Okay. So we have one character called Megan now...

A redemption story. That must include an object quest that isn't a Piece of Jewellery or a Trophy.

Also, and in seriousness, as I said to you when you told me your idea, this reminds me of when your Mum?

And probably OT, but I just saw a drainlayer's truck with this written on the side: "ALWAYS IN THE S@#*! ONLY THE DEPTH VARIES." Which sort of sums up the last?

It would speak to the sporting bent of many here, the important role of moderators, the need to understand the 'rules of engagement', and the symbolic support of things like breast cancer, disability awareness?

I was thinking CBD Red Zone, but I'm happy for people to take the phrase "Red Zone" anywhere they want.

Wait... No, feck it. Whatever.

But I'm quite taken by the idea of an areas designated for redheads.

There's already?

After losing two to the big effing C in the past 24 hours, you managed to make me laugh way sooner than I expected. So the story goes...

There's already one of those. It's my house.

setting it in every red zone we can think of

Right, Emma, now you have to mention a mooncup.

We're using this! I mean, Megan, Hadyn, and a designated redhead area? Cannot pass this up.

Greg: would you care to be more specific about 'what kind of dog collar', or shall I just... "use my judgement"?

Also, one character may have to make mention of "biting off more than you can chew" at this point.

Ahem.

A manatee that?s an angel. Right.

Cp South Park God. It would probably be symbolic of something-or-other if there was a vistiation from an angel and it just shuffled about blobbily and made huffing noises.

unless the Talsiman (St Richie?s Winky) is be returned to the stadium.

"It wasn't the size of my talisman, it was the stadium it was playing in!"

did you say Whisky? From a certain store trapped in the red zone, prehaps? Our host may approve such a plot element..

Craig may however oppose any role for Anna Torv

aw come on you don't want Megan to search for Richard's ring?

Good lord, Bart. But, um, who am I to argue with what the forum wants?

It's not just the permissions that are getting turned on.

That doesn't have to be the Quest, that can just be a sideline...

Okay, people, I need at least a couple of characters that are actually fictional, and more genre/story types.

ON the sideline?

Yes! We will be taking visual submissions now, too. In the meantime, you can email them to me;

It's not just the permissions that are getting turned?

I presume the manatee angel is fictional? He or she should also be of unusual size, and called "O".

Is that similar to what happens hearings when people make oral submissions?

With a blessed gifted child always referred to as "from the big O".

period drama
(with apologies to Alasdair Thompson)

I would also quite like there to be a Margaret Mahy type witch (like the one in?

?

Yours? I just cried on my wrist-rest.

Is that similar to what happens hearings when people make oral submissions?

You're trying to actually kill me, aren't you?

With a blessed gifted child always referred to as "from?

can we also have a button for non-sexy images?

No. They will be carefully moderated to ensure that a minimum certain level of sexiness is achieved.

Now you're just being a manatease.

Brad... Thorne...

So The great blend is R18 isn't it?

how about...

It wasn't her fault.

I vote for this?

It beats "It was a dark and stormy night" hands down.

Is this a comment on the morals of our banking industry?

I vote that the feminist chocolate course should be preceded by sexist cheese.

Whoa, I read that as "sexy-file-upload", but perhaps I should calm down and keep my hypens to myself.

unrelated:
http://youtu.be/YXm1ICO8Nec

yeah, I did the "involuntary squick shudder".

Banks Penninsula could be, well...

She looked around and saw crooked and broken houses as if some angry taniwha had just swept through. She craved some tasty sea grass. But all the creek bottom yielded was city detritus.?

And if at all possible, Eric Clapton armed with a spray can, or at least someone who claims he saw that.

I quite like the idea of the city having erogenous zones. As well as orogenous ones.

You mean 'stromy'? Polish for steep and hilly.

The Stromy Approach to Garbled Ale.

ETA: We need a punster publican, pouring pernicious pints.

Paging Mr Callaghan, Mr Mike Callaghan...

So when you write in the forward 'In the Oral Tradition', you mean something else? Just to be clear.

#MaorifyNZ

So, yeah.

The Reverend Thorndon Overbridge was frustrated. The need to read the gospel to fallen women was building, but the red zone appeared empty of the?

Perhaps we could Christchurchify it to Durham Overbridge?

ETA: and we MUST have a drunken Grand Chancellor in here somewhere, I think!

"...like a cat on the Internet."

God, that'd make me eater.

Oh lordy yes – he can stop people from ever being able to get on with stuff.

in a fight with Copthorne Durham?

Well I was referring to the pastor-y tag, but if you want to go judgement day (or lay?) then collar it however you like.

I was thinking they might have gone to different schools ;-)

Simple. Copthorne Durham is obviously the Rev Thorndon Overbridge's secret super-hero identity. Yes, he's a hotel, and nobody notices... It's the dog collar.

I smell a Nobel Prize! Or possibly the perfume of the manatee's tears.

Oh Jesus. Okay...

Referencing Gene Wolfe? +1 beers for that man there.

Including embedded images, like YouTube clips can?

And I feel strongly that Chch has been suffering Rift activity and therefore demand some Captain Jack action! [Perhaps he goes up against Copthorne Durham, as it were?]

ETA: and chemical toilets: clearly alien technology!

?Hammer Time!?

clearly alien technology!

A Feersum Endjinn even, owl.

Torchwood 4, based in Hereford St. Hilary's chocolate shop is where they make the special chocolate that you feed to pterodactyls.

*applauds*

Also, yeah, I've been getting that Torchwood vibe. Because there is clearly some kind of time-space continuum policing organisation that Megan, Hadyn, and Ellerslie Panmure belong to. And it needs a?

Without you knowing what they are? Awesome. This could be seriously fun, and dangerous.

ETA: Right, I guess you will have to know, but the thought of random images at inopportune moments did somewhat?

I'll ask his Dad.

Only if you have a PAS Gold Account.

I'm less disturbed at you finding it than I am that it was there for you to find...

"The City Who Sued God."

But which one?? Who would be hanging around a sheep paddock out of Darfield at 4.35 on a Saturday morning? [if I can rudely transpose Douglas Adams]

"Understand this. We deal with time. We deal with space. We deal with catastrophe, inconsistency, and aquatic mammals who aren't where they should be. Our scope is fucking enormous. It's a huge manor, T."

This is a story that contains multitudes. It is all you desire & so much more-

Logburner? ;-)

Fucking awesome.

Ha! given how hard it is to get authorisation for one of those...

Yeah, that's going in verbatim.

If it does, I'm going to have to come to Auckland.

Subduction leads to orogeny ...

I'll see you a horst and raise you a graben. Actually not bad character names ..

Who's graben Horst? ;-)

And is there an aseismic creep? (let me set my creepmeter)

Will there be plenty of cleavage? And homoclines and transpressure?

[I think we're onto something here!}

Sure. What would you like, dike propagation or isopleth elongation?
Here, in the meantime, a hardness index

Igneous just shrugged. "Oh well. Your loess."

Holmes put down his magnifying glass, and looked up with a glint. "Sedimentary, my dear Watson!"

Character name gets my vote

Welli being too cold for manatees and all

I, for one, welcome the pun-ative Le Quiff actions of the Dalzealander and his majik stylussss...

#tropetastic

Thanks Ian. Who would have thought such catharsis could be gained by pruning puns on PAS.

coalesce into rock hard deposits?

It?s sedimentary, dear Watson.

?Let me sublimate your substrate?,?

I hate to tell you, but I suspect that ship has sailed.

Oooo! There should be a _ship_.

I dunno, sounds pretty hard core to me

Boom-tish.

There's an app for that.

A witch reclined on a branch of an unseasonably blossoming cherry tree, sucking chocolate. Curled up her lap was?

Janet, the farmer's daughter (Shirley, we must have one?) sidled up to the bar and Mike had her pint of Garbled Ale on the counter before her jeans settled into the chair.

After a?

So. I probably have as much manatee?

Worryingly, I keep thinking of pastors.

My friends used to bake these, high in fibre.

That's so page 2.

[redacted] I'll shuddup now.

A tasty pastry!

Word of the Year contender

Also, at Hadyn's request I'm changing the name of the pink-shirted ref character (who was, let's be honest, never really hadyn). So he needs a new name.

Seth Orlan.

Islander, I loved your blog post on geomorphology, thank you for that.