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I'd stay a couple of weeks - long enough to get my own dæmon!

Tiger was bored. This wasn’t exactly a usual occurrence, but after that day’s particularly hectic training battle he was both magically and physically exhausted. Quite often in these situations his father sprung some kind of surprise test on him, but this time that hadn’t happened yet.

He was sitting in the library with his sister, who was in the same state as him. They were meant to be researching spells to practice the next day, but neither of them had enough energy to focus and kept just staring off into space.

“Shall we play cards?” asked Holly suddenly.

Tiger looked down at the description of a spell to give your enemy a particularly nasty nosebleed and considered her suggestion.

“Uh… okay?” he said slowly, having lost the will to live but still prepared to try and avenge his earlier, very painful (in more ways than one) defeat.

Holly began to deal out the cards she’d just pulled from her pocket in a neat pattern: three in a row face down in front of each sibling, six face up in the middle, three in a pile to each of them and the rest stacked in the middle.

Tiger picked up his pile of three, the playing hand, and looked at them. Seven of bells, three of swords, queen of flowers. None of these matched the ranks of the central cards, so he flipped over one of his other cards. The six of swords.

There was, thankfully, the six of goblets in the centre, so he played his own six on top of that and, hoped that Holly’s hand didn’t include a third six, picked up a card from the stack: the knight of flowers.

Holly, it turned out, did have a six (of bells), which she played on top of the other two. This feat entitled her to an extra turn: she flipped one of her face-down cards, the queen of swords. There were, much to Tiger’s satisfaction, no queens in the centre. Holly groaned and took the queen into her hand, and then reached for the stack to add two more cards as a penalty for being unable to go.

But, being as shattered as Tiger, she was a lot more clumsy than usual, her coordination a mess, and so her hand hit the side of the stack and sent the cards flying everywhere.

“Typical,” muttered Tiger, and, finally giving in to his exhaustion, allowed himself to collapse on the floor.

. . . prevents all wounds immediately as they happen. Can't find the particular passage at the moment; it's literally been decades since I read TE for school.

Anyway, "forever" is just fine with me. There's so much to do in the world, and such an endless supply of stories to feed on, I can't bear the thought that I'll be obligated to stop at any point. Hence my obsession with the topic.

—doctorlit everlasting

. . . what minimum amount of water is required to gain the immortality. Would a drop do it? A deep breath of the water vapor evaporating over the stream? Because then keeping a small amount frozen could last a ridiculously long time, for a ridiculously large number of friends.

—doctorlit recognizes that the physical properties of the water aren't the point of the story (the point being "You shouldn't want immortality"), but doctorlit still wants immortality

You realise that virtually every one of those is my fault, right? :-/

I like the idea of giving the earliest roads to the earliest agents. If we have Anya, I do think we should have Elisabeth as well, for all that her fate is technically unknown.

If the city was begun after the Reorganisation, then naming the first streets for the Mysterious Somebody's first victims (that's how Anya, Josephine, and Suzay all died) is an excellent touch. Can I propose that the route labelled 'To Rue Jay' was originally something grandiose like the Rue des Protecteurs des Scénarios, but was renamed Rue Elisabeth once she retired/whatevered?

I agree with the Poppy and Wisteria, and have no objection to renaming Harlan and Entropy; I can't even remember who they are. ^^

The one I do have to reject is Rue Bjam, which is why you're cruel; I would love to name a street after her, but Morale Officer bjam isn't retired. She's down there in section 13, causing trouble with the DRD & RDR.

Though to be fair, that opens the road up for your first suggestion; don't think I didn't notice you sneakily naming things after dragons. ^^

hS

But yes, parts of it are partly to you.

You wouldn't walk into a room full of people and announce 'hey, it's time to be crazy!'. You wouldn't log onto the chat and say 'right, everyone say something insane!'. You wouldn't email your friends and say 'everyone, send me the wackiest thing you can!'.

Or rather, you might do any of those things - but only if you had a goal in mind, for instance if you're gathering information. You wouldn't just do it for the sake of it, because in those contexts, you realise that silliness can't be forced, and that people don't need you to ask if they want to be bonkers.

To my mind, the same applies here. If we've got something nutty to post, rest assured that we will do so without the need for a thread asking for it. :)

hS

Go there, get a pilot's license, buy a ship, and set off among the stars. God I miss playing that game. I got a month's worth of one of the absolute best games I've ever had the pleasure of playing...and then they dropped Mac support. I loved that game, and I would have kept playing for sure. Problem is that I can't transfer my progress to a console version, and I'm kinda strapped for cash at the moment to get a PC. Well, another one, since my old one burned with my apartment.

I've been thinking, the presumably oldest roads should probably not be named after some of the more recently deceased agents. We've got enough agents KIA in 1999 and earlier that we can draw from them, so here's what I propose:

Current "Rue Jay Thorntree 1" --> Rue Anya
Current "Rue Jann Pablum" --> Rue Josephine
Current "Rue Algernon Bogglish" --> Rue Suzay

Current "Cemetery Hill Climb" --> Chemin de Poppy (fitting due to its associations with sleep, death, and remembrance)
Current "Sportsplex Hill Climb" --> Chemin de Wisteria (you know, the one with the tracksuit!)

And, possibly, current "Rue Harlan" and "Rue Entropy" to others earlier than 2008, though I think at least one of those might mess with something hS wanted to keep? I dunno; I'll leave this part to hS.

The current names would be repurposed either for the currently unnamed alleys (e.g. Ruelle Harlan, etc.) or for new east-west roads down in the newer French Quarter. The latter is what I had in mind for the FicPsych guys.

Not that it isn't a bit dubious for major streets in the city to be named after folks who died as recently as 2008, but maybe they were renamed. I mean, Rue Dmitri Petrovich Ivanov (KIA 2002) would've been really annoying to paint on signs, let alone say. Any excuse to change that one would have been good enough. ^~

We might want to find another name for the current "Rue Jay Thorntree 3," too. Another <a href="https://ppc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:RetiredAgents">retiree rather than a deceased agent, perhaps? Rue Verra Rose? Rue Bjam? Most of the others in that category belong to someone either with other characters already used or who might not appreciate it.

~Neshomeh

Are you saying something to me?

After weeks of dodging and not understanding the problem, I have finally reached the solution.

"What specifically concerns me, and I think I speak for others as well, is whether or not you think women can be blamed for men acting on their (the men's) physical desires."

I do not think women can be blamed for that. I was merely trying to avoid myself being tempted into something negative.

(Seriously, have you seen some of the things teens send each other? I don't want to be party to that.)

I hope this clarifies the situation.

SkarmorySilver
Ace Rank
Sword Primary
Stats: Offense is higher than Defense, but both are decent.
Skill: Sword Attack UP

Main Puppet Fighter: Metal Ridley

Special Rules:
- The enemy is metal
- The enemy starts the battle with a Killing Edge
- The enemy's melee weapon attacks are stronger

Makes sense- you can't know everything. Feel free to go on for a while about the related topics, though- it's pretty interesting, and it is a tangent thread!

Prompt Three: Two characters play a game together. It doesn't go very well.

(Only context one might need is that Caitlin starts out blind due to Tomasevic Syndrome, and part of the book's plot is that she gains sight through use of a novel implant that also ends up letting her see the backdrop of the world wide web.)

---

"I spy, with my little eye..."

A cartoon picture of a tree? the Braille letters appeared almost instantaneously before her eye.

"Yeah, you're right," Caitlin said, then sighed and slumped back against her definitely-uncomfortable-by-now seat.

In fairness, you hadn't been paying attention to that part of the room for some time.

"That's not that reassuring, Webmind, but thanks," Caitlin whispered, trying to keep her annoyance out of her voice.

It wasn't that she minded playing the game - it was as good an excuse as any to practice depth perception as she adjusted to having two working, no-longer-blind eyes - but they'd been waiting in the doctor's office for her ASD test results for the past forty minutes, and while she liked to pretend she was more patient than most teenagers, it was starting to grate on her.

But, really, they could have chosen a better game. When one party could see through the other's eyes, and track the eye movements, it could seem somewhat pointless.

"Why don't you try one, now?"

Because the doctor is preparing to come back out, and if you activated your eyePod's duplex mode it might be a distraction?

"Wait, what?" Caitlin replied, somewhat louder, and shifted upright in her seat-

Just in time for the doctor (who looked somewhat bedraggled - and like he was trying to cover it up, a sign for Caitlin to refrain from commenting on it) to come back out of his office with a clipboard full of papers.

Oh yeah for sure, like chain our wrists together levels of not getting separated. But I've always had a problem with risking my well-being to try and Do The Right Thing, and helping keep the Dead down seems like a pretty good cause.

And I do thank you for sticking to the scansion. ;)

Using a portal thingy to explore something interesting around here you wouldn't usually be able to see makes a lot of sense.

(I do, however, take issue with the idea that you're boring or useless.)

- Tomash

All you have to do is have somebody go to Fate and find the First Hassan, maybe contrive a way to contract with him so he can stick around for However Long, and because his Noble Phantasm can kill even the immortal, you've got your way out if you ever need it. ... On an unrelated note, assuming we could get an infinite wellspring of the immortality stuff, we could theoretically attempt to combat entropy via bleeding a lot.

And I don't think anyone I know who does drive is going to cart me up the length and breadth of Britain's road network so I can geek out about the silly names in this sceptred isle's civic architecture.

But that's not the real reason. It's more that... well, you never knew they were there until I told you, right? There's no Earthly reason you would. Hell, I only know about the Swindon Magic Roundabout because it features so heavily in the British popular consciousness as an example of something universally loathed. There's so much I don't know, so much that there is to find out in just one island on one planet in one universe. I could go to Hogwarts or the deck of the Galactica or the dark side of the Moon or anywhere, really... but why do I have to go somewhere far away or made up to enjoy a trip?

Can't the Stairfoot Barnsley Six-Lane Dutch Turbo Roundabout be enough for someone as demonstrably boring and useless as me?

... you'll be a musician with a fresh new style and a shockingly realistic "pet fire-lizard"?

- Tomash

Mostly because wicked swordfighting, let alone messing around with Death, leaves you at a pretty good risk of dying.

And if you bring your friend ... try not to get separated.

And that definitely sounds like you'd have a good time.

I'm imagining you'd publish a thick multi-volume encyclopedia once you got back.

Curse you, hS! ( :) )

Because some networking people have had a similar idea to yours, and so The Naming of Hosts currently lives in the same pile of numbered documents as many Serious Internet Standards.

On a massive tangent, there was a April Fool's RFC at some point discussing how to run the internet via carrier pigeon, and some people implemented it.

- Tomash

This is also why I was considering the Culture. They've got the medical tech for arbitrarily long life (and, while you're there, the ability to keep mind-state backups so you don't have to worry too much about your body getting into a bad state).

On the more general point, if I were picking up immortality (of the nice, no aging etc. sort), I'd want "arbitrarily long" and not "forever" Because it's at least possible that, at some point, I might want to be done with life, and that's an option worth keeping on the table for once I'm past 500 or so.

- Tomash