LMB Quote Game

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:53 am

Correct! Should I have given more of the quote earlier in the week? I didn't know if everyone was stumped or just too busy with other things (I know this week in Oklahoma school started again).

Your Sherlock, and I'll go post it now, congratulations!

James

risi · Post by **risi** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:28 am

You're kidding!! I did not expect that to be correct... it was just a wild guess to eliminate one possibility and maybe get someone else a step closer. If I had really thought it was correct I would not have posted as I've got a medical procedure tomorrow. It's no big thing but I'm not going to be around for a few days, so it was a stupid time to play.

Can I ask one of the more infrequent players to jump in and take a turn in my place? Maybe gollum? or ghost? or blackwing? I do think that whoever takes over the next quote should get the Sherlock too.

I'm sorry... I really wouldn't have posted if I'd thought it was correct.

I just wanted to keep the game going.

Post by **gollum** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:14 am

I think I qualify as an infrequent poster

, happy to assist...

"Can I go behind the bushes and throw up now?"

Speaker ?
Circumstances ?
Book ?

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:43 pm

Ivan
When Haroche came down to meet Lord Auditor
Memory

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Risi, get well soon

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Post by **gollum** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:00 am

Reede Kullervo wrote:Ivan
When Haroche came down to meet Lord Auditor
Memory .

Correct

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:57 pm

Xxxâ€™s wintry smile promised retribution for that dig as Xxx coded open the doors for them. "Enjoy yourselves, children."

Book?
Who is Xxx (first time name, second pronoun)?
Who are them (or yourselves or children)?
What was dig about?

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:06 pm

Reede Kullervo wrote:
Xxxâ€™s wintry smile promised retribution for that dig as Xxx coded open the doors for them. "Enjoy yourselves, children."

Book? Winterfair Gifts
Who is Xxx (first time name, second pronoun)? Pym
Who are them (or yourselves or children)?Roic, and Taura, going out for some exercise
What was dig about? Roic made a dig about no one else being fit/young/tall enough (can't remember which of them it started as and transmuted to offhand ) to keep up with Taura's pace since she's quite tall and fit.

No I didn't actually look it up.

Get well soon, risi! And I thought there was a chance that the quote could have been between Harra and Miles in either Mountains of Mourning, or Memory, but didn't have time to look it up. As it turns out, I still don't have copies of Beguilement, so it would have been a fruitless search anyway.

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:16 pm

SPetty, correct

. Not young/tall enough

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Your Sherlock and next quote

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SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:00 pm

"Fine," he sputtered at last. "She can have you."

Which book?
Who is he?
Who is She?

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:02 am

I guess an expansion is in order:

"Fine," he sputtered at last. "She can have you. I don't want to see your ugly face again. Don't come back to Xxx. Yyy will deliver your things before nightfall."

Which book?
Who is he?
Who is She?

(Xxx is a place, two words long. Yyy is a person.)

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:54 am

I guess an expansion is in order again. If no one gets it now, I guess I'll declare it cold, and try a different one.

"Do you obey me, or him?"
An odd gleam flared in Zzz's eye. He tilted his head towards Aaa. "Her."
Bbb was so taken aback, it took him several seconds to regain his speech."Fine," he sputtered at last. "She can have you. I don't want to see your ugly face again. Don't come back to Xxx. Yyy will deliver your things before nightfall."

Which book?
Who is Bbb?
Who is Aaa?

(Xxx is a place, two words long. Yyy is a person.)

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:01 pm

5 days

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Barrayar
Piotr is he, Cordelia she.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:19 pm

It's been 7 days, technically.

In any case, correct, and you're up (again)!

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:17 pm

"Try not to start a war single ... mouthed, eh?"

Book?
Who said that?
To whom?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:02 am

Miles(who else?) to Ivan (whom else?)
I'd guess in Cetaganda, but I did not check.

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:37 pm

Good guess, Voralfred

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voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:39 pm

"(...) You realize, XXX, you did this? AAAed the BBB CCC single-handedly?"
"Oh," breathed XXX, "it took both hands."

Book?
Who speks first?
Who is XXX?

Context ?
(AAA is a verb, BBB an adjective, CCC a noun. I'd take as context any three words carrying the same idea even if they are not exactly how they appear in the book so one can answer by memory, plus some context on the role of XXX's hands)

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:27 pm

"(...) You realize, XXX, you did this? AAAed the BBB CCC single-handedly?"
"Oh," breathed XXX, "it took both hands."

Book? The Vor Game.
Who speaks first? Miles.
Who is XXX? Gregor
Context ? Miles is congratulating Gregor on outwitting Cavilo during her attempted kidnapping/suborning of Gregor so she could marry him and become Empress Cavilo, as well as defusing the Cetagandans planned invasion of Vervain

I've allways wondered what Gregor's point of view in that story would have read liked.

James

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:56 am

Correct on all counts.
Your turn!

Incidentally, the verb was "Sabotage" rather than "defuse", but I did say I'd accept any word having the same meaning.

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:25 am

XXX snorted. "In a pig's eye it was. It was some crony of Yyy's down there, with a notion for petty aggravation."

Book?
Who is Xxx?
Who is Xxx speaking to?
Who is Yyy?
What are they discussing?

James

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:51 pm

The thought has just occurred to me that I need a computer desk with a bookshelf big enough to hold all of LMB's books, so that when I need one, I don't have to go far to find it. Since I started playing this game, I tend to have at least one of her books on my desk at any given time.

I have a hunch about the quote, but I want to look it up before I post.

Less embarrassing when I'm wrong...

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:28 am

Grrrr.... seven more hours to wait.........

Edit: just over one hour, now....

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:37 am

Five days finally!

I recognized the quote immediately: I remember my mental image of the old geezer with her/his petty viscous attitude while others are risking their lives.

In "Legacy", when Dag (person spoken to) comes back from an expedition against a particularly vicious Malice, he is told how a camp accountant sent minions to recover his (Dag's) tent.

But I don't have a copy of "Legacy", it is one that I borrowed. So I can't check details.

- I guess YYY is Dag's mother. It could just be his brother Dar, but "crony" fits better with the older one.

- now the speaker... that's harder.
I'd say 49-49 chance between Razi and Utau, recounting an incident that happened in his absence (but both got back before Dag who lingered longer among the "farmers"). I am accounting for a slim possibility of someone else who was actually present at that time, either their common (which is quite uncommon a situation) wife or maybe Aunt Mari's husband Cattagus. But the quote sounds more like a younger, energetic man, a patroller, so I give the latter just 2% probability together.

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:53 pm

Correct! It was Utau and Cumbia (Dag's mother). They were discussing the girls from Stores trying to reclaim Dag and Fawn's tent while everyone was gone to Raintree to fight the latest malice. Congratulations!

James

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:22 pm

"RRR XXX, I commend your initiative. You did the right thing. We are here to accomplish a specific tactical objective, not perpetrate mindless slaughter."

Book?
Who is speaking?
What rank is RRR?
Who is RRR XXX?
Context?