6th footnote [text] target practice

[likesfootnotes]

I have a couple of suggestions for the would-be marksmen fervently preparing for the upcoming tournament:

1. Magicians are widely considered to be the best choice for target practice. Unfit and unfashionable, they can be seen at a thousand paces in their gaudy attire and offer a moving target. ¹ I suggest saving a target and using a magician!
   
   
2. Don't bother entering the actual contest. Instead, list your wishes here and I might deign to grant them once I've been declared Lord for a day.

1 - Don't worry about one outrunning your shot. Magicians are too fond of their food to be anything but slow and rotund. The majority of them mask this by wearing cleverly designed pants that are thirteen sizes too small and somehow conceal all that extra flesh. It's not a pleasant sight.

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[Audio]

[likesfootnotes]

There's no point in affording them anything. They don't respect my essence, after all. They tromp all over it and expose it to far worse than a few prickly arrows.

[Obviously he needs to introduce you to a few magicians. Nothing like a spell of experience to make one truly appreciate the pain in one's backside that these humans can be.]

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[angleofscience]

... If they truly do not respect your right to freedom, that is one thing, but I certainly wouldn't think they all, as a class, do so. Given that such a thing as a "magician" can and would exist in any given world, there would also be other worlds... I doubt they all, even those from your own, would disregard your self and independence thus.

[He'll do well without being introduced to any more magic, really. And humans are humans, as varied as any other species.]

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[likesfootnotes]

You obviously have never met an actual magician. Their lot transcend worlds, I guarantee it.

[Audio]

[angleofscience]

... I haven't no. I'm disinclined to believe in magic, but leaving aside the fact that it might exist elsewhere, where I'm from, it does not, so meeting a magician would be a rather insurmountable issue.

And I'm quite sure they cannot, per definition of being individuals and, if magic existed, it would hardly be consistent in use and system across dimensionsm transcend words in such a way as to be indistinguishable and worthy of summarily being treated as you propse they should be.

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[likesfootnotes]

[Dead silence greets that and it's a good thirty seconds before he breaks the silence with slow, steady clapping.]

Spoken like a true advocate of the magician class. Except the part where you don't believe in magic, but when you side with magicians, it's obviously a part of the act to have your head shoved up in you--

[And he times that to one last, loud clap.]

Tell me, with your head lodged that far up, do you find that you disagree with other inarguable facts? You probably think that the pyramids don't exist, wading that deep in De-Nile.

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[angleofscience]

[The reaction is somewhat of a surprise, but not something he is unfamiliar with as it were. The mocking clapping, when Jetfire answers, clearly doesn't affect him at all.]

All beings are individuals, I do not think it unreasonable to point out and argue this fact when you seem disinclined to respect it.

Pyramids? [Brief, not-quite-a-second's pause.] I'm quite aware that there are structures in general on my planet, and, I assume, on Earth as well, that could be termed 'pyramids', so why would I deny their existence?

[Jetfire doesn't sound as confused as Bartimaneus comment made him, merely more mildly curious than anything... But he hadn't been on Earth for long enough to have time to to be able to now realize they were probably talking of particular pyramids.]