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maskormenace2017-01-24 04:38 pm
wizzardly) wrote in maskormenace2017-01-24 04:38 pm
Entry tags:
- † april ludgate | janet snakehole,
- † frederick chilton | chief of staff!!,
- † hunk | the yellow paladin,
- † james jesse | the trickster,
- † james patrick march | the master,
- † john watson | n/a,
- † kidou yuuto | playmaker,
- † leonard snart | captain cold,
- † loki laufeyson | n/a,
- † mark vorkosigan | peter michael kane,
- † red | n/a,
- † reggie mantle | n/a,
- † rincewind | n/a,
- † sherlock holmes | n/a,
- † the (twelfth) doctor | stop that
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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.]
[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.]
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[defensively:] Which is normal for staying at an inn.
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...I don't know, he was somewhat normal looking, other than what I mentioned. Dark eyes, I think. Jorah said he'd seen the man in an alley before as well. He was with me when the Luggage threw him back up.
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Why is it you think you've met this one?
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[Dorian Gray WOULD.]
He... Well, I know someone who practically confessed to cannibalism. Someone new.
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[a long beat.]
Why does that keep coming up? Of all the things out there a person can do...
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Pickings must be slim then.
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Any tips you've got for not attracting them, I'm all ears.
And I don't think it matters how deft you are when you've got the Luggage behind you.
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You're right of course, but it's such a shame. I always get a free room and drinks at The Castile.
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So I bring in the Luggage, he gets to feed it or polish it or whatever, and I get a place I can drink and not need a cab home. Although if I did he'd call me one. He's really quite the host.
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[And ranking high in Chilton's esteem. You would only find compliments in the doctor's mouth when it came to the eccentric hotel owner.
Even when the Luggage was the adjacent subject.]
As equably as he is charitable. [Free room and board -- and food! -- went above and beyond, he thought, but he also knew himself to be a less than charitable man, so... The logic followed.]
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[obviously Rincewind's less inclined to tip-toe around any provocative vocabulary. Still, he says it more matter-of-factly than anything else - no insult meant. Some men are just crazy. Nothing wrong with it.]
But if he wants to spend a series of afternoons having the Luggage's toes painted and I get room service out of it, you won't hear me complain. I'll bring a card to their wedding, even.
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