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Taking questions for Chris, Ami, Miguel, and Violet, along with Miki the anthro Pomeranian. He's not technically an agent but deserves to be in on the fun.

Do you think you'd ever find a tribble you liked? (What if it was spayed? Would that make a difference?)

Do you give any lessons on how to play the Biggenbrassenparpenthingen?

In terms of dyin', I can't say I'm the expert... Y'know, bein' immortal and all that jazz, but if you want, luv, I'd be mighty glad to test some theories about...

Ekhm...

Ah, right... Back to the questions, then. Actually, that's a good one. I guess we do get along, don't we?

I suppose. You're not bad, even if a little too serious sometimes. And really should tone down the whole warlock spiel. It might've worked in your world, but there are people here that can out-magic you with ease... ;)

...Right. What's next... Hmm... Do we even have a favourite mission?

I don't think so. I mean, helping out Ami was fun...

Was not. I was a bloody hobbit!

...Then again, we're not one of those teams that look forward to missions, and are only counting down to the next moment they can assassinate someone. As for the least favourite... Hmm... Angel-Sue?

Angel-bloody-Sue... That's atrocity was an absolute horror. Remember, it had Dobby with a bloody rocket launcher.

So... Yeah, not much we can really say. We're a pretty lazy team, not many missions on our back. Honestly, don't even know why anyone would like to meet us, do you, Will?

I don't know why anyone wouldn't like to meet us, luv.

The Fourth Wall is the "veil of perception" tha Doc mentioned,.. Also, you didn't answer my first question... I guess I should have specified both questions were for both Agents, I guess...

And Doc: What's so wrong with eating crayons? I ask not because I eat them... nope... uh... I totally don't eat'em... right writer?

(OOC:Yup that's right. You totally picked your nose and ate your buggers, though.)

Ah, okay! Wait... Eeeeewww!

(OOC: Yes, she can see past the Fourth Wall. No, I'm not sane.)

Michael: On the first question, it was rather unsettling the first few times he died, but he has become more skilled at avoiding death, whatever he may claim, and I have become somewhat adjusted to it. I cannot say it doesn't disturb me to some degree, but that degree has gradually lessened over the course of our association.

On the second, he can focus. However, unless it interests him, he usually chooses not to. Therefore, I endeavor to make our missions as interesting as possible, and, when that fails... I endure.

My glasses, at the most basic level, alter the information entering or exiting my eyes. For example, my Tracker's Lenses highlight the point at which the soul and the sole of the person I am tracking met the surface they were walking upon, assuming they were walking. There are, of course, other means of transportation. Unfortunately, when someone takes them, it has a tendency to give one a headache. I do not recommend trying to track someone who has decided to go for a swim in the ocean.

Apecian: Well, basically, I've got a store of soul energy stored in my Philosopher's Stone. Not how Philosopher's Stones are supposed to work, but the idiot who made me didn't know that, and that's one glitter side-effect I don't want fixed. But, anyways, that energy is used to heal me whenever I get injured. As for favorite death? Nah, that one still rules. Seriously, it was awesome.

Michael: I have not noticed any patterns in the kind of work we receive, no.

Apecian: Unless you call the lack of pattern a pattern, in which case, yeah. Also, we usually don't ever get the same kind of thing over and over and over again. The one time we got stuck in a fandom for about a dozen missions, first it was a Sue, then it was Bad Slash, then Bad Slash again, then a Crossover, then a Troll, then Bad Angst, then a Sue again, and, well, you get the idea. Usually, I'm the one who kills the Sue, or whatever we're going for at the time, since if I mess up or she pulls a random power out of her purse, I'll be fine. Mike? Not so much. So he stands back and takes and reads the charges. Most of the time.

Michael: I am not sure if there is anywhere in particular that we are sent particularly often. We have a tendency to visit relatively obscure fandoms more often than those that are more popular. I would suspect this is because the Flowers have many Agents who can work in Harry Potter, but they have fewer Agents who can work in Angel Beats!.

Apecian: I'm not sure I've really got a favorite? I mean, it's great to see home sometimes, but other than that, I don't really have a preference, and besides, if I had to do one place over and over again, I'd get bored.

Michael: I have a few continua I enjoy visiting, but that does not generally affect where we go.

Apecian: Oh, come on, Mike! Don't dodge the question.

Michael: Very well. I do have a general preference for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and I also enjoy visiting the world of Tortall.

((I should note that what Michael says about Lenses is part canon, part not. The bit about it altering the information entering and exiting the eye is canon. The bit about exactly how the Tracker's Lenses is something I made up and I hope sounds plausible.))

Hi! My name is Calliope - I'm the new one. Lu (she's my partner) said that I was in charge of writing a response to this. I don't know why, I'm the one least able to answer your questions! But I'll do it as best I can.

Signed, Calliope I.

"The Commander and myself have primarily been working with teams sent to obscure fandoms whose power levels are rather more dangerous than initially surmised. Beyond that, I am given to understand that the Commander has been working closely with certain of FicPsych to set up a dedicated outreach-cum-demobilization program for refugee bits and OCs from militarily-inflected badfic worlds, a duty that hitherto has been left to more general practitioners of psychological medicine. For my part, my time has been taken up by building scouting reports for the Department of Intelligence in certain magic-rich continua; English magic is of a certain utility in such travails, being near-on undetectable, though limited in other means. When we have the leisure for it, the Commander and I often dabble in the other's interests: I am now a quite acceptable shot with small arms of various calibre and continuum, if I do say so myself, whilst the Commander's truly agile mind makes her a formidable theoretical magician and scholar of English magic. Her efforts to engage in practical magic are, for reasons I begin to hypothesize are related to her total lack of psionic capabilities and even Force presence, sadly unfruitful thus far; however, hope is the thing with feathers, as the poetess Dickinson put it. I trust this is a full and suitable answer for your needs."

"I remain, "Yr. obdt. svt., "Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne, Special Response Officer, Department of Internal Affairs."

She does not know these people, but feels she can understand the scribbling over the first name--having kept up with the Das Sporking community, she knows the unfortunate associations one might have recently with the surname 'Steele'. Well, that and there are many grumpy agents in HQ--one wishing to have nothing to do with the Mailbox service is hardly unusual. At least one Time Lord comes to mind.

She turns to go.

When opened, the message (addressed to all three names, or rather, to CS, LG, & CI as the brim was a little hard to write on) reads:

Hello, all three of you! I don't know you, so I assume at least one of you is new. Or new-ish. But welcome either way. Who are you all? What are your favorite things to drink? What department(s) are you in? Have you ever run into the Sunflower's Witness? I did that some years ago, and it was...

It is signed, barely legibly, Dawn McKenna, DMS

Dok: "For mein part, I am beink most excited to engage in zer protection uff zer vider vorlds-und-mirrors-uff-vorlds from zer ravenous menaces uff beinks from beyond zer veil uff perception whose very presence is enough to be drivink zer sanest of us into zer grips uff full-bore, wall-clawing, all-hyu-can-eat-crayon-diet insanity! I am findink it ein most useful application of mein particular set uff skills!"

Gabrielle: "Uh, is the Fourth Wall a rising tide of the absence of things that isn't even black because black is a colour and a concept and it's slowly dissolving everything around you and also it hurts? Because if so, uh, I totally have! Yay!"

Hi! What have you been doing recently? And what's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you in HQ?

Hullo, hullo, hullo! If you have questions for any of the following characters (or any I've forgotten to list but also write), this is the place to do it!

Agents taking questions:

-Dawn McKenna -The Reader -Kozar -T'Zar -Abaddon (T'Zar's partner) -Jacques Bonnefoy -Brenda Loringham -Charlie Shoe -Edgar Sullivan -Agen____t -Gurnirel (female elven agent in SIELU) -Naergondir (male elven agent in SIELU)

Non-agents taking questions, since they want in on the fun:

-Ruby Sato -Owain Sato -Seren Sato

(All three are Nursery children. Ruby is six years old; Owain and Seren are five.)

You can also leave questions for Dawn's fire-lizard, Gwilithiel, though of course her replies will have to be conveyed through Dawn's translation...

Ask away!

~Z (& co.)

Hey Doc and Gaby! How does it feel to be Pokémon fighting to protect the Multiverse? Also, have you ever seen the Fourth Wall? Is amazing!

To Micheal, how in the world - or worlds, depending on the continuum - do you deal with a partner who can't seem to avoid getting himself killed? A partner who won't - or, to his credit, perhaps can't (medical issues are a possibility, I've met a few with them) - stay focused on what he really ought to be doing, for that matter. And how do those glasses of yours work?

To Apecian, how does that regeneration power of yours work? Has your answer to "Favorite Death" changed since the last time the question was asked?

To the both of you, are there any patterns in your work? Who generally takes care of charges and who generally takes care of assassination? Which continuums do you get sent to most often? Which continuums do you prefer to get sent to?

I've been dying to meet you two! Well, okay, not literally, because that wouldn't have worked very well. I think. Would that have worked? Huh. Now I really want to know that, too.

But the question I would have asked originally! Rather, questions. I'm a little nosy. Sorry about that, you don't absolutely haaaaave to answer all of them if you're made a little uncomfortable. After all, it's not like you know me or anything!

One, what mission of yours was your favorite? Two, which mission was your least favorite? Three, for those times when you can't seem to get along and you're not on a mission, what do the two of you do? Four, what do you do when you can't get along and you are on a mission? Five, I've noticed you seem to spend a lot of time doing missions in the Harry Potter world - d'you know why?

I'll probably send more questions later, but I can't think of more now. (I would like an answer on the death thing though.) Cheers until then!

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Barid: Vol'jin was da best of us. Dat ol' bastard bin aroun' foreva an we expected'im ta be aroun' for anotha foreva. Wit'im gone...I jus hope dat Banshee does right by da Darkspear. Vol'jin didn' trust'er, but da Loa say she's da one, an' I trust da Loa.

Brightbeard: King Varian will be sorely missed. He was a great, if troubled, man. Light guide his son, Anduin, as he takes the throne.

The last Star Trek prequel series was Enterprise, and we all know how THAT turned out. Additionally, one of the guys at the helm is the same guy responsible for the travesties of Into Darkness and Beyond. The whole thing is going through production hell, and frankly, none of it may matter, because the only way to even watch the show is on CBS All Access. Restricting your viewership is always a stupid idea, whether it's through awful and inconsistent time slots or through insisting that people have to be members of your private club to watch. (It's going to be pirated anyway, including by people who wouldn't normally stoop to that, simply out of frustration. Game of Thrones proved this.) The whole thing sounds like a recipe for crash and burn.

That said . . . the premise is interesting. From their vague hints, it looks like we may be exploring the Treaty of Armens, in which the Federation signed over several planets to the Sheliak Corporation. Perhaps we'll be focusing more on diplomacy than monsters of the week. The story is going to be told from the perspective of the first officer rather than the captain, which may offer fresh storytelling possibilities. We're definitely getting a more diverse cast and characters, finally practicing what Trek has preached all along. There are hopeful signs.

We'll just have to wait and see.

— Agent Supernumerary

I will be taking questions for all my agents:-

The Notary

The Time Lord Inglorious, the Lonely Sod, known to the Daleks as the Oncoming Form.

Wobbles the Clown

The happiest, luckiest, and somehow also goest of happy-go-lucky children's party entertainers.

Algernon, 7th Earl Wymbourne

A man of decency, breeding, good character, and a tolerable skill as a practical magician.

Field Commander Lola McCandless

A woman of considerably less breeding, a complete lack of decency, and a tolerable skill as the commander of a ragtag organization devoted to shooting horrible gribbly space things.

Doktor Trollenfisch

The Department of WhatThe's resident neon-pink pufferfish with a German accent and a love of the sousaphone Biggenbrassenparpenthingen.

Gabrielle

An adorable and engaging little ball of cute with a dark past full of trauma and sadness; can you tell she was originally one of Ix's characters yet?

((One rule before we begin: I really must insist that messaging parties do not inform the Notary of Lola's existence within the PPC, and vice versa. There will be a story in which they meet; this ain't it. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but it does get irritating.))

So, there is this new Star Trek series, Discovery, which is about to be released. What do you think about it?

Um... yeah, leave questions for Will & VJ, Hip & Hop aaaaaand the soon-to-arrive duo - Matt & Izzy

Henry: I wanna go to Hogwarts and learn magic! I'm a wizard, you know. But then I wanna be an agent like Uncle 'Raen.

Gall: Yeah, he drops scales all the time. Kinda has to, since getting set on fire isn't exactly good for them. Some of the bigger scutes are cool, but mostly it's annoying. The little buggers get everywhere, especially when he full-on molts. Ugh. ... Why? Do you want some? What'll you give me for 'em?

(( Disclaimer: This is my headcanon as of this post. The HtTYD wiki didn't have an answer I could find [and it's horribly written], and I'm not caught up on the series. ))

Ilraen: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood if a woodchuck could chuck wood. ... Tongue-twisters are not so difficult if you do not speak with a tongue. This comes in very handy when reading Fox in Socks to small children for the nth time in a row.

You stand before a mailbox. Or at least, you think it's a mailbox - it has "MAILBOX" on it, obviously printed out and pasted on. The following names are written in varying scripts:

You shrug and drop in your letter(s) regardless of scribbling or lack thereof.

I still need to find the way to make her stop biting people I want to be quiet, though... Now that think about it, that one might be my fault, due to my lack of patience...

I donj't hang out with Alex Dives that much, now you're touching the subject, we work in different areas from the Department. I'm from Testing and Applications, as head (and only Technician) of the Danger Room Project, he works lending equipment, last time I checked.

I guess I could, but I think I'd have to disguise away my Stone completely to let that happen, and then stay there for... well, however much I wanted to age, I guess? But, yeah, not really worth it to find out, especially since I'm not as good as you guys are at not dying, and I'd probably just reset as soon as I got back to HQ and the disguise dropped.

Since you can't age, does that mean any disguises you take on can't, either?