OT [UA] All Humans are Liars

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Liam Astley <Dogzilla at btinternet.com> wrote:
> From: "Royal Minister of Stuff"
> <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: OT [UA] All Humans are Liars
> > Personally, I really like the idea of "walking"
> from
> > world to world
> 
> i've recently started a pbem game using this idea,
> called "space opera".
> it's basically an alternate setting for the Amber
> drpg. instead of having
> the ability to travel between "worlds" at will, the
> characters literally
> have the power to instantaneously move between
> planets throughout the
> galaxy.

Pretty much what I had in mind, except I want the
characters to be less Amberites and more like the
characters from William Friedkin's "Sorcerer" or "The
Wages of Fear."  Down and Out, a little obsessed and
not afraid to be a little criminal (but not overly
willing to take a life for it.)  If I could work in
Ian Holm's monk from "Fifth Element" or a whole
monastic order based around "serving life" or, at
least, opposing tyranny, stagnation and unrequited
love, then I'd have a fabulous campaign.  A UA-space
campaign, in point of fact.

> 
> > See, the other thing I always wanted to do was run
> a
> > Star Trek-like campaign where the aliens are all
> > Cthulhu Mythos servitors (this ties in with the
> elves
> > argument).  Instead of Vulcans and Andorians
> mankind
> > has come to grips with Ghouls and Deep Ones.
> 
> i love this idea. it'd be fun seeing the
> federation-types trying to put up
> with their alien visitors' "cultural differences"
> (like they apparently put
> up with all klingons being psychopathic).
> "erm, captain, should the ghoul ambassador be eating
> the ensign?"
> "best not to cause a fuss. be a good chap and pass
> the byakhee their live
> goats, eh?"
> 
I've always felt a love scene with a sultry (enormous,
dangling, scaly dugs and bigger, bluer lips filmed in
soft focus) female deep one coming aboard to seduce
the dashing captain Doug Nigguroth (sort of like a
cross between Wilbur Whately and Captain Kirk) would
make television worth watching again.

I had the scene playing on television in the
"Astrospy" game I ran, but didn't linger on it.  The
player had the decency to shut off the TV and get on
with the game.  Which I'm going to do, despite my
Obsession: Long Off-Topic Threads.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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