Plot Bunny Release
Nov. 14th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenMy Plot Bunny farm is getting rather crowded, and instead of keeping the poor things in cramped conditions, and instead of just deleting them, I've decided to release a dozen of my oldest and least hoppy bunnies into the wild, in the hopes they will be picked up by some kind master and cherished. Indeed, I dare you to write something with one of these bunnies. Consider it a Challenge.
Here are the first six. Note that the released Bunnies range from vague ideas to ficlets with a couple of scenes. Fear not, I have not deprived myself -- there's still 40-odd bunnies left.
#1.
A Doctor Who/Sentinel crossover
No plot.
But I can just imagine the late 7th Doctor or the 8th or the 5th, sitting down in the Tardis with a cup of tea, reading an original edition of "The Sentinels of Paraguay"... and maybe the 8th raving on about how much he enjoyed Blair's (yet unpublished) book -- to Blair.
#2.
Sentinel (AU)
I already issued this one as a challenge at Cascade Times, but nobody picked it up. I'd hoped I'd get around to doing something with it eventually, but I don't think I will.
(inspired by watching Hornblower)
Set this in the 18th century (or whenever it was)
(that may make it contemporary with Burton)
Blair is either an anthropologist or a doctor.
Picture a scene, a man, long hair and matted beard, in a cage; a wild man in a circus sideshow, or in an asylum, or simply in a room. This is Jim, who was shipwrecked on the coast of South America, captured by a wild tribe, made one of their own (their Sentinel)... and then the tribe was wiped out? He was brought back to civilisation and went mad (rather than suppressing his senses).
Blair nurses him back to sanity.
...
The pitiful creature that whimpered in the corner of the room was but a pale shadow of a man. His hair and beard were long and matted, and though he still wore the navy trousers of a seaman, his chest was bare, and covered with the red pinpricks of a rash. His muscles, once strong, were wasted as with one of those devlish tropical fevers. He had his hands pressed over his ears.
"Who is he?"
"Lieutenant James Ellison, Dr. Sandburg," the seaman said. "That's what he said when we rescued him. Late of His Majesty's Frigate Brigante which sank with all hands down the coast of South America nigh two years ago. He were fine when we picked him up, sir, but the journey treated him poorly."
#3.
Ten Righteous Men
(Sentinel AU)
"And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
-- Genesis 18:23
Someone set on revenge (possibly in a Susan-Fosteresque AU TS world, revenge for the treatment of Guides) someone who is basically a good person who is angry at the evil and injustice, sees "one righteous man" (Jim?) or more than one, and repents of his revenge before he puts it in motion. Though if we consider the biblical parallel, then there needs to be ten. (Refer Genesis 18:32) Hold on, is ten the number of people supposed to be in a jury? No, apparently it's 12 (in California anyway). The number probably varies. Hmmm, "Ten Righteous Men" sounded like a good title.
#4.
Silence
This was a Sentinel story that I started but didn't get very far.
...
*You're just imagining it.*
Blair hadn't spoken to Jim in a week. Late night stake-outs on Jim's part, and exam proctoring on Blair's, had meant they hadn't actually seen each other face to face in all that time. They hadn't spoken on the phone either, though Blair had left messages on the answering machine.
Blair was drowning in silence.
*What did I do wrong? He could at least call. Leave me a note, even. Just one lousy note.*
*He's going to throw me out, I know it. Why doesn't he get it over with? I can't stand this uncertainty.*
#5.
Mission Impossible/Highlander
This is the "new" mission impossible series, not the original. I rather had a soft spot for the Nicholas Black character, who was the Master of Disguise for the team. His background in the pilot episode sounded potentially like that of an Immortal.
So... what if they're trying to oust a South American dictator who has a reputation for magic and voodoo, and they plan for Nicholas to substitute for the dictator's second-in-command and do something-or-other. Nicholas is posing as a businessman, and he goes to some party at which the dictator is...
And then Nicholas senses an immortal. And it's the dictator...
...
"Why are you here?"
"A little business, a little pleasure," said Nicholas Black.
"You have not come for me, I trust?"
"I haven't decided."
"You would not survive if you did."
"And if I didn't, we would never know, would we?"
"What was all that?" Jim asked.
"That," he said darkly, "was the sound of our plan biting the dust." With that, he turned and left the festivities.
Jim found Nicholas in his hotel room.
Nicholas smiled wryly. "I thought you'd follow me."
"I want an explanation."
He laughed darkly. "An explanation. An explanation." His voice was caught between laughter and bitterness. "There are some things man was never meant to know."
#6.
(Sentinel/Providence crossover)
There was a particular episode of Providence in which Richard Burgi played an anthropologist. I forget the character's name.
Crossover: RB-Anthro goes to anthropology conference which Blair is also attending.
It's at Rainier, so Jim turns up too.
Much mix-up ensues, with people taking RBA for Jim, and Jim for RBA.
Is RBA a long lost twin? Is he a (potential) Sentinel too?
He spent time with a tribe, did they have a Sentinel tradition? (presumably not, otherwise it wouldn't be such a dismissed theory)
Here are the first six. Note that the released Bunnies range from vague ideas to ficlets with a couple of scenes. Fear not, I have not deprived myself -- there's still 40-odd bunnies left.
#1.
A Doctor Who/Sentinel crossover
No plot.
But I can just imagine the late 7th Doctor or the 8th or the 5th, sitting down in the Tardis with a cup of tea, reading an original edition of "The Sentinels of Paraguay"... and maybe the 8th raving on about how much he enjoyed Blair's (yet unpublished) book -- to Blair.
#2.
Sentinel (AU)
I already issued this one as a challenge at Cascade Times, but nobody picked it up. I'd hoped I'd get around to doing something with it eventually, but I don't think I will.
(inspired by watching Hornblower)
Set this in the 18th century (or whenever it was)
(that may make it contemporary with Burton)
Blair is either an anthropologist or a doctor.
Picture a scene, a man, long hair and matted beard, in a cage; a wild man in a circus sideshow, or in an asylum, or simply in a room. This is Jim, who was shipwrecked on the coast of South America, captured by a wild tribe, made one of their own (their Sentinel)... and then the tribe was wiped out? He was brought back to civilisation and went mad (rather than suppressing his senses).
Blair nurses him back to sanity.
...
The pitiful creature that whimpered in the corner of the room was but a pale shadow of a man. His hair and beard were long and matted, and though he still wore the navy trousers of a seaman, his chest was bare, and covered with the red pinpricks of a rash. His muscles, once strong, were wasted as with one of those devlish tropical fevers. He had his hands pressed over his ears.
"Who is he?"
"Lieutenant James Ellison, Dr. Sandburg," the seaman said. "That's what he said when we rescued him. Late of His Majesty's Frigate Brigante which sank with all hands down the coast of South America nigh two years ago. He were fine when we picked him up, sir, but the journey treated him poorly."
#3.
Ten Righteous Men
(Sentinel AU)
"And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?"
-- Genesis 18:23
Someone set on revenge (possibly in a Susan-Fosteresque AU TS world, revenge for the treatment of Guides) someone who is basically a good person who is angry at the evil and injustice, sees "one righteous man" (Jim?) or more than one, and repents of his revenge before he puts it in motion. Though if we consider the biblical parallel, then there needs to be ten. (Refer Genesis 18:32) Hold on, is ten the number of people supposed to be in a jury? No, apparently it's 12 (in California anyway). The number probably varies. Hmmm, "Ten Righteous Men" sounded like a good title.
#4.
Silence
This was a Sentinel story that I started but didn't get very far.
...
*You're just imagining it.*
Blair hadn't spoken to Jim in a week. Late night stake-outs on Jim's part, and exam proctoring on Blair's, had meant they hadn't actually seen each other face to face in all that time. They hadn't spoken on the phone either, though Blair had left messages on the answering machine.
Blair was drowning in silence.
*What did I do wrong? He could at least call. Leave me a note, even. Just one lousy note.*
*He's going to throw me out, I know it. Why doesn't he get it over with? I can't stand this uncertainty.*
#5.
Mission Impossible/Highlander
This is the "new" mission impossible series, not the original. I rather had a soft spot for the Nicholas Black character, who was the Master of Disguise for the team. His background in the pilot episode sounded potentially like that of an Immortal.
So... what if they're trying to oust a South American dictator who has a reputation for magic and voodoo, and they plan for Nicholas to substitute for the dictator's second-in-command and do something-or-other. Nicholas is posing as a businessman, and he goes to some party at which the dictator is...
And then Nicholas senses an immortal. And it's the dictator...
...
"Why are you here?"
"A little business, a little pleasure," said Nicholas Black.
"You have not come for me, I trust?"
"I haven't decided."
"You would not survive if you did."
"And if I didn't, we would never know, would we?"
"What was all that?" Jim asked.
"That," he said darkly, "was the sound of our plan biting the dust." With that, he turned and left the festivities.
Jim found Nicholas in his hotel room.
Nicholas smiled wryly. "I thought you'd follow me."
"I want an explanation."
He laughed darkly. "An explanation. An explanation." His voice was caught between laughter and bitterness. "There are some things man was never meant to know."
#6.
(Sentinel/Providence crossover)
There was a particular episode of Providence in which Richard Burgi played an anthropologist. I forget the character's name.
Crossover: RB-Anthro goes to anthropology conference which Blair is also attending.
It's at Rainier, so Jim turns up too.
Much mix-up ensues, with people taking RBA for Jim, and Jim for RBA.
Is RBA a long lost twin? Is he a (potential) Sentinel too?
He spent time with a tribe, did they have a Sentinel tradition? (presumably not, otherwise it wouldn't be such a dismissed theory)
