Difference between revisions of "Doctor Drakken"
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| − | Donald Van Loan had initially intended his Fenspace time to be purely a weekend respite from the grinding horrors of teaching High School English | + | Donald Van Loan had initially intended his Fenspace time to be purely a weekend respite from the grinding horrors of teaching High School English; then his accidental 'Wavium exposure deferred the termination of the break. Permanently. |
| − | A bookish 5"11' brunette with the capacity for spontaneous waggery & full-throated Munsch-ian story | + | A bookish 5"11' brunette with the capacity for spontaneous waggery & full-throated Munsch-ian story declamation (His favourite being The Paper Bag Princess.), Van Loan was usually the quietest man in the room, nose buried in book ; mouth buried in coffee. He spent his weekends supporting his near bibliomania--his apartment was his bookshelf--and his recent interest in Fenspace by producing serviceable costumes for cosplayers, LARPers & Fen through his online business, Togs & Cogs. |
The sudden windfall of an esoteric inheritance from the familial noir ruminant kicked interest into praxis. Uncle Dirk's old titanium Alvin sphere that he had installed in his own submersible, Treasure Bath suddenly dropped like a mammoth gleaming machine pearl into Van Loan's life. It didn't take long for him to figure out just exactly it was that the elegant sphere could accomplish. | The sudden windfall of an esoteric inheritance from the familial noir ruminant kicked interest into praxis. Uncle Dirk's old titanium Alvin sphere that he had installed in his own submersible, Treasure Bath suddenly dropped like a mammoth gleaming machine pearl into Van Loan's life. It didn't take long for him to figure out just exactly it was that the elegant sphere could accomplish. | ||
| − | He began configuring a Fenspace identity around a highly modified variant of H.G. Well's Professor Cavor, | + | He began configuring a Fenspace identity around a highly modified variant of H.G. Well's Professor Cavor, with the Pièce de résistance being the Cavorite Sphere redress of his Alvin pressure hull. |
Obtaining 'Wavium from costuming contacts he had made, he proceeded to carefully--he thought--to render his transport spaceworthy. However, he had become so engrossed in his Wellsian pastime that he began to treated his 'Wavium as if it were Cavorite. The irony was that his attention to detail ended up with a near catastrophe not unlike Cavor's near launching of his house. | Obtaining 'Wavium from costuming contacts he had made, he proceeded to carefully--he thought--to render his transport spaceworthy. However, he had become so engrossed in his Wellsian pastime that he began to treated his 'Wavium as if it were Cavorite. The irony was that his attention to detail ended up with a near catastrophe not unlike Cavor's near launching of his house. | ||
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Somewhere in the stratosphere, he managed to clamber in, pressurize, and hope for rescue as he hadn't completed the painting process ; wasn't even certain if it would work as he had anticipated. | Somewhere in the stratosphere, he managed to clamber in, pressurize, and hope for rescue as he hadn't completed the painting process ; wasn't even certain if it would work as he had anticipated. | ||
| − | It was only when he was rescued by a member of the Senshi that it came to his attention that he was now a stunning shade of cyan. It took a little longer for the other alterations to become evident. | + | It was only when he was rescued by a member of the Senshi <ref>Age of Sail</ref> that it came to his attention that he was now a stunning shade of cyan. It took a little longer for the other alterations to become evident. |
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Revision as of 21:21, 2 March 2014
Donald Van Loan had initially intended his Fenspace time to be purely a weekend respite from the grinding horrors of teaching High School English; then his accidental 'Wavium exposure deferred the termination of the break. Permanently.
A bookish 5"11' brunette with the capacity for spontaneous waggery & full-throated Munsch-ian story declamation (His favourite being The Paper Bag Princess.), Van Loan was usually the quietest man in the room, nose buried in book ; mouth buried in coffee. He spent his weekends supporting his near bibliomania--his apartment was his bookshelf--and his recent interest in Fenspace by producing serviceable costumes for cosplayers, LARPers & Fen through his online business, Togs & Cogs.
The sudden windfall of an esoteric inheritance from the familial noir ruminant kicked interest into praxis. Uncle Dirk's old titanium Alvin sphere that he had installed in his own submersible, Treasure Bath suddenly dropped like a mammoth gleaming machine pearl into Van Loan's life. It didn't take long for him to figure out just exactly it was that the elegant sphere could accomplish.
He began configuring a Fenspace identity around a highly modified variant of H.G. Well's Professor Cavor, with the Pièce de résistance being the Cavorite Sphere redress of his Alvin pressure hull.
Obtaining 'Wavium from costuming contacts he had made, he proceeded to carefully--he thought--to render his transport spaceworthy. However, he had become so engrossed in his Wellsian pastime that he began to treated his 'Wavium as if it were Cavorite. The irony was that his attention to detail ended up with a near catastrophe not unlike Cavor's near launching of his house.
A miscalculation sent the sphere skywards. The major problem with this was that Van Loan was on the wrong side of the curved hull, clutching to a section of the louvred propulsion system. The other problem was that he was bathed in the excess 'Wavium that he had been applying to the antigravity panels under each individual louvre.
Somewhere in the stratosphere, he managed to clamber in, pressurize, and hope for rescue as he hadn't completed the painting process ; wasn't even certain if it would work as he had anticipated.
It was only when he was rescued by a member of the Senshi [1] that it came to his attention that he was now a stunning shade of cyan. It took a little longer for the other alterations to become evident.
Notes
- ↑ Age of Sail
