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I have Sammy stuck on the baseship for weeks and months during Ariadne now that New Caprica's been evacuated. He does pretty much have the run of the place, so he can do anything the Cylons are doing.
I've already used and/or considered:
- pyramid
- triad
- sex
- tai chi (naked and otherwise *g*)
- ?
Obviously the Cylons can project so that shifts a lot of their entertainment inward, but I'm sort of drawing a blank for something else he can do, especially WITH his Cylon buddies.
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Or in other words, cuz I am a lame-o and did not give direction, I'm looking for a group activity so I can have something going on in the background while all the Cylons talk politics, basically.
Do Cylons play Twister? Movie night? Charades? Baking cupcakes? knitting circles?
Penny for your thoughts?
Anyone?
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Sex.
Sorry.
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Just saying. :P
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Um...
More helpful.
Bake cupcakes?
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so that's where Hera saw cupcakes!
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(sorry, not very helpful)
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- downloading the baseship's entire video collection of Pyramid games and replaying them in his mind
- trying to figure out which parts of his past are real and which were manufactured
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...wait, I just ruined that image by thinking of Sigh naked.
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Edited for more appropriate icon.
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Do you have him interacting with all the Cylons? Because each one prompts different ideas in my head. I see him having a spiritual kind of friendship with the Eights, maybe just hanging out and talking about personal things. The Sixes, maybe him asking religious questions. Leoben, trying to figure out what the heck they're all about, and I can see him being fascinated with the fact that maybe Leoben's just crazy and how does that work if they're programmed to be this way? The others don't give me any vivid ideas, but I wonder if Simon or Doral would be interested in him and approach him. Or D'anna, for that matter.
He's not the Chief, but eventually I'm pretty sure he'd be curious about the Raiders and how they work. Maybe one of the Eights mentions that they have personalities, and he tries to communicate. Same with the Centurions maybe. And through Leoben, maybe the hybrid?
Sam's a very people-oriented person, so I see him being curious about life in general because of the people he talks too. He's also very identity-oriented, though, so I see a lot of soul-searching and self-discovery. Maybe testing Cylon strength and limits through different activities (sex and pyramid, yes please).
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And I should fess up that I've already got a LOT of talking going on, that's why I'm looking for something new to DO while they're talking. Imagine my outline says: "Sam, Thea, and his other allies talk Cylon politics while playing Triad." Except, y'know, not triad, cuz I've already done that.
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y'know, I thought of the art/music thing, and then was unsure, because if Daniel was the special arty one, do any of the others know HOW to play instruments? It's not like they'd bother have gotten lessons from humans. Though I do have the basic rules for Triad programmed into them, so it's not a stretch to imagine Original Recipe Sam programmed some basic music knowledge into them. maybe?
And the thought of, say, Doral building a model ship, as Adama's working on his, is kind of awesome.
oh, and I can tell you that Sam believes Leoben's clothes got looted from the Sisters of Mercy Thrift Stores on Caprica and Picon. :) (the Sixes looted the couture shops, and the Eights looted the Gap)
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I kind of assumed they all had some artsy type tendencies, hence the Leoben painting in "The Road Less Traveled" and the Eights doing tai chi. It's just that Daniel was uber-arty, and felt the creativity rather than doing it just to pass time. So, though I wasn't thinking a ship per se, that's the general idea (although given your example, my mind immediately went to Doral and Leoben arguing with D'Anna about models vs. toys, because she doesn't seem like the type who would understand)
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A random thought I had recently about the Cylon projection ability: Role Playing. Seriously, if they can put other people in their projections, then they can have a very entertaining shared live action role playing game, for those who are interested in that.
Any readers? People who have to maintain the ship? They must be doing something other than Plotting Doom.
Can the datastream act similar to the internet? People can be on the internet for hours...
That's all I can think of right now.
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People can be on the internet for hours? Really? *blinks innocently* but true enough, I bet some of them just sit there and surf the datastream. I wonder if they can 'download' an ability, like learning to play guitar. They can certainly download the memories of a Cylon of their line who happened to learn guitar, if there is such a person, I suppose, so it all ends up the same anyway.
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This possibly won't fit with most of the Cylons that Sam hung out with in Labyrinth, but a baseship is a big place...
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Silverblade's right about the live-action role-playing. Sam could project Kara out of thin air, or someone could even take on Kara's role in the projection. Not a group activity, of course.
Oh, your movie night idea. They could definitely watch old Pyramid games and other news. Doral could chime in about the corruption of society.
And I recall that Cylons take pictures.
I'll chime in again if something strikes me.
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Hrm.
The thing is... The thing is, we really don't know what the Cylons do, themselves, when they're not shooting people or punching humans, or arguing (only a few) around tables or in their CIC.
Do they have art of their own? Do they create anything? Sometimes, Cylons make me frustrated.
Maybe they play charades, or do group jogging sessions, or imagine they're all on Caprica...
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I would think being able to project would kind of BE their art - once you can make your surroundings literally ANYTHING, you don't need to paint physically, because you can imagine the painting already there. Like Boomer's fantasy house, she had everything in there - pictures and furniture and flowers, all of it as interactive as she wanted it to be.
But we have seen tai chi and ballet, so there is still SOME kind of desire for expression- it's just strikes me as developing, along with their individuality. (and perhaps one reason why Ellen said Daniel was so special - he was creative right out of the box)
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