More drug testing

[elfs]

So, last night, I tried to go to sleep with just the dextromethorphan and nothing else. No codeine, no diphenhydramine, not even acetaminophen. Bad idea. The DXM worked reasonably well at keeping the cough idle, if not completely, but I couldn't sleep. I've been sleeping twelve, fourteen hours a day for the past four days, and it all caught up with me last night. Very annoying.

Even worse, it interfered with my waking imagination. I had a good idea for another Sterlings story. It's hinted in the current book (new chapter is up at the website this week; I forgot to mention that, didn't I?) that the Han make Sterlings very uncomfortable because Han are fully functional hermaphrodites. I had come up with a good opening scene for throwing a few Sterlings together with some Pendorians, one of whom is a Han.

And I tried to imagine what the Han looked like. I'm usually okay at this, enough to get a feel for the character and make him or her presentable and dressed. But for the life of me, I couldn't really get the image of a Han in my mind. I mean, they're a mashup between a Silkie and a Hallavodan (and if you know what a "Silkie" and especially a "Hallavodan" are, you are way old-school furry, and I salute you o my brothers!), but instead I kept seeing a Hecatonshires having a painfully bad hair day.

I did sleep some. I dreamed a strange dream where I and a few hardy souls were in a running battle with a nanotech foglet beast. My sidekicks and I managed to snag a small sample of the critter and stick his componenty self under a microscope. Every single foglet looked like a minature Invader Zim.

I'll be glad when this cough is gone.

Comments

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

I know the Silkies, but I don't ever recall hearing about the Hallavodan.

[patcat.livejournal.com]

What he said. Must've been before my time.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid there are no great examples on the web, KRS being such a paranoiac sometimes. He's seriously down the road to being unknown, more's the pity; a brilliant illustrator in his own right. The hallavodan were early acquatic macrofurs, built somewhat along the lines of a sea beaver only with KRS's classical 'knowing' facial expressions.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

KRS is barely familiar to me. At any rate, have you ever pondered having character sheets designed for some of your species?

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

I'd be willing to take a crack at drawing some of your species. (has anybody else ever done so?) The Han and the Tindals, especially. I can probably find the entries where the Han are best described, but could you dig me up some of the better and more comprehensive descriptions of the tindals?

(any side notes in your brain would be likewise appreciated. Drop me an email at Tentaclefriendly@gmail.com)

On a completely separate side note, my previous housemates bought a place on a street called "Tindal court". I've always wondered about where the developers got the name from.