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Hello, everyone! Yes, it's me again. Things are beginning to come together a little more now. We have lots more lines in (thank you, everybody who's done them), and we even have a few pictures.

However. There are some people who have not sent in their lines, for whatever reason, and we would appreciate it if they would. These people are Ansela, Platinumyo and Paddlebrains. The latter two are being poked via other means, but if anyone could get a hold of Ansela, 'twould be appreciated. Several vocalists have also dropped out or simply not replied to anything we've said. This has left us with a number of characters which need voicing. You know what this means... yes, we need more volunteers to take on lines. The characters in need of voicing are:

Medical Sue #2
Cafeteria Agent #1
Sub Rosa
Medical Sue #1
Daleks
DoF Stu
DoF Sue
Jill
Medical!Sue #1
Sue from Scene 37
Tomb Agent #1
Tomb Agent #2
Vixen!Sues

Of these, only Jill and the Sub Rosa have more than two lines. If anyone else feels like taking on a few lines, please offer. I'm fairly certain we can alter the voices in some form or another, if you're concerned about them all sounding same-y.

While on the topic, if anyone's got thirty seconds or so could they please record themselves screaming or shouting in some form or another? Trojie would like background noise for the battle scenes. Screams, battle cries, howls of agony or triumph, that kind of thing.

On a different topic, we'd like to request some pictures. Nothing elaborate, unless you want to make it so, but could everyone please submit a picture of their Agents in some form or another? The Tektek avatars are only useful in so many ways. If you're bothered about your lack of artistic skills, don't be; mine suck, but I still managed to cobble something together.

Anybody who feels like a bit of a challenge can have a go at designing our title screen, and perhaps some bits of scenery too. Email me privately and I'll give you the details.

And finally, a vote. We have two options available for the name of the production company. PPC Productions, and Urplefilms LTD. Please vote on whichever one you like best.

Thank you all very, very much for your continued support, and we hope to get this thing finished one day.

Preferably DMS, I'd think. The Floaters seem to be getting a lot of the recent missions. And yeah, there are OCs all over the place, especially the Sue (any chance I can bribe whoever takes it to kill the whole mess of OCs instead of just the Sue? :P). For once Bad Slash doesn't have to squick themselves out, but the fic needs killing.

Yeah, I don't have any way to contact him directly, I just figured he'd eventually see the question thread or something, and wondered if anyone else knew in general. Thanks though. And nah, don't seem too snarky, I just wanted to make sure I didn't seem rude.

Like magnolias! Their petals are arranged in spirals and there is no fixed number, unlike almost every other plant group in the world!

It does tend to get everywhere, but it's more interesting than dandelions, for example. 'Course, dandelions have their uses, too...

Yeah, my garden will be full of herbs, both the kitchen and medicinal varieties. ^_^

Yay plants!

~Neshomeh

If anything, you're too polite. {= )

I should have said this before, but the person to ask for details about New Caledonia is Tawaki. It's primarily his brainchild.

~Neshomeh, who may be coming across overly snarky due to end-of-term work getting to her, for which she apologizes.

for various medicinal uses. Generally it's considered a weed (but I happen to think it's neat, and pretty), and it's quite woody (and its cell walls are strengthened with silica) - it gets used as a scourer for floors as well, I believe.

Plus, y'know, dinosaurs ate its relatives, which is what I look for in a garden plant!

Works for me. {= )

Now I have John Donne lines running through my head. "Go and catch a falling star, / Get with child a mandrake root, / Tell me where all past years are, / Or who cleft the Devil's foot."

(Apparently horsetail is edible. I haven't tried eating any myself, but I'm curious about what it would be like. Would you have to boil it...?)

~Neshomeh

I was just curious about how it actually worked, because it confused me how the PPC could build a city there without attracting attention, and the contact example was only drafted out of lack of a better one, since I was wondering (especially due to a possible plan of mine for a character thing, not as in a new character but as in a character development type thing) about where official policy stood on it. Figured there was no harm in asking.

I tend to ignore New Caledonia. It doesn't do my stories any good, it doesn't jibe with my concept of what the PPC is, it's not OS canon, and it's not universally accepted, so I don't really feel a need to make references to its existence. Same goes for TARDISes (though I may have to make some mention of them when I write my Invasion '08 story/ies).

Again, though, that's just me. As far as I'm concerned, you're free to take it or leave it.

~Neshomeh

(when I get my own garden it's going to contain only Mesozoic plants - ginkgo, araucaria, equisetum etc :D)

How about having a mandrake root as the flashpatch? I agree that the plant definitely suits the division.

That's what I figured about actual leave (that is, outright leaving HQ, not including commuting between the New Caledonia city and HQ, for a period of time), part running gag and part reward, but what about simply contacting people on the "outside"? For example, would an Agent living in the NCC (New Caledonia City) be allowed to call or email a person they knew prior to joining? In HQ I'd assume it's no contact allowed at all for security reasons, but that I wonder about too.

The city I don't actually know about, though I assume a definite solution hasn't been stated (?), though the mixture of SEP field and chameleon circuit would make sense. Look like a mountain, and then make sure nobody really notices said mountain with the SEP field. The Flowers would probably try to avoid directly contacting World One citizens for permission to build the city or something (heh, ultimate mental image), so it'd make sense that they found some way to conceal it. That makes the whole city thing more plausible, but as said, I dunno if anyone's actually said anything concrete on the matter before. Unfortunately, New Caledonia isn't large enough to build a city in an ultra remote location where nobody would notice, and even then someone would eventually come across it. Bit of an odd problem.

I volunteer. I can cover several canons, depending on which ones are involved (a list would be nice), I can Britpick, and I'm one hell of a SPAG Nazi.

Though you seem to have plenty of help already. Still, I'm standing by if you want me, seeing as I can access the internet regularly again.

I like. And not just because I think ginkgo trees are spiffy to begin with.

It just occurred to me that a mandrake would be a good choice, too, considering its shape (supposedly like a man) and the fact that people used to believe it would help women conceive. Flash patch?

~Neshomeh, meddling.

...and turned back to Laburnum. "Perhaps our mini-trainer could make some videos of the techniques he teaches our adorable little kiji." She smiled, the light glinting off her glasses as she cuddled one of the kiji. "And, as Angel said, some of our other staff members would be very keen on it." She followed Miss Angel, still smiling in a slightly creepy manner.

In reply to question one, it's become a standing joke of sorts. As proclaimed by Acacia herself, '“Off duty? What is this off duty? Is it possible that, only being here two years, I’ve missed the phenomenon?”' As far as I know, it is a reward or something that has been demanded from the Flowers as a repayment for extreme stress. If I recall correctly, several Agents demanded time off after having to deal with That Series and other highly stressful missions.

As for the city, I lean strongly in the direction of a combination of magic and technology used for hiding things. I'm sure the Flowers wouldn't have been careless enough to let knowledge of the PPC become widespread across World One. A SEP-field would be useful, yes, but possibly other things are used as well. A chameleon circuit-type thing, like a TARDIS uses, to make the city look like a mountain? I'm just throwing out random suggestions here, I'm open to others.

Just had a brief flick through it. It's littered with OCs, and by Glod that Serenity Snape needs a good smack, and I couldn't actually find any mpreg or slash. (Hallelujah! We don't have to break our brains on it.)

and making the head of the Division of Mpreg be the Ginkgo - almost all ginkgos in gardens etc are cloned males, because the female tree's fruit are smelly, and so considered undesirable. Given that mpreg authors think that women being involved in the equation anywhere is undesirable, I thought it'd be an appropriate plant. Thoughts?

That's true, or any DoSAT technicians in general, I guess. Especially Dann.

Wasn't sure where to put this in the topic, so I'm just sticking it near the top. Anyway, I know I've had a lot over the past couple days, they just keep popping up in my mind. I'll probably cut down on them soon, I've just had a lot of things I've wondered. I'm only asking questions I don't think have actually been addressed in the actual stories, but if they have (other than my "where can I find story x" question earlier) I'm sorry, I just haven't seen the mission or story in question in that case. :P Anyway, not sure if it's been covered, but about how much contact with the outside world would one say Agents are allowed? Like, not just emails or calls (since mail has been referenced with the Postal Department), but occasional leave and the like. I'd assume very little or none, especially in the case of (again for lack of a better term) "shore leave" in the world out of HQ (which sounds like it'd be mostly a reward or something), but so far in all the stories I've read (by now I've read quite a few, but not every one) I don't think I've seen it directly referenced or answered.

Also, one that's always bugged me is about the New Caledonia city itself. Wouldn't the French government (hell, even people of New Caledonia, or whoever owns the first spy satellite to orbit near it) kind of notice a new, presumably large, city sprouting up in their territory and investigate? Sounds like the sort of thing that'd blow the PPC's cover wide open, especially if the HQ entrance in the mountains is also found. My first thought was an SEP Field on the entrance and city, but it'd have to be a really big field to cover a whole city, and unless it was there from day one I'd think someone would go, "hey, it looks like somebody's building a new city, did we commission one to be made there?". And then there's the issue of roads possibly leading there. Just something that's been on my mind about that, I never for the life of me could figure why the PPC city in New Caledonia never brought down the world's governments on it, either with troops or simply delegates there to ask just WTF is going on. Technology as it is now (though PPC tech seems way more advanced than World One tech), building a city without anyone noticing just doesn't happen. I don't mean it rudely, that one's just always been on my mind. Fridge Logic, if you will.

Stus and Sues aren't always consistent, or even bright. Maybe "erase them from existence with an eyeblink" isn't even something the Stu thinks of doing at first and instead just runs? Then the threat's still there, but he doesn't really act on it until it's too late.

But still. Wouldn:t want one anywhere near the old lab.

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Moron beam should work on him, I think, considering the way you put it it sounds like Tawaki and co. don't have enough firepower to simply make him turn tail.

We've been a bit distracted by the writing of the first mission, which is coming along at a fair old pace despite the fic being hideously NSFW and Trojie doing most of her writing while at work. Will confer with her when she gets her arse online and let you know.

...be a mini from World One or something. *evil grin*

"Who spelled my name wrong? My mini is going to kill you for that!"