bliumchik | (no subject)

Okay, so I guess I'm not as banned from the computer as I thought I was XD

I've been struck by a plot bunny all of a sudden. It happened because I was eating a pomegranate (don't ask). It's one of those man-colonises-space stories. Main characters are probably miners (I know it's cliche but there's bugger-all else to do in space, really) but possibly involved in terraforming. So you've got one of those "larger than life" sort of guys, everyone knows one, they'd annoy the hell out of you with their effortless everything if they weren't so damn likable, and his perpetually o'ershadowed friend who has a problem with gambling. And drink. And prostitutes. And pretty much everything else there is to do on R&R. Then you've got a tall guy who's as perceptive as he isn't talkative, and a cheerful hick from a recently terraformed planet that's mostly populated by cows. He's not so good with cows, so he signed on to Inter-Whatever Mining (or possibly Terraforming) Co. to see the galaxy and get an education and whatnot. His name, incidentally, is immediately and universally abandoned in favour of Noob. Because that's his basic attitude to life. And for some reason my head is stubbornly casting Ashton Kutcher for this role. Augh. Anyway, the plot is on the planetary equivalent of Las Vegas, where they kick off to spend some quality time with their hard-earned cash, but end up on the run with a whore and possibly a robot for bizarre and confusing reasons, and end up having to organise a blackmail opportunity or something in order to fix it up. I'm kinda fuzzy on that last bit, the bunny arrived in my head as two pretty much fully-formed scenes, one on arrival to R&R and one in hiding.

It's not awfully original, but it's pretty funny. Which means I have to get the dialogue right, because the premise has been done to death, if not in this exact form. And I'm already procrastinating on all the OTHER stuff I have to do this holidays... now I've got another one!