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[sythyry]

Gavotte's a Kind of Dance and [3 Hivvem 4261]

Zeilock and his sailor Trye (an old Rassimel shoemaker) zipped Gavotte for Cloudthief over to the edge of the branch.

Zeilock:"So, where does your nendrai live?"

Me:"Underneath the branch."

Zeilock:"Whereabouts?"

Me:"Vheshrame Mene. If it's still inside the city-state down there."

Zeilock:"Haven't you been there?"

Me:"Well, I have."

Zeilock:"And you don't remember how you got there?"

Me:"Oh, it was pretty memorable. It's hard to forget a Locador spell that's that strong."

Zeilock:"Pah, useless Zi Ri."

Me:"..."

Vae:"Hiio! And is this the skyboat, Sythyry?" She showed up in a festive shape, consisting of her own shape with seven big flappy wings made of silk and flower petals. Five huge ones on one side and two small ones on the other side. She looked ridiculous, and downright anti-aerodynamic. I would have been quite offended that she could fly looking like that, except of course I was so startled my feathers fell off.

Me:"Yeek!"

Trye:"Yeek!"

Zeilock:"Welcome aboard, ma'am."

Me:"..."

Vae:"The thanking!" She teleported to the deck. Ostentatious beast.

Trye:"Welcome aboard, ma'am."

Zeilock:"May I give you a tour of the Gavotte? Here, this is the starboard, and this is the port-stern wing. This here's the bowsprit, and that there's the jib." (Not his exact words.)

Vae:"The that's very interesting! And what is the this, and the this, and the this?"

Zeilock:"The levitation engine, the emergency teleport, and the scrying enchantment."

They chatted about skyboatery and skyboat-magery for a long time.

Trye:"Zeilock, were we planning to sail somewhere, or just talk about it?"

Zeilock:"Sailing, of course!"

Trye:"Where will we go?"

Vae:"And where did you have in mind."

Me:"Over the city."

Zeilock:"To the bottom of the World Tree!"

Vae:"The exciting is that plan! And going now, shall we?"

Zeilock:"The sooner, the better!"

Me:"The doom!"

Comments

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

And to think your ~mother~ told you not to buy useful adventuring spells...

hmmmm...

assuming you survive this and get back in one piece, are you going to buy lots of adventuring spells anyway?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

You do know that this entry is written posthumously, don't you?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, you could still be down at the bottom of the tree or something at the time of writing this entry, and have yet to make it back!

silly...

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Yup. Lying in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the tree. Dictating my journal posthumously to Ilottat.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, how about ALIVE at the bottom of the tree writing your journal so that others know what happened to you, unsure of if you are going to survive... and how would you be dictating a journal posthumously? I want to learn how to do that when I die! is it a skill that can be taught before someone dies?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

How about letting me finish writing the day's events before you decide if I'm alive or dead?

And, um, no. You can't learn posthumous dictation while you're alive.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, the original post was me hoping you were alive and would stay so for a good long time. sorry if it didn't come across that way.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

But, O wise Zi Ri, if you are dictating your journal to Ilottat, all that you need do is say to her, Please be so kind as to take me home. If you do, I shall scritch your ears and grant you many poptaloops.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Ilottat's not a "her". I know. I checked. In detail. Often!

Are you confusing Ilottat and Vae?

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

*DEEP, EMBARASSED BLUSH*

[bluedeer.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but I think Vae's -adorable-. It's like having a perpetual six year old running around saying the darndest things.

Who cares if she can turn you inside out? It's all in fun, especially if she's willing to turn you back right side again! As long as she doesn't use Meal of Forgotten Repast and forces everybody to abandon ship due to shambling main courses, I can't see the harm of her having a little adventure...it's good for the soul, they say!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Feel free to spend as much time as you like with her...

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

You should really culture this view of vae being adorable. It would be good for your stress levels.. and if you dont get stressed out when you are around her, you wont be likely to make decisions that are as bad, and then you will be more likely to survive.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I already didn't survive!

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Whatever you say, oh zi ri! :)

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, also. I think a bound heal the awful wound going off doesnt count as 'dieing'.

You have to, yaknow, die for at least a few minutes at a time to be dead...

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Are you a connoisseur of dying, then? Would you like another sample?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I leap at such things! Eventually I might find a mode of death I like!

- Inhatti, the salamander-from-Puzzlebox-who-might-be-the-Strangevirus-incarnate-and-has-certainly-died-a-lot.

[kistaro]

Well, I for one have gotten quite used to dying, as I can remember doing so several times in recent memory! Of course, recent for me is on the order of ten thousand years and I've existed for about five times that. For you, of course, dying is much less inconvenient- I have to reincarnate and then go to quite a lot of trouble to re-remember everything, while you just find someone to help you anti-die. Which poses its own challenges while dead, I suppose, while reincarnation is fairly easy, but your method may be less tedious in the long run.

Some of my more notable deaths have involved violent explosions and imperfectly-fought duels. My less notable ones are, of course, more common.

[OOC: Really. Past-life memory is fun. Except for the "dying" parts of it.]

[lysana.livejournal.com]

[OOC: With you on the dying thing. You don't want to know what sorts of deaths I remember dying. Word to the wise: do NOT piss off the wrong god. Meaning any of them.]

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Vae is just so damn pretty. ♥

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That was indeed part of the problem.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yes. I suspect she's much better admired at a distance. You, however, don't really have any choice in the matter.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Nooooo ... see the rest of the story, once my lazy translator gets around to translating it.

[redbird]

At the beginning of this entry, I was concerned that Zeilock was calling Vae "your nendrai," but it now seems trivial by comparison.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

This is all a plot of fate and the gods to make sure you ANTICIPATE the boredom of centuries, yes?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I do! I do!