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Cybermen mods
Apr. 30th, 2012 02:41 pmToday's dreams were all cybermen all the time. But not ordinary ones.
There were Cybermen crossed with Daleks, who basically looked like they were wearing dresses. Like, Dalek bodies in the middle, arms and legs and heads sticking out. I thought they looked like cyber ladies loos signs. And then I dreamed Ianto looking at them and going "Lisa?"
... which unfortunately makes me LOL every time now...
then there were size changing cybermen. They could shrink down to action figure size, which wasn't terribly helpful except for concealment, and they could bulk up to like nine foot tall knights. That was pretty cool for battle mode. As long as battles involved high ceilings.
The coolest though was cybermen vs Tony Stark.
They couldn't convert him because he was already a cybernetic organism, his body dependent on technology that was incompatible with cyberman tech.
Also it worked better.
... when a cyberman said that all the others turned around and stared. and the dude was all "for his purposes!" and they were dubious but looked away again.
... no I don't know how a cyberman knows the other cybermen look dubious.
But the dude was all *phew* because secretly he wasn't quite as cyber as the other guys.
They'd invaded a planet that had problems with possessing entities. Spirits. And being cybermen, they assumed it was local superstition and ignored it. But it was something the locals had put quite a lot of time and effort into. Like, they'd decided that the spirits possessed people so they could walk around, go inside buildings and look at interesting things. So they made sure all the interesting things were on the outside. There were huge great sculptural displays, all the way up the sides of buildings. It was kind of like Indian temples in my sort books but on skyscraper scale. It was awesome. So the spirits were happily zooming around looking at all the statues and didn't need to possess people.
Except, of course, sometimes looking isn't all you want to do, so they still came inside sometimes.
So the locals had developed a set of techniques to maintain control when an invasive spirit tried to take over, though they were only to be used if you had something else really important to do because really if you were inconvenient they'd just jump to someone else and your neighbours would have the same problem. But it turned out these techniques were equally effective for invasive programming. From the locals point of view cybermen were possessing spirits who got really unfairly creative with your body while they were in there. So there were people who got converted, but stayed themselves, with this cyber chatter in the background.
And then there was a whole thing with Willow and an organised resistance movement which actually just turned into one of my usuals where I'm trying to get everyone to evacuate but they just kind of stand around chatting.
Still, there's at least two perfectly good plot bunnies in there even without the xovers.
There were Cybermen crossed with Daleks, who basically looked like they were wearing dresses. Like, Dalek bodies in the middle, arms and legs and heads sticking out. I thought they looked like cyber ladies loos signs. And then I dreamed Ianto looking at them and going "Lisa?"
... which unfortunately makes me LOL every time now...
then there were size changing cybermen. They could shrink down to action figure size, which wasn't terribly helpful except for concealment, and they could bulk up to like nine foot tall knights. That was pretty cool for battle mode. As long as battles involved high ceilings.
The coolest though was cybermen vs Tony Stark.
They couldn't convert him because he was already a cybernetic organism, his body dependent on technology that was incompatible with cyberman tech.
Also it worked better.
... when a cyberman said that all the others turned around and stared. and the dude was all "for his purposes!" and they were dubious but looked away again.
... no I don't know how a cyberman knows the other cybermen look dubious.
But the dude was all *phew* because secretly he wasn't quite as cyber as the other guys.
They'd invaded a planet that had problems with possessing entities. Spirits. And being cybermen, they assumed it was local superstition and ignored it. But it was something the locals had put quite a lot of time and effort into. Like, they'd decided that the spirits possessed people so they could walk around, go inside buildings and look at interesting things. So they made sure all the interesting things were on the outside. There were huge great sculptural displays, all the way up the sides of buildings. It was kind of like Indian temples in my sort books but on skyscraper scale. It was awesome. So the spirits were happily zooming around looking at all the statues and didn't need to possess people.
Except, of course, sometimes looking isn't all you want to do, so they still came inside sometimes.
So the locals had developed a set of techniques to maintain control when an invasive spirit tried to take over, though they were only to be used if you had something else really important to do because really if you were inconvenient they'd just jump to someone else and your neighbours would have the same problem. But it turned out these techniques were equally effective for invasive programming. From the locals point of view cybermen were possessing spirits who got really unfairly creative with your body while they were in there. So there were people who got converted, but stayed themselves, with this cyber chatter in the background.
And then there was a whole thing with Willow and an organised resistance movement which actually just turned into one of my usuals where I'm trying to get everyone to evacuate but they just kind of stand around chatting.
Still, there's at least two perfectly good plot bunnies in there even without the xovers.