Who's that girl running around with you?

[cyrano]

This week's IFIAYAQD is very special. A new cast member is being added to Torchwood--After the War. (Or TWATW for those clever wits among the fanbase.) Team Leader Lady Waverleigh recently made a trip to London for a few reasons, including "to see about adding a tea maker/librarian/accountant/housekeeper to keep the base clean". And I come to you, the collective, to ask you to tell me about this newest team member. Does she have a history with Torchwood? Is he on the run from something in his past? Is it an alien in need of a job in order to keep its visa valid? Is he a snide uppercrust valet? Does she collect stamps?

I've set comments to 'screened' in case you have an idea you don't want the audience to know about right away. Let me know if a comment should be unscreened. Also? The next game is in six days so please jump right in! Especially you lurkers there in the back--I want to hear from you as well.

Comments

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

You could do worse than to have a clone of Passepartout around.. :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Oh my. That does look tempting.

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

If Jace ever finds it, I have a bootleg DVD of the show I can let you watch. LOTS of steampunkish eyecandy.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

That would certainly be awful, but I'd force myself to sit through it. (:

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

heh.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

This seems suspiciously like someone with writer's block trying to get his audience to do his work for him.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Piffle. It's a chance for the viewers to have a creative hand in a work in progress, to make them feel like they're involved and a part of the team rather than just a voyeuristic observer who writes Sam/Bartholomew slash.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm. Sam/Bartholomew slash.

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

I think it's obvious that he/she/it is on the run from something in his/her/its past. However, for maximum entertainment value, I think that his closely-guarded secret should ultimately turn out to be something benign.

Perhaps he was fired at his previous job after a messy breakup with his boss. In the setting of the game, a same-gender relationship is still taboo, so an outright firing would look suspicious (especially if it's a household position such as a butler and the lady of the house was fond of him), so he was framed for embezzlement instead.

Of course, this also leaves open the question of exactly who his former boss-and-lover was... the head of Torchwood London? One of the missing T3 members? A well-known lord?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm. Given Gertie's libertine past, this either works very well or doesn't work at all. *ponder*

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the show or a game based on the show?

I saw the first season on DVD and lost interest after that.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm running a game based on the show. And I'm often on the borderline myself about the television show, but the "Owen is dead" plotline was, for the most part, really well done.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

I'd thought to perhaps drag in people known to the team... Particularly, one of McKee's relatives, since they're supposed to be casuing him trouble, right? It seemed more likely to pull from within the Torchwood pool, but it's also possible that Selkirk fired one in Scotland and she'll get sent to us in Cardiff.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Very well, how's about this, he's a former con man and swindler with a sharp brain but a mouth that sometimes runs away with him. He grew up in a lovely estate, the child of the head cook and butler, and quickly acquired a taste for the good life. He started scamming at a very young age (the lord's eldest son was entirely too naive for his own good) and there's no situation he can't talk his way either into or out of. He is arguably the best liar any of the other characters has ever, or will ever, meet.

James Barnes (Barney to his friends) loves money fiercely and that's what landed him in his current predicament. He'd spent more than a year setting up the scam of a lifetime, one that would've set him up for good (assuming he didn't gamble it all away, did I mention he has a gambling problem?), and was just lining up the fall guys when he met the "big man" of the criminal organization he was working with...the man turned out to be a rather large and lumpy blob of an alien with some rather nasty plans for the human race. James was stuck between a rock and a hard place, if he went to the authorities he'd probably end up in the nut hatch if he was lucky, prison if not; on the other hand he wasn't quite ready to turn his back on humanity. Fortunately he met a very understanding young lady in a local tavern who he confided in (after a few too many pints), she offered him another choice... he just had to get her into the organization and she and her friends would set things right.

Suffice to say Torchwood 1 quickly put an end to the alien's nefarious plans and realized that Barney, while a bit nefarious, was too useful a man to simply let slink back into the underworld or off to prison so they hired him. He's not exactly delighted to be doing the sort of work he thought he'd managed to escape, but he can't really complain about the paycheck...and there may have been a bit of blackmail involved as well. He'd much rather be out and about than locked up, so while a little bitter, he's still determined to do his job to the best of his ability and stay on his employers' good side.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

ooo. You're good at this. I should hire you as an NPC.

[sgtmckee.livejournal.com]

I'd like to vote for not adding any more slash than we've already got [cough]. How about somebody who actually knows what's going on? The team will completely ignore them, of course.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Bah. "Not any more than we've already got."
We haven't got any proper slash yet. q:

[sgtmckee.livejournal.com]

That's what you think. You're room isn't next to Lady Waverliegh's suite so you don't see Miss Oakley creeping back to her room before dawn when you get up after the nightmare about the Hunnish bombardment happens again.