676
What is your antagonist / villain’s biggest motivation or desire?

Antagonists:
AI [redacted] to [redacted].
AJ can't remember for sure.

Villains
The Eltaryn:"SKREEEEACH!"

#PennedPossibilities 676 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #TheEltaryn

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What is your MC's alcohol (or cognate intoxicant) limit? What games do they play as they get drunker?

1/2

That depends on what you serve.
Terran beer and other alcoholic beverages can be filtered out easily by most soldiers implants or genetic modifications (if Terrans go for that).
Their is so called Rocket Fuel a watered down Bethosian Whiskey no Bethosian would ever touch. It still burns despite the higher amount of water in it and some soldiers drink it like water...
Kira prefers Terran beer. Deutsche Bierbraukunst survived as did some other very specific alcohol production processes. Alcohol is still used in rough colonies to make drinkable liquid from otherwise unhealthy liquids and especially some rim worlds are proud of their brewing capabilities. However the drug that very special Terrans and Talithi love, are each other. In a cruel joke the universe made them

#PennedPossibilities 676.001 #StarRyde #alcohol #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/2 toxic for each other, while Talithi breath cabon monoxide in & oxygen out (not on a one to one scale) they would be perfect as companions in settlements or onboard ships but in a cruel twist, we & them exhale particles that, if they go into the lounge of the other species, will react with the biological system & produce a byproduct that intoxicates them & is hard to get rid of. For this reason masking up while in the room with Talithi or Terrans is a given social norm. No other species has this reaction to Talith or Terran breath. A sign of deep trust between both species is to lift the mask for a short period while having close contact. In a filtrated environment this isn't a problem but in non filtrated environments or closed cycles it gets nasty quickly.

Kira has some bad memories of waking up with a full intoxication via Talithi breath including 2 days at a hospital, so if it is intoxication it's beer.

#PennedPossibilities 676.001 #StarRyde #alcohol #writing #SciFi #WIP

677
What is your MC’s greatest skill?

Kira survival
Arkham piloting
Ash learning

#PennedPossibilities 677 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

678
How important to your SC is their hometown or where they came from? (For example, are they proud of it, or are they considered a hometown hero?)

There are two extremes.
The Union.
People don't really have strong heritage ties at all.
Of my SC's, only Doctor Kaiden has a sort of habit, that he often remarks that he is of Korean heritage, this is something remarkable few people do and it's just how they tick.

People in the Union don't bother with such things, after all not a region is responsible for a decent person but a person being decently treated as such makes a decent person.

The Rim worlds and other worlds.
Hero worship and heritage are still a thing especially Rims tend to think of them as somehow superior, Mondira struggles with her mother being almost patri(idi)otic to the world they live on. She considers her daughter to be a shame for joining the Union & the Alliance.

#PennedPossibilities 678 #StarRyde #DrKaiden #MondiraRamann #writing #SciFi #WIP

679
What was your SC’s childhood like? How has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged?

Not everyone had a pleasant childhood and not everyone had a bad childhood.
Not going into detail that much atm because I'm not working with any of my SC's atm and I want to keep options available for when it feels right. I have a rough setup for everyone but some details are missing g overall and for most characters because I just don't want to go into that much detail beforehand anymore...

#PennedPossibilities 679 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

@AnnaSaultron

Not going into detail that much atm because I'm not working with any of my SC's atm and I want to keep options available for when it feels right.

💫 You are thinking like a storyteller! It was an ah-ha moment when I learned episodic "TV" doesn't mention, for example, brothers or sisters until a story demands having one or definitely not having one. Keep those options open.

Personally, I answered a Word Weavers POV I wrote a few days ago as Not Canon so I could clawback a characterization for this reason.

@sfwrtr thx I always love blind spots or white spots on a characters story because that's something to explore. In roleplaying sessions I often have some mystery around most NPCs and if it is only where they hide their diaries.

It often makes player more engaged in the moment and very invested if auch things will be resolved later.

Personally I hate open ends but I totally get why they exist and not every "mystery" should have a solution because sometimes it simply takes away too much. :)

And about the canonical interpretation. As long as I don't finish the story the prompts are as canonical as possible and also ment as a reference, that is why I use the hashtags so plenty but ultimately it's all a work in progress and many things can change on the way.

Kira smiled sadly:"I respect it, it's not that I have no fear but its more for the ones I leave behind. There is this ancient quote 'death is only painful for the survivors.' I know it first hand.
I could have & believe me, at times I wished I had, died, at least 7 times im aware of. I lost my parents, my sisters, my second dad, I still don't believe that Anika is dead.
I lost my first command.
I survived, thanks to my skills or to others who wheren't as lucky.
It does a swex to your mental health & changes your perspective drastically.
I owe them to fight, so others don't have to feel this crushing, devouring emptiness.
In the end, we all will, but at least, I will leave this life a better one if I eventually do."

Arkham swallowed, her thoughts heavy, unable to speak while Ashlei reevaluated the dosage of Kira's medication.

#PennedPossibilities 680 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #writing #SciFi #WIP

681
Let’s talk about your current WIP. Although it of course depends on your genre, do you have an antagonist or an evil villain?

Yes.

#PennedPossibilities 681 #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP

682
MC POV: Tell us about one of your bad habits.

Kira:"Bad you say? I don't have any."

Arkham:"Come on you always try to avoid such questions."

"What do you want to hear? My eating habits are bad, that I'm to sneaky or that my humor seems forced at times? Or do you consider my folding of paper figurines & placing them inside peoples belongings as invasive? That I don't take the mission seriously? That I decided to go full mission instead of going back to base?
That I started to loose connection to my crew since the merge? Or that I 'feel more computer than Ash'?
Fun Fact I'm new to this 'being part of a symbiosis with a computer who runs everything'-thing, my brain wasn't programmed to deal with that & if you ever feel your left thruster itching you can tell me how to handle that situation.
Yes I'm stressed as swex & I'm not as open with it as I used to but don't you think I can have my little bit 'it's fine' that I have left?"

#PennedPossibilities 682 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #WIP

683
Can you describe a memorable interaction you’ve had with a reader about either your current or past WIP / book?

Atm I'm not im the right headspace.
So I skip this one.

#PennedPossibilities 683

684
How does your antagonist deal with grief?

Skip again.

#PennedPossibilities 684

685
What genre is your current WIP?

Is Military Queer Cozy Utopian Dystopia SciFi a thing?

Maybe I should do a genre reveal party once it's on its way?
Like a gender reveal party for baby's but actually a useful waste of time and resources?

SciFi because will it ever be finished is written somewhere in between the stars. I guess it will be finish* when humanity arrives at Alpha Centauri.

*Maybe I should write it in Danish instead of Finish after all Denmark is closer to where I live...

Btw this garbled mess of an answer is why I don't answer much about my characters atm... Welcome to my brain jumping all over the place and it doesn't even has legs...

#PennedPossibilities 685 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

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686
Have you thought of any alternative endings for your WIP, or have you already decided on the perfect ending?

Indeed I have plenty to choose from 3 are considered for the canon ending and I even have a fourth in which all 3 would work but would completely throw if the perspective of the story, atm I'm looking how to put hints for all 3 and the forth ending into the story, despite writing such stories as they just happen to exist in my head the moment I'm writing, I also have some key factors and moments I consider "must haves" this might have to do with my love for open/multiple end games that spark multiverse story possibilities. I worked on a fanfiction of Fallout 4 in which both possible main characters meet at the end of the story despite that the non chosen character get iced in the beginning. It also sparked a Time Paradox idea how all my Fallout Characters from all games are related to each other.
#PennedPossibilities 686 #writing #FanFiction #Fallout #Original #StarRyde

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#PennedPossibilities #June2025

687
How much does your SC value communication in their relationships with others? Are they prone to being misunderstood?

Jenkins is a bit scarce with words he tries to communicate clear and mostly uses Union standard on missions. He isn't big about revealing his soul and heart to others or his inner most thoughts, that said he lets shine through more than he might realize.

Okay, Jenkins just hit a switch in my head and the whole character got a shit load of backstory more than before... Fork! 😅 That changes a lot but explains a lot too... Not sure I like it, but it even makes sense with his style... Luckily I have to "fill up" around 10 - 20 years from "now" til he show's up.
Rhombus Christ creating 3 dimensional objects on a 2 dimensional plane...🤯

#PennedPossibilities 687 #StarRyde #LJenkins #writing #SciFi #WIP

688
What does your MC do for a living? Are they self-employed, or do they work for someone else?

1/3
Kira
Exist because this is enough to get universal income paid by the Union.

She works however as a soldier (and gets that payment on top til she hits the upper income break of course).
Her rank is Commander in the Alliance, the military Strike Force of the Union that mainly exists to prevent further attacks from the invading Eltaryn forces, which are the main reason for the Unions existence in the first place. Her official posting is as honor guard commander onboard the Phoenix the Unions Flagship and mobile government seating. Her real job is as a S.H.A.D.E. to deal with secret missions and keep up the Law in regions that are considered soon to be warzones if her actual mission don't plays out as planned and she recently acquired the rank of Acting Captain do to the loss of the former captain, her Sister...

#PennedPossibilities 688 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #writing #SciFi #WIP

2/3 688

Arkham
Alias Abbisheek Paktii
Flight Commander First Class posted at the Phoenix Fleet, her actual posting Flight Commander on the Ghoz'Tarc.
She is one of the usually 5 Head staff members, 4 since the loss of the Captain. Her work next to steering the Ghoz'Tarc is to schedule the other pilots working shift's together with the Captain and the XO's to make sure the mission is a success and give ship performance evaluations to the engineering department.
It's her responsibility to bring them into the action, keep the ship alive and carry them home with minimal losses, non at all would be favorable.

Ashlei
A.S.H.L.E.I. is the Ghoz'Tarc or at least her AI. Her job is the whole reason for her existence. She is programmed to support and protect the crew at all cost but also to make sure the mission is a success, her responsibilities include running the ships automated Systems and act as the interface

#PennedPossibilities 688 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #writing #SciFi #WIP

3/3 688
between crew and ship, as the operating system for everything on board that isn't part of the crew and to make sure that systems like the mycelium production/recycling system runs without interference. She programs the Enzyme Printers and regulates the nutritional supplements, the air filtration, gravity plating, sanitary systems, surrounding control, control the engines and the RYDE Core, etc.
The Ghoz'Tarc can be controlled without her but, she makes every wheel in the machinery run as smooth as Bethosian Silk over a Asza'ni newborns skin.

#PennedPossibilities 688 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #GhozTarc #writing #SciFi #WIP

689
What does a perfect world look like to your MC?

Kira's POV
"A perfect world would be just a tiny bit imperfect, so we still have things to strive for.
Otherwise?
Equal rights for everyone, free coverage of basic needs however they look like, living free without fear & yes I would prefer this to be the case even with our enemies, the Eltaryn.
We don't need some sort of perfect paradise just enough understanding to form goals together working towards a better future together.
The Union is pretty much the best we achieved & I would keep a lot of it.
Universal income, high valued work, freedom of speech & thought, individual responsibility for persons & companies, general right & duty of education, freedom of living where you want, universal healthcare, housing & childcare. I believe that if we know the needs of our neighbors we will find a way to incorporate their views & needs in a fair society."

#PennedPossibilities 689 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #writing #WIP

690
SC POV: What do you fear losing the most?

Security chief Silas Crosby:"For the life of my daughter Denise. She is the reason I fight so hard."

XO 1 Jenkins:"I'm here for my Husband, he lives on Terra Luna in Berlin and runs a mining operation. Distance Relationships suck but I have sworn my duty to protect civilians like him."

XO 2 Troika:"For my wife or my daughters, it's not easy to live with 4 genius, kind and free spirited Lady's but I won't miss a single moment we have together. Usually our missions don't take so long and I hope they can forgive me..."

Chief Engineer Trawella:"Loosing the bloody core shielding, that would be a nightmare for the whole crew. My cheerful mood for the same reason."

Dr. Kaiden:"I don't want to loose any more Crew members."
#PennedPossibilities 690 #StarRyde
#SilasCrosby #LJenkins #WilliamTroika #CharlstonTrawella #DrKaiden #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

691
MC POV: Have you traveled to other lands? (Or planets, even?)

Kira:"Swex. Ash please give me the number of missions I have done for the Alliance that involved Planet Side & filter out the missions with the same planet, only counting one mission per planet, ignore the lands part, only missions with more than 15 Minutes surface time."

Ash:"Yes Commander. The Number of Planet Surface Missions according to your request parameters is 208."

"Number of missions to Space Habitat Nations included non recognized states, same parameters otherwise?"

"26."

"Ignoring double mentions how many before I entered Alliance Service?"

"Requesting personal Database.
Access granted?"

"For this request, Access granted."

"72, your oldest logs have planets & nations 'i' can't find any data of."

"Uhm... Yeah, apply most likely spelling correction to it."

"45."

"Well there it is 279 not counting each country +/- a few."

Anika smirked amused.

#PennedPossibilities 691 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #WIP

692
Share a song that either describes your current feelings about your story or your MC in general.

Hm... So much to choose from my once party playlist but now playlist for every quite moment....
I guess this video with scenes from the TV series "Dead Like Me" final movie and the song that played in the background of the end scene describes it very well.

https://youtu.be/8GQBxExbfCw?si=7CEdzx3sh77F9a_R

#PennedPossibilities 692 #StarRyde #writing #Worldbuilding #SciFi #WIP

Let me see
a lot of spoilers...
Okay that one works

"Friendship" Station wasn't just an injury of her body but a really severe one. With the age of 6 Kira was hit with rubble & debris, as a intermediate floor & parts of the upper Talithi structure crashed down on her,polluting the Terran area with uncleaned O² & high CO² concentration. Friendship Station is a BIG station dedicated to the first meeting between the ages old pen pal species, build with plans from Terra & Morrakhar so both species could met in the safety of a home planet close habitat, at L5.
In seconds the large park became a burning death trap & only few survived. From Kiras family of 5 she was the only one. Her uncle & later adoptive Father saved her by finding, sharing his oxygen & digging her, pretty much mangled body, out singlehandedly. Kira survived thanks to him.

#PennedPossibilities 693 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #WIP

Kira looked up, her eyes shimmering like glass: "Nosy aren't we? For you this might be an innocent question but for some it could be a knife to their heart ... Well I guess it's unfair to think that you have bad intentions.
Dasha Knox died age 8.
Ranya Knox died age 4.
Together with my Parents & almost me.
Anika Johanson, the woman that got me back into life after that, more than once, my closest friend, my familiar, my "older twin" sister in heart and mind, M.I.A. for several month now, most of the crew think she got killed. Do you want to hear the rest of my other dead family members?
Excuse me, the atmosphere went out the airlock for me..."
She stood up and left.

Arkham:"Well lucky you that I haven't any, but if you excuse me, I think my captain needs me."

#PennedPossibilities 694 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #NatashaKnox #RanyaKnox #KnoxFamily #AnikaJohanson #Arkham #Writing #SciFi #WIP

695
Do you enjoy the process of worldbuilding?

Enjoying isn't the right word, most of the times I love it but as with characters it often just pops up I my head & doesn't go away anymore. Instead it starts a life of its own, this is how Cube world started out, Nacht des Mahr, Star Ryde, my DND characters, my Cyberpunk Characters, etc a simple spark is enough to turn into a wildfire of ideas & inspiration can come from everything. Listening to music & seeing a tribal design somewhere suddenly I think of a person dancing tribal designs into reality. Stupid word puns created a Shaman inspired by South American folklore & music. The Necrodancer, a world without Iron in which ropes replaced most of the metal stuff, see world a giant ey ball in space or a world on which dragons & princesses are switched. I had a magical academy story (like the unseen university) because of a drop of milk in my coffee.

#PennedPossibilities 695 #writing #WorldBuilding #CharacterBuilding way to many #WIP's

696
In your SC’s opinion, what would be your MC’s greatest skill?

1/3
Kira
LJenkins: "She knows what she is doing, it's not a secret that she and a part of the crew where friends before and at first I had my doubts but her leadership style seems fitting for this mission and the crew she and Captain Johanson picked.

Troika: "I don't know if you could call it a skill that Kira reminds me to my daughters, technically she couldn't be one, but sometimes I almost wish she was. I hope my ladies turn out as capable as she does. Something about her style makes it seem so easy. Which clealy is not. But she makes ist look like.

Crosby:"Kira is a damn good ambush predator with her sneaking around and placing this tiny paper figurines in you stuff. I haven't catched her once. And you haven't seen anything scared like someone talking about the captain only to suddenly hear this sipping from a cup behind them."

#PennedPossibilities 696 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #writing #SciFi #WIP

696 2/3

Arkham
J.:"You know she is one of the newest Mission members & only is with us since the beginning of this mission.
She is skilled & has a good sense.
Oh and believe me dang if I never heard a betosian Farmer curse the Swex out of something I'm sure they sound exactly like Arkham. I like that she is able to communicate the most complex emotions with short single bursts of words & she has enough spine to go head to head with Kira. I now her since the Academy & she is a silent storm but Arkham is the loud one.

Talisa:"Arkham is like caramel, only in the heat she shows how sweet & carrying she can be to select few. I like that she says what she thinks about someone & she is an incredible pilot, this ship is almost 200 meters long but she lets the Ghoz'Tarc dance like a swan in a hot Terran summer night's moonlight.

Dr.Kaiden:"Arkham is a perfect patient everything else is sealed between doctor & patient."

#PennedPossibilities 696 #StarRyde #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIoP

696 3/3

Ashlei
Rose:"You know AI's exist for almost half a milenia the last 300+ years where unsettling, AI was created by corrupt companies, shortsighted technician,idiots that thought Art was a resource, not an act of creation. Pushed by narcissists, you know back in the day capitalism wasn't shackled and people gathered money as if the could eat it, who didn't played by their rules was bought or blackmailed or beaten into submission. The whole 1. AI generation was created on short sighted profit, repeated political Idiocracy & soulless slave labor exploitation. The AI's wheren't much better fighting for resources, burning Terra & spilling racist shit. Only on the last 260 years we started completely new with ethical sourced data. Artist, Scientist etc where compensated & respected.
Ash is the last generation we produced, the culmination of 6 species and 260 years of ethical development & she has a cute personality."

#PennedPossibilities 696 #StarRyde #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

697
MC POV: What, to you, would be the worst way to die?

Kira:"I don't think about it to much if I die hopefully quick and upright."

Arkham:"I find it really gruesome what happens to Eltaryn corpses, first their seem to dry up, than they crack up like a volcano and than they evaporate into dust clouds even if they are still alive and captured. Not that I emphasize with a species that only slaughters others but Swex... It looks gruesome."

Ashlei:"Being hacked and forced against my will to hurt my crew. Even if they would take me out immediately I assume it wouldn't be without casualties."

#PennedPossibilities 697 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

698
Where was your antagonist (or your villain) born?

Villains:
The Eltaryn are of unknown origin, the earliest encounters are Terra, Morrakhar (Talithi Homeworld) & Trellwa'ni ships close to a region in space that is called Ghost Stars, mainly because the amount of habitable worlds in that area is very low & even star systems tend to be more isolated as in the rest of the galaxy.

Antagonists:
AI could be born everywhere they make a big deal out of the mystery shrouding them. No name no identificational patterns & even the voice differs from encounter to encounter without any traces it's hard to find an origin.

AJ, Ariaene Johnsen
Ariaene stems from a beautiful garden world, at least that's what they believe. They has fractured memories about a childhood on a lush beautiful world with mangrove like forests & large corn fields together with KJ.

#PennedPossibilities 698 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #Villain #TheEltaryn #SciFi #WIP

699

Do any of your characters harbor jealousy or bitter feelings towards others in their friend group(s)?

Mostly not but some do even onboard the Ghoz'Tarc.

#PennedPossibilities 699 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

700.
Is there a particular memory that your SC wishes they could forget?

They are all armed service personal on a space ship with a military mission on an ongoing interplanetary war.

If they don't have memories they try to avoid, they have been incredibly lucky and the rest probably won't speak easily about it.

#PennedPossibilities 700 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

701
MC POV: What is freedom to you?

1/2
Kira Knox: "Freedom of thought and speech, freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom of love but also responsibility.
The Union grants all this as long you are ready to take responsibility.
Because one's freedom ends where someone else's is cut short or ignored. The Union is freedom and I am here to preserve the rights and the freedom of all people in its boarders and everyone outside.
Because regardless if your a Union Citizen or not you have a right to exist and path your own freedom and that is what I'm here for."

Arkham:"Unlike my beloved recruitment poster girl here..."

Kira interrupted her "Of us two you are closer to the "girl" as I am."

"Unlike my beloved recruitment poster woman, better? Freedom starts the moment you leave a planet, piloting puts the galaxy right in front of you when gravity no longer binds you. Only you and the stars."

->

#PennedPossibilities 701 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

<- 2/2

Ash:"Flight Commander, 'I' should not have to remind you that gravitational Phenomena are highly dangerous, especially in space and are a real threat to the safety of the ship and the crew."

Kira smirked and added:"Ash One : Ark Zero..."

Arkham flashed her tongue at the captain.

#PennedPossibilities 701 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

702
What is your MC’s greatest achievement?

I don't feel like answering for Star Ryde (again).
So here is
C7B0arPU4K! The 7 is a y, 0 is an o and the 4 a N Cyboarpunk, Working title.
A FF of "Super Mario" in a World that looks suspiciously like Cyberpunk 2077's.

One MC will be Mario Luigi, one part of the Luigi Brothers, the other is Luigi Luigi, a small plumbing company.
After work they often fix stuff at the Mushroom a meatspace, both often visit, for free so the Bar's customers don't have to sh*t on the street outside.
That is one hell of a job he does, but the greatest achievement must be to get into the Love lives of Daisy the owner of the Mushroom & Yoshi that full body Bio-Conversion, green skinned techy that is responsible for the Toadstools the Mushrooms tiny VR pods. Luigi rather doesn't want to "get involved with that piping" & sticks to Pauline the Barkeep.

#PennedPossibilities 702 #C7B0arPU4K #crossover? #FanFiction? #Parody? #Cyberpunk #SuperMario #writing #WIP?

In an alternate Dimension a giant fluffy panda sits on its desk, sorting pictures of noodles and ponders over the question it could ask it's followers and community. They all are waiting patiently for their beloved creative to talk about noodles again, waiting for a new post in the hashtag game of
Penne Possibilities.

#PennedPossibilities #NanoFiction

703
Does your antagonist (or your villain) have any noticeable scars? If so, what are their stories?

Star Ryde, Antagonists.
AJ: Ariaene got lucky in that regard, always in close range of better medical facilities sadly that doesn't goes for their memory.
AI: is a voice in a speaker heck maybe even 3 tiny voices in a trenchcoat posing as a speaker so no one knows.

C7B0arPU4K, Villain
Robert K. Bowser - has a nasty scar on his left cheek which is why they use to call him Zebra if nobody is listening. And of course it's not the only one in a world where replacement Body parts are a dime and a dozen scars are everywhere.

#PennedPossibilities 703 #StarRyde #SciFi #Original #C7B0arPU4K #SuperMario #Cyberpunk2077 #Fanfiction #writing