Hylozoist

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

Sorry to push things back a little, and to triple-post, but I'm holding off a little on a GM post at the moment - there's the Above Ground stuff that hasn't been responded to, and I don't want to race ahead on the underground front, but try to keep them vaguely in parity for reasons that might come up, and for my own sake of mind.

With that being said, and pursuant to the idea that I should be making sure there's enough stuff to bounce off of - is there enough to react to in the last above ground GM post? If you want me to move things forward a bit there, let me know, and I'll do so! Most likely on Monday.

NOVA DAWN (working title) Science Fantasy, Cosmic Adventure, Space Pirates

So...anybody wanna tell me about the character theyre thinking about? I'm curious :)

@Irisity

OH MY GOD LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY CHARACTER

Ahem. Ship's cook! Giant Caterpillar-ish Thing! Lives on a diet of paper and cardboard! Best friend to all! Adorable and terrifying! Not a particularly talented cook, but makes up for it with enthusiasm! Might be infested with some kind of parasite!

Video Game Music Appreciation Thread

@Dynamo Frokane Can't get the doo-doo-do-do-do's out of my head. I've not played the game, which probably makes reviewing it difficult, but it was a weird sort doo-doo-do-do-do of good. I'd give it seven out of ten; not necessarily cup of tea in terms of video game doo-doo-do-do-do music, but it's still nice.

Seeing as somebody's already got "Still Alive", have the best piece of music from Portal 2. I know it's almost certainly not the done thing to provide commentary for your own choice, but this song is so wonderfully jittery, I can't express my love for it enough.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

Made it home in one piece, will be aiming to do GM posting tomorrow afternoon (in about eighteen hours time).

I hope that you've all got a fun-filled weekend to look forward to!

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

But I'm not sure if I ever want to visit London now. What with the evil super pidgeons. Maybe if I wore enclave power suit armour.

@TwelveOf8

I believe tourists are advised not to wear armour, because it could trigger an arms race with the pigeons that Her Majesty's Government is not entirely confident it could win.

My brain is failing to co-operate, but there was this television programme over here a few years ago, on one of the BBC channels, in fact, hold on, let me ask my surrogate brain.

Okay, typing into Google "tv comedy puppets fox pigeon cat dog" got me exactly what I was looking for. The programme was called "Mongrels", and it had a good example of a malevolent pigeon in it. I wouldn't necessarily suggest this as a primer for understanding the mentality of London pigeons, but the character has stuck in my mind fairly well, and the show was.. not that bad.

A seagull has just landed outside my window

NOVA DAWN (working title) Science Fantasy, Cosmic Adventure, Space Pirates

@Hylozoist Reminds me of a thing I read, where cicada nymphs infested with certain fungal parasites never pupate into full cicadas, and grow into warped, exaggerated versions of nymphs over time. Also, what you described would be an example of a Chaotic Neutral race. Just for another example.

@Dead Cruiser

Perhaps going down the parasitic-infection route might be the way to go; rather than smuggling himself off the planet (which would probably be quite a difficult task), individuals infected with the parasite are shipped off-planet so as to try and keep the parasite away from the general population and make sure that the cycle of death and birth continues properly. Also, nature is kind of weird and frightening at times, but makes for good inspiration.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

Hatoful Boyfrined: London would probably be like that old ps2 game The Getaway, but with birds. Or that movie Birdemic.

@TwelveOf8

I see it as Hellgate London (I actually kind of enjoyed that game, oh god) meets Birdemic. But, yeah, our pigeons are crazy, wild-eyed bastards that have somehow survived in an environment that's pretty hostile to them. You see a huge pigeon, it's feet mostly missing, feathers all out of place, and you know the only reason you're still alive is because that pigeon has chose to let you live.

I guess avian romance isn't that odd, considering that there's going to be robot-and-alien-romance-through-a-human-intermediary. Avian romance seems positively normal, now I think about it.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

@HylozoistWell, if it came to dating various avian species. I would probably employ the logic used to conquer hatoful boyfriend.

@TwelveOf8

You don't conquer Hatoful Boyfriend, it conquers you. I suppose that the logic that game teaches you isn't easily applied to scenarios other than avian dating situations and, even then, it's probably only relevant to dating Japanese birds. Dating pigeons here probably requires a different approach due to cultural differences. If I start including avian romance in this game, you have my permission to stop me before I get carried away.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

@HylozoistMy understanding is that whenever we decide to move, we all group up first then move as a single unit. Hopefully, video game logic will save the day. May the force be with us.

@TwelveOf8

I probably shouldn't be thinking about this while I'm tucked up in bed and drinking hot chocolate, but I think I understand - all three teams, the cleaner bot and Fiddlesticks go right, right? So you'd meet up with the rest of the bees that went right? I should really leave this until tomorrow morning, because I'm probably both spectacularly missing the obvious and making things more confusing than they need to be.

Video game logic should be enough to carry you to victory, though I guess it depends on what game logic we're using here. I just introduced a friend to Hatoful Boyfriend this evening ("So.. you're a bird that goes to school and dates other birds?" "No, you're a human that goes to a school and dates birds!" "Why do you like this?" "Shuu is my husbando."), so maybe not all video game logic will save you.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

Eeek, triple post.

@TwelveOf8! Just so I'm making sure I've got this right (heehee), you're sending Team B and C right, right? Is Team A going right as well from the starting position too? I just want to double-check that I'm marking my map correctly and don't want to accidentally drown mildly inconvenience any characters or adorable robots due to a misunderstanding early on.