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Yes! Let us plot. Mainly I'd like to know a bit about Cordelia Vorkosigan, so that I know how to properly react to her; I have no idea even what fandom she hails from. Peter likes to ask people questions, meet people, poke about in their private lives...any idea for actual plots? I'm fresh out, but then I'm a bit beat today, and not thinking entirely clearly.

'Kay. Well, for starters, the fandom: it's a series of SF novels by one Lois McMaster Bujold. The main character of most of the series is Cordelia's son, Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, but Cordelia's the protagonist of the first two books (Shards of Honor and Barrayar, recently rereleased as a single volume called Cordelia's Honor) and shows up periodically in the others.

Cordelia's several hundred years into your future; she's never (to the best of my recollection) been to Earth. Born and raised on democratic-egalitarian Beta Colony, moved to the imperial-monarchy world of Barrayar when she fell in love with and married Lord Aral Vorkosigan. They've been married now for some thirty-odd years, and currently live on the colony world of Sergyar, as Aral (now Count Vorkosigan) has been appointed as the local Viceroy.

Further details can be gained by, well, asking questions and poking about in her private life - and could just as easily be done in character, as Cordelia's a pretty straightforward person.

Visually speaking: Cordelia's tall, with dark red hair that's beginning to silver over. She's generally going to be quite well-dressed, usually in shades of beige and tan. She's in her mid-sixties by now, but people on Beta Colony can generally be expected to live well into their second century, so to Wimsey's eyes she'd look closer to forty, and a well-preserved forty at that. (He may be a bit flummoxed to discover that she has a son roughly his age. Thirtysomething, yes?)

No ideas yet for actual plots, I'm afraid.

Brilliant, that's all I really needed to know -- bit of background, some appearance stuff, making sure she didn't have tentacles or whatnot. I don't know where Peter's going, really, so I suppose we ought to give it a few days and see what happens, eh?

Sounds good.

One thing that occurred to me is this: both Cordelia and Lord Peter are likely to want to figure out how this whole thing works.

Oh, indeed -- Peter's spent the whole week testing his method of entry into the pub. Next I'm sure he'll want to know where the food supplies come from and how the Black brothers, for example, can fear being obliterated when they claim to already be dead.

Hmm. Do you suppose it might be possible for either of us to bring the other through into his/her own home territory? It'd be worth an experiment, don't you think?

Aaand Cordelia's just gotten some possibly-useful information out of HAL. Now all I have to do is (IC) send the cards to my son Mark on Beta Colony so he can get the data analyzed, and (OOC) figure out whether the Bujoldverse and the Clarkeverse can possibly be the same one ... or if not, if Clarke's novels exist in the Bujoldverse.
Eehee.

By the bye, what timezone are you in? I'm in Eastern.

I think the shock might kill poor Lord Peter :D Incidentally, HAL has referred to Dr. Wimsey when talking with Sirius, so Peter might be on the crew manifest, possibly as a medical doctor considering his treatment of Beatrice's wounds.

I'm in Central :)

Excellent. I don't suppose you've got an AIM screen name?

I don't, as a matter of fact. I'm sure we can sort out plots via back_room, though...