Chapter: 20
Reasons for removal: Added to the world, but was too long and ultimately irrelevant.
The Troika brothers had been one of those cases of loving hate-- they would've died for each other, but that included killing themselves if the only one to interact had been each other.
It wasn't that there was a long-lasting feud about papa's will, or over who was given more chocolate, or who got the girl. It was simply that they were incompatible from the get-go, or at least started being as soon as Dandruff went to what Endriff called "Filthy capitalists training camp" and Endriff went to what Dandruff called "Useless brainiacs training camp", both with a mix of good and bad natured intent.
Nevertheless, they had often helped each other in their enterprises, and that included a certain artificial lake. At first the project had consisted of trying to make an artificial cravice, since minotaurs really like crevices, but then this thingy with the moles happened.
Never underestimate the capacity of rodents to ruin projects of any size.
They couldn't do it, said Endriff to his men: "What if the fecking things reach bedrock, eh? What do we do then? we'll have bedrock moles causing earthquakes or some shit, that's what we'll do. Do you want to cause earthquakes this close to mountains? Cuzz I sure don't"
The solution proposed by Dandruff some time later when Endriff mentioned it nonchalantly in a letter was, as most of his, filthy capitalist practicality: make it longer and fill it with water, then make vacation resorts and divide the money. "How about that, Brainiac? You can make underwater cities in the cravice or some such"
It was attractive: make the resort an isolated island that the moles can't reach, put as many cats in said isolated island as possible just in case, and then make some kind of river route deep enough that the moles can't dig under it to cross the forest.
Then problems started: not all ground is good to make ridges in it, and the ideal straight route ended being almost four times as long and more or less destroying the local ecosystem of the forest, at which point the governments of Tharata and Surane had more or less said that, if the minotaurs wanted to make something like that, they could do it with shackles on.
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Chapter: 43
Reasons for removal: Added to the world, and was interesting for me, but it still went on for too long.
""Lu" is one of their most significant syllables, it can mean "To illuminate", "To feed" and "To pursue"," Nanda squinted at her back and kept walking circles around her "Misusing it can offend traditionalists, as they have an old superstition about words wearing down with use. "Shi" is more straightforward, and means "Tongue", "bridge" and in general "intelectual communication"..."
Tense, relax, tense, relax, tense, relax...
"...complicated, but can be understood to roughly mean "Pertaining to the gods". "Lushido", thus, can be translated as "Illuminated message from the gods", "Message from the illuminated gods", and "Message of illumination from the gods" , which is related to their city's..."
Tense, relax, tense, relax, tense, relax...
""...oi" is also important, because its the basic "Thanks" syllable. "De" is a generic increaser, so "Deloi" is roughly "Very much thanks you", while "Nu"
gives a mocking or parodying tone to the rest of the word, so you should avoid "Nuloi" if you can. The customary response to a "Loi"-based word is "Ghao", which
rather than "Don't worry about it" is a general statement of that you appreciate it. Its thanking for being thanked, if you want to think of it like that.
"Don't worry about it" is a posible interpretation of "Ghaonu", which can be also understood as mocking so it may offend traditionalists, and "Gur" is for
refusing to accept the thanksTOP!"
Winona shook in her sleep, but there wasn't much more reaction than that.
"Good, if you keep practicing you'll do it in a few weeks. Where was... oh, yes. There is no individual syllable for "Name", but "Se-tre-de-ni"" she took care of separating each individual syllable "is the most used word for it, and its literal translation is "That with which you request, at the present time, location, and company, to be identified as". Its a mouthful, but they'll start foaming from their mouths if you insult their language in any shape or form. "Loi-re-na is important, too, don't forget it. Its asking where is the bathroom"
6877790 Taking into account than the Element is presumably fussed with her, and that the spell is powerful to have been going on for long enough for Truth (Who, from his nature, probably hasn't been replaced since he was put there) to shrug off centuries, whatever happens would probably be to extremely perjudice to everything within a hundred kilometers area.
Its actually pretty interesting to think about, really. Both the Element and the curse have heavy mind magic and/or psionic elements, so who knows what would happen.
6878743
You mean fused, right?
6878850 ...I'll never get used to how many words in English are only separated by whether you use a single consonant or two.
Yeah, fused.
6885353 Unusual, but not unheard of. Systems like a forest are happy with doing nothing most of the time.
6898885
Forgive the stale meme, but it pretty much sums it up.
6904588 Didn't have anything relevant to do.
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6826977
So, is this, like, Austreoh But with Twice the freckles and half the angst?
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>Austraeoh
Shamelessly so.
>Freckles
They are cute tho. I'll have to write frustered
FrecklemareAJ at some point or another.>Half the angst
Oh, yes. For now, at least. No story of any lenght superior to two chapters escapes having some angst.
6937160 Just So was rewriten like three times, and a chapter that's right there with Night 13 in my "Gotta redo this" list. First version was aimless and far worse. Second version was far too dramatic when I just wanted Nanda to say "But he died thirty years ago". Third version was slightly less bad. I guess fourth version, when it happens, won't be quite as bad as this one.
6952593
You mean: conspiracy.
6928018
I like the description.
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6984113 Season's work ended yesterday, and that one always leaves me out cold.
But this is mostly me being indecisive. As much as I had planned, a lot of things are always up in the air. Some things have changed five or ten times since the last update, and the changing things change other things, so I am sitting here with two and a half chapters that have been edited I don't know how many times. The total wordcount of all the edits must be around the 6K words.
I don't bother much with keeping this fic as anything but a playground for ideas, problem is when said ideas won't stop changing. But today or tomorrow I'll try to, at least, get these two chapters done to nail down the few variables that keep changing everything else like an avalanche.
7017947 Messed up with the clipboard, fixed.
7017964 Makes sense in context. Context that is given in the now fixed chapter, so my fault there.
7017977 dreamsequence.jpg
7017988 The small one is still in Quibra's bag, and the second was left in a rush.
Dude, didn't the 44:8 mess with things.
7040657 Her inventory is a somewhat fuzzy area for me. I do have a loose list, but making a hard-writen inventory is a to-do.
But to answer the question, the blunt of the weight -around three quarters- is the tent and dried food. Of the remaining, most of it are tools, as she sends most of the memorabilia she picks up to her home in a semi-regular basis.
She is normally low on money, as odd jobs only give so much, but being of a species that can eat grass reduces her need of money by several orders of magnitude.