Talk:Things To Do/@comment-38112131-20190111023639

More questions: since Saturday, it looks to me like we have three protagonists with conflicting goals. In order for them to have to work together and maintain that tension, we need to provide each character with a lock or key that makes it impossible for any of the characters to get what they want without the cooperation of the others.

So let's say that Salome owns the ship. What prevents Skyler from tracking down a hacker or hacking it himself and coming up with the linchpin so that he and the pilot can just steal the ship and take off?

What, exactly, is the linchpin. Is it a physical object or something like a software registration key? The answer to that question tells us what is the next step the characters need to take.

So far, we have Salome finding out that she has inherited a starship.

The next scene is supposed to be Skyler, having seen the very public announcement in the middle of the bar, realizing that he knows the pilot of this particular ship and sneaking out to make a back room deal with her.

What is their history? Where did they encounter each other before? How do they feel about each other. Is there tension? Did Skyler perhaps doublecross her at some time?

Matt, you talked about wanting a character who wanted to take off on a grand adventure, cut the chains, fight the power, defeat the evil empire. It would be so cool to have a character who will pressure Salome to do something like that. Salome would resist because she doesn't want to bite off more than she can chew. Skyler would resist because there's no profit in it. That three-way tug-of-war would be really interesting.

Who is that character? Is the pilot going to play that role? Or would you want to create a second character? Possibly a member of the old crew who has stayed on for some reason. Maybe he has nowhere to go for some reason. Maybe he's being hunted by the law. Maybe his entire family was murdered by the evil corporate oligarchs or the pilots killed.

Where do you guys want to go from here?