Dragaera

Vallista

Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert lister at insaneninjahero.com
Wed Dec 31 07:03:31 PST 2003

M J wrote:

> From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com>
> Date:  Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:14:45 -0800 (PST)
> 
> 
>>Anyone else have any interesting dreams about Dragaera?
> 
> 
> Well, er, I once dreamed that I was at the Neverending Party 
> at Castle Black and that I was trying to make Aliera a cup of 
> tea.  (She kept saying that of course _I_ wouldn't know how to 
> make one correctly, but she drank it anyway.  There is no 
> pleasing that woman.)
> 
> Oh.  Wait.  You said _interesting_ dreams. 'Fraid not.  
> 

That reminds me of a joke. Stop me if you've heard this one. A string 
goes into a bar, but he's kicked out; "we don't serve your kind here". 
So he tied himself off and teased up his hair, and went back in. "Hey, 
aren't you that same string I just kicked out of here?"

"No sir, I'm a frayed knot."

Sorry. No, really, I feel awfully. I should have resisted. I should 
delete this passage right now.

> 
>>I dreamed that Morrolan's flying castle slipped through
>>a time-warp to the 14th Vallista Reign.  
> 
> 
> Tangent: are Dragaerans _allowed_ to time-travel?  Wouldn't 
> the gods put a pretty heavy stricture on that sort of thing?  
> I can see a lot of people wanting to send a Jhereg back in 
> time, pointed right straight at Adron pre-purple-stones.
> 
> 
**SPOILER FOR ZELAZNY'S NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER**


The fanged one showed up to the party as a closer. When questioned about 
his strange allegiance, his response was that some of us like things the 
way they are; the implication I got was that while the old gods might 
make things generally more evil and chaotic, Herr Dracul would be a 
smaller fish in such a pond.

I don't doubt there would be a great many folks willing to bet that 
things wouldn't be so much better as different... and different is bad.

Kisc