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[Marri]

The Emma talking to Noel is from the same world as Juanita, based on the Pegasus series by Anne McCaffrey. I can still infodump if you're curious but it's not an original setting or anything. Emma's power is based off the character of Tirla and Nita's on Peter, with their backstories roughly swapped.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

...I have read those books and I didn't realize. Oh well, it's been years.

[Bluelantern]

The Emma talking to Noel is from the same world as Juanita, based on the Pegasus series by Anne McCaffrey. I can still infodump if you're curious but it's not an original setting or anything. Emma's power is based off the character of Tirla and Nita's on Peter, with their backstories roughly swapped.

Infodump away! I had forgotten about Juanita

[Marri]

...I have read those books and I didn't realize. Oh well, it's been years.

There aren't even enough posts to paginate yet, that seems pretty reasonable to me xD

Infodump away! I had forgotten about Juanita

Oookay. So!

Some Pegasus plot spoilers

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A couple generations ago, a dude named Henry manages to get scientific proof that parapsychics exist. Precogs, telepaths/empaths, telekinetics, and finders. He establishes the Center for Parapsychic Talent outside of Jerhattan (that universe's Manhattan) and after a lot of fights gets them a bunch of legal protection.

Two generations later, there's a bunch of Centers now but Earth is horribly overpopulated- there's a moon colony and a Mars colony but they're not good enough, so there's a space station under construction to serve as a launch point for colony spaceships and people are sterilized upon the birth of their second child. The poor parts of Jerhattan, the Linears, contain large religious populations that disagree with this child policy who therefore tend to have their second++ children in secret illegally; Nita's the only legal child of her parents.

The space station project is run by a crazy woman named Barchenka whose drive to complete the station on time (and earn a massive bonus) is overriding minor concerns like "oxygen for workers" or "safety nets", things like that. She tries to hire kinetics without understanding how they work; when they quit from overwork, she twists an old Soviet law to enlist them anyway. Most kinetics of any strength are now doing grunt work on the station, though the Center managed to get them some concessions and the public doesn't know much more than what PR people tell them which is mostly "the kinetics are valiantly helping humanity complete their space program."

The assassin's organization in the sandbox is from the book; the Very Reverend Ponsit Prosit is a character who runs a religious group that... at its kindest I would call a cross between Scientology and a megachurch? It's got legitimate followers but it's a scam church hiding various illegal organizations, most relevantly a variety of child slavery and organ harvesting operations that purchase unwanted illegal children from poor Linear families.

In the book, Tirla is a illegal Linear brat with the ability to speak any language she encounters who gets found during a Talented investigation into the child trafficking. Peter is a teenager who develops telekinesis after an accident leaves him quadriplegic, notable in that he's the first kinetic who can draw power from an outside (electrical) source, who gets found when he goes out of body and accidentally stumbles on the Center's alarms. Tirla gets drawn into the religion/child trafficking plot, Peter gets drawn into the space station drama, people learn to use electrical power, everyone gets telekinetic superpowers, they take over the galaxy, you know how it goes.

[Bluelantern]

In the spirit of the season. Please tell us your characters' relationship with Christmas? :D

[Marri]

Jenny LOVES Christmas. Full on festivities occur. They set up a nativity scene and get a big tree (with carefully non-breakable ornaments and much bickering over who gets to put the angel on top) and put candles in the windows and are generally as decorative as they can get away with. There are huge family meals with a houseful of relatives and homemade cookies as frosted by the ducklings which are later left out for Santa. They play tombola and go to midnight mass and sing carols and open presents and general "large Catholic family"-style merriment ensues.

Emma is conflicted about Christmas; she likes the presents, but that's about it. It's a lot of time with her parents and doing the Expected Things like sitting through Lessons and Carols (she likes the carols okay but not so much the socializing) and lots of "really, Emma, I know it's the holidays but that's still an awfully large helping of buche de noel." (Emma ignores her and eats it anyway, and sulkily calls it a Yule log in her head because she refuses to be that pretentious and her mother can't even speak French anyway.)

Phil's family is lazy about Christmas. They would go to church because his grandparents wanted to, but then go home and curl up by the fire and drink hot chocolate and watch movies and generally be laid back and Midwestern about the whole thing. Once he marries Emma they make some excuse about splitting holidays between families and promptly start spending Christmas in Ohio. (Emma's family gets Thanksgiving.)

Alli and Jess are Jewish. They just like the day off. And presents, they'll take presents.

Vivian's parents aren't formally anything but are probably best described as "Chinese folk religion". She gets red envelopes on Chinese New Year, not presents from Santa.

Tamara's Christmas is kind of awkward cause she doesn't see her family much but now it is mostly a "everyone fuss over Kevin" holiday. Kevin is 100% on board with this.

[DanielH]

Now that you’ve reminded me of the existence of Tamara and Kevin, I’m curious: is the holdup with Sunday the usual issue of not coming up with plots, or is there a different one?

[Marri]

Mostly just plots, but made worse because our Available Plot space is even more limited than usual (we don't want to do anything too silly/lighthearted, for example)

[Marri]

Added some of the character/setting stuff other people are doing. Insofar as I ever have time to glowfic, but I can pretend? xD