thrilling installment #14 of whatever

On 2004-07-15, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
>> >> What about: "Before anybody realized what had happened, the village had
>> >> already been covered in thick fog, making it impossible too see hand
>> >> before..."?
>> >
>> > The 'already' adds nothing.
>>
>> Hm, but it doesn't hurt either, does it?
>
> Might clutter it somwhat, along with the other things... not certain,
> though. If you feel strongly about it, you should probably keep it.

I'm not sure in which way it ought to clutter it, but I *do* believe it
should be in there.

>> >> >> >> > Yes, but you were the one who said whatever it was that I was
>> > smiling
>> >> >> > at.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Oh, yeah? So does your dog. Wait, that was the wrong reply,
> wasn't
>> > it?
>> >> >> >> <eg>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > *picks up very thin, very sharp glinting implement* How about you
>> > point
>> >> > me
>> >> >> > in the direction of my 'dog'?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Huh?
>> >> >
>> >> > Dogs are stringy... but I'd rather feast on the flesh of a dog than
> a
>> > cat
>> >> > any day.
>> >> >
>> >> > ...Though I suppose it depends if I'd defeated the cat in fair combat
> or
>> >> > not. With the dog, I'd just hunt it down and slaughter it.
>> >>
>> >> Err...
>> >> ::hides::
>> >
>> > *snickers*
>>
>> You... why?!
>
> What?

#starting replay
Triad: *snickers*
#end of replay

>> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
>> >> >
>> >> > I can guess.
>> >>
>> >> Guess in writing, then.
>> >
>> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
>>
>> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
>
> Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*

Huh?

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water) from the
>> >> > freezer
>> >> >> > and
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of heating
> after
>> > all.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Physics!
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Maths!
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The Math Carpet...
>> >> >
>> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
>> >>
>> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even say that
>> >> in English?)
>> >
>> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
>>
>> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
>> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil drilling
>> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water like a
>> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish phrase
>> correspondents to it, though.
>
> Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
>
> oil slick n.
> a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.

Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.

>> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's *not* the
>> >> >> omnious humm>
>> >> >
>> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma weapons, don't
>> > you?
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws and
>> >> fangs...
>> >
>> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
>>
>> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit nasty. I
>> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast and
>> easy to grap and use, you see.
>
> Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws. Attach claws
> firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of destruction out
> of the tips...

I think you are overdoing it a bit here... and remember what I said
about integrated weaponery above?

>> >> >> Depends. Very much. I learned the hard way that I don't really like
>> >> >> Maths, you see.
>> >> >
>> >> > How so?
>> >>
>> >> Well, I have to take some lectures in maths...
>> >
>> > ...Was that supposed to be future tense?
>>
>> That was not-so-well-done present, I think.
>
> Strange.

That's life.

>> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'. Whoever
>> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
>> >
>> > ...How nice.
>>
>> Being sarcastic?
>
> Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a matching pen
> and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'

::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
--
emmel <the_emmel*you-know-what-that's-for*@gmx.net>
(Don't forget to remove the ** bit)

Official AGC feedback maniac

"God is playing creatures - and we're the norns."

"A hundred dead are a tragedy - a hundred thousand are statistics."

"I guess you can call yourself lucky." -
"I could, but Linda suits me a little better...
Things called lucky tend to get hit by trucks."

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 >> Stay informed about: thrilling installment #14 of whatever 

"emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:slrncfesr8.e7j.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x11.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
> On 2004-07-15, Refractor Dragon <wanderer RemoveThis @beeb.web> wrote:
> >> >> What about: "Before anybody realized what had happened, the village
had
> >> >> already been covered in thick fog, making it impossible too see hand
> >> >> before..."?
> >> >
> >> > The 'already' adds nothing.
> >>
> >> Hm, but it doesn't hurt either, does it?
> >
> > Might clutter it somwhat, along with the other things... not certain,
> > though. If you feel strongly about it, you should probably keep it.
>
> I'm not sure in which way it ought to clutter it, but I *do* believe it
> should be in there.

Hmm.

> >> >> >> >> > Yes, but you were the one who said whatever it was that I
was
> >> > smiling
> >> >> >> > at.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Oh, yeah? So does your dog. Wait, that was the wrong reply,
> > wasn't
> >> > it?
> >> >> >> >> <eg>
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > *picks up very thin, very sharp glinting implement* How about
you
> >> > point
> >> >> > me
> >> >> >> > in the direction of my 'dog'?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Huh?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Dogs are stringy... but I'd rather feast on the flesh of a dog
than
> > a
> >> > cat
> >> >> > any day.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ...Though I suppose it depends if I'd defeated the cat in fair
combat
> > or
> >> >> > not. With the dog, I'd just hunt it down and slaughter it.
> >> >>
> >> >> Err...
> >> >> ::hides::
> >> >
> >> > *snickers*
> >>
> >> You... why?!
> >
> > What?
>
> #starting replay
> Triad: *snickers*
> #end of replay

Ah. In short, we were amused.

> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I can guess.
> >> >>
> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
> >> >
> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
> >>
> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
> >
> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
>
> Huh?

Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting sidetracked.
BAH.

> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water) from
the
> >> >> > freezer
> >> >> >> > and
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of heating
> > after
> >> > all.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
> >> >>
> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even say
that
> >> >> in English?)
> >> >
> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
> >>
> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil drilling
> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water like a
> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish phrase
> >> correspondents to it, though.
> >
> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
> >
> > oil slick n.
> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
>
> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.

*nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular layer of
Math?)

> >> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's *not*
the
> >> >> >> omnious humm>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma weapons,
don't
> >> > you?
> >> >>
> >> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws and
> >> >> fangs...
> >> >
> >> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
> >>
> >> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit nasty. I
> >> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast and
> >> easy to grap and use, you see.
> >
> > Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws. Attach
claws
> > firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of destruction
out
> > of the tips...
>
> I think you are overdoing it a bit here...

There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'Open fire' and 'I need to recharge'.

> and remember what I said
> about integrated weaponery above?

No, what?

> >> >> >> Depends. Very much. I learned the hard way that I don't really
like
> >> >> >> Maths, you see.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How so?
> >> >>
> >> >> Well, I have to take some lectures in maths...
> >> >
> >> > ...Was that supposed to be future tense?
> >>
> >> That was not-so-well-done present, I think.
> >
> > Strange.
>
> That's life.

[imitation]Life. Don't talk to me about life.[/imitation]

> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'. Whoever
> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
> >> >
> >> > ...How nice.
> >>
> >> Being sarcastic?
> >
> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a matching
pen
> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
>
> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::

You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!

> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?

Sorry.

....And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed title for
the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy, trying
to escape her fate?

--
The Triad
User of 'Thingamajig!'
Refractor Dragon -=(UDIC)=-
 >> Stay informed about: thrilling installment #14 of whatever 

On 2004-07-16, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
>> >> >> Err...
>> >> >> ::hides::
>> >> >
>> >> > *snickers*
>> >>
>> >> You... why?!
>> >
>> > What?
>>
>> #starting replay
>> Triad: *snickers*
>> #end of replay
>
> Ah. In short, we were amused.

What a dry reply.
::get a bottle of waters, opens it and turns it upside down::
Better, much better.

>> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I can guess.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
>> >> >
>> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
>> >>
>> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
>> >
>> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
>>
>> Huh?
>
> Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting sidetracked.
> BAH.

It really had *nothing* to do with servers...

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water) from
> the
>> >> >> > freezer
>> >> >> >> > and
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of heating
>> > after
>> >> > all.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even say
> that
>> >> >> in English?)
>> >> >
>> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
>> >>
>> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
>> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil drilling
>> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water like a
>> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish phrase
>> >> correspondents to it, though.
>> >
>> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
>> >
>> > oil slick n.
>> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
>>
>> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.
>
> *nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular layer of
> Math?)

Well, more or less. But sticky in any case. And annoying if you are in
the wrong place...

>> >> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's *not*
> the
>> >> >> >> omnious humm>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma weapons,
> don't
>> >> > you?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws and
>> >> >> fangs...
>> >> >
>> >> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
>> >>
>> >> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit nasty. I
>> >> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast and
>> >> easy to grap and use, you see.
>> >
>> > Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws. Attach
> claws
>> > firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of destruction
> out
>> > of the tips...
>>
>> I think you are overdoing it a bit here...
>
> There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'Open fire' and 'I need to recharge'.

<bg>
::notes the adapted version::
Still, nothing like getting your hands dirty.

>> and remember what I said
>> about integrated weaponery above?
>
> No, what?

Look above, would you?

>> >> >> >> Depends. Very much. I learned the hard way that I don't really
> like
>> >> >> >> Maths, you see.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > How so?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Well, I have to take some lectures in maths...
>> >> >
>> >> > ...Was that supposed to be future tense?
>> >>
>> >> That was not-so-well-done present, I think.
>> >
>> > Strange.
>>
>> That's life.
>
> [imitation]Life. Don't talk to me about life.[/imitation]

Erm, yes.

>> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'. Whoever
>> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
>> >> >
>> >> > ...How nice.
>> >>
>> >> Being sarcastic?
>> >
>> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a matching
> pen
>> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
>>
>> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
>
> You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!
>
Lsiten? Erm, what were we talking about again?

>> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
>
> Sorry.
>
> ...And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed title for
> the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
> revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy, trying
> to escape her fate?

Nah, more against peoples habits and predjudices. The prophecy, well, I
love that part, but it's be foolish to tell you right now.
--
emmel <the_emmel*you-know-what-that's-for*@gmx.net>
(Don't forget to remove the ** bit)

Official AGC feedback maniac

"God is playing creatures - and we're the norns."

"A hundred dead are a tragedy - a hundred thousand are statistics."

"I guess you can call yourself lucky." -
"I could, but Linda suits me a little better...
Things called lucky tend to get hit by trucks."

Hi, I'm a .sig virus. Just copy me to your .signature. And don't worry.
 >> Stay informed about: thrilling installment #14 of whatever 

"emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:slrncfnbn6.mbj.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x11.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
> On 2004-07-16, Refractor Dragon <wanderer DeleteThis @beeb.web> wrote:
> >> >> >> Err...
> >> >> >> ::hides::
> >> >> >
> >> >> > *snickers*
> >> >>
> >> >> You... why?!
> >> >
> >> > What?
> >>
> >> #starting replay
> >> Triad: *snickers*
> >> #end of replay
> >
> > Ah. In short, we were amused.
>
> What a dry reply.
> ::get a bottle of waters, opens it and turns it upside down::
> Better, much better.

*shrugs* All a matter of personal preference... *watches as the water
trickles toward the carpet, where it is quickly absorbed*

> >> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I can guess.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
> >> >>
> >> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
> >> >
> >> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
> >>
> >> Huh?
> >
> > Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting sidetracked.
> > BAH.
>
> It really had *nothing* to do with servers...

That's what you think...

> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water)
from
> > the
> >> >> >> > freezer
> >> >> >> >> > and
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of
heating
> >> > after
> >> >> > all.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even say
> > that
> >> >> >> in English?)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
> >> >>
> >> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
> >> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil drilling
> >> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water like
a
> >> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish phrase
> >> >> correspondents to it, though.
> >> >
> >> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
> >> >
> >> > oil slick n.
> >> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
> >>
> >> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.
> >
> > *nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular layer
of
> > Math?)
>
> Well, more or less. But sticky in any case. And annoying if you are in
> the wrong place...

Really depends who's using it, then.

> >> >> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's
*not*
> > the
> >> >> >> >> omnious humm>
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma weapons,
> > don't
> >> >> > you?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws
and
> >> >> >> fangs...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
> >> >>
> >> >> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit
nasty. I
> >> >> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast
and
> >> >> easy to grap and use, you see.
> >> >
> >> > Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws. Attach
> > claws
> >> > firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of
destruction
> > out
> >> > of the tips...
> >>
> >> I think you are overdoing it a bit here...
> >
> > There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'Open fire' and 'I need to
recharge'.
>
> <bg>
> ::notes the adapted version::
> Still, nothing like getting your hands dirty.

Of course, there may be things /better/, but there's nothing /like/ it.
*nods sagely*

> >> and remember what I said
> >> about integrated weaponery above?
> >
> > No, what?
>
> Look above, would you?

....I see you talking about trying to handle two types of weapons at once,
but not about integrated weaponry.

> >> >> >> >> Depends. Very much. I learned the hard way that I don't really
> > like
> >> >> >> >> Maths, you see.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > How so?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Well, I have to take some lectures in maths...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ...Was that supposed to be future tense?
> >> >>
> >> >> That was not-so-well-done present, I think.
> >> >
> >> > Strange.
> >>
> >> That's life.
> >
> > [imitation]Life. Don't talk to me about life.[/imitation]
>
> Erm, yes.

Quite.

> >> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'.
Whoever
> >> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ...How nice.
> >> >>
> >> >> Being sarcastic?
> >> >
> >> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a
matching
> > pen
> >> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
> >>
> >> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
> >
> > You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!
> >
> Lsiten? Erm, what were we talking about again?

The songs of Tom Lehrer.

> >> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> > ...And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed title
for
> > the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
> > revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy,
trying
> > to escape her fate?
>
> Nah, more against peoples habits and predjudices. The prophecy, well, I
> love that part, but it's be foolish to tell you right now.

Hmm. Well... the overriding meaning of 'current' automatically gravitates
to 'destiny' when there's a prophecy involved. Unless there's no actual
'fate', and it's just a complicated thingamajig that reveals itself nearish
the end (or maybe around the middle) to be completely the opposite
of/from/[whatever] the readers expected it to be...

--
The Triad
User of 'Thingamajig!'
Refractor Dragon -=(UDIC)=-
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On 2004-07-19, Refractor Dragon <wanderer.DeleteThis@beeb.web> wrote:
> "emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:slrncfnbn6.mbj.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x11.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
>> On 2004-07-16, Refractor Dragon <wanderer.DeleteThis@beeb.web> wrote:
>> >> >> >> Err...
>> >> >> >> ::hides::
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > *snickers*
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You... why?!
>> >> >
>> >> > What?
>> >>
>> >> #starting replay
>> >> Triad: *snickers*
>> >> #end of replay
>> >
>> > Ah. In short, we were amused.
>>
>> What a dry reply.
>> ::get a bottle of waters, opens it and turns it upside down::
>> Better, much better.
>
> *shrugs* All a matter of personal preference... *watches as the water
> trickles toward the carpet, where it is quickly absorbed*

Better than dusty carpets. I *hate* dusty carpets. They're so... dusty?

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > I can guess.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
>> >> >
>> >> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
>> >>
>> >> Huh?
>> >
>> > Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting sidetracked.
>> > BAH.
>>
>> It really had *nothing* to do with servers...
>
> That's what you think...

I was the one who said it in the first place, you know.

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water)
> from
>> > the
>> >> >> >> > freezer
>> >> >> >> >> > and
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of
> heating
>> >> > after
>> >> >> > all.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
>> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even say
>> > that
>> >> >> >> in English?)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
>> >> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil drilling
>> >> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water like
> a
>> >> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish phrase
>> >> >> correspondents to it, though.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
>> >> >
>> >> > oil slick n.
>> >> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
>> >>
>> >> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.
>> >
>> > *nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular layer
> of
>> > Math?)
>>
>> Well, more or less. But sticky in any case. And annoying if you are in
>> the wrong place...
>
> Really depends who's using it, then.

Yeah... don't remind me.

>> >> >> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's
> *not*
>> > the
>> >> >> >> >> omnious humm>
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma weapons,
>> > don't
>> >> >> > you?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws
> and
>> >> >> >> fangs...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit
> nasty. I
>> >> >> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast
> and
>> >> >> easy to grap and use, you see.
>> >> >
>> >> > Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws. Attach
>> > claws
>> >> > firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of
> destruction
>> > out
>> >> > of the tips...
>> >>
>> >> I think you are overdoing it a bit here...
>> >
>> > There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'Open fire' and 'I need to
> recharge'.
>>
>> <bg>
>> ::notes the adapted version::
>> Still, nothing like getting your hands dirty.
>
> Of course, there may be things /better/, but there's nothing /like/ it.
> *nods sagely*

Depends.

>> >> and remember what I said
>> >> about integrated weaponery above?
>> >
>> > No, what?
>>
>> Look above, would you?
>
> ...I see you talking about trying to handle two types of weapons at once,
> but not about integrated weaponry.

That's be 'other means of carrying'.

>> >> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'.
> Whoever
>> >> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > ...How nice.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Being sarcastic?
>> >> >
>> >> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a
> matching
>> > pen
>> >> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
>> >>
>> >> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
>> >
>> > You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!
>> >
>> Lsiten? Erm, what were we talking about again?
>
> The songs of Tom Lehrer.

....which I dion't know. Ah, yes, that was it.

>> >> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
>> >
>> > Sorry.
>> >
>> > ...And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed title
> for
>> > the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
>> > revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy,
> trying
>> > to escape her fate?
>>
>> Nah, more against peoples habits and predjudices. The prophecy, well, I
>> love that part, but it's be foolish to tell you right now.
>
> Hmm. Well... the overriding meaning of 'current' automatically gravitates
> to 'destiny' when there's a prophecy involved. Unless there's no actual

Yeah, but there's more than a prophecy. I more thought of 'thing in
general'. But it surely is not a bad thing if it points at such a thing.

> 'fate', and it's just a complicated thingamajig that reveals itself nearish
> the end (or maybe around the middle) to be completely the opposite
> of/from/[whatever] the readers expected it to be...

::snickers::
::laughs::
ROFL
..
..
..
later...
Erm, yes. Sorry, got carried away.
--
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"emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> On 2004-07-19, Refractor Dragon <wanderer.RemoveThis@beeb.web> wrote:
> > "emmel" <the_emmel*whatever*@gmx.net> wrote in message
> >
news:slrncfnbn6.mbj.the_emmel*whatever*@btcips73x11.cip.uni-bayreuth.de...
> >> On 2004-07-16, Refractor Dragon <wanderer.RemoveThis@beeb.web> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> Err...
> >> >> >> >> ::hides::
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > *snickers*
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> You... why?!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What?
> >> >>
> >> >> #starting replay
> >> >> Triad: *snickers*
> >> >> #end of replay
> >> >
> >> > Ah. In short, we were amused.
> >>
> >> What a dry reply.
> >> ::get a bottle of waters, opens it and turns it upside down::
> >> Better, much better.
> >
> > *shrugs* All a matter of personal preference... *watches as the water
> > trickles toward the carpet, where it is quickly absorbed*
>
> Better than dusty carpets. I *hate* dusty carpets. They're so... dusty?

Eh. I leave dust alone, it leaves me alone...

Do unto dust as thou wouldst have it do unto thee!

> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > I can guess.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
> >> >>
> >> >> Huh?
> >> >
> >> > Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting
sidetracked.
> >> > BAH.
> >>
> >> It really had *nothing* to do with servers...
> >
> > That's what you think...
>
> I was the one who said it in the first place, you know.

Yes, I know. But it doesn't concern you any more. *imperious*

> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water)
> > from
> >> > the
> >> >> >> >> > freezer
> >> >> >> >> >> > and
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of
> > heating
> >> >> > after
> >> >> >> > all.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
> >> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
> >> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even
say
> >> > that
> >> >> >> >> in English?)
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
> >> >> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil
drilling
> >> >> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water
like
> > a
> >> >> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish
phrase
> >> >> >> correspondents to it, though.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > oil slick n.
> >> >> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
> >> >>
> >> >> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.
> >> >
> >> > *nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular
layer
> > of
> >> > Math?)
> >>
> >> Well, more or less. But sticky in any case. And annoying if you are in
> >> the wrong place...
> >
> > Really depends who's using it, then.
>
> Yeah... don't remind me.

Thingamajig.

> >> >> >> >> >> <insert obvious omnious music cue(sp?) here, and no, it's
> > *not*
> >> > the
> >> >> >> >> >> omnious humm>
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> > *amusement* Though I suppose you do have a few plasma
weapons,
> >> > don't
> >> >> >> > you?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Yeah, but I go for long range high energy pulse guns. Or claws
> > and
> >> >> >> >> fangs...
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > What, the two are mutally exclusive?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Not really, but using claws while holding plasma guns is a bit
> > nasty. I
> >> >> >> don't really like the other means of carrying one. Should be fast
> > and
> >> >> >> easy to grap and use, you see.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Better idea: Have the high energy pulse guns /be/ the claws.
Attach
> >> > claws
> >> >> > firmly to fingers, up close slash, far off shoot pulses of
> > destruction
> >> > out
> >> >> > of the tips...
> >> >>
> >> >> I think you are overdoing it a bit here...
> >> >
> >> > There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'Open fire' and 'I need to
> > recharge'.
> >>
> >> <bg>
> >> ::notes the adapted version::
> >> Still, nothing like getting your hands dirty.
> >
> > Of course, there may be things /better/, but there's nothing /like/ it.
> > *nods sagely*
>
> Depends.

On what?

> >> >> and remember what I said
> >> >> about integrated weaponery above?
> >> >
> >> > No, what?
> >>
> >> Look above, would you?
> >
> > ...I see you talking about trying to handle two types of weapons at
once,
> > but not about integrated weaponry.
>
> That's be 'other means of carrying'.

Oh. Well, wouldn't it be fast and easy to use?

> >> >> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'.
> > Whoever
> >> >> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > ...How nice.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Being sarcastic?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a
> > matching
> >> > pen
> >> >> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
> >> >>
> >> >> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
> >> >
> >> > You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!
> >> >
> >> Lsiten? Erm, what were we talking about again?
> >
> > The songs of Tom Lehrer.
>
> ...which I dion't know. Ah, yes, that was it.

*hums 'It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier' to himself*

> >> >> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
> >> >
> >> > Sorry.
> >> >
> >> > ...And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed
title
> > for
> >> > the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
> >> > revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy,
> > trying
> >> > to escape her fate?
> >>
> >> Nah, more against peoples habits and predjudices. The prophecy, well, I
> >> love that part, but it's be foolish to tell you right now.
> >
> > Hmm. Well... the overriding meaning of 'current' automatically
gravitates
> > to 'destiny' when there's a prophecy involved. Unless there's no actual
>
> Yeah, but there's more than a prophecy. I more thought of 'thing in
> general'. But it surely is not a bad thing if it points at such a thing.

Eh. But 'against the current' has a specific meaning... going /against/
the thing. Sort of.

> > 'fate', and it's just a complicated thingamajig that reveals itself
nearish
> > the end (or maybe around the middle) to be completely the opposite
> > of/from/[whatever] the readers expected it to be...
>
> ::snickers::
> ::laughs::
> ROFL
> .
> .
> .
> later...
> Erm, yes. Sorry, got carried away.

....What?

--
The Triad
User of 'Thingamajig!'
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On 2004-07-20, Refractor Dragon <wanderer RemoveThis @beeb.web> wrote:
>> >> > Ah. In short, we were amused.
>> >>
>> >> What a dry reply.
>> >> ::get a bottle of waters, opens it and turns it upside down::
>> >> Better, much better.
>> >
>> > *shrugs* All a matter of personal preference... *watches as the water
>> > trickles toward the carpet, where it is quickly absorbed*
>>
>> Better than dusty carpets. I *hate* dusty carpets. They're so... dusty?
>
> Eh. I leave dust alone, it leaves me alone...

Unfortunately this doesn't work that well... there are times I just
*have* to bring the allmighty power of the holy vacuum apon it.

> Do unto dust as thou wouldst have it do unto thee!

So I should assault it constantly and make its pity life as miserable as
posibble?

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Oh, damn. dollar sign-asterisk-hash-ampersand
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > You mean $*#&?
>> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Ah, I was just quoting... kinda.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > *amusement* Thought so.
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> Hm, do you know *what* I was quoting?
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > I can guess.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Guess in writing, then.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Trying to find it, but the server's down.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Hm, I don't think it had much to do with servers...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Wrong. Oh, and that reminds me... *goes looking for it again*
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Huh?
>> >> >
>> >> > Servers back up. But archives too big, and we kept getting
> sidetracked.
>> >> > BAH.
>> >>
>> >> It really had *nothing* to do with servers...
>> >
>> > That's what you think...
>>
>> I was the one who said it in the first place, you know.
>
> Yes, I know. But it doesn't concern you any more. *imperious*

What? Are you nuts? (OK, forget that question - we all know you are
InSaNe.)

>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yeah, that's why you should get the ice(water)
>> > from
>> >> > the
>> >> >> >> >> > freezer
>> >> >> >> >> >> > and
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> close it afterwards. A freezer is a kind of
>> > heating
>> >> >> > after
>> >> >> >> > all.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > *nods slightly* Sort of.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Exactly.
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Thingamajig...
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Physics!
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Maths!
>> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> >> pssst... don't wake it...
>> >> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >> > Don't wake what? Maths? Maths bubhosh! *nod nod*
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> The Math Carpet...
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> > ...Is that some relation of our carpet?
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Hard to tell... probably more like an oil carpet. (Can I even
> say
>> >> > that
>> >> >> >> >> in English?)
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Maybe; depends. What's an oil carpet?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Nothing that I should use in English obviously. It's the litteral
>> >> >> >> translation of what I'd call the result of harveries of oil
> drilling
>> >> >> >> platforms and super tankers. You see, the oil lies on the water
> like
>> > a
>> >> >> >> kind of carpet - hence the name. I have no clue what Enlgish
> phrase
>> >> >> >> correspondents to it, though.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Ah. Maybe an 'oil slick'.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > oil slick n.
>> >> >> > a smooth patch of oil, esp. one on the sea.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Erm, yes, that'd be it. Although it obviously is not about carpets.
>> >> >
>> >> > *nods* Quite. (And so... A Math Carpet might be a monomolecular
> layer
>> > of
>> >> > Math?)
>> >>
>> >> Well, more or less. But sticky in any case. And annoying if you are in
>> >> the wrong place...
>> >
>> > Really depends who's using it, then.
>>
>> Yeah... don't remind me.
>
> Thingamajig.

No, not really. More like 'lots of work to do'.

>> >> Still, nothing like getting your hands dirty.
>> >
>> > Of course, there may be things /better/, but there's nothing /like/ it.
>> > *nods sagely*
>>
>> Depends.
>
> On what?

On who you are.

>> >> >> and remember what I said
>> >> >> about integrated weaponery above?
>> >> >
>> >> > No, what?
>> >>
>> >> Look above, would you?
>> >
>> > ...I see you talking about trying to handle two types of weapons at
> once,
>> > but not about integrated weaponry.
>>
>> That's be 'other means of carrying'.
>
> Oh. Well, wouldn't it be fast and easy to use?

No, it would be hard to install, annoying to service and if it breaks
you are on your own. And of course you'll always set up any weapon
scanners... not really helpful.

>> >> >> >> >> On different notes: proposed title is 'Against The Current'.
>> > Whoever
>> >> >> >> >> reads this, comment or hide well.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > ...How nice.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Being sarcastic?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Less 'sarcastic', more 'dry'. Think Tom Lehrer's lines 'Or a
>> > matching
>> >> > pen
>> >> >> > and pencil!/Just the thing I need... how nice.'
>> >> >>
>> >> >> ::reminds him that he doesn't really know Tom Lehrer::
>> >> >
>> >> > You should. You really, /really/ should. GO! Now! Listen...!
>> >> >
>> >> Lsiten? Erm, what were we talking about again?
>> >
>> > The songs of Tom Lehrer.
>>
>> ...which I dion't know. Ah, yes, that was it.
>
> *hums 'It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier' to himself*

Whatever.

>> >> >> Anyway, that doesn't really help, you know?
>> >> >
>> >> > Sorry.
>> >> >
>> >> > ...And I just realized that your 'proposed title' was the proposed
> title
>> > for
>> >> > the story. *considers* Assuming the title is appropriate, quite
>> >> > revealing... Laiva eventually starts working against the prophecy,
>> > trying
>> >> > to escape her fate?
>> >>
>> >> Nah, more against peoples habits and predjudices. The prophecy, well, I
>> >> love that part, but it's be foolish to tell you right now.
>> >
>> > Hmm. Well... the overriding meaning of 'current' automatically
> gravitates
>> > to 'destiny' when there's a prophecy involved. Unless there's no actual
>>
>> Yeah, but there's more than a prophecy. I more thought of 'thing in
>> general'. But it surely is not a bad thing if it points at such a thing.
>
> Eh. But 'against the current' has a specific meaning... going /against/
> the thing. Sort of.

Yup. I just said it doesn't have to be the *phrophecy*, but it could