kedamono
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« on: January 21, 2010, 10:51:04 PM » |
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Two of the oddest denizens you'll run into in the Hardwired Hinterland, are Bruce and Bruce. Two fellows with an unknown English accent, they run a mobile workshop/hardware shop/flying Radio Shack. They can build just about anything out of anything kind of salvage. They tend to build odd and idosyncratic devices on their own, but they are more than willing to cobble together 8 or so cell phone circuitboards into a wireless communication set that runs off of windup batteries you wear on your belt.
They claim to be from the year 2692 A.D. but they can't answer any questions about anything before 2092, since that's the year of the great disaster: "Och, on tha' day, a grea' rock fell from te sky and struck the land of yellow stone, carving a grea' wound in mudder eart. Ten te wound did flow wit te blood of the eart, all molt'n and hot. The land of the great Merkins wa' rent asunder, along wit te Canucks and te Mehickos. For a hundred years, te eart wept, and we crawled back to civilized. In the land of tea and crumpets, we found te great works inna vault. We found te words of te great savoir of mankind! Te words of Monty Python!"
Yes, they claim to come from a future based on the works of Monty Python. The accent that Bruce and Bruce use is supposed to be an Austrailian accent. They will want to call everyone they meet Bruce, despite their real name. But, they are great at what they do, so when their airship comes a calling, make sure you have plenty of money to pay for their devices. You might even be able to buy a new brain!
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Kedamono
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"Another one of them new worlds.
No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'.
Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans."
---- Ship's Cook, United Planets Cruiser C-57D
Forbidden Planet
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