The entire event was one long Dick joke

[kingandy]

Back from Voice of the Seraph.  It proved to be a lot further away than we initially envisaged - South Wales, so not a brief after-work jaunt - but was nonetheless highly enjoyable.

I'm sorry to say that they blew Riftworld out of the water in terms of props and set - impressive though RW's remote-controlled gun turret was, it paled in comparison next to Crooked House's motherfucking tank.  Not to mention the various archaeological dig sites, buried chambers and actual plague of locusts.

In case that last is in any way vague: There were actual, live locusts.  No half-way measures here.

Despite the fact that my character was largely useless for much of the event, I had a great time bumbling around and, well, being useless.  I probably should have stuck my oar in a little more and definitely should have been more strict with my young charge, Malcolm, whose curiousity got him tortured to death and resurrected as a zombie.  In fact I lost both of my sidekicks at the same time (in the same way, though while Malcolm was down in the mine for curiousity, "Spanners" was performing some valuable bomb maintenance), which I suppose in some circles would be considered careless.

If I've one criticism of the event it's that we were penalised for not using our feats.  I can see penalties for forgetting your fumbles, but most of the feats were for very specific situations that often didn't come up.  After the first day I found nobody to bribe and no impossible script to translate, and I really didn't find much opportunity to baffle anyone with science (though looking back I can see a couple that I missed), so I ended the Saturday with a full complement of feats and, as a result, had one less for the Sunday.  Of course, as it happens I didn't need any at all on the Sunday either, so it wasn't much of a problem, but it still seems a little harsh.

Fumbles, of course, were used with gay abandon.  Everybody loves to fuck up.

Pictures as we get them.  For now enjoy these pre-event costume tests courtesy stsquad.

Comments

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Veronica had a theory that, although the shaman raised several of the dead, he was not responsible for the fact that everyone who died rose again. Shaman dude had to do a ritual to be able to raise the dead. I believe that since the gate of heaven was opened, this prevented souls from entering heaven or hell and were doomed to wander the earth. By preventing the gate of hell being opened, we stopped judgement day in it's entirity from beginning (at the end of which the world would be destroyed and all would be judged - typical apocolypse stuff). We never quite worked out if we should perhaps close the gate of heaven (I thought we should!) but it wasn't really needed to finish the film!

Additionally, it allowed Veronica and Lou to add a romantic side-storyline to the whole cinedrama - without that, what would the girls who were dragged by their boyfriends to see the zombie flick get to appreciate... There were no zombie sex-scenes, but the romance was there from before he was zombified.

It was agreed that technically the romance should have been with Dick Brittan, (it's always supposed to be the lead that gets laid... Just look at James Bond!) but we thought that, as there was no romance there at all, he must be gay and having an affair with Perky! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there should still be romance!)

[kingandy]

Yes, even in the most family-friendly child-oriented films, the hero is always rewarded with sex.

Dick and Perky were so a couple.