Nytemuse was dead on the money when she wrote: >On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, M J wrote: >> True. It was also extremely funny and is still one of My Favorite >> Things Ever. Aliera blushing is something that ought to happen >> more often. <glomps Aliera> > >OK, this just makes me wonder if anyone's actually sat down and made a >glompability level chart or something...like >#1 - Daymar >#2 - Paarfi >#3 - Aliera >(etc) > >I mean, is Aliera more glompable than Paarfi? Is Daymar more glompable >than all of them? :) Well, there are a great many factors to put into the Glompy- Equation. Let us take Morrolan as our example. TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME = + 10 Glomppoints SORT OF STAND-OFFISH = - 3 Glomppoints THINKS HE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR = +2 Gp DOESN'T, REALLY = - 2 Gp HAS A CREEPY SWORD = - 14 Gp DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND EASTERNERS, EXACTLY = + 5 Gp for a total of negative two Glomppoints, which means that Morrolan- glomping isn't really a good idea. But then, there are the two wild cards of Morrolan-Glompiness, which are the suspicion that only Kragar can safely glomp Morrolan (sort of like John Wilkes Booth beating Lincoln, if you see what I mean), and the assumption that Morrolan, being a high and puissant Dragonlord, might be willing to indulge my theory that _noblesse oblige_ requires him to allow us to show our awe and reverence at his high birth by glomping the tar out of him. Daymar's Glompiness Chart would go something like this: STATE OF BEING DAYMAR = + ONE BILLION Glomppoints POSSIBLY WOULDN'T NOTICE GLOMPS UNTIL LATER = + 10 Gp WOULD PROBABLY THINK THAT GLOMPS ARE FASCINATING = +100 Gp for a total of ONE DAYMAR-UNIT of Glomppoints. I'm pretty sure that one would get a base of a thousand Gp just for being born a Hawklord. HOW CUTE ARE THE HAWKS, HONESTLY? Very cute, buster. SKZB himself has about seventeen thousand Gp, but that's mostly for his cool hat. I leave Aliera's Glompiness Chart to you as an intellectual exercise. >These are important issues! I mean, what if you ran into Paarfi and >Aliera and Daymar all on a street and you only had time to glomp one? Well... since Daymar is likely to already be glomped by a lot of people, you'd probably be better off glomping Paarfi, but since you'd scarcely notice the white of his garments through the horde of glomplings snuggling him, you'd THEN HAVE TO shove aside Jurabin and snuggle Aliera, who wouldn't object unless Morrolan was watching. ¬ MJ, who has another Glompiness Chart for Stannis Baratheon