Fan Races!!

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:53 am

hmm .. been a while since i posted anything on here ..

just had a thought the other day. small 'research' vessels manned by what appears to be young teens. about 16 years old. 4-5 males and 2 females. their uniforms are kinda strange too. the females are in yellow and pink and the males ... lets say in .. blue and black and red. maybe a green and possibly a white ..

oh right it was done numerous times on TV wasn't it? .. *hides from the "Space Rangers"

*races away from the forum page with a giggle

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 1:55 pm

Welcome back Shiiv-a!! That sounds like an interesting concept.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:41 pm

shiiv-a wrote:hmm .. been a while since i posted anything on here ..

just had a thought the other day. small 'research' vessels manned by what appears to be young teens. about 16 years old. 4-5 males and 2 females. their uniforms are kinda strange too. the females are in yellow and pink and the males ... lets say in .. blue and black and red. maybe a green and possibly a white ..

oh right it was done numerous times on TV wasn't it? .. *hides from the "Space Rangers"

*races away from the forum page with a giggle

And it turns out their homeplanet is blasting these 'space cadets' off on deep space missions in order to get rid of the brats and rebellious teens..If they actually FIND something and manage to return, then the investment's paid off...if they don't return, well, no loss...

Welcome back, however fleetingly...

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:16 pm

heh .. thanks .. man i hate watching old kid shows and getting crazy ideas ...

*shakes head and wanders off again*

gotta go cook for about 50-150 people over the weekend, so i'm just a bit distracted.

... later

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:49 pm

shiiv-a wrote:heh .. thanks .. man i hate watching old kid shows and getting crazy ideas ...

Don't hate it...inspiration comes from the strangest (and most wonderful) sources..
Why, when I was on vacation, walking in a park I remembered a grove of trees my older brother and his friends, as youngsters, employed as a 'spaceship'(plenty of twisted branches)...and I thought to myself...'What if my bro (or kids in general) KNEW something....?!'....A different take on organic spacecraft is in the offing...

At about the same time, I watched an festival of Oriental lanterns...and again, an image of a spacefaring 'Chinatown' of inflatable habitats(like they're testing for an orbital hotel...look it up, I ain't kidding!) with different shapes and designs, decorated into all sorts of Asian calligraphy, popped into my head...(You know inexpensive space travel's arrived when they start knocking off space hardware in backalley high-tech firms in Hong Kong...)

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:57 pm

I get inspirations from where ever I can too!

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:52 pm

Of course, a good night's sleep and proper nutrition helps too....

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:14 pm

Sometimes hangin out with friends watching weird movies.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:12 pm

...revisiting childhood fantasies....

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:56 am

Reliving childhood fantasies can be a great source of inspiration. I think we might have covered most of the places to draw upon inspirations from.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:18 pm

whibs mister ninjabunny dude.

sadly not a lot happened when you vanished. but it is good to see you again.

not a lot happened where i went either. found out they DONT cook with garlic .. and don't like spicy food and dont like a bunch of other stuff i'm used to .. oh well .. at least i'm back home now and can make stuff i like to eat now

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:06 pm

shiiv-a wrote:
they DONT cook with garlic .. and don't like spicy food

INFIDELS!

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:55 am

Ninjabunny wrote:
shiiv-a wrote:whibs mister ninjabunny dude.

sadly not a lot happened when you vanished. but it is good to see you again.

not a lot happened where i went either. found out they DONT cook with garlic .. and don't like spicy food and dont like a bunch of other stuff i'm used to .. oh well .. at least i'm back home now and can make stuff i like to eat now

No garlic!! or Spice!?!

Well, not everybody believes in the social powers of Garlic(aka "Friends of the Stinking Rose")...and some of us prefer to savor food's natural flavors...Of course, others of us treat ketchup as a primary food group and what we pour it over is merely a base to convey the stuff to our digestion(*I ain't one one of them, though my folks are...

).

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:25 am

nope .. but hey .. what do i know about cooking wild game?

think i'ld have to work at that one. my 'other brother' was talking about making a big HUGE batch of chili and canning it for the later months.

but thats cool. i left the recipe for 'no-boil lasagna' with him along with the cranberry-apple crisp. will show him how to make 'cheap man's cabbage rolls next time i'm out there ... oh wait a second .. that could be on my birthday .. hmm ... *ponders a few things and then shrugs*

so yeah .. will need to shop for a few things i guess and stockpile them. wont be needing the lasagna noodles this time .. just the stuff that makes them up .. like hte burger and cottage cheese with spinach. maybe make one with spinach and one without.

will have to make a cake too .. ooo .. maybe some jello jigglers? ... for the kidlets

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:12 pm

I like garlic! Welcome back NB! DM is still MIA!!!

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:12 pm

I'm still working on my first RCC. I have the stats, but not much else. I'm still working on the background of the RCC.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:09 pm

oooo backgrounds ....

they are wonderful to have, but its sad when its time to get the keyboard and the brain to work together. i found that the fingers tend to write something totally different from what i was originally thinking.

i'm still struggling with about 10 or so questions that got asked with the first bit of the foxes. they snarked at me about the ship and the drive system .. and then a bunch of other snarkified opinions that totally bummed me out to the point of saving the re-write .. and then the Harddrive croaked and i lost it all.

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:51 am

That can be the biggest point right now the background. I've even got their military sort of set up in my mind. I may roll up another RCC's stats then see if I can work out a background for the first. Of course a race name doesn't hurt either. I'm still trying to come up witha name for these poor people I created.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:37 pm

shiiv-a wrote:nope .. but hey .. what do i know about cooking wild game?

think i'ld have to work at that one. my 'other brother' was talking about making a big HUGE batch of chili and canning it for the later months.

but thats cool. i left the recipe for 'no-boil lasagna' with him along with the cranberry-apple crisp. will show him how to make 'cheap man's cabbage rolls next time i'm out there ... oh wait a second .. that could be on my birthday .. hmm ... *ponders a few things and then shrugs*

so yeah .. will need to shop for a few things i guess and stockpile them. wont be needing the lasagna noodles this time .. just the stuff that makes them up .. like hte burger and cottage cheese with spinach. maybe make one with spinach and one without.

will have to make a cake too .. ooo .. maybe some jello jigglers? ... for the kidlets

Ah, yum...Inspiration: what we need next...Rifts Phaseworld Sourcebook: The Cookbook....

*Juicer Tomatoes...What vegetable steroids? That giant pumpkin was grown the old fashioned way!

*Cyborg Spam---The only SELF-openning can!

*Pickled Splugorth Fingerlings---Sure, they're only pickled onions and calamari, but who's going to tell...and who's going to ask?

*The Supernatural Predator Diet...Meat, raw meat, and plenty of it! Atkins, I eat your heart out!

*CRazy Baking...Sprinkles! Plenty of Sprinkles! Ewww....SHINY!

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:31 pm

Skunks you say! Could they be pole cats?

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:31 pm

Ninjabunny wrote:I've got a race in the making that deal with the smellest of road kill. SKUNKS!!!!

Martha's Vineyard already has them...take the skunk in AtB, add the stench, use remaining Bio-E to balloon the thing to maximum size...scale up the area of effect for spraying accordingly...

Actually, I do have a funny skunk story from my vacation...Late evening, sitting on my porch, reading by streetlight, and right next to the porch my father is standing in the road talking with two other people...I look up in time to se this low-slung shape humping along at high speed up behind the two people facing my father and just as I open my mouth to shout a warning when this skunk comes racing between the legs of all three people in the road before galloping towards another oncoming couple, then turns the corner and disappears into the shadows....All in about three seconds...

Had the skunks in the area been less acclimated to people, I imagine about a dozen people(myself included) would still be showering with tomato juice)...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:27 pm

You and your family are probably very lucky when dealing with skunks. I personally have always kept my distance from them. The closet encounter with a small animal recently was with a wild coyote who I spotted and avoided hitting it with my car. I slowed down and rolled down the window and talked to the coyote who ran alongside the car it looked at me for a few seconds until it vanished in the wilds not far from my home.

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:17 pm

I finally have a name for my RCC.

I've also managed to start breaking the writters block for the RCC too. The material is flowing finally.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:26 pm

Excellent!

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:44 pm

Now I just have to write it up fully! Then post it!

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:04 pm

my current races are still stuck in the head as i'm scared that the comp may suddenly die on me and i'll loose all the stuff i've written down

anyways .. i think the feathered ones would get a laugh. don't think many of them would be about .. but man i can see their armour now. and some of their weapons .. and other cool stuff .. now to just get it all down on paper some place and go from there.

nother time guys

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:08 pm

Shiiv-a at least put them down on pencil and paper. That way you could flesh them out at your leisure.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:36 am

*ponders*

but that would mean i would have to do 'work'

i HATE work. besides i'm not allowed to do 'non work related' stuff at the job site.

so .. go figure.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:00 am

shiiv-a wrote:*ponders*

but that would mean i would have to do 'work'

i HATE work. besides i'm not allowed to do 'non work related' stuff at the job site.

so .. go figure.

Ah, the Huck Finn philosophy of work and fun.....'Work' is something you're obliged to do...and once you feel obliged to do something, it becomes Work and is therefore not Fun..

Plus an imagination-hostile workplace....not a happy combination...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:44 am

Then write it down into a little notebook. That way you can keep your ideas for the RCC fresh in your mind.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:24 am

Yep...with back to school sales, the little palm notebooks are remarkably cheap these days(they're making the real money off backpacks)...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:21 pm

I try to record it like that. Especially if something unique floats thru my brain.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:04 pm

Apple needs to put out a new device...the i-Thought or 'Dream-Catcher'.

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:28 pm

Maybe in a few (dozen) generations.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:23 am

heh .. not really sure i wanna do the 'little book' thing. i might forget it at work and then get holy **** for doing stuff NOT work related.

was copying recipes for various meats. like bear .. and venison .. scary. had the worst case of fluffing in the history of who knows what .. and i swear .. it really did smell like something died.

i think my body thought i was trying to kill it with the venison ... go figure. will get used to it soon enough .. i hope.

good thing. i went out for a weekend to do some cooking and assisting at a family reunion [son is dating the daughter of the family .. and i'm an 'other sister' to the dad of the girlfriend and she's calling me 'mom' .. ] anyways .. HE put my name in for the draw .. he bought me 3 tickets .. then i find out i won. i turned about and reinvested. its gonna get drawn on my B-day coming up soon, and if i win again? .. i think i'll donate about 1/2 of it back to the family drawing pot.

should really make a tobacco bag for him. i think he'd like that. *nods and then figures out how to cut the shammie to make the pouch ... *

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:33 am

You mentioned venison! I love venison! I can never get enough of it!!!!! My mouth is watering thank you Shiiv-a. I'm going to have to eat something aftr I finish my laundry in a few minutes.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:06 am

Well, good luck with the drawings, Shiiv-a, sounds like your real life is as rich as any fantasy one.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:01 am

*blinks and shakes the head*

seems i've been half adopted by a young teen who's having issues at home. poor guy, needs to crash at a friends house from time to time. guess i'll have to build extra sleeping benches and get foamies and blankets. my family is swelling .. and i only got 1 kid ....

- - - -

that all aside, i TRIED to do some writing at work today. i show up at work .. and get to .... make beds for 2.5 hours ....

wow ... and now? .. NOT allowed to talk with customers .. in case comments get taken as complaints and get back to HIM.

god, the size of some peoples ego surpasses their common sense at times

but i finally get ONE of my weekend days back. i feel SO lucky to get that much of my life back on a regular basis

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:33 pm

ah, progress....

Just remember...it doesn't matter what you do, every job descends to its own level or mediocrity(we're all....with the excpetion of those saints among us... convinced that we're the dumping ground of everyone out there who needs to vent, demonstrate their lack of consciousness and commonsense, and the wrath of every clost and wannabe Captain Bligh in our particular endeavors)...

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:05 pm

good thing .. i got the first line of a race put down on paper .. well the title .. and then a couple of sentences .. sure its on paper .. but this way it's a start .. so i think it will all work out in the end.

either way. a new binder and paper to work with also helps.

can only go up from here. or so they say

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:58 pm

Just like hikinh or marathoning...just think of one step at a time...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:52 am

Hmmm sounds like a nice and peaceful weekend you both had! I could have used that yesterday.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:48 pm

Didn't have a peaceful weekend...worked all through it...dealing with malfunctioning computers I had no idea about, people grousing at me for computer services I couldn;t provide, and tossing teenagers who were making trouble(big crash...kids go running, I ask them to stop and explain, they don't...turns out they threw ice all over the place...they come back, "Oh, we ran and didn't listen to you because we though we were in trouble!"...Guess what...*You ARE*...youth of today, leaders of tomorrow...thundering morons....)
:nh:

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:50 pm

Ah could they be relatives? Or was that at work?

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:07 pm

Aramanthus wrote:Ah could they be relatives? Or was that at work?

Work...my relatives are _MUCH_ better behaved....
These...they were more like a tribe of miniature Brodkil barbarians addicted to pizza, but with the capacity for mayhem in no way diminished...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:14 pm

I thought in libraries people were supposed to be relatively quiet.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:09 pm

"Supposed to be" is the phrase here...after school...all bets are off...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:34 pm

I guess some of today's youth don't have the respect we did growing up.

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:05 pm

That's the fog of age clouding your memories...we were, in our fashion, just as wretched....But yes, maybe modern youth does have a more open sense of behavior...certainly, youth is getting heavier...

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:44 pm

Fog of age? LOL :lol:

I'm not that old. I remember my youth. I iknow I wasn't perfect, but I know I was outside when I could be. Running and having fun outside.