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Rob, what are you looking at in term of personality for your demon assistant? I can try going over the devils I know, just to see if something matches.

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Rob, what are you looking at in term of personality for your demon assistant? I can try going over the devils I know, just to see if something matches.

I'm looking for somebody who usually lets the assigned person work out his own problems, but is helpful in cases where the self-insert honestly cannot solve the problem on his own. Xellos from Slayers is close, but doesn't have the "helpful in cases where the self-insert honestly cannot solve the problem on his own" part.

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...I cannot wait to see what happens when Malfoy pisses off Evangeline.

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I'll have to watch YuYu Hakusho before I can answer that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Oh, and I made a slight change to the tech from what I posted here and what I just posted in the IC thread.

EDIT: And let's wait until the characters are settled in before somebody remembers there's many-times-a-day rail service between Ottawa and Montreal. (winks at Seraviel)

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...I cannot wait to see what happens when Malfoy pisses off Evangeline.

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Okay guys, Black Aeronaut has misplaced his laptop and while he knows where it is, he will be unable to be on for the next day or two.

Oh and for my sake, do you think you could also state what some of these characters are from? I know a lot of stuff, but as much as I like anime, it is not my forte.

Also, do take into account that other SI/managers may hear about the characters that you are hosting, so, in story, they might have suggestions to help. Like when my SI hears about the crew from Firefly, he may talk to Washu about getting River something to deal with her uncontrolled mind/emotion reading.

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Oh and for my sake, do you think you could also state what some of these characters are from? I know a lot of stuff, but as much as I like anime, it is not my forte.
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• Mikoto Misaka: code-named "Railgun" by the faculty and staff of Academy City. One of the four most powerful espers in that city of multi-millions of people, Mikoto is capable of accelerating coins to speeds that let them penetrate armor (hence her code-name), and has many other electrokinetic abilities. She's in her second year of junior high school.
  
• Kuroko Shirai: one year younger than Mikoto, attends the same school as Mikoto, shares a dorm room with Mikoto, and has an unrequited love - no, let's be honest - an unrequited lust for her roommate. Kuroko is a powerful teleporter and a member of "Judgment", the auxillary police force in Academy City.
  
• Ruiko Saten: just a normal everyday girl, the same age as Kuroko and Kazari. Occasionally, being "just a normal everyday girl" actually means something.
  
• Kazari Uiharu: Ruiko's classmate, Kuroko's partner in the Judgment squad, an excellent hacker, and a low-powered esper. She thinks her esper power is nothing special - but it breaks the laws of thermodynamics.
  
• Mii Konori: the eldest of the group, Mii is a high-school student. She's in charge of the Judgment squad that Kuroko and Kazari are members of. Mii's esper ability is x-ray vision.
  

• Usagi Tsukino: Sailor Moon
  
• Ami Mizuno: Sailor Mercury
  
• Minako Aino: Sailor Venus
  
• Rei Hino: Sailor Mars
  
• Makoto Kino: Sailor Jupiter
  

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BA, one bit to swing by you before posting it in the story thread. Is this within the bounds of how you imagined the setting?And so far, all I've established about SI-my companion's identity is that he's male. Any suggestions, anyone?

Honestly, if you want THE Doctor, I'd be fine with that.  Just bear in mind a couple of things:
The TARDIS is grounded and will not be traveling anywhere in physical space or time - at least not until the climax for Arc 1[*]He'll figure out a way to get around anyhow.  He'll get wanderlust - enough that he'll be seen around the other apartments, getting acquainted with the other Arrivals (hint-hint).  But he'll stick around enough that he can be a regular character for you.
Also, Translation Convention is in effect, and we'll be lampshading the hell out of that mother in a bit.

I wasn't asking about The Doctor, actually. "Rob" is me, the mentioned companion - not Companion - is the local so-far-nameless representative from Nidhogg. (You've already called dibs on the Black Butler. I don't want Senbei or Mara/Maller.)

What I was asking about was the tech. Since Translation Convention is in effect, that isn't an issue... but now I need a fifth "impossible thing before breakfast"... hmmmmm... Or I could keep them anyway and discover they aren't needed. That means a much longer than planned first installment, though.

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Where do we put corrections to stuff in the IC thread? Here or there?
(Because there's an error that's blatantly hurting my eyes)

Errr...  Here, I guess?  I mean, the only post in the IC thread I know of is mine.  Please, what did I do wrong?  O_o;

Like I said in my character page, I'm a literal French Canadian of French descent. As such, my first language is French.

Because of that, the phrase 'ja ne sai quois' is physically painful to look at (and my girlfriend agrees). The actual words are 'je ne sais quoi' (I don't know what), and they don't have a plural form (or at least that's what I supposed you were trying).

If anyone else has need of French translations, just contact me. I'm not an actual translator but I'll do my best; and it wouldn't be the first time, given I did quite a bit of that at work.

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Yesterday, Rob had a cheque in his hand - enough money to buy the building outright, pay the utility bills and property taxes for a year, and buy new appliances for the apartments. He had proof that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation did not work that way or that quickly... but there it was.
Now, he didn't have the cheque but he did have the deed to the apartment building, and the appliances were being delivered the day after they had been ordered. He was sure that city hall and large-appliance stores did not work that quickly... but there it was, and there they were.
The deed was in the name of a numbered corporation that didn't exist two days before. Simply visiting a lawyer should not have been sufficient to make that happen, and definitely not that fast... but there it was.

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Alright, just some nits that I want to pick at...

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:Yesterday, Rob had a cheque in his hand - enough money to buy the building outright, pay the utility bills and property taxes for a year, and buy new appliances for the apartments. He had proof that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation did not work that way or that quickly... but there it was.

Now, he didn't have the cheque but he did have the deed to the apartment building, and the appliances were being delivered the day after they had been ordered. He was sure that city hall and large-appliance stores did not work that quickly... but there it was, and there they were.

The deed was in the name of a numbered corporation that didn't exist two days before. Simply visiting a lawyer should not have been sufficient to make that happen, and definitely not that fast... but there it was.

This is exactly what Lord Ciel Phantomhive is in the story to handle.  He purchases the buildings, bankrolls the project, and generally ensures that all the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed in regards to regulation and such.  He ensures the buildings have their inspection certificates, that any pertinent permits are gotten, and all that nice jazz.

He is also, the person who is ultimately in charge of hiring the building managers.

In other words, he's your boss.

Your job is to make sure the complex you're in charge of runs on an even keel, that appropriate maintenance, repairs, and upgrades are performed, and that your Special Guests don't run a muck and cause a bunch of collateral damage... or at least, if they do, that it's manageable.

Also, I loved the idea of a complex that had been torn down before was suddenly there again.  It keeps with the idea behind the Metacontinuity, that this isn't quite the Earth we know.  There will be tiny and subtle differences, and they'll grow to be greater and greater ones over time.

Other than that, love what you got there so far.  (^_^)V

Quote:Thanks Bob. You can go ahead and set one up here in Other People's Fiction. If this get's real popular, though, I'll probably setup a BBS someplace so we don't kill your paid-for page view count.

Quote: Devine Blood (a Ranma/FullMetalPanic/OhMyGoddess crossover, by Thrythlind)

Quote:Time: 1200

Date: September 9,

Location: 1841 Via De Luna St.

Pensacola Beach, Pensacola, Florida

 

I looked from the street at the property that I had been
hired to maintain. It wasn’t a bad site, and the cedar sided two story wouldn’t
be hard to maintain externally with its metal roof. The only detractor I could
see myself was that it was set up similar to an old row house which meant that
the wet wall would likely be the centerline structural wall. The central air
unit was sufficient for the buildings size and the exterior unit was heavily
caged to prevent the theft of the copper inside it. Then there was the twenty
Kw propane powered generator in its own small shed that would kick in when the
power was inevitably knocked out by one storm or another. The shed actually was
attached to the building and also protected the power and water meter’s as well
as the 120-gallon propane tank.

 

The final deciding factor was that the building was listed
as pet friendly which had been the final requirement for me to say yes to the
job. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my family and the old homestead out in the
woods would always be home, but after my mother’s death and with having to put
down multiple animals in the months since my mother’s death due to their own
age I just couldn’t stay there anymore. There were just too many personal
ghosts to deal with, things I just couldn’t work through at this point in time.

 

So two dogs joined me in my own two bed one bath apartment
that was the bottom center of the complex on the side away from the gulf. I wasn’t
stupid and I had grown up in the area so I knew exactly what kind of storms
could roll out of the Gulf of Mexico at practically any moment. Oh sure,
hurricanes you usually had at least a few days, (I could predict usually a week
ahead of most weathermen) warning that they were coming so that you could
prepare or evacuate as needs dictated, but plain old gulf storms that blew up
in a night or so could be damn near as nasty, and gale force winds were nothing
to sneeze at. Thankfully parking for the apartments were on the landward side
of the building so I could actually park my Fiat right outside my apartment.

 

Walking inside I spent a few minutes paying attention to my
girls before heading through the apartment to finish unpacking. I still had to
set up my personal electronics and library shelves as well as put my books in
place before the new tenants arrived. I also needed to lock down my personal armory
as well. Ok, I was a bit of a gun nut, as well as a collector and five years in
the Marine Corps had only given that direction not quelled it, so it was that
the center closet in the apartment, what would for most people be a coat closet
was loaded with a gun safe that would be hell for anyone to try and crack. A seven-digit
passcode as well as a thumb print scanner secured the door so that no hands other
than my own could access the weapons within.

With the last book put away, the last wire connected and the
lock secured on the safe I turned my attention to my future tenants. They were
coming in two different groups, one a merchant group that needed some downtime
and the other a group of school kids from Japan on vacation according to the
initial description. The final files on my charges were supposed to be being
emailed to me, so I was now sitting in my office/library futzing around on my
tablet while I waited. 

Quote:Could you please send a link for this

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Quote:Could you please send a link for this

You can find it here. For a capsule description (there's a lot of story there), there's the All The Tropes page for it.

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Only the first group will show up at your door, so to speak. The example I set with Washu-chan's arrival (yes, the explosion is supposed to be the door to her laboratory VIOLENTLY displacing the wall of the manager's office behind a soda machine) is not one that needs to be followed to the T - feel free to get creative in how they arrive.

But the groups afterwards? Chances are they won't come walking in through the door. Instead, once they appear you'll have to track them down. (Furthest limit will be the County/Parish line for wherever your complex is located. Again, get creative - rounding these guys up is supposed to be part of the fun! The other part is the 'culture' shocks.)
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Black Aeronaut Wrote:... She had the most gorgeous and luxurious was raven-black, ...

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"Hey!" barked Skuld, looking steamed. "Laguage!"
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Skuld gave Washu a flat glare. "Rat-screwed the Yggdrasil."
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