00. Underture
Apr. 13th, 2005 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Advice given to me by an older member of the Academy on how to avoid committees and similar service work in academia: “It can be extremely useful to be seen as unsound.”

Born inside a supernova (He's Viv Vortex)
He gets in 18 and over (He's Viv Vortex)
Psychedelic V-Space! The Varmus’ immense rocktopoid ship, the Kräken, has Viv Vortex’s Flying V spaceship in its tentacles. The Kräken plays the smaller ship like a guitar, gradually tearing the Flying V apart. Viv fires the Groove Thrusters and tries to steer his ship into a Purple Hole. One of his crewmates, a gorgeous blonde (does she maybe look like somebody we know?), asks: “Viv, how will I find you on the other side?” He points to the clouds of the Head Nebula: they form a yin-yang swirl, a cosmic 69. “Remember the sign, baby.” And then he’s gone, a power chord shift across dimensions, his essence converted into pure rock. The Varmus’ voice rumbles like magma. “FOLLOW HIM. THERE IS NOWHERE HE CAN GO I WILL NOT FOLLOW.” The rocktopoids report: “We’ve lost his signal, but not the girl’s.” The Varmus is pleased. “THE GIRL WILL LEAD ME TO HIM.” The Varmus powers up the Kräken’s planet-sized Anti-Woofers, tells his crew: “PREPARE TO BECOME UN-SOUND.”
(To be continued...)

Born inside a supernova (He's Viv Vortex)
He gets in 18 and over (He's Viv Vortex)
Psychedelic V-Space! The Varmus’ immense rocktopoid ship, the Kräken, has Viv Vortex’s Flying V spaceship in its tentacles. The Kräken plays the smaller ship like a guitar, gradually tearing the Flying V apart. Viv fires the Groove Thrusters and tries to steer his ship into a Purple Hole. One of his crewmates, a gorgeous blonde (does she maybe look like somebody we know?), asks: “Viv, how will I find you on the other side?” He points to the clouds of the Head Nebula: they form a yin-yang swirl, a cosmic 69. “Remember the sign, baby.” And then he’s gone, a power chord shift across dimensions, his essence converted into pure rock. The Varmus’ voice rumbles like magma. “FOLLOW HIM. THERE IS NOWHERE HE CAN GO I WILL NOT FOLLOW.” The rocktopoids report: “We’ve lost his signal, but not the girl’s.” The Varmus is pleased. “THE GIRL WILL LEAD ME TO HIM.” The Varmus powers up the Kräken’s planet-sized Anti-Woofers, tells his crew: “PREPARE TO BECOME UN-SOUND.”
(To be continued...)
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Date: 2005-04-13 05:48 pm (UTC)*makes mental note to pop in Coheed & Cambria on the way home*
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Date: 2005-04-13 05:52 pm (UTC)"47 different people have been in this band over the years."
Date: 2005-04-13 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 07:05 pm (UTC)It better be.
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Date: 2005-04-13 07:10 pm (UTC)http://www.innocence.com/games/darling-wiki/index.php/Main/SessionSummaries
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Date: 2005-04-13 07:44 pm (UTC)C'mon. 2, 3 more sessions? You can do that before you leave, right? You know if you don't not finishing this one will BURN AT YOU forever!
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Date: 2005-04-13 07:55 pm (UTC)under orders from Motherto get sabotage this game and get it shut down. Do you think it was easy arranging for the Red Sox to make it to game seven against the Yankees, and then making sure their schedule coincided with our game?no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 08:02 pm (UTC)Not finishing DOES gnaw at me, which is why I'm just going to go ahead and sketch out the rest of the sessions without bothering to run them. How's that for a dysfunctional GM/player power split? :)
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Date: 2005-04-13 08:09 pm (UTC)Well, okay, but I'm gonna roll a bunch of dice over here and PRETEND like I have an impact on the outcome. In fact maybe the mere fact of me rolling dice will still impact the outcome in some quantum physics/Grant Morrison/urForge manner. How's THAT for narrative control?!?!?!
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Date: 2005-04-13 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-13 08:18 pm (UTC)(Actually, that's not quite true: the Viv Vortex song is an actual recording by one of our players. But the others won't be available on your Earth interweb until 2074, and by then they'll be suppressed by the Ministry of Sound.)
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Date: 2005-04-13 08:42 pm (UTC)By the by, did I ever get around to mentioning that I'm using your old Starchildren writeups to run a one-shot game?