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So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.

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It's close to venom.


Ah. The show's venom-blockbuster concoction it is, then...
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I do have a Google Docs page that has some peoples fancasts, but we can move that to a post if you want :)


That'd be great, thanks!
Just to spur up some activity, I think I might go with an old favourite and "fancast" my characters' supporting cast tonight.

Would be curious to see everybody else's selections for their own - or even how they see other players' characters if anyone else would also like to chime in. It's been a while since we did this, maybe people have some fresh thoughts.
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My main takeaway from this is that you ozzies have ridiculous names for your cities.

Otherwise, neat job.


Kalgoorlie and Tarcoola are towns, rather than cities. Kalgoorlie has a population of less than 30,000 people, Tarcoola's out in the desert and has a population of 38 (as of 2006).

But yeah, Tarcoola's named after a horse. Kalgoorlie's named after the Wangai (regional Aboriginal) word, basically translated to "place of bush bananas/silky pears".
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At airports they have these guys called "runners". Who basically process and rush data back and forth between air traffic controllers.

I'm sort of like that, but for trains on Australia's national network...

I handle all the live running train data from Kalgoorlie, through Adelaide up as far north as Tarcoola way, across to Melbourne and/or Sydney and the track up towards Brisbane.


Actually... there's some guys who handle coal trains up around the Newcastle/Hunter Valley region up north of Sydney if I'm going to be completely accurate. But other than that, yeah - me or whoever else is rostered on.
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He's the man in the chair.


In short... this.
How do you make a living, Hound? Out of interest.


At airports they have these guys called "runners". Who basically process and rush data back and forth between air traffic controllers.

I'm sort of like that, but for trains on Australia's national network...

I handle all the live running train data from Kalgoorlie, through Adelaide up as far north as Tarcoola way, across to Melbourne and/or Sydney and the track up towards Brisbane.
On night shifts for 7 days so should be more active over the next week.

Have a fair amount to catch up, but I'll put something out as soon as I have.
Have to adjust my sleep schedule for night shift, so I'll probably come up with something later.
@Stormflyx there was a little bit of Powergaming from me moving Eilidh but I hope that's okay, I did it in a way that I could actually see Conor assisting her to her spot, feel free to have her elbow him in the gut or something if that's what you'd rather.


*Psi-Hammer to the bollocks*
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