MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 995 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Braid by Eleonora 2) Chava by Ken Hyde 3) B-Days/woodlark by dsarik-+AT+-PO-Box.McGill.CA 4) Re: B-Days/woodlark by Lady Becky of the Hills 5) Fluff: Woodlark/ FC : Companions by Rose 6) Fluff for the book of Genesis by John Hagen 7) B-days (FLUFF) by ShadowJaz-+AT+-aol.com 8) oklahoma by Rozanna McNeer 9) Healers/Woodlark/Monarch's Own/Starting Over by Lynne Markova 10) Brvaes Chews On Ratskin Coat When Guards Stop Feeding Him by Korendil 11) TEST (don't bother to read) by singer-+AT+-iglobal.net 12) Starting Over/CopperCrown/SB/They Call Me Van? by Claris/Clarissa Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 17:21:08 -0300 From: Eleonora To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Braid Message-ID: <32A09734.6D43-+AT+-distrinet.com.uy> Romylee A. Ejercito wrote: > **Re: lifebonds** > > >Firemist: or maybe souls are charged, and only attract people with > certain qualities - > like positive and negative poles. . . hmm... > > Mylee: I always thought that lifebondeds complemented each other, one > having what the other was lacking. Perhaps the souls instinctively know > when they've found the other. Maybe that's why lifebonding is more common > among the Gifted, since they already have "psi powers," it's easier for > the souls to "recognize" each other. Of course, lifebonding may be just > as common among peasants, only Misty never wrote about them. I don't > think the gods would bother with it unless the lifebond would affect a > critical event. And I like the idea of souls dividing in half. So your > lifebonded could be on the other side of the world? Could the person who > shared half your soul be sentient, but nonhuman? > > **Heat (fluff)** > > >Ele: I'm probably not making much sense, but then it is very hot > > Mylee: Oooh, can you e-mail me some of that? It's frrrrrrreezing here in > Connecticut, and I originally came from a place where it hardly ever > dropped below 20C (that's around 68F for you archaic Fahrenheit users *teasing grin*>) Gladly I will :) Set your mail program in the receiving mode for heat waves and you'll get your share :) > **END** > **Re: Chava** > > >>Korendil: What about that stuff the Tayledras have? the stuff EL and > Darkwind eat? > > >Heather: I believe you are referring to chava -- a beverage that I rather > interpreted as similar to hot cocoa . . . other opinions welcome ;-) > > Mylee: Definitely hot cocoa., but not the kind in the packet. Ever had > Spanish chocolate? In Madrid, the hot chocolate comes in these tiny cups > and it's so thick that if you stick a spoon in the middle of the cup, > it'll stay upright. It's so thick you can't drink it, you usually dip > churros in it. Anyone from Spain in this list? (No, I'm not from Spain) > I don't know if this is anything like the pot au chocolat someone > mentioned. Anyway, since they could drink chava, I pictured it as a > diluted form of Spanish chocolate. Yes, me too, I always thought of a more diluted Spanish chocolate in relation to chava, but I admit I agree with Kory's (was it you, mon cher elf?) theory of its having a stimulant other than caffeine in it (to explain that instant madness over chava). I have never been in Spain, but I have occassionally tasted here the kind of hot chocolate people of Spanish descent make. It has nothing to do with cocoa as we buy it in the supermarket. It is as distant from cocoa as a car is distant from a bicycle. > **Re: Ele the pharmacist** > > Mylee: Beta-adrenergic? Tertabuline? Route of administration? Sounds > like a foreign language to me! Ooops! sorry about the jargon, as I told you she took over, grabbed the bit in her mouth and went off galloping. If you want clarification, email me :) Mylee continued: >Pharmacy, huh? So you had to take lots of chemistry? Have I just found someone who >will tutor me through organic chemistry? *grin* > Yep. I did take lots and lots of Chemistry, but it seems like a former incarnation. Nevertheless, feel free to contact me, and I can try to help :) BTW, Kory is a smart boy, when I almost offered to do his Chemistry homework for him, he declined. Guess he imagined the risk he would be running ;) The Chemistry I do remember (and there is in fact a good amount of the fundamentals of Chemistry that I do remember) is definitely not the kind that high-school or college teachers find fundamental :(, but I guess it is the same in all the professions. When we are at school they insist some things are of paramount importance and then when we go out in the world we cannot imagine why they thought it was so important. > **Re: Romylee** > > Mylee: Thanks to Summersong and Melanie who liked my odd name. I like it too, BTW. Mylee is also very nice, however, so I guess you will keep on being Mylee to me. Mylee continued: > Oh, this is going to sound paranoid, but in my surname, the j is > pronounced like an h and the c like an s. Too many profs have pronounced > it with a hard j and a k sound for the c and it just sounds like E JERK > ito, which is certainly not pleasant to hear. Being a native speaker of Spanish, that thought had never occurred to me in reading your surname but you are right, I see where that woudl be awful, specially in solemn circumstances when you cannot well start explaining. I have a similar problem when I travel to the States: they also make a mess of my own surname most of the time. Heck, in the end, I don't even know how to pronounce it myself, and I end up handing out cards almost as if they were flyers, so that later I won't get correspondence addressed to someone whose name is not even vaguely familiar to me :) -------- HC bonds Aistes wrote: > If the bond can not be severed then how come there are some cases of > repudiation that is the same thing as a broken bond. The only difference is > that the bond is shattered by the companion and not a mutual agreement. If > I remember if Talia didn't want to be a herald then they would have sent > Rolan out again and found Talia a place where she belonged. I did not mean to say the bond could not be broken. It obviously can in a repudiation. But that leaves both parties bleeding inside. 'lendel went almost catatonic and then committed suicide, and Gala suicided by attacking the wyrsa. From that evidence, breaking a bond sounds like an amputation. In the case of Talia, when she has just been Chosen, she is giving the chance of not becoming a Herald, but that was in the early stages of the bond. We know that bonds of different sorts need time and physical contact to develop (example 'fandes and Van, when the latter was taken to the garden so that he could lie next to her, and Kero and Need, when Kero reads about souldbonding and finds out that Need doesn't have the kind of hold on her that it had on Kethry possibly because after the first contact she had left her hanging on the wall of her room). In other respects I share many of Mylee's doubts about the issue. There seems to be a loose end somewhere, but I cannot pinpoint it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:42:27 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Hyde To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Chava Message-ID: On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Eleonora wrote: > Yes, me too, I always thought of a more diluted Spanish chocolate in > relation to chava, but I admit I agree with Kory's (was it you, mon cher > elf?) theory of its having a stimulant other than caffeine in it (to > explain that instant madness over chava). My theory is that "chava" is just a gloss of "java" and is something like the Mocha Cappucino that they sell in the States. By which I mean a dark- roasted, strong coffee with equal parts steamed milk (the cappucino) and chocolate flavor (the "mocha"--Don't ask me why but most Americans think that "mocha" means chocolate, to the confusion of most Middle Easterners who order a Mocha in a US coffee house). I suppose it is possible that there is a different stimulant. /me dreams wistfully of a chocolate flavored beverage with theine in it. *le sigh*/ BTW, as a bit of evidence for this, might I suggest that Misty lives in Tulsa which is a very Java-happy town and mocha cappucino is a very popular beverage. To my sure knowledge, the greater Tulsa area (including Jenks) is blessed with at least one chain of coffee houses (Java Dave's- -which has 8+ locations) and an amazing variety of stand-alones. If Misty lives in the general area that I think she does, there are a couple of very busy and popular shops (including a Java Dave's) within a few miles of her (a distance that is not even worth talking about to your average Tulsan). Although frankly, Misty always struck me as more of a Cherry Street type than a Jenks type. (See, I can name-drop just as pointlessly as Jinx High....and much more accurately *grin*). May the seas be your solace and the forests a refuge for your spirit, Cennydd, Kenneth Allen Hyde | No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife Univ. of Delaware | between the shoulder blades will seriously Dept. of Linguistics | cramp his style -- Old Jhereg proverb kenny-+AT+-Udel.Edu | A mind is a terrible toy to waste! -- Me **http://www.udel.edu/kenny/ken.html or .../kenny/green.silences.html** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 96 16:51:08 -0500 From: dsarik-+AT+-PO-Box.McGill.CA To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: B-Days/woodlark Message-ID: <199611302201.RAA27750-+AT+-sirocco.CC.McGill.CA> 2-day birthday warning for... Nightshade, turning the big two-one on the 2nd, and... Emily Snodgrass, turning 22 on the same day (anybody seen her around lately?) Kory said: >woodlark, and I'm not sure why I continue to act as if we're talking >about two people here, said: Because we say so, damn it! :) <---(see? A smile!) I'm kidding around, but would like to be taken seriously on this, I'm working on my characterization skills by acting out different people. Woodlark's just my first semi-convincing success. >>why is it SKitty, as opposed to Skitty, or skitty? > >Okay. That's b/c it was Wossname's Kitty. And it got shortened. realy it >should be 'sKitty, but, hey...congrats on the solo! (keyboard, ho!!!!!) (oof!) (are you ok?) (poop) is her name really "Wossname"? Oh, and thanks. love, deniz sarikaya, High Priestess |But she had the trick of making a little of Procrastination, Holy Custo-|island right in the middle of time, and of dian of the B-Day List, and |your knowing, which is what time does to Dame of Amber and Marigold. |you. -- Robert Penn Warren dsarik-+AT+-PO-Box.McGill.CA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 14:46:35 -0800 (PST) From: Lady Becky of the Hills To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: B-Days/woodlark Message-ID: On Sat, 30 Nov 1996 dsarik-+AT+-PO-Box.McGill.CA wrote: > >>why is it SKitty, as opposed to Skitty, or skitty? > > > >Okay. That's b/c it was Wossname's Kitty. And it got shortened. realy it > >should be 'sKitty, but, hey...congrats on the solo! > > (keyboard, ho!!!!!) (oof!) (are you ok?) (poop) is her name really > "Wossname"? > No, not really, I think it's a shortened version of Sam's Kitty, which was a shortened version of some other really horrendously long name. Of course, I could be making all this up in my head, but I think it's right. :) Wow, holidays come around here and everyone disappears, I don't think I had this little mail for a *long* time now. *--------------------Lady Becky of the Hills--------------------* |Goddess of Tofu and Dry Breakfast Cereals | |Handmaiden of Procrastination | |Lady in Green | |Founder of the AftPoSWT (confused? Just ask.) | |Mailing List Homepage http://www.psnw.com/~deb/becky/misty.html| |beckyanne-+AT+-iforge.com | *---------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:06:01 -0500 From: Rose To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Fluff: Woodlark/ FC : Companions Message-ID: <32A0CBE9.2B98-+AT+-ctol.net> To Free Bard Woodlark, I hearby bequeath a Chava flavoured sheep for the accomplishment of having such a wonderful and inventive friend as Deniz. Maybe after you've had a bite of this particular sheep ( and saved a bit for Deniz), you can settle the debate on what exactly Chava tastes like. Geeze, there really is noone out there today :( Add me to the ranks of those who saw First Contact. No, this is not a spoiler, but I think the movie wasn't supposed to be as funny as I thought it was. Ehh, darn good anyway. Obmisty: If a regular Companion is a normal Guardian Spirit, and the MO Companion is a Major Guardian Spirit, then why doesn't the Monarch have a Major Guardian Spirit too? If Selenay had had one, maybe she wouldn't have married the guy with the really long name. But, then Elspeth would not have been born, would she have? Kawryathen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:49:13 -0400 From: John Hagen To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Fluff for the book of Genesis Message-ID: <32A0C7E7.672F-+AT+-snet.net> This is pure fluff for all the Christian or Jewish people or computer freaks out there. Got this off the Net. Not my creation. THE CREATION: >> >> In the beginning there was the computer. And God said >> c:\Let there be light! >> >> Enter user id. >> c:\God >> >> Enter password. >> c:\Omniscient >> Password incorrect. Try again. >> >> c:\Omnipotent >> Password incorrect. Try again. >> c:\Technocrat >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1. >> >> c:\Let there be light! >> Unrecognizable command. Try again. >> >> c:\Create light >> Done >> >> c:\Run heaven and earth >> >> And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors. >> >> And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1. >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Monday, March 2. >> >> c:\Let there be firmament in the midst of water and light >> Unrecognizable command. Try again. >> >> c:\Create firmament >> Done. >> >> c:\Run firmament >> >> And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors. >> >> And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Monday, March 2. >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3. >> >> c:\Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place >> and let the dry land appear >> Too many characters in specification string. Try again. >> >> c:\Create dry_land >> Done. >> >> c:\Run firmament >> >> And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors. >> >> And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3. >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4. >> >> c:\Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the light >> Unspecified type. Try again. >> >> c:\Create sun_moon_stars >> Done >> >> c:\Run sun_moon_stars >> >> And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors. >> >> And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4. >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Thursday, March 5. >> >> c:\Create fish >> Done >> >> c:\Create fowl >> Done >> >> c:\Run fish, fowl >> >> And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature >> that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every >> winged fowl after its kind. >> >> And God saw there were 0 errors. >> >> And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Thursday, March 5. >> >> And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Friday, March 6. >> >> c:\Create cattle >> Done >> >> c:\Create creepy_things >> Done >> >> c:\Now let me make man in my image >> Unspecified type. Try again. >> >> c:\Open God_database >> Database opened >> >> c:\Use Human_nature >> Table loaded >> >> c:\Create man >> Done >> >> c:\Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it >> and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the >> air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth >> >> Too many command operands. Try again. >> >> c:\Run multiplication >> Execution terminated. 6 errors. >> >> c:\Insert breath >> Done >> >> c:\Run multiplication >> Execution terminated. 5 errors. >> >> c:\Move man to Garden of Eden >> File Garden of Eden does not exist. >> >> c:\Create Garden.edn >> Done >> >> c:\Move man to Garden.edn >> Done >> >> c:\Run multiplication >> Execution terminated. 4 errors. >> >> c:\Copy woman from man >> Done >> >> c:\Run multiplication >> Execution terminated. 2 errors. >> >> c:\Create desire >> Done >> >> c:\Run multiplication >> >> And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in >> Garden.edn >> >> Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors. >> >> c:\Create freewill >> Done >> >> c:\Run freewill >> And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in >> Garden.edn >> >> Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors. >> >> c:\Undo desire >> Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created. >> >> c:\Destroy freewill >> Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed. Enter >> replacement, cancel, or ask for help. >> >> c:\Help >> Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created. >> Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed. >> Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help. >> >> c:\Create tree_of_knowledge >> >> And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in >> Garden.edn >> >> Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors. >> >> c:\Create good, evil >> Done >> >> c:\Activate evil >> And God saw he had created shame. >> >> Warning system error in sector E95. Man and woman not in >> Garden.edn. 1 errors. >> >> c:\Scan Garden.edn for man, woman >> Search failed. >> >> c:\Delete shame >> Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated. >> >> c:\Destroy freewill >> Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed. >> Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help. >> >> c:\Stop >> Unrecognizable command. Try again >> >> c:\Break >> >> c:\Break >> >> c:\Break >> >> *** ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR REGULAR DAY OF >> MAINTENANCE AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE LOG OFF. >> >> c:\Create new world >> You have exceeded your allocated file space. You must destroy old >> files before new ones can be created. >> c:\Destroy earth >> >> Destroy earth: Please confirm. >> >> c:\Destroy earth confirmed >> >> COMPUTER DOWN *** COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME SUNDAY, >> MARCH 8 TH 7:00 AM. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW. >> >> And God logged off at 11:59:59 PM, Friday, March 6. >Michael D. Perlman >mdp2-+AT+-po.cwru >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and >Democracy, but that could change." Vice President Dan Quayle > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:04:49 -0500 From: ShadowJaz-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: B-days (FLUFF) Message-ID: <961130200446_1884665476-+AT+-emout17.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 96-11-30 17:17:18 EST, Deniz wrote: > 2-day birthday warning for... > > Nightshade, turning the big two-one on the 2nd, and... > Emily Snodgrass, turning 22 on the same day (anybody seen her around > lately?) > Sorry, this is sort of a one-liner, but it's actually the 1st for me, that's tomorrow guys ! Guess I must have typed it wrong or something . . . Blessed Be, NightShade OIB, LotPW, High Priestess Of All Things Nocturnal, & Knight Of The OAM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 20:21:00 -0500 From: Rozanna McNeer To: "mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk" Subject: oklahoma Message-ID: <199611302021_MC1-C93-968F-+AT+-compuserve.com> Cenn said: > Although frankly, Misty always struck me as more of a Cherry >Street type than a Jenks type. (See, I can name-drop just as pointlessly >as Jinx High....and much more accurately *grin*). well, just as long as she ain't from pawhuska or nowata (see, me too can name drop having spent the first 11 odd years of my life in Bartlesville... but not as accurately as Cenn) She's probably on the outstkirts what with all those rehabilitating birds she has. On the B'ville side, I'd say since it was mentioned she spent time at Circle Mountain (ha! it's a small hill, not a mountain) bird refuge. Firemist ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:14:04 -0800 (PST) From: Lynne Markova To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Healers/Woodlark/Monarch's Own/Starting Over Message-ID: Lady Sophia emerges from a post-competition exhaustion long enough to reply: > > > > Tamara asked: > > > ObMisty - Do they have any 'doctors' in Velgarth that don't have Healing? I > > > remember one of the Gryphon series mentioning something about Amberdrake > > > being sent to a 'new'school of medicine by his parents (sorry, no text-evd, > > > I don't own a copy) and disliking it, but I can't recall anything else. I think, in general, Healers exist who are herbalists - IIRC, when Talia is fed goatsfoot in Afall, someone says something about an herbwoman, or something. Certainly, healers use herbs and conventional treatments first, as seen in both BTS and SB. > > >woodlark. i sprung out of deniz's fertile mind over a month ago it > >seems now. > The Goddess of Music and Song is amused. She thought as much, but wasn't 100% sure. > > wow. i just got back from the concert where i finally did my solo in > Faure's Requiem. yay! it's over! i swear, if i have to spend another minute > in those gods-bedamned heels, i'll lose my voice. well, at least they look > nice. oh, what's that? you want to know how the solo went? huh? solo? i > did a... (ow , i didn't need that, deniz)... i'll stop teasing. > the solo went... oh, ye gods and little fishes, but the baritone soloist > screwed up majorly awful on the Offertoire! Ooops. what an example to follow! well, > my solo (i am happy to say) went wonderfully. i didn't run out of breath, > managed to keep even the e-flats (just above middle-c, low for a soprano) in > my head voice, kept the texture even and boy-trebley, focused enough for the > sound to carry all the way into the cupola, remembered to vary dynamics by the > end, conveyed emotion, and only made one rhythmical mistake that i can think > of (and it was small and minor, and you wouldn't notice unless you were > following along or knew it on a nit-picky level)! so, in other words, it was > WONDERFUL!!!!!<--(peek-a-boo, how many of you?) BRAVA, Lady Woodlark. Your Goddess is exceedingly proud of you. That is a very difficult solo for a grown woman to sing, because you are expected to sound like a boy soprano. > > one concert down, one to go. Someone else wrote: > Speaking > of books my parents have recomended to me, anyone read The Eight, by > wosshername? Deals with chess and alchemy, sort of. Not as epic a scale > as Physcian, but good. For a book your parents make you read;> > Katherine Neville wrote this and it was very good. A Calculated Risk is another of her books - IMHO, not as good, but very amusing. Still someone else wrote (I'm sorry, went a little crazy with that delete key!) > > Why would the GB usually pick one already Chosen though? There are just > too many loose ends to tie. Maybe because the Herald is already known to > be trustworthy and if the Herald is good enough to be MO, he prolly got > picked early on in life? But that doesn't explain Elcarth and Teren being > picked late. (I'd count Kero and Daren, but they never went into Valdemar > before that war) It just seems a little complicated. Why can't they just > go and pick someone unChosen? > If the country is at war, or they have a slightly fractious monarch, who needs the guidance of an experienced Herald, or they *just don't have time* to train an unChosen person for the role - it takes about five to eight years to become a full Herald, doesn't it? Also, perhaps when the Monarch changes, the skills and abilities of the Monarch's own will need to change, and an already-established Herald might have the perfect qualities. Perhaps one monarch might need a highly supportive and empathetic monarch's own, but another might need one very assertive and forceful. RE: Starting Over In RL, I am Lynne Sophia Markova, a 29 year old opera singer who has a day job, on the list, I am Lady Sophia, Goddess of Music and Song, and, right now, I am using the computer to avoid thinking about whether or not (quite possibly not!) I made the finals of the latest vocal competition I entered, which took place yesterday. sigh. They're supposed to call us tonight, so I left the house - every time the phone rang, I jumped about forty feet. I am also a retired second degree black belt in aikido. My favorite authors are too numerous to count: Misty, Charles De Lint, Sharon Shinn, Melissa Scott, Guy Gavriel Kay, Judith Tarr, and others are certainly among them. Happy Thanksgiving to all of the American listers, and have a nice weekend to everyone else! Lady Sophia, too nervous to trill Goddess of Music and Song ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 96 00:30:56 -0500 From: Korendil To: "Misty List" Subject: Brvaes Chews On Ratskin Coat When Guards Stop Feeding Him Message-ID: <9612010536.AA26484-+AT+-raptor.icubed.net> Wow...I haven't written anything all day! Aistes said: >Umm I am not sure about that. How would the companion share the bond and >which companion would be used. I think in that case that Dantris would >simply have had to choose a new person to be his chosen. Ah..but, see, that's what started all of this (again--thanks to Cen )....we're trying to figure out what would happen. Just telling Dantris (how come we always assume that it's *Kris's* Companion who was Tantris?) that he's SOL seems too harsh for Kal'enel and Vykaendis. >If the bond can not be severed then how come there are some cases of >repudiation that is the same thing as a broken bond. Ah...but then both members usually kill themselves. Seems to happen whenever a life or h-c bond's broken: Van & Lendel/Stef(well..they WOULD have...), Lendel & Gala, Lavan & wosshername (in this case the companions was killed which drove Lavan insane...well..actually no...the companion had been controlling the gift and now wasn't, but..well..you get the idea). Anyway, it seems that if the bond is broken, sorrow follows...so we don't think that that would happen. Unfair and stuff. Emily asked: >Has anyone else seen Romeo and Juliet Yeppers. AFter the gunfight, it ruled. Leonard Dicaprio deserves a place in the casting list, somewhere. Mylee pleaded: >Mylee: And? Kory, you can't leave me hanging like that! ;) Oh *yes* I can;P Look in the archives if thou wish. Or possibly someone more involved in the whole thing can give more detail;> >Mylee: Whoops! Guess it's time for me to reread Arrows! /me smiles >sheepishly. Blah...I'll just type out the COncordance entry (after they all come out, they should make a version on cd-rom...): "Shadowdancer, Lythe: One of a pair of early Heralds that Talia read about in tales and legends. Lythe Shadowdancer was lifebonded [oooo..that's WRONG! I looked when I war reread MPawn last time, and the past tense is lifeBOUND!--Kory] to ROthas Sunsinger and they were separated by a tragic curse, she confined to the dark hours, he to the daylight. THe romantic story thrilled Talia as a child and she dreamed of becoming one of these fabled white-clad heroes." Sunsinger's entry adds: "They had many adventures before finding the means to break their curse. Ther story is well-loved by the people of Valdemar, and many versions of their life and wanderings exist." > Why can't they just >go and pick someone unChosen? Because Misty had to say something about it;> So MANY of our questions could be answered if Misty took away a little detail there (this thread), added more here (the Van's Death thread).. Ele said: >Yes, me too, I always thought of a more diluted Spanish chocolate in >relation to chava, but I admit I agree with Kory's (was it you, mon cher >elf?) theory of its having a stimulant other than caffeine in it (to >explain that instant madness over chava). Well....interesting recent Media Tidbit: Supposedly chocolate produces the same effect that marijuana does, in smaller ammounts;> So maybe chavq just has that area magically increased? Hey...why doesn't someone textevd that section of WoC(I think it was) and clarify everything for us?;P >BTW, Kory is a smart boy, when I almost offered to do his >Chemistry homework for him, he declined. Guess he imagined the risk he >would be running ;) Well, there's the added part that I don't *have* Chemistry yet, so it'd be a waste;> And I was trying to prove I wasn't mad at you, too.;> >When >we are at school they insist some things are of paramount importance and >then when we go out in the world we cannot imagine why they thought it >was so important. OOo...very nice to know.. Kenny said: >My theory is that "chava" is just a gloss of "java" Ya' know...I never realized that! > If Misty >lives in the general area that I think she does According to the bio blurb on Firebird, Our Goddess Misty lives in Claremore, if that helps;> >(keyboard, ho!!!!!) (oof!) (are you ok?) (poop) is her name really >"Wossname"? no..I just can't remember what it really is, and while someone dais, I don't think it's right...gotta find catfantastic around somewhere... Kawry said: >Add me to the ranks of those who saw First Contact. No, this is not a >spoiler, but I think the movie wasn't supposed to be as funny as I >thought it was Well..according to our local, and often wrong critic, all those in-jokes were not only meant to go in, but were there because Frakes is extremely arrogant and assumes everyone knows TNG; our critic only knows TOS, so he's miffed;> As far as I see, it seems that trekkies are the only ones going--though like one of Jake-Who-I'm-Still-Sorry-To-But-Who-Seems-To-Be-Ignoring-Me's lists, where it said that while only 10 people actually were watching a Misty Movie, they all went 80 times;> Take SUmmersong there, for example;> Didn't she just go a second time? >Obmisty: If a regular Companion is a normal Guardian Spirit, and the MO >Companion is a Major Guardian Spirit, then why doesn't the Monarch have >a Major Guardian Spirit too? Actually, wasn't it the GB who were Guardian Spirits? Anyway...I think the gods might find such direct control of a country too tempting, and aren't doing it so they can be sure as to not interfere too much--does someone slap their hands when they do, like Fionavaran gods are? My High Priestess Corrected someoneorother with: >Sorry, this is sort of a one-liner, but it's actually the 1st for me, that's >tomorrow guys ! Guess I must have typed it wrong or something . . . Whoah! I better make up a gift...um...I'll do it tomorrow. Really. I will. Lady Sophia said: >Katherine Neville wrote this and it was very good. A Calculated Risk is >another of her books - IMHO, not as good, but very amusing. Right! Thanks! The really fun part of _Risk_ is how it mentions she thrives under fluorescent lights, or somesch;> that's what I always explain when people can't comprehend my liking internet so much;> >it takes about five to >eight years to become a full Herald, doesn't it? Hah! Yes! I nor Officially Believe Sophia, since thqt makes my timeline correct! yes! mwehehehehhehehe well, now off to the Bower... -+AT+-LIDNEROK___________/ KORENDIL-+AT+-ICUBED.NET \_____________KORENDIL-+AT+- I|Korendil, Knight of the Order of Amber & Marigold and Elfhame |I C|Sun-Descending, Squire of the High Court, Envoy to Elfhame |C U|Misthold, Magus Minor, One In Black,Firstborn Child of Danaan,|U B|God of Night and All Things Nocturnal, Champion of the Ladies |B E|of the Pink Wand, Acting Master of Dreams, and Ailurophile. |E D|.NET______________/NAME THE MIME AND DIE!!\_______________TEN.|D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:07:30 -0600 From: singer-+AT+-iglobal.net To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: TEST (don't bother to read) Message-ID: ttttt %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% "To be tired of horses is to be tired of life; horses are a gift to us." %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 10:13:30 -0600 From: Claris/Clarissa Smith To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Starting Over/CopperCrown/SB/They Call Me Van? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961201161330.009b13e8-+AT+-comp.uark.edu> Oi, I'm so behind on the list, since my remote access crashed _just_ in time for ice, snow, and a holiday to keep me off campus for more than a week! It's a good thing I got my account expanded to 12 meg!!! o.O Um, I guess I'll add my belated starting over bit...I'm enjoying reading others' because there's a lot I don't know about most of you. :) I'm going to the University of Arkansas (YES! There's what, 3 or 4 Arkansans on here now?! YayyY!! You must all show up at the con next year) where I'm majoring in History (Asian Studies mostly, and early Medieval Europe) and Art. I help run the local gaming/sf con. I spend a lot of time on AnimeMUSH. Favorite genres are still urban fantasy and cyberpunk. I'm so burned out on fantasy. I'm learning Chinese, I do sf and fantasy and Gothic art, and I've run out of stuff to say. My URL is in my .sig should you be that bored. I just read _The Copper Crown_. My library actually had it! Wai! Way cool, folks, thanks for recommending it! I also got _Storm Breaking_ from the library. My feelings: Bleahhh. It was OK, I did finish it, I just missed the things I usually like about a Misty book. Where were the desperate loves? the characters I could dissolve myself into? the tantalizing glimpses of cultures and races? It wasn't a BAD book, it just wasn't particularly good. IMHO, of course. And yup (sorry Jaguar) there's a mutant squid on the back. Not to mention an X-Files alien (back, upper right corner) or is that one of those marshmallow skulls, some kind of lobster claw; and on the front there's a Barbie's First Horse. (What's with that neck?!) Oh, all right, I'm being mean...But the cover bothered me. I like the gold, though. I don't object to the 'haloes' at all. They can represent mind magic, the blessing of Vkandis, or whatever. I like the way they're done. Van...Oh, all right. Let me first say I DON'T think Chris Potter (from Kung Fu: TLC and Silk Stalkings) even _remotely_ resembles Van dearest, but *cough* the opening graphic at http://www.caine.com/cphome.html does, at least, that was what popped into my head when I saw it...(Maybe it's just the blue and purple color scheme, ne?! ;p) *chortle* All right, hit me now! *Claris Smith: Art/History Major, GM, sf/fantasy Artist, Gung Fu Student* *Do not let the ways of the world--Dismay| "ccsmith-+AT+-comp.uark.edu"* *your heart, being a warrior.(the Ramayana) |"http://comp.uark.edu/~ccsmith/"* *See the Web Site for The Dragon Roars Zine: Now accepting Submissions!* ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 995 *********************************