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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

#PennedPossibilities⁩ 916.1 — Your MC wakes up as a wolf (or if a wolf/werewolf, a rabbit/wererabbit), what do they do, how do they react?

As I've never written a shapeshifter-compatible fic, that'd be problematic!

(Current WIP: "Werewolves don't exist," Tabitha said evenly, aiming her pistol at Jum's head. "And we're inside a techné eruv so you're not a robot. What are you *really*?" Seeing her finger inside the trigger guard, Jum whined then flopped over on his back and played dead.)

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Lydia Vvinters
@HeliaXyana@mastodon.nl  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#PennedPossibilities #ketchup, 915 In your SC's opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Fidgeting with her dress, Pelly twists her foot in the grass and mumbles. "I once made a spell to turn someone into butterflies. It seemed pretty, but when I had to use it, the spell took way too long. The man ran around screaming for half an hour as slowly parts of his flesh sprouted wings and flew off like bloody butterflies. Still pretty, though."

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#PennedPossibilities #ketchup, 915 In your SC's opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

(Current WIP):

Agrippina smiles angelically then asks, "how badly would you like to find out?"

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Lydia Vvinters
@HeliaXyana@mastodon.nl  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#PennedPossibilities #ketchup, 915 In your SC's opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Fidgeting with her dress, Pelly twists her foot in the grass and mumbles. "I once made a spell to turn someone into butterflies. It seemed pretty, but when I had to use it, the spell took way too long. The man ran around screaming for half an hour as slowly parts of his flesh sprouted wings and flew off like bloody butterflies. Still pretty, though."

#writing

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#PennedPossibilities 916

How would your MC react to being mocked or made fun of?

(Current WIP):

Tabitha would smile tightly, but she maintains an enemies list and people who end up too high on it tend to show up as a wired and articulated skeleton in a cautionary diorama that appears in front of a police station when nobody is looking.

Jum would take it good naturedly but later pick their pockets and/or steal their dignity.

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

#PennedPossibilities 914 — Does your antagonist have any redeeming qualities?

(Current WIP): None whatsoever.

The antagonist is not a person, but a deliberately designed system of intersectional oppression, engineered to sustain political and personal supremacy for an elite minority among the population of more than 8000 worlds. They knew *exactly* what they were doing and it has stood the test of time. Resistance is futile: escape is almost impossible.

(Our protags have a desperate plan ...)

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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp last week

#PennedPossibilities 911: Which of your characters would watch films (and marathon them) together? What type of films?

There is a sequence in "The Regicide Report" (published this coming Tuesday!!) in which Bob and Mo sit down with a bottle of scotch and marathon all three films in the Doctor Phibes series, taking notes.

(IRL there was no third Phibes movie. In the Laundry universe, things are different: for one thing, they've met Phibes …)

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