I mean to collect a bunch for the appropriate page on the TVTropes wiki.
Off the (cluttered) top of my head, I recall Agent Blue Photon's fights with Twp'atwt and Agent Mara and Isaiah pitting FatPheonix and Helen!Sue against each other. I know there are others.
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Crowning Moments of Awesome for the PPC (spoilers) by
on 2008-08-13 05:38:00 UTC
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Have a welcome-back plover! by
on 2008-08-13 05:30:00 UTC
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I was still a Suethor then, but welcome back.
Do you want your Agents to live in a Response Center or a TARDIS?
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A few... by
on 2008-08-13 04:43:00 UTC
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-I will not kidnap Rikku (FFX/X-2) and drop her in FFVII, especially right next to Yuffie. Nor is the reverse acceptable.
--Nor will I point the two at someone extremely rich and hint that he/she might have treasure/materia.
--Nor will I bring the two to HQ and hint that someone I particularly dislike might have treasure/materia.
--If they have already met via crossover, I will attempt to mitigate the damage, not add fuel to the fire by dragging in any of the following: Norma Beatty(Tales of Legendia), Anise Tatlin(Tales of the Abyss)... or any other canons who are even vaguely obsessed with unclaimed properties of a valuable nature. Captain Jack Sparrow is right out.
-I will not steal a necromancer's bells and attempt to use one of them for an exorcism.
--Especially not Astarael. Killing everyone in hearing range is not funny.
--Also not Kibeth. The Walker has a sense of humour.
--No. Just no.
-I will refrain from making bad puns regarding Jewels within earshot of anyone from the Black Jewels Trilogy and related works. They are not likely to be appreciated, by the canons or my partner.
-Captain Jack Sparrow does not need to know about the Legacy(ToL), no matter how funny I think the resulting bit of attempted piracy might be.
-I will not steal the weapons of any video game hero; they are likely to need them. Soon.
--Even if I am a raging kleptomaniac.
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I remember you... I think... by
on 2008-08-13 03:56:00 UTC
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Anyways, though, welcome back!
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Certainly not by
on 2008-08-13 03:12:00 UTC
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Thank you
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Hello again! by
on 2008-08-13 03:11:00 UTC
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I already gave you the wiki link, but once more won't hurt, right? XD
So once again, welcome back. ^^
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Um... Hi by
on 2008-08-13 03:04:00 UTC
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Hello all,
Back in the dawn of time- seriously, back when Jay and Acacia were still updating- I was part of these boards as "jedipati". I doubt any old timers would remember me, since I never really post anything of importance. Due to real life, I left in 2003 or early 2004 and only recently found out that the PPC was still active.
So... hi again. I'm going to spend some time refamiliarizing myself with this place.
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Read it and rejoice! by
on 2008-08-13 00:46:00 UTC
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His account is a glowing crater. Cake for everyone!
(Sorry about the beak holes in the cake; the plover thought there might be some small, tasty crustaceans hiding in it or something)
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Aww, no Star Wolf? (nm) by
on 2008-08-12 19:07:00 UTC
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If you search "writing"... by
on 2008-08-12 18:41:00 UTC
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"creative writing," "fantasy," or other similar things for Interests, you will find numerous comms where people post their work for others to read. These can be much better than FictionPress if you're looking for honest concrit rather than illiterate praise.
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Feanorians on a Viking ship a better image? (nm) by
on 2008-08-12 18:05:00 UTC
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Re: Fantasy, I think. by
on 2008-08-12 16:21:00 UTC
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"As in, if you actually were using the Norse roots."
Elves are Norse? I thought they were German? I'm now picturing Elrond on a Viking ship. It's an odd image.
"I'm kind of afraid of that website because of the ties which link them to the Pit."
*shudders* The only reason that I go to FF.net is really because it's got the simplest interface that I've encountered. Is FP created by the same people, because the one time I went there, it seemed almost identical except for a red logo.
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he's gone (nm) by
on 2008-08-12 16:20:00 UTC
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Re: It can depend. by
on 2008-08-12 16:18:00 UTC
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"If there are other magical elements, it's more fantasy."
There are other magical creatures and random magic, so yes. It's also got some sci-fi in.
"There are numerous fiction communities there."
You mean like Deletrius, but for actual fics rather than sporks? I thought Deletrius only had the last twenty or so things posted, though. So isn't that a bad idea if you're looking for readers?
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The Plot by
on 2008-08-12 16:15:00 UTC
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Thanks for the help, but I've since decided that it was fantasy. Supernatural is probably only ghosts etc, isn’t it?
Sorry that I couldn’t give a better explanation before, but my time at the library was almost up and I was about to get booted off the computer because of it. Anyway, here's the plot outline. It's still only a draft and could potentially change at any time. It's met with mixed comments from the few I've shown it to so far. I've also just recently changed a few things, so if something doesn't make any sense, call me out on it.
The year on Earth is 22?? (unsure of exact year. Probably the latter part of the century). Kyle Redfield, Europe’s stealthiest burglar, has been a thorn in the side of the police for over fifteen years. When a strange woman arrives at his door, bloodied and beaten, he feels a strange urge to take her in rather than send her to a hospital. As he nurses her back to health, he hacks into police files and finds no mention of the woman ever existing.
Demanding answers, Mala tells him that the worlds of magic and science used to be one, but split apart centuries before because of an unknown cataclysm/someone who wanted to separate them (haven’t decided). So far, so cliché. But don’t worry. I try to put an original spin on all clichés.
During the time they were separated, the magical world, Orlornu, faced a deadly danger and so the Circle was created, a ruling council with absolute power composed of a male and a female of every race: elf, nymph, troll, pixie, ogre, vampire and more. The Circle managed to save Orlornu from destruction, but the power they wielded began to corrupt them. Within a century, they had almost total control of Orlornu, but they wanted more.
Some of the rebels who refused the Circle’s rule attempted to fight back, but most fled through discovered rifts in reality and arrived on Earth in the early 20th century. Since then, the rebels have slowly tried to convince humans of the coming fight while the Circle’s minions hunted each of them down. While the rebel’s numbers were slowly whittled down to less than a hundred, the Circle’s power somehow continued to grow. Now, as their invasion force numbers into the millions, they have almost enough power to start to directly affect Earth and cause chaos throughout the planet: alter human minds on an immense scale to tie them up in massive, senseless wars; alter Earth’s geography to cause volcanic eruptions under major cities or even, if they so chose, burn away the atmosphere entirely.
Kyle refuses to believe her at first, thinking her to be a crazy woman who somehow escaped the government’s records. But when Mala is attacked by the ogre who caused her so much damage before, he starts to realise the truth of what she said. But will he be able to fight against the magic slowly polluting the world?
The answer is obviously yes as he’s the main character. I just nicked part of this off of a blurb I once wrote for it. It was riddled with clichés like that. Try this one: “If he wants to survive, he must fight for everything he believes in before it is destroyed by everything he doesn’t believe in.” Clichéd or what? Sounds like a B-movie.
But anyway, the magic is sort of undefined. If you want to do something, you can do it, as long as you have the power and the will to do it. It seems like a deux ex machine, but the Circle are the ones with the real power, not the good guys. All of the races have magic with the possible exception of vampires and the like. They might have something else. Cloaking and disguising spells are the easiest, which is how everyone moves around Earth without detection. Fire magic is the most commonly used as it’s one of the easiest things to summon and control.
This leads to the only way to detect a cloaked/disguised person: infrared (also the title of the series). Under an infrared detector, the person shows up as pure white because of the energy of the fire magic inside them. They can contain it inside them so that they don’t burn anyone they touch (though their skin always feels hot), but they can’t control it enough to appear as anything other than white on infrared. On a related note, exactly what temperature is white on an infrared scanner? Because I may need to change this slightly if it’s stupidly hot.
Yes, I know this sounds so dreadful that I should probably just give up now, but a) it sounds far, far better in my head and b) I just want to give it a try anyway. But any other helpful hints?
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It can depend. by
on 2008-08-12 15:13:00 UTC
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If they're the only magical element in an otherwise realistic setting, I'd say Supernatural. If there are other magical elements, it's more fantasy.
Myself, I'd use LiveJournal. There are numerous fiction communities there. You might not get as many reviews as you would on FictionPress, but the overall quality of your fellow posters is much higher.
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I say go for it! by
on 2008-08-12 14:58:00 UTC
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Sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing what you do with it.
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*Scratches head* by
on 2008-08-12 14:52:00 UTC
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You really don't have to do that. For the most part, most of the ideas in the PPC are just thrown out there with small details, which means everyone can elaborate on them at a later point or change this or that. Though I suppose it'd be useful for a Wiki page.
And I so hate you for being able to write essays *Glares at his English teacher and mutters darkly*
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Fantasy, I think. by
on 2008-08-12 14:15:00 UTC
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If they were, in fact, supernatural, or other elements in the story pushed it into the supernatural, that might be different. As in, if you actually were using the Norse roots. But if you're not, then I'd say probably fantasy.
http://www.fictionpress.com/ is FictionPress's website. I don't know about where else to post original fiction, but I'm kind of afraid of that website because of the ties which link them to the Pit.
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Actually, It's more like a historical account... (nm) by
on 2008-08-12 14:07:00 UTC
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I find this idea quite intriguing. by
on 2008-08-12 12:52:00 UTC
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Though I have to feel sorry for the PPC Agents, having so many enemies... the DIS/Black Cats, the LMSF, the Mirror Multiverse, the CSC...
Okay, so not many enemies, but big mean nasty ones.
Go ahead with the cult. I'd like to see how the PPC cope with this new threat.