Character Q&A

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:42 am

Guess what, everybody? It's another topic idea ripped from the Class Menagerie Forum!

Ask one question of a cast member, and they'll answer!

(Of course, I can't garantee them not being evasive and/or violent, but that is, after all, part of the fun.)

I probably won't have the time to provide cool images for each answer, but then again, I'm not God like Vince is.

Bo Lindbergh · Post by **Bo Lindbergh** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 4:47 am

Saundra, did you vote in the presidential election in 2020?

Saundra wrote: Well, just about everyone did, that time. I mean, when one of the candidates is obviously an evil android controlled by Dr. Crankshaft, it kind of makes partisan politics seem insignificant. But then again, we DID elect the BSH947 back in 2000. Let me tell you, the summer of 2008 was just FULL of revelations. I mean, first we find out the president's been an evil robot for two entire terms, and then the little bugger suspends the elections! We were all really relieved when someone hacked into it's brain and hit the self-destruct.

DISCLAIMER: Saundra is NOT from this universe. No implication about the current president of the United States in this universe is made here.

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:33 pm

Whoop! A major blunder on my part may have caused this thread to be ignored! Bumpity-boo!

Fallwind · Post by **Fallwind** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:13 pm

Volair, how did you start your life as an international spy?

Volair wrote: The Guild is always looking for idealistic and talented youths to train into idealistic and talented living weapons. After I quit the Scouts in, uh, less than friendly circumstances, I was recruited by Liz. She wasn't much older than me, then, but she'd been with the Guild long enough to have enlistment privelages.

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:16 pm

Liz: How did you cope being partnered with an individual whose libido puts a satyr to shame?

Liz wrote: Wasn't easy, let me tell you. We were in this business DURING puberty. Every time we did a stake out, he'd disappear for fifteen minutes or so every couple of hours. I just pretended not to notice, for the most part.

But then he had to go and turn eighteen. OY was that a year. I don't think there was a single villian, henchman, or supervisor he didn't try to seduce with his flouncy charm. I charted his success rate at something like 63% by the time he was ninteen. Given that only 50% of the population even likes guys, that's pretty impressive.

This was a bit trying, but ultimately it became a key ingredient to our special brand of heroism. There was always SOMEbody in a given evil organization he could bring down. Got guards? No problem. The guy was amazing. And in the case of Dr. H; whoo. That fox was kryptonite.

Newtype_Pilot · Post by **Newtype_Pilot** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 3:30 pm

Hey Rick, if you were a hot dog and you were starving, would you eat yourself?

Rick wrote: What a strange question! Well, the problem here I would suppose is one of simple survival. In such a case, one would have to make note of the "ratcat farm" paradox and realize that using one's own biological material as a foodstuff is inherantly counterproductive.

However, depending on certain factors of biology (I honestly do NOT know how a living construct of ground animal protein would go about making use of fat reserves), one might postulate that, for at least a limited time, this practice of self-ingestion might actually provide a longer survival time under the most dire of circumstances.

Now, if one were a -photosynthetic- hot dog, the premise of surviving off of one's own matter isn't entirely ludicrous.

But then again, the very question of being a hot dog and being forced to subsist off one's own tissue is, by its very nature, ludicrous.

Alfador · Post by **Alfador** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 5:26 pm

Jake, what's your worst fear? (No! Stop! Don't think about whatever that is! What I mean is, what's the worst fear you can comfortably describe without either a) getting all shivery and uncomfortable or b) getting mad at me for bringing up such unpleasant thoughts.)

Jake wrote: I think my real worst fear is that somehow I'll make some mistake that'll make the people around me unhappy, or worse, angry with me. I don't really deal with conflict very well.

Whoa. That's...my fear too.

Dude...

Allan_ecker · Post by **Allan_ecker** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 8:29 am

Yeesh. Taking me forever to answer Jake's question..

WolfFur · Post by **WolfFur** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:18 am

Hey, Allan,

Do you still have delusions that you aren't just a character in the Umlaut House comic strip and that you are its creator?

Allan wrote: Heh. Well, as the narrator, I never appear "on panel". However, it's hard for me to pretend I'm not in the comic since my "real" life models it so well.

Fallwind · Post by **Fallwind** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:34 pm

for Saundra...

How/when did you meet Jake? love at first sight?

Saundra wrote:Love at first sight? No. Intense mutual attraction on the basis of a primary ident? Yes. Allan's asked me to keep the specifics of our first meeting a secret for now, but not to put too fine a point on it, I thought he was hot, he thought I was hot, and neither of us bothered to think much further on the matter.

Andrick · Post by **Andrick** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:42 pm

To Rick: Why do you always assume the worst of Volair?

Rick wrote:Well, I do suppose I haven't always been fair to him. The thing is, he really IS an awful boor. I've known worse, to be sure, but there is just something about that fox that I find deeply troubling.

Volair wrote:Maybe it's the fact that you could never say "no" to me.

Rick wrote:-sigh-

WolfFur · Post by **WolfFur** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:52 pm

To Rick: When did you choose to become an EX_mad scientist? I gather that the decision was made before you met Jake.

Rick wrote: You gather correctly. Actually, from the material presented thus far by our good author, a careful observer will estimate the time of my turning at somewhere between two and five months prior to said meeting.

Nobody with the SAG knew where I was; they'd been hunting me ever since my last scheme to overthrow the US government failed. What they didn't know is that it failed because I quit.

It had come down to the wire. All I had to do was assasinate three senators, and the entire plan would fall into place like a house of cards in a universe with reverse entropy rules.

My hand hovered over the trigger for the deadly nanites..

And I turned them all off and hit the auto destruct.

I realized that the ends do not in fact justify the means, and that no matter how much better the government might be if I was in charge, killing people just wasn't the right way to do it.

So I shut it all down. I unplugged my facilities from ImmerLabs, withdrew holdings, got out of interests. I restructured my entire empire into something not nearly so evil. Now instead of machiavelian schemes to manipulate public policy, my companies do charity work. LibLieder Industries volunteers are harvesting the first crop of genetically engineered soy planted in one of the poorest nations in the world. MindIT donated half its net profits to Habitat for Humanity last fiscal year.

And I took up a day job.

It was something to do, something to keep my mind off all the stupidity of my old life, and further, something to keep me in touch with what really mattered: people.

But I wasn't all better yet. Not by a long shot. I was moody, depressed, and racked with insomnia. But I wasn't hurting people any more. A couple of times, I contemplated suicide. But of course, that wouldn't have helped pay back the awesome debt I felt I owed society.

But then there was Jake.

He loved me. For who I was. For the things I said.

Really helped me get my perspective back, you know? I know now that the way one is truly helpful to the world is to just be a good person in that world. And that's what I'm doing now. And, for the first time in a long time, I'm happy.

Jake wrote:Can I tell people that you just needed some serious banging?

Rick wrote:-giggle- Yes, Jake, you may. It's nearly true at any rate.