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delight_in_wtMirhandrax is back! He got back while we were talking to the ghempoch actually but Trust told him that we were taking care of it and that having someone who couldn't pass for norren around wouldn't help. So we didn't see him until after sunout on the 25th.
I don't actually know how you find out if someone is a bonstable. I could stare at their mageriums and if they've got all nineteen connections and a knack for the right creator god then I could be pretty sure they were prime. Except that there are spells that can disguise your magerium and the norren are good with that sort of thing so ... not even then. Maybe Sythyry knows but I think zie's busy because I haven't heard from zir recently.
I read one story in my scroll about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calamitous_cani and he found the bonstable by using (AGH) Mentador on some people he suspected to make them turn into birds. (Bonstables can take their own shape, goat-like and bipedal, or any prime shape, or the shape of little birds). But some of his suspects were prime and so the primes executed and exiled him for using Mentador on primes. I wouldn't go that route even if I could which I can't. Not even if I wouldn't get executed and exiled for it.
Bonstables are notorious for certain psychological traits though. Like they'll say "I"ll take care of the No Unwanted Child, dear" and then not because they want primes to have their kids. They're also flighty and don't stay in the same area long and take on big responsabilties and then ruin primes by not keeping their promises. Also they don't get a lot of god connections when they're little and no knacks so they don't use much magic and their kids do much less experimenting with spontaneous magic than normal. So when the villagers threw a big party for us the next night, we gossiped lots with all the locals to find out who fit those profiles.
There were four of them. Two kids, and a female Orren whose former partners were raising her three toddlers, and a male Herethroy with a nine-adult, fifteen-kids family. His immediate family was like one quarter of the village Herethroy population. Even if we could prove that he was a bonstable they'd probably lynch us and not him.
D:
But we could worry about that if we thought that he really was and didn't have random suspicions based on his flightiness, right?
I know a bunch of you are thinking "Why are you putting all this work into something you're not even getting paid for?" I guess that some things you do for the good of prime civilization and not just because someone pays you.
This morning, we went 'round to each of our suspects' homes. I told them we needed to do some analysis on them because when we weretorturing talking to the ghempoch we'd found out about this possible terrible plot to destroy the village. "You fit the profile described to us of the unwitting participants. We don't actually THINK it was you --we think the whole thing was made up, to be honest. But just in case we wanted to check and make sure you don't have any horrible magics on you."
We had the Orren adult spont a Kennoc spell and the Herethroy adult spont a Creoc spell and then we spent a really long time staring at the spells to spot the racial knacks in them. And then had the Orren do it two more times and the Herethroy one more time because it took a while before at least one of us was confident that we were actually seeing a racial knack.
We asked the kids to do the same but of course the reason we suspected them was that they didn't do much sponting. Only one of them could successfully spont a spell although at least it was a strong spell and I spotted the thread of knack in it right away. The other kid ran out of cley first and started crying.
But there really isn't anything SINISTER about a ten year-old not being able to spont. I tried to distract him from crying with a puppet show while Nightbloom and Outcast stared at his magerium. He was too upset to much notice them staring.
"The magerium definitely looked prime," Outcast said afterwards.
Nightbloom nodded agreement. "All seventeen connections. Short but there. Creoc knack a bit stunted. But that happens."
I shrugged. "I think this is as good as we're going to get it's pretty obvious the village isn't half-full of normal bonstables and if it's a new special bonstable well I think we're doomed. Let's go home and hope maybe someprime wizard will catch the plot before it's too late if there really is one."
Nightbloom patted my shoulder. "I am sure it is fine. What are the odds? That your extradimensional friend would tell us to fake. Something that happened to be true."
I sighed. "It wasterrycloth and zie's not always the same person or extradimensional even. Zie might have BEEN a bonstable when zie wrote it."
"If zie was a bonstable, why would zie have given away zir plot?" Mirhandrax asked.
I shrugged again. "I don't know but I bet I have nightmares about it."
"We do need to get home. Tomorrow is the first day of Surprise,"Nightbloom said.
...
ARGH.
I don't actually know how you find out if someone is a bonstable. I could stare at their mageriums and if they've got all nineteen connections and a knack for the right creator god then I could be pretty sure they were prime. Except that there are spells that can disguise your magerium and the norren are good with that sort of thing so ... not even then. Maybe Sythyry knows but I think zie's busy because I haven't heard from zir recently.
I read one story in my scroll about
calamitous_cani and he found the bonstable by using (AGH) Mentador on some people he suspected to make them turn into birds. (Bonstables can take their own shape, goat-like and bipedal, or any prime shape, or the shape of little birds). But some of his suspects were prime and so the primes executed and exiled him for using Mentador on primes. I wouldn't go that route even if I could which I can't. Not even if I wouldn't get executed and exiled for it. Bonstables are notorious for certain psychological traits though. Like they'll say "I"ll take care of the No Unwanted Child, dear" and then not because they want primes to have their kids. They're also flighty and don't stay in the same area long and take on big responsabilties and then ruin primes by not keeping their promises. Also they don't get a lot of god connections when they're little and no knacks so they don't use much magic and their kids do much less experimenting with spontaneous magic than normal. So when the villagers threw a big party for us the next night, we gossiped lots with all the locals to find out who fit those profiles.
There were four of them. Two kids, and a female Orren whose former partners were raising her three toddlers, and a male Herethroy with a nine-adult, fifteen-kids family. His immediate family was like one quarter of the village Herethroy population. Even if we could prove that he was a bonstable they'd probably lynch us and not him.
D:
But we could worry about that if we thought that he really was and didn't have random suspicions based on his flightiness, right?
I know a bunch of you are thinking "Why are you putting all this work into something you're not even getting paid for?" I guess that some things you do for the good of prime civilization and not just because someone pays you.
This morning, we went 'round to each of our suspects' homes. I told them we needed to do some analysis on them because when we were
We had the Orren adult spont a Kennoc spell and the Herethroy adult spont a Creoc spell and then we spent a really long time staring at the spells to spot the racial knacks in them. And then had the Orren do it two more times and the Herethroy one more time because it took a while before at least one of us was confident that we were actually seeing a racial knack.
We asked the kids to do the same but of course the reason we suspected them was that they didn't do much sponting. Only one of them could successfully spont a spell although at least it was a strong spell and I spotted the thread of knack in it right away. The other kid ran out of cley first and started crying.
But there really isn't anything SINISTER about a ten year-old not being able to spont. I tried to distract him from crying with a puppet show while Nightbloom and Outcast stared at his magerium. He was too upset to much notice them staring.
"The magerium definitely looked prime," Outcast said afterwards.
Nightbloom nodded agreement. "All seventeen connections. Short but there. Creoc knack a bit stunted. But that happens."
I shrugged. "I think this is as good as we're going to get it's pretty obvious the village isn't half-full of normal bonstables and if it's a new special bonstable well I think we're doomed. Let's go home and hope maybe someprime wizard will catch the plot before it's too late if there really is one."
Nightbloom patted my shoulder. "I am sure it is fine. What are the odds? That your extradimensional friend would tell us to fake. Something that happened to be true."
I sighed. "It was
terrycloth and zie's not always the same person or extradimensional even. Zie might have BEEN a bonstable when zie wrote it." "If zie was a bonstable, why would zie have given away zir plot?" Mirhandrax asked.
I shrugged again. "I don't know but I bet I have nightmares about it."
"We do need to get home. Tomorrow is the first day of Surprise,"Nightbloom said.
...
ARGH.
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Date: 2011-08-25 05:37 pm (UTC)Also, Surprise! I hate it when months sneak up on me like that. x.x
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Date: 2011-08-25 11:31 pm (UTC)I didn't think you were TRYING to give me nightmares well not REALLY. It's only Kijji and the bonstables-take-over-the-branch that are REALLY scary and the last one is half Nightbloom's fault for embellishing on it. D:
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Date: 2011-08-25 07:01 pm (UTC)Have a safe trip back home, and will your name soon be Delight-At-Being-Home? ^_^
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Date: 2011-08-25 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-25 10:33 pm (UTC)Oooh ooh! Do you have any favorite Summer / Hot Surprise or Winter / Cold Surprise clothes? What do they look like?
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Date: 2011-08-25 11:29 pm (UTC)The last cold Surprise I went over to my dads' and scrounged for castoff sweaters and stuff because they've got lots of junk they never move.
During hot Surprise I don't wear clothes if I can help it SO HOT.
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Date: 2011-08-30 09:01 pm (UTC)I don't know what you mean about female Gormorror being more upsetting than others? Or nursing? I don't know why that would matter.
Oh except that if you're nursing it's okay to have your top undone OF COURSE even if you were in a public place where you normally wouldn't.
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Date: 2011-08-30 11:47 pm (UTC)Where I come from, the females of most mammal species don't have visible breasts when not nursing. However, one species -- mine -- DOES. We believe this happened because we walk upright. As such, visible breasts make good advertisements of fertility for a creature that walks upright, and so adult women ended up having those, even when not nursing. And of course the guys react to that sight. So, a lot of cultures in the world in which I live have a nudity taboo regarding a woman's bared breast. Does that make sense?
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