Baffling repairs

[iavatus]

Or how I learned to stop thinking, and start repairing that crumbling bone knife.

We've all done it, and we've all had situations where it was the only possible option and it simply made sense. But there comes a time, in every characters life, when they can look at the bone needle, blink, and throw it in the bin, never to be seen again.

And yet, there comes those old, established characters, with multiple shields and weapons, with healthy stocks of iron and steel, with vehicles and options, who get given responsibility. Their first course, is to repair everything that been sitting around for years.

Including all those worthless bone shields.

A friend and I, were trying to think of a good name for these sorts, who will cheerfully leave the raw bones out to rot, but heaven help us all if you let that 20 hour to repair bone hide scraper break. So, without further wordage, here's a few ideas to bat about.

Boners? Makes me giggle, and I'm a grown man.
Bonebrains? Too obvious.
Repair monkeys? Little too 21st century, and just asking for the sorts who do that, to ask 'wazz a monkey'.
Bone mechs?
Tools?
Bone tools?
Toolbones?
Rusted bones?

This is the question for our generation. Don't let me down, Bruce. What should we call them?

[Optimus Christ]

Or how I learned to stop thinking, and start repairing that crumbling bone knife.

We've all done it, and we've all had situations where it was the only possible option and it simply made sense. But there comes a time, in every characters life, when they can look at the bone needle, blink, and throw it in the bin, never to be seen again.

And yet, there comes those old, established characters, with multiple shields and weapons, with healthy stocks of iron and steel, with vehicles and options, who get given responsibility. Their first course, is to repair everything that been sitting around for years.

Including all those worthless bone shields.

A friend and I, were trying to think of a good name for these sorts, who will cheerfully leave the raw bones out to rot, but heaven help us all if you let that 20 hour to repair bone hide scraper break. So, without further wordage, here's a few ideas to bat about.

Boners? Makes me giggle, and I'm a grown man.
Bonebrains? Too obvious.
Repair monkeys? Little too 21st century, and just asking for the sorts who do that, to ask 'wazz a monkey'.
Bone mechs?
Tools?
Bone tools?
Toolbones?
Rusted bones?

This is the question for our generation. Don't let me down, Bruce.

I don't even....what?

[Marian]

Bonies is a good one I heard somebody use once. Has that RL similarity to Bronies, the most contemptuous of all terms one can label another human being with.

If somebody smarter than me can figure out a catchy way to link it back to that Cantrian dragon instinct that I'm sure is the root cause for this phenomenon, that would be even better...though I guess something that would make more sense to be used in game would still be best.

I don't even....what?

You seem confused. How many shotguns is my avatar holding? And what day is it?

[iavatus]

Making me sad now.

What should we call people who, for no good reason, drag out a bunch of bone tools to get repaired.

[Wolfsong]

Well, what do we call people who assign other people piles and piles of meaningless "busy work" in an attempt to get them, the other party, to give up and go away?

[Marian]

Making me sad now.

What should we call people who, for no good reason, drag out a bunch of bone tools to get repaired.

...that was pretty obvious? You wrote it in English and everything, don't worry.

But this reminds me, I was just telling someone the story of my first Dom Hofran newspawn. I'm pretty sure I've brought it up on the forum before. At the time there were dozens of people there, mostly sleepers. Everyone except three or four people in the leader's clique were left to completely fend for themselves, and newspawns didn't receive so much as a bone knife. At some point, however, while my character was still scratching around trying to get basic gear together, one of the rangers pulled out literally something like...25? 26? 20-something, bone knives and needles from a locked storeroom and set them all up as big community repair project. In preparation for being locked back up again.

...for myself and my character both, that was the official 'eff this town forever' moment.

Well, what do we call people who assign other people piles and piles of meaningless "busy work" in an attempt to get them, the other party, to give up and go away?

The term also needs to be one that encompasses people who voluntarily repair their own bone tools as well.

Often awkwardly.

[Millhouse]

Bone daddy.

[Marian]

Bone daddy.

...what's a daddy???

[Wolfsong]

"Daddy" is the term for all those eighty year old characters who have sex with newspawns they call their "daughters." Let's avoid familial terms, please. Christ, they give me the heeby jeebies. I still have nightmares about this one Cantr family where the mother, father and daughter were all sleeping together, and the daughter played her character like a perpetual child, with baby words and everything. Hnnghk.

Two terms - one for the self-repairing sort, one for the "let this be a lesson to you, young person, for daring to want" sort?

Bonehead for self-repairing. Not sure about the latter.

[iavatus]

That's why I wanted a rough workshopping. We know what is meant by the term, now we just need to find what the term is

[Father Brian]

"Daddy" is the term for all those eighty year old characters who have sex with newspawns they call their "daughters." Let's avoid familial terms, please. Christ, they give me the heeby jeebies. I still have nightmares about this one Cantr family where the mother, father and daughter were all sleeping together, and the daughter played her character like a perpetual child, with baby words and everything. Hnnghk.

Two terms - one for the self-repairing sort, one for the "let this be a lesson to you, young person, for daring to want" sort?

Bonehead for self-repairing. Not sure about the latter.

Please tell me you just made this up.

[Marian]

Please tell me you just made this up.

They did not, I'm afraid. But let's please not discuss this, because it always leads to big derails and somebody coming out of the woodwork to defend that kind of thing on the grounds of 'there are no children in Cantr, just the mentally ill! And bad touching the mentally ill is A-OK!'

I wish I was kidding.

And I wish I had more to contribute to the actual topic! I'm racking my brains here for good bone-based puns but they're eluding me tonight.

But whatever we come up with, best to see if it sounds good in a sentence. *rolls eyes* "That town's full of ____."

...gnawbones? It rhymes with sawbones! Which could be considered a kind of doctor, in this case of bones.

Sorry I'll go away now.

[Rebma]

Bone-ilators?
Or, heh, bonedead.

[Axiom]

Osteophiles?

[Kyriel]

Osteopaths. Is it a disease or a fetish? They don't really seem to be enjoying it, though. Osteomaniacs? A pathological obsession with all those old tools.