EmeraldSilver Blogs

“We didn’t hide it the first time! It went walkabout, and we had to bury an effigy because that’s all we had.”

“See, purple and green go together. Who knew?”
“Yeah.”
“So you knew?”

“How do you know it’s not the same pocket?”
“We spent hours reaching around in – never mind.”
“I was wearing mine as a jock strap while we were doing this. ‘No, keep reaching deeper!'”

“I’ve reached into the bag; the normal calipers are fine.”
“No, normal calipers are not big enough for my ego, sir.”

“We should probably go check that out. You know, far be it from us to have a task and get distracted from it when another task presents itself.”

“Are we hiring a tailor or are we kidnapping a tailor? Or does it depend on how it goes?”

“Look, I’m not one to completely overstep a trap… I usually step right on it.”

“This might be my fault.”
“What did you do?”
“Helped.”

“I mean, he’s saying the things I would have said if I weren’t an asshole.”

“I have exactly one heal, and it has his name on it. It’s called ‘heal Darryl’s character.'”

“Excuse me, is that food for… everybody?”
“Not if you’re slow, brother.”

“Why put a pool in the middle of the floor if you’re not gonna put your feet in it?”
“Scrying?”
“Well, they can scry my nasty toes.”

“Wait, can you just put a note in there and ask for things?”
“Well, he can’t.”

“I clearly became obsessed with portraits.”
“Became?”

“You are just making shit up now.”
“Now? Now?!”

“Unless you have an eighteen-block.”
“It’s just a double-wide, ok?”

“Why does this not sound familiar? I’ve been here the whole game!”

“It just makes it more awkward if I know about the tree before I enter it.”
“I prefer my trees to be anonymous.”

“This is why we can’t have nice things.”
“These ARE the nice things!”

“We’re involved in a lot of fires we didn’t start.”
“That were started by librarian skulls.”
“…That is a theme, yeah.”

“Do you want me to intimidate the tunnel?”

“Fucking human engineering!”

“Buy him something fancy – “
(snorts)
“Alcohol. Fancy alcohol.”

“If I were a vizier, that’s what I would write in the dictionary.”

“You have a… breastplate… huh?”
“That was on the side!”

“He doesn’t have all the hats I’ve got.”
“I do. I just don’t want to mess up my hair.”

“There was an effect that made everyone appear evil. Our people are… not bad.”

“This is the down side to learning to read.”
“People cut off your head and wear it as a hat?”

“Yeah, but that nine-block will be ours.”
“Think of it as an entrance fee.”

“We burned it; it’s ours.”

“My version of helping the Dreaming is knifing a bunch of people and then going, ‘Fog?'”

“We’ve had some good times.”
“No one’s dead.”
“We’ve had some okay times.”

“One thing at a time. Who later, what now.”

“You’re too emotional about this. Let’s find something to kill.”

“I mean, catapults are not that hard to build.”
“Really?! New plan.”

“It’s a burden being smart. People ask you what to do, and you’re like ‘stabbings?'”

“Oh, it’s a temple now! Interesting.”
“That’s what I’d call my opium den. For tax purposes.”

“But the attack is coming from the outside!”
“Yes, I am.”

“Stairs?”
“Harem.”
“Fuck.”
“No.”
“Wrong door.”

“Not all squiggles are writing!”
“I know. That’s why I’m asking him! You’re unreliable.”

“It might be too much, but you guys are going to be wise and powerful – “
“We’re still going to be us! We’re the problem!”

“7!”
“I beat that with the number on the die.”
“I mean, technically so did I…”

“Every character has the same flaw: these four idiots.”

“I tried to collapse this universe and all I got was this hernia.”

“This is exactly how you thought this was going to go, wasn’t it.”

“I kind of imagine that if you try to pick up Nine, it’s not so much that you get actively stabbed – “
“You might.”
” – As it is that there’s so many fucking knives, there’s nowhere soft to grab.”

“Flap it like you mean it!”

“He’s filled with information. He’s like a pinata of information.”

“So it’s the flesh of the dead wife?”

“And if it tracks them, will it ultimately stab them? Because that’s not what I want.”