Comments | deepdowndark: 2. (60): bitching you out in footnotes.

deepdowndark

2. (60): bitching you out in footnotes.

Sep 15, 2011 20:35

Hm. For once, Admiral, agreeable. For once.

NB: This is by no means an endorsement. One sensible act does not make up for the many times the following have occurred ( Read more... )

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private, dwarfspeak im_spiderman September 15 2011, 20:12:49 UTC

I've no problem with ye workin' in tha library, but I can't promise never ta question something under any circumstance. That reaches a bit far ta swear ta ahead of time. And ye can make tha contract, but keep tha terms reasonable, or I'll not put me name ta it as it stands. Ye can put the axe in it if ye like, if ye agree never ta raise it against anything less than a threat ta yer life and keep it safe with ye.

As for Narvin, so long as he agrees ta it, I will. But if I'm told something in confidence, I may not always share it with ye, though I will if I can.

Re: private, dwarfspeak deepdowndark September 15 2011, 20:18:21 UTC

...I find this agreeable. I would not want you to sign something you did not agree to, as I intend to hold you to it. The terms about the axe were those I intended to use anyway.

If he has agreed to it, all should be shared between the three of you. If he tries to contact you in private, this should be your duty to remind him.

Re: private, dwarfspeak im_spiderman September 15 2011, 20:26:50 UTC

And remind him I will.

Re: private, dwarfspeak deepdowndark September 15 2011, 20:33:26 UTC

Good.

You're more agreeable than the rest, Yorg. But you're also a Dwarf. It will be a lot easier than them for you to lose my respect, as I will expect better of you than them.

Just so you know.

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Private greatlightother September 15 2011, 20:12:50 UTC

Today is a good day.

After everything else that's happened this week, I mean.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 15 2011, 20:19:37 UTC

Why, because you don't have to suffer Drake's shoes?

Re: Private greatlightother September 15 2011, 22:42:53 UTC

Oh stop.

I like Drake's shoes.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 15 2011, 22:46:20 UTC

You're acting all human again, Svetlana.

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bargemods September 15 2011, 20:37:31 UTC

Did not.

deepdowndark September 15 2011, 20:39:09 UTC

Which article, Admiral? a through h, pick one.

As I can provide evidence.

bargemods September 15 2011, 20:40:26 UTC

A through H, as you said.

deepdowndark September 15 2011, 20:51:06 UTC

a) Note ports - nominally that suburban Roundworld one, the carnival 'flood', where I was not only forcibly human, but also subjected to enslavement because I was a 'freak'.

b) Note the huge majority of humans. Note the fact I've acknowledged my breach of Dwarfish Law, and yet still remain here. Note the fact it's always human holidays, human traditions, human concepts that happen as a result of floods. We've only ever taken trips to the Roundworld. I have only seen two Dwarfs here in the entire history of this place. It's even basic things of everything being too large. Even a little consideration would be appreciated.

c) Randal Graves. Proof enough?

d) Oh, so this little box I now have in my possession just... popped up out of nowhere? Without you knowing about it? [Insert Dwarfish curse translatable as 'bullshit', but more accurately meaning 'the slimy, silty deposits left by the river Ankh in the bottom of a city mine'.]

e) I died for what I believed. My imprisonment is unjust and by human standards. That is nobody but your ( ... )

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Private timesbureaucrat September 15 2011, 22:21:10 UTC

You do realize that I might occasionally discuss things with another warden--even your new warden--that have nothing to do with you.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 15 2011, 22:22:56 UTC

Anything that does have anything to do with me, then.

Private timesbureaucrat September 15 2011, 22:33:34 UTC

I'm really not sure what you're afraid I might say to him. All the best bits are a matter of public record since you decided to confess to the world about all our various dealings.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 15 2011, 22:38:03 UTC

I simply don't want you colluding behind my back. It's less the events and more you two conspiring.

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Private darknessb4me September 16 2011, 08:57:36 UTC

[Dwarven, amused:] We're going to need another code language. Your warden could listen in. Know any others? I speak, ahh--... [Common, fuck it, you can't translate proper nouns:] Vrykul, Orcish, a little Eredun. I can read Nerubian, but it's hard to speak it without mandibles.

[See? He remembered the word for 'warden' that Ardent taught him. ARTHAS CAN LEARN.]

I'd also like to offer you a little warning. You're aware he's ... that I have a history with him, of course.

Re: Private deepdowndark September 16 2011, 10:02:44 UTC

To some extent, I'm aware.

I plan to include in my contract with him that he's not to read my private communications. If you are left without a filter...

Uberwaldian?

Private darknessb4me September 16 2011, 18:24:55 UTC

You should know, then, that if you have some sort of a whim to kidnap and mutilate him as you did with Narvin, he taught me how to kill.

I've never heard of that. Speak a few sentences?

Re: Private deepdowndark September 16 2011, 22:29:48 UTC

It was not a whim when I did it to Narvin, and there was no kidnap involved.

[He switches to Uberwaldian. It sounds like German.]

This is Uberwaldian. Understand me?

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