25 Lage 4385: Boomstarter Sevendrums

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

To My Dearest Delight-in-Justice and All Her New Friends:

What a charming and splendid gift! My delightful Delight, you have truly outdone yourself this time. Or your favorite deity has outdone himself on your behalf, judging by the conclusions at which you and your learned brother have arrived. Yet who are we to question the whims of gods? If it is the will of "Here" that I have such an elegant and powerful tool by which I may contact my dear cuz, well, it is hardly the most onerous burden that has ever been laid upon my sturdy tentacles.

I have spent a pleasant hour or two touring your recent writings, and confess I am tickled not only by the details you have supplied as regards your recent doings, but by the contributions of your recent acquaintences. I trust you will forgive me for taking the liberty of contributing to your own page rather than the one you so generously provided for me. Since one of your extradimensional friends inquired after my doings, I thought I should make my reply easy for them to uncover.

I am sorry to hear about your recent troubles. That Kijji creature is a few orders of magnitude worse than a bonstable, from the sounds of it, and to have it haunting your glorious creation is a dark blot indeed. But I trust your brother's judgement and shall have no fear of the beast's disturbing little remarks. But the loss of your guild membership -- alas, that is of more lasting concern. The loss of your job is no tragedy; your talents were wasted working for that abominable excuse for a pseudo-Prime. But your license -- ah! You are the most skillful fur-stylist in Vheshrame, and I hardly have need of fur myself to appreciate that. For the guild to suspend your membership is a great blow to mammals across the city. I pity them. Truly, I do.

If fur-styling is no longer of interest to you, however, have you considered pursuing haberdashery? Your peerless creativity could find release in the creation of magnificent head-coverings. Of course, I speak as a wholly disinterested third party whose bald head in no way would stand to gain from the mammals' loss.

Whatever the case, I have no doubt that you will find a career that suits you, coz. With the help of your gift to me, I also look forward to hearing about it as it develops. I am pleased that you have been so diligent about keeping us all updated!

For my own part, I am drumming for a new pentet. We call ourselves "Don't Go in It's a Tarp!" Yes, the exclamation mark is part of the name. Wingle Gutsawer is fiddling for us, and River-Aria is singing and playing the sitar. There's two others you don't know, Orziman and Ioste, who play tandem nadaswaram. We've made some terch busking in the park and the manager of Two Tent Tango invited us to perform at the end of the week. Expect a bit of a rough crowd from that, it being a Khtsoyis establishment, but we must start somewhere. I do worry that Orziman and Ioste are having second thoughts regarding the engagement. With luck, the actual performance will allay those fears.

But my income from this venture is a ways yet from covering the cost of mead, let alone any other of life's little expenses. Thus, I am maintaining my career at the docks, loading and unloading the cargo of airships. It is tedious and unengaging work, but simple enough and provides me with the remuneration that allows me to indulge in my hobbies.

I wish I had as much news as you to report, coz, but alas my employed state has left me with far fewer anecdotes than you. Do keep us all posted, D.

Your devoted cousin,
Boomstarter Sevendrums

Comments

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. I thought Khtsoyis had this thing where they pretended to be stupid, even if they weren't, so primes would underestimate them? What happens if someprime gets ahold of the journal and sees your uplifting and enlightened writings? The whole system could come crashing down! Better be careful, Boomsy! Anyway, pleased to make your acquaintance, you can call me by my friendly name, 'Gavin'.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I think it's a family tradition?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea, possibly... they are just seen as the weird, smart Khtsoyis?

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

Weird, I shall surely grant!

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

Aha! I see you are already somewhat versed in our family history, good sir. I did not see where Dee provided such specifics; perhaps our good wizard Sythyry has been so kind as to inform you?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

It's in his older journal, where he was talking about the times he first met your family!

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

I shall have to peruse the good wizard's works! I daresay zie has insights into my ancestors that I myself do not.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

zir, sorry! Her would be more true if I had to choose a non appropriate gender that I am more likely to choose. Whoops!

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

My good fellow, rest assured that I am not in violation of some tree-wide conspiracy amongst the Khtsoyis to convince the seven other Prime races of our inherent intellectual inferiority.

No doubt it suits some Khtsoyis to pretend to a degree of mental acuity less than their actual. True as well, it is convenient for many among the Prime races to believe my people are ignorant and untutorable, capable of naught but thuggery.

However, it is unwise to judge overmuch based on a manner of speaking, or writing as in our case. I write this way because I delight in language and because it pleases our hostess Delight to humor me. It does not make me a genius; indeed, there are many who choose to express themselves with simple words and plain manners and yet their brilliance in deed and performance indubitably far exceeds my own.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

True, that does make much sense, but is not one of the aspects of intelligence, among many of course, a capability with language, and is it not true that to take a delight in language and the oratory and literary arts simply a further expression of this capability? Take, for example, the fact that we are not even conversing in the same language, yet the appropriate translations are, in fact, somehow taking place, and they are suitably allowing us to converse in this manner. Is that not fascinating in and of itself?

[vik_thor]

would be interesting to hear a Khtsoyis drummer. Just think of all the various beats you could do.

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

Would that I could sate your curiosity, good sir! Perhaps when my talented coz creates a device which allows sound and not merely the written word to traverse the barriers between universes ....

[alex-muridae.livejournal.com]

Hello there, Boomstarter; as you no doubt have read, I'm one of your coz's new extra-dimensional acquaintances. And, as of your reading this, yours too I suppose. So, a pleasure it is.

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

Delighted to make your acquaintance more directly, Mr. Muridae! I look forward to hearing from you and indeed all the strange and wondrous people with whom my dear coz has put us in contact.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Ah, Boomstarter, we meet at last!

Or at any rate, we correspond at last, in ways that somehow avoid postal fees.

[boomstarter.livejournal.com]

A pleasure indeed to be in contact with you again, good sir! We have met before, many years ago when I was yet a wee squid. I had a different name then, Floatsquirmer. My grandparents brought me with them on occasional visits to Castle Wrong.

[delight-in.livejournal.com]

Yay you got my scroll I'm soooo happy! And you've got a new pentet already that's wonderful! I'm sorry you're still stuck with your boring job I don't mind not having one right now even if I'm not exactly sure how I'm paying the rent it'll sort out.

I'll think about hats! Hee!