lurch wrote:
But geesh..honoring their dead seems a hurried necessity and second to Telling A Great Story. Ya gotta have a oversized sense of humor to face todays daily struggles I suppose.
Aye, aye, struggles, akin to that fire-spitting half-dragon half-troll I had to impale with my glaive on the very doorstep of my workplace this morn...now let me inform you what befell when a dragon, a troll, and a frost giantess walked into a bar...
I recall that both Squareset and Wavegift perished
after Rime's first long-winded yammer concerning Longwrath and his ancestors within the past 100000+ years.
So the story would not have been out of place.
Right. Some of their jests in AATE flew a bit over my head, though. This required me three attempts before I unlocked the meaning of the flowery language. Perhaps says something about my username?
Confusing jokes in AATE wrote:"By your leave, Grueburn will assume the guardianship of your staff in the event that the Feroce essay another approach. We cannot be assured that her mind will not also fall into glamor, as yours did. However--"
"It will not," put in Onyx Stonemage. "You speak of Grueburn, whose natural bewilderment excludes other confusion."
"Fie and folly, Stonemage," Grueburn retorted. "Breathes there a Giant upon the wide Earth whose acquaintance with bewilderment is as intimate as your own?"