College is tomorrow

Dreamed I was at my old high school talking to my current teacher double triple checking when lessons were.
Thanks brain.

Wednesday 9-11 The Short Story F214
11-13 Dissertation Prep F214
Friday 12-14 National Cinema F214

You have checked, your tutor has checked, there have been new emails every day where it has been triple checked, you know when your lessons are!

And where, probably. Not high school. F214 above the canteen, also known as the room they actually delivered a computer chair to for you only three quarters of the way through the semester. Though your teacher had to steal the one that actually works from next door. It's still a net win.

symbiote beastmaster

Have realised some of the stuff I want to do with the biotechnicians gets really simple if you add mind controlling parasites.
... yeah, you don't get to write that often. SF is its own world...

Using birds for sky eyes or wolves for the ground. Beastmaster stuff. Without the symbiotes you have to get some mechanism for how it all works, possibly involving plugs into brains. With the symbiotes you already have something plugging into all the brains it wants to. So either there's many symbiotes that can communicate with each other whatever form they're in, which would be sort of fascinating, them trying to put a civilisation together with such a wide range of effective IQs. Or you have one symbiote that jumps ship frequently. I think I like the communication idea best. They can all plug in to each other as well as to their hosts, then they can network. Skip the language entirely, just communicate across species through having this one same species plugged in to all of them. And then it's important to remember that while some of them have at some point been human, many would only have been eagles or wolves or cows or whatever else. So to get them to cooperate you'd have to make sense to an eagle. And then one day their human goes away and they want something from the hands people, and they need a volunteer to be the next beast 'master'. Probably a volunteer. The ones by the water wait for someone to just turn up. But there's plenty of things that could get urgent...

Darwin for aliens?

Is Darwin a good name for an alien?

I need half a dozen names for my biotech people.
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Names is hard. It takes a while to find one that sticks.

Xanthe, Darwin, Zizel.
Do they sound like offworlders?

If they only have one name it sort of goes with there not being very many of them.
Also then I don't have to think of six different naming systems.

Poll #9342 Names for offworlders who never spoke to English people before

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Is Darwin a good name

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Is Xanthe a good name

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