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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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I still can't believe you're being silly about space, by the way.
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I don't come from one of these roundworlds like you lot all seem too. Mine's flat. A disc, actually, carried on the backs of four elephants which ride a bloody gigantic turtle through space.
So the Edge is quite real, and I can't say I recommend the experience of falling off it.
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But gravity! Gravity's a thing! You can't fall off the world because gravity! Besides, you'd be dead before you reached the end no matter what.
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But some reality-restructuring magical interference allowed me to get back onto the Disc, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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I hate magic.
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I've had a lot of big issues in my life, it's always good to categorize them.
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Any of those sound "big" enough?
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