LMB Quote Game

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:28 pm

That should not be too difficult, I think:

"Except for your own clone, of course."
A dangerous turn in the conversation. "My clone did not xxx either.
(...)

Book?
Who speaks first?
Who speaks second?
What verb is xxx? (so you can answer by memory, I'll accept any reasonable
synonym of the exact verb)

Bonus:
The turn in the conversation was indeed dangerous.
What did the first speaker find out about the second one? How?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:51 am

So hard? A longer one, then

"Have any clones ever xxxed?" YYY asked softly.
"No," he answered quickly, automatically.
"Except for your own clone, of course."
A dangerous turn in the conversation. "My clone did not xxx either. He was simply removed by his purchasers."

Book?
Who is YYY (speaks first and third)?
Who speaks second and last?
What verb is xxx? (once past participe, once infinitive; so you can answer by memory, I'll accept any reasonable synonym of the exact verb)

Bonus:
The turn in the conversation was indeed dangerous.
What did YYY find out about the other character? How?

Post by **Ghost** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:22 am

voralfred wrote:So hard? A longer one, then

Voralfred: why don't you give the quote more than 24 hours before you deem the quote "too hard" and start giving out clues of more information.

Five days is the general waiting period before the previous poster can even guess and then in my humble opinion is the time to start expanding the quote. Be a little more patient.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:35 pm

Well, I'm going away for two weks soon. I really hope someone would find it before I leave. Moreover, I could have posted the longer form of the quote from the start, noone would have questioned my wisdom about the length of the quote. Besides it was more than 24 hours. We have a few experts around, risi (well, she has to wait for 5 days, of course), Blackwing, SPetty, maybe also JKCade who said he knew two of the previous answers but logged in too late, as someone else had already answered! I thought the very short quote was enough, there were a series of answers within 12 hours recently (Feb 01: 11 hours, Feb 09: 5 hours, Feb 11: 4 hours and again same day: 1 hour, Feb 12: 9 hours, Feb 13: 9 hours) and I thought this would again be the case. I really do not think the longer quote is ridiculously long. And if this does not suffice, I'll have to make it even easier soon, so the answer is found before sunday morning. I don't want to let people wait for two weeks for confirmation.
I always give a hint before the end of the 5 days, for the following reason: the entire rationale of the waiting period is to avoid the game to turn into a 2-players one. So the hint should help first the players who can answer, while the previous poster still cannot. If I did not have the sunday morning deadline I would have waited 3-4 days rather than about 30 hours (OK, I made a mistake, I mixed up am and pm, I thought it was almost 48 hours, instead of not quite 36), but certainly not 5 full days.

And speaking of humble opinion, my own humble opinion about games is that courtesy to the other players means that one should not make them wait too long, whether for extra hints, for confirmation, or for a new quote. Giving hints too early is not discourteous, just an admission you yourself made the question too hard. After all, the proponent of the original question could have made it easier from the start, so what harm about making it easier at any time?

risi · Post by **risi** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:17 pm

Well, I do know the answer and my five days will be up on Saturday afternoon, so we'll make your Sunday deadline, no problem!

And maybe someone else will get it before then. So nothing to worry about!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:20 am

Great!

still I might decide to give another hint tomorrow, just to make the competition more lively.. (after all the Democrat's nomination campaign is more fun than the Republican's one, especially after Romney gave up) but not before 4 days after my initial quote

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:14 pm

Book? Mirror Dance
Who is YYY (speaks first and third)? Bel Thorne
Who speaks second and last? Miles
What verb is xxx? (once past participe, once infinitive; so you can answer by memory, I'll accept any reasonable synonym of the exact verb) Escape(d)

I'm afraid I don't have time to reread MD right now, so I'll have to leave the bonus for someone else.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:53 pm

I am sorry but I cannot accept this answer.
Although it is mostly right, there is one very severe error, which has a lot to do with the bonus, by the way.
Blackwing, you still have time to correct it before risi has the right to answer. As for the other players, well...

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:34 pm

Mark, not Miles

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Tha's how Bel figured about Mark because Miles never talks about his clone, Mark is his brother

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voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:20 pm

Yes, indeed, it was Mark mascarading as Miles, who let Bel use the word "clone" when Miles always corrected to "brother".

Welcome back, RK! Where have you been that long? We missed you.

Well, this is a bit of a dilemna: Blackwing did give most of the answer...

Let's put is so: RK gets the new question and the bonus, but the sherlock for the original question is split half and half. Blackwing gets 1/2, RK gets one (1/2 for the question, plus the bonus).

Your turn, RK!

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:09 am

Reede Kullervo wrote:Mark, not Miles .

Tha's how Bel figured about Mark because Miles never talks about his clone, Mark is his brother .

D'oh, of course! That's what I get for answering in a hurry!

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:23 pm

Well shoot, I had figured it was in MD, but I zoomed right past Bel and Mark speaking, trying instead to find the reference between Mark and Taura, or thinking it was in Memory, and looking at conversations between Miles and Simon after Miles was fired. That's what I get for getting in a hurry.

Alright, let's see the next one, I can't wait!

James

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:33 pm

Voralfred, that's quite Solomonian

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Blackwing, not first, not last

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Too much work too less fun

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"... Still obsessed with a love affair that was over eighteen years ago. ..."

Book?
Who said that?
To whom?
Who was obsessed?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:41 am

As I wrote on the On/off board, I'm off for two weeks.
I count on you, my good Dendarii, Blackwing, risi, Reede Kullervo, SPetty, to keep the thread alive.
JKCade, I'm happy you joined the fray. I hope you'll be happier about your time of logging in, not always just after the quote was found.
Of course everyone else is welcome to join, too, but we have a rather formidable team at the moment.
Beware of RK who just came back after a long absence, she is redoubtable. She lives in Croatia, but is a night owl. Well, even she has to sleep sometimes!

Havefun till I come back and I hope there are at least 3 or four quotes (or even more) found in these next two weeks!

marcyb · Post by **marcyb** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:02 am

"... Still obsessed with a love affair that was over eighteen years ago. ..."

Book? Shards of Honor
Who said that? Admiral Aral Vorkosigan
To whom? the corpse of Admiral Ges Vorrutyer
Who was obsessed? Vorrutyer, still smatring over the loss of Aral as his lover and hating him therefore

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:30 pm

marcyb wrote:Who was obsessed? Vorrutyer, still smatring over the loss of Aral as his lover and hating him therefore

No, sorry. This answer is only correct. I checked in Shards of Honor and is something simillar, but not this quote

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SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:04 am

"... Still obsessed with a love affair that was over eighteen years ago. ..."

Book? Barrayar
Who said that? Cordelia
To whom? Vordarian, at the Emperor's birthday
Who was obsessed? Vorrutyer, still smarting over the loss of Aral as his lover

Is it permitted for me to guess when someone had it partly right? If not, I'm afraid I spoiled it anyway.

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:05 pm

SPetty wrote: Book? Barrayar
Who said that? Cordelia
To whom? Vordarian, at the Emperor's birthday
Who was obsessed? Vorrutyer, still smarting over the loss of Aral as his lover

Is it permitted for me to guess when someone had it partly right? If not, I'm afraid I spoiled it anyway.

SPetty, Sherlock and next quote are yours

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I believe it is, why not

. Specially when answer is slightly correct

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SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:41 am

"Three cheers for literacy...I feel sick."

What book?
Who said it?
Under what circumstances?

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:05 am

What book? Brothers in Arms
Who said it? Miles
Under what circumstances? Miles had been given fast-penta and it had behaved weirdly with his medicines. Miles started to freely associate words said in his presence. The word "winter" made him act out Richard III. And that's what he said afterwards because at least he didn't reveal any vital information.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:02 pm

You got it! A sherlock for you, and you have the next quote.

Suzette

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:19 pm

"I would return the favor but they hold my heart and breath hostage to their whims."

The book?
Who said this?
To whom?
What is the favor?

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:01 am

Perhaps a longer quote:

"The XX have surely made a mock of me. I would return the favor but they hold my heart and breath hostage to their whims. My children are prisoners of fortune. And fortune is gone mad, in YY."

The book?
Who said this?
To whom?
What is the favor?
Who or what is XX?
Who or what is YY?

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:21 pm

Blackwing wrote: The book?
Who said this?
To whom?
What is the favor?
Who or what is XX?
Who or what is YY?

Curse of Chalion
Ista
Cazaril
Prayer?????????
Gods
Chalion

Sorry, I didn't get the 4th question

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Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:39 am

I should have modifed the questions: the favor refers to the "make mock of" which was revealed in the longer quote. Sorry about that! So, I can accept your answer and give you a Sherlock. Your turn!