Creative Firefly fans: Want to help?
POSTED BY: Lindley
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Britonia: Planet taken over by the United Kingdom. Inhabitants are British, Scottish, and Irish with a low population of Asians since cantonese is rarely spoken but always accepted. Britonia is an steel industrial planet focused on mining and refining steel.
There are two different kinds of people that live on the planet. The factory workers and the employers and owners of the factory which means two different kinds of bars. A high class gentleman's club resembling that of "The Shindig" party. And dirty old pubs for the working class to drink their woes away resembling that of "Jaynestown" bar and "The Train Job" Alliance bar.
Britonia is a cross between a border planet(the industrial part of the planet). And a core planet(high class wealthy owners of the factories and franchises on the planet).
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Thanks, those are pretty good concepts.
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I've always thought this would be a great idea. Thank you sooooo much for all the time you're putting into it. Personally, I've always enjoyed the quirky EV planets, as you can tell.
Aukland - As you step out of your ship, you narrowly avoid being run down by a pack of small, waddling birds. Unfortunately, you fail to avoid stepping in one of the free “Aukland souvenirs,” as the docking agent quickly points out with an annoying chuckle.
70% of this border planet is covered in snow year-round. No one seems to know who first brought penguins here, but they have certainly thrived and multiplied – the government avidly encourages hunting to help control the population.
Since Aukland is sparsely populated and most of the planet is uncharted and rarely patrolled, it has become a figurative hotspot for smuggling transactions.
(Bar) The Ice Cap – Apparently they taste like chicken . . . You suspect that the “Big Fight” that starts in a couple of hours will involve a great deal of clucking.
(Mission) A man from the Penguin Wrestling Authority offers to pay you $20,000 if you can bring him a polar bear.
Nostalgand – A man in a white sequin-covered suit with sunglasses and big sideburns thrusts his hip to the side as he welcomes you to Nostalgand, where the citizens are proud to “maintain the glory” of some very tacky culture remnants from 20th century Earth that Was.
(Bar) The Soda Shop – As fascinating as the décor is, the milkshakes can’t be beat. The walls are covered with old artifacts and descriptions, all equally bizarre. Some of them must be made up, however - surely no one would actually pay money to have a rock as a pet.
I mock you with my monkey pants
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^That's great. I've tried to include a few "quirky planets", but something like that is just the ticket, I think.
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Originally posted by Lindley:
^That's great. I've tried to include a few "quirky planets", but something like that is just the ticket, I think.
If you're still wanting quirk, how about a planet o circus/carnie people? You know, like whatever town that is in Florida where the circus winters?
Me, I'd call it Barnum. :) The main city, Bailey, is about part permanent buildings, part-trailers or busted ships, and part tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair, along with various rides that look a little rickety.
Take a walk on the edge of Bailey and you'll see all sorts of animals that may or may not be what the sign says they are.
All sorts of shows spend time on Barnum -- freak shows, hoochie shows, circuses with excellent reputations and circuses that are suspected to be nothing more than travelling slave brothels. And there is always work for someone with some sort of weird/amazing/stomach-churning physical abnormality.
It's not as rife with crime as you might think, but it's the the adorable lil ragamuffins you wanna watch out for, not the dude covered in tattoos. He's the mayor, actually -- Hizzoner Jigsaw is the proper form of address, and he also owns the tattoo parlour.
There are many, many different languages spoken, and there's also a circus-speak, very much like the rhyming slang of Britian and Australia.
You must be this tall to enter the best bar in town, Walenda's. And as you might expect from the name, there is indeed a flying trapeze, shows every hour, on the hour, which gets more suspenseful the drunker the trapeze artists get.
One more thing - that "See a Real Live Reaver!" exhibit? It's not a con. He's been in that cage since the war ended, and so far, none of his pals have shown up for him. So far.
Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."
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If you're still wanting quirk, how about a planet o circus/carnie people? You know, like whatever town that is in Florida where the circus winters?
Me, I'd call it Barnum. :) The main city, Bailey, is about part permanent buildings, part-trailers or busted ships, and part tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair, along with various rides that look a little rickety.
You know, you could actually do a lot with this one - missions could include escorting a carnival carivan to random planets around the verse, running some replacement equipment and supplies to carnivals out on the road. There could be mention of the cow fetus from The Message to make it truly feel like it belongs. Oh, and these are musts - The bar serves Deep Fried Curly Carrots (from Dead or Alive script) and Ice-Planets (from The Message). And . . . JUGGLING GEESE!! and shadow puppets!
What about having two planets in the system - one Barnum, the other Bailey - with an ongoing fued. You don't need to go into the reasons or specifics, just that there are basically two Carnival Associations with a bitter rivalry, even though they both have the same basic structure and practices (they probably just split up because one clown insulted the bearded lady, and everybody took sides). And there could be silly missions about an angry guy in a clown suit offering to pay you to steal the monkeys from the other planet, or to put elephant poop in the cotton candy machines.
I mock you with my monkey pants
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Originally posted by Ankhagogo:
If you're still wanting quirk, how about a planet o circus/carnie people? You know, like whatever town that is in Florida where the circus winters?
Me, I'd call it Barnum. :) The main city, Bailey, is about part permanent buildings, part-trailers or busted ships, and part tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair, along with various rides that look a little rickety.
You know, you could actually do a lot with this one - missions could include escorting a carnival carivan to random planets around the verse, running some replacement equipment and supplies to carnivals out on the road. There could be mention of the cow fetus from The Message to make it truly feel like it belongs. Oh, and these are musts - The bar serves Deep Fried Curly Carrots (from Dead or Alive script) and Ice-Planets (from The Message). And . . . JUGGLING GEESE!! and shadow puppets!
That would be the PERFECT place for gosling-juggling! Or kitten-juggling or puppy-juggling...there could be a whole show whose schtick is just that they juggle weird crap!
Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."
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Terrific idea. I'll definately use some variation on that idea.
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I'm not entirely satisfied with the way my descriptions for Barnum and Bailey have come out. So I'm going to post what I have, and take suggestions for improvement.
Keep in mind, they can't be much longer than they are. Slightly longer, possibly.
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The Bailey Carnivale Association, after which this planet is named, has a long-running feud with the neighboring Barnum Carnivale Association. No one knows the specific origins of the feud; only that, despite being based in the same system, the two groups cannot stand each other. You're either a Barnum planet or a Bailey planet---after one group has performed somewhere, the other will not go near that world for months, if ever. Scattered everywhere around town are indications of an successful entertainment troupe: Relatively good housing, clean roads, and perhaps most telling, permanent rehersal areas rather than quick-fold tents.
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Barnum's main city has a core of permanent buildings, but a large portion of the metropolis is composed of trailers, busted ships, tents of all shapes, sizes, colours, and stages of repair. Take a walk on the edge of the city, and you'll see all sorts of animals that may or may not be what the sign says they are. It is, in short, the headquarters of the Barnum Carnivale Association----not to be mistaken for the talentless group of hacks based on neighboring Bailey. There is always work for someone with some sort of weird/amazing/stomach-churning physical abnormality. It's not as rife with crime as you might think, but it's the the adorable lil ragamuffins you wanna watch out for. There are many, many different languages spoken, including a nearly unintelligible "circus-speak."
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You're either a Barnum planet or a Bailey planet---after one group has performed somewhere, the other will not go near that world for months, if ever.
There's something weird about this phrasing -- I get what you mean, but it took me a minute.
Maybe something more like "If the Barnum Association has visited your planet recently, you can bet that the Bailey Association won't be dropping by any time soon, if ever, and vice versa. Neither Association wants to perform for yokels who'd play host to their rival."
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Scattered everywhere around town are indications of an successful entertainment troupe: Relatively good housing, clean roads, and perhaps most telling, permanent rehersal areas rather than quick-fold tents.
I think it's the "scattered around town" bit that's off here. I don't really think of roads as being "scattered", if you get my drift.
Maybe just switch that to "The indications of a successful entertainment troupe are everywhere:" with all the rest the same?
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Take a walk on the edge of the city, and you'll see all sorts of animals that may or may not be what the sign says they are.
Funnily enough, I wasn't entirely pleased with this bit when I wrote it. Heh.
I'm a little happier with this.
"Show and exhibit animals are kept on the edge of the city, so's the smell of them won't interfere with the workings of civilization. Don't always believe the signs on the cages, though -- that "wild zebra" may be nothing more than a horse with a dye job."
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There are many, many different languages spoken, including a nearly unintelligible "circus-speak."
I think I like "circus-slang" better, and I don't know why I didn't use it originally.
I'm not entirely objective about this, I know. :)
Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."
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