Finish this sentence from Runes.

[Farm Ur-Ted]

Well, when I was reading Runes about a month ago, this particular sentence kind of stuck out for me (p. 360):

"The scale of his distress made her want to vomit."

Vomit? Vomit? Somehow, "vomit" seems a little beneath SRD to me. That's all I could think; SRD must've been sleepy when he wrote that particular sentence. He should've been able to come up with something better than "Vomit." So I'm going to toss it out to everyone here, can you come up with a better ending for that sentence? Here's mine (I'm sure that others can do better):

"The scale of his distress made her want to exhale a chiaroschuro of partially digested treasure-berries."

[Chassit]

"The scale of his distress made her want to exhale a chiaroschuro of partially digested treasure-berries."

eeeEEEEwww!! :sick:

Okay...

"The scale of his distress made her want to consider the possibility of revisiting what she had eaten for breakfast, even though she knew that in doing so it might be tepid instead of hot and maybe slimier and colored differently, and not quite as cohesive as it had been when she'd tasted it the first time."

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[Farm Ur-Ted]

"The scale of his distress made her want to consider the possibility of revisiting what she had eaten for breakfast, even though she knew that in doing so it might be tepid instead of hot and maybe slimier and colored differently, and not quite as cohesive as it had been when she'd tasted it the first time."

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Dang, you blew me out of the water. Awesome!

[Chassit]

Thankee-sai.

It was right down there with "It was a dark and stormy night."

I like your... curuschiaro, or whatever it was...

[rusmeister]

Uh, how about,
"The scale of his distress made her want to ablute the ground with the putrefacation she felt swelling up from deep within her prescient and visceral innards, annealing the verdant landscape with argent and crimson vitriol."
?

[Farm Ur-Ted]

Uh, how about,
"The scale of his distress made her want to ablute the ground with the putrefacation she felt swelling up from deep within her prescient and visceral innards, annealing the verdant landscape with argent and crimson vitriol."
?

SRD, is that you?

[Kil Tyme]

LOL Rusmeister! A most excellent example of SRDism!

[drew]

..You gotta fit 'Puisance' in there somewhere too.

[A Gunslinger]

exigency.

[rusmeister]

Well, how about,
"The puissant scale of his distress made her want to ablute the ground with the putrefication she felt roiling in and swelling up from deep within her prescient and visceral innards, annealing the verdant landscape with the argent and crimson vitriol of her exigent need."
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(At this point it becomes a high-school insert-vocab game)
PS - no idea how you guys do the smilies. They are supposedly enabled for me.

[MrKABC]

Well, how about,
"The puissant scale of his distress made her want to ablute the ground with the putrefication she felt roiling in and swelling up from deep within her prescient and visceral innards, annealing the verdant landscape with the argent and crimson vitriol of her exigent need."
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(At this point it becomes a high-school insert-vocab game)
PS - no idea how you guys do the smilies. They are supposedly enabled for me.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!! Rusmeister that is AWESOME!!! I felt a touch of SRD with me when I read that...

[Phantasm]

Frisson has to be in there somewhere too.

[Dawngreeter]

"The scale of his distress made her want to ablute the ground with the putrefacation she felt swelling up from deep within her prescient and visceral innards, annealing the verdant landscape with argent and crimson vitriol."

Then he "shrugs".

[NightBlaze]

LOL...I was just thinking of "Liseys Story" by Stephen King. 'she was gonna toss her cookies, donate her lunch to the sink, puke her guts out, worship the porceline god'....LOL....I cant even imagine why that had to be there. Picturing Linden vomiting is, well, to quote someone else here, is beneath SRD.

[Workshop Creation]

Well, when I was reading Runes about a month ago, this particular sentence kind of stuck out for me (p. 360):

"The scale of his distress made her want to vomit."

Vomit? Vomit? Somehow, "vomit" seems a little beneath SRD to me. That's all I could think; SRD must've been sleepy when he wrote that particular sentence. He should've been able to come up with something better than "Vomit." So I'm going to toss it out to everyone here, can you come up with a better ending for that sentence? Here's mine (I'm sure that others can do better):

"The scale of his distress made her want to exhale a chiaroschuro of partially digested treasure-berries."

See, even with SRD's writing style, he doesn't use as many specific adjectives as the ones you've told us, nor is it absolutely beneath him to pick a 'simple' yet vivid and vile word from his immense vocabulary.
He had already used simple and vile words before that sentence. That whole page and a half has something to do with general puking.

You don't necessarily need detailed specifics of puking anyway.

"The scale of his distress made her want to -place one word here related to puking-."

"The scale of his distress made her want to overhaul her Kinda-suprise deep in her bowels to the barring of her teeth, which she had stored there for an unacknowledged amount of time. From the taste, she began to wonder where and when in the world she had eaten a Kinda-suprise."

[alanm]

the scale of her distress made her want to see if she had had any diced carrot for her last meal

[The Humbled]

See, even with SRD's writing style, he doesn't use as many specific adjectives as the ones you've told us, nor is it absolutely beneath him to pick a 'simple' yet vivid and vile word from his immense vocabulary.
He had already used simple and vile words before that sentence. That whole page and a half has something to do with general puking.

You don't necessarily need detailed specifics of puking anyway.

"The scale of his distress made her want to -place one word here related to puking-."

I vote "retch".
As in "The scale of his distress made her want to retch."
Sounds like SRD. She might also rend something whilst retching.

[thefirst]

we've all dedicated so much of our time to reading SRD's work and this entire web site was created more or less in homage to Himself, so why are we questioning, the use of one descriptive word, and thereby insinuating that we could do it better? If we could, we'd all be on the Best Seller List don't you think? Not intending to sound high and mighty or anything like that, it just seems a little ironic to me. Besides, authors have been using the term "vomit" since the Bible was translated, I'd say that means it has staying power. Or do I just sound like a jerk?

[DukkhaWaynhim]

Retch and vomit carry different meanings anyway.

Vomit means to throw up; speak lunch; give forth a technicolor yawn; blow chunks; chunder; play 'guess what I just ate'; CSI-lunch; meal - the sequel; toss the cookies; take a ride on the v-train; summon the ghost of breakfast past...

Retch means to vomit whether you have stomach contents or not; to vomit air; blow chunks of nothing. Different meaning.

I think vomit, while overused in regular parlance, is the accepted medical term - which is the most logical choice for Linden to access.

Having said all that... he might have also chosen "...disgorge her erst viands."

dw

[The Humbled]

Which is why I liked "retch". It's a gag reflex brought on by revulsion, not by something she et.

But SRD's version is aight by me!