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So--and this is going to sound incredibly ignorant--what is the significance of this week in human rights, if any? Because if Justin Trudeau Skypes in to my daughter's school (as he did yesterday), it might just be part of a general campaign for the causes he's interested in, which is cool, or it might be part of a larger push.

And if it's part of a larger push, gosh, I'd like to tie opposition to Vic Toews and Bill C-30 to it.

Oh, I can fully believe that Vic hadn't read the bill in full before presenting it (though I bet he has now) and didn't recognize the items in it that reduce privacy to the level of sharing a sandbox with the RCMP and police. But Vic's personal history is, to me, slightly skeevy. (Side note: If he's going to legislate morality, I'd prefer that his be unquestioned, so his personal life is fair game. So far he's shown me that he's willing to break his marriage vows, impregnate a teenager, possibly watch or participate in group sex at a bath house, all the while decrying gay marriage and I believe he's on record as being against abortion.)

Not a child pornographer and still against Bill C-30.

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When I use the work account for email, they want me to have a .signature. (It took them almost 5 months to tell me this.) They helpfully gave me the prescribed signature text; all I had to do was replace the name, the phone number, and so forth, and then point to it.

Today I noticed I had left a space out and foolishly opened the HTML with vim, rather than whatever I used two weeks ago to create it.

This HTML is for a four-line .signature file. Thirty-three words, 257 characters before HTML markup.

It was created by Word. It is 8K long.

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...needs a name in my campaign world.

I seem to be in no danger of ever running them, but if I go with the Purge adventure I have to mention at least that the robots are planning for them.

But I suck at naming superhero teams. Best so far is "Shield of Justice" and that leads to SHIELD (Marvel) or AEGIS (Green Ronin). I could use Revengers or Sword of Justice, I suppose, but the first sounds like a Matt Helm novel and the second a Destroyer novel.

Suggestions?

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So as part of the new 52, DC has--and this is nearly unthinkable--

Closed Power Girl's boob window.

(I'm sure everyone already knew this; I haven't been in a comic book shop for months, maybe years. Hell, I haven't seen any of the new 52 and I was interested.)

Part of me says, well, it's about time. The joke has grown old. Yes, there should be women of different bust sizes in comics, just like everywhere else. And some of them should even draw attention to their breasts; that would be realistic. (And we are talking a genre where people are drawn naked but without genitalia, and then the symbols are drawn on.)

And a little lascivious (or salacious) part of me is sorry. I certainly knew what I was going to get when I looked at Power Girl, and depending on the writer and artist I was also going to see either a series of jokes told to a humourless amazon (uh, not literally, which could be true in DC), or a series of jokes involving what interesting things they could put in the way.

Even fan fic about her tended to focus on those attributes. She's the Supergirl with the big boobs.

On the other hand, they've given her a more modest costume before (see the Bart Sears version in JLI) and gone back to a variant of the old costume, so I can't find it in myself to get too worked up over this.

And if you want huge hooters and gratuitous nudity, there's always Tarot...

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The index of our ICONS adventures

This is (well, will be) all material that we have added or changed in the course of our adventures. None of it is in the original materials (which you should go buy). You might be able to infer some things—if I say, "It's like this, not that," obviously you know that it's "that" in the original, but I'm going to keep that to a minimum. I have no intent to reduce anyone's need to buy the originals: in fact, please do it. Give Melior Via money so that it can continue to produce Hope Prep materials. As I recall, last fall only the ICONS version of something or other had broken even. ( Read more... )

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The index of our ICONS adventures

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The index of our ICONS adventures | James' description here.

All right, as mentioned, I think I had too much stuff in the adventure. In practice, I cut out most of the plagiarism stuff: we didn't really get back to the Thompson twins, and I did far too much leading people around. So less set up and backstory next time.

That being said, here's the backstory. Glimm's house century or so ago invented these duplicators. They were wildly popular--thousands of them were made--and a significant number of them were issued to space scouts. You take one sample of whatever you want, and duplicate it, and eat one, store the other. Makes space travel relatively light, makes it easy to build the air supplies, the water supplies, the food, and so forth. The duplicators had a quarantine setting: if you weren't sure that whatever you duplicated (say, a local sample) was safe, you could put them both in a pocket dimension.

And as they got used, Glimm's people discovered that the energy to make the matter actually came from another dimension. The stars there. And the natives weren't happy that Glimm's people were sucking up the stars. So they threatened war on Glimm's people and the duplicators were destroyed, and the technology became illegal.

Except one. That one belonged to a scout who suffered a mishap and gave his equipment to Ms. Thompson, who--because lots of people were getting stuff from dying aliens--used it to fight crime. (Apparently she had a cool superhero name picked out but because her first fight was in an electrical plant, the first paper to document her nicknamed her the Dynamo Rose, and she became Dynamo Rose for the rest of her career.)

The alien didn't speak English. Ms. Thompson thought the thing was essentially a Phantom Zone projector, and she used it on really nasty criminals or criminals that she didn't have a hope of beating twice. You know, like the robot who was programmed to destroy all life on earth, or the guy who was a living collapsar, or Ms. Circe, or the dreaded and innocuously-named demon called Key Chain.

About a third of the way into her career, Ms. Thompson found herself as a single mother to one girl. And in a sleep-deprived fit, she was fiddling with the phantom zone projector ("Always meant to get around to this") and she duplicated the baby. She decided to get rid of the duplicator, so she boxed it up and gave it to Poseidon (they knew each other: there is the possibility that he is the girl's--girls'?--father) to keep safe at the bottom of the sea.

Well, Ms. Thompson passed away just before Christmas break.

And then Lorn told his dad that Ms. Thompson had died. And he took the duplicator and decided to have Lorn give it to the local equivalent of the Justice League. But Lorn couldn't help fiddling with it...so he set Key Chain and Ms. Circe free, and their copies. Now the demon didn't get copied, but his human host did, and Ms. Circe did, so all four got released: two Ms. Circes, one Key Chain, and one Ronald DeGrassi, accountant and demon host for an organization that no longer exists. One of the Ms. Circe copies and Mr DeGrassi want nothing more than to explore this new world and possibly hang out together. Ms. Circe the other and Key Chain wanted to kill Dynamo Rose, or lacking that, her nearest blood relatives.

And part of the reason why Glimm's dad took the job as ambassador to Earth was to track down this last duplicator (and the rest of the scout's tech), which might be, well, anywhere. (She's now on the NPC page, so you can see what she had.)

Most of the other information is in James' description or the comments. I don't think Hari turned himself in to Mr. Baron--he said he found the nearest teacher, probably the history teacher, and found out what the procedure actually was.

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Tonight's HPS session was not quite as good as I had hoped, not because the players weren't good, but because I had plotted an adventure that was...too much, and not much for Sari's player to do. So, too complex and too much of me talking. So have to fix that next time. More later.

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Got my first update for World Fantasy Con 2012, which I will be attending. One of the things the update has is a list of members, so we can check that we're on the list.

And I see a number of people who I will want to stand near in the hopes of picking up *them* radiation.

Jim Gardner will be there, of course--he's the one who told me about it--but I also recognize some other names, whether they're listed for panels (or even famous) or not: John Joseph Adams, Ginjer Buchanan, Ted Chiang, Brenda Cooper, David Hartwell, Dan Zlotnikov. Didn't notice the Writing Excuses crew, but heck...I only attend a con every decade or so, so I plan to have fun on this one. Maybe even stay in Toronto instead of driving back and forth.

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The index of our ICONS adventures

So: what have we got?

Outside of class, before a class (so either morning or at lunch).
- Find out what people did over Christmas (what do angels do, anyway? I think they date the Son of Satan because at least there aren't religious problems.)
- Introduce plot point, Hyde Barron, who is responsible for power nullifiers and who has a heck of a Detect: that's his power. So he has Electronics, Mechanics, and a powerful Detect.
- Introduce the Thompsons, Lorelei and Elizabeth, who are in fourth year, the same year as Jade, and so Jade is there, and the Thompsons chat with her. Their mom, Laurel, formerly Dynamo Rose, died over the holidays and she's trying to cheer them up.
And it's History class...
- Introduce the plagiarism problem. Because plagiarism has been detected, parts of every assignment need to be done in class and handed in at the end of class.
- The first villains attack, apparently searching for the Thompsons. And Jade can't help because she's wearing a power inhibitor because of the whole gossip column thing. (De-power Hari too: after all, it was his use of ESP that made the gossip column possible.) (Depending on how things go, maybe the nice villains show up first)
And in the aftermath, with the Thompsons there this time, the very same villains show up, dressed in civvies.
- Now, perhaps the new guys get trounced, perhaps not, but they claim to be law-abiding and they have exactly the same finger-prints as the originals. Elizabeth Thompson says this is normal ("Lori and I have the same fingerprints"); if someone has Investigate specialty, they know it isn't.
- The story that the duplicates tell is that they wanted to warn the Thompsons about their other selves. Question: If they haven't seen the duplicates since getting free, as they claim, how did they know that the others were going to attack? Answer: "I'd do it if I were looking for revenge."
- Jade takes the Thompsons back to her place, to give them a place to stay where they won't be attacked.
Now Hari gets told that they're looking at Jade as a possible seller of plagiarized material. (Q: Why think of Jade? She says she doesn't have the computer know-how. A: Right place, right time, with access to Dr. Bailey's computer: one of the plagiarized papers came from Dr. Bailey's computer, which logged into a secure site for super-scientists.)
Now there are a couple of things to investigate:
- Dr. Bailey can tell them about the site for super-scientists. By definition, it is reasonably well-protected, but it could be hacked, and Dr. Bailey does have a wireless link between the computer and his armor that could be hacked (different kind of encryption hacking, but still); more importantly, when Dr. Bailey's implants go out of whack, he forgets to do things. Which they see, and is part of the reason why Jade had access). If they ask, Dr. Bailey will also tell them that identical twins normally hve different fingerprints.
- Library research shows that these guys were bad stuff back in the day, until the Thompson Twins' mother sent them away.
- Going to the Thompson twins tells them a bit, but they don't have the sending-away device any more: mom put it away; they can probably get it, because it got stored with a super-team.
Time to bring in the other plot. The gang is invited to test a kid whose powers have just manifested. His powers are a combination of Hari's and Jade's, though I'm not sue if people will notice. He got them from Mr. Barron, who has slipped power theft devices into the nullifiers. This kid doesn't actually have powers. The other hint is that both Jade and Hari will feel very tired afterward. (Ah! One of the papers on the super-scientist site is about power theft. Now it will work!)
Now subplot time dealing with relationship issues. This is the point where Lenore breaks up with Hari, and where Serena tries to break up with Glimm. (I haven't any idea why she fails, but I figure the player will be trying to keep them together.)
Plagiarism plot: Jade's punishment is extended; she's taken off the supervision, and they get assigned to Serena's old boyfriend, who works them very very hard, just out of spite. At Mr. Barron's suggestion, he adds the new kid (boy or girl? girl: she's stealing attractiveness too: Odessa Jay Petrie, just fresh of the Random Name Generator).
Dr. Bailey is sick. Some kind of illness. We'd check the super-scientist database, but we don't have the permission to do that. So off to Dr. Bailey to try to help. He isn't allowed to have a computer in his home, but he can give Sari (NOT Rumspringa) the password.
Duplication plot. Tyrone's complaining about the power suppressor, which he had to wear yesterday, and it was a totally trumped-up charge. So he doesn't like the new girl: she charged him. But other boys are nuts for her (need to see that)
Glimm tells his father about the thing, he says that's a great device, but it would probably get in trouble with the locals, like the duplication device did.
See Dr. Bailey forget things because he's been prompted by his implant. Clues now point to Odessa & Mr. Barron.
The Glimm sees the device, tells them what it is. Wait a beat and see if someone has figured out why there are twins.

Structurally, we want to solve the plagiarism thing before we deal with the duplication thing.

You know in the fight at the end, Odessa has any power owned by a kid with power suppressors: we just claim it's one of the special ones. But she has a transfer device that has to be touching the skin: it's under her hair at the back of her head. Barron has fitted it with a small amount of explosive so that he can remotely get it off her if he needs to.

Who is actually plagiarizing?

Hyde Barron, or the kid he's working with.

Modifying the Adventure

Obviously, this is tailored to my campaign. You have different needs. Here are some ideas.

Jade:: In my campaign, Jade's a fixture; if you ran Orientation, she knows the players from there; if you didn't run Orientation, substitute any upper-year student with a reason to know the players. The power inhibitor is just so that the PCs get to do the real work; Jade can be under any kind of suspension that takes away her powers. Heck, she can have vowed for Lent not to use them.
Supervillains: The villains have to be strong enough to cause a 1970s gadget-based superhero to resort to the equivalent of the Phantom Zone, but possible for Our Heroes to defeat. So I cheated. I took those powerful villains and gave them Weaknesses that corresponded to my characters. The demon has the Weakness "Hurt only by the Good and Holy" which pretty much means the angel, Rumspringa. Ms. Circe has the Weakness "Can only affect men," which rules out two of the four characters.

Supervillains

Ms. Circe

Okay, I just watched the JLU episode This Little Piggy. So sue me. I thought of the 1970s, I thought of feminism, and boom, here she is.

Prowess	4	Intellect	3
Coordination	6	Awareness	4
Strength	4	Willpower	7
Stamina	11	Determination	-
Specialties	Occult 2
Powers	Alteration Ray 9 (transformation); Wizardry 7 (Force Field, Flight)
Aspects		Weaknesses
Bewitchingly beautiful; Feminist		Alteration only works on male Animalia; Obsessed with punishing Dynamo Rose and her descendants

Keychain (demon)

Prowess	6	Intellect	4
Coordination	6	Awareness	4
Strength	6	Willpower	4
Stamina	11	Determination	-
Specialties	Occult 2; Power (Detect) 3
Powers	Alter Ego 8; Telekinesis 8 (chain); Slashing 6 (claws); Blast 6; Extra Limb (chain) 6; Detect 1: target person
Aspects		Weaknesses
		Demonic appearance; Can't withstand touch of good or holy; obsessed with punishing Dynamo Rose and her descendants

Hyde Barron

Gambles

Prowess	3	Intellect	6
Coordination	3	Awareness	4
Strength	3	Willpower	5
Stamina	8	Determination	-
Specialties	Superscience 2; Mechanics 3; Electronics 3
Powers	Detect (superpowers) 6
Aspects		Weaknesses
Keeps secrets; Connections: Underworld

Odessa Jay Petrie

Prowess	4	Intellect	3
Coordination	6	Awareness	4
Strength	4	Willpower	7
Stamina	11	Determination	-
Specialties	Occult 2
Powers	Transmutation 9; Alteration Ray 9 (transformation);Wizardry 7
Aspects		Weaknesses
Con man		No powers without supercharger

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Too lazy, in fact, to go look up an English style guide, what is the difference in use between these words:

lascivious
salacious

Obviously, I could extend the list with lewd, ruttish, and so on, but these two catch my interest particularly.

If I had to guess (and you can't stop me, although I might be wrong), lascivious tends to people, salacious tends to objects, but that's only a guess.

("Smutty" of course in the sexual and not the fungal sense.)

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But now I suddenly want Dick Van Dyke to come out of retirement and do some version of his Diagnosis: Murder role to guest star on Castle. Maybe as the doctor who treated Beckett's mom?

And I want Angela Lansbury there, too, as one of Castle's idols, Jennifer Arrow. Or not named; that's okay, too.

Were they even on the same network? I didn't watch either of the older series, so I have no idea.

EDIT: You know, there's no motive like a tontine... It's like a recipe for murder!

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For the first time in weeks. No one has volunteered to run anything, so I'll dust off the ICONS stuff. There's that one HPS adventure I'd written....

EDIT: Or not. Three people can't make it, unsure of one other, that would reduce us to two or three. Three for sure would be okay, but two doesn't work. So next week.

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I wrote this in 1982, I think, and had forgotten it. Steve Hutton hadn't, so he sang it to me this past weekend. I don't recall what all the spoken bits after verses were for the first verse. Anyway, I figure if Steve remembered it after 30 years, I might set it down where I can get it.

To the tune of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" — I always imagined it in a bluegrass style with banjo.

The Ballad of Moby Dick

Let me tell you all a story, I'm a man named Ish,
About A-hab who was lookin' for a fish
Then one day Moby Dick hove into view
Says Ahab, "I'm a-gonna get you."

Spoken
Great white whale. (I don't remember)

Sung
Next thing you know, the crew's a-mutinyin'
Whale hits the ship and lets all the sea in
Last thing you see is Ahab wavin' bye
Call me Ishmael, I'm the one that didn't die.

Spoken
American classic. Herman Melville. Booooring.

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These are things I'm still learning; next year will (I hope) have a different list. But this is what I'm working on now and what I notice most when I critique someone else's work.

Most of the "rules" of writing are tools. They can be general or specialized. A lot of the writing you'll do is figuring out what tool to use when to create an effect. So my summary for my current top ten:

If the climax of your story is a surprise reveal, consider writing the story that happens after the reveal. I remind myself of this every time I think of writing a story where the ending is "Ta-dah! And they were all living in a jar of Tang!" So if the surprise is that the husband is a robot, what happens after she learns that? If the girl in the bar is a vampire, what happens then? Put another way, even if there's a surprise ending, it has to be worth reading twice.
Plotting: in one common popular story structure, everything goes wrong until the character gets it right. Even successes have bad consequences until the end. (There are circular or spiral structures, or mosaic structures too, but I'm not tackling those right now.)
When the characters can fix the problem inside themselves, then they can fix the problem outside themselves. Somehow, the internal problem is gettng in the way of solving the external problem. Arthur lacks self-confidence, so he has to kill the dragon before he can try to ask Guinevere out; Stony Tark is a drunkard, and he has to fix that before he can actually defeat the great Boozemaster.
After the very beginning, things happen because of the characters rather than to the characters. It's perfectly valid to have your character fall into something, to have it happen to them: the inciting incident. But after that, they have to try stuff.
The characters can take themselves seriously in inverse proportion to how serious the story is. I threw this in as a reminder that in comedy, they are Very Serious about the problem. In drama, they can take it lightly while trying to fix it. Sometimes I forget that.
You'll usually cut the beginning and ending of your story. Some people have problems with writing too little. Not me.
The last quarter or so of your story, don't introduce something totally new: if there's a character, they've been talking about him or her; if there's a technology, they've already been working on it. A reminder to foreshadow anything that eventually resolves the story, though this is usually a thing I do in rewrites.
Write often, write regularly. I fail, but I'm trying.
Write it down; then get it good; then get it perfect--because even if you move the "write it down" part, you'll end up doing that anyway.

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You probably don't need that prologue. This is for when I'm critiquing. I try very hard to remember that prologues have their purposes, but part of me says, "So, like, you want to have a disconnect in there so you have to write two or more Chapter 1s?" Why not call the prologue Chapter 1 and be on with it? Or--if you can--drop the prologue and feed any necessary information to us in dribs and drabs over the course of the story?

I blame Tolkien. And since at the time fantasy didn't exist in its current form, he had a good reason for the prologue...but you can skip it if you want to. Nowadays, we don't need all that stuff about boggies...er, hobbits. We don't need a history or geography lesson. I'm sure your worldbuilding is wonderful, but get on with the story! (I know, ironic coming from a man who frequently wonders where his characters go to the bathroom...)

So that's all I know right now.

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Why did no one tell me that the great-grandson of H. H. Holmes (Herman Mudgett) had written a book?

Is it any good? Does it have any good details? Frankly, I'd love it as the set-up for a novel: man discovers that his great-grandfather was one of the first serial killers in the country, a man who killed an undetermined number of victims and built the Murder Castle.

The book is called Bloodstains. I have no idea how factually accurate it is; reading it as fiction might be better.

EDIT: Ah, classified as fiction based on a true story because of the spiritualist elements. Read it as straight fiction, then.

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Stolen, this time, from beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth account.

What if something happened to the world while the PCs were in another universe? They'd be the only ones unaffected when they came back.

Since they went to another universe some adventures back, it would be subtle, or in an area removed from them. Have to think about that. (Mind, they're teenagers: it could be political.)

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So for whatever reason, I was thinking about crackpots on the bus this morning and why engineers seem so prone to it. (James Nicoll has repeatedly said so on his LJ.) But I think that there's a selection bias: we notice the engineers more because they fit the criteria so well.

First, the crackpot has to be seen as smart. Some kind of professional or professorial degree is a socially accepted badge of smartness.

Second, the crackpot must be crackpotty about something outside the field of expertise. So certain mathematical physicists can inquire about the nature of consciousness, or writers with English degrees can popularize notions about the descent of woman, and that qualifies.

(You can be a crackpot about something inside your field of expertise and then you stand a higher chance of actually being right. Examples would include Marshall and H. pylori and Wegener and continental drift; I seem to recall that in the latter case you have to strip out a bit of Wegener's thinking, but the core is essentially as he presented it.)

Anyway, I was thinking that nobody cares if your political science prof is a serious Velikovskyite (or a Lamarckian)—possibly because what they do is so esoteric to the layman anyway that it might as well be madness. But an engineer or a doctor...well, what they do has obvious effects. The bridge falls down; the patient stays sick. So there's an objective measure for the layman that the crackpot is reasonably good at what he or she does. So why not believe them when they talk about some-other-topic?

Engineers are predisposed to be caught at this, I think, because their work is so cut-and-dried. And the less cut-and-dried it is, the less the label seems (in a bus ride's worth of thought) to be applied.

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I've been looking at the Villainomicon, from Adamant, which is kind of the Monster Manual for ICONS. (At least in that it presents a bunch of villains to use.) And in response to a question on the ICONS mailing list (icons-rpg at Yahoo groups), I've been looking at the villains pretty closely, trying to assemble groups, using only the villains that are there and in the main book.

Anyway, the idea:

Harlequin and Columbina have had a tiff, and Columbina can pass for 17. So she decides to hide out at the local high school for supers. That way, she has a power base when Harlequin comes for her, and she's got friends, and she knows most of the material. And she's not planning to be there long, so she's just going to claim that there's a problem with her paperwork for the couple of weeks she needs. She presents herself at the office, says, "I'm here," and proceeds to lie her face off.

And then Harlequin comes back for her. Harlequin's super powers are immortality, regeneration, and bringing objects to animation with a swat of his slapstick.

(Actually, it works better if it's their idea: they hide her because they protect her from the first attack. Hmmm, with a B plot that matches, that could actually work.)

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This was going to be a comment elsewhere but it got entirely too rant-y. You get to have it, anyway. Feel free to skip it, though.

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