Archæology

The assorted finds of Artefact Publishing

Instead of progress

By request, here are some more of the things said in character during my Nobilis game:

• Anger ― “Do you have a tractor?”

  Xuan-Lan ― “What’s a tractor?”

  Anger ― “It’s like an ox with a motor.”

  Mischief, paying attention ― “You mean a tractor?”

• Chance ― “There are plenty of millionaires who would pay to visit a nineteenth century port in the knowledge they can get cured of syphilis.”
• Anger ― “If you live in a palace, then for a start you get pretensions.”
• Anger, on Benedict being majorly mopey ― “Simply because he’s dead doesn’t mean he should stop living.”
• Chance, on telling Fear and Mischief that Sophie is dead ― “It’s more like taking a trip to the Netherlands.”
• Chance, when Sophie and Benedict stare at Phulattesthai ― “These guys are going to be born-again snake-huggers.”
• Chance ― “I’ll flip you for the fish.”
• Chance ― “Somehow I think that Sophie with her good Catholic upbringing isn’t going to be impressed by a giant snake.”
• Anger ― “They know about pasteurisation, don’t they? They’re French, of course they do.”
• Chance, to Anger ― “Well, not everything we do is therapy for you.”
• Anger, on learning the island floats ― “It’s a cheap prop!”
• Chance, on Anger’s debt to the Cammora ― “If we kill him, the debt disappears.”
• Fear ― “That’s it, I’m taking my handbasket [of Fear] and I’m out of here!”
• Chance ― “You have to wonder just what sort of giant radioactive snake he is.”

Posted by jamie on December 11, 2003 14:26+13:00

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