#r101

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ROOM 101 (1994-2018; 13.08)

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Relationships 101

I've written a new IF! Complete version out now.

A short exploration of the relationship between the Player Character (customizable), and Harper (male or female pronouns). Strengthen your bonds with Harper and begin a romance, or grow deeper in friendship.  The game takes place in a university setting. It contains 4 chapters, and a myriad of choices for you to interact with Harper and the world around you. 

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Airship Tragedy

Imagine you’re at the worst dirigible disaster ever. A massive, gleaming airship slowly dipping down, crashing slowly and gracefully into the ground, coming apart in a bloom of flame fed by Hydrogen.

And when it’s done, 48 people are dead. It’s the biggest airship disaster the world has ever seen.

Seven years later the Hindenberg lights up the Pine Barrens, and the R101 is forgotten, as 35 people die in a flaming horror show.

The R101, crashed in France in 1930. Doomed by politics rushing the launch with insufficient testing and troubleshooting.

Decades later the Columbia explodes because it was delayed overnight for a politician’s photo op.

[theotherqueue]

[paraparaparadigm]

[mary-queen-of-longbeach]

Profile: R101

Airheaded. Innocent. Excitable. Prideful.

Youthful and idealistic, R101 practically embodies the British Empire’s dream of a future where airships rule the skies. She carries a great deal of pride in both her country and herself, and it’s this pride, combined with her boundless enthusiasm, that drives her actions; it’s also her greatest weakness, however, as she tends to overestimate herself, sometimes with horrible results. It doesn’t help, either, that she’s a poor decision-maker and quick to jump to conclusions: indeed, all those who know R101 can agree that although she’s sweet, she’s also very naive and inexperienced, and most wouldn’t trust her with their lives.

Type: Rigid Airship

Class: R101

Registration: G-FAAW

First Flight: 10/14/1929

Country: United Kingdom

Operator: British Air Ministry

Language: English

Accent: English (Bedford)

Voice Tone: Sweet, somewhat high, light and airy

Height: 5’10” / 70in / 178cm

Hair Color: Blue-gray

Eye Color: Indigo

Alignment: Neutral Good

Skills/Abilities: Floating, charm, good ear for music, shininess

Likes: Sunny days, clear skies, baroque and classical music, birds, cool colors, shiny things, socialist theory, Rudyard Kipling’s stories

Dislikes: Rain, storms in general, being on the ground, getting wet, fire, snakes

Trivia:

R101 has never actually seen a venomous snake in person, but she’s heard stories of cobras in India and the Middle East and those are enough for her to be afraid of them. It doesn’t matter that she’s an airship and can therefore fly, or that not all snakes are dangerous - she’s scared of them all anyway!

She’s a bit envious of her sister-slash-rival R100. The relationship between the two has always been a rather tense one, too, which doesn’t help.

She really hates getting wet, mostly because she associates the feeling of water with the storm that killed her.

Her favorite book is The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling! Of the stories included therein, her favorite is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Selected Songs:

Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me

Julie Fowlis - Touch the Sky

Adam Young - The Thunderhead

[julieschulerart]

Everyone is familiar with the Hindenberg disaster of 1937 where 35 people were killed, but few people know that other airship disasters had higher body counts. The French airship, the R101, caught fire and crashed in a storm killing 48. In 1933, the USS Akron airship was struck by lightning and went down into the ocean, killing 73.