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[Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

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Fri, 2010-05-28 14:51

Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

[Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

hello! I was reading the printed out PDF for the adventures, looking for the descriptions of the non-player characters, but aside the rp hint, motivation and stats, there's nothing. in my mind, they took the following looks: Dr Ming. Somehow I picture him looking like a mix between Aramaki from GITS and -don't kill me, please! - l'Hokage Sarutobi from the early Naruto arcs. Morteza Bey: I picture this guy [IMG]http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad130/Quincey_Forder/vlcsnap-2010-05-... He's the hacker that Faye Valentine was hunting when the truck exploded on the express way Mason Wang: John Cho was Mason Wang for me from the get go. for those who don't remember him, he played Sulu in Star Trek, and Demetri in Flashforward [img]http://www.celebritywonder.com/picture/John_Cho/ActorJohnCho_John_Shea_5... Patrona Vasquez is a much tougher cookie. To represent her, I'm hesitating between Michelle "Trudy Chacon" Rodriguez and the anime character Ayaka Steiger from Kurau Phantom Memory [img]http://www.sandg-anime-reviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/kurau2.jpg... the others, i don't really have avatars in mind for them, except maybe for Dexter, whom reminds me a bit of Von Flores' character Ron Sandoval in Earth Final Conflict. Also, Some information about the locations would be helpful, in particular the greenhouse, Wang's habitat and Vishnukam knowing my players, after playing for over twelve years with several of them, and about ten years with others, they'll want to go there by themselves, if by egocasting a fork there

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Mon, 2010-06-07 17:20

jackgraham jackgraham's picture

Re: [Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

Quincey Forder wrote:
Dr Ming. Somehow I picture him looking like a mix between Aramaki from GITS and -don't kill me, please! - l'Hokage Sarutobi from the early Naruto arcs. Morteza Bey: I picture this guy [IMG]http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad130/Quincey_Forder/vlcsnap-2010-05-... He's the hacker that Faye Valentine was hunting when the truck exploded on the express way (...) Also, Some information about the locations would be helpful, in particular the greenhouse, Wang's habitat and Vishnukam knowing my players, after playing for over twelve years with several of them, and about ten years with others, they'll want to go there by themselves, if by egocasting a fork there

R/e Ming, Hokage (minus the crazy outfit) is a bit closer to how I imagine him, although Aramaki would work if his hair didn't stick out so much. For Morteza... is that the Spooky Donkey guy? :D I love him! The Greenhouse I imagine as having a very similar layout to the Song Cai flower. Just get rid of the horrid fleshy broodmother, the BDSM dungeon, and the suicidal aftermarket drive system, and instead imagine the place if it were populated by a bunch of nice hippies who grow broccoli. Wang's hab looks like some kind of spherical Apple product floating in space. Furnishings and interior design are whatever you'd like to imagine for a rich, hedonistic douche bag who's trying to come across as an artist. If it helps, search for pictures of Burning Man, and imagine that kind of stuff going on in zero G. Burning Man and the burner aesthetic were part of my inspiration for Locus & its surrounding habitats. For Casa Arturo and the stuff out in the Trojans, think anarchist bike messengers in space. Vishnukam is pretty far afield for this adventure and kind of a wild goose chase, but if your party insists on going there, I believe I have it as an O'Neill cylinder. It was a Thai colony, so think in those terms for architectural influences on the interior buildings. It's subtropical inside, and remains very densely populated.

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Tue, 2010-06-08 15:52

Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

Re: [Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

Wow! Thanks for the information, Jack! that's really, really helpful! while waiting for my turn at the doctor, this evenning, I was rereading Glory, and something hit me. you wrote that if questioned about Yu, Bey says that he was introduced to her through Saul. I've been looking through the PDF, and found no other reference whatsoever of any Saul guy. Also, I'm planning, as I might have mentionned before, on introducing Gray Xu as potential ally for the PCs, since one of my player has expressed a strong desire to play an anarchist. I haven't briefed my party on the different factions, yet, just brushed them a broad picture. But from what he has told me, he's heading toward the Scums. So having Gray as a recuring character for a couple adventures or so before MtWMD will make her betrayal all the deeper. So the question is, where to introduce her with the maximum coherence? Locus? Casa Arturo? My players won't be part of Firewall before the scenario begins. I'll be dropping hints throughout the adventure, before the recruitment at the end, in the aftermath a question from Mason will be a rather obvious hint :"You're part of it, ain'tcha? that organization Tara and her boss work for?"

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Tue, 2010-06-08 16:22

jackgraham jackgraham's picture

Re: [Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

Quincey Forder wrote:
while waiting for my turn at the doctor, this evenning, I was rereading Glory, and something hit me. you wrote that if questioned about Yu, Bey says that he was introduced to her through Saul. I've been looking through the PDF, and found no other reference whatsoever of any Saul guy. Also, I'm planning, as I might have mentionned before, on introducing Gray Xu as potential ally for the PCs, since one of my player has expressed a strong desire to play an anarchist. I haven't briefed my party on the different factions, yet, just brushed them a broad picture. But from what he has told me, he's heading toward the Scums. So having Gray as a recuring character for a couple adventures or so before MtWMD will make her betrayal all the deeper. So the question is, where to introduce her with the maximum coherence? Locus? Casa Arturo?

R/e Saul, he was a background character who's never really supposed to show up in the adventure. It's possible Rob edited him out due to space considerations and missed that reference. I don't have the PDF with me right now, so I can't check. But basically, Bey is not the kind of guy who'd usually get involved with Firewall. The backstory was that Saul was a former lover who got him interested in the Variegationists -- a mostly outer system Reclaimer faction interested in capturing and studying TITAN wargear to help the Reclaimer cause. Bey is pretty young and kind of impressionable, so going on what he thought was a Variegationist/Reclaimer mission helped Yu recruit him. Like I said, though, Rob might've edited out that bit of backstory, which was probably a good decision, because it made Saul sound like another lead when really he'd have had almost no useful information other than being a network contact of Yu. NMtWMD was designed so that you can have it anywhere in the system you want. If you want it located in the Trojans near Locus, I believe the Locus writeup mentions a criminal haven dug into one of the Patroclus asteroids. It's the same place where PCs might run into Nia Zheng if they track her down. That's potentially a good spot to place Xu.

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Tue, 2010-06-08 17:43

Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

Re: [Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

ahhh! oki! thanks for the info I might resinsert Saul in my own EP setting as a recuring character, one that will probably be a thorn in my party's collective side the way Zettler was in our good ol' Masquerade chronicles. Can you tell me more about him? Locus, in my mind, is a (comparatively) low-tech brother to ME2 Omega station, but I'll base my description based on it (will probably use the OST track dedicated to Omega). given the size of the habitat, it fits! question I was asking myself, what's the size of the Song Cai Flower? Are we talking some like Babylon 5 (or 4, since it's mobile) or the ISS? by the way, I've been wondering, watching Gundam UC, yesterday. they have a station akin to a Hamilton Cylinder, in the sence it's a station still growing. that made me thinking. the nanobots eat asteroid to build the station, right? so is the station still INSIDE the asteroid, like an endocity in the style of Matrix's zion, or an hi-tech version of the O'Neill made of asteroid material built from inside out?

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Tue, 2010-06-15 16:00

Quincey Forder Quincey Forder's picture

Re: [Glory] actors and sets (SPOILER WARNING)

another question came to mind, a couple days ago. Ming is a professor, right? what does he teach, exactly? Computational Archeology is a complex thing, isn't it, comprising several different disciplines (History, Computing, Archeology,...). Does Ming teach all the classes (like by forking himself) or just one or few of them?

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