maddest: (whatever shall we do)
maddest ([personal profile] maddest) wrote2011-08-22 12:20 am

[video] star light star bright

Dear Adstringendum,

I'd like to hold a contest.

You see, we have a starfull of skies, pardon, sky full of stars, but no lore to fill it with. The constellations in my world all tell stories about heroes long fallen, about Gods and Goddesses and immortals and divinity.

I propose we make a little bit of the same for ourselves here!

The rules are simple. Find a constellation from the nighttime- be it the summer or winter sky- and remember and recount for me a 'legend' about that cluster. You can find images of the nighttime skies in old PCD video posts, if you look back.

We're talking about legend here, so any stories you tell should either be a year old at least, or should focus on events surrounding people who are no longer with us, or whose memories have been lost since the events themselves. That, or events that happened a year or so or more ago. I only want secondhand retellings. The stars are about myth, after all.

The winner will get the package of cookies I salvaged yesterday.

I'll start.



Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was an event in Adstringendum where the streets were patrolled by mean, crusty creatures called gnomes. These dreaded gnomes bossed, and bullied the city dwellers into living in buildings like dormitories for the better part of a week.

Weep and wail as they might, a curfew was strictly enforced, by the dreaded gnomes with their teeth and clubs. Enemy was planted abed next to other enemies, conflict started afresh, and by the end of the week the city was in such cranky, over exhausted turmoil, that the animus in their infinite wisdom flung the gnome creatures into the sky, never to be seen again.

The citizens of Adstringendum were released from their dormitory prison, and all that was left of the gnomes was a small cluster, just there- of stars. If you look close you see the outline of their little pot-bellies.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's Adstringendum. Everyone is wrapped up in everyone else constantly.

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[identity profile] population-ctrl.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
True enough, Monsieur. But a bit embarrassing, all the same.
waterbends: (Default)

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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
While I'm evented?

[identity profile] stepford-smiles.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
What if we haven't been here that long? Are we allowed to make something up?

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I can see how it would be, especially for a private sort of person.

[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Try to make it true-ish- use your earliest days.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
From afar, then. We'll eat the same food in opposite rooms.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[An honest laugh.]

Don't be ridiculous. We'll eat together.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I know.

I'll be home in an hour or so?

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[identity profile] population-ctrl.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Back home, it would have been a disaster.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
People know things about me here that would get me killed at home.

[identity profile] stepford-smiles.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you seen that cluster of stars in the southwest of the sky? It's topped by three bright ones that are almost in a straight row, but not quite.

[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I know the one.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be outside. I'm about to give the kitten a bath.

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[identity profile] population-ctrl.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? Your life at home must be very dramatic.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
What, there's a kitten?

[identity profile] stepford-smiles.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the underwater world that we lived in when I arrived. The stars are all of the fish, and those three dots are the surface of the water. We all think that Adstring was put under the sea for the event, but really, we were just taken there.

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course.
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, sorry. No, I just meant Lu Ten, my cat. I guess he's not a kitten anymore, huh?

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[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes- I thought we'd added someone else.

[identity profile] mister-hatter.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That's lovely!

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[identity profile] population-ctrl.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Curious. Just a quick smile, though it probably doesn't look -completely- harmless this time around.]
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[personal profile] waterbends 2011-08-22 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No - it turns out one cat is more than enough.

Dinner's on the stove. Don't be late - I'm hungry!

[identity profile] stepford-smiles.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. It's certainly something. What an interesting idea.

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[identity profile] painhumbles.livejournal.com 2011-08-22 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
......Where did you learn how to Lucifer-wrangle?

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