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I wouldn't have minded being volunteered, really. And I'm curious as to what those reasons are.

*glee* They're coming in from all over the place, aren't they?

So I managed to get through the atrocity of an Abhorsen fic that was brought up somewhere down that-a-way.

Without further ado, the 'Sue is sentenced to death by stupidity.

In somewhat related news, I had an odd dream involving bits of this fic (the proper noun turned common noun) and asking Agent Trojie to Britpick something for me. (No idea what. Perhaps there's a HP mission in my future...)

I must say, I've never had PPC dreams before. (Has anyone else? o.O)

*hugs Buta no Kaabiic* Ahhn't 'oo jus adowable?

Actually, it's two missions for the price of, well, two missions.

Two soldiers land in the lap of the A-Team and they are recruited on the spot. Allison and Tasmin see something wrong with that.

A female fighter pilot crashes. Allison and Tasmin see something wrong with that too.

...So I'm not very familiar with anything beyond the most popular of the many, many, MANY Transformers-related continua. And I'm still getting acquainted with the ones that I AM familiar with. So while I could probably pull something out of the Japanese comics or one of their minor spinoffs, I haven't really gotten that far into the fandom yet...

At the same time, I just realized that the TF wiki does indeed have a (short) list of animal species. *headdesk* I'm gonna go investigate it and see if there's anything nasty and dangerous enough to be a mini... Oh, who am I kidding, of course there will be. It's an adventure series aimed at ten-year-old boys, for goodness' sake. XD

*plunges*

But that is true too. XD

And quite fantastic, too.

hS

. . . and I'm not even taking a linguistics class. What does that mean about me? :P

That might actually be a good idea, asking for a dimensional travel-capable hitchhiker's towel. Although I should probably just try to think of an appropriate price for some sort of cool gift, like the talent of erasure from Demons Don't Dream (one of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels, where the talent is a prize for winning the game Companions of Xanth).

On another subject, if someone were to wish for immortality (quite possible, seeing as Yuuko can create gods if she wants to), I would think that an appropriate price would be as such: The person can feel pain, and even lose their sanity for a period of time, but no matter what lengths they go to to die, or how sick they get of life, they are unable to leave the mortal plane permanently. Plus, they are cursed in such a way that events are always arranged to cause them trouble, and frequently at that. As an example, the person is inexplicably disintegrated. Said person must then spend decades dragging back and reassembling their atomized, very much scattered (by a convenient gust of wind) body, or remain as clusters of free-floating atoms.

I've actually been contemplating something like this, I just dunno what others would think. At one stage, one of the characters is sent into a future to see how things 'could' turn out. That's only an idea though, it's been bouncing through my mind for a while now.

The other wya would be through the member of the team who is omniscient. She's directly limited by the Gods to only reveal information that is desperately needed at the time, but since she knows everything, she could easily break the 4th wall.

Hmm, thanks for the ideas Leto. I'll set them free into my mind and let them bounce around. *Ponders*

They are each limited to a specific element, for example, the guy who controls water can do rain, fog, create lakes, etc, but he can't control ice, with limited control over steam. They are capable of pooling their abilities (Water guy and lightning guy combine powers to create thunder storms) but that's the limit.
The girl who controls energy specifically controls 'Aether', which I've translated to mean magic mostly, with limited control over energy, as magic and energy are similar. Without her weapon, which is specifically designed by the Gods no less, she wouldn't stand a chance against the laser until years after she gained her powers. While they are given basic instructions on what they can and can't do with their powers, more powerful abilities must be developed by them alone, sorta reminscent of what would happen in an RP game.

While this sounds like it was set in stone, that was actually me musing to myself and turning musing into fan-canon. Thanks hS, that helped a lot!

While the Heroes of the story don't face many people on equal level with them when they are at full power, I have included ways that each of the 18 people can be weakened, reducing their power to half, or even a quarter, of what it should be. And since all the Chosen are humans, there are their normal weaknesses which can be taken advantage of.

The good guys lose quite frequently, now that I think of it. A large part of the story is dedicated to the efforts of Maleficent, controller of the Heartless, the bad guys, and her efforts to break up the group and control them, something she actually succeeds at.

And yes, these have also been included, things that can't be overcome. They can fix droughts, but they can't fix / manipulate death, emotions and, for the most part, free will. And to a certain extent, they can't even control their powers. On confrontation with Dementors in the Harry Potter world, their powers work automatically, regardless of the person's choice.

And the balance is something I've been trying to figure out for a while too. The basic idea was to simply do the pair off thing, one evil guy for each good guy, but it felt too cliche. Their powers themselves weren't actually given to stop evil and dark powers, but rather to prevent the Universe returning to Nothing. Each of the 18 can be used as a Key to the Door to the Light, aka, Kingdom hearts, which acts as the Reset Button for the Universe, restoring areas which have been lost to the nothingness, and bringing back the people lost to the Nothingness as well. The 18 stand to represent Creation, to go against Nothing.

If it feels like I shot down each of your ideas, I hope I didn't. This actually really helped me realise how much planning I've put into it, which seems to be a lot more thorough than I thought. And you've really helped me define the limits too. Thanks Techno!

I have the sort of singing voice that is mostly suited for singing bloody, bawdy ballads around the campfire- "Fifteen Men", "Boys of Bedlam" (where I found the name Maudlin)... I have to learn all the lyrics to this one!

The lesser wizards / mages in fits will actually happen. Since it is a crossover, it includes the world of Emelan, found in Tamora Pierce's 'Circle of Magic' series. Magical rules in that world specifically state that messing with nature will rebound upon the user eventually, often killing them in the process.
In the world of Emelan, there is a woman called Sandrilene fa Toren, who, as well as being one of these 18 people, has the power to manipulate magic with her own, natural power. In the end, she combines the main 10 people that the story centres around, giving them the powers and abilities of the others. The sheer level of power they now wield essentially corrupts them, and they begin acting like vengeful gods, reworking the face of the planet to suit their personality, and dividing the world into territories. The things that the 10 do before they are combined are enough to make the average mage on that world twitch, but what happens afterwards would be nothing short of a miracle, even though the 10 become corrupted and ignore the reason why they have these powers in the first place.

And that is a good possibility. I'll take a think about that.
And I usually follow that pattern too, giving people awesome powers and making them useless. I sorta came to the realisation that these are epically powerful people, so stupid sorta has to be removed from the equation.

And that would be great Makari. I hadn't even remembered about those until you mentioned them. Like I said before, feel free to go through and do them whenever you'd like.

1) Not many characters in Lord of the Rings are giant flaming demons, either. Doesn't stop them. :P Minis aren't supposed to be particularly similar in type to their canon character, I don't think.

2) You say there's no nasty animals, and okay, maybe not. But minis in general are minor canonical monsters, not a generic class which makes up most of the cast. I don't know Transformers, but is there a small group somewhere which you can make the model for the minis? Or a minor series with a distinct visual type? I don't know, obviously, but.

hS

Generally we first ask for nominations as to who should be put forward, then hold an actual vote. But we only do this when the number of PGs on-Board gets critically know, which it hasn't yet. There's still three or four of us around, I'm pretty sure.

hS

Ruggan Bor, or perhaps Romsca. Maybe I just like names beginning in R.

And not realise it.

For instance, make the powers limited /strictly/ and /entirely/ to their element. So if you've decided (say) liquid water is an element, great -- but heaven help the person if it's salt water, or heavy water, or frozen water. Similarly, you can tweak that energy control one. Specify types of energy, for instance -- ground it in physics, not vague concepts of energy. So, say, one has control over light energy -- which, on Star Wars lasers (which I understand are actually not laser-based, especially not the big ones, they're gaseous) it would have the effect of making the light deflect while the gas or whatever carries merrily on its way. Then, sure she can control light in every way -- but all that means is she can a) turn things invisible, b) blind people, c) make illusions, or d) make and manipulate lasers (real ones). The degree to which she can do this depends on her degree of skill.

Which is the other way to do it. Give them great powers, but no finesse. So she can divert that superlaser, but can't control /where/ she redirects it, because her thoughts are simply "divert" rather than "divert by 75 degrees towards galactic north" or wherever.

So. Very specific and rather picky limits, or great power and no skill. Those're my suggestions.

hS

Now, to prove you're /really/ insane, all you need is another post saying "but I'm so interested in this that I'm going to do it anyway for no reason other than general interest." :P

hS

If not, you had better wish for one. As payment, Yuuko will take your shampoo.