[video] star light star bright
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maddestDear 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.
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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Date: 2011-08-29 05:34 pm (UTC)...[That earns an eyeroll] Nice. Omnipotent beings reduced to beanie babies.
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Date: 2011-08-29 06:19 pm (UTC)I told him that what he was doing with Jinx was uncomfortably close to outright deception, and that I had lost a great deal of respect for him.
What's a beanie baby?
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Date: 2011-08-29 06:54 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-29 11:53 pm (UTC)She knows what she's getting herself into, his peculiar ethos would mean she'd have to. The nuzzling and cooing not only isn't him, it isn't much like her, is it? They need something from each other, and they're playing lovebirds while they get it.
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Date: 2011-08-30 03:31 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-30 07:46 am (UTC)[Shrugging.]
And honestly, the fallout won't be so bad. Adstringendum has survived worse. The scales have a way of balancing themselves.
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:31 pm (UTC)[He scoffs.]
You haven't met Lucifer scorned, Break. He gets downright apocalyptic.
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:56 pm (UTC)And I don't think we have to worry about that just yet.
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:23 pm (UTC)Not while she's useful to him, anyway.
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Date: 2011-08-30 09:27 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-31 04:19 pm (UTC)She's a stupid kid.
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Date: 2011-08-31 04:42 pm (UTC)[Break will be laughing. Forever.]
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Date: 2011-08-31 05:07 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-08-31 05:14 pm (UTC)Fortunately, he's also taking the cookies out of the oven, so there's good reason not to smite him for impertinence, etc.]
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:49 am (UTC)[Offline]
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:54 am (UTC)[Laughing.]
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Date: 2011-09-03 05:38 am (UTC)[Offline]
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Date: 2011-09-04 12:30 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-09-04 12:42 am (UTC)[Settling down in the chair opposite him.]
But maybe that's true. I, after all, am merely a humble servant.