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likesfootnotes) wrote2011-10-01 10:29 am
likesfootnotes) wrote2011-10-01 10:29 am
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2nd footnote [video] a curious morning?
[Why is a raven like a writing desk? There is only one explanation: The djinni taking that form buggered it up. How else could one mistake furniture for being a bird?
Bartimaeus, in contrast, paints a fine picture of a raven as the video starts up - his beak is even the right colour! (Though he will forever maintain that his first interpretation featured such a fetching shade of blue in the beak that the species ought to evolve in emulation.)
Yes, he is currently out and about as a raven. Sized sufficiently to carry his record, which he's toted out to The Green after a quick, tight circuit to see what his feathered friends took to wing about. Though he's not so foolish as to head into the forest to discover the true details. They can summon and bind him to that task all he likes, but showing initiative to risk his essence isn't Bartimaeus's idea of a good time.]
Quite a bit of excitement over one minor Detonation, but no harm done. Just a few feathers ruffled. I don't sense or see anything on the seven planes to get worked up about.
[Then again, he also does not realise that while his shapeshifting's survived more or less intact, the rest of his abilities are diminished. Do you really want to trust a potentially blind djinni that thinks he can see?
In the meantime, Bartimaeus is unconcerned and begins to preen his feathers. After a moment, he ends the feed.]
Bartimaeus, in contrast, paints a fine picture of a raven as the video starts up - his beak is even the right colour! (Though he will forever maintain that his first interpretation featured such a fetching shade of blue in the beak that the species ought to evolve in emulation.)
Yes, he is currently out and about as a raven. Sized sufficiently to carry his record, which he's toted out to The Green after a quick, tight circuit to see what his feathered friends took to wing about. Though he's not so foolish as to head into the forest to discover the true details. They can summon and bind him to that task all he likes, but showing initiative to risk his essence isn't Bartimaeus's idea of a good time.]
Quite a bit of excitement over one minor Detonation, but no harm done. Just a few feathers ruffled. I don't sense or see anything on the seven planes to get worked up about.
[Then again, he also does not realise that while his shapeshifting's survived more or less intact, the rest of his abilities are diminished. Do you really want to trust a potentially blind djinni that thinks he can see?
In the meantime, Bartimaeus is unconcerned and begins to preen his feathers. After a moment, he ends the feed.]
[video]
Seven planes are the bare minimum to check, for those who have eyes for it. Trolls, as I've heard, can see the fourth. An anti-troll such as yourself is limited, no doubt, to the human scope of one.
And I said a minor Detonation. The mere facts that no debris litters the ground and no devastation surrounds us are proof that it was most minor. A proper Detonation would have widespread destruction and a menacing boom to it. A giant breaking wind would have destroyed more.
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let2 2tart agaiin, 2even plane2 of WHAT?
iit could have been 2omethiing el2e, there are weiird thiing2 iin that fore2t, they could have ju2t broken 2omethiing.
[video]
[Oh, yes, your gig is up Magi-Troll! Bartimaeus has a purrfectly reliable account that you are a mage. He sees what you did there with trolling him about the troll, oh-ho!]
Truly, there are only one or two more that I would think close to your ignorance in all my time in the physical realm. You ought celebrate it!
Think back to your little magician studies and recall that you, like all humans, can see but one plane to reality. I can see seven, all overlaid in perfect synchronosity. Imagine an onion, if you can, and the ability to see through to its core - I can do all this and more. What can hide on the first may not always hide on the last. Rest assured that when I say I see nothing, there is nothing there.
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*He's not entirely sure what that is, except that he can't do magic, though.*
what the fuck ii2 an oniion?
and what iif 2omethiing ii2 on another plane, one you can't 2ee? then iit'd 2tiill be there you ju2t wouldn't be able two 2ee it.
[video]
[Bartimaeus is not dignifying the onion comment with a response at this time, not when he can torment the magician about knowing nothing magical.]
I may no be able to see something on a plane beyond seven, but only things of great power can exist beneath that. In such a case, it would be like an invisible elephant being in the room: I could sense it, even if I could not see it. Great beings give off great ripples, you see.
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*Just really weird technology, video games, and all powerful beings.*
you haven't fiigured out that thii2 place doe2n't work under the 2ame rule2 that you're u2ed two yet, have you?
[video]
Nonsense. This place has gravity and that is a rule most solemnly held in my world. Or do you suggest that magnets hold us all to the ground?
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ju2t becau2e 2ome of the rule2 or player2 are the 2ame doesn't mean the game follow2 everythiing a2 other2 diid, try two have 2ome iimagiinatiion here.
[video]
This is quite rich, coming from the most untroll-like troll I have ever encountered. And one of the more difficult to understand. Do you have a... [A pause. Does he bother to find a sensitive, kind way to say it?] ...diminished capacity in any way?
[Nope!]
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2ay2 the guy who can't 2tand two thiink that thiing2 don't fiit iintwo hii2 note2, iit doe2n't 2OUND liike II'M the one wiith the diimiinii2hed capaciity here, bartiimaeu2.
*You know, this not giving your name out unless you find out the asker is 'harmless' is all well and good, Barti, but if you can't do it on a secure channel its worth a big fat load of bird shit :D*
[video]
Bartimaeus regards the text, wings taking to little gesticulations that suggest annoyance, while his feathers steadily ruffle and puff to increase his appearance. To the careful eye, one might see that the raven is, in actual fact, getting larger in size where it has perched.
Intimidation tactic? One of the best; nothing like hulking in size that looks to break the pentacle on the hope that the magician will step back to take a good look at you and -- oops, did you just step out of your safety pentacle? Nom. Nom. Nom.]
You anti-trolls have such a poor grasp of meanings. "Friend" and "enemy" are two entirely different words. The first I may tolerate and, in rare instances, assist; the second I must intimidate, antagonise, and otherwise make the life miserable of.
I also point out that apart from some unfounded claims of troll greatness and apparently modest denials, you've done little concrete to refute the title of mage and all it entails.
[Here he pauses and shifts, giving his beak the profile to show that they CAN be made to smile.]
Do you find all the attention flattering? Sollux.
[Two can play at that game! Just ask Nathaniel - who might advise you to get out while you still can. (Though he stubbornly would not, if only to disappoint Bartimaeus once more.)]
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oh, goodiie, you've ma2teted the abiiliity two read the 2iignature tacked two all of my repliie2, ii'm 2o happy for you.
2iince iit 2eem2 two have taken you 2ome tiime.
not really, two be hone2t you're gettiing very prediictable and downriight boriing.
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Failing to use a weapon is hardly failing to possess it, O Most Untrollish One. There's a reason why it's suggested you not wear a name out.
And here you are, demanding it more and more. Were I Jabor, I'd have taken it for an invitation to consume you.
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waiit, hold up, ii fiigured out how you're 2o dangerou2, you bore people two death, am ii riight? ii bet ii'm riight.
[video]
[He's considering eating you - just to make a point. Even though, ew, human. Yes, human. Definitely never troll.]
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*By all means please do try, Sollux is starting to get bored here.*
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