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... so maybe having a webcomic connected to my current online self is okay and difficult to avoid anyway. I just won't mention it openly on either the comic or my other accounts if I get published for real. Would that work?

I like your intro. Quite creative. And Cal promises to be a pretty amusing Agent.

Anyway, greetings. *tips her Hat* I'm Lycaenion, commonly found practising my evil laughter, torturing people with useless zoology or Star Trek information, or forming weird conspiracy theories.

I do hereby give you chocolate, an easily concealable weapon of your choice, and a towel. You'll probably need all of them.

(Oh, and for more completely useless information, I've been studying French in school for the past four years. The fact that you're a native speaker is rather awesome in my opinion.)

Problem is, they only exist on one messageboard now (the author pulled them from MediaMiner in the course of a major wankfest), so there are no summaries at the moment.

Today a fragment of a story I read a long time ago popped into my head and now I'm trying to track it down. If anyone can help me I would be incredibly grateful.

This story goes something like this, as near as I can recall: the main character, a boy, for some reason has a book of his grandfather's that two groups of people are looking for (the good guys and the bad guys). They both try to enlist his help (I think via dreams) and he decides to help the good guys, of course. I think he spends the rest of the story evading the bad guys to get the book to the good guys.

That's all I can recall. I'm positive it wasn't a dream and I really really want to find it! Sorry for the long, rather bizarre post.

Helen

And we're hardly going to sell you out. :)

"Will we be seeing you in the DBS at all? We're always looking for new recruits who can handle the squick."

I've survived (if barely) the unspeakable abomination called C***b***n, but I don't think I will gladly renew such a mind-scarring experience. I'll decide after I've read a few DBS mission reports; maybe it's fun.

Thanks for the bottle of wine, it makes an excellent blunt weapon. I'll put it to good use.

Cal stuffed the various gifts in the bottomless pockets of his trenchcoat. He turned his attention to the bucket, and for a moment he wondered how the heck he was supposed to deposit his sanity in it. After some thought, he realized that wondering this was a sure sign that he was still sane, and thus that he needed to get rid of his sanity — a thing he did not know how to do. But conversely, if he understood just HOW to do it, then he would certainly be insane — but then he would not need to deposit his sanity in the bucket. Thus, he was faced with a paradox. But, if he were insane, he could choose to ignore the paradox and deposit his sanity in the bucket ANYWAY. This led to a second paradox, since he was not insane and as a result did not know how to get over paradoxes. But if he were insane...

*Bzzzrt*

A few millions of his neurons suddenly went dead under the strain. When Cal regained his senses after a brief blackout, he found that he now understood how to deposit his sanity in the bucket, and promptly did. There was not a lot of it — the Wargs would still be hungry. But there would always be plenty of Mary Sues for them to eat.

"Should he be based in a TARDIS or a Response Center?" asked the receptionist to the daisy.

Okay...I feel like a doofus.  That better?

Anyway, I'm in the process of re-reading TOS, working on a tentative mission idea, and fact-checking myself against the wiki.  Should I toss the ones I don't want to touch up on the Unclaimed Badfic list?  Because, as I stated, anyone who wants them is welcome to them.

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.