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[sythyry]

The Interrogations, cont cont cont cont cont [12 Nivvem 4261]

justicezero -- So what, dare I ask, were the topics of discussion on the floor?

I am a hideously inadequate spy, and failed, somehow, to take detailed notes. Here are the ones I remember overhearing:

1. What the Duke is wearing today, or, perhaps, some other day. This is an obligatory topic of conversation among the upper classes in any polite city. It is occasionally extended to other important people as well.
2. What that big and indecent illusion of the Duke was wearing, and how plausible or implausible it would be for the actual Duke to wear such a thing. I'm sure I inspired this conversation, since it's one of my most newsworthy events.
3. Where in Vheshrame one may get the best vanilla-crusted salmon. (Answer: Darraden's. Answer rejected on grounds of practicality. Alternatives are available but none is uniformly preferred.)
4. Whether mail by mail-tree shall become obsolete if certain Locador theories pan out. I didn't understand this one, perhaps because I was not involved.
5. The delightful properties (spoken by the Orren) or unendurable foolishness (spoken by the Rassimel) of the latest Water-Tree collection, published last week.
6. Whether chimeront leather can actually be healed by standard leather-repair spells.
7. Whether the chicken sausages made by the Herethroy vendor in the Halflight Market are safe to eat or not. (Offhand, I would guess not -- a Herethroy, unable to taste her own sausages, would be a poor choice of sausage-maker.)

Notably absent were any particularly adventurey conversations. [Bard is confused by this, as the chimeront leather conversation is distinctly of concern to adventurers.]

[info]chipuni -- Could you ask Tennis to relay any stories associated with the Epee's equipment -- the most unusual (mis?)uses of the equipment, the stories that they would tell if they could? (Or, if the equipment can talk, ask it for its most surprisisng stories...)

The next time I'm chatting casually with him, I shall do so.

(anon) What is the average lifespan of adventurers who are members of that club? I bet it's short enough to disturb a certain dragonet we're all fond of.

I didn't ask specifically.

From what Dargwyn says, sensible professional adventurers either die in the first few years, or retire. Overall the numbers are more or less equal. Those who approach the topic sensibly tend to survive, though. I would guess that getting engaged to a four-armed pseudo-Orren in another dimension isn't terribly sensible. I don't know about ambassadoring at a nendrai.

Yes, I am disturbed.

No, I'm not going to go on any unnecessary adventures.

(anon, and on) Another fun question: how many Orren are members

Forty-three.

Yes, I somehow asked that.

"Planning my replacement, are you, Sythyry?" asked Jinthinia, when we were in private.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Have you ever given water tree books to Vae? If so, did she ever go visit?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I ... never thought of that.

They're a bit above her reading level, fortunately.

I don't know what would happen if she tried. Especially if, as I believe, they are fictional.

[kris-schnee.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that would stop her! Wish I could get my hands on one of those books myself.

Forty-three? That's disappointing, somehow; maybe exactly one will quit.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

They do, constantly. And rejoin as well.

No, not because of Orrenness. Because of the fees. In Jinthinia's case at least.

Dare I ask why?

[Bard just hides.]

[zeeth_kyrah]

A certain widely-beloved book of fiction in our world described an incident where many peoples gathered to build a very large machine, to find "The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything!" It told them that answer was 42. Of course, that then led to building an even larger machine, the size of an entire world, to find out what the question was which was being answered...

[vernononfm.livejournal.com]

This is a very confusing response.. I think, as do some of my friends, the correct answer is 'For fun!' This mostly sums up things in the world. Someone or something is obviously causing whatever is going on because it's fun to them. I believe this is a much more reasonable answer. And, nobody had to build anything to get it.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I have to agree about the confusingness! I am glad, yet, somehow, astounded -- or maybe it's, "astounded, yet, somehow, glad" -- that 42 is so much fun for you. Even without building anything.

I somehow think that everyone on your world would get along with my Evil Roommate Ghirbis Vlaan exceedingly well.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

What are the limits of 'fiction' against alternate worlds?

Are there enough alternate worlds out there, that a sufficiently powerful kennoc locandor (sp?) spell might find an alternate world to one's specifications?

In other words, might one -- if one searched hard enough -- actually find the Water Tree world, even if it's also entirely the creation of an author?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

If you searched *hard* enough, by which I mean with sufficiently powerful magic, I imagine you'd eventually create it.

[tempralisis.livejournal.com]

Somehow I suspect that understanding Locador that well would be… hazardous to one’s sanity. Not that I’m contradicting your assertion.

[flat-head-frog.livejournal.com]

This, presumably, brings us full circle to giving the books to Vae?