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strange_aeonsSo, uh. I didn't actually write any words day before yesterday.
Then yesterday I wrote 2441 words, so that's all right. I only wrote 745 today, but I'm tired, and I think yesterday is more than enough overcompensation for one week. 35.7kwords total so far.
What? You mean I'm supposed to have something more to say? Jesus, you're demanding.
Actually, I lie. I do have more to add. I'm experiencing a mild quandary which I think is why I didn't write my usual 800-plus words today.
The party's just run into a trade caravan that's heading in approximately the direction they are, and these people have allowed them to follow along because certain members of the party and certain members of the caravan have reputations as the sort of people it's good to have about on a long trip. Everyone's headed for town, where they are planning on spending the night and then heading out in the morning. This isn't going to work out; the caravan is giong to be delayed by the weather and the party is going to head out without them because they can't wait for the roads to dry.
Anyway. While they're in town, Rook does the traders a good turn. Actually, he does a good turn to their priestess(/seer?)'s (adopted?) daughter, more or less by accident, and the priestess rewards him with a gift of some of their wares.
The thing is that these people are slavers, basically. That is, they deal only in living things, and they don't care what those living things are so long as they'll fetch a price. So, it stands to reason that they would give Rook some kind of not particularly valuable pet animal. A Cute Animal Sidekick. I'm thinking of some kind of small dragonish thing, like a cross between a bat and a snake, this being Fantasyland and all. Except, and here's where I'm having a problem, Rook already has a Cute Animal Sidekick, in the form of the crazed, murderous unicorn, and that's quite enough for him, thank you. It doesn't feel right for him to just let the animal go or sell it, and he certainly wouldn't allow Sweeney to cook it; he can't refuse it, because one Does Not refuse gifts from these people.
So I don't know what to do. Maybe the animal can adopt Sweeney.
Then yesterday I wrote 2441 words, so that's all right. I only wrote 745 today, but I'm tired, and I think yesterday is more than enough overcompensation for one week. 35.7kwords total so far.
What? You mean I'm supposed to have something more to say? Jesus, you're demanding.
Actually, I lie. I do have more to add. I'm experiencing a mild quandary which I think is why I didn't write my usual 800-plus words today.
The party's just run into a trade caravan that's heading in approximately the direction they are, and these people have allowed them to follow along because certain members of the party and certain members of the caravan have reputations as the sort of people it's good to have about on a long trip. Everyone's headed for town, where they are planning on spending the night and then heading out in the morning. This isn't going to work out; the caravan is giong to be delayed by the weather and the party is going to head out without them because they can't wait for the roads to dry.
Anyway. While they're in town, Rook does the traders a good turn. Actually, he does a good turn to their priestess(/seer?)'s (adopted?) daughter, more or less by accident, and the priestess rewards him with a gift of some of their wares.
The thing is that these people are slavers, basically. That is, they deal only in living things, and they don't care what those living things are so long as they'll fetch a price. So, it stands to reason that they would give Rook some kind of not particularly valuable pet animal. A Cute Animal Sidekick. I'm thinking of some kind of small dragonish thing, like a cross between a bat and a snake, this being Fantasyland and all. Except, and here's where I'm having a problem, Rook already has a Cute Animal Sidekick, in the form of the crazed, murderous unicorn, and that's quite enough for him, thank you. It doesn't feel right for him to just let the animal go or sell it, and he certainly wouldn't allow Sweeney to cook it; he can't refuse it, because one Does Not refuse gifts from these people.
So I don't know what to do. Maybe the animal can adopt Sweeney.
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Date: 2002-08-06 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-08-06 01:05 am (UTC)And now I kind of want Peeps. Man, I haven't even eaten a marshmallow in years.
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Date: 2002-08-06 01:23 am (UTC)... I just got attacked by a plastic egg bearing the fearsome visage of Caine the Vampire Bunny. =o.O= I'll take that as a warning not to make light of the subject.
Or have the critter be semi-tame, and it escapes - and then follows the party, occasionally popping out long enough to be a Useful Plot Point (TM) before retreating back into the darkness.
Or - what if the slavers give Rook a "worthless" human slave? Somebody they haven't been able to tame/break, or who is "undesirable" for other reasons?
Just some ideas. :)