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That was much less painless than I expected.

The consul thing got me, sorry. And here I was thinking I'd paid such close attention. Ah well, mistakes are meant to be learning experiences.

Of course, you may friend me on livejournal. Technical savy I do not possess, sadly, and any help you can give me would be much appreciated. I won't tell you how long it took me to figure out how to transfer the document from my computer to the computer with internet access, because it's way too embarrassing.

A "consul" is an overseas diplomatic position which is often part of an embassy. The term "console" (the part of a pipe organ where the organist sits) is old enough that Jane would be familiar with it. I'd believe that she could mis-hear "you'll get your assignment from the console" as "...from the consul" the first time at least, but it shouldn't be a totally new term.

..or maybe I'm overanalyzing a typo.

Also, I'm pretty sure the Marquis de Sod needs the "the" at the front of his name - Marquis is a title, after all, rather than a first name.

Permission is granted, but I would suggest getting a beta who is at least somewhat familiar with the PPC.

Because I just finished it today and DEAR GOD IT'S AWESOME. Naturally there's not much fic for it, as always with stuff I like, but maybe that's a good thing. Anyone want to chat about the book? Please warn for spoilers if you've read the second book "Red Seas Under Red Skies", though, because I haven't. Must buy it ASAP.

Anyone else have a habit of finding undeservedly obscure books? I seem to keep finding stuff nobody in the circles I run in online has heard of. First Spellsinger, then Simon R Green's work, now this. Maybe we could make a big list of books we think other people should read, and we can go pick stuff off the list if we're bored or our parents are nagging us about what we want for our birthdays ...

And we could totally do a PPC version of the Gentlemen Bastards' "liar" drinking routine.

They might even be trainable. Supposedly everything with a spine is, though it seems to be debatable in the case of most cats I know.

I've gone over it myself for proofreading and such, but I really do need a second eye on this. Also I'm not entirely sure I've got Jade nailed down, he's a tricky blighter. >.> And it's only a few sentences but still...

Yeah. Sorry. ^^; If you don't mind...?

I like the sound of Jane. :) All of them, actually, but Jane in particular. Very creative.

I'd like to point out a spelling error: It's "console", not "consul".

Also, if you're going to be posting regularly on livejournal, I suggest you start using LJ-cuts - it makes it easier. You can find how on the FAQ (and feel free to ask me if it's confusing). That said, may I friend you?

After skulking about here for six and half months or so, occasionally talking with folks I have finally acquired enough nerve ask for Permission (I kidnapped someone and stole their nerve).

My agents:

Jane Shackleton
Age: early thirties
Appearance: impeccable, but not particularly attractive. Dark hair and eyes, pale skin. She has a normal sized body, but she wears a corset, so her waist is immpossibly small.
Jane is a product of an ill-defined story set, due to the author's scanty knowledge of history, somewhere between the Regency and Victorian Eras. She has an obsession with manners and propriety, a penchant for pretty looking guns and lethal fans (the kind used too cool oneself, not the rabid kind), as well as a horror of technology. She refuses to even touch the consul. Jane is also a somewhat competent witch and has a secret desire to be a Jane Austen heroine, though she is more inclined towards a woman like Miss Bingley.

Oliver Shackleton
Age: late twenties
Appearance: medium height, stocky with dark unruly hair. He has glasses and is blind as a bat without them.
Oliver entirely under the thumb of his elder sister. His argues with her constantly, but always acquiesces to her requests. He used to swear like a sailor, but, due to a spell of his sister's, can't swear any longer and has to use substitutes, which infuriates him greatly. Under the influence of fellow PPCers, Oliver has become more modern, in both language and behavior, much to his sister's distress. He is also hopeless with technology, but since his sister refuses to deal with it, he has to.

Moren Armstrong Crewe III
Age: eighteen
Appearance: pale, lanky and entirely nondescript, usefuly for blending into the background which he would do admirably if he weren't so clumsy.
Moren stumbled upon the PPC while being chased by bullies from his private school. He is timid and clumsy. Violence makes him sick and he is currently unaware of how the Department of Mary Sues disposes of said Sues. Apparently, Marquis de Sod did not think to inform him.

I presume sibling teams would be frowned upon at the PPC. Upstairs has enough insanity to deal with, without that. But Jane and Oliver come as a pair. You can't get one without the other.

My writing sample is here:

http://helenofpylos.livejournal.com/

And feedback is always appreciated.

Helen

Remembering that missions are written to amuse, it's far more interesting to see a non-powered Agent have to come up with a trick to do the job, than for Jaycacia Thornbyrd to wave a hand and wipe everyone out. I direct you to the Audio / Visual Division for how to kill a 'Sue without even a /weapon/...

hS

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3043809/1/InPerfectloveinperfect_trust

Not good. Really.

I'd say Floaters is your best bet. That's if you can't find some other small thing to place it under another department. Bad Het, et cetera. (The one I was thinking about would probably be Bad Het.)

This is why I even check my own author notes for edits. Because I have no idea (of course, this is also why I make all of my comments outside of the fic now, so that someone doesn't miss one and publish it by mistake).

I don't suppose you know, but can anyone tell me what FF.net's reaction would be if I posted something which still had edits visible from Word's Track Changes feature. I'm predicting spontaneous combustion.

"She didn't delete the author's note at the end that I'm her new betareader. Hmm."

:P I got fired a while ago for being too good. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4763715/1/ She's improved a bit in the later chapters, but she wouldn't listen to any of my comments that 'this makes no sense at all' and 'the characters suck'.

Sure, I'll take one. And I can beta if you need me, as well.

She has looked through the document before uploading it. None of my in-text comments made it into the posted chapter (except for a few instances of bold text which I had used to mark my changes). She had just left the notes on the top of the story. Perhaps she scroled past them thinking they were her own notes. They're gone now, after I reminded her of them a third time during our falling out.

She didn't delete the author's note at the end that I'm her new betareader. Hmm.

Doctor's Gal 1792.

The story I betead was the fifth chapter of "Before the Worst". Incidentally, in her request to me she mentioned that her other beta had abondoned her. There may be something of a patern there.

The story I would be interested in PPCing is "The Lost Daughter". It has an interesting premise, but in my opinion the author screws it up by having the lost daughter and her dad bonding from the moment they meet. Which I feel unlikely since (a) the dad thought she died 100 years previously, and (b) she is now working for an organisation he hates. Also, around chapter seven or eight, the author introduces a friend of hers as bit character.

Those two stories are both Torchwood. The author has also written a few others (that might be Sue worthy, I haven't checked) in that fandom. A few stories in Doctor Who (among others one where she retells the story of "Titanic" with 10 and Rose in the roles of Jack and Rose; that's got to be good).
And some stories for Titanic and Enchanted.

You know, I was actually thinking about the PPC Agents in question...

Incidentally, how are normal Agents supposed to take care of Sues that are Jedi/god-mode without using diguises with such powers?

I've encountered this type of person before. You beta their Word doc or whatever, send it back with comments in or out of the fic and they immediately post the chapter without even checking them. At least people can now see what a fool she is that she hasn't even deleted your in-fic comments.

http://www.nethack.org/

The spork wasn't in the game, but its stats and the other objects I got from here.

than some here seem to think. I refer you to the PPC Agents who had to permanently change into Elves, because a time distortion meant humans would have instantly died of old age.

I think the change is pretty complete.
One of my future plans kind of depends very, very much on this, so the fact that hS has already given the Jay and Acacia example helps a great deal.

I'm not personally a big fan of that trick, to be honest. However, I think it's possible to make an argument for how it could work. One possibility is that a disguise generator hooked up to a TARDIS has enough oomph to enact a permanent change on the subject's own morphic field. Another is that a Time Lord's regeneration is powerful enough in itself that it can extend beyond the morphic field of the disguise to include that of the subject. Someone could probably come up with more possibilities.

Anyway, my explanation of disguises is just my explanation. It's not The Way Things Are unless everyone decides it it.

~Neshomeh

But I shall not tell you them, for people would steal!

that? After all, the regenerations would be considered "a change in nature"...