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: (Insincere.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-02 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'll schedule it for next month. When I know you'll be healthy. So feel free to use up all your PTO right now!
slightlyoffchilt: (Maverick.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-03 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
I am known for my foresight.
slightlyoffchilt: (Importune.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-03 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
What -- planning ahead?

Oh, Rincewind.
slightlyoffchilt: (Carping.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-03 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
That indicates a rather pessimistic perspective -- do you not plan ahead for fear of not meeting that future? Like some sort of jinx?
slightlyoffchilt: (Crow.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-04 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
You can overcome this exorbitant anxiety.
slightlyoffchilt: (Incise.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-04 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I would rather you did not spike your anxiety right now.
slightlyoffchilt: (Atavistic.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2017-02-04 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
We will talk more about it, later.