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Ppc bold font — Jay and Acacia of the Original Series. Art by Bold Font.

Protectors of the Plot Continuum, nearly always referred to simply as the Original Series (TOS) by fans, is the first PPC series, begun by Jay and Acacia. It was started on January 30, 2002,^[1] not-so-coincidentally soon after the movie release of The Fellowship of the Ring. The barrage of badfic following that film inspired these two to create the world of the PPC that we all know and love. It has 26 missions in all, and for a long time had the most missions of any agent pair. (Tawaki, Iximaz, and IndeMaat are known to have published more missions than Jay and Acacia, and it is possible others have as well.)

It was originally posted on Fanfiction.net, but was kicked off (quite unfairly, we believe) on May 11, 2002.^[2] It found a new home on Philosopher At Large's website, Odd Lots, but that since went down. Fortunately, Miss Cam also archived the series, and almost all of it could be found there until it, too, finally succumbed in 2015. As of 2012, the complete series is archived at PPC: The Lost Tales.

The Original Series ended when Jay and Acacia retired in 2003 and left the PPC to its own devices. Jay has returned to the Board once, but only very briefly.

Link

Protectors of the Plot Continuum at PPC: The Lost Tales

References

↑ Determined by the phylogenetic bracketing of story IDs on Fanfiction.net, which are sequential.
↑ The date is known from multiple reviews of spinoffs, such as this one for "Clan of the Cactus."

[1] Determined by the phylogenetic bracketing of story IDs on Fanfiction.net, which are sequential.

[2] The date is known from multiple reviews of spinoffs, such as this one for "Clan of the Cactus."

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-[[Image:Ppc_bold_font.jpg|thumb|right|Jay and Acacia of the Original Series]]
+[[Image:Ppc_bold_font.jpg|thumb|right|Jay and Acacia of the Original Series. Art by Bold Font.]]
-The '''Original Series''' (often abbreviated TOS) is the first [[PPC]] series, begun by [[Jay]] and [[Acacia]].  It was started in 2001, not-so-coincidentally soon after the movie release of ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.  The barrage of [[badfic]] following that film inspired these two to create the world of the PPC that we all know and love.  It has 26 missions in all, and for a long time had the most missions of any agent pair. However, [[Tawaki Penguin|Tawaki]] and [[User:IndeMaat|IndeMaat]] are known to have published more missions than Jay and Acacia, and it is possible others have as well. It was originally posted on [[The Pit|fanfiction.net]], but was kicked off (quite unfairly, we believe). It found a new home on [[P@L|Philosopher At Large]]'s website, Odd Lots, but that has since gone down. Fortunately, [[Miss Cam]] also archived the series, and almost all of it can still be found there--chapter 21, "The Dark Elf", is missing and can only be found on the Wayback Machine.
+'''''Protectors of the Plot Continuum''''', nearly always referred to simply as the '''Original Series''' ('''TOS''') by fans, is the first [[PPC]] series, begun by [[Jay]] and [[Acacia]]. It was started on January 30, [[2002]],<ref>Determined by the [https://www.plotprotectors.org/posts/160828 phylogenetic bracketing] of story IDs on Fanfiction.net, which are sequential.</ref> not-so-coincidentally soon after the movie release of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.  The barrage of [[badfic]] following that film inspired these two to create the world of the PPC that we all know and love. It has 26 missions in all, and for a long time had the most missions of any agent pair. ([[User:Tawaki|Tawaki]], [[User:RinaAndRanda|Iximaz]], and [[User:IndeMaat|IndeMaat]] are known to have published more missions than Jay and Acacia, and it is possible others have as well.)
+It was originally posted on [[The Pit|Fanfiction.net]], but was kicked off (quite unfairly, we believe) on May 11, 2002.<ref>The date is known from multiple reviews of spinoffs, such as [https://www.fanfiction.net/r/658458/0/3/ this one] for "Clan of the Cactus."</ref> It found a new home on [[P@L|Philosopher At Large]]'s website, Odd Lots, but that since went down. Fortunately, [[Miss Cam]] also archived the series, and almost all of it could be found there until it, too, finally succumbed in [[2015]]. As of [[2012]], the complete series is archived at [[PPC: The Lost Tales]].
-The Original Series ended when Jay and Acacia retired in 2003 and left the PPC to its own devices. Jay has returned to the Board once, but only very briefly.
+The Original Series ended when Jay and Acacia retired in [[2003]] and left the PPC to its own devices. Jay has returned to the Board once, but only very briefly.
-==References==
-*The mission logs of Jay and Acacia can be found at [http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/story.html Miss Cam's website].
+== Link ==
-*Archived on [http://plotprotectors.tripod.com/TOS/ The Lost Tales]
-*Via the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080630023509rn_1/oddlots.digitalspace.net/PPC/ Wayback Machine] (the only way to find "The Dark Elf")
+* [https://plotprotectors.neocities.org/TOS/ ''Protectors of the Plot Continuum'' at PPC: The Lost Tales]
-[[Category:PPC]]
-[[Category:Terminology]]
+== References ==
+<references />
+[[Category:PPC Community]]
+[[Category:Works By Boarders]]
 [[Category:PPC History]]
+[[Category:PPC Terminology]]
 [[Category:Original Series]]