If you can't trust the earth beneath your feet ...

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:53 am

SPOILERS FOR THOSE who haven't yet read the books or have only just started reading them.

One of the most distressing parts of the books for me was in LFB, when TC started having trouble with the ground.

Those sudden sharp feelings, well SRD described them much better than I can recall. They must have been abhorrent.

I have a moustache and sometimes catch a hair in the lid of a soft drink can, and the pain is sudden, unexpected, and pretty damn rough. That's about as close as I can call it. But I have to imagine that that feeling could happen any time I take a step, and is more pronounced, and even lasts longer.

TC of course eventually works out that if takes his boots off a la Eccles, he no longer cops the sting. Andelain was also free of susceptibility to DR's painful method of searching.

Anyone ever tried to imagine what it would be like to have been in TC's position, not knowing whether you could ever take a step again witout suffering that abomination?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:03 am

Landwaster wrote:I have a moustache and sometimes catch a hair in the lid of a soft drink can, and the pain is sudden, unexpected, and pretty damn rough.

AAAAWWWW!!!! Is'm hurt his widdle face?

ROFL!!

Landwaster wrote:Anyone ever tried to imagine what it would be like to have been in TC's position, not knowing whether you could ever take a step again witout suffering that abomination?

OK, when you bite your cheek, which swells that spot, making it easier to bite the next time you chew. And you never know which time you close your teeth will be the one.

*still supressing laughter and drying tears from eyes*

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:39 am

Twice I've smacked my head on a wall 2 metres away from the recoil!

Biting one's cheek ain't NUFFIN compared to the mo-tug.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:46 am

OMG!!!
Emoticons haven't been invented yet for this! I can't even breath!!

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:46 am

LMAO!

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:49 am

Now would anybody like to speak about the original subject?

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:01 am

*hijacks the thread* Okay, so! Basically, what we have here are mo-tugs and biting your cheek! But heck, what about when you bite the crap out of your tongue? Or you hit your toe on something? Sometimes I hit my toes when I walk absent-mindedly into the family vacuum cleaner. And boy, does it ever smart. I just start stamping my feet, trying to will away the pain. OW! It hurts thinking about it!

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:04 am

Or put a nauil through one's foot, or get smacked in the head with a stick thrown at yer ... yeah yeah yeah it all happens ... ok so how would these things compare to simply just the ground as a whole beneath your feet choosing to intermittently do that to you?

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:09 am

I dunno. It's kind of life in Ghostbusters where that guy had the right answer at the beginning but kept getting shocked anyway. Just something you had no control over, no matter what you did. Now, on tongue bites . . .

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:51 am

Well there's a reason why we have sayings like "having your feet on the ground" and "landing on one's feet". Its because while there are so many unknowns and uncontrollables out there, generally, the gravitational pull downward and the mass of the Earth which stops us from being chucked around willy-nilly, is a comfort zone we have come to be reliant upon.

When that one single safe place is no longer safe, trustworthy, well what do we have left?

Post by **Variol Farseer** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:23 am

I'll tell you exactly what it feels like. It feels like stubbing your toe when you're already suffering from an attack of gout. After that, any time you put a foot wrong -- any time you make that toe move even the slightest bit in an unusual direction -- the pain shoots through you again with the full original intensity. It feels like someone is trying to break your toe off by hammering a dull chisel into the joint, and hitting the hammer every time your heart beats.

Attacks of this nature made me give up walking for about two weeks last year. I tell you, Covenant was a chump to keep wearing those boots.

Post by **Landwaster** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:25 am

Woagh ... now there's a comparison I respect!

Post by **Gil galad** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:43 am

sounds painfull!!!

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:40 pm

OUCH!!!!!

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:38 pm

No point in posting in this thread or forum, seems the goofballs have completely taken over...(note: I never said that was a bad thing...

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Post by **[Syl]** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:02 pm

Yeah, Covenant had a lot of issues with footwear.

Post by **Skyweir** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:03 pm

lol .. you said it

Landwaster the tangent meister

aka goofball

lol

i know exactly kinda what TC went through .. i get zapped by the earth constantly!! as the static electricity builds under my feet .. or when pushing a shopping trolley or wearing rubber boots and walking over linolium!!

man i have been there

and those nasty electric zaps bite!

TC had it lucky .. he could at least take his boots off

LOL

nb: <am being totally facetious for those who cant tell the difference

Post by **Furls Fire** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:04 pm

LOL!!

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:15 pm

whats facetious mean?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:44 pm

in you face!!!!!!!!

(actually it means she's full of it...)

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