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There were no signs of anyone else in the General Store. Neo wasn't sure whether that was because of the Poofening or because Leto just wasn't in at the moment. Still, he started browsing the shelves, looking for toiletries. "You got anything shiny to pay for these things?" he wondered.

((Anyhow, all fixed oops. Thank you for the corrections lol))

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"My colleague Flib is... was? A literal mad scientist." It was a little numbing to think about how Flibbertigibbet was probably gone, now, but Neo reckoned he would have time to worry about that later, after getting Boadicea where she needed to go. "And we've got an entire department of assassins, so what's one more person who had to fight monsters for survival?"

He nearly bumped into Boadicea then, but was able to peer around her to see where they'd gone. Sure enough, the door to the General Store was there.

"Sweet!" he said, holding out a hand. "Up top, Boadi!"

((Reply to Bookworm.))

((Neo and Boardicea walk to the General Store for shower stuff.: Boardicea --> Boadicea.

Lori, Rise, and Meg go to a Mary Sue Factory: Rise --> Rose.

DIA agent Laura and Christianne trying to get info from Corporal Perkins and Officer Maywell --> Christianne Shieh tries to get info from Corporal Laura Perkins and Officer Maywell.

Sorry it wasn't clear before!))

Bill and Liam, on the other hand, went with the others. "I'll give you the portal coordinates to our place in New Cal, and we can make our way to HQ from there. Don't want to alert the DES when they're already probably on high alert for intruders into HQ itself," he explained.

((Reply to owosphere and Scarlett.))

((A reply to this)

“Are you okay?” she asked.

((Alberta has abandoned Makes-Things...I dunno, ‘cause I feel like it. Sierpinski, I await your reply.))

((Notes: I think it's Rose that Bill and Meg are travelling with? Also, hidaney's (?) thread with DIA agent Laura and Christianne trying to get info from her is also a thing))

... threads intially to keep things going, like we did when we moved to a seperate thread at first.))

((Basically, Lily will be able to reply to the post by noting that they are replying to your latest post.))

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(Moved over here to prevent the main Board from being too stressed)

So, in a world where one agent's wish that all Mary Sues would just disappear came true, a good portion of HQ's denizens of Suvian/badfic origin have all vanished. All continua with Canon Sues in them have also gone missing.

Current disappearences:

• Continua with Canon Sues like Eragon, Twilight, etc. (Such as Diamond)
• Characters rescued out of badfics, be it via recruiting or being placed in the Nursery. (Such as Matthew (Kittyauthor's agent) and Natalie Green)
• Sues, reformed or not. For the sake of argument that'd be original characters from fanfics, who are mission targets or were mission targets. (A lot of agents)
• And anyone who somehow gets Sued after the wish (such as Carlisle).

Current threads:

• Neo and Boadicea walk to the General Store for shower stuff.
• Lori, Rose, and Meg go to a Mary Sue Factory
• O'Ryan notices Canon Sue continua disappearing.
• Derik goes to the Nursery
• Noman is scared because all the Sues are gone
• Christianne Shieh tries to get info from Corporal Laura Perkins and Officer Maywell.

As with last time, please make your reply to one of the above posts to start us off.

Also, wanna know what's going on in a certain thread? The doc has you covered, with most (if not all!) of the posts are linked, with a short summary of what's going on in general.

-kA

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"Did I - I mean - I didn't mean to upset her or anything..." he faltered, a surge of Awkward Teenager Feelings overwhelming him. Ducking his head, feeling rather ashamed of himself for his costume now someone seemed to have been distressed by it, he shuffled his feet and stuffed his hands in his pockets.

"Maybe she's just a bit overwhelmed," Stephanie offered, trying her best to make him feel better and darting an anxious look at Charlotte. "I bet she hasn't had many people being encouraging up till now."

"No. I am perfectly capable of handling this. It is fine." He awkwardly attempted to get a better grip on the child, closer to what he had see others do, without accidentally crushing him. Gadrik was not crushed, but whether he was comfortable with Thoth's attempts... that was yet to be seen.

This was important. It wasn't something he could just entrust to someone else. No matter how much he may wish to.

"See, hon? Nothing to be ashamed of," she said, elbowing Ix gently. "You're really not as ugly as you think."

Ix, eyes bright with unspilled tears, yanked her cowl back down and ran off. She managed a good pace despite her limp, and disappeared into the crowd.

Charlotte hesitated, wanting to run after her, but at the same time realizing somewhere along the way, she'd messed up, bad. "...I just wanted her to feel better," she said miserably.

((Downsides of being a badfic rescue with no previous personality: you cannot people, sometimes.))

On recognising the agent, who looked rather agitated, he hesitated for a few moments before moving towards him with a backward glance at the kids. Steph would be fine - she and Owen were sensible enough and wouldn't let Henry run into any trouble, and there were plenty of adults around who were responsible enough to stop any escapades.

Reassured by this logical line of thought, William approached Derik with a tentative smile once the bigger man looked a little calmer. "Hello," he said mildly, with a little smile. "Fancy seeing you here."

Something felt weird about all this, though he couldn't put his finger on what. He didn't bother to hide his wide-eyed amazement when "Captain America" revealed her face. The pair of agents seemed to want them to look. It wasn't like he hadn't seen scars before, though. Besides Owen's dad, Su had some impressive ones, and Ilraen had that one big one on his chest, and there was that one ex-dragonrider guy his mom knew, too. These scars were pretty alarming, being on the agent's face, but Mom said you never judged anyone by their appearance, even if they looked a bit scary. Heck, if anything, "Peggy Carter" was freaking him out more by being so excited. Just what was she playing at?

(( Edit: Speaking of Derik, just noting that I've created an opening for him to be approached below, if you like. {= ) ))

Touching his painted-on scars rather self-consciously, he glanced at Stephanie for reassurance. She smiled slightly as the older Agents talked, giving him a faint nod.

When the rather uncertain one took off her mask, Owen couldn't quite hide his startlement at how bad the scarring was, but he nodded approvingly anyway. "Looks like you had a pretty bad time," he said. "But my dad always says marks like that just prove you survived, and that makes you tougher than whatever did it."

"And he'd know better than a lot of people," Stephanie agreed with a little smile, leaning in as though to confide in the newcomers. "His dad's got some pretty noticeable marks too, when he's not trying to keep them covered." She nodded towards Luke, who still wore the same ragged black scarf covering his left eye that he'd worn for over fifteen years.

“I could take him?” she offered. “I’ve got a bit of experience with babies, if that helps...”

“Thank you!” she said. “Ix worked really hard on them—come on, Fwai, just take the mask off for one minute?”

Ix gave Charlotte a desperate stare.

“Please?” Charlotte wheedled. “Come on, that’s a Bill Weasley costume if I’ve ever seen one, I’m sure he won’t care.”

Ix bit her lip, looking between Charlotte and Owen. She shuddered, but reluctantly pulled her cowl back, revealing the disfiguring claw marks that slashed across the left side of her face, obliterating her eyebrow, leaving her nose crooked, and twisting the corner of her mouth into a permanent grimace. “Lottie seems to think you’ll like this,” she muttered.

With little patience to spare, he thrust Gadrik into his friend's outsized hands.

Gadrik was momentarily startled into stillness, his eyes and mouth wide, gaping up at Thoth.

"Excuse me," Derik said to the others. "I just need a moment."

He stepped away, and maneuvered his way to a nearby gap in the crowd. With a screen of disinterested people between him and the group, Thoth could probably still mark him, but not the others. That was all he wanted: a veneer of privacy. His inclination was to pace, to raise his physical activity to the level his surging adrenaline demanded, but he mastered the urge and focused on his breathing instead.

(( Practicality before pride indeed. ^_^ ))

He might be still one of the younger kids as far as she and Owen were concerned, but she was fond of him and tried not to talk down to him. It was a nice feeling to be looked up to, and she didn't want to spoil that by making him feel like a baby.

"You're gonna be just great when you go to HFA," she said. "And when you get your own wand it'll be better than Owen's - it'll be the real thing."

She, too, was startled into silence when a couple of Agents rushed up to them, but nodded politely anyway. Owen, on the other hand, looked rather nervous, and gave the pair of newcomers a tentative smile.

"Um. Hi?" he said weakly. "I like your costumes, too."