21 Lage 4385: Sythyrs!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Not much later, Purrzhon took off to meet Volstoggy as the sun was emptying. I walked partly back to the Academy with him. On the way I saw that there was a concert by the sextet Eddy and the Swirls setting up in Gosling Park and I love them so I got a ticket and took a seat and you will NEVER GUESS who sat down next to me.

Or at least you would never guess if you haven't been tapping three times on the scrollcase to read zir journal before mine. It was Sythyrs!

Zie's been on vacation for months and I thought zie was supposed to be gone for years and I guess zie still is but zie was back in Vheshrame for a day or two because WORST VACATION EVER. Zie's been plagued with pirate attacks and nendrai problems and Primes who hate traffs and seven staring gods zir own accountant embezzled zir WHOLE FORTUNE. Sythyrs caught the accountant and the accountant's accomplice at least. Zie didn't seem very happy about it or about having punished them but I thought zie did as good a job as possible under the circumstances. But zie's hideously IN DEBT now for more money than I'll ever see in my life just to maintain Castle Wrong. Poor Sythyrs! This is why I don't feel bad about losing my stupid fur-styling job. It could be SO MUCH WORSE. I may be poor but at least I don't owe anyone anything!

I tried to cheer Sythyrs up and I renamed myself on the spot when zie got to the part in zir story where zie served justice to the thieves. I don't know if I really succeeded in making zir feel any better but we stayed up late late late in honor of neither of us having to be up at dawn to work on any enchantments this week.

So that's everything I did on the 20th. Oh so much better than fur-styling alllllll day!

And now I need to take a good look at my Scroll of Awesomeness because it's not working right. Or at least it's not working the way I thought it would work when I made it. Sythyrs said zir journal is enchanted somehow so that other Primes with enchanted journals can read it and somehow monsters from outside the universe too(!) I didn't make my scroll that way on purpose I only wanted it to talk to yours Boomsy. I don't even know how I'd make it that way on purpose. Well, Sythyrs offered a lot of insight on the subject so maybe I know how now but I don't think I'm actually good enough to do it.

Er. Do it on purpose that is. I seem to have done it by accident though because earlier today I found out that GloriousBlue isn't Terrycloth and if I tap on the scrollcase three times before opening it the scroll shows Sythyrs' journal (which zie has been keeping for longer than I've been ALIVE!) And there's some other ... um ... people who've been writing stuff in my scroll. Which you've probably noticed. Not even just Terrycloth, who looks like he might be an Orren. There's a very odd-looking Sleethy sort of person Tuftears and Alex Muridae who might be some kind of Orren from another universe? And Gavin Fox who looks very very vaguely Cani. And a yes-definitely-a-nonprime Siege. And Sythyrs has too but that's okay we know zir.

Anyways I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. It's not what I expected BUT it's probably what "Here" wants and I know "Here" loves me and the extradimensional nonprimes don't seem that scary and Sythyrs has survived them for twelve or thirteen decades so ....

I don't really think it's anything to worry about. As such. Except that we should remember not to put anything in here that we wouldn't want a bunch of extradimensional monsters and Sythyrs to know about. Which isn't that big a deal it's not like the leaves from the post are exactly anyone's idea of private either. Even if it's usually the postmaster browsing them and not extradimensional monsters. How much difference does that make? At least you don't have to worry about meeting the extradimensional monsters at parties or having them gossip about you with your friends. They've said (so far) that they can't come to the World Tree.

Anyways! I'm going to take the scroll to the enchantment lab to study it some more and maybe talk to my brother about it. Yeah, I bet Voidy'll know what's what. I'll let you know what I find out!

Love from your cuz,
Delight-in-Justice

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

A pleasure to make your acquaintance! ^_^ You can always tell us curious other-universely-types to go away if you're not interested in unsolicited advice and commentary, but likewise, you could always return the favor and peruse our own, well, not precisely scrolls of awesomeness. In my case, I suppose you could describe it as a scroll of restrained sharing.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

You write in your own (not exactly) scrolls too? Who are you writing letters to?

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Oh, friends. ^_^ Whomever happens to be interested in reading about my little adventures, sometimes of a culinary bent, sometimes artistic, sometimes imaginary!

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Actually, my image is either, well, a stylized cani, or, uhm, a stylized version of an animal that resembles a Cani. You all have animals that look like animal versions of Primes, right? For at least some of the species of Prime?

Of course now it is obvious that I am in fact NOT a Cani, but am in fact something else. But if you like you can think of me as a Cani, I don't mind.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Some primes have animals that look like them! Or monsters. Like norren look like waterform Orren. There's all kinds of monsters so there's probably monsters that look like every kind of Prime for some definition of "look like" but I don't know about them for all species.

I should really find out what all of you are calling yourselves since you're (a) not Prime and (b) not all the same species of nonprime.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, one more thing. How do you know that any given Prime doesn't have some version of an enchanted journal that DOES let them read most or all of these linked journals, but they happen to simply not be writing in it? What is actually the simplest, cheapest, or easiest enchantment that lets you, um, be a part of this system that Here or some overly helpful elemental of Here has cooked up? So you better add that idea to your privacy calculations!

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

The cheapest version I've heard of is 'borrowing someone's journal' like Esory used to do.

I think that's effectively what we're all doing. At least with regards to Sythyry.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well I'm more trying to figure out how common the journals might be, in general, on the World Tree.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

That's an awfully sinister-looking picture of you Mr. Terrycloth are you feeling all right?

How're you borrowing Sythyry's journal?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Not really sure, I just know that it's indirect. Zie references a 'translator' sometimes?

There's a couple other journals we've been able to see occasionally updating in real time... and not always from the same time period even. Presumably we could pass messages to the past if we were willing to face Kaimiri's wrath!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

That JUST happened to me! SomeKhtsoyis named "Luxlead" wrote in my scroll, making some space a little below where you left this note, with what looks like 3 days' worth of accounting! From 4258! That is even weirder than the rest of this!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm ... I don't know? A straightforward These Two Are One Ruloc Herbador is only cplx 10 but the range and duration on it (as a spell, not as an enchantment) are pretty mediocre. It's only really good for say keeping in touch with your fellow adventurers after your group splits up to explore two different tunnels. Making an enchantment with a real range on it and that was permanent was considerably harder, and that's only to talk to one other person. Talking to everyone with an enchanted journal on the World Tree -- well that'd be ridiculous. You couldn't get the range on it. Even my version with Locador to make the scrolls think they're still close together wouldn't (or at least I don't think it would) let me get the scrolls thousands of miles apart without the link failing.

Reaching monsters in another universe might be easier. Sometimes other universes are very close.

Maybe there's a pattern enchantment for it? I haven't heard of one but there might be.

[luxlead.livejournal.com]

---ey would with all that, right? Right. Should let well enough alone when you're not even doovering over your own bumpenground, much less get wingy flingy with the fire flowers, that's what I says. Mind your own doover.

24 Consimbs 4258
Collections:
Torlo Bullish Carn - Bound HtAW 100lz - paid
Wendaclub Matchface - 1 cley to fix eye 30lz - paid
Brindle Rufmut Halyn - 5 splent cley - written off
Thick-Thistle - Sick stomach, ground an herb powder 6lz - paid
Expenses:
Protection to M. Chesewick - 50lz
Back Rent - 90lz
Pocker for dinner - 2lz
Fresh bandaging linen - 4lz
Hat repair - 2lz
Puppet show - 3lz
Notes:
Torlo's bound for the verts with some mates he choofed into it, says they'll come back with a crate of perfume stolen and flown out there by some jabows. Don't think I'll be seeing his wagger again, HtAW or not. Thinks he's Brac's own champ with a fancy needlesword, and he dances okay but stabbing's another grabsy of chuts. Was nice to get some paying work though, rent is dish and dashitzie until Hivvem. Brindle tried to kill me later for dealing with Torlo, so I beat him to death. Wasn't the first time, but sure as dashitzie was the last. Puppet show was Glikkonen and the Whimsywand. Pretty funny.

25 Consimbs 4258
Collections:
Upsets-an-Applecart - barfight fixup 30lz - refused, got a beating
Doomdrifter - fixed some scuffs - waived
Expenses:
One nice wood table minus three legs - 10lz
Two chairs and one barstool - 15lz total
Drinks - 7lz and a few terch
Supper - 1lz
Notes:
Was drinking with Drifter and he gets Upset. I mean he's not upset, he gets this orren named Upset after him. That makes him kind of upset though. They argued over some guntrysplat about a bet in the Burl last week. There's a scrum and Upset loses, and he wants me to fix him up so I do. He's still all rushy though, and he says to me, he says, "I don't have to pay you 'cause Doomdrifter's your friend!" So me and Drifter drub him from mudmuckers to guttermop and pitch him out a window. I say the laugh was worth the lozen. We still owe for some furniture, though.

26 Consimbs 4258
Collections:
Verdistal Chay ny Hexings - Fixed scorched arm 35lz - paid
Moradzenax - Bound Temp. Health 200lz, HtAW 30lz, misc bumps 30lz - reduced to 100lz and deferred
Brelburrem - Fixed broken tooth - waived
Expenses:
Referral of Veridstal from Cheery Glitterglirrie - 15lz
4 durudor sewing needles - 40lz
Wall repair - 20lz
Notes:
Cheery (I think that's what she called herself today) sent a pyrador mage over to me. I send her slundermungers who get themselves poisoned or their bones broken. I don't do much with bones, I don't have any. She sent me Verdi. She fixes bones right nice but he didn't break a bone, he just cooked a lot of the meat off it. Sent him off with Cheery's cut. Moradzenax came by to settle her bill, and by that I mean she tried to beat the dillyjelly out of me. So I killed her. After I got her back up, she agreed that maybe I was worth paying after all, and gave her Word of Honor she'd pay me 100lz. I was alright with that, I'm a little sweet on her. She's lots of fun to be around when she's not feeding me my own eyestalks. Brelburrem came in after she left through the hole she made and told me he 'bit the rongon horn as iron', broke a big sabertooth. Poor fellow was all ribs. Was four days out from Treverre when it happened, had a hard time hunting and eating since then. Didn't have much amber but I don't vex myself to tickle terch and---

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Hiiiiii! For a second I thought you were Boomsy but noooo you're definitely not! And you're dating stuff from 4258? Are you actually writing in my scroll or do you have an enchanted journal that glitched a page and put it in mine 127 years later? Can you even see this?

[luxlead.livejournal.com]

27 Consimbs 4258
Collections:
Nothing. Slow day.
Expenses:
Lunch and dinner out - 2lz
Bet paid to Nit Jellyjig - 3lz
Notes:
Nit bet me two lozen today that he could dive from the top of the old granary into a pocket dimension he filled up with a creoc aquador. I bet him three he couldn't because he couldn't really see the pocket and I don't think he's really that great with locador anyway. He missed and bounced his blatbag off the ground so high he actually did a flip. I laughed so hard I paid him anyway, after fixing him up.
If you look back a page, some cheeky chesewick scribbled some nonsense in the margin of my ledger. Weird since last I saw it until now it's been locked in my cashbox. Weirder, there isn't a terch missing, so it wasn't a thief it was a comedian. Weirdest they even stamped a little picture in there of some big-haired purple orren. Nobody I recognize. Locking the cashbox again and tucking it in my good hiding place this time.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

You can see what I'm writing! Seven staring gods! Is your ledger enchanted too? I'm from Vheshrame but it's 4385 now! Are you really writing in 4258? I didn't know my scroll could see through time! Can you read my scroll or just the notes I leave in response to your ledger entries?

Oh and I'm Delight-in-Justice!

[luxlead.livejournal.com]

27 Consimbs 4258
Collections:
Expenses:
Notes:
Alright, my ledger was locked in the cashbox and I've been in my shop all day. All the locks were in place, nothing got moved, and even someone under a Veil wouldn't have had time to jot this note in here, much less doodle a little orren next to it, without some pretty strong Tempador. I think it'd be a bit much to suspect someone would go to all the trouble of pranking a slumbumming healer like that, so I'm going to assume that Here is having a grand old lark, somehow got a servitor of Kaimiri turned around, and some of it somehow landed on the Treverre slums. It's not as if the perfumed princey-prancers uptown would notice.

And it does seem a right hoot. The only enchantment my ledger has is the ability to produce endless red ink, and I sure the dashitzie didn't ask for that. So what you've got is looking at it somehow, and I guess that don't flip my snudge any. Not like you can do much with my bookkeeping on busted fingers and pub crawls a branch over and 127 years hence, eh? Ha!

So then, what ARE you doing? Does everyone get history-scrying scrolls a hundred years or so from now? Or is that just Primes in Vheshrame? Is Flokin going to drop anything on Treverre Mene that I should know about? You got the odds and winner on the Ghurrharex vs. River Gunch fight on ninth-day?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Oh you wrote me back way back here it's nice to hear from you again Mr. Khtsoyis!

Everyone doesn't get history-scrying scrolls in the future! It's just me well just me as far as I know and I don't know why Kaimiri would take an interest in my journal it doesn't have any Tempador in it. But it is really neat to talk to Primes from WAY BACK then! Most of the people who are reading my journal aren't even from this universe so you're a lot closer than they are.

I don't know of any disasters that happened in Treverre Mene in the last century or so definitely not anything Flokin did it's probably still be smoking. O_O

*giggles* I think even if I did know the outcome I shouldn't be telling you! Kaimiri'd be MAD!