The cover… evolves
I’m going to have a hard time NOT using bleeding font for the title because it all looks SO cheesy-horror-flick… which is exactly what I’m aiming for :D
I was having a really bad day until this turned up in my in-box. Now I’m stoked :)
The first encounter of T’reka and her people with Big Bird (or any of the Muppets, really, because why wouldn’t they still be around?)
(#00572 - A197)
Still relatively impaired by her injured leg, T'reka stared in amused confusion at the screen.
It was a program meant for juvenile entertainment and/or education (it was hard to tell, with humans. It may be both and something else), she could tell by the puppets. And it was a locally-produced show, because
Read more »T'reka taking shape, care of fabulous artist, Erica Syverson.
These are ROUGH SKETCHES folks. Her rough sketches are enough to make me want to pack in my pencil and quit doodling forever.
And if you’re bothered by the sketchy lines making T'reka look old in the second pic, you can pretend it’s Elderly!T'reka recounting exciting tales of her youth to enraptured grand-keets while a human tries not to laugh in the background.
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Read more »From that original post that started the whole Amity thing: “What if every alien race has nothing but docile, harmless animals on their planets and they look at us with our sharks and bears and wolves and wasps and venomous snakes and just think “Holy shit! How do you guys survive?!””
T’reka’s people found and seeded the planet with their own wildlife and plants, presumably all fairly docile and harmless. What was the reaction on first discovering, not the humans
inspired by http://internutter.tumblr.com/post/77932780162/challenge-00429-a054-urgent-call-home
T’reka might not be as tactile as humans a lot of the time, but repeated exposure would presumably get her mostly used to them and the amount of touching, hugging etc. that tends to happen around humans, even when trying to be careful.
Extrapolating further: A scene with T’reka, a human and a new numidid having a minor conniption fit over perceived threats.
It had taken some significant time for both
Read more »That showed up on my dashboard. Your prompt is:
“Music Night during the Amity Incident”
There was a small flock of scientists with her now. Including a very sweet, very junior male whom T'reka kept accidentally deferring to out of social instinct.
Koku had taken to very prominently wearing his ID with the ‘Junior’ part of his 'Junior Assistant’ title highlighted with the help of the humans photo-reactive ink.
Her
Read more »One of the many early miscommunications when the humans first started to contact the galactic alliance: Alien expresses interest that human is still alive having broken one or more bones, slightly dense human gets the wrong end of the stick entirely and now half the camp thinks people with injuries like that are killed, because why else would something like a trifling broken arm mean you die?
Susan was learning what many in the new proto-city of Wiwazheer were calling Chickenese. Grey
Read more »The humans’ reaction to finding out what the rest of the galaxy thought about them before actual first contact (bonus points mentioning the Pioneer plaques)
The humans learned fast. They apparently learned by messing around with things until something happened that they understood, and worked outwards from there.
And they had learned to read Ulu.
T'reka watched and recorded various humans at the Communications Centre that had once been a Hide Unit. They sat or stood at various info-stations and accessed data
Read more »“Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.”
There were always things to learn. Things like, once an anomalous shape is recognised, it’s easier to spot. Dappled shadows were better to hide in and blending was important.
“Gotcha!” said the human. “You really suck at hide-and-seek, T'yrt'yr[1].”
“I followed the rules,” she
Read more »Hey look what came around with new bits on it! http://siphersaysstuff.tumblr.com/post/73671577343/therobotmonster-moniquill-siderealsandman
Prepare for a barrage of prompts based on it :P
1. “Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.”
[AN: I love that post so much that I’m hinging a book
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This was something I started ages ago, it fell by the wayside when uni work got ahead of me and I don’t know if It’ll ever be finished, but as a very rough base it was what I thought T’reka might look like because I had never seen a guineafowl before but do own a grey chicken, sans most clothing because
Read more »T’reka’s work on Toxic Island was to look for potential new compounds or cures in the dangers of the jungle, but humans have been working with flora and fauna of those levels of toxicity and higher for centuries, including some of the species only encountered by the other cogniscients on Toxic Island since they seeded from Earth
It follows that a) humans have already discovered medical applications using these things
b) humans are probably going to have a lot easier
T'reka’s first communications with the others in her colony group/science base/whoever, after being around the humans for a while
“Uh. Trekker?” said Su-syn. “Your… thing making noise.”
T'reka checked it. It was the urgent-summons. And there was no time to get to her base. “I must checking in! No time. Running is too slow! If I fail, they burn continent.”
Su-syn grinned. “Not worries.”
It was called a Horss.
Read more »The Amity Incident, aka the continuing adventures of T'reka and the strange creatures she encounters, is now up to 10 000 words.
10K down
110K to go.
And I just DL’d Sculptris so I can fart around and build a moquette of T'reka.
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