Traveller Musings
Jul. 25th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knox- I wish there were fewer players with an abiding interest in guns, guns, guns, and more of them interested in things like Science, or Diplomacy, or even stand-up comedy or medicine. I might enjoy a little war action once in a while, all that muck and bullets stuff, but not all the damned time - and even then, I want to see characters in downtime writing poetry, or sending letters to their folks back home twenty parsecs away or something.
- Primitive tools and equipment. I've become quite enamoured of the idea of characters from a Tech 11 world struggling to understand both a Tech 15 device and a Tech 5 one. I like the idea of them having to paddle across a large lake in Kleppers, folding kayaks, to sneak in to an enemy base, relying upon muscle and stealth rather than bearing down upon the base in a GCarrier, its engines screaming, its main fusion guns blazing.
- Weird Shit Happens. I would love to see a story where the characters find themselves enacting Michael Shea's "The Colour Out of Time," itself a sequel to Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space." In the sequel, the characters notice the strange alien Colour - a hitherto undiscovered species of unknown type - in the waters of a boating lake while they are on vacation.
No guns. No armour. Hell, they might only have a shotgun, a rowing boat and a trailer between the lot of them.
That's my wish list. I really do wish they'd let off the damned brakes over at Mongoose, and let me write this stuff.
- Primitive tools and equipment. I've become quite enamoured of the idea of characters from a Tech 11 world struggling to understand both a Tech 15 device and a Tech 5 one. I like the idea of them having to paddle across a large lake in Kleppers, folding kayaks, to sneak in to an enemy base, relying upon muscle and stealth rather than bearing down upon the base in a GCarrier, its engines screaming, its main fusion guns blazing.
- Weird Shit Happens. I would love to see a story where the characters find themselves enacting Michael Shea's "The Colour Out of Time," itself a sequel to Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space." In the sequel, the characters notice the strange alien Colour - a hitherto undiscovered species of unknown type - in the waters of a boating lake while they are on vacation.
No guns. No armour. Hell, they might only have a shotgun, a rowing boat and a trailer between the lot of them.
That's my wish list. I really do wish they'd let off the damned brakes over at Mongoose, and let me write this stuff.
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Date: 2009-07-26 09:25 pm (UTC)My old lab without at least a waterpistol if not a low velocity railgun?
Impossible.