video;

[wizzardly]

Well, now that all the technomancy's up and running again, I don't suppose anyone ever got that riddle solved, did they? The actual one, mind. Not the one about why we lost lights and things in the first place.

[Rincewind taps a pencil with one hand against the open pages of a book thoughtfully, the other waving his lunch (an egg and cress sandwich) as he intones:]

"We did warn you. All of you have so much power. That comes at a cost. If you can't see in the darkness, then look to the stars.”

...I certainly don't remember any warning, and I've usually a keen memory for those.

Anyway, "power" seems a rather obvious double meaning, but it's the "looking to the stars" bit which has me curious. [a phrase which here means, "debating whether there's still sufficient enough impending threat to flee the country".]

ImPorts could be the stars - we certainly are in their TV and such, that's meaning enough. But if "power" has a double meaning, it stands to reason "stars" would as well. Were we actually supposed to be looking up at the night sky during all of that, do you think?

...I don't suppose anyone did any gazing while they were running about saving people?

[or just running, in Rincewind's case.]

Comments

Shh no one saw that.

[voicelessresistance]

There's a difference between being an optimist and an idiot.

Have some bad luck, I take it?

/TOTES SAW THAT

[wizzardly]

Is there? That's news to me.

[he sighs, waving a hand.]

Oh, only constantly. You?

Lies! Lies and slander! You saw nothing!

[voicelessresistance]

[There's a delay before she answers.]

I think that's a matter of perspective. I was very lucky just not in the ways I wanted.

[wizzardly]

Ah. I have found luck to be fickle like that. Hard to predict, and all.

[voicelessresistance]

I've found it to be mostly cruel.

[wizzardly]

No, no, you're thinking about Fate. Fate's the cruel one. Luck's just - well, she's just there. Or she's not. That's all. There's really no room for cruelty.

[voicelessresistance]

I don't really believe in fate.

[wizzardly]

Luck you. Unfortunately, he believes in me.

[voicelessresistance]

He?

You think luck is a person?

[wizzardly]

Fate's the he. Luck is - well. The Lady is rather self-explanatory. [and he tries not to talk about her too much. The moment you say The Lady's true name is the moment you lose her favor.]

[voicelessresistance]

You think they're both people.
Not just abstract concepts?

[wizzardly]

Well, gods. But yes.

[voicelessresistance]

Luck is a god where you come from?

[wizzardly]

And one I try not to call out by name, but yes.