Lemony Narrator: if you don't do it, Juan, we will.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Well, I certainly won't be doing Lemony Narrator. I have my own plans for a few jokes (completely in-character, of course), but we'll see how this plays out.
Gotta say, I absolutely loved kkhobo's description of the Jaw Drop, especially as it'd be justified with his character.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Maybe; it depends. See, my idea was to have Stretch literally drop in on one of the Anti-Reggers', and that might only work after more characters show up at the bank. But again, I'm open. If that could be worked out, it'd be just fine, though I'm willing to compromise.
edited 6th May '11 3:40:31 PM by kkhohoho
Le chacal, is it? More closely based off Ily'ch Ramirez Sanchez or the original?
@Totemic: that depends. What had you in mind?
edited 6th May '11 3:41:05 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.More like The Jackal.
Well, mainly along the lines of using her heat sense to confirm how many people are there. (And @Sabre, despite your character being invisible to infrared, she could probably detect you, although you would seem odd to her sense.)
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Nope. IR cloaking is explicitly mentioned as one of his abilities, too. Infrared cameras are too prevalent for plain invisibility to work well. Possibly as a blur or a heat haze.
@Juan: wait, they sent the radio station a tape with a hostage's voice on it? Despite the fact that it would have to had been sent hours in advance—before the hostage-taking?
edited 6th May '11 3:49:45 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Her heat sense isn't visual though. (I suppose I should have made this clear before.) So if you're blocking IR, she'll detect you as human-shaped mass of heat...that isn't actually radiating heat. So you'd be a very strange anomaly.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Go for it, then.
Actually...don't. Not yet. Can you wait for me to post?
edited 6th May '11 3:56:31 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Okay, that was why. Basically, I figured that a) cooperating with the police means that I won't get ggfriendlyfired, b) they might know more about the building's layout, entrances, et cetera, and c) there was no way I could push through a crowd while invisible, so it was a good thing I don't have a set costume to identify me.
Also, if the terrs knew I was there, they might be induced to try something desperate, hence the "technical representative" disguise.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.

I just deleted it to avoid future smartassery.
Don't worry, Moe. You made me laugh
edited 6th May '11 3:02:09 PM by juancarlos
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