#PennedPossibilities 1180: Who, out of your entire cast of characters, do you think will live the longest? (No explanation required!)
Fabian Everyman MP, the human avatar of N'Yar Lat-Hotep, the Black Pharaoh; currently Prime Minister of the UK and leader (by unanimous acclaim, none of his surviving MPs are foolish or suicidal enough to challenge him) of the Ruling Party.
Living avatars of Lovecraftian elder gods are not notably mortal and Fabian has been around since at least the 1780's ...
#PennedPossibilities 151. What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural?
Laundry Files: Bob is an applied computational demonologist and sorcerer working for the branch of the British Government dealing with things that go bump in the night—including, embarrassingly, the Prime Minister.
Authority universe (WIP): there is no supernatural, but fanatics believe in the AI Singularity, the holy mind-uploading afterlife to come, and similar nonsense.
#PennedPossibilities 1156: If your MC had (more) money in their possession, what would they do with it?
(Current WIP): Jum and Tabitha are fundamentally not serious people: they get bored easily, and they're inveterate crooks.
So they'd blow a lot of cash on luxuries, kick back poolside in the six-star resort hotel, blow a couple of million on gambling, drugs, and exotic pets, then steal the Planetary Dictator's mistress's jewelry (because it's shiny and it's right there). Whackiness ensues.
#PennedPossibilities 1157. Tell us a random, interesting fact about your WIP.
It started out as an attempt to update Harry Harrison's format for "The Stainless Steel Rat", and is a heist caper set in a crapsack Regency-flavoured space empire: but it's also a dystopia in a setting that takes Curtis Yarvin's neoreactionary agenda seriously (just add tech-mediated reincarnation via mind uploading/imprinting into infant brains if you want to see a boot stamping on an unprotected face *forever*).
