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.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Deluge.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-05 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[A long, long beat.]

Of course, Reggie.
mantlepieces: (I'm just holding it for a friend)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2017-02-07 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's somehow even more of an unsettling response than anything else Reggie could have expected. ]

What's that supposed to mean?
slightlyoffchilt: (Atavistic.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-07 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It means what it means.

[Evasive. Intentionally so.]
mantlepieces: (just be NICER??)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2017-02-07 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Holy shit, does Dr. Chilton really think he's a psycho?? Reggie doesn't know what to say for a few moments. ]

... Because I'm not one.
slightlyoffchilt: (Proscribe.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-08 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Not one what?

[#MakeHimSayIt.]
mantlepieces: (oh no he's hot)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2017-02-09 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a psycho!
slightlyoffchilt: (Attenuate.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-10 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Why, Reggie. I hadn't accused you of such.
mantlepieces: (pressures of being a problematic fave)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2017-02-14 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
You sure are acting like you think it, though.
slightlyoffchilt: (Inimical.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-14 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that not just your insecurity speaking?
mantlepieces: (b-baka)

[personal profile] mantlepieces 2017-02-15 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have any insecurities.
slightlyoffchilt: (Didactic.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-16 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Okay.

This conversation is done.