473 Which character (of yours) is most likely to agree to spend the night in a supposedly haunted house, and why?

Everyone if the circumstances seem reasonable. A house is still a shelter. If the options on a planetary away/ground missions is to stay outside or in a creepy looking house, the house is still a house. Their scanners would give them information about their surroundings and if the structure is stable, if any dangers lurk inside as long as they have any form of energy signature, like electro magnetic fields, resonance scams would most likely reveal enough about the structure, to be sure that it doesn't breaks away under their feet (or to find week isolations, wind blowing through walls, hidden passages) of course in a horror scenario an interfering elektro magnetic field of a weird ash storm would render them less useful.

#PennedPossibilities 473 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

474. Either share with us or tell us about a scary scene you’ve written.

I rather skip today I'm not in mood for writing and my grasp in my files seems also off today. I already failed to find my in universe stories for the German Phantastik Prompts, so I leave you with another scenario especially for the ones that already released something into the wild world.

Imagine you grab one copy of your work from a store or open up your digital book sales plattform, you see your work as highly praized, suddenly news are talking about it about you, mention your name.
You smile, happy and than you realize that is not your final edit, it is completely different from what you released.
All your drafts are merged as one convoluted piece and even your own notes/conversations on how to edit that stuff showing up, together with every typo you made...

#PennedPossibilities 474 #writing #authorslive #horror

475. MC POV: If you could communicate with the dead, who would you chat with?
Credit: @HeliaXyana

Kira:"I don't think I would... What if I would talk to Anika. I don't think I could handle it. It would mean my guts are wrong, I... Abort."

Ash stoped the recording. Carefullly she reached out to the Captains mind whispering softly:"I'm here if you need me."
Pictures flooded against her of Kira's unfiltered memories and emotions, recollections of her past, the people she lost. The Ghoz'Tarc's outer hull changed to a somber color, the light went darker a few lumen inside, Ash sorted the data, cutting through the flood of emotion, especially pain, loss, anger, loss, pain, loss, it was a thunderstorm over the ocean, the data flux increased, overwhelming, overlapping with feelings of happiness, light, friendship, heroism, questions... Existential dread. There she was in a cocoon of violett darkness...

#PennedPossibilities 475. #StarRyde #writing #WIP #SciFi #KiraKnox

Arkham gently knocked. The decrease of light and a message from Ash that simply stated Kira was all that was needed to get her here. She didn't wait for a come in or something as she opened the door. Kira was sitting at her desk, her face buried in her hands. She locked the door. "Kira?" Their was no answer but Arkham felt that she was in pain.
She heared dripping and muffled breath as she walked slowly towards the hunched down woman.

She grabbed the blanket from the bed, draping it over Kira's shoulders and lumbed down next to her sitting on the ground. She slung her arms around the woman in the chair, resting her head on Kira's knee gently whispering.
"I'm here."

A muffled cry and more tears...

#PennedPossibilities 475. #StarRyde #writing #WIP #SciFi #KiraKnox #Ashlei #Arkham

476. What motivates you to write?

TL:DR right at the moment not much besides the prompts.

Because I am in an phase of working through emotions of loss, fear of the future, questioning my way, for a longer period than I like, still figuring myself out, not who I am, I have a grip on that, but how to get myself motivated to stick to something and do it. I never tried writing on a bigger scale than some short stories, backround Infos for characters or world and story building. I want to see who I am as a professional procrastinator... Nah not really... know that. Who I am as a writing person. And if I can tell stories that others might enjoy it or inspire them in any way. What can possibly go wrong? In the worst case I wrote a book. As long it isn't the Necronomicon X that Austrian asshole that also wrote a book...

#PennedPossibilities 476 #writing

474. Either share with us or tell us about a scary scene you’ve written.

Another skip from me.
Not atm i'm not a big fan of Halloween to begin with (if you enjoy it i'm happy you can 💚) and something, I guess family related, soures my mood extrem lately and drains my creative energy.

#PennedPossibilities 474. #writing #NotNow

Edit im standing so hard besides myself lately that I didn't realized that the prompts where different numbers in between and that I already answered 474 days ago...

477. What kind of diet does your MC have? Do they have to be reminded to eat, or are they likely to remind others?

Kira just drinks "the brew." She doesn't has a regular schedule how she eats and especially on missions she as the captain is bad at eating. She sips the unrefined enzyme printer liquid (equil). She had to promise the doctor to eat solid food daily so her stomach doesn't loose the ability to process solid food.
The thing is that she always hacks the enzyme printers to give out the equil unrefined.

Arkham finds it so disgusting that she even starts taking breakfast together with her.

While Anika made sure that cooking together is a thing for the crew.

Kira loves cooking for others, as she shows on that evenings, at home she even loves cooking for herself but more as an occasional toast on missions she deems unnecessary.

The Equil just contains everything a body needs.
#pennedpossibilities 477 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

478. If you had all the skill to carve out a jack-o'-lantern of one of your characters, who would it be? Would you like to describe it?

The Ghoz'Tarc itself by extension ASHLEI because I would than know how that ship actually looks like. It's something I really struggle with in my mind it's ship mix of the Normandy SR-2 from Mass Effect and the Defiant or the Enterprise E from Star Trek. But I also want it to be like the Knight Rider meets a Falcon (not the Millennium Falcon) something that starts to look like Biological in an very early stage...
Not like the organic ships we can see in other franchises like Babylon 5 or Stargate Atlantis. Maybe a bit like an Evangelion or Angel from Neon Genesis Evangelion...

Which is really mind boggling for me ... All the ideas for references but no clear pictures which is kinda sad because every SciFi story that has spaceships in it tells a lot about it's world with this ships.

#pennedpossibilities 478. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #GhozTarc

479 Which one of your characters would win a pumpkin carving contest, and how?

This goes to Ashlei even if it is basically cheating because she could easily print out a carved pumpkin but in case of an self aware artificial intelligence with a ship as a body we clearly would need another framework for the carving...

How about carving out an astroid into a giant space lantern? But how do we light up something like this?

#pennedpossibilities 479. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Ashlei #GhozTarc

480. On average, how many times per week do you write?

I try to at least write once a week, However that is sadly not how it is at the time. The recent amount of a certain Discworld character that usually talks in UPPER LETTERS in my surrounding has thrown me off the rails a bit. And I'm not great in consistency at all which makes the prompts literally the most consistent thing in a long time, however since I am almost always answering from the point and not from my "archived" stuff I could be generous to myself and say an hour a day. This will change, with the German Phantastik Prompts going in hibernation and may be replaced with another prompt, but maybe I am finally at a point that I can start writing the story in a more consistent form, as it was my goal to begin with with the write month challenge, however the LLM company behind it made me insecure about that ... So ... 🤷🏿

#PennedPossibilities 480 #writing

481 Describe a pivotal moment from your antagonist’s / villain’s life that they will never forget.

Antagonists:

AJ is not the villain. They is the Antagonist for different reasons.

AI not so sure.

For AJ it is a sad memory from all that they can remember, it is the death of the love of their live. Kiara Johnson who died in their arms on an Eltaryn attack... And in their memory it is brutally clear.

AI I guess there was something why AI never appears visible only communicating via calls or voice.

Villains
The Eltaryn... What could this two species remember most likely the day they joined forces to fight a war against the whole galaxy. It would helped if anyone would know more about them but so far only wild speculations, rumors and simple Idiocracy from kultish leaders exist that claim them to be the pinnacle evolution or the future.

#PennedPossibilities 481 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Eltaryn #AJ #AntagonistInfernale
#AntagonistJunior #AJohnson

482. Have you ever written anything that falls within the genre of horror? If you haven’t, is it something you would be interested in doing someday?

1/2

Not deliberately nor with a focus on it. I seem to excell at accidentally horror in the brink of exploration.
Seemingly I am good in making people feel something is wrong. At least that what the players of my TTRPG rounds often tell me.

I have a faible for the Cthulhu Mythos, love Edgar Allan Poe, and next to Star Trek, Alien was one of my accidental first encounters with SciFi as I thought of I only realized later that it is Body horror.

As someone with a strong Goth influence I like good horror. I'm rarely interested in what is basically a stupid splatter movie (the only horror in that are the acting & the script) or stupid brutality like in Saw (injury porn) horror needs to be done intelligent. It doesn't even need a solution because sometimes the missing solution is pure fear. Good ->

#PennedPossibilities 482. #horror #writing

2/2 examples of good horror in my opinion are rare as forks in a spoon factory, horror can be humorous or silly too as long it is relatable.

Terry Pratchett has some in Discworld universe references that could be red as horror in a humorous way.
Star Treks Borg are pure Body Horror, like the Cyberman in Dr. Who, the Dalek or weeping Angels, the silent... Honestly no one calls that a Horrorseries? The creepy gasmask child. "Are you my mommy?"

The game Fallout 3 made the best Horror move with a single spoken name. "GAAARY!"

The movie the Shutter is a great example for intelligent Horror thanks to it's fore shadowing.

And yesterday I just realized that Star Treks Teleporters are the craziest Horror invention ever, yes it kills yada yada yada but it can turn you into something completely different like a boneless, living, selfaware human rug...

So no I haven't written horror because I'm not a horror fan it's just something accidentally..

#PennedPossibilities 482. #horror #writing

483. What goes bump in the night in your story? (Optional innuendo here, of course.)

American Society and its prudery...
For the country that brought half naked women into everything.

Hips bumb into each other, or against heads or whatever, there is a lot of fucking and having sex go around in a complete universe somewhere always is night (same goes for earth in our reality) and people don't only fuck at night.

Fucking/having Sex is as natural as eating, sleeping, farting, shiting and breathing. So now that this is out of the way.

Yes their is Sex on the Ship, but night on a space ship is different. Usually the third/fourth shift takes over, Arkham has to be pulled from the pilot seat like an old chewing gum at around 10-12 hrs in the seat. Kira gets reminded to eat something, Ashlei files the shift reports, reminds the people that their next shift is in so and so many hours. A lot happens like it does around the clock.

#PennedPossibilities 483 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Sex

484. What are your favorite chilling (not necessarily full-on horror) scenarios to write? How are you able to accomplish this? Through setting, emotion, dialogue, and / or buildup?

I can not exactly tell how I do this because I'm never sure how my characters come across. I write what appears logical to me from a characters point of view or the setting they are in. I try to use familiar situations in other works as an inspiration and add little details I would expect in such a scenario.
My best attempts seem to work with environmental horror and a bit of body horror.
So at least in TTRPGs it seems to work.

#PennedPossibilities 484. #writing

Monthly dividers toot from here on its November 2024. Stay calm even if the End* is near.
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Go back to the first toot of this mega thread(s) not timeline wise but number wise.
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#PennedPossibilities #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #worldbuilding
#SciFiParody #GalaxyGlyde

485 Which one of your characters would win a costume contest, and what would they be wearing?

Credit: @ HeliaXyana

Ashlei, but I have to stretch the definition. Ashlei will get an holographic interpretation at one point that closely resembles human anatomy despite being a light silhouette so she cold go as a convincing ghost.
Also being the "conscious part" of the Ghoz'Tarc which is mostly what people would call a frigate or an armed escort in other SciFi stories, she has cloaking abilities to her disposal, a chameloid outer skin & a holographic system, that is linked to her point defense system against projectiles, but can't run at the same time, so she could go as any ship from other SciFi media or even historical/(high) fantasy ships if she would put in the effort together with Rose Draken, do match the colors etc
Of course an accurate Black Pearl is more complicated than an accurate Normandy SR2.

#PennedPossibilities 485. #StarRyde #writing #Scifi #writing #Ashlei #RoseDraken

486. The zipper of your MC’s costume breaks. How would others react to seeing them still in their costume on November 1st?

Kira wouldn't mind and so wouldn't the rest, since the outfit would be most likely fabricated on board and return to be recycled, at some point someone would help her out, shred it and then fed to one of the many mycelium recyclers to be broken down. Maybe if the costume had some sort of significance she would visit the doc or the techs to get it of easily.

Arkham most likely same reaction from the crew how ever if it isn't one of the sexy costumes Arkham would get rid of that outfit by any means necessary as soon as possible and most likely involve other crew members.

Ashley, no zipper for holographic representations, if her holographic system I mentioned yesterday would get stuck well that's another and serious challenge. No projectile point defense means danger.

#PennedPossibilities 486. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP
#KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc

487. Is your antagonist/villain one to be loyal in relationships, or are they likely to quickly move from one bond to another

Antagonists
As bad as it sounds AJ doesn't remember much other than the love of their life. And the oath that they swore while their beloved wife was dying in their arms.
Since than they never had any other romance related thing going on.
Its questionable if they even would if they always loose parts of their memories while sleeping or sometimes even while awake.
AJ has countered this by writing extremely important stuff on snippets of paper and visible parts of their body, they collects them inside their armor and a book, where they also keeps a picture of Kiara Johnson their wife.

AI we don't know much about the person behind the speaker system maybe there is a romance with a tape recorder? Who knows.🤪

#PennedPossibilities 487 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #AJ #AntagonistJunior #AntagonistInfernale #AJohnson

488. What would your SC’s worst nightmare be?

Rose Draken, a Message containing one word.

Talisa Draken, she has a nightmare already, loosing another close one in this war, but if above's message comes she will have a new one.

Mondira Ramann, that her homeworld gets attacked, that her Family is in Danger.

Dr. Kaiden, that the new method he used, with Dr. Waberi's help, to save Kira's live would have unforseen consequences.

Dr. Waberi malfunctioning of Kiras new NIN-Snail, getting bad news from home.

COS Silas Crosby, that something happened to Denise her daughter, and the other one already came true... Anika Johanson one of her best friends is already MIA or even KIA.

XO 1 William Troika, that he grows more distant from his wife and three daughters.

#PennedPossibilities 488. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP
#SideCharacters #Fears #Nightmares

489. What is a phrase your MC often uses?

Kira/Arkham: Child of dirt, Dustborn and Swexer* are common used insults, Swex! as a shortened form of Swexer is a form of voicing your disbelief about what just happened like the WTF today.

"Send it to me." is Kira's most disliked phrase but it's the answer she gives, most of the time, if anyone has a request onboard. At least since she merged with Ash she is really efficient doing paperwork on the side, she still prefers reading through them "physically" on a tab or her Holo. Thus it feels more like doing the stuff properly.

Everyone: aye, yes mam/yes sir.

Ash: "At your service." "How can I assist you?" "My data analysis shows..." "Good Morning..."

I think of I proceed with Ashlei it will be every sentence possible, she handles so many tasks and requests a day from lowering the temperature to read out data to just simply chatting with the crew.

#PennedPossibilities 489 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Ashlei #KiraKnox #Arkham

490 Has anyone ever read your story(ies)? Have you shared them yet?

Star Ryde exclusively developing here and it's snippets are only here. Not so much interaction but more than I am used too.😅

My TTRPG quests have been played by a lot of people over time, but since I never released them...🤷🏾‍♀️

Some Alpha readers exist for the Worldbuilding but so far I haven't come up with the story itself in its fullest so no alpha or beta reader so far. I have to sit down and just work on it but ATM it's all a bit wild here and my schedule sucks (looking at you clock 5;04 am...).

#PennedPossibilities 490 #writing #StarRyde #TTRPG

491 Do you plan on publishing your current WIP one day?

Yep not sure in which way...
I think I sell it with Gorilla Marketing.
Get a gorilla to sell my books, most people don't want an angry gorilla and the way to keep him happy is by buying my book. As soon as I have written it and trained an abandoned gorilla baby...

Can someone lend me their mustache to twist?

#PennedPossibilities 491 #writing

492. What actions or decisions does your MC feel guilty or regretful about? What would motivate them to reflect?

Kira already reflects regularly, it helps her being calm and grounds her, one of the first things you learn as the sole survivor of your family, you can't change the past and have to accept this. She wouldn't have trusted Tanya with her knowledge of today but again it's not that she knew beforehand. So very few things to regret, she still regrets following Anika's order but otherwise maybe both would have been killed/lost in action.
Somedays she regrets that they rescued her, if she wouldn't have jumped into the shuttle, she wouldn't have been hit by that energy blast. She would have fought to the end at Anika's side. And if she survived then she would know what happened to Anika.

Arkham loosing her captain and that's what changed something in her, make her reflect on some stuff...

#PennedPossibilities 492 #StarRyde
#KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

493. How intelligent is your SC overall? Are they more street smart or book smart?
1/2
Everyone in the union gets the same education, it is a citizens right & duty to learn the skills they need to succeed in their life. Educational programs exist, it's free for all but you have(!) to attend it. The education plans are woven around an individual & it's interests plus basic skills like math, reading/writing, law, politics, empathy, etc, sport is an optional field as long as the average recommended results are reached every half year. Since education is incredibly important classes are kept small so that in average 6 trainees have one teacher.

The Alliance has an own school system that is more focused on moral, ethics, empathy, combat, leadership or tech skills. Mondira hasn't been a union trainee, but she had to go through the Alliance as every other crew member, so basically all my characters on board have the same basic skills.

#PennedPossibilities 493 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 Do to this broad spectrum training most Union Citizens are very much book smart but also street smart

Book smart = Theoretically, understands the reason for something, like why a Shuttle is able of orbital and atmosphere flight, knows it's system.

Street Smart = Practical Knowledge, is able to use its theoretical knowledge, knows how to operate a shuttle in both environments and is able to repair it if necessary.

#PennedPossibilities 493 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

494. Has your MC made any significant progress since their past deeds? How are they currently progressing in your story(ies)?

Unable to answer this because my story isn't written yet and 11 days onto November I haven't managed a single page... And even falling behind with the prompts... I'm on a run, backwards, down a hill but hey ...

Kira has at least a progression in my mind and my scattered notes.
As Arkham and Ashlei do have.

But hey I have a dozen of ideas for side characters and Easter eggs...

#PennedPossibilities 494. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

495. Concerning both your side and supporting characters: How important are they to YOUR storyline specifically?

Ask me if I have finished it.😅 So far I consider only may mains, my antagonist and a little hand of SCs as important the rest are "the expandables"...😅 At least what the main focus of my story is about.
For the other stuff they might be incredible necessary without my own realisation.
#PennedPossibilities 495 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

496. If your MC had a picture frame with slots for 3 photos, who/what would be in the frames?

Kira: Her genetic family, her adoptive family especially Anika, her friends on board including the ship/the crew and later especially Arkham in front of all.

Arkham: Later Kira and Ash/the Ghoz'Tarc, prior to that only her Father and the recruiter that brought her into the alliance would be considered worth keeping Fotos of. Even if Holo pics are almost infinite if you want to store so many on your Holo.

Ashlei I guess we need to talk the sense of an AI keeping Fotos in a frame if she has unlimited storage first...

#PennedPossibilities 496. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei

497. What would your antagonist’s / villain’s worst nightmare be?

Antagonists:
AI:
Being exposed? Most likely but I guess who ever is behind it has a plan for that.

AJ: loosing all their memories about Kiara, the one she already lost and the one she still has are partly nightmarish already.

Villains/Enemies/the real "bad" creatures.

The Eltaryn...
Blue bananas for the gorilla like ones and RAID for space bugs for the cockroach like ones?
Honestly I don't depict them as something understandable in my mind so I don't think about that at all.😅
#PennedPossibilities 497 #StarRyde #writing #scifi #WIP #antagonist #AntagonistJunior #AntagonistInfernale

498. What is something that always makes your SC laugh?

Mondira has a streak of mean girl but is overall good hearted so she loves it if Karma hits someone who miss bahaved prior. Yelling slurs against pigeons get shit on by a pigeon as an example.

J. loves cute animals and finds delight in cat or other animal holo's/NINmedia.

Talisa and Rose often make each other laugh.

Doctor Kaiden is a bit weird with his humor and often laughs about thing's no one else find funny. Like the shape of a bone.

Dr. Waberi loves dirty double meaning word plays and humorous stories especially if she can load it to her pad, you know it's more real reading it on s tablet than getting it into you head via network download. She despises books because they are impractical on a ship.

#PennedPossibilities 498 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #MondiraRamann #JHarveyGladstone #TalisaDraken #RoseDraken #DrKaiden #DrWaberi

499 What keeps your SC awake at night?

My matrix glitched... I'm sure I already answered this one but can't find a trace of it...😅

What is night on a space craft traveling through the black sea?

If everything works correctly not much the Hyperpods are designed to make sure people can sleep well.

I guess Talisa and Rose keep them self awake at "night." With love, cuddling and sex or discussing stuff going on.

It is war so many people may have issues sleeping because they think about their loved ones. That said at least one psychologist and Talisa are on board. Talisa is one of that souls that give you the feeling of not being alone. She cares about the whole crew like some sort of crew mother. Well and of course if you take your nap in one of the none Hyperpods Beds it can be tricky to blend out the crews noise or ones thoughts.

#PennedPossibilities 499 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

500 🥳🥳🥳
Break up your antagonist’s / villain’s life (thus far) into 3 chapters and give each of them a title.

1. Paradise
2. Paradise lost
3. Ain't no rest, ain't no memory, ain't no mercy

#PennedPossibilities 500 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #Antagonist #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnson

Special devider toot.
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Because 500 and 501 are clearly worth a little extra effort, take some time, breath and listen to some music, this song of the great celldweller project, who constantly puts out music I enjoy like no other, sets pretty much the mood I aim for with the space travel in my Star Ryde Universe.

Celldweller - The great devide
https://youtu.be/RK_vitx4OnQ?si=8AppktGTCmNO_Y9O
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Remember, in rough times or if you feel like it, to go back to stuff that brings you joy. It's okay to not run "efficient" like a machine, in the end we are still humans, our whole life is a exchange of productive moments and moments in which we need to recharge our energy.

#PennedPossibilities #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #ambient #Worldflair #Music #Celldweller #WIP #Original #inspiration

501. Describe a holiday your SC enjoys, and why they enjoy it.

I wrote about it before, but don't remember which prompt it was, about the MC enjoying "holiday" it's more like a vacation in my universe.

Union Founding it's a rolling week that every union year is celebrated elsewhere in the Unions core member states/worlds/colonies and focuses on one of the core members traditions, religious, social, political and comes with a lot of food from this world. It's especially loved by children and fans of different foods, students and trainees get an extra time of to celebrate the diversity of the Union and it's member worlds, occasionally this celebrations include associated members that aim for a full Union membership to introduce the core members to them, this celebrations are framing the core celebration.

#pennedpossibilities 501. #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP #UnionFoundingWeek #celebration #holiday #vacation

502. How do your characters feel about plastic / cosmetic surgeries and procedures, if this is something that applies to your universe?

It's a tool for people to express themselves or unify their inner pictures and their outer experience.
Most species have some sort of it.
Body modifications are more common as one might think from colored hair to tattoos, removal of such to appearance changing methods to reconstruction surgery including cloned limbs and organs.
Most people see it like this and it doesn't bother them.much if people align their external appearance with their own mental image of them.

It is kinda rare among most people to do something because the society as a whole has a more broad respect about beauty and body images. Of course this also depends on the world you are on but even Mondira's Home (which is very much Cyberpunk pure) is open for all kinds of people and accepts a broad body diversity in its media.

#PennedPossibilities 502 #StatRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

503. Do any of your characters know how to cook well?

Everyone can cook, it's a survival skill after all and thus teached at the academy.
However Kira,Talisa and J. excell in it.
- Kira has this ability to mix & match not so typical ingredients into a little sensation.
- Talisa takes great joy in learning the favorite recipes for most of the crews members so if someone is down she can "snatch" them some soul food.
- J. Is this giant squishy muscle package that doesn't get anything together that remembers remotely to food but somehow it tastes good.
- Rose is the artist, it's not about the taste but the experience, creating a cracker tower or an ice cream temple to a vegan roasted BBQ "pig" over "fire."
- Anika was especially good with alien cuisine reworked for Terran digestion.
- 2.XO William Troika excels in home cooking
#PennedPossibilities 503 #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP #KiraKnox #AnikaJohanson #TalisaDraken #RoseDraken #JHarveyGladstone #WilliamTroika #Cooking

504. Where exactly do you like to write? In your home, outside, in a café, etc?

As a vegan, diabetic type 1 that is also in early retirement thanks to a whole more health shenanigans I'm also living under the poverty line for Germany. So a café is actually quite to fancy for me & only extra cost in addition that I can't "enjoy" more than half of their offerings. So I never tried that. I'm aware of the real life trope but since my heating & housing are paid once a month (my top priority), I stick around at home a lot. So that's where most of my writing happens, I have a PC set up but it's just for stuff that I can't do on my phone. That said sometimes it's the kitchen (especially in my phases in which I'm so stressed that I smoke), often it's the couch in the living room or my bed in the bedroom. For some reason I haven't tried my hanging chair sofar. I have some parks in my area & grass around the apartment complex, but I find it too distracting.

#pennedpossibilities 504 #writing

505. Name a handful of authors who inspired you over the years.

- Gene Roddenberry with Star Trek. I'm a full blood Trekie however Star Trek wasn't Gene's Work alone.

- Terry Pratchett and his friends, Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart, Neil Gaiman.
- Rihanna Pratchett I miss our little conversations over Twitter tbh. Just small dialogues butt...

- H.P.Lovecraft because for what ever reason I stumbled upon him very early reading his horror stories & stuff from the Cthulhu Mythos as Early as 8 years thanks to my large number of clinical visits.

- Edgar Allan Poe he even came before Lovecraft thanks to the Simpsons.

- Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell)
- Mike Pondsmith (Cyberpunk)
both of their works are the probably most realistic dystopias we have okay minus the implants.

- Rumiko Takahashi geez you wouldn't believe the length I would go to to live in her stories. Especially Ranma.

- Naoko Takeuchi okay yeah second universe I would live in.
#PennedPossibilities 505 #writing #inspiration

506. How do your SCs come across to others? How are they seen?

Uff
- Leroy Jenkins, a hard but fair man in a sort of opposition to Kira.
- William Troika, heartwarming guy, loves music, husband, father of 3 daughters, loves cooking is the "social manager" next to Talisa.
- Rose Draken has this relaxed boyfriend energy, a "bit" nerdy. The AI/computer expert/hacker. Has all the nifty gadgets on the ground & even gets through to Kira in her stubborn moments. Best friend of Kira.
- Talisa, she is the ships "mum/soul"
She knows you, she cares about you, she is the sniper, the one that covers your back with the longinilance system on the ground and the one that thinks and works with portals.
- J. 2 meters tall 2 wide, 2 deep, 200% muscles & flirting, explosives, a heart as big as her whole body.
- Silas Crosby serious but good hearted security chief.
- Mondira Ramann, the way to young Rim export.
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