Subject: It's in the present.
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Posted on: 2010-07-09 11:09:00 UTC
So, assuming I finish it this month, July 2010.
Subject: It's in the present.
Author:
Posted on: 2010-07-09 11:09:00 UTC
So, assuming I finish it this month, July 2010.
Hello everyone. Sorry to bother you all, but in one of my many writing projects I've come up to a point where the characters involved stop by a pub in HQ; this pub is supposed to be at least fairly popular, and to have been around for quite a while, so I was wondering if anyone would be interested in having characters of theirs make cameo appearances. If anyone is interested, please tell me which you wish to be used and anything you think I will need to know, particularly with preferences and such. Thanks for your time, I hope this isn't a problem.
You can use Winston. Chliever isn't allowed in any of HQ's eating establishments except the Cafeteria, and that's only because he couldn't possibly make the food any worse.
... since it's post-Crashing Down, Ontic's back on the scene. She doesn't really have a job to do, and she's got a lot of guilt weighing on her head, so she drinks rather a lot. She's pretty quiet and keeps to herself, though, but is likely to be found in the corner of a pub nursing a glass of something. She'd also be wearing her black sweatshirt with a grey bar running across the chest; subtle, she ain't.
hS
(PS: I'm sort of back online, sort of not. We'll see where I get to)
I'm glad your internet problems are fixed, at least to an extent; I did e-mail you about this before, if I recall, so I'm glad you're interested. Ontic has the potential for awkwardness due to her past, but one of the viewpoint characters is too new to recognise her and the proprietor would make sure she isn't given trouble; he's a very "leave your problems at the door" type. Besides, that potential makes this sort of thing interesting. :P
...Move along, folks. Nothin' to see here.
(Glad you're sort-of back! You've been missed.)
... Meh. *glomps the both o' ya*
Good to see you, hS. And hi to Kaitlyn, too. ^_^
~Neshomeh
…in her slain double's body and with all subconscious commands removed. Oh, and Melpomene is there with her rookie partner Fearn, a strategist New Paradigm Dalek (with the Human Factor, like all Dalek Agents) whom she is currently owning at Xiangqi.
You can use Kestrel and Mordecai. Kestrel is a female ferret (about the equivalent of seventeen years old) from Redwall, with a very heavy vermin accent. Mordecai, or Cai, is a Potterverse wizard of Chinese descent, about twenty-ish.
It wouldn't be realistic to have my Agents there (Leila doesn't drink and Julius mixes his own) but if you could make the bartender Haitian or Jamaican I would be very much obliged. I'm looking to do something similar, I already have a character drawn out, and it's rather unlikely that there'd be two pubs in HQ, yes?
Given the size of HQ, it'd actually be rather surprising if there was only one pub. It's supposed to be a massive building, more equivalent to a small country or at the least a big city (at least in my mind, given the sheer numbers of Agents said to work there), and I'm aware that in the past other eating and/or drinking establishments have been running.
(Besides, from what I've gathered from him, I'm fairly sure KGarrett already has the bartender character drawn up.)
Just my tuppence.
...Or HQ the city in New Caldonia? Because I have no doubt that there's more than one bar in the city, but in the building itself...not so sure. Still, you have a point, and the size of either one of the two vary wildly in size between fics.
But you're probably right about the bartender. Oh, well.
Yeah, there'd undoubtedly be more than one pub in HQ. The logic I was operating on would be that bars and pubs - at least a few - would pop up just due to necessity considering how often agents come out of fics in desperate need of a drink, alcohol or otherwise. At the very least, we know there's also the PPC Bleepka Bar. The one featured is just supposed to be a rather popular one.
... at your own risk.
Let's see... you can definitely borrow this new pair of mine who showed up as guest stars for a plot point and now won't leave me alone.
There's Abeni (who is seventeen, female, and the laid-back, happy-go-lucky sort, and who probably just got some kind of normal World One cocktail, something with rum in it, most likely), and her partner Nikator, whom she'd say she dragged along to come have fun for once in his life, though he'd say he's keeping an eye on her.
If physical appearance is important, Abeni has short, slightly curly dark hair and very dark skin, and Nikator looks more or less like your average Romulan, although he hasn't kept his hair quite as neat as his fellows back in the Trekverse. He might be drinking Romulan Ale, or he might have got something entirely different out of curiosity.
You can use some of my agents, if you want. Danny would be sipping a gin and tonic and reading something (Wodehouse, perhaps, or maybe Hunter Thompson) in a quiet corner. Laura would not be there, however, as she doesn't drink. She might show up to tell Danny they've got a mission, but otherwise no.
Xericka and Gremlin would probably be drinking the strongest things they could get, what with the two squicky missions (one not yet published) they did back to back. After a few mixed drinks, Gremlin would slip into 'friendly inebriated bisexual lech' mode while Xericka would become easily amused and start using contractions in her speech.
Miah and Cali could be there. They like beer. Miah might complain if only normal big American brands are available. She would drink Sam Adams Boston Lager or any other Sam Adams, really, or Bleepbeer. She always manages to have a "slept in my clothes" look about her (jeans, sneakers, and no logo t-shirt, hair in ponytail), and she is going on thirty.
Cali is in his late teens, but looks younger. He has extremely wild, bright blue hair, and never takes off his bright green rimmed, mirrored sunglasses. He wears very baggy styled pants, a long sleeved close fitting shirt, and gloves with no fingers. He's a "super" hero from Mystery Men continuum.
As long as this is going to be set sometime pretty soon, they probably smell like smoke. They might have soot smudges or even small burns-especially Cali, and they are probably making a bit of a fuss (without noticing that they are being too loud) about how they are not talking about Cali scaring the living daylights out of Miah playing super hero to pull a damned fool boy in a kilt who burned up all the furniture in the lounge out of the fire said boy (Unger) started. She may be refusing to let Cali have alcohol, as her mothering instinct is riled up; although it will be phrased sarcastically or even possibly with a bit of arm smacking level violence.
As for the availability thing, way I picture things the owner's got drinks from all over the place; not necessarily just World One, either. Mostly real alcohol, but non-alcoholic beverages and PPC fare like Bleepka and Pink/Purple Stuff are available. Miah should be able to get something she'd like, within reason.
Plain mead. It'll be a light honey colored non-carbonated beverage with a sweet taste.
Logan is probably the most frequent at the pub (read: borderline-alcoholic) but most of ESAS would be around. The only exception is Entropy, who is no longer with us (after dying during the 2008 Macrovirus emergency).
Logan tends towards drunkeness-via-Long Island Iced Teas, which should leave plenty of scope for amusing escapades.
Elcalion
... but not S&S. I don't know how Snowspine would take to that.
When is this fic set? If it's after the Macroviruses, Foxglove will have a cybernetic eyeball, which you may need to know for descriptions. (I decided she went for something steampunky, a la Treasure Planet, but my storyline hasn't caught up with the viruses bit yet.)
So, assuming I finish it this month, July 2010.
Not a lot else would be different, I don't think. Just don't get too specific about their haircuts or anything ...
One of the viewpoint characters is fairly new, and is a recent transfer from the DAVD, so I've been trying to determine who among the cameos he'd actually recognise.
out of my Agents, since he's the only (living) Agent I've written most stuff about.
At the end of my most recent mission (which is set back in 2006, though - my Agents' timeline is all out of whack), Logan and Entropy accidentally portalled a posessed Radagast in the form of a grizzly bear, an invisible giant lynx, and a horde of Elves into the cafeteria, trashing it and instigating a giant fight...
I get the feeling that's not the kind of incident Logan is ever going to be able to live down: "Hey, you're the guy that trashed the cafeteria, right?"
Elcalion
I don't know if anyone would have forgotten about the Redneck Trees thing three years on. I don't think that's the kind of thing people forget, so yes, your guys will probably have heard stories. They're also well-known for working with furry characters, and Laburnum would probably still be wearing Raketooth the Amazing Three-Armed Fox.
The other one's a vet, so I figure even if Brian (the newbie) didn't recognise her, he would. Thanks then; I just wanted to be sure since I have to work out all the individual cameos in the pub scene.
... you can take Sergio Turbo and Corolla. Expecially Corolla, an ax-crazy six-inches tall fairy like girl, with a taste for Water (yes, that Water) can be useful for fun and weirdness.
However, only if you aren't going to write it in those days. My first mission is in beta status and I didn't make the Agents pages already.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm not sure what you said there. Was just wondering what you meant by "those days".
I was trying to explain that, since there are virtually no information about my Agents at the moment, adding them in now could generate troubles to you. However, in one-two days both my first mission (useful for Sergio and Corolla's behaviour) and the agent pages should be online.
Sorry for being unclear!
Sorry; maybe it's just late, but I really couldn't understand what you'd said the first time. Thanks for clearing it up; I still don't entirely know where the story's going, but I'm looking to finish it before too much longer. Already been at it quite a while, and I'm trying to work on producing more stuff.
...well, maybe just one. Brightbeard, a World of Warcraft Dwarf (what good is a pub without a Dwarf, right?), will gladly join in a PPC pub crawl. He drinks tankards of the strongest stuff they have.
Feel free to have both Lee and Ian for whatever you need; their info can be found here or on the Wiki.
Bonus points if you have Lee drinking something with mint in it. She gets relatively more tipsy and cuddly if she's exposed to mint.
It's not my story, but it would amuse me greatly if Lee ended up near Jenni, who gets tipsy and cuddly if she's exposed to pretty much any alcohol at all (and I've already said she's allowed to have a mild drink or two for this scene). If there's another willing cuddler around, well, that's even better. *g*
... Lee should feel free to tell her to go away if KGarrett feeds her extra drinks and she gets TOO friendly, though. Jenni isn't very particular about who she gets "friendly" with. ^_^;
~Neshomeh, probably more amused by this than she should be.
I love it. I hereby give my permission for this to happen, and bribe KGarrett with the baked good of their choice to ensure that it does. As for the "friendly" bit, Ian would probably rescue Lee if it got too bad; he's a good friend/partner like that. ;)
~Pretzel, who is equally amused and can't wait to see what happens.