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====== Characters ======
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I think it has to have regular characters as we've a small cast.  But this doesn't go well with horror, which has a higher body count.  Do we want some kind of reset?  Clones either science fictional or supernatural?  --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 2012/09/12 14:19//

==Comedy==
What mix of comedy for characters?  Glib witicisms or will the comedy be farcicle? Should there be a straight character - and should they be occasionally be made fun of?  Should this be the main character?  Are they irreverant like John Constantine?  --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 2012/09/12 14:29//

===== From Meeting 7/12/12 =====

Clones are in Battlestations.  
Cultists - possibly bumbling - are the bad guys
The main characters in the story are the below decks characters, not the main bridge crew  --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 2012/12/11 14:24//

==== Main Characters ====

Characters with regular speaking parts.  Ideally we should only have three (IMHO), but could combine some into a single character, or change which three are the main speakers for an ep, and have the others be minor characters for that ep

  * **The Ensigns** \\ The support crew to the bridge crew.  The guys that never make command decisions.  These guys basically have skill 1 in everything and no professional rerolls
    * <del>**The Red Shirt** \\ Another trope subversion.  This guy (a marine type) should do everything that classically endangers someone in scifi or horror - but they never get injured, no matter what.</del>
    * <del>**The Joker** \\ Possibly the person responsible for most of the puns?  Needs a quirk to make them different - maybe one of the computerised voices?</del>
    * **Cam** (short for Cameo) - Pyreltian - off stage and not voiced, but occasionally alluded to (ala Wynn-Stanley in Hut 33) - occasionally saves everyone
    * **Yuri** (short for Uranus, a primordial God the same as Chronos) - Chronosian - a gambler (ala Gideon of Crusade) - newley encountered whose time travelling is not known by other crew - Russian accent [Translator]
    * **Elijah** - Human - Pessimistic harbinger of Doom - A character that always has one of their (many) dire predictions come true.
    * **Scrapey** (short for Scrapie a common disesase for sheep) - Sheepling - unintelligible [no Translation - characters just know what he says) - anti/subverting red-shirt (ala Guy in Galaxy Quest)
    * **Mal** - Human - trainee ship councillor - Always looks on the bright side of everything, because it's covering a thin veneer of them barely holding on to it.

==== Minor Characters ====

Characters with rare (or no) speaking parts

  * **The Bridge Crew** \\ The traditional heroes of a scifi show set on a spaceship or station.  These guys should be referred to at least once per ep, possibly more - and probably shouldn't get speaking parts unless it's a voice over the PR system (ala Open a ship-wide channel).  These guys should be stereotypes and should often be killed doing something heroic and probably stupid.  --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 2012/12/13 11:31//
    * **Hrrdgrr** (Herr Doktor) - The Science Officer (Scientist) - Zoallan with the Mad Science abillity, German accented  [Translator]
    * **Ms Garath** (Shubni) - The Helm Officer / The Captain (Pilot) - Human - Paladin type (ala Dylan Hunt in Andromeda) 
    * The Weapons Officer (Marine) - Death wish glory seeker and very unlucky, wants to die in combat but never makes it that far (ala Kenny in South Park) - Tentac [Translator]
    * The Chief Engineer (Engineer) - Xeloxian - beaurocratic type (almost like PLC in Paranoia, and probably why the ship gets stuck in situations to sort out rather than quickly leaving) [Translator]
    * <del>The Councilor (Diplomat/Psionic)</del>
  * **The Cultists** \\ The bad guys.  Minor characters as they shouldn't appear in every episode.  Most are "bumbling" but at least one should be a serious nutter/competent/psycho.  Ongoing bad guys for the series - just as likely to die as the Bridge Crew, and from the same sources. --- //[[curufea@yahoo.com|Peter Cobcroft]] 2012/12/13 11:31//
    * The Leader: politically correct rimmer without his anger "just because it is an evil killing machine doesn't it have a right to exist?". Social trendy with their twatter account. Believes in voting for most things "trustapherian".
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    * The Keeper of Records - An OCD/Anal Librarian type that keeps the forbidden texts, can quote them and knows about rituals (as is mentioned in the book of skrall chapter 4 subsection 2" mort
    * The Fixer - the member responsible for getting rare items needed for rituals
    * The Newb- the cultist who doesn't really think they should be a cultist (I only came to use your comms device as mine is broken)mort
    * The Scarey Guy - the actual traditional Lovecraftian cultist