Right... I'm, I won't say RECOVERED from last night's Fifth Sorceress entry, but I'm calm enough that I won't spend the entire time plotting to telekinetically poison Greenwood from half a planet away.
A truly pathetic chapter quote that I shan't dignify by repeating
Well that was unbearably saccharine. Moving on!
Mercy must be bought, soldier
Good to know that pretty much everyone in this book is balanced on the edge of becoming a war criminal. CHRIST.
“I’ll have to become directly involved in the hunt for this Shandril.”
Yeah, didn't you do that in the last book? And wind up getting your dragon servant absolutely fucking obliterated, and nearly take one of Elminster's fireballs to the face in the process? Yeah, I seem to recall something like that. Fuck me sideways you're an idiot, Manshoon.
“I grow no younger,” he said carefully. “What use is spellfire—or the triumph of our Brotherhood over all—to me, if I’m toothless, blind, and failing in my dotage before we gain either?”
Aren't you the one with the potentially endless series of clones that wake up and inherit your memories every time you die? To the point that you're practically immortal? Because I'm pretty sure that was you!
(we’ll find out more about the mechanics of his immortality, which I’ve alluded to previously, later in this very book, but he certainly has no reason to think age will be catching up with him any time soon).
Oh good, even if I'm remembering wrong I'm generally right.
brute force.
(When Arnold Judas Rimmer can claim to be smarter than you, you done fucked up being an immortal mastermind.)
“Unusual maneuver,” the dwarf remarked cheerfully, “but I can see its virtues now, O Great Warrior. It’ll certainly lull any waiting foes into false overconfidence and allow us to make a grand entrance while they’re still rolling about on the ground, laughing helplessly.” You know what – it’s not the most original humor, but it's Mirt and he probably deserves to get dunked in mud (and maybe worse…) every so often, so I’ll take it.
It's certainly not unique but any time where Mirt gets humiliated is a good time for me!
Aye… Two men, one woman, and a he-dwarf, on foot.
(HOLY SHIT MIRT.)
whose name is Baergasra and is a leper, apparently
Okay um wow NO. Leprosy is stupidly contagious! There's a reason Leper Colonies were a thing for literal centuries! And while it does stop being contagious eventually, the incubation period for it is FIVE FUCKING YEARS and the fact that I haven't been able to find reliable data on exactly how long it takes for someone infected to stop being able to pass it on and the medicine that treats it wasn't discovered until the 1940s and was already mutating to be resistant to said medicine by the 1980s gives me ZERO confidence that this person is safe, Cure Disease spells or no! WHAT THE FUCK GREENWOOD.
“You’re the ones who stole my little girl! Thieves! Slavers! You won’t get away this time! Innkeeper! Bring your crossbows!”
Okay I'm like 99.99999% sure that this is them trying to kidnap Shandrah in what I consider to be one of the smarter moves in the series thus far, but the fact that everyone but the Harper (DISGUISED AS A FUCKING LEPER WHO KISSES PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, FUCKING DISGUSTING ON HER PART AND GREENWOOD'S) thought this was plausible enough to not get involved with them trying to kill Mirt says a lot about his business practices. She's sure as hell not a Cleric of Ilmater, if she was one of those she'd actually be, you know, HELPING.
Shandril could see an ugly purple scar just forward of his armpit, but the skin was whole again, and the blood had stopped.
HOW. WHEN. Nobody did jack shit! Show don't tell isn't absolutely but SHOW INSTEAD OF FUCKING TELLING GREENWOOD! I think I'm starting to be more angry about how just plain bad he is as a writer than about how disgusting his heroes are.
no subject
Well that was unbearably saccharine. Moving on!
Good to know that pretty much everyone in this book is balanced on the edge of becoming a war criminal. CHRIST.
Yeah, didn't you do that in the last book? And wind up getting your dragon servant absolutely fucking obliterated, and nearly take one of Elminster's fireballs to the face in the process? Yeah, I seem to recall something like that. Fuck me sideways you're an idiot, Manshoon.
Aren't you the one with the potentially endless series of clones that wake up and inherit your memories every time you die? To the point that you're practically immortal? Because I'm pretty sure that was you!
Oh good, even if I'm remembering wrong I'm generally right.
(When Arnold Judas Rimmer can claim to be smarter than you, you done fucked up being an immortal mastermind.)
It's certainly not unique but any time where Mirt gets humiliated is a good time for me!
(HOLY SHIT MIRT.)
Okay um wow NO. Leprosy is stupidly contagious! There's a reason Leper Colonies were a thing for literal centuries! And while it does stop being contagious eventually, the incubation period for it is FIVE FUCKING YEARS and the fact that I haven't been able to find reliable data on exactly how long it takes for someone infected to stop being able to pass it on and the medicine that treats it wasn't discovered until the 1940s and was already mutating to be resistant to said medicine by the 1980s gives me ZERO confidence that this person is safe, Cure Disease spells or no! WHAT THE FUCK GREENWOOD.
Okay I'm like 99.99999% sure that this is them trying to kidnap Shandrah in what I consider to be one of the smarter moves in the series thus far, but the fact that everyone but the Harper (DISGUISED AS A FUCKING LEPER WHO KISSES PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, FUCKING DISGUSTING ON HER PART AND GREENWOOD'S) thought this was plausible enough to not get involved with them trying to kill Mirt says a lot about his business practices. She's sure as hell not a Cleric of Ilmater, if she was one of those she'd actually be, you know, HELPING.
HOW. WHEN. Nobody did jack shit! Show don't tell isn't absolutely but SHOW INSTEAD OF FUCKING TELLING GREENWOOD! I think I'm starting to be more angry about how just plain bad he is as a writer than about how disgusting his heroes are.