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Brain dump
Housemates and I are watching the new Dr. Who. I have no idea what is is with us and time travel. We liked Journeyman, they liked SCC (which I...haven't watched yet, due to extreme hosage), and now we're crunching and grinding our way through space and time. (I will reiterate for those who played the IAP tenday that I am, in fact, Not A Time Lord. Can we please stop with that joke yet?)
They also got introduced to Firefly last night, and thus the concept of Canadian Actor Bingo. That was hilarious. Now all that's left is for me to finally get off my ass and watch more BSG beyond the miniseries. I will. Really. I've got copies and everything.
As referenced in my last post, I've got two ideas for tabletops percolating in my head. One is space pirates, the other is a steampunk Lovecraftian horror game. Unfortunately, the two systems I know best are DnD and Shadowrun, neither of which lend themselves well to either setting. So I've been reading the d20 Modern and d20 Future books in hopes that I can get something out of them. The space pirates seems most likely to work; the steampunk Lovecraft one will take a bit of tweaking, no matter what system I use, since I'll probably draw a lot of the Cthulhu mythos out of Chaosium's version, and I have yet to find another system that is d100 based that doesn't suck.
The apocafic is currently in the hardcore editing phase. The phase where I ruthlessly take a machete to it and ask myself "dear god, what was I thinking?". Which is good, because I'm vaguely terrified of the characterizations of some characters, since I'm deviating from standard quite a bit and absolutely need to make sure I can back it up while keeping some other characters completely bewildered about this drastic personality shift.
The other SG story that's currently creeping into my head, other than the enormous S8 divergence that will totally eat my soul if I let it, is a total AU. No Stargate. I've seen the gangster or thief AUs. This idea is basically the flip-side of that. Basically started when I joked with a friend that, in the SG tabletop I ran, SG teams had nicknames and SG-1's was totally "The Untouchables". Of course, my brain took this idea and ran with it. Which led to the image of Jack as an FBI Special Agent who was just deciding to retire when he gets asked by the president to create a taskforce to take down the organized crime ring led by a man known only as The Jackel.
Half the fun right now is trying to figure out where the characters fit now and what organizations and/or agencies they belong to. Hammond is the Director of the FBI. Daniel works for the CIA. Teal'c is high up in the Chicago PD. Sam and Cam are FBI. Elizabeth works for the State Department. And that's kind of where it's at right now. The most developed backstory is currently Sam's, because it's kind of stupidly complicated. In any case, I'm starting to write snippets that take place in this universe just to get a feel for it.
The only problem is that the research for this is making my recent Wikipedia searches kind of fucked up. I'm pretty sure that searches on the "FBI", "FBI Academy", "CIA", "State Department", "Chicago PD", and "NSA" in conjunction with searches related to the discussion I had earlier this week about chlorine trifluoride (a better oxidizer than oxygen! And when you mix it with water, you get hydrofluoric acid. It's terrifying.) and uranium hexafluoride means that my name is totally on a list somewhere.
They also got introduced to Firefly last night, and thus the concept of Canadian Actor Bingo. That was hilarious. Now all that's left is for me to finally get off my ass and watch more BSG beyond the miniseries. I will. Really. I've got copies and everything.
As referenced in my last post, I've got two ideas for tabletops percolating in my head. One is space pirates, the other is a steampunk Lovecraftian horror game. Unfortunately, the two systems I know best are DnD and Shadowrun, neither of which lend themselves well to either setting. So I've been reading the d20 Modern and d20 Future books in hopes that I can get something out of them. The space pirates seems most likely to work; the steampunk Lovecraft one will take a bit of tweaking, no matter what system I use, since I'll probably draw a lot of the Cthulhu mythos out of Chaosium's version, and I have yet to find another system that is d100 based that doesn't suck.
The apocafic is currently in the hardcore editing phase. The phase where I ruthlessly take a machete to it and ask myself "dear god, what was I thinking?". Which is good, because I'm vaguely terrified of the characterizations of some characters, since I'm deviating from standard quite a bit and absolutely need to make sure I can back it up while keeping some other characters completely bewildered about this drastic personality shift.
The other SG story that's currently creeping into my head, other than the enormous S8 divergence that will totally eat my soul if I let it, is a total AU. No Stargate. I've seen the gangster or thief AUs. This idea is basically the flip-side of that. Basically started when I joked with a friend that, in the SG tabletop I ran, SG teams had nicknames and SG-1's was totally "The Untouchables". Of course, my brain took this idea and ran with it. Which led to the image of Jack as an FBI Special Agent who was just deciding to retire when he gets asked by the president to create a taskforce to take down the organized crime ring led by a man known only as The Jackel.
Half the fun right now is trying to figure out where the characters fit now and what organizations and/or agencies they belong to. Hammond is the Director of the FBI. Daniel works for the CIA. Teal'c is high up in the Chicago PD. Sam and Cam are FBI. Elizabeth works for the State Department. And that's kind of where it's at right now. The most developed backstory is currently Sam's, because it's kind of stupidly complicated. In any case, I'm starting to write snippets that take place in this universe just to get a feel for it.
The only problem is that the research for this is making my recent Wikipedia searches kind of fucked up. I'm pretty sure that searches on the "FBI", "FBI Academy", "CIA", "State Department", "Chicago PD", and "NSA" in conjunction with searches related to the discussion I had earlier this week about chlorine trifluoride (a better oxidizer than oxygen! And when you mix it with water, you get hydrofluoric acid. It's terrifying.) and uranium hexafluoride means that my name is totally on a list somewhere.
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20 kV straight to the brain? Yeah.
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I guess when we finally do kill someone, we don't mess around?