more lost things

[devi]

And now I'm packing for the move. Well, mostly putting aside stuff to throw out or give away. Usually when I pack to move I pack the books first (which isn't great, as it gives a misleading impression that you've made lots of progress but leaves all the awkward stuff to the end). This time, though... I'm not keen to start demolishing my room. I want to see it one more time and take pictures of it as it's been all the time I've lived in it, before it turns into an in-between place, a room in transition. So the stuff I've sorted all comes from unseen places, inside the wardrobe and the chest of drawers. The awkward bits. Result!

[pause to delve into a box]

Yes!! I've found my Random Tube Traveller Generator system! I wondered what had become of that. I made it for my Nano novel in 2003, then realised if I kept generating random Tube travellers and writing about them I'd just end up writing 253, only without the discipline and originality. It's still fun though. It has tables for area of London they're from (if they're Londoners at all), age, height, weight, hair colour, ethnicity and a big list of 'quirks'.

Hey, this would make a fun meme-ish thing. Want me to generate you a tube traveller? If so, give me the following:

*a number between 1 and 10
*one between 1 and 12
*one between 1 and 20
*three numbers between 1 and 10. They don't all have to be different
*a number between 1 and 4
*four numbers between 1 and 60
*(added later) a number between 1 and 10

edit: I'd forgotten what a hasty bodge-job this was. It's buggy in a variety of ways. I ought to rejig it so the ethnic-group thing better reflects the demographics, and the hair-colour table depends on it to some extent, and... oh, wait, when?

Comments

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Wandering monster tables... excellent!

If only I had a set of gaming dice to hand.

Okay here goes: 1, 4, 19, 8, 10, 9, 3, 55, 5, 24, 11.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this appeals to my character generation addicition! :-)

* 7
* 5
* 3
* 3,7,7
* 3
* 45,47,56,60

What do I win?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

I shall love him and hug him and call him Dave.

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

how fun!
3
7
16
4,4,4
2
31

[roy-dcour.livejournal.com]

1
1
1
1, 1, 1
1
1, 20, 40, 60

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

8
11
2
6 5 4
4
48 59 3 18

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

female
15-20
yet another London Irish person. (The weighting on this is all wrong)
black hair, fat, tallish

...and we have a person with psychic abilities but no imagination. Hmmm. And she's another one who's seeing someone in secret. That one seems to come up a lot too.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Our unimaginative psychic is actually a bloke.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

You win...

British female, early twenties, quite nondescript (medium of height and weight and mousy of hair), who is... a homeless, highly imaginative workaholic.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

You have... an early thirties Aussie man, shortish, thin-ish, brown-haired yet again (no one seems to be getting the weird hair colours!), who is an obsessive fan of something of your choice. He's thinking about it now as he sits on the tube. Perhaps he is writing a fanzine article in his head.

but I need one more number between 1 and 60 from you! There's more to this guy...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That looks like data designed to test the system :)

Male. 0-5 years old. British. Brown hair again. Very small, very thin. He is... a cult member.

Though I guess that means his parents are.

Hey, I think your person is currently on the lap of p_dan_tic's person!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

homeless, highly imaginative workaholic

Heh - sounds like an artist!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

female
60-70
white British
blonde hair, medium weight, medium-to-short
and she... is on the run, loves her job, is committing adultery and is yet another bloody synaesthete.

All the old people get really exciting and racy lives in this thing.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

She's sleeping in her studio, next to the giant sculpture she's making out of scrap metal. It broods over her and haunts her dreams.

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

oh yes of course - 42 :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

omg, he's stalking someone.

Which fits quite nicely with the obsessive fanboy-ness.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

5, 7, 3; 5, 7, 9; 3; 9, 57, 30, 18;5

[roy-dcour.livejournal.com]

Or I could be Ian Astbury in the late 60's

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

male
early 30s
(white) British
red hair, medium weight, tall
and he is... a highly imaginative terrorist with outstanding talent in art!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Already humming riffs to his tiny self!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Guerilla artist?

[ceb.livejournal.com]

9
1
13
6 6 2
3
12 57 36 22
4

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

5, 11, 11, 2, 7, 7, 1, 46, 52, 9, 59, 8

On an entirely different note:

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

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Available until March 23rd. There'll likely be a bulk order going in towards the end of this month, poke me if you want in :)

If you liked this scent you may also be interested in the following non-limited editions:

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[mooism.livejournal.com]

Shall we take it as read that I’m not going to write a scene with this character after all? And just sketch the scene instead?

Fighting Buddhist Nun is meditating on the tube when she becomes aware of a mugging further down the carriage. Fighting Buddhist Nun beats the shit out of Mugger #1. Muggers leave the train at the next stop, to take Mugger #1 to hospital, or possibly just to bleed in a squat. Fighting Buddhist Nun continues on her journey with New Sidekick to Waterloo, where she intends to vanquish dragons.