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beccaelizabethI have an hour and a half before I catch the bus to the pub. I'll arrive a ton early but, since it's the last bus of its kind, so it goes. Tonight at the NSFG it is the Colony Game, and people will be moving to my biotechnician's planet, through the stone circle. Reckon I'm going to bring my backpack and my files thus far. I might have mostly been figuring out what DVD sets they've all brought, but still, I know their priorities.
Have also been trying to get a handle on the astrophysics guy. I can't just make him Rodney McKay only shorter, it's a much lower powered game so I can't give him Science! skill and leave him to it, I have to figure out what he actually does and spend points on all the specialities. Every time I invent a character I have to learn about a whole new career. I understand why there's so many stories about struggling writers, it's a bugger learning enough about everything to fake it.
I started figuring him out by way of deciding what is on his t-shirts.
I liked the one with Pluto making a :-( cause you have to think about it. Also there's a whole 'dwarf planet' line of jokes. There was another t-shirt with a little picture of Pluto that says 'Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either'. Which I think is funnier if he is a dwarf.
Also I know he quotes Red Dwarf.
Possibly I can keep my tendency to make terrible puns confined to just those two.
... okay, and White Dwarf the RPG magazine, but that'll be totally secret if he just makes Warhammer references.
If I cannot avoid the jokes I must splat them in the editing. He's just meant to be the science dude.
But everyone has fandoms, and that's the main way I'm getting to know characters.
Which is why I don't understand Susan at all yet, apart from knowing she actively loathes Narnia.
She's not in fandom. She may in fact not be a fan of anything. It's baffling.
I know she loves her work. But can you really build a whole character around a love of blowing stuff up?
At least Aisha likes Casualty and Holby City that Doctors show on daytime TV. Okay, not original, the medic likes medical dramas, and I guess there'd be much medical to complain of. And I don't watch any of them. But I know she likes continuing stories set in Britain, so it's a start.
Rhodri I almost went right off when I realised he cosplays as Blake. It's not that he's a Blakes 7 fan, I have all the box sets, I know many B7 fans. It's just, Blake. Of all the possibilities? And have you seen his outfits? I kept trying to make him fit other characters, but noooooo, he cosplays as Blake and his wardrobe is in the green/brown/black section. *sigh* But! I realised it means that he might be an amiable sort of bloke, but secretly, in his heart of hearts, he thinks he is the leader. That while others may be more specialised and have skills and weapons and all the rest, Rhodri is secretly the guy who can bring them together and get them pointed in the same direction. However much like herding cats that may be.
Since I know full well that at least half a dozen other people also think they are the leader, that's going to be fun.
Rhodri gets Sean to cosplay as Avon. Which he agrees to as long as Rhodri will be Rodney to his John Sheppard. ... which might be excessively meta but they've gone a long way from their origins.
Rhodri's fandoms can be extrapolated from B7. So along one line we have the outlaw starship, B7, Farscape, Serenity. And on another he probably likes Robin Hood, for that rebel outlaws thing. It's also why he likes Star Wars, original trilogy only of course. That's where Sean, Mary and Rhodri all agree. But the other strand of Rhodri's favourites is the rampant paranoia, government conspiracies and cover ups thread. The X-Files were a total eye opener. He watched them on Sky back on first run. He never realised before how much They weren't telling us. And it's not that he's saying David Duchovny isn't really an actor, he knows they're dramatised and all, but it's all based on solid facts. The truth is out there. That's all he's saying.
... Rhodri might be considered a total tin hat, but then again, he did just discover a stargate in his back garden.
Rhodri also has a lot of books, mostly ones he picked up while he was away. He travels a lot for work. It's one reason he's more for the older fandoms, the newer it is the more likely he'll only catch it on DVD. Of course it's all online now but he's not much for sitting in front of a computer.
Sean builds computers. There are many and varied ways he doesn't quite get Rhodri.
Sean has a thing for Harrison Ford. Most especially in Star Wars and Indiana Jones. He has the whip, and he always, always wears the hat if he has to go out. He can be persuaded to leave it off at conventions, but that's around his tribe. Just going to the shops, if he can be persuaded to do it, is definitely a Hat day.
For years he didn't get British TV anyway, not regular, so he was more about films. He got the Sharpe series on video too, and replaced it with the box set. But then he got home, and then there was Stargate.
He has all of Stargate. Often twice. Sometimes the US DVDs too, when they were out first.
Stargate is his happy place.
The somewhat manic glee with which he greets the discover of their very own Stargate is, just possibly, slightly worrying.
Mary loves Babylon 5 best, in science fiction. Or Deep Space 9. They both engage with religion, instead of ignoring it like most SF. But she's also the one with the serious vampire habit. Forever Knight, Buffy, Angel, Blood Ties, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, but emphatically not Twilight. Nothing has reached the heights of Buffy yet, but she keeps looking. It has been suggested she's just longing for a world where waving a cross around is demonstrably useful, but only if people actually want a sermon and a sulk. Highlander is her heart's home though. Romantic talmudic discussion with swords. Philosophical debate with sharp shiny things. Moral quandries with lightning! ... she really, really loves Highlander.
The reason none of them are Doctor Who fans is simply that I can't persuade the world it is not in fact a Doctor Who spin off. Not because there's Daleks or anything we've met there before. It's just, when I try and make Doctor Who a TV series, it feels weird. No one has heard of it. No DW here.
Stone circles that take you Somewhere Else are DW canon, as are circles of transmat whatsits, that could look like stone circles if the builders felt like it.
But if I'm not going towrite for the BBC use Daleks or Cybermen or anything else, then there's no point it being even secretly a crossover. Especially when it doesn't actually answer any of the questions about what the rules are. Because in DW the rules are whatever they say this week, which isn't something to build on, so much.
Thinking about the science = back to Dave the astrophysicist.
He has Pluto t-shirts. Also I found one that says "I think I've found a way out of here" and has the equation for escape velocity on it. I like shirts that don't explain.
the one that says ROCKET SCIENCE and has a balloon flying from deflating, and two arrows for 'action' and 'reaction', that is fun also.
The 'Starfleet department of astrophysics' shirts could confuse the offworlders nicely.
And once off world, the 'Best astrophysicist in the world' shirt is a must.
Shirts with pictures of all the planets in our solar system would weird out people in another solar system.
... must invent local equivalent of said t-shirt.
The one that has the evolution of man silhouettes but then a space suit with jet pack as the last stage is cool. Conversation starter for biotechnicians...
The one with the worm on both sides might be a bit obscure. And he'd be walking around with a worm on. But, wormholes. If they were using an SG1 style stargate it'd be better though.
The Milky Way spiral with 'you are here' on it may need updating...
He has at least a week of t-shirts there. He packed for a skywatching trip, but more than 7 shirts would be a bit much. Add to that some proper outdoor gear for all permutations of British weather, the layered sort that packs well and adapts quickly. And two pairs of shoes, mud and indoor.
Now I just need to know what he'd bring to go look at the sky on an alien planet. To prove it was an alien planet, primarily. He's not a tinhat, but he's a fortean with a focus on UFOs and a hope for a nuts and bolts explanation. Also a sinking feeling the psychological explanations are more likely. But he knows Rhodri online, and Sean a bit (he knows he runs seti@home on many boxes), so when he sees the YouTube videos of an alien planet with a moon that seems to have a ring, he wants to have a look himself. Or make R buy him a beer for wasting the trip, either would work.
He doesn't actually work in astrophysics. I think he teaches high school. Which sounds like a circle of hell to me, but a lot of people I online know who did some specialist science degrees found a lack of funding for specialist science and ended up teaching school. Given that, a weekend of either wild new scientific discoveries or a SF marathon with free beer sounds worth packing the car for.
So his equipment is (a) his, personally (b) portable, in an ordinary car and (c) useful enough he's confident he can do good science with it if he happens to find something M Class when he gets there.
I haven't the first clue what that would include. A decent telescope and a digital camera is about as technical as I'd understand.
But he's wanting to prove where they've gated to, or possibly when. He knows enough about wormholes to not want to rule that one out without data. How he gathers the data I will have to find out.
Have also been trying to get a handle on the astrophysics guy. I can't just make him Rodney McKay only shorter, it's a much lower powered game so I can't give him Science! skill and leave him to it, I have to figure out what he actually does and spend points on all the specialities. Every time I invent a character I have to learn about a whole new career. I understand why there's so many stories about struggling writers, it's a bugger learning enough about everything to fake it.
I started figuring him out by way of deciding what is on his t-shirts.
I liked the one with Pluto making a :-( cause you have to think about it. Also there's a whole 'dwarf planet' line of jokes. There was another t-shirt with a little picture of Pluto that says 'Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either'. Which I think is funnier if he is a dwarf.
Also I know he quotes Red Dwarf.
Possibly I can keep my tendency to make terrible puns confined to just those two.
... okay, and White Dwarf the RPG magazine, but that'll be totally secret if he just makes Warhammer references.
If I cannot avoid the jokes I must splat them in the editing. He's just meant to be the science dude.
But everyone has fandoms, and that's the main way I'm getting to know characters.
Which is why I don't understand Susan at all yet, apart from knowing she actively loathes Narnia.
She's not in fandom. She may in fact not be a fan of anything. It's baffling.
I know she loves her work. But can you really build a whole character around a love of blowing stuff up?
At least Aisha likes Casualty and Holby City that Doctors show on daytime TV. Okay, not original, the medic likes medical dramas, and I guess there'd be much medical to complain of. And I don't watch any of them. But I know she likes continuing stories set in Britain, so it's a start.
Rhodri I almost went right off when I realised he cosplays as Blake. It's not that he's a Blakes 7 fan, I have all the box sets, I know many B7 fans. It's just, Blake. Of all the possibilities? And have you seen his outfits? I kept trying to make him fit other characters, but noooooo, he cosplays as Blake and his wardrobe is in the green/brown/black section. *sigh* But! I realised it means that he might be an amiable sort of bloke, but secretly, in his heart of hearts, he thinks he is the leader. That while others may be more specialised and have skills and weapons and all the rest, Rhodri is secretly the guy who can bring them together and get them pointed in the same direction. However much like herding cats that may be.
Since I know full well that at least half a dozen other people also think they are the leader, that's going to be fun.
Rhodri gets Sean to cosplay as Avon. Which he agrees to as long as Rhodri will be Rodney to his John Sheppard. ... which might be excessively meta but they've gone a long way from their origins.
Rhodri's fandoms can be extrapolated from B7. So along one line we have the outlaw starship, B7, Farscape, Serenity. And on another he probably likes Robin Hood, for that rebel outlaws thing. It's also why he likes Star Wars, original trilogy only of course. That's where Sean, Mary and Rhodri all agree. But the other strand of Rhodri's favourites is the rampant paranoia, government conspiracies and cover ups thread. The X-Files were a total eye opener. He watched them on Sky back on first run. He never realised before how much They weren't telling us. And it's not that he's saying David Duchovny isn't really an actor, he knows they're dramatised and all, but it's all based on solid facts. The truth is out there. That's all he's saying.
... Rhodri might be considered a total tin hat, but then again, he did just discover a stargate in his back garden.
Rhodri also has a lot of books, mostly ones he picked up while he was away. He travels a lot for work. It's one reason he's more for the older fandoms, the newer it is the more likely he'll only catch it on DVD. Of course it's all online now but he's not much for sitting in front of a computer.
Sean builds computers. There are many and varied ways he doesn't quite get Rhodri.
Sean has a thing for Harrison Ford. Most especially in Star Wars and Indiana Jones. He has the whip, and he always, always wears the hat if he has to go out. He can be persuaded to leave it off at conventions, but that's around his tribe. Just going to the shops, if he can be persuaded to do it, is definitely a Hat day.
For years he didn't get British TV anyway, not regular, so he was more about films. He got the Sharpe series on video too, and replaced it with the box set. But then he got home, and then there was Stargate.
He has all of Stargate. Often twice. Sometimes the US DVDs too, when they were out first.
Stargate is his happy place.
The somewhat manic glee with which he greets the discover of their very own Stargate is, just possibly, slightly worrying.
Mary loves Babylon 5 best, in science fiction. Or Deep Space 9. They both engage with religion, instead of ignoring it like most SF. But she's also the one with the serious vampire habit. Forever Knight, Buffy, Angel, Blood Ties, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, but emphatically not Twilight. Nothing has reached the heights of Buffy yet, but she keeps looking. It has been suggested she's just longing for a world where waving a cross around is demonstrably useful, but only if people actually want a sermon and a sulk. Highlander is her heart's home though. Romantic talmudic discussion with swords. Philosophical debate with sharp shiny things. Moral quandries with lightning! ... she really, really loves Highlander.
The reason none of them are Doctor Who fans is simply that I can't persuade the world it is not in fact a Doctor Who spin off. Not because there's Daleks or anything we've met there before. It's just, when I try and make Doctor Who a TV series, it feels weird. No one has heard of it. No DW here.
Stone circles that take you Somewhere Else are DW canon, as are circles of transmat whatsits, that could look like stone circles if the builders felt like it.
But if I'm not going to
Thinking about the science = back to Dave the astrophysicist.
He has Pluto t-shirts. Also I found one that says "I think I've found a way out of here" and has the equation for escape velocity on it. I like shirts that don't explain.
the one that says ROCKET SCIENCE and has a balloon flying from deflating, and two arrows for 'action' and 'reaction', that is fun also.
The 'Starfleet department of astrophysics' shirts could confuse the offworlders nicely.
And once off world, the 'Best astrophysicist in the world' shirt is a must.
Shirts with pictures of all the planets in our solar system would weird out people in another solar system.
... must invent local equivalent of said t-shirt.
The one that has the evolution of man silhouettes but then a space suit with jet pack as the last stage is cool. Conversation starter for biotechnicians...
The one with the worm on both sides might be a bit obscure. And he'd be walking around with a worm on. But, wormholes. If they were using an SG1 style stargate it'd be better though.
The Milky Way spiral with 'you are here' on it may need updating...
He has at least a week of t-shirts there. He packed for a skywatching trip, but more than 7 shirts would be a bit much. Add to that some proper outdoor gear for all permutations of British weather, the layered sort that packs well and adapts quickly. And two pairs of shoes, mud and indoor.
Now I just need to know what he'd bring to go look at the sky on an alien planet. To prove it was an alien planet, primarily. He's not a tinhat, but he's a fortean with a focus on UFOs and a hope for a nuts and bolts explanation. Also a sinking feeling the psychological explanations are more likely. But he knows Rhodri online, and Sean a bit (he knows he runs seti@home on many boxes), so when he sees the YouTube videos of an alien planet with a moon that seems to have a ring, he wants to have a look himself. Or make R buy him a beer for wasting the trip, either would work.
He doesn't actually work in astrophysics. I think he teaches high school. Which sounds like a circle of hell to me, but a lot of people I online know who did some specialist science degrees found a lack of funding for specialist science and ended up teaching school. Given that, a weekend of either wild new scientific discoveries or a SF marathon with free beer sounds worth packing the car for.
So his equipment is (a) his, personally (b) portable, in an ordinary car and (c) useful enough he's confident he can do good science with it if he happens to find something M Class when he gets there.
I haven't the first clue what that would include. A decent telescope and a digital camera is about as technical as I'd understand.
But he's wanting to prove where they've gated to, or possibly when. He knows enough about wormholes to not want to rule that one out without data. How he gathers the data I will have to find out.