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[devi]

Almost 27,000. I had to stop a while ago to turn off my laptop and leave it standing on its side, as it was about to melt all over my legs.

I've made a Random Tube Traveller Generator, using lists and gaming dice. I wanted a story where one of the pages finds its way on to the tube and gets examined by a sequence of people, so I spent a whole afternoon putting this mechanism together (while Matt paraphrased Laurence Olivier(?) at me - "Just write, dear boy"). The result was interesting - I found myself wanting to program for the first time in years, so I could turn it into a web-toy and you could all come and generate characters like the elderly lady who is a workaholic cat-burglar, or the fourteen-year-old half-pint superhero.

Theory: Any piece of writing which involves short sketches of people on the tube will automatically sound exactly like 253.

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

27,000! That seems like an awful lot. And it was Olivier, to Dustin Hoffman, making Marathon Man (best remembered for the agonising scene in which Olivier's Nazi removes all the peanuts from a Snickers bar with a pair of pliers).

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's quite a lot, but not enough. Worsened by going to see Simon Bookish last night instead of catching up, bad me.

Though it was funny to see my A2 student having a panic attack today at the prospect of having to write a whopping 3,500 words of coursework by next March...

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Most excellent. Random tables rule the world. Are you going to put the tables up where they can be seen? I'll bet good money that if you title it something like "Random Tube Travellers for London-based d20 Modern Games", you'll be racking up hits very shortly.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that hadn't occurred to me. Open-source gaming material, good idea...

[mooism.livejournal.com]

“wanting to program” — “scratching an itch” :-)

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Have you seen The Tube vignettes?

Or

[cheerfulcynic.livejournal.com]

More pithy, Tube Gossip.

Re: Or

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Tube Gossip is hilarious. Thanks for pointing me at it first time round, too :)

Haven't seen the other site, but I feel I shouldn't risk looking at it until I'm at home so I can laugh in peace.