Saturday, May 7, 2011

Community Table: D? Random Spaceport People

  1. A Junior Collections Officer of the E-Commerce Internet Implementation and Troubleshooting Branch of the (Insert company or government here)'s Bureau of Software Troubleshooting and Acquisition.
  2. Senior Field Programmer for Telecommunications Code Acquisition and Installation Division of the Web-based Software Administration Division, which is a sub-section of the Agency of Telecommunications Intranet Programming.
  3. Security personnel for the Bureau of Database Backup and Mainframe Development.
  4. Crew of the Pachyderm class fighter Tarrasque.
  5. A roguish tramp-freighter captain and his brawny alien co-pilot [Trey]
  6. Youth from a peaceful world trying to hire fighters to help defend his home against an invading alien force [Trey]
  7. A pacifist monk in saffron garb handing out pamphlets and trying to convince people to give up their life of lust, greed and violence to become "one with the Great Uba". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  8. Gang of rowdy grav-ball fans celebrating their team's victory as noisily and boisterously as possible. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  9. Gang of rowdy grav-ball fans angrily venting their annoyance at their team's defeat as loudly and violently as possible. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  10. An anthropomorphic vending machine. [Porky]
  11. A temporal anomaly running out of time. [Porky]
  12. A team of escaped cargo hunters, either a) cargo hunters absent without leave or b) hunters of sentient cargo. [Porky]
  13. A hard-light hologram with a memory glitch, believing he/she is still soft light. [Porky]
  14. A group of avatars for spaceport people designers separated by vast distances. [Porky]
  15. A smug Gler. [Porky]
  16. Echoes of past lives triggered by the previous year's timebomb. [Porky]
  17. A nano-cloud disguised as a bucket seat. [Porky]
  18. An invisible nothingness. [Porky]
  19. A protocol android training the waste receptacles. [Porky]
  20. A silicon chip fat vat driver delivering top-ups to the automated food concessions. [Porky]
  21. A tall, strangely dressed man stepping out of a tall blue box with the word "Police" written on it. He is followed by an attractive red-haired human female and both are looking around quizzically. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  22. A oneupman looking for his ship. [Porky]
  23. A cyborg stalker. [Porky]
  24. An uplifted Old Earth species: 1) pig; 2) flea; 3) 3. monkey; 4. rabbit; 5. wombat; 6. gnu; 7. ostrich; 8. emu; 9. dolphin; 10. parrot}} [The Acrobatic Flea] [Porky]
  25. A mojo on its way back. [Porky]
  26. A glitterball starmap technician. [Porky]
  27. A worldboat janitorial robot (http://lunchingonlamias.blogspot.com/2011/04/worldboats-and-poetry-potluck-and-j-is.html). [Porky]
  28. A jack-of-all-traders with merchandise. [Porky]
  29. A castaway from a highly advanced civilisation, marooned. [Porky]
  30. A travelator companiomatic. [Porky]
  31. A short, strangely dressed man stepping out of a tall blue box with the word "Police" written on it. He is followed by an attractive dark-haired human female and both are looking around quizzically. [Porky]
  32. A pair of metal-heads stumbling out of a telephone box saying strange things like: "Whoa! Party on, dude! Wyld Stallyns! 69, dude!", and making odd gestures. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  33. God - on a tea break. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  34. A troupe of mime artists. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  35. A shifty old man in a brown hooded robe, trying not to be seen. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  36. A stream of scantily clad women being chased by a short, bald man in a string vest and an out-of-breath milkman, wearing round spectacles. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  37. A trans-dimensional procession of the damned (http://netherwerks.blogspot.com/2011/05/spell-processions-of-damned.html). [Porky]
  38. A hovercab driver with a telepathic placard. [Porky]
  39. A sharply-dressed catman carrying 1D8 trays of fish. [Porky]
  40. A Connecticut Yankee. [Porky]
  41. The Rolling Stones on a comeback tour. [Porky]
  42. Life, the universe and everything; roll again unless five minutes or fewer till session end. [Porky]
  43. A major satis faction, with a 50% chance of a rival faction in pursuit. [Porky]
  44. A long distance runner approaching the halfway mark. [Porky]
  45. A noospheric news anchor. [Porky]
  46. A rather scruffy looking human - they still exist? - smelling faintly of vindaloo. [Porky]
  47. A man looking rather like the pilot in 5, but narrating himself. [Porky]
  48. Ziggy: 1) the supercomputer; 2) Stardust; 3) Grover. [Porky]
  49. An underage streetwalker who has run away from her abusive pimp called 'Sport'. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  50. A space-taxi driver hawking for business. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  51. Tourists who would like you to take their photograph. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  52. Tourists who would like to take your photograph. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  53. Tourists who would like to ask you for directions. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  54. Monkeys (because everything's better with monkeys). [The Acrobatic Flea]
  55. The Great Uba. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  56. . Young blonde girl in a blue dress asking if you've seen the "white rabbit". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  57. Large-eared, big-nosed, brown-skinned aliens with pointed teeth and slightly squeaky voices trying to make a deal - offering strips of latinum. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  58. A Transportation Security Administration heavy demanding to give you a full cavity search. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  59. A space hopper. [Porky]
  60. A grey-bearded, hopeless romantic slumped beneath the atomic clock, extinct space flora in hand. [Porky]
  61. The wives and girlfriends of the aliens in 59. [Porky]
  62. The Moon Free Decency Inspectorate drawn by word of the wives and girlfriends in 64.
  63. Wally. [Porky]
  64. A beast, with two packs. [Porky]
  65. A litter disintegrator. [Porky]
  66. A piece of long-discarded chewing gum now grown sentient and proclaiming the independence of its armrest. [Porky]
  67. Summerov. [Porky]
  68. A small bird-like creature only stopping at exits. [Porky]
  69. The Last: 1) Starfighter; 2) Action Hero; 3) Boys (of Neverland, 1D6, with a 50% chance of the immortal ringleader and small winged familiar); 4) Boys (of Santa Carla, 1D8, as vampire); World (2D10 large reptiles of various species); 5) of the Mohicans; 6) and the Damned (use counts as); 7) ... [Porky]
  70. An express elevator to hell attendant. [Porky]
  71. A loud and determined toaster. [Porky]
  72. A minor deity launching miniature thunderbolts from the roof truss. [Porky]
  73. The white rabbit. [Porky]
  74. Your Momma [The Acrobatic Flea]
  75. A random character from one of your other campaigns. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  76. A vid crew making a Tri-D documentary about people who visit space ports. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  77. Superman (or, at least, someone dressed like him). [The Acrobatic Flea]
  78. A drug dealer pedaling "deathsticks". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  79. A small child crying because (1-4) he (4-8) she (9-10) it cannot find its mother. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  80. A depressed, paranoid android with a brain the size of a planet and a pain in all the diodes down its left side. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  81. A crying mother looking for her lost child. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  82. A gathering of quite aggressive panhandlers who REALLY want your small change. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  83. A large gathering of boisterous and flirtatious female aliens, dressed in outrageous fancy dress, on a "hen weekend". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  84. A sporcery guild salesman (http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2011/04/sporcery-guilds-fungus-to-stars.html). [Porky]
  85. A brain in a jar. [Porky]
  86. A rather distressed-looking young human and his wide-eyed, white-haired older companion, the latter invoking a deity named 'Great Scott'. [Porky]
  87. A lifejimbutnotasweknowit. [Porky]
  88. A cyclepath (a very low-level telepath). [Porky]
  89. A scruffy looking human slave being pushed about by a gang of gorillas wearing leather armour. Eventually the human will snap and cry out: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty apes!" At which point anything could happen... [The Acrobatic Flea]
  90. The Lizard King [The Acrobatic Flea]
  91. Hunter S Thompson - just as the drugs kick in (80% chance he is armed) [The Acrobatic Flea]
  92. A musical troupe performing "easy listening" muzak on a variety of native instruments. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  93. A clone of your most famous ancestor - who he is none too happy with the mess you've made of your life. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  94. Cthulhu. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  95. A dashing omni-sexual rogue, airforce pilot and renegade Time Agent who offers to whisk you away for great adventures and some 'no-strings-attached' naughtiness. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  96. You meet yourself going in the opposite direction and both agree that this whole idea was a bad one. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  97. A small, green-skinned, alien wise man with large ears and an inability to speak in grammatically correct sentences who warns you that "fear leads to hate and hate leads to the dark side", adding "do or do not, there is no try" and other sage advice. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  98. Roll twice and combine results. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  99. Nothing, just: 1) swamp gas; 2) a weather balloon; 3) [Porky] 3)a plastic bag caught on a breeze; 4) tumbleweed; 5) a bell tolling in the distance; 6) crickets chirping}} [The Acrobatic Flea]
  100. An unrelenting humanoid robot. [Porky]
  101. A man holding up a placard, with a large arrow and ancient runes on that read: 1) Golf Sale; 2) Apartments For Rent; 3)Free Puppies; 4) Car Valeting Service; 5) [The Acrobatic Flea] 6) Hello Direct Female Progenitor; 7) Hello Feline; 8) Make Star Loves not Wars; 9) Just Respond Verbally in the Negative; 10) Resistance Is Futile; 11) I Want To Believe; 12)
  102. A rather eager woman in a wedding dress trying to catch the eye of any man who has just arrived. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  103. A waste receptacle manoeuvring for the space flora bouquet in 104.
  104. An invisible id. [Porky]
  105. A vermicious knid. [Porky]
  106. A Nigerian prince who really has $8,000,000,000 locked away in a vault and just needs your bank details to free the money up (you'll get 10%, of course!) [The Acrobatic Flea]
  107. The two-headed, three-armed President Of The Galaxy - who doesn't mind sharing a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster with you if you'll listen to him talk about himself for several hours. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  108. A talent scout. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  109. A scout walker. [Porky]
  110. A small furry creature hunting the scout walker in 111. [Porky]
  111. A poor use of CGI. [Porky]
  112. A raygun caddy. [Porky]
  113. A thing. [Porky]
  114. A large Nordic hammer that no-one can move. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  115. The Twitter Fail Whale [The Acrobatic Flea]
  116. A Pushmi-Pullyu [The Acrobatic Flea]
  117. A man talking to a gathering of 3d6 local animals. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  118. A drunk businessman having a conversation with an invisible rabbit. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  119. A depressed banker having a conversation with an invisible angel. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  120. Buddy Holly. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  121. A glitch in reality. [Porky]
  122. A space cowboy, returning. [Porky]
  123. A fantastic mystery star fox. [Porky]
  124. A space pest exterminator, either a) an exterminator of space pests or b) a space pest who exterminates. [Porky]
  125. A firehider ant, employed to prevent the prehistoric creatures living in the service tunnels progressing beyond the stone age. [Porky]
  126. A gas giant, stooping to avoid the ceiling extractor fans. [Porky]
  127. A gaseous anomaly, surrounded by an additional 1D6 spaceport people, all red-faced. [Porky]
  128. A dog star carrying a copy of The Daily Telepath. [Porky]
  129. A traveling salesman from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with a briefcase bulging full of "Why So Sirius?" promotional brochures. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  130. A juggler [The Acrobatic Flea]
  131. Someone you were trying to avoid. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  132. Someone you were looking for. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  133. A one-legged, salty sea dog with a treasure map. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  134. A blind beggar who threatens you with "the black spot" if you hassle him. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  135. Why, if it isn't Uncle 1)Ben; 2)Owen; 3) Man From... [The Acrobatic Flea]
  136. A talking horse [The Acrobatic Flea]
  137. A horse of a different colour [The Acrobatic Flea]
  138. An intelligent kangeroo that tells you "Timmy is trapped down the well". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  139. Mr Rogers (he was in the neighbourhood) [The Acrobatic Flea]
  140. A strange man, human in appearance. He is riding a horse, and will listen intently to anyone. When they have finished their story he will say, in a very rare tone that implies (well, more states with great vigor) he actually does, "I believe you". He is most likely not well versed in the idiom of the area, so it is extremely unwise to tell him to "Go jump off a cliff" or similar phrases.
  141. A big angry strawberry blonde irishman lurking with a facial disfiguration and a grudge. [The Angry Lurker]
  142. A living table, upsetting beverages every time it has to move its legs in. [Porky]
  143. A chair man, irate at the bad manners - and personal hygiene - of the other travellers. [Porky]
  144. An upset beverage: 1) lost; 2) luggage lost; 3) delayed; 4) ... [Porky]
  145. A bad manner. [Porky]
  146. A B.I.D (Book Implantation Device). It allows you to enter any book, and bring people out with you if you wish. Often used for "What if" situations in history classes.
  147. A casual table (smoking a cigarette and not really bothered by anything) [The Acrobatic Flea]
  148. An easy chair (giving you a wink) [The Acrobatic Flea]
  149. 157. A rocking chair, at least until the band in 41 and singer in 122 catch their connection.[Porky]
  150. 158. A dining table; if beside the chair in 156, laid and set. [Porky]
  151. 159. A bar stool, also surrounded by an additional 1D6 spaceport people, all red-faced. [Porky]
  152. 160. A kitchen counter, busy because it's a heck of a big spaceport. [Porky]
  153. A distinguished looking elderly man with pointed ears who will announce (1-3) "I am Spock" or (4-6) "I am not Spock", give a Vulcan salute and hopes you "live long and prosper" before moving on. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  154. A recursive meme [The Acrobatic Flea]
  155. A small child who has run away from home and wants to see "the stars" with "real adventurers". [The Acrobatic Flea]
  156. A fast-food vendor [The Acrobatic Flea]
  157. Some fast food running away from its vendor. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  158. A lizard, making the man in 161 nervous. [Porky]
  159. A tired trope. [Porky]
  160. An unreal adventurer. [Porky]
  161. A fast-food buyer, with an eye on the snoozing travellers. [Porky]
  162. Slow food, caught. [Porky]
  163. A kid in a hoodie sticking up fly posters for his band's gig. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  164. A graffiti artist in mid-spray [The Acrobatic Flea]
  165. A red-haired supermodel who announces: "face it, tiger... you just hit the jackpot!" [The Acrobatic Flea]
  166. A gang of cats with opposable thumbs, looking quite menacing. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  167. Father Christmas... on holiday. [The Acrobatic Flea]
  168. Parallel universe versions of your entire party. Or are you the parallel universe versions of them? [The Acrobatic Flea]
  169. Clumsy tech on a ladder fumbles his variable laser... [JDJarvis]
  170. Two people in mismatched clothes, hiring bodyguards. There will be 2d20 of them, and most will have a Gift (Psychic abilities, ranging from telekinesis, to the ability to wound without touching, heightened speed or short range teleportation).
  171. A rocket-propelled darts player, either a) a player of rocket-propelled darts or b) a darts player with a powerful form of personal locomotion; possibly linked with 136. Porky
  172. A cult leader, either a) a leader of a cult or b) a leader enjoying a non-mainstream popularity; accompanied by 2D4 cultists / fans as appropriate. Porky
  173. An astronought (an entity with no presence in space). Porky
  174. An astronor (an entity with no presence in time or space). Porky
  175. An Astrognaw (a spacefaring rodent). Porky
  176. An ashtray physicist, studying the butts in the smoking area. Porky
  177. A spacecraft spotter. Porky
  178. A space porter. Porky
  179. A port spacer (a spaceperson who sits on the left). Porky
  180. A starboard spacer (a spaceperson who sits on the right). Porky
  181. A space centre (a spaceperson who sits in the middle). Porky
  182. A star boarder (a bold - and rather singed - space pirate). Porky
  183. A bored starer, daydreaming while waiting for a flight. Porky
  184. A short, bald, gnomish man with a big nose and ears reading a furniture magazine about tables. Captain Kellen
  185. A transplanted 21st Century retired soldier waiting for the next time ship to take him home. Captain Kellen
  186. Brittany Spears singing 'Oops I did it again' in the lounge even though she is 167 years old. Captain Kellen
  187. A small boy named Thomas Kellen. Captain Kellen
  188. The Silver Surfer The Acrobatic Flea
  189. A stray mongrel dog with a space helmet on. She speaks with a Russian accent. The Acrobatic Flea
  190. A giant walking tree - capable of only saying: "I am Groot" in different intonations - and a laser pistol-packing raccoon in a retro space suit. The Acrobatic Flea
  191. A giant walking tree saying to passers-by: "There, there, don't be so hasty, little hobbits." The Acrobatic Flea
  192. Oberon King of the fairies. Captain Kellen
  193. Patrick Cooley complaining of the lack of sand in distant lands. Captain Kellen
  194. A chef dressed in red named David Mitchie eating vanilla custard and something... red. Captain Kellen
  195. A clone of Madonna is singing 'Material Girl' in a corner for pocket credits. Captain Kellen
  196. A blue gelatin blob named 'Bob' is trying to 'pick-up' a bowl of jello with fruit in it. Captain Kellen
  197. A doppler-ganger (a variable intensity mafioso). Porky
  198. Serpentine lifeforms hoping to make it onto a spaceplane. Porky
  199. A one-man banned, being evicted again. Porky
  200. A one-amoeba banned, being evicted again and again. Porky
  201. A sentient gear wheel off to start a new life, no longer a cog in the machine. Porky
  202. An interstellar conga line. Porky
  203. An interstellar conger eel. Porky
  204. Colonel Saunders eating hamburger. Captain Kellen
  205. A golden dragon. Captain Kellen
  206. A cyborg with his voice box stuck on the phrase 'I'll be back.' Captain Kellen
  207. A clone of Charlie Sheen handing out 'pamphlets'. Captain Kellen
  208. An amphibious bottle nosed creature named 'Flipper' is looking for the pool. Captain Kellen
  209. A rodent named Ralph is looking for a motorcycle and a helmet. Captain Kellen
  210. An insurance salesman. Captain Kellen
  211. An overweight human dressed in leather and frills is singing 'I ain't nothin but a hound dog' on his way to a slot machine. Captain Kellen
  212. A figure trying (unsuccessfully) to hide in the shadows. The Acrobatic Flea
  213. A line of ducks. The Acrobatic Flea
  214. A trio of men (one grey-haired, smoking a cigar; one blonde and smiling; one wearing a leather jacket, baseball cap and manic glint in his eye) are arguing with their muscular black friend, who is sporting a Mohican and lots of gold jewellery and shouting: "I ain't gettin' on no spaceship!" The Acrobatic Flea
  215. A chorus of Sirius Cybernetics androids singing their company song - "Share & Enjoy" - slightly out of key. The Acrobatic Flea
  216. A clone ranger - rounding up all the errant clones that have been spotted in the spaceport. The Acrobatic Flea
  217. Yar, King of Gate 4, and the ships Security Officer who is very much more handsome and intelligent than his arch-nemesis No150 The Angry Lurker. Ray Rousell
  218. The Ships entertainment - Buddy Cochran, a robot who sings 50's Rock'n'Roll tunes by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. Ray RousellThree space vixens in gaudy, skin tight costumes with headaches - just returning from vacation, lost everything. Matt
  219. A Liloc demon. He came up on the elevator.
  220. A ghost in a machine. Porky
  221. A mechanical ghost crab. Porky
  222. A cray-fish. Porky
  223. A galaxy-class starfish. Porky
  224. A noctopus, responsible for the inky blackness of space. Porky
  225. A space cucumber. Porky
  226. A faster-than-light driver. Porky
  227. An impulse engineer. Porky
  228. A phaser banker. Porky
  229. Chuck Norris The Acrobatic Flea
  230. Some bicycle thieves The Acrobatic Flea
  231. Some reservoir dogs The Acrobatic Flea
  232. A dirty dozen The Acrobatic Flea
  233. Some wild geese The Acrobatic Flea
  234. 1d6 borg looking to assimilate you The Acrobatic Flea
  235. 1d6 cybermen looking to upgrade you The Acrobatic Flea
  236. 1d6 cylons looking to kill you The Acrobatic Flea
  237. The Galactic Pope in his Galactic Pope-mobile The Acrobatic Flea
  238. The pope smoking dope The Acrobatic Flea
  239. The pope on a rope The Acrobatic Flea
  240. A tin tinnabulation. Porky
  241. A specialist in robo-tics. Porky

  242. A light sabre-toothed tiger, either a) a sabre-toothed tiger formed of light, whether i) soft light, ii) hard light, or iii) slow light, or 2) a tiger with light sabres in place of teeth. Porky
  243. A sun dog, with a 20% chance of 1D20 lightning bugs, each followed after 1D10 seconds by a thunder cat. Porky
  244. A saucerer (a UFO-piloting magician). Porky
  245. A saucerheiress (next in line for a UFO-manufacturing fortune). Porky
  246. A sunbather (not easy when the water evaporates long before arrival). Porky
  247. A pair of sweet-smelling and sticky honeymooners. PorkyThe cow that jumped over the moon, heading back. Porky
  248. The dish and the spoon, running away. Porky
  249. The kitchen sink. Porky
  250. 1D6 of living quarters, arguing over whether they should spend their vacation and themselves in the arcade, the vending machines (# 10 looks on with interest), or the laundry. Jennie
  251. A broom-handled mouser, sweeping the room for mice, and purring intermittently. Jennie
  252. A crowd, gathered around a charred and melted ship on display at the Martian embassy. The name, partly obscured but still readable, is Thunderchild.
  253. A Mobius stripper, muttering something to herself about one-sided relationships. Jennie A representative of a non-Euclidean species. Porky
  254. A family of breeder reactors. Porky
  255. A chained reactionary. Porky
  256. An equal and opposite reactionary. Porky
  257. An unchained (mind-)meldee. Porky



66 comments:

  1. 5. A roguish tramp-freighter captain and his brawny alien co-pilot

    6. Youth from a peaceful world trying to hire fighters to help defend his home against an invading alien force

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  2. 7. A pacifist monk in saffron garb handing out pamphlets and trying to convince people to give up their life of lust, greed and violence to become "one with the Great Uba".

    8. Gang of rowdy grav-ball fans celebrating their team's victory as noisily and boisterously as possible.

    9. Gang of rowdy grav-ball fans angrily venting their annoyance at their team's defeat as loudly and violently as possible.

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  3. 10. An anthropomorphic vending machine.
    11. A temporal anomaly running out of time.
    12. A team of escaped cargo hunters, either a) cargo hunters absent without leave or b) hunters of sentient cargo.
    13. A hard-light hologram with a memory glitch, believing he/she is still soft light.
    14. A group of avatars for spaceport people designers separated by vast distances.
    15. A smug Gler.
    16. Echoes of past lives triggered by the previous year's timebomb.
    17. A nano-cloud disguised as a bucket seat.
    18. An invisible nothingness.
    19. A protocol android training the waste receptacles.
    20. A silicon chip fat vat driver delivering top-ups to the automated food concessions.

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  4. 21. A tall, strangely dressed man stepping out of a tall blue box with the word "Police" written on it. He is followed by an attractive red-haired human female and both are looking around quizzically.

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  5. @ The Acrobatic Flea - Let's get this thing rolling. We can make it D100, and we have to get to at least 42.

    22. A oneupman looking for his ship.
    23. A cyborg stalker.
    24. An uplifted Old Earth species: 1) pig; 2) flea; 3) ...
    25. A mojo on its way back.
    26. A glitterball starmap technician.
    27. A worldboat janitorial robot (http://lunchingonlamias.blogspot.com/2011/04/worldboats-and-poetry-potluck-and-j-is.html).
    28. A jack-of-all-traders with merchandise.
    29. A castaway from a highly advanced civilisation, marooned.
    30. A travelator companiomatic.
    31. A short, strangely dressed man stepping out of a tall blue box with the word "Police" written on it. He is followed by an attractive dark-haired human female and both are looking around quizzically.

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  6. 32. A pair of metal-heads stumbling out of a telephone box saying strange things like: "Whoa! Party on, dude! Wyld Stallyns! 69, dude!", and making odd gestures.

    33. God - on a tea break.

    34. A troupe of mime artists.

    35. A shifty old man in a brown hooded robe, trying not to be seen.

    36. A stream of scantily clad women being chased by a short, bald man in a string vest and an out-of-breath milkman, wearing round spectacles.

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  7. Game on!

    37. A trans-dimensional procession of the damned (http://netherwerks.blogspot.com/2011/05/spell-processions-of-damned.html).
    38. A hovercab driver with a telepathic placard.
    39. A sharply-dressed catman carrying 1D8 trays of fish.
    40. A Connecticut Yankee.
    41. The Rolling Stones on a comeback tour.
    42. Life, the universe and everything; roll again unless five minutes or fewer till session end.
    43. A major satis faction, with a 50% chance of a rival faction in pursuit.
    44. A long distance runner approaching the halfway mark.
    45. A noospheric news anchor.
    46. A rather scruffy looking human - they still exist? - smelling faintly of vindaloo.

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  8. I don't want to hog the show, but to tide us over here's another couple of the referential kind.

    47. A man looking rather like the pilot in 5, but narrating himself.
    48. Ziggy: 1) the supercomputer; 2) Stardust; 3) Grover.

    Trey and The Acrobatic Flea are missing links at the top too.

    Will we make to 100? We need more animals for 24.

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  9. 51. An underage streetwalker who has run away from her abusive pimp called 'Sport'.

    52. A space-taxi driver hawking for business.

    53. Tourists who would like you to take their photograph.

    54. Tourists who would like to take your photograph.

    55. Tourists who would like to ask you for directions.

    56. Monkeys (because everything's better with monkeys).

    {{ some more animals for 25: 3. monkey; 4. rabbit; 5. wombat; 6. gnu; 7. ostrich; 8. emu; 9. dolphin; 10. parrot}}

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  10. 57. The Great Uba.

    58. Young blonde girl in a blue dress asking if you've seen the "white rabbit".

    59. Large-eared, big-nosed, brown-skinned aliens with pointed teeth and slightly squeaky voices trying to make a deal - offering strips of latinum.

    60. A Transportation Security Administration heavy demanding to give you a full cavity search.

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  11. 61. A space hopper.
    62. A grey-bearded, hopeless romantic slumped beneath the atomic clock, extinct space flora in hand.
    63. The wives and girlfriends of the aliens in 59.
    64. The Moon Free Decency Inspectorate drawn by word of the wives and girlfriends in 64.
    65. Wally.
    66. A beast, with two packs.
    67. A litter disintegrator.
    68. A piece of long-discarded chewing gum now grown sentient and proclaiming the independence of its armrest.
    69. Summerov.
    70. A small bird-like creature only stopping at exits.
    71. The Last: 1) Starfighter; 2) Action Hero; 3) Boys (of Neverland, 1D6, with a 50% chance of the immortal ringleader and small winged familiar); 4) Boys (of Santa Carla, 1D8, as vampire); World (2D10 large reptiles of various species); 5) of the Mohicans; 6) and the Damned (use counts as); 7) ...
    72. An express elevator to hell attendant.
    73. A loud and determined toaster.
    74. A minor deity launching miniature thunderbolts from the roof truss.
    75. The white rabbit.

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  12. 76. Your Momma

    77. A random character from one of your other campaigns.

    78. A vid crew making a Tri-D documentary about people who visit space ports.

    79. Superman (or, at least, someone dressed like him).

    80. A drug dealer pedaling "deathsticks".

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  13. 81. A small child crying because (1-4) he (4-8) she (9-10) it cannot find its mother.

    82. A depressed, paranoid android with a brain the size of a planet and a pain in all the diodes down its left side.

    83. A crying mother looking for her lost child.

    84. A gathering of quite aggressive panhandlers who REALLY want your small change.

    85. A large gathering of boisterous and flirtatious female aliens, dressed in outrageous fancy dress, on a "hen weekend".

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  14. 86. A sporcery guild salesman (http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2011/04/sporcery-guilds-fungus-to-stars.html).
    87. A brain in a jar.
    88. A rather distressed-looking young human and his wide-eyed, white-haired older companion, the latter invoking a deity named 'Great Scott'.
    89. A lifejimbutnotasweknowit.
    90. A cyclepath (a very low-level telepath).

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  15. 91. A scruffy looking human slave being pushed about by a gang of gorillas wearing leather armour. Eventually the human will snap and cry out: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty apes!" At which point anything could happen...

    92. The Lizard King

    93. Hunter S Thompson - just as the drugs kick in (80% chance he is armed)

    94. A musical troupe performing "easy listening" muzak on a variety of native instruments.

    95. A clone of your most famous ancestor - who he is none too happy with the mess you've made of your life.

    96. Cthulhu.

    97. A dashing omni-sexual rogue, airforce pilot and renegade Time Agent who offers to whisk you away for great adventures and some 'no-strings-attached' naughtiness.

    98. You meet yourself going in the opposite direction and both agree that this whole idea was a bad one.

    99. A small, green-skinned, alien wise man with large ears and an inability to speak in grammatically correct sentences who warns you that "fear leads to hate and hate leads to the dark side", adding "do or do not, there is no try" and other sage advice.

    100. Roll twice and combine results.

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  16. Well done, and thanks for all the fun! That was a great challenge and a great read. I don't really want to stop.

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  17. Feel free to carry on ;) Although I really should get some sleep!

    Or start a new table over on your blog? :D

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  18. Then don't! There's no reason we can't take this to a D10000 or above.

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  19. Nothing comes to mind...

    101. Nothing, just: 1) swamp gas; 2) a weather balloon; 3) ...

    I'll be back...

    102. An unrelenting humanoid robot.

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  20. {{for 101: 3)a plastic bag caught on a breeze; 4) tumbleweed; 5) a bell tolling in the distance; 6) crickets chirping}}

    103. A man holding up a placard, with a large arrow and ancient runes on that read: 1) Golf Sale; 2) Apartments For Rent; 3)Free Puppies; 4) Car Valeting Service; 5)...

    104. A rather eager woman in a wedding dress trying to catch the eye of any man who has just arrived.

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  21. for 103. 6) Hello Direct Female Progenitor; 7) Hello Feline; 8) Make Star Loves not Wars; 9) Just Respond Verbally in the Negative; 10) Resistance Is Futile; 11) I Want To Believe; 12) ...

    105. A waste receptacle manoeuvring for the space flora bouquet in 104.
    106. An invisible id.
    107. A vermicious knid.

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  22. 108. A Nigerian prince who really has $8,000,000,000 locked away in a vault and just needs your bank details to free the money up (you'll get 10%, of course!)

    109. The two-headed, three-armed President Of The Galaxy - who doesn't mind sharing a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster with you if you'll listen to him talk about himself for several hours.

    110. A talent scout.

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  23. 111. A scout walker.
    112. A small furry creature hunting the scout walker in 111.
    113. A poor use of CGI.
    114. A raygun caddy.
    115. A thing.

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  24. 116. A large Nordic hammer that no-one can move.

    117. The Twitter Fail Whale

    118. A Pushmi-Pullyu

    119. A man talking to a gathering of 3d6 local animals.

    120. A drunk businessman having a conversation with an invisible rabbit.

    121. A depressed banker having a conversation with an invisible angel.

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  25. 123. Thor.
    124. 1) Third of Five; 2) Hugh.
    125. A Six (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_My_Tears,_The_Policeman_Said).
    126. Unrefracted Spectrum Crystalline Ice and the Seven Scrunts (http://www.olleysarmies.co.uk/home.html#galleries).
    127. An AT-AT.
    128. A Niniyal (http://spaceswordsandglory.blogspot.com/p/lil-chompy.html).
    129. A tentacle, emerging from an air duct.

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  26. @ C'nor - Some glitches I've noticed: 73 has two entries; 102 should be an extension of the sub-list 101; 105 should be an extension of the sub-list in 103; with those changes made the reference in 113 should match. The editing software can make things very tricky.

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  27. @C'Nor - as well as the hic-cups that Porky spotted, I noticed that 38 was an empty slot as well...

    38. A traveling salesman from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with a briefcase bulging full of "Why So Sirius?" promotional brochures.

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  28. Now it's looking sleek. Somehow 38 came back so we can save the great new 38 for 138.

    130. A glitch in reality.
    131. A space cowboy, returning.
    132. A fantastic mystery star fox.
    133. A space pest exterminator, either a) an exterminator of space pests or b) a space pest who exterminates.
    134. A firehider ant, employed to prevent the prehistoric creatures living in the service tunnels progressing beyond the stone age.
    135. A gas giant, stooping to avoid the ceiling extractor fans.
    136. A gaseous anomaly, surrounded by an additional 1D6 spaceport people, all red-faced.
    137. A dog star carrying a copy of The Daily Telepath.

    ...leading into the Sirius entry for 138.

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  29. @ C'nor - It's alive! Nos. 12 and 13 should only be one entry, and 108 has an extra 109 inside it.

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  30. 138. A traveling salesman from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with a briefcase bulging full of "Why So Sirius?" promotional brochures.

    139. A juggler

    140. Someone you were trying to avoid.

    141. Someone you were looking for.

    142. A one-legged, salty sea dog with a treasure map.

    143. A blind beggar who threatens you with "the black spot" if you hassle him.

    144. Why, if it isn't Uncle 1)Ben; 2)Owen; 3) Man From...

    145) A talking horse

    146) A horse of a different colour

    147) An intelligent kangeroo that tells you "Timmy is trapped down the well".

    148) Mr Rogers (he was in the neighbourhood)

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  31. 149. A strange man, human in appearance. He is riding a horse, and will listen intently to anyone. When they have finished their story he will say, in a very rare tone that implies (well, more states with great vigor) he actually does, "I believe you". He is most likely not well versed in the idiom of the area, so it is extremely unwise to tell him to "Go jump off a cliff" or similar phrases.

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  32. 150. A big angry strawberry blonde irishman lurking with a facial disfiguration and a grudge.

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  33. Welcome, Mr Lurker - that fits right in! Now we need Ray...

    @ C'nor - A true living table: nos. 27 and 28 each have two entries in one.

    151. A living table, upsetting beverages every time it has to move its legs in.
    152. A chair man, irate at the bad manners - and personal hygiene - of the other travellers.
    153. An upset beverage: 1) lost; 2) luggage lost; 3) delayed; 4) ...
    154. A bad manner.

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  34. Actually, I think that was just an artifact of the numbering being slightly different in the table than here.

    155. A B.I.D (Book Implantation Device). It allows you to enter any book, and bring people out with you if you wish. Often used for "What if" situations in history classes.

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  35. 155. A casual table (smoking a cigarette and not really bothered by anything)

    156. An easy chair (giving you a wink)

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  36. @ C'nor - The root of it all seems to be 12 and 13, which are only one entry. Splitting that should clear it up.

    157. A rocking chair, at least until the band in 41 and singer in 122 catch their connection.
    158. A dining table; if beside the chair in 156, laid and set.
    159. A bar stool, also surrounded by an additional 1D6 spaceport people, all red-faced.
    160. A kitchen counter, busy because it's a heck of a big spaceport.

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  37. 161. A distinguished looking elderly man with pointed ears who will announce (1-3) "I am Spock" or (4-6) "I am not Spock", give a Vulcan salute and hopes you "live long and prosper" before moving on.

    162. A recursive meme

    163. A small child who has run away from home and wants to see "the stars" with "real adventurers".

    164. A fast-food vendor

    165. Some fast food running away from its vendor.

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  38. {{The more we expand this, the more I want to visit this spaceport!!!}}

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  39. Me too. It would make a good place to pass through a few times.

    166. A lizard, making the man in 161 nervous.
    167. A tired trope.
    168. An unreal adventurer.
    169. A fast-food buyer, with an eye on the snoozing travellers.
    170. Slow food, caught.

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  40. 171. A kid in a hoodie sticking up fly posters for his band's gig.

    173. A graffiti artist in mid-spray

    174. A red-haired supermodel who announces: "face it, tiger... you just hit the jackpot!"

    175. A gang of cats with opposable thumbs, looking quite menacing.

    176. Father Christmas... on holiday.

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  41. 177. Parallel universe versions of your entire party. Or are you the parallel universe versions of them?

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  42. 178. Clumsy tech on a ladder fumbles his variable laser...

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  43. Welcome!

    179. Two people in mismatched clothes, hiring bodyguards. There will be 2d20 of them, and most will have a Gift (Psychic abilities, ranging from telekinesis, or the ability to wound without touching, to heightened speed or short range teleportation).

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  44. Note: I don
    t mean to imple that telekinesis is the ability to wound without touching... Any ideas?

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  45. Telepooos..? From the modern Greek for pain.

    180. A rocket-propelled darts player, either a) a player of rocket-propelled darts or b) a darts player with a powerful form of personal locomotion; possibly linked with 136.
    181. A cult leader, either a) a leader of a cult or b) a leader enjoying a non-mainstream popularity; accompanied by 2D4 cultists / fans as appropriate.
    182. An astronought (an entity with no presence in space).
    183. An astronor (an entity with no presence in time or space).
    184. An Astrognaw (a spacefaring rodent).
    185. An ashtray physicist, studying the butts in the smoking area.
    186. A spacecraft spotter.
    187. A space porter.
    188. A port spacer (a spaceperson who sits on the left).
    189. A starboard spacer (a spaceperson who sits on the right).
    190. A space centre (a spaceperson who sits in the middle).
    191. A star boarder (a bold - and rather singed - space pirate).
    192. A bored starer, daydreaming while waiting for a flight.

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  46. 193. A short, bald, gnomish man with a big nose and ears reading a furniture magazine about tables.

    194. A transplanted 21st Century retired soldier waiting for the next time ship to take him home.

    195. Brittany Spears singing 'Oops I did it again in the lounge even though she is 167 yers old.

    196. A small boy named Thomas Kellen.

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  47. 197. The Silver Surfer

    198. A stray mongrel dog with a space helmet on. She speaks with a Russian accent.

    199. A giant walking tree - capable of only saying: "I am Groot" in different intonations - and a laser pistol-packing raccoon in a retro space suit.

    200. A giant walking tree saying to passers-by: "There, there, don't be so hasty, little hobbits."

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  48. 201. Oberon King of the faries.

    202. Patrick Cooley complaining of the lack of sand in distant lands.

    203. A chef dressed in red named David Mitchie eating vanilla custard and something... red.

    204. A clone of Madonna is singing 'Material Girl' in a corner for pocket credits.

    205. A blue geletin blob named 'Bob' is trying to 'pick-up' a bowl of jello with fruit in it.

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  49. I think Ray might have wanted 201, for a self-portrait similar to Angry's. The current 201 might not be the description he had in mind.

    206. A doppler-ganger (a variable intensity mafioso).
    207. Serpentine lifeforms hoping to make it onto a spaceplane.
    208. A one-man banned, being evicted again.
    209. A one-amoeba banned, being evicted again and again.
    210. A sentient gear wheel off to start a new life, no longer a cog in the machine.
    211. An interstellar conga line.
    212. An interstellar conger eel.

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  50. 213. Colonel Saunders eating hamburger.
    214. A golden dragon.
    215. A cyborg with his voice box stuck on the phrase 'I'll be back.'
    216. A clone of Charlie Sheen handing out 'pamphlets'.
    217. An amphibious bottle nosed creature named 'Flipper' is looking for the pool.
    218. A rodent named Ralph is looking for a motorcycle and a helmet.
    219. An insurance salesman.
    220. An overweight human dressed in leather and frills is singing 'I ain't nothin but a hound dog' on his way to a slot machine.

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  51. 221. A figure trying (unsuccessfully) to hide in the shadows.

    222. A line of ducks.

    223. A trio of men (one grey-haired, smoking a cigar; one blonde and smiling; one wearing a leather jacket, baseball cap and manic glint in his eye) are arguing with their muscular black friend, who is sporting a Mohican and lots of gold jewellery and shouting: "I ain't gettin' on no spaceship!"

    224. A chorus of Sirius Cybernetics androids singing their company song - "Share & Enjoy" - slightly out of key.

    225. A clone ranger - rounding up all the errant clones that have been spotted in the spaceport.

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  52. My message didn't come up??? Your quite right, I don't want to be Oberon King of the Fairies!!
    My person probably No226 is Yar, King of Gate 4, and the ships Security Officer who is very much more handsome and intelligent than his arch-nemesis No150 The Angry Lurker.
    Also No 227 The Ships entertainment - Buddy Cochran, a robot who sings 50's Rock'n'Roll tunes by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.

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  53. 170. Three space vixens in gaudy, skin tight costumes with headaches - just returning from vacation, lost everything.

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  54. (Vixens in the form of "sentient foxes"? (With this table, you've got to ask...) :D)

    171. A Liloc demon. He came up on the elevator.

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  55. @ C'nor - I'm pretty sure comments are still missing, at least one more from me re Ray being Oberon and one from Ray, maybe others.

    I'll make my numbering relative because it's getting confusing. Blogger starts off then:

    n+1. A ghost in a machine.
    n+2. A mechanical ghost crab.
    n+3. A cray-fish.
    n+4. A galaxy-class starfish.
    n+5. A noctopus, responsible for the inky blackness of space.
    n+6. A space cucumber.
    n+7. A faster-than-light driver.
    n+8. An impulse engineer.
    n+9. A phaser banker.

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  56. n+10 Chuck Norris
    n+11 Some bicycle thieves
    n+12 Some reservoir dogs
    n+13 A dirty dozen
    n+14 Some wild geese
    n+15 1d6 borg looking to assimilate you
    n+16 1d6 cybermen looking to upgrade you
    n+17 1d6 cylons looking to kill you
    n+18 The Galactic Pope in his Galactic Pope-mobile
    n+19 The pope smoking dope
    n+20 The pope on a rope

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  57. No sign of those comments then. I read a post today suggesting someone else may have lost comments permanently. Oh well. At least one was only from me..!

    n+21. A tin tinnabulation.
    n+22. A specialist in robo-tics.
    n+23. A light sabre-toothed tiger, either a) a sabre-toothed tiger formed of light, whether i) soft light, ii) hard light, or iii) slow light, or 2) a tiger with light sabres in place of teeth.
    n+24. A sun dog, with a 20% chance of 1D20 lightning bugs, each followed after 1D10 seconds by a thunder cat.
    n+25. A saucerer (a UFO-piloting magician).
    n+26. A saucerheiress (next in line for a UFO-manufacturing fortune).
    n+27. A sunbather (not easy when the water evaporates long before arrival).
    n+28. A pair of sweet-smelling and sticky honeymooners.
    n+29. The cow that jumped over the moon, heading back.
    n+30. The dish and the spoon, running away.
    n+31. The kitchen sink.

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  58. n+32.

    A a corresponding angle, on its way to mail a letter.

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  59. n+33 1D6 of living quarters, arguing over whether they should spend their vacation and themselves in the arcade, the vending machines (# 10 looks on with interest), or the laundry.

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  60. n+ 34 A broom-handled mouser, sweeping the room for mice, and purring intermittently.

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  61. N+35. A crowd, gathered around a charred and melted ship on display at the Martian embassy. The name, partly obscured but still readable, is Thunderchild.

    (Yes, I was listening to War of The Worlds recently.)

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  62. N+36 A Mobius stripper, muttering something to herself about one-sided relationships.

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  63. N+37 A representative of a non-Euclidean species.
    N+38 A family of breeder reactors.
    N+39 A chained reactionary.
    N+40 An equal and opposite reactionary.
    N+41 An unchained (mind-)meldee.

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  64. Does the Mobius stripper work in a Klein bottle club?

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