LMB Quote Game

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:29 pm

Correct (of course)! You're up Caroline!

(Sorry I didn't check this yesterday. My teenager was hogging the internet all day, and it completely slipped my mind when I got a chance to use the computer.)

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:59 am

Ok, so next one :

Dammit, this was so unprofessional...

By who ? In which book ? About what ?

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:18 am

I think I know where it's from, but I'm not looking till 5 days are up.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:44 pm

The full paragraph :

Dammit, this was so unprofessional... XXX halted, arrested by his own thought.

If no one answer in three more days, I'll tell who is XXX.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:01 pm

Well, it's a hard one. If Suzette does not answer after the 5 days are past, I'll have to wait for the next hint.

Edit:
On second thoughts, a shot in the dark, since I was not able to find the exact passage:

Book =Diplomatic Immunity

XXX= Miles

This = the Ba's general behaviour, but I cannot pinpoint just what element of it was referred to by this thought. It is not when Miles realises it is a kidnapping, this passage I did find and the wording is not the same. Some other realisation?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:50 am

You've got it, VorAlfred, that's it. About fifteen pages before the final realization, which occurs when Miles finish his line of thought, once interrupted by Roic . The moment of the precise quote is very shortly after Ekaterin gave him a sharp reminder that it's his job to rescue the hostages.

So, your turn ^^

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:50 am

Thanks. I'll have to go and find it, to get the story right in my head.

New quote

"So if you truly believe that, why are you standing in my way?"

Book?
Who says this line?
What is "that"?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:48 am

I don't believe this one will stay unanswered for 5 days ^^

Post by **Ghost** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:05 am

voralfred wrote:
"So if you truly believe that, why are you standing in my way?"
Book?
Who says this line?
What is "that"?

A Civil Campaign, Miles, that:

Spoiler: show

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:17 am

voralfred wrote:Well, it's a hard one. If Suzette does not answer after the 5 days are past, I'll have to wait for the next hint.

Edit:
On second thoughts, a shot in the dark, since I was not able to find the exact passage:

Book =Diplomatic Immunity

XXX= Miles

This = the Ba's general behaviour, but I cannot pinpoint just what element of it was referred to by this thought. It is not when Miles realises it is a kidnapping, this passage I did find and the wording is not the same. Some other realisation?

Yep, that's where I thought it was.

I decided to wait until this morning to see if it had been guessed yet. You shoot better in the dark than I do, voralfred!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:36 pm

Ghost wrote:
A Civil Campaign, Miles, that:
Spoiler: show
he killed Etienne Vorsoisson

I was expecting a slightly different answer

Spoiler: show

but it is close enough.

A sherlock, and your turn!

Post by **Ghost** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:11 am

New quote:

"How very ... unexpected. To him as well."

Speaker, him and book.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:23 am

What about a hint?

I looked hard for it, and did not find it. Sounds like Miles, but I tried many likely places with no avail.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:53 am

Actually, to me, it sounded more Cetagandan, possibly referring to Miles, but it could easily be in Chalion somewhere, too. Sounds a little too... restrained to be Miles.

But I haven't gone looking. I prefer to have a direction to head before I start going, and this one didn't indicate a direction to me.

Post by **Ghost** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:17 pm

"How very ... unexpected. To him as well."

voralfred wrote:What about a hint?

Not a Vorkosigan novel.

Ragua · Post by **Ragua** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:43 pm

Is it Ingrey talking about how Ijada bashed Prince What's-His-Face's brains in with his own war hammer?

Post by **Ghost** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:39 pm

Correct (you didn't state the book (Chapter 1 of The Hallow Hunt), but it is obvious you knew after stating speaker and "him"), you're up!

Ragua · Post by **Ragua** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:06 am

Wow! And I was just guessing! Okay, this one has probably already been done, but it's from the only book I have at hand here at work.

There were some kinds of stupid he didn't have to be, and that was definitely one of them.

Who is "he"?
What is the source?
Just what kind of stupid are we talking about, here?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:18 pm

"He" is Miles in _MoM_

In Silvy Vale, young girls were petting Fat Ninny, who seemed to ahve more sex-appeal than even Ivan. Miles wondered whether he should try to "make a play" to one of them and, wisely, decided not to.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:01 am

BTW, VorAlfred, I've found one of your cold half-bonus (re-posted March the 10th ) about panthera :

Your were asking :
Book, and a different animal of the Panthera genus (i.e. different from leopardess) for the same female character (i.e. Elena Bothari), plus some context.

In The Vor Game, Miles goes around the station with Admiral Oser and some staff, parading for Ungari to find him, and this draws Metzov out, who tries his best to kill him. Miles takes refuge under the body of Collins, Thorne's sergeant, who just died taking the nerve disruptor charge intended for Miles. Shortly after, Elena and another female mercenary drag the body of the stunned Metzov to Miles and Oser. Exact quote then is :"They dropped the feet with a thump beside Miles, with the matter-of-fact air of lionesses delivering prey to their cubs."

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:48 am

Exactly!!

In fact it is not a half-bonus anymore, I promoted it to one full (i.e. 1/2 point) bonus, so you'll receive it on the Sherlock thread.

There is still one more half point to win by finding some other female (i.e. not Elena Bothari) character compared to a leopardess (oh, come on, it's eeeeeeeeasy!)

Lest Ragua does not backtrack enough here is my answer to his quote:

"He" is Miles in _MoM_

In Silvy Vale, young girls were petting Fat Ninny, who seemed to ahve more sex-appeal than even Ivan. Miles wondered whether he should try to "make a play" to one of them and, wisely, decided not to.

Ragua · Post by **Ragua** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:56 am

You got it, voralfred! You're up!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:04 am

New quote

A retreating enemy should be offered all the face he can carry off. Just don't let him carry off anything else.

Book?
Speaker?
To whom is this piece of wisdom offered?
Who was the enemy, in that case?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:47 pm

Book : The Vor Game (just re-read, so ^^)
Speaker : Aral Vorkosigan
To : Miles
Enemy : the Cetagandan, in full retreat after the joint fleet of the Hegen Hub Alliance came in to the rescue of the Dendarii

Still for the leopardess : I'd bet on Ijada in the beginning of the Hallowed Hunt, but it's one of the books I don't have just now.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:08 pm

A) For the new quote:
congratulations, that's correct, one full point and the next quote

B) Well, Prince Boleso (or whatever) was interested in Ijada as a Princess of Chalion because of the Leopard being the symbol of Chalion.. but I don't remember her being compared to a leopardess. Maybe I am wrong (I dont have HH either, can anyone check?) Well, yes, I remember there was some kind of different reality, where she was a leopardess and Ingrey a wolf. But that was something very weird, not just a comparison.
What I mean is something very different from that but on the contrary similar to the other examples: a sentence like the two actually comparing, for instance, Elena, once to a leopardess, once to a lioness. It is in Vorkosiverse.

So one point but not one-and a half (I mean, one and a half altogether with your previous answer but not one plus two halves)