Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

aw, ok. i am getting more dentistry in my face tomorrow, so we will both be equally miserable, i'm sure.

 

whatever he's doing, jethro should definitely write a lot of near-seditious smutty fanfiction

just sayin'

 

What if Jethro was like, a ghostwriter, for those romance lines that are under some fake lady's name? That could be pretty funny.

 

i was gonna say 'the first letter of the chapters of one of his books spells out SUCK MY GLOBES' but actually i think this would be a pretty common stunt for troll authors

 

by the way, would it help if i wrote more something in the space navy AU? i was thinking it'd be simple for you to just roll in a new character or the next stage, like 'so they set up all the blinky machines, anyway, moving on!' but maybe that wasn't obvious.

 

welp! i guess let me know when you're feeling better, then, and i'll try not to hassle you in the meanwhile.

 

Aww! Well, that's definitely the best way to get through a bad fic! I wouldn't say super terrible I'd say C even. Not actively bad, just not good. And horrifically un-proofread. If it was actually edited it could be a B. Punctuation errors are like getting booped on the snoot for me, so I probably take a lot more points off than other people would. Also it's got that sort of... I'm So Clever atmosphere to it? Which immediately makes me a lot more judgmental.

And they're lifting some of their wittier descriptions from Pratchett, I'm almost positive.

ANYWAY when I hateread a thing I really go full Grinch on it, sorry!

 

That is definitely very gross! Also, terrifying. Poor Erskin. Does the VR headset interact psionically, though? Because Erskin can't be contacted or coerced or affected telepathically in this AU. I don't know how much troll brain tech stuff wouldn't work telepathically, is all, since there'd be very little need to develop such technology, when the majority of trolls can be affected that way.

Then again, helmsmen are probably supposed to be separated out from the general access of like... psychics and psionics that can tell them to blow up remotely, or kill their captains, or whatever. That would be bad.

I guess there's a couple options—

1) the VR headset works on some other handwavium principal because Sigmah's a genius, so it all goes fine. Erskin either cooperates, or wants to cooperate but is screamingly weirded out at things happening to his brain like that since he hasn't had to deal with any mental contact in like ten years.

2) The VR headset doesn't work so they just have to hope he'll figure out how to get his senses unfucked after the bioware is out and not actively scrambling everything up. There's a lot of UST (UCT?) with Jethro.

3) The VR headset doesn't initially work so Sigmah takes it as a challenge and fusses around with it till it does work. So in play it'd go like option 2 and then 1.

I'd also like to know if you want to skip the whole Helpless Woobie Erskin and go back to everyone reasonably healthy and kicking ass in short order, or if his incapacitation is interesting enough to play with and do shmoopy bullshit with Jethro with. Or if it would be fun for Erskin to stay some amount of fucked up, completely deny being even a little fucked up, and run off more quickly than is medically advisable to kick ass.

 

HMMM yeah. Well with Bel and Galley, Bel could just go and sit with Galley while the operation with Erskin is going on, because maybe he is being a big tense stoneface about it and everyone is like 'Bel we know your kismesis is getting operated on right now, go sit somewhere and have a cry already'.

With Erskin, uh, is Jethro going to be assisting with the operation? Or just show up afterwards for physical therapy?

 

Yeah, that sounds like a good plan! We could skim over or fast-forward through Erskin's operation, if you didn't want to write Sigmah doing it, by focusing on Galley and Bel? The VR thing seems interesting but I don't think I get what it'd be like for Erskin, like, what his perception of it would be.