Gap Quiz

[Savor Dam]

Koina
(not sure I have that spelled right; books not at hand. The successor to the ambitious Protocol Director who got blown up by a kazi when he followed Warden's orders, rather than the Dragon's. Probably the least conflicted female character SRD ever wrote...other than Alishah Hardaway!)

[Cord Hurn]

Koina
(not sure I have that spelled right; books not at hand. The successor to the ambitious Protocol Director who got blown up by a kazi when he followed Warden's orders, rather than the Dragon's. Probably the least conflicted female character SRD ever wrote...other than Alishah Hardaway!)

As befitted a PR director, Koina Hannish lived on the opposite end of the emotive spectrum from Lane Harbinger. Where Lane emitted tension like a shout, Koina breathed an air of quiet confidence. Immaculately tailored and tended, she conveyed almost by reflex the impression that every word she spoke must be true, by virtue of the simple fact that it came from her mouth. Hashi supposed that most men would have called her beautiful. Under any circumstances he could imagine, she would make a better PR director than fulsome, false Godsen Frik ever had. She would have risen to her present position long ago if Godsen hadn't held the job on Holt Fasner's authority.

THAT's the one!!!
Nice work, SD, and it's your Gap Quiz question!

[Savor Dam]

Normally, I used the question I answer as inspiration for what I ask next. Since stories of Koina and of Lane are well-mined territory, going in a different direction.

In his youth, Angus did a stint in a reform school. Who was his roommate and what became of this person?

[StevieG]

Davros(?) Hyland??

[Savor Dam]

Sorry, no.

[Cord Hurn]

I think that Angus' reform school roommate was named Scarl. Angus thought Scarl was a goody-two-shoes, so he framed Scarl by stashing solen goods in Scarl's personal locker, then alerted the reform school authorities against Scarl, getting him expelled.

[Savor Dam]

Correct, CH. You actually asked about this in this thread about a decade ago.

As a child, Angus was arrested--for stealing food, a fact that has since incorporated itself fully into his dislike for the establishment--and sent to a reform school.

His digression here is revealing--"Angus had no wish to think about being locked up. If he did, he would lose his present sense of indulgence and fall into a fury." Angus shows us here one of his fears, and fury suggests it comes from bad experiences in his past.

From Angus descriptions, it is clear he was lucky--he had only one roommate, whereas "crowded three or four into a room was more like it". This roommate, Scarl, is good to him--"Taught me how the school worked. Didn't let the big shits pound me. Showed me how to get perks--how to lift treats--how to be on the nice-kid list."

And yet Angus resents him for it. The resentment seems to come from the fact that he has reformed--Angus sees this as a defeat; he is the cops example of success, and so he is a symbol of the authority he hates. And yet he also on the other hand portrays his roommate as having played the system: "He already figured out the way to beat them was to be their darling". In this opposite view Angus almost seems to resent Scarl's success in 'beating' the cops. Angus almost seems not to really know why he hated Scarl; the inconsistency is of the kind that comes from a long attempt to justify something that cannot quite be explained.

When Angus strikes out at someone, he strikes hard. "When he saw all that stuff in his locker, good old Scarl fainted."

As before, he wants to be proud of his actions, to think of himself as the bad guy, but whatever he had convinced himself of to justify it, it will never quite ring true:

Angus forced a guffaw, but it wasn't particularly successful. For some reason, the pleasure of what he'd done to Scarl had lost its flavour. There was a bitter taste in his mouth, as if someone had cheated him.

As is evident to the reader, Angus had cheated himself. His adolescent frustrations had been taken out on an innocent, and had only made his own life worse.

"I got put in a room with a bunch of motherfuckers who liked to cornhole me when they didn't have anything better to do."

Of course, Morn calls him on the irrationality of it all. "Betraying him probably hurt you worse than it did him."

Your turn to pose a question...

[Cord Hurn]

Thanks, SD! I'll try to have a question posted by later this week.

[Cord Hurn]

Which member of the ship Captain's Fancy has a name that the Amnion said is contrary to established reality and presumed false?

[IrrationalSanity]

Which member of the ship Captain's Fancy has a name that the Amnion said is contrary to established reality and presumed false?

That is, of course, our beloved Nick himself!

Note: I want to use the reason for their presumption as my question, if I may...

[Cord Hurn]

Which member of the ship Captain's Fancy has a name that the Amnion said is contrary to established reality and presumed false?

That is, of course, our beloved Nick himself!

Note: I want to use the reason for their presumption as my question, if I may...

It is, indeed, our beloved Nick!

Well, done, Sanity!
Just presume away!

[IrrationalSanity]

OK, as resolved with the preceding question and answer, the Amnion believe it impossible ("contrary to established reality") for someone identifying as Nick to be in charge of the Captain's Fancy.

Why do they believe that, and why are they wrong?

[StevieG]

They think he should be Amnion because he was injected with the serum. But he's not because of the immunity drug?

[IrrationalSanity]

They think he should be Amnion because he was injected with the serum. But he's not because of the immunity drug?

Exactly right! Nick was the test case for the immunity drug. Your question!

[Cord Hurn]

Way to go, SG!

[StevieG]

Ok, I'm going to recycle one that's been asked before: What word did the Amnion of Enablement Station insist on being translated for them before they would give Nick what he wanted?