... as in the book in the foreground of this 'sit and drink' picture:



... or played by little kids on the street (barely visible in the background).

And because of the thankfully vuvuzela-free Ankh-Morpork football, I wore my old Ankh-Morpork jersey today.



Due to all that, my oldest RP headvoice ever woke up again. She opened her coffin lid, smiled at me sweetly, and said 'Oh, Maru, my dear, I had such a wonderful nap. You found me a new place to conquer and dominate have tea at? Thank you, my dear, let's go!' So, if all goes well, Milliways will soon have a margolotta.

I've got it now, to hold and keep and refer to, not something I might have had from a library at some stage any more!!

And I read the end first, of course, on the train to work. I was late, and got the worst time slot with all the kiddies returning from school on it, and didn't even consider joining childfree as I usually do on that time slot because I was so squeeing for the wrong side!!

I got the chalice right, though, in the part of "drinking the Blood of the Seker"; in the book, it's exactly how I improvised it. Forming the chalice out of the godfire itself and all that. They even call it a "goblet". heh! I smell the next nasty meta-canon pun here.

Plus, I am collecting ammunition. There are so many things asar_suti might set to work on lochiel. There's even something that might be used to rob Lochiel of potential Endless support if necessary.

On the way home, I'll read up on teaching basic Ihlini magic so Asar-Suti gets to teach toddbaby correctly.

Wheeee!!!

Yay, we have a new DSL Modem! That is, the Metropolitans have one, and I share the good luck. Last night, we suddenly went offline. So I spent the evening reading "Swordspoint", and the morning making more icons for cpt_tantony, and now we're online again, I have to go to work. Blah!

But before I do, I will cheekily repost something dear _inbetween_ has scanned, because all the Dyskworlders on my list will appreciate it as well. Plumbers and Dunnikin Divers, anyone?

And: special thanks to freeformchick for freeing my mind from the tyranny of 100x100 pixels. Just because we can have it, it doesn't mean we have to use it to the utmost. That's something which is wrong with the world in general, I find. Hmm. Excuse the sententiousness. In any case, all my non-square icons for the Captain come out rather interesting; and I'm going to make more later, too.

For _inbetween_ and all others not associated with the Discworld RPG: that there is a sub-bucket full of over 60 James Frain icons.

ETA: Penelope, look at what litsares has added to our Assassin story line! I think her flock includes you, but I'll encourage her to post it to the comm in any case. It's utterly brilliant, anyway. Underworld, I so have to run to work now!!

By a lucky fluke, and the way LJ networks and links people worldwide, I managed to get a rather important (for me) question asked of Terry Pratchett in person; dreamkin went to a book-signing and asked him for me.

I wanted to know when we will get a map of Überwald, if possible with an inset of Bonk and environs.  He said not yet, he didn't know enough; but at least my request has now reached his brain and might ferment and ripen there in time. That is all I ever wanted.

Discworld has eaten my brain. More precisely, the discworld_rpg has.

nazgul_nr_5 now has found pictorial proof:

( Cut for Brain Eating and Flist Spamming )

I was just walking down the corridor at work coming back from not fixing the trouble on the P.C., erm, computer of our terribly rude accounting lady. While I was on my way there in answer to her terribly rude shouted (in a terribly rude Bavarian accent!) command to turn up at once and fix her damn computer, the thing had automagical fixed itself.

Not thinking the Bavarian chick worth ruining my mood, I turned my thoughts to something pleasant. The first pleasant thing that popped into my mind (even before the fact that I will finish reading "Going Postal" tonight!) was that tomorrow, I don't have to turn up in this madhouse for overwrought advertising sales people. Instead, I can do a nice and pleasant Arthur/Oriel log at the Stone Inn with freeformchick to post at circlesea_tales. I was immediately extremely cheered at that thought.

Being me, I always suspect my motivations. So, does the fact that I look forward to RPage so much imply that

a) I need to take a leaf out of freeformchick's book and get myself another job?

b) I need to get a life (urgs! don't want one of those!!)?

c) we can be glad that this memetically extremely advanced relationship between our characters (entity theory, avatar theory, invocation, the collapse of time zones, network theory and Open Source story telling are involved, so nobody dare claim we're not incredibly advanced!!) is developing as nicely as it is and gives the muns much pleasure, and leave it at that?

Hey, you, Ashie!! I know I promised skazzy screen caps. Here they finally are, in my bucket!

The ones we talked about, plus some from Signs where he wears that fatally silly aluminium thing on his head.

This is freeformchick her drabble what she earned because she is clever and guessed my riddle right.

It's a contribution to a current plot line at the discworld_rpg - or rather, a crossover with quite another world/fandom that I'd dragged in for just a one-line joke and that comes seeping in more and more. Persistent beastie...

( Shy and pretty )