10 Oix 4385: Fine, Fine, I'll Investigate

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to see the appeal of time magic that makes time pass faster instead of slower because I really wouldn't mind skipping all of this month. Not that I'm not still Delight-in-Surprise but I think I'll be Even-More-Delight-in-Second-Fall.

The ice-dance performance had already started AND was sold out so I gave up and went investigating like the gods and Glory-worry and all my extra-dimensional friends obviously want me to.

I started at the furstyling guild. The clerk on duty didn't want to help me but I bribed him with a cup of frozen honey-hosh mash. That's not much of a bribe but I think it's only TOO HOT that was making him useless.

After a few bites, he said, "Mmmm-mmmm let me get your file." He came back with it a ninth of an hour later and I held out my hands for it. He held it to his chest. "I'm not supposed to let you see it."

"... will you if I get you another frozen mash?"

"... No, I'm really not allowed to. Sorry. I can tell you why they sent you the testing invitation, though." The clerk stopped hugging the file so he could leaf through it, although he still held it so I couldn't see.

"Oh all right why did they?"

"It says your work was recommended by a member of cabinet. Two masters investigated and deemed you worthy of testing."

"A member of cabinet who?"

"Lady Kroove."

"... but I don't even know her I'm pretty sure I've never done furstyling for her why would she recommend me?"

"Maybe she liked a style you did for someone else?"

"... is this the way you normally get an invitation to test?"

"No."

"Oh."

He added hastily, "I don't know that there is a usual way. Only a couple of people get invited to test each year, if that."

"... this is not really making me feel like my invitation is a perfectly normal thing that I shouldn't be at all surprised about."


"You should be surprised! And honored! It's the highest compliment the guild can pay. Other than the part where they make you an actual master, that is."

"So who were the masters who investigated and said I qualified for the test?" I asked.

He consulted the folder. "Master Angelic-Falls and Mistress Scarletbloom."

I don't know Angelic-Falls but I've met Scarletbloom. She's co-proprietor of Lush, Luxurious, and Lovely.

... I guess I should have gone there when she was on shift?

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Now that is very confusing indeed! I'm not sure you're quite getting full value of your frozen mash yet.

Though I now suspect that the next duel-war will be fought as a furstyling competition, since Vheshrame is doing so badly in the regular way.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Maybe we'd do better in the duel-wars if you'd get Saza to be on our side instead of Oorah Thrassen's can't you just buy zir services or something oh I guess that's too expensive for just a war.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't here for the last one, so I'm not sure of the details. Still -- you could probably be helpful in duel-wars yourself, O adventurer!

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I think me duelling for Vheshrame would only be helpful to Oorah Thrassen! D:

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Is the cabinet the guild cabinet or the actual cabinet of the city-state?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Ummm it must be the Vheshrame Ducal Cabinet because the guild doesn't have any nobles? I think? I don't think the guild calls its advisory board a cabinet either.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Curious! And it seems likely you should have. :)

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

This would've been a lot more useful to know when I needed money!

[terrana.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, being a master furstylist opens up an option on the money-making front. If I understand how the guild system works - which I may not - it seems that being a guild master allows for such things as, say, taking private commissions or setting up a portable booth somewhere when you need rent money. Just a thought.

This assumes you'd pass the test, of course, but let's be honest, we all know you would.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea, you would totally ACE it. Its one of the things you have a gift with. That and Locador. I totally can't BELIEVE you just understood all that crazy spacial math stuff I linked you to. *I* have a huge problem with that stuff, and I'm pretty good at math... O,o

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

!

You... you made your journal entry intentionally link us back to your older journal entry by tapping the name of the grooming shop? Did you do that intentionally? If so, that's great! I'm wondering how your way of doing that in journals compares with our method of doing it...

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

I underlined it and wrote it in blue isn't that how you do it?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, what we actually do requires a bit more background:

The places that we visit on our internet have addresses, or sort of text signifiers which tell our devices precisely where to get the thing we are looking at.

If we want to 'link' something, it is by tradition that it is underlined and colored blue. But what actually happens is that, at some point, we do have to actually do some extra things to that text in order to (behind the scenes) point it to the address in question, not just give it a relevant name.

It seems like the magic scroll knows enough that when you underline it and make it blue, that you actually DO want it to go to the text-address of the unique journal entry!

Let me show you what happened with your example. You wrote some understandable words, but you didn't actually do any weird actions to go get some tidbit of information from your previous entry, and associate it with those words, right?

Us, we would have to go through more steps, perhaps associating the address* ' http://delight-in-wt.livejournal.com/3884.html ' with the text in question.


*Yes, the format of the address looks funny. Yes, there's a reason for that, and yes the wizards who designed it to look funny feel really guilty for making these sorts of addresses look that funny. They didn't know their designs would be adopted so much by the public in unexpected ways, they just thought it would stay in academia where everyone would know and care and not mind why it looks that funny.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Oh so you have a kind of formula for describing to your Locador spells the exact location in the scroll that makes sense.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea yea! And that's why we have to be careful when we do the blue underlined text, so it goes where we want it to go. Are you able to see this part of our internet when you go to our pages? There's LOTS of information associated with them, more than what you might just 'see' looking at them -- LOTS of stuff going on in the background. I don't know if you've tried weird ways of interacting with the scroll to try and get ahold of that information or not, or if you could even see it if you wanted to. I'm curious though.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm proud that you are finally doing the investigating! It isn't that hard or painful, is it?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Well it's not as hard as fighting a kraken-water-elemental in a water-filled pit or as painful as getting killed by bandits BUT it's a lot worse than lounging in a swimming hole especially on a miserable hot Surprise day ugh.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Did you try my 'sponting some alcohol for super 'sweat'' trick?

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Noooo I don't want to smell like alcohol? And also that's silly.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

How hard is it to make the alcohol last only a few minutes? I don't know how long creation of spirits spells tend to last if they aren't intended to last very long! And I was just wondering if evaporation (like panting or sweating) removes heat...

[terrana.livejournal.com]

It's a pity Sythyry doesn't have a direct line to Flokin. It'd be nice to be able to ask it, heat being its domain and all.

On the other hand, it's a very good thing Sythyry doesn't have Flokin's attention, for zir sake and that of those around zir. One terrible god of destruction having his eye on you is more than enough for anyone, though Accanax is almost certainly worse...