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Arthur Conan Doyle

Laurence Olivier

Paul Winfield




Lawrence Plantagenet sits in the reception area of the office of Councillor Jeffrey Corris. A gleaming silver AI orb bobs above a low platform near the bureaucrat’s locked door. It repeats, for the twentieth time since the mogul arrived: “The councillor is not currently in the government complex. His arrival time is unknown.” Plantagenet doesn’t…
Not everyone’s a fan of the OtherSpace reboot. A guest logged on the other day – someone who apped for a character long ago, got approved, played a couple of scenes and then “life got in the way.” “The post a while back of axing idled characters left a bad taste in my mouth and…
Home again, Razorback Cliffwalker steps off the transport, his brow furrowed as he looks around with a sigh. His tail sways behind him as he makes his way towards the gate and Alhira. Two militia guards flank the gate at this entrance to the city. One holds up a hand while the other hefts a…
This planet is almost entirely covered with water, but it isn’t clear, blue-green water. This water is thick with strange algae, turning it a much darker green. It is hard to see where the land begins and the sea ends, for the land is covered with green jungles and also covered with cloud almost all…
A sandstorm howled outside the shuttered windows of the estate as the Demarian servant made his way down the long corridor with a silver tray bearing a pitcher of cold tsai juice and a tall fluted goblet. His bluish-black tail swayed back and forth from beneath the hem of the knee-length brown robes he wore….
Back in 1998, when I was first creating the universe of OtherSpace, my focus was mostly on providing an abundance of options for people experienced in MUSHes who also were fans of various space opera/space fantasy franchises. So, besides garden-variety Earth humans, I introduced talking cat people, lizard people, fish people, bug people, psionic bear…