In the Basement of a Space Station

[emo_snal]

A few hundred years in the future: In the basement of the space station LJI-9-B5 five youths gather around the table.
   "I still can't believe I let you ultranerds talk me into this" complained Alfa, who is usually too busy hanging with the "cool" kids

Comments

[millysdaughter]

LOL - I have never played dungeon dragon, magic gathering or anything else remotely similar -- but I found thins hilarious!!!

[emo_snal]

Thanks. (:

[hosticle_fifer]

I had a good chuckle at this. And I *have* played D&D, MTG, all that nerdy stuff, and absolutely yes, it is Anachronism Stew. Take the world's existent misunderstanding of medieval cultures and ways of life, and crank it to 11 by setting it in a fantasy universe, and I'm sure it is just that ridiculous. It kind of deserves to be highlighted in a modern POV like that. :D

[tatdatcm]

I've been looking forward to reading this since your brain storming post and it was worth it.

I really enjoyed it and all the bits and pieces of our culture that you were able to incorporate and make over-the-top. I love that their names were all military alphabet designations. It just added that much more.

[emo_snal]

Ahaha I was wondering if anyone would notice that. I was trying to make life in the space station as "boring" as possible, with a new decimal time system and phonetic alphabet names. For their 20th/21st century characters I was trying to think of celebrities with weird names (:

[emo_snal]

That was you who wrote about "Western Decline" earlier right? I really wanted to work that phrase in to the entry as a nod to that piece (: Something about the setting being just prior to the Western Decline.

[medleymisty]

This is full of awesome winnage.

[emo_snal]

Thanks (:

[tonithegreat]

Oh I really like the lawyer spells you threw in here! I really enjoyed this.

[emo_snal]

I consulted my friend in law school for extra advice on lawyer spells. (:

[reckless_blues]

It was kinda interesting to me that domestic violence is still female-coded this far in the future. (Also it sorta irritates me that we don't have some kind of base ten metric way of keeping time, so I liked that part.)

Also, you're missing out. I don't like high fantasy much so I don't really play D&D, but I have a Call of Cthulhu group and they're wonderful.

[emo_snal]

I want to play a game of D&D one of these days to see what it's all about. I have this whole other storyline in my head where a naturalist sets out in the D&D universe to study the strange wildlife that can be found there. Explore the ecological niche of orcs or cockatrices. (:

I'm kind of surprised there isn't really a metric scale and hasn't been a move to adopt one. I just googled it and I guess seconds are official metric standard and kiloseconds and such are a thing. In my imagining for this story though, the base unit of metric time is the "chron," which is basically a day, and ten of them is sort of like a week and called a decachron, and one tenth of a chron is a decichron, etc etc...