wizzardly: Name two. ('There are worse things than being dead')
Rincewind ([personal profile] wizzardly) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2017-01-24 04:38 pm

video;

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.]
idesof: this dinner could be worse (i fought the law and the law cried)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-01-30 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
No offense taken, dear. But, tell me: how do you think I keep this slim and trim figure of mine?

[It's a joke. Delivered dryly enough Rincewind may at first think that JPM does run down the hallways, or once did, to keep the weight off. Nah. He has way, way more experience with making it so people run away from him, but. Another time. Maybe.]
idesof: [bad romance intensifies] (o happy day)

[personal profile] idesof 2017-01-30 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[He gets a laugh!]

Oh, I can eat! Doesn't do much but I can. Although...a diet of nothing but absinthe does hold an appeal.