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The Hero's Manual (Collection)
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Hero's Manual: Chapter 24
Mar. 9th, 2008 09:02 pmA/N: This chapter is rather short, but it feels finished. Also, this way I won't have a half-chapter floating around for months on end.
( Chapter 24: Behind the Bushes )
( Chapter 24: Behind the Bushes )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 24
Mar. 9th, 2008 09:02 pmA/N: This chapter is rather short, but it feels finished. Also, this way I won't have a half-chapter floating around for months on end.
( Chapter 24: Behind the Bushes )
( Chapter 24: Behind the Bushes )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 23
Mar. 9th, 2008 08:53 pmA/N: Thank Lovecraft and his 1931 story The Whisperer in the Darkness for the title term as well as "Lord of the Woods". The chapter title is a reference, of course, to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
( Chapter 23: For Whom the Goat Bleets )
( Chapter 23: For Whom the Goat Bleets )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 23
Mar. 9th, 2008 08:53 pmA/N: Thank Lovecraft and his 1931 story The Whisperer in the Darkness for the title term as well as "Lord of the Woods". The chapter title is a reference, of course, to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
( Chapter 23: For Whom the Goat Bleets )
( Chapter 23: For Whom the Goat Bleets )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 22
Jan. 16th, 2008 03:09 pmA/N: Despite suspicious similarities and outraged villagers, I am not criticizing any religion in particular. One-eyed Larry is from PotC: AWE.
Lucretia's rule for stew is from TPratchett. The Cod/Carp concept came from a typo in an email I received from Josie, titled "Holy Carp!". Things just got a bit out of hand from there, especially with Pratchettian influence*.
I’m really sorry about Freckles.
( Chapter 22: How to Serve Gods )
* In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)
Lucretia's rule for stew is from TPratchett. The Cod/Carp concept came from a typo in an email I received from Josie, titled "Holy Carp!". Things just got a bit out of hand from there, especially with Pratchettian influence*.
I’m really sorry about Freckles.
( Chapter 22: How to Serve Gods )
* In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)
Hero's Manual: Chapter 22
Jan. 16th, 2008 03:09 pmA/N: Despite suspicious similarities and outraged villagers, I am not criticizing any religion in particular. One-eyed Larry is from PotC: AWE.
Lucretia's rule for stew is from TPratchett. The Cod/Carp concept came from a typo in an email I received from Josie, titled "Holy Carp!". Things just got a bit out of hand from there, especially with Pratchettian influence*.
I’m really sorry about Freckles.
( Chapter 22: How to Serve Gods )
* In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)
Lucretia's rule for stew is from TPratchett. The Cod/Carp concept came from a typo in an email I received from Josie, titled "Holy Carp!". Things just got a bit out of hand from there, especially with Pratchettian influence*.
I’m really sorry about Freckles.
( Chapter 22: How to Serve Gods )
* In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly:
"Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: "A fish!"
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)
Hero's Manual: Interlude
Dec. 17th, 2007 07:39 pmA/N: I haven't written in this 'verse for so long, the characters are worried. And in a bit of bad place.
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Hero's Manual: Interlude
Dec. 17th, 2007 07:39 pmA/N: I haven't written in this 'verse for so long, the characters are worried. And in a bit of bad place.
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Hero's Manual: Chapter 21
Jun. 18th, 2007 07:39 pmA/N:Notes: The one-eyed tomcat is, of course, TPratchett's Greebo. "Gibbous" comes from NGaiman’s character Wolfe (or was it Seth?) in “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” criticizing HPLovecraft's writing style, and Mr and Mrs Owens, in Cry of the Kalahari, thanking their friend who said no novel is complete without a gibbous moon.
( Chapter 21: Different Tastes )
( Chapter 21: Different Tastes )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 21
Jun. 18th, 2007 07:39 pmA/N:Notes: The one-eyed tomcat is, of course, TPratchett's Greebo. "Gibbous" comes from NGaiman’s character Wolfe (or was it Seth?) in “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” criticizing HPLovecraft's writing style, and Mr and Mrs Owens, in Cry of the Kalahari, thanking their friend who said no novel is complete without a gibbous moon.
( Chapter 21: Different Tastes )
( Chapter 21: Different Tastes )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 19
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:36 pmA/N: What the women are muttering over the pots is, obviously, from Hamlet. The man with the snacks is a more disturbing version of CMOT Dibbler whilst the dog is Gaspod (The Wonder Dog), both from TPratchett's Disworld novels. The soup is part Neil Gaiman (who wrote of, in Shoggoth's Old Peculair, a beer "advertisers would describe as "full-bodied". Although if pressed they would confess that the body in question had once been that of a goat.") and part Discovery Channels's "Travelers", in which Our Man sups with the Mongols and gets offered the tastiest bit of the goat. The box labelled goat actually exists: I saw it in a clothes store and, once recovered from the massive WTF-factor, jotted it down in my n otebook. As for Frank: he wasn't supposed to be this creapy, I swear.
There's a squick-warning:
( Chapter 19: Some Local Colour )
There's a squick-warning:
( Chapter 19: Some Local Colour )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 19
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:36 pmA/N: What the women are muttering over the pots is, obviously, from Hamlet. The man with the snacks is a more disturbing version of CMOT Dibbler whilst the dog is Gaspod (The Wonder Dog), both from TPratchett's Disworld novels. The soup is part Neil Gaiman (who wrote of, in Shoggoth's Old Peculair, a beer "advertisers would describe as "full-bodied". Although if pressed they would confess that the body in question had once been that of a goat.") and part Discovery Channels's "Travelers", in which Our Man sups with the Mongols and gets offered the tastiest bit of the goat. The box labelled goat actually exists: I saw it in a clothes store and, once recovered from the massive WTF-factor, jotted it down in my n otebook. As for Frank: he wasn't supposed to be this creapy, I swear.
There's a squick-warning:
( Chapter 19: Some Local Colour )
There's a squick-warning:
( Chapter 19: Some Local Colour )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 18
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:34 pmA/N: Both the "camel hump" reference and the phrase about the Black King stem from NGaiman's Shoggoth's Old Peculair and the title he gives for HPLovecraft's Nyarlathotep. The "Lord of the Woods" also comes from Lovecraft: Whisperer in the darkness (1931), but the "Darth" bit is just Sithly. Quasi's fear came out more serious than I'd first intended.
( Chapter 18: Four-Legged Brethren )
( Chapter 18: Four-Legged Brethren )
Hero's Manual: Chapter 18
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:34 pmA/N: Both the "camel hump" reference and the phrase about the Black King stem from NGaiman's Shoggoth's Old Peculair and the title he gives for HPLovecraft's Nyarlathotep. The "Lord of the Woods" also comes from Lovecraft: Whisperer in the darkness (1931), but the "Darth" bit is just Sithly. Quasi's fear came out more serious than I'd first intended.
( Chapter 18: Four-Legged Brethren )
( Chapter 18: Four-Legged Brethren )
Hero's Manual: Chpater 17
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:29 pmA/N: "Astrophel" comes from the poem "Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella" by Philip Sidney, and was innitially supposed to be called called Madness, but the joke didn't really work. Frank is the name of LJ's mascot. The bit about the mouth and the screaming was scribbled by me years ago but, since I've seen it referenced since, it must be from the Borg-overmind. Which means, I have no idea where I got it from. Certainly not directly from this computer game.
( Chapter 17: Lacking in Goats and Scones )
( Chapter 17: Lacking in Goats and Scones )
Hero's Manual: Chpater 17
Sep. 16th, 2006 04:29 pmA/N: "Astrophel" comes from the poem "Sonnets from Astrophel and Stella" by Philip Sidney, and was innitially supposed to be called called Madness, but the joke didn't really work. Frank is the name of LJ's mascot. The bit about the mouth and the screaming was scribbled by me years ago but, since I've seen it referenced since, it must be from the Borg-overmind. Which means, I have no idea where I got it from. Certainly not directly from this computer game.
( Chapter 17: Lacking in Goats and Scones )
( Chapter 17: Lacking in Goats and Scones )
