was a purplish-furred female Andalite.
<Hello,> said she.
"Dammit, Ilraen," grumbled the first voice, which belonged to a tall, thin, angry-looking woman who stood with her arms crossed awkwardly over her breasts. "Well, who is it? What do they want?"
<Please excuse my partner,> said Ilraen. <We are not usually... um... like this. He--she--Agent Supernumerary is not very happy about it.> Beat. <Er, do you know that your sword is on fire?>
~Neshomeh
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Hmm... by
on 2009-01-30 23:26:00 UTC
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Perhaps Makes-Things never got around to fixing the recovered portal from that mission. Perhaps someone tries integrating it into the current system, but it's still Sue-infected and it sends a signal to everyone's disguise generators. Or something like that.
Would that count as a PPC Crisis? It's not very crisis-like. It would really mess up the graph of PPC Crises if we did count it as one.
Anyway, I think it would be a good RP scenario. *g*
~Neshomeh
- Okay, I've edited the offending lines by on 2009-01-30 23:24:00 UTC Reply
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"Curves in all the wrong places." Heehee. (nm) by
on 2009-01-30 23:20:00 UTC
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We have to start a genderbending epidemic through HQ! by
on 2009-01-30 23:19:00 UTC
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Not sure when it'd be set because the mission I've just done was around November 2007, so it'd be either then or present day. Without getting too spoilery, Laburnum and Drake are going to keep genderbending on occasion when off-duty for a while - she out of curiosity and because she wants to spend some time being someone else (because she has unresolved self-loathing issues left over from buggering up the Nighthunt fiasco), he because he has a creepy transformation fixation - so we could work on it somehow.
- I may have gotten slightly carried away... by on 2009-01-30 18:58:00 UTC Reply
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Just a few, then. by
on 2009-01-30 17:58:00 UTC
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Nyx and Dassie
"How do they expect us to work like this?" Nyx demanded. She -- or rather, he -- waved his sword vaguely. "My muscles are all wrong!"
Dassie sipped her cup of coffee. "Well, the Plot Continuum still needs protecting," she said vaguely. "And Agents still need patching up. They can't really afford to give us a break, especially with so many of our colleagues transformed too."
Nyx wasn't listening. "Didn't we save their hides during the Invasion?" he ranted. "And the Reorganisation. The least they could do, the absolute least..."
Dassie leant back in her chair. This sounded like it would take a while.
Louise and Narto
"... Lou," Narto said in a strangely high voice.
"Yes, Nar?"
"Why am I a girl?"
Louise looked round at her. "For giggles," he said, grinning. "I was bored."
"You were bored," Narto repeated flatly. "And when you're bored, you..."
"Hop across to a comic I know and steal some cool tech, yes," Lou finished for her. "Isn't it fun?"
"I have curves in all the wrong places," Narto muttered. "And what if someone comes over?"
"We'll just have to be busy," Lou said dismissively, and held out a hand. "Ms. Telyan, will you join me in the hot tub?"
Narto stared at him for a moment, and then laughed. "Certainly I will, sir," she said, and off they went.
Constance and Dafydd
"Dafydd, please put the sword down."
Dafydd swung around to look at Constance. "They can't get away with this!" she exclaimed. "Elves may be girly, but I'm not female!"
"You are now," Constance said, eying her amusedly. "Come on, it's not that bad. I'm not having any trouble."
Dafydd scowled at him. "Says you," she muttered darkly. "But come on, Connie, they can't get away with this."
"Probably not," Constance agreed cheerfully. Reaching into a closet, he pulled out a sword. Dafydd blinked.
"Um."
"Yeeeees?"
"Your... er, your sword is on fire?"
Constance looked at it startledly. "Why, so it is! How clever of you to notice." He beamed.
"... right, then." Dafydd looked around. "Tanfin's asleep?"
"He is," Constance agreed. "Unless it's she by now." He swung his sword experimentally. "So shall we go and knock on the doors of HQ?"
Dafydd grinned. "Let's get knocking," she said, and headed for the door.
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hS
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That, and... by
on 2009-01-30 17:34:00 UTC
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It's fun torturing our characters. By which I mean it's an interesting mental exercise, thinking about just how different they might be if they were the opposite sex. How would they be treated differently? How would a different brain organization/different hormones affect them? How would they feel about it?
That's my take, anyway. {= )
~Neshomeh
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Presumably they have a form of the same stuff ... by
on 2009-01-30 14:39:00 UTC
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... which works on ready-born beings. I'm pretty sure some canon somewhere already has an age-slowing medication of some type, so it's not entirely out of the question that Doc Fitz could make some.
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I LOVE THEM!!! by
on 2009-01-30 14:05:00 UTC
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especailly drake. Love the large railgun. and i do think that it is as large as she is. makes thigns was right to be nervous.
and love naomi as well.