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First, allow me to put on my beta hat and pull some faces.

Well, actually only one face, but ah well. Every time you've had someone's actions and then their words, you've separated by a line, rather than the usual two. This really isn't necessary. The speech doesn't have to be on a new line as soon as it starts, so long as it's on a separate line to the previous speaker's.

*throws beta hat aside*

Greetings!

Will we be seeing you in the DBS at all? We're always looking for new recruits who can handle the squick. Either way, welcome. We could have really used you about six months ago, you know.

Oh yeah, that, er, gift thing. *hands over cheap and nasty bottle of wine* Enjoy!

By now, Cal was surrounded by a small crowd of people, who all seemed rather happy to see him. Some of them, however, were making the expressions of dismay common to those who have encountered a short person with bony elbows and a vicious mindset. Mad Maudlin (for it was indeed she) pushed Makari aside and stood in front of Cal, looking him up and down- although the heavy eyeliner made it hard to tell exactly where she was looking. She grinned slowly. "Nice hat. Welcome...to the PPC!" This was accompanied by a menacing laugh. She continued, "I'm Maudlin Hart, although you can call me Mad Maudlin, or just Maudlin. Anything else will result in pain. Please, deposit your sanity in the provided bucket; I assure you it will not be needed here."
Cal looked at the bucket. It was blue, and the words "Warg Fodder" were written on the side. He could understand why this person was called mad. "I-"
"DID I TELL YOU TO SPEAK?" Maudlin shrieked. "I don't think so! But you can speak anyway. And here is some chai tea, and here is a shiny crystal thing, and here is some Suenicorn jerky, and they are all for you!" She handed Cal these items, then bowed low and disappeared into the crowd.
What a strange person, Cal thought.

Since the old posts get deleted after a while?

But then don't tell anyone else online? Like, don't post it publicly? Quite honestly, the internet is so huge that unless you make a point of telling people and they actually go out of their way to look for you, it's unlikely that other RL people are going to connect you to your fanfic. At least, that's what I think. Same with your webcomic, just don't link to your fanfic wherever you host your comic.

(seriously, though, good job finding the front door. Good luck locating it again, though...)

As for the traditional welcoming gift, here, have this umbrella. It, er, may be a little sharp on the end. But that's okay, right? Better to stab things with.

And I'm sure plenty of us would be more than happy to beta read or whatnot. It's a good practice anyway. =)

So yeah. Good to meetcha. I'm me; I mostly go after video games and anime, so we probably shan't encounter each other much outside of the Board. Still, best of luck~!
(especially with Harry Potter, sweet Lorelei! the majority of the 'fics on the Pit make me want to claw eyes out. Not particular as to whose.)

The one so many people here helped out by doing interviews for me.

Welcome to the PPC.

Good luck with your fandoms. Hopefully you can serve them well.

Oh, by the way, have you heard of Rose Potter? Its a Harry Potter Bad fic.

Anyway, have some bleeprin and a spork. Sporks are cool.

I didn't explain very well the first time because it was late at night and I was tired. I'm not fond of the idea of legal ramifications related to the fanfic (or having authors I like hear about me and see my fanfic of their work, blegh) but on the other hand I do want to be able to tell people I already know online that I wrote book X ...

Megatokyo does, Girl Genius does, Ctrl+Alt+Del does... And the books always sell pretty well. If you start a webcomic (which I plan to do one day soon too, actually) and then want to publish it later, it's fully possible. If you plan on publishing a totally different story than your webcomic, that's even simpler. As for using your real name, most webcomic artists do for ownership reasons. Like Adrian "Adis" Ramos, or Tim "Absath" Buckley. Of course, there are dangers to posting your real name online, but that's just something you have to decide on your own. If you end up publishing your work, people are going to know who you are and be able to connect your identities anyway. You could always create a pen-name for yourself and use that for your published work too (like you suggested). Heaven knows you wouldn't be the first writer to do that.

I can't think of any "repercussions" in that it might make it difficult to get something else published later on. Hell, it might even look good on your resume if it got popular.

... be linked to my fanfic, but I wanna be able to show people I already know on the internet if I post original stuff online. Which is a sucky conundrum.

You'll need it when you meet Lux. Or random fangirls.

I'm Oozaru Angel, technically I'm a PPC writer too but, seeing as I haven't completed a mission in more than two years, nowadays I'm more known for writing fanfiction in the anime fandoms and as one of the course coordinators for the Official Fanfiction University for Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (or simply OFUTRC). Call me Angel, Oozaru or simply OA.

It's nice to meet you! I hope you have fun here.

Have a prinny suit. This particular one was, strangely enough, dressed in a trench coat and fedora, so it should suit you just fine. These generally grant an increase in miscellaneous RPG-related stats and an uncontrollable urge to tack 'dood' to the end of every sentence. Oh, and being thrown while wearing one is usually quite painful. Explosively painful.

the door has disapeared and is now probably in a totally different location? And the second we turn our back the receptionist will also have disapeared and people will give us funny looks when we ask what happened to her? Because you have no idea where you are at this very second in time and you're pretty sure the eyes of that painting on the wall are following you?

That means there's an exit? What am I still doing here?

Welcome. There is no such thing as incompetence in the PPC. You can't leave a badfi...il the job is done. By that very definition all agents that come out of fic alive are competent.

Well, the problem with the PPC and ISBN publishing (digital books would also get ISBN) is that the PPC is fanfic based and fanfic has some copyright issues. I think that was the trouble TM wanted to avoid.

A webcomic isn't necessarily fanfic, so you could avoid the infringing someone else's copyright problem. I know of a few webcomics that are also published in albums that you can buy and put on a shelf. Usually with some "not previously published on the Internet" material to make them more interesting for purchasers.

Getting an on-line following might actually be a good jumping ground to becoming a published author. You may not be able to publish (with ISBN) what you had previously published on the internet, but that's because publishers like to have exclusive exploitation rights for a set period of time. You'll just have to write something for them that you haven't posted on the internet.

I guess the advice would be to keep your fanfic related stuff separated from the non-fanfic stuff. Though even if you did it would still be possible to link the two (they post from the same IP-address for instance).

There's nothing wrong with having a comic and a novel going, so why should it be different for a webcomic and a novel? Unless you were planning to use existing images or characters: then it starts to be more like fanfiction.

If you're worried about it, use a different screenname and put it with links to your normal one. It'll be easy enough to get rid of the links if you need/want to.

And the pseudo-Marty Sam gets the wind knocked out of his sails...by the receptionist.  Very clever.

A few days ago, I posted something titled "mission plug" on this forum.  But I don't actually have a mission completed, or even really more than an idea for one.  (Busy re-reading the original series.)

However...if any Warcraft/WoW fan wants to tackle the works listed here (which are all the fault of one Suethor) they're certainly up for grabs.  Quite frankly, the only one that I'd even touch is the draenei story; the rest of them are altogether too vile.

*is thoroughly amused by your introduction text*

We've got a Department of Personnel rather than a HR Office, but that's just technical nit-picking.

Anyways, welcome to the insanity. You look like you'll fit right in.

*gives Gabriel a PPC bumper sticker*

So if you have the inclination to do so, please feel free to send me pictures in that style.

As it stands, we have (off the top of my head) seven 'threads' in which the action happens (each thread follows one set of characters), and we're hoping to keep the art in each thread as similar as possible, but each thread's style will be different to all of the others, because obviously we are going to have a large number of artists, all of whom will only have limited time etc for doing this, so we'll probably marry up artists with similar styles for each thread. The whole thing will either look like a) an artsy montage of styles or b) a mess, but ... well, let's hope for a), shall we? :)

Long story short, please do send me any artwork you do - there's nothing to say that one thread can't be that sort of artwork.