Hilbert Inn is one of the "casual" threads from Character Development Thread.
The thread takes place in and around a Hotel high on a thickly-forested mountain.
The thread can be found here
, setting info and a link to the map can be found here.
Hilbert Inn contains examples of:
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A-M
- Affectionate Nicknames: One of few things Crestfeather remembers about her long-lost uncle is that her family all nicknamed him Sticks.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Leslie and Liz are initially disbelieving of Hazel's claim to be a real mage. Jean counters that their own universe has aliens, high-tech spy gadgetry, fairies, and were-elephants.
- Artificial Meat: Mort refers to the age of "dead cow on Big Macs" in the past tense, a clear hint of his own era and how things are going there.
- Black Knight: Hilda Reiter, though her armor is charred black rather than painted.
- Blood Knight: Mort. He sizes up every humanoid he interacts with, work as a Street Samurai, and it's implicitly noted that he's happiest when he's in a brawl with a Worthy Opponent.
- Chummy Commies: Caroline's use of a needlessly technical term outs her as one, and Mort gently mocks her for it. She takes it in stride.
- Cool Bike: Wolf's lovingly-described Yamaha XT225.
- Crystal Spires and Togas: (Discussed/Name-dropped) Wolf presumes Mort's future Earth is not like this.
- Death World: Mort claims Koyel's tropical homeland has "a dozen ways to kill you per square mile". Koyel, after a brief count, realizes this is an underestimation.
- Demolitions Expert: Mortimer knows a lot about making bombs, deploying bombs, and generally blowing things up or burning them down. He talks about it eagerly and at length, though his exact advice is never seen.
- The Enemy Weapons Are Better: MegaCorp firearms, according to Mort, are well worth the effort to steal.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: James Turner recently arrived from 1753.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking:
- Wolf's vape pen, which he savors on the way to the inn.
- Koyel keeps a pipe and tobacco handy; both products of his own village, and a traditional indulgence in his culture.
- Last-Name Basis: Mortimer refers to Caroline Thao almost exclusively by her last name.
- Mildly Military: Caroline is surprisingly light on Mortimer for effectively stealing a military grade firearm from his organization's stockpiles. She only demands he return, fill out the proper paperwork, and endure her lecture. However, he is part of an anti-corporate paramilitary group, not a real military outfit, and Caroline is a civilian artist with no formal military or paramilitary training of her own.
- Moody Mount: Bastilla, Hilda's horse, snaps at a stablehand, and this is apparently her usual response. However, she at least follows Hilda's orders.
N-Z
- Never Say "Die": Koyel, explicitly pointed out as a cultural quirk. He isn't bothered with Mort does so, but his own speech is littered with references to his faith's afterlife instead.
- Odd Couple: Downplayed with Mort and Koyel. They come from very different worlds — Mort is a Street Samurai from Cyberpunk America 20 Minutes in the Future, Koyel is a Farm Boy from a Science Fantasy Constructed World. However, their worlds are connected enough for them to have the same enemy, and they're both working-class men who lack any magical powers or cybernetics and get by on gumption, cunning, and a talent for firearms.
- Practically Different Generations: Leslie is twelve years older than her sister, Liz. Mort initially thinks they might be mother and daughter.
- Random Transportation: Invoked by Wolf's "going somewhere, nowhere". "The premise was simple: pick a starting point and a direction and go; each time you reach a side road or an intersection, decide on the spot which direction to go."
- Street Samurai: Or "Street Sam" in Mort's parlance. It's Mort's own line of employment.
- Unfazed Everyman: Caroline is a retired cartoonist turned leader in the Collective, from a near-future cyberpunk world. Yet nothing fazes her. It's not even dealing with the Dead Gods, portals to Qorisa, or Moon Hawks that did it. Having her world turned upside down by a MegaCorp smear campaign thirty years ago left her hardened and unflappable.
- Weapon-Based Characterization:
- Koyel's preferred melee weapon is a staff. Like Koyel, the weapon is quite traditional, doesn't look like much, and is easily obtained by any peasant, but it is nonetheless dangerous if underestimated.
- Mort prefers a baseball bat. Like Mort himself, it's a distinctly crude, American weapon that can be obtained cheaply and without attracting too much attention. Perfect for criminal activity.
- Witch Classic: Hazel, of the Cute Witch variety, complete with pointy hat and talking cat.
- Younger Than They Look: Koyel is in his twenties, but looks a decade older, a result of his village's famine.
