EmeraldSilver Blogs

“Whoo-hoo.  That gives me a +2 in Survival.  Now I can find Fangberries too!”

“Now two people in the party won’t touch that because it’s… sticky.”

“Bryan, roll Sense Motive.”
“19.”
“You wonder why you just did that.”

“…PigMENTs, not pygmies…”

“My concern, ironically, is the well-being of these goo people.”

“Cerebroshag?  Cerebroshag?? That’s the only kind of X-Men porn that didn’t exist until just now…”

“There’s lots of butter and garlic.”
“Oh, shit, Paula Deen’s been here!”

“Nobody’s reported it to ME!  Have you seen the crap that I get?!”

Thus Amber was born of chaos, transformed in shadow, and kissed to wakefulness by the typewriter’s keys after all the work was done.

-Roger Zelazny, “The Road to Amber” (The Collected Works of Roger Zelazny, Volume 6)

So I picked up The Collected Works of Roger Zelazny as the books came out – all 6 volumes.  There’s some interesting bits in the back of Volume 6 that one of the gentlemen on the amber_diceless_rpg Yahoo!Group drew my attention to…

“Miss Scarlett.  She has an appointment with me.  I’m afraid I must take a terrible liberty in moving it up to fit my schedule.  Please be so good as to have her attend immediately.” Jerod says.  He then continues forward, not trying to deliberately bowl the man over, but neither does Jerod stop simply becaus the man is in his way.  Should the Gatekeeper decide to try to stop them, he will find any rumors he may have heard of Jerod’s strength to be quite factual when a vise-like grip clamps onto the man’s arm so that he can continue to accompany the new arrivals.

“This?  This is why people think you lot are crazy, arrogant, or whatever else.

“When I leave you alone with her so’s I can find the boy, don’t blame me if she humps your leg or something.”

“Yeah, you could sell a real elven woman for a lot more than 85g…”

“You painted it black… you know, when we were in town, I could have bought you a tarp…”