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.]
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-01-27 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, sadly most of my sorcery did not make it here with me, but the most amusing aspects have come along for the ride.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-01-28 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki prefers God of Mischief, but it's all the same.]

Ah, illusions, everyone likes illusions, I've been able to entertain people with little tricks.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-01-29 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Who doesn't enjoy a good optical illusion? Your brain knows one things but your eyes are seeing another, these things are delightful.

[Of course Loki's illusions are a bit different.]

More on an individual scale, but I suspect I could corner the market in those areas.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-01-29 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the problem with relying on our senses, especially our eyes, we tend to see the world the way it isn't so nothing is ever accurate. Illusions just drive that fact home.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-02-01 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You're being so very harsh, it's not their fault they were designed that way, they are biologically designed to be fooled by their own senses.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-02-03 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
So was I, but I find I am quite good at coming off as sincere when I want to.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-02-03 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm the god that brings the party.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-02-04 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah. I find that cake pairs much better with ice cream and milk shakes.
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[personal profile] mischiefsmith 2017-02-05 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
I may have a silver tongue, but my refrigerator never lies.