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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2006-02-15 07:41 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2006-02-15 07:41 am
Log of the Cambric, continued
Tugblit City is very different from Shrigom. The architecture's a lot older, and there are three temples of Plut alone, not to mention any number of other places of worship. Fortunately I'd done a bit more reading round my subject, so I was able to take as my subject a rather intriguing disputed reading in the third book of Commentaries on the Testament of Klurn, and even field some questions. I only got caught on the hop once, and that was on a linguistic point. I'll have to see if I can get hold of the Commentaries in the original Pluttish. Can't be that hard to master.
Something seems to have gone wrong with the plane's comm systems. I couldn't get any of the planetary news channels today. I rather wanted to see how they were reporting me. I intended to try to pick up a hard copy, but P hustled me in and out so quickly there wasn't time. I must say he's getting very efficient. I may have wronged him after all. He certainly did an excellent job of getting me past the press, who were all quacking about something that's happened and did I have a comment. I've always felt that religion and politics should be kept strictly apart.
I did, however, manage to find a secluded spot to run the next scenario of the coup, and that's going very well. I'll have to do one personal appearance in a few days time, but I'm sure I can wangle that somehow.
Next stop Flebgom City. I should have a day of downtime there. That would be a good opportunity.
I wish I could see the news, though.
Something seems to have gone wrong with the plane's comm systems. I couldn't get any of the planetary news channels today. I rather wanted to see how they were reporting me. I intended to try to pick up a hard copy, but P hustled me in and out so quickly there wasn't time. I must say he's getting very efficient. I may have wronged him after all. He certainly did an excellent job of getting me past the press, who were all quacking about something that's happened and did I have a comment. I've always felt that religion and politics should be kept strictly apart.
I did, however, manage to find a secluded spot to run the next scenario of the coup, and that's going very well. I'll have to do one personal appearance in a few days time, but I'm sure I can wangle that somehow.
Next stop Flebgom City. I should have a day of downtime there. That would be a good opportunity.
I wish I could see the news, though.
Palinurus perspires
In a way, it was quite fun. I knew she was a reporter from the get-go, she didn't, and was quite keen to maintain that. On the other hand, she needed me to be as ... open ... as she could get me. Fortunately, after my cycles in Engineering and on the Hanger Deck, breathing what passes for air, I am pretty resilient to toxins, so the dynz-plach she was buying by the bottle didn't really affect me all that much (though I'm *sure* I don't remember making up the one about the nun and the three donkeys -- perhaps she did and just ascribed it to me ... or to Ben Trovato, that eminent epigrammatist).
Anyway I got He Who Must Be Kept Sweet through customs and boarding without him seeing anything, and I just have to Make Sure that the same happens at Flebgorn.
I nearly died when I saw his bit about the Testament of Klurn -- the typeface was very small, and I read it is 'Klum' and I couldn't kept wondering how Heidi had got involved and where the goats were.