"Pascal is © Pascal Q. Porcupine, used with permission"

Actually, no she wasn't. Ask me how I know.

(To clarify, I'm Pascal's original creator. Actually I'm totally fine with this and pretty amused by how the last 15 years of telephone game have mutated the character considerably, but nobody ever asked me permission.)

I'm an aspiring writer hoping to one day be the very best like no one ever was. To TGTF people into hot animal women is my real test, to make people have feelings about them is my cause.

*curtsies*

I am so glad you saw this and even more so that you like the piece I comissioned. I apologize and should have been clearer... I meant though you owned the character, my permission to use her comes from the Metamor Keep Writer's Guild.

I'm actually heavilly involving Pascal in a story arc called "Tales Of The Transblade" and she did just get a story (Alongside Princess Malisa) featuring her very prominently. If you wanna read it, I can email it to you.

It's made me very warm inside that you saw this. The TSA and by extension Metamor Keep Writer's Guild have been such a delight to work with. Especially with Metamor Keep and these two Jon Buck settings "Paradise" and "FreeRIDErs" and I just wanted to say that...

The reason I decided to use Pascal for Tales Of The Transblade (I even gave her her apprentice!) was because she is, paws down, my absolute favorite character in the setting. Big kudos and thanks for creating her.

Aw, thanks! I'm glad you like her so much. And no problem with the permission anyway - I've been meaning to figure out the best way of telling folks that they have permission to use her like that. How do you think I should go about doing that? I'd like to write a few paragraphs about it and have it end up where MK folks would see it, but I don't feel like signing up for mailing lists or whatever.

I'm not really that interested in keeping up with the stories, honestly, but I'm glad that something I made is making others so happy.

To answer the question in your shout, the Q is short for "Quentin." I thought that was commonly known on tsa-talk but I get the impression that Metamor Keep is pretty separated from TSA now.

You could message them via me, and I'll just copy-paste your words exactly, and label it. "A Message from a Former Keeper - Fluff aka Pascal"


And... sorta kinda... not really

Almost everyone involved in Metamor Keep is involved in TSA, I think there's a few people only involved in MK. And a lot of people in TSA don't want anything to do with MK (They say it's because a certain rat tried adding Catholicism to the setting, but I can't elaborate, I wasn't there for those days).. and TSA itself is more concerned with Non-Setting material or FreeRIDErs (Which might actually be up your ally, especially if you like Cyberpunk and TG)


And MK has its own seperate Mailing List now.


However on the new TSA Site (shifti.org) shows Metamor Keep as a setting and Jon Buck/Jean Doe (she's replaced Thomas Hassan for the most part though she's not really a leader so much as someone who shakes her hoof at people rowdy in chat and controls most of the open settings, I dunno what happened to Tommy, he was long before my time, but I hear he pokes his head in from time to time) doesn't mind if MK Stories are posted on TSA (Though this doesn't happen very often... Last time I posted an MK Story on the TSA, some guy was like "You mean Charles DOESN'T have a copyright on this setting?")

However! Metamor CITY has nothing to do with The TSA at all, and it doesn't have much to do with Metamor Keep either outside of the Lothanasi religion and the fact that Raven writes it. It doesn't even have much in the way of transformations or furry characters... It does have a refrence to Spells R US though.

I'm not sure if I wrote that as a reply.. thus you wouldn't have been messaged that I responded if I hadn't.

Im actually quite impressed with this. Great perspective and one of the few to try a hand at porcupines.