Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire/Characters
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New Hong Kong
Buck Godot
- Boisterous Bruiser
- Combat Pragmatist
- Heavyworlder
- Manipulative Bastard - His plan in Psmith relies on telling mutually exclusive stories to Der Rock and Psmith, in front of each other. Der Rock hired to take care of a MacGuffin which Psmith was hired to return to its owner. As part of this service, he had a non-functional but otherwise exact duplicate made. His mutually exclusive stories: he tells Psmith he returned the real one to its owner, and Der Rock that he slipped the owner the fake. As the real device has only two purposes; summoning Sufficiently Advanced Aliens and creating black holes, there's no(safe) way to confirm or deny that the MacGuffin is real. End result: He returned the fake, knowing that Der Rock is such a self-serving utter bastard that he assumed Godot stiffed him - and summons the super-alien which not only arrests him for stealing the device, but rewards Godot for Der Rock's capture.
Al
- Bad Guy Bar / Good Guy Bar - Whatever. He runs it.
Louisa Dem Five
- Anything That Moves
- Band of Brothels
- Bald Women
- Ethical Slut
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold
- Love Is in the Air
- Weird Trade Union
The Law Machine
The Law Machines enforce the twenty laws of the Gallimaufrey that have been enacted on each planet, including the first law which is in effect everywhere in the Gallimaufrey: nobody is allowed to tamper with or interfere with the operations of the Law Machines. New Hong Kong has a twenty-first law (because of tampering, and the person who added it was punished) that There Are No Laws on New Hong Kong. That is the only one of the laws that was enacted. Thus, there is one Law Machine on New Hong Kong, watching to make sure nobody tampers or interferes with it.
- Deadpan Snarker: Well, what else is he/she/it going to do on New Hong Kong, besides make snide remarks about the inhabitants?
Local Cluster
The Pistol-Packin' Polaris Packrat
- Alliteration
- Hypercompetent Sidekick - Smith and Wesson are obviously the brains of the operation. Noteworthy in that they're a pair of artificially intelligent laser pistols with no manipulative digits whatsoever -- they can't even aim or fire themselves, they can only talk.
X-Tel
The Teleporter
- Adventurer Archaeologist - Oddly enough.
- Blue and Orange Morality - Does not consider species to be intelligent until they have invented teleportation.
- Eldritch Abomination / Starfish Alien
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Mass Teleportation
Lord Thezmothete
- Eldritch Abomination - The most powerful being in known space. The little we see of ...him... isn't pretty.
He-Who-Must-Be-Watered
- The Dragon - to Lord Thezmothete.
- Plant Aliens
- The Runt At the End
Psmith
Der Rock the Destroyer
The Gallimaufrey
The Winslow! (All Hail!)
- Dissonant Serenity - "Hi!"
- MacGuffin - Lampshaded and deconstructed. Three-fourths of known religions revolve around Its importance; nobody can agree on why. Wars break out as various races/beliefs fight over It, and there are disastrous repercussions.
- Obfuscating Stupidity - Maybe... "No! Do not eat own foot! Could not be stupider if you tried!"
Frakkis Godot
Ambassador Ettarre
- Breaking Out the Boss
- Damsel in Distress
- Iron Lady
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- Token Wholesome - with Thad.
- Not entirely-- they're pledged to each other, and Ettarre has the libido-inhibiting virus. Once she recovers, she jumps him in public, and the view quickly cuts to Buck looking away and Madam Dem Five looking pleased.
Thad Gizmot
- Authority Equals Asskicking
- A Date with Rosie Palms - Apparently out-of-control hormones pose a health hazard. Ettarre has the libido-inhibiting virus, but Thad doesn't want to break his pledge to her by sleeping with someone else. Eventually he solves the problem by raiding a medical officer's Porn Stash.
- Dissonant Serenity - Most people don't calmly walk through a raging Melee A 30. Most people didn't grow up in New Hong Kong.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
- Token Wholesome - with Ettarre.
- Not entirely-- they're pledged to each other, and Ettarre has the libido-inhibiting virus. Thad doesn't want to break his pledge, which still earns him Token Wholesome status.
Sergeant Anton Clisp
Rowan and Martin
- Intellectual Animals
- McNinja - Martin the cat.
- Smart Dogs Wear Glasses
- The Nose Knows - Rowan the terrier.
- Uplifted Animal
Security Chief Parahexavoctal
- Da Chief
- Foreign Queasine - A big fan of poiled slurgs in wixel grease-- which humans use as oven cleaner.
- Friend on the Force
- I Did What I Had to Do
- Knight Templar
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
- Yank the Dog's Chain - To the Beemahs, as explained in their entry.
Hyraxx D'Mofiti
- Cute Monster Girl
- It's for a Book - And one that her editor rejected, no less.
- Paparazzi
- Super Strength - Her intro includes casually tossing Buck around with one hand.
- Weaksauce Weakness - If Buck had paid more attention during their first meeting, he may have learned that she's terrified of potato mashers.
Prime Mover
- Big Good
- Porn Stash - Which the Beemahs blackmail him with.
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Pogs
Beemah
- Attack Animal
- Air Vent Passageway - Their main mode of transportation, since they're small enough to manage it and can't be seen in public.
- Because You Were Nice to Me - Since there is a "shoot on sight" order for all Beemahs, Buck treating them with basic courtesy, respect, and honesty earns him this.
- Living Weapon
- Morality Pet - for the Kleg, in the end.
- Punny Name - They shoot energy beams from lenses in their foreheads. They're beamers.
- Waddling Head - They have fully-formed digitigrade legs, but otherwise qualify.
- Deconstructed somewhat-- they require assistance for basic life functions, such as eating, which forces them to serve others in exchange for survival.
- Yank the Dog's Chain - Parahexavoctal assisted them in rebelling against the Zmouf, then enslaved them himself and issued a "shoot on sight" order for the entire species to ensure their secrecy.
- You No Take Candle - Seem to ping-pong between this and more normal speech patterns.
Klegdixal
- The Atoner - According to the Ambassador, they regret selling the Zmouf the technology they used to create and enslave Beemahs. Confronted with living Beemahs, the Ambassador breaks down and starts crying -- with joy that his people now have a chance to make amends.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold - Possibly even a Jerkass Facade.
- Planet of Hats - Relative to humans, at least, the Kleg are all irritable stingy jerks.
Uligb
- Eldritch Abomination / Starfish Aliens - a good example of how hard it is to distinguish between the two. The Uligb exist in and perceive 17-and-a-half dimensions at once, including time; their physical forms resemble nothing so much as a cluster of eyes suspended in a hovering amorphous bedsheet. They are friends of humanity because they like popsicles - they stuff and mount them. They are respected as the most dangerous opponents in the known universe: they can destroy ANYTHING in a manner resembling a three-dimensional computer programmer "destroying" a typed character by hitting the "delete" key. Except it doesn't work on the Winslow. It's foretold that any Uligb attacking the Winslow is "the last sign". It's correct, as seconds later, the Prime Mover "deletes" them for aiding in a coup.
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