And now for something completely different!

[kitanzi]

How many are familiar with milliways_bar? Hands, please?

Really? Wow. Well, it's an LJ role playing community that allows crossover of every fictional character you can conceive of in a self-contained bar at the end of the universe (yep, Douglas Adams reference!), and which tends to spawn some addictively readable characters and thread lines. When it works well - and it usually does - it's brilliant. I'm hooked, really hooked. Those of you who have already found out about it know what I mean. Those of you who haven't, give it a try.

Those of you who are familiar with Good Omens, or Firefly, or just would love to read a wonderfully evocative bit of roleplaying, may I suggest this bit to try? Even if you're iffy on the sort of thing as a rule, this is a lovely bit of writing.

If you find you'd like more of an overview of who hangs around, what's going on, and how it all works, I'd suggest millichannel for daily thread summaries and links (the place is even more of a time sink than LJ as a whole) and this explanation of the workings and characters at the Bar at the End of the Universe. Great fun!

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

batyatoon and sdelmonte are heavily addicted and involved. I wonder if you're in any of the same threads?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have any characters myself. I knew Sdelmonte played but I didn't know Batyatoon did. :)

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

(the place is even more of a time sink than LJ as a whole)
AHHHH!!!! Avert avert!!!
Get thee behind me satan!! (grin)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Fun to watch (I often keep my friendsfriends page up at work, if we're not slammed), but being on the Twelve Step program for roleplaying, I think that's as close as I get.

Neat concept for a crossover.

[sdelmonte]

Well, if you you've been following the Firefly crew, you've seen Batya's handiwork - she plays Simon Tim.

She's also Andrew Welss and Cordelia Vorkosigan.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Heh... so, read that one thread I suggested. I'm sure you can leave it alone after that. *innocent look*

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

It can get a bit mindboggling, some of the combinations that wind up in conversation. :) Take a look at the the cast list, at least - it's a laugh.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ah! I didn't know she was playing Simon, damn nice! Thanks!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I actually have looked at the cast list. I was surprised -- amazed, even -- at the number of characters from fictions I wouldn't have expected (Susan Cooper, for example). What's startling is when a thread I left off on a Monday morning is still recognizable the next Saturday night, without going back and catching up.

[batyatoon]

*beams* Glad you like. I'm pointing my fellow RP-ers to this entry as we speak.

[batyatoon]

... now how the heck do you misspell "Tam" and "Wells" but not "Vorkosigan"?

Mwah.

[genarti]

...I am just bright red now. *beams* So glad you liked it!

--River-mun, among others

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Natural talent??

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! :) I've been pointing a number of people at that, because as good as I think the Milliways RP is in general, that bit gave me goosebumps. (Which seems to be the general reaction to it, for the people I've pointed.)