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[serpentstar]

mejoff has been doing one of these on his LJ, and I love it -- sort of somewhere between a very geeky 20 questions and freeform roleplaying game. So, here's mine (his is still ongoing, though, and I can certainly recommend adding to the discussion there too).

The Fifteen Character Meme. It goes like this:
1. I make a list of 15 fictional characters.
2.

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[serpentstar]

6 was feeling uncharacteristically fragile after a recent traumatic event, possibly deliberately engineered by 5, and so she was willing to be seduced by 5. 5 may have used a little sorcery to help things along, but is sufficiently charismatic that it's hard to know where the powerful persona ends and the spell begins. 5 wanted the assistance of 6 and 6's allies in a scheme to kill her arch-enemy, who, like 5, travelled through time here to fight a great battle or right a great wrong.

[serpentstar]

Oh, and it's probably happening in early 21st century Ireland, though that isn't *precisely* where either of them is from.

Aids in use, well, possibly some kind of rune-carved and well-smoothed prehistoric strap-on, though 5 doesn't really need anything more than raw sex.

[valkyriekaren]

Sounds fun.

2 and 9 are going to a fancy dress party. What are they going to wear and will they co-ordinate costumes or each do their own thing?

[serpentstar]

Neither of them are really enormous fans of fancy dress parties. 9 is willing to give it a go if there's ale involved, and throws a desert nomad's robe on over his armour if that's what it takes to get through the door. He makes sure his axe is always within reach, even though it doesn't really fit the costume.

2 has heard that a particularly fiendish man is there, someone he's been hunting across several continents for many years to make him pay for his crimes, but 2 won't make so much as a token effort to dress up. He might well show up with 9 -- the two of them would get on well -- but he's there to deliver bloody justice, not for dancing.

[serpentstar]

Nope... but good guess.

[fox_uk]

12, 14 and 7 are looking for a new apartment having been evicted from their previous gadgets for breaching their contract. What sort of place are they looking to move into now? Where in the world are they lookg. Why exactly were they evicted in the first place?

[fox_uk]

Gadgets = pad of course. Stupid autocorrect

[serpentstar]

4's landlord got pissed off about the gunfight when some of 4's targets found out where he lived.

7 reprogrammed the apartment block's computer. Almost all its processing power is now devoted to crunching astronomical data from its array of security cameras, now repurposed for stargazing. Residents got frustrated at the disruption to everyday functions. You start to make complaints to building managment when you request a pizza from the computer and it instead sends you next door's laundry. For the seventeenth time. Well, the fifteenth time it was next-door-but-one's recycling, but it's the principle of the thing. She got evicted, but found the whole process quite illogical & frustrating.

A seasonal fluctuation in zombie activity led to 14's usual residence being temporarily inaccessible.

To meet all their needs, the new apartment will have to be close to polite British society, the slums, and a half-decent university or astronomical observatory. There's probably several addresses in London that would do.

[fox_uk]

Did you answer for the correct characters? You mentioned 4 instead of 12...

[serpentstar]

3's there because the ship or its crew need something. She's really hoping the others don't get into trouble this time, again, because she's going to have to be the one to rescue them when they do

[mejoff]

is 3 Zoe Washburn?

[serpentstar]

Archetypically close, but wrong ship. :D

[cutekobalos]

1, 8 and 15 are out looking for a pet what do they choose and what name will they give to said pet/pets?

[serpentstar]

1 probably wants a pet human, possibly for irony's sake but most probably for utilitarian reasons; the human will have some kind of a place in his schemes. He names his pet human Adolf.

8 is so, so not the pet-keeping type either. He knows he is not responsible enough to look after himself satisfactorily, let alone a pet. If relatively settled, and having had some decades of therapy and as-yet-undeveloped medication, he might like the idea of a pet dog. He'll name her after a woman who was emotionally significant to him at some point, even if the significance was solely in his head.

15 is most likely to end up with either a dead human as a pet, or some kind of exotic animal that secretes an even more exotic drug. If the former, he names the dead human after the live human it once was. If the latter, well, he probably expects to eat it eventually, so it probably doesn't get named.