I'm home sick, so I could make it afterall. AnotherAlaskan is on a business trip. I vote for next week!
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
Firefly 5: That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe.
libkitty - Mar 19, 2008 4:20:51 pm PDT #1944 of 5292
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Morgana - Mar 19, 2008 4:23:38 pm PDT #1945 of 5292
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
I'm migraining, so I'm all in favor of waiting until next week.
omnis_audis - Mar 19, 2008 4:25:23 pm PDT #1946 of 5292
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
think the motion has passed. Next week it is.
libkitty - Mar 19, 2008 4:26:53 pm PDT #1947 of 5292
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
taps the gavel, but very quietly because of the migraine beast.
BigDuluth - Mar 19, 2008 4:54:56 pm PDT #1948 of 5292
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Mmk I'm down for next week folks!
Polter-Cow - Mar 20, 2008 6:17:39 am PDT #1949 of 5292
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My friend Seanan has a nice little story.
beekaytee - Mar 20, 2008 7:14:27 am PDT #1950 of 5292
Compassionately intolerant
That's lovely.
A very straight laced journalist friend of a friend of mine used gorram in a sentence at a party. He looked as if he had startled himself by letting that slip and then looked around to see what reactions he was getting. I smiled and, soto voce, said, "shiny." He beamed.
CaBil - Mar 20, 2008 7:18:41 pm PDT #1951 of 5292
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
A few people know I have been hired to write an adventure for the Serenity RPG, and I thought I would through this into the hivemind to see if anyone has any answers for something my editor and I are struggling over. While this is a background detail, it dovetails into one of the plot points that drives the scenario.
When people fled Earth-That-Was for the 'Verse was it ever explicitly stated anywhere whether Earth was completely abandoned or if there was a sizable percentage of the population left behind? Looking Earth's population curves (we are looking at least 10 billion by 2100) and based on the line Earth was 'used up' I was thinking there just wasn't resources to do a complete excavation, and there were people left behind. But other than one shot in Serenity (it didn't look like there were tens of thousands of ships leaving Earth-That-Was) I can't find anything substantive.
Any help would be appreciated.
sumi - Mar 20, 2008 8:11:13 pm PDT #1952 of 5292
Art Crawl!!!
I think that they said that Earth was abandoned. . . but I always thought that there had to be people left behind. (In my head - that's where the Fray-verse and the FF-verse connect.)
Laga - Mar 20, 2008 8:25:51 pm PDT #1953 of 5292
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I figure Earth's evacuation was as successful as any. In other words: a few hold-outs could not be moved, many perished.