XPitt: So. You entered a race knowing full well you were unwelcome here --
Ian: I just wanted to fly.
Pitt: You took a contract to kill the metalhead --
Odelle: An' don't you ask who from. I won't tell, and you can't make me.
Pitt: Oh, but I can. And you whipped the crowd to a killing frenzy.
Garth: I just told the truth! What about the Imperial? He --
Pitt: --ain't part of this discussion.
Garth: But he --
Pitt: The Blues mind their own, and the Dragonkiller minds her limits. It's yourself you should worry about.
Garth: But--
Pitt: Écoute bien (listen up)! I don't care who I string on the Wailing Bridge, no more than the crowd cares who I throw 'em. But they've had their fun ruint and they want blood. Be convincing, boys and girls.
Garth: That's mob rule!
Pitt: Oui. Efficient, ain't it?
Garth: I won't submit to this! You're playing right into the hands of those blueblood pricks, keep the people sated so they can throw their fancy parties and you can get whatever crumbs they throw --
Pitt: Okay, kid. That's convincing enough.
Garth: No, listen! You're boing used! Stop letting yourself be destracted by -- ow!
Ana: Just one more throw!
Sal: That's what you said the last seven times.
Ian: I just wanted to fly.
Pitt: You took a contract to kill the metalhead --
Odelle: An' don't you ask who from. I won't tell, and you can't make me.
Pitt: Oh, but I can. And you whipped the crowd to a killing frenzy.
Garth: I just told the truth! What about the Imperial? He --
Pitt: --ain't part of this discussion.
Garth: But he --
Pitt: The Blues mind their own, and the Dragonkiller minds her limits. It's yourself you should worry about.
Garth: But--
Pitt: Écoute bien (listen up)! I don't care who I string on the Wailing Bridge, no more than the crowd cares who I throw 'em. But they've had their fun ruint and they want blood. Be convincing, boys and girls.
Garth: That's mob rule!
Pitt: Oui. Efficient, ain't it?
Garth: I won't submit to this! You're playing right into the hands of those blueblood pricks, keep the people sated so they can throw their fancy parties and you can get whatever crumbs they throw --
Pitt: Okay, kid. That's convincing enough.
Garth: No, listen! You're boing used! Stop letting yourself be destracted by -- ow!
Ana: Just one more throw!
Sal: That's what you said the last seven times.
When last we saw.... Ian - Ana - Sal
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The fellow thief who stuck Amra Thetys with a horrifyingly ugly statue was a friend. Now she wants answers. Chief among them: what about that statue has put an immortal assassin and a mad sorcerer on her tail?
September 9, 2009
String from the Wailing Bridge: a traditional form of punishment dating back to the mid-twenty-second century, wherein a miscreant is tied to some handy public work and left for possers-by to toss insults, bottles, handy expired produce, et cetera, at. Nowadays people rarely die, at least from the hanging alone, but its origins were on the cobbleship Isles, which essentially formed and broke up on the whim of the individual ships' owners. Whether or not someone was untied from the Wailing Bridge before it ceased being a bridge was left entirely to the whim of the mob. This is also the origin of the expression 'short quarter and a long drop.'
I've finally finished hand-trawling through my own archives adding scripts and reposting news (Reader's Digest version: 'oh god this is bad, the art's incredibly ugly and I can't write my way out of a paper bag someone shoot me -- oh, hey, that bit was actually rather clever!' Repeat for 2 weeks.) I can't promise it's perfect, but it's all there. The story synopsis should also be back, and there's now a glossary page over in the World section where I've collected the bits of worldbuilding and such I've been sprinkling into the newsposts. As much for me as for you guys, I admit, but if you want the stuff it's there.
ETA: Fixed the code error that was causing half the page to not display. Man, I'm a screw-up the last week or two.
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