LMB Quote Game

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:30 pm

Please tell me it's not in the "gluing" pages of Borders of Infinity (the "who" would be Miles, and the "this" being Simon's interrogation). Because I can't find my copy. This definitely happens to me too often...

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:24 pm

It's not in the glueing pages of "Border of Infinity" ^^ Nor indeed in any of the short stories thus collected.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:18 pm

Ah ha!! I found it!

I'm not ready for this, not yet, not so soon. What was right ?

Book? The Vor Game
Who? Miles
What is "this"? The decision not to obey an illegal order (regarding Metzov trying to force the techs to go into the fetaine dump, and Miles being ordered to leave or take up a nerve disruptor against the "mutineers")

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:40 pm

Ah! Finally

! Good one, your turn.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:12 pm

Hmm... ran across some good possibilities while I was looking for the last one. How about this one?

Ye gods, what a riot that fabulous rumor could start.

Book?
What rumor?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:15 pm

Well, it is NOT the rumor that some Auditor found a way to solve the widow's shortage in the Imperium, in _CC_. Not in the first chapter, anyway. Not either, when By comes to Ivan early one morning. Not that exact wording.
Still some other place in _CC_, maybe?

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:31 pm

Not A Civil Campaign. Try again.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:19 pm

Not either the rumor that some obscure Merc fleet in the Hegen Hub was the private army of some Vor lordling. Illyan does mention something like this in _Vor Game_, but the wording is not the same there. Not that I expected Illyan to speak that way, but Miles commenting on something Illyan said.

Same rumor, same book, different speaker? (after all, you did not ask the speaker - or possibly thinker)

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:57 pm

I didn't ask a speaker because it is not spoken. I didn't ask a thinker because it's not in italics (though I think it easily could have been).

It's not in The Vor Game, in part because I don't like picking the same book as the previous quoter (though now that I've said that, I'll have to do it at least once, just to stir things up).

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:35 pm

Ye gods, what a riot that fabulous rumor could start.

Book?
What rumor?

Hint: It's not in the Chalion books. Or the Sharing Knife books.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:29 am

SPetty wrote:
Ye gods, what a riot that fabulous rumor could start.
Book?
What rumor?

Hint: It's not in the Chalion books. Or the Sharing Knife books.

Ok, how about: Miles does not appear personally in this book. That narrows it down to about three books, right?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:47 pm

SPetty wrote:
SPetty wrote:(....)

Hint: It's not in the Chalion books. Or the Sharing Knife books.
Ok, how about: Miles does not appear personally in this book. That narrows it down to about three books, right?

Well, technically, down to four. The Spirit Ring is among the allowed books, contrary to _DD_.
But assuming that by excluding the Chalion books and TSK you mean the Vorkosigan Saga, we are down to three, _FF_, _SoH_ and _EoA_, again assuming that the short appearance of Miles at the end of Barrayar counts (plus, the rather prominent role of the replicator), but Elli mentioning Admiral Vorkosigan in _EoA_ does not.

I'm taking a (blind) shot:
_FF_, some semi-nice character (Dr Yei?) wondering what would happen if the Quaddies heard about the fate Brucie-baby was preparing for them? Can't be Leo, he blew the whistle.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:59 pm

Nope, not Falling Free. (And I'd forgotten about Spirit Ring, so it would be 4, not 3, but would once again be 3, as you've eliminated Falling Free).

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:17 pm

Well, since you forgot about Spirit Ring, it is not very likely your quote is from it, is it? So we are really down to two, I guess....

Rumor, rumor....

A rumor in _SoH_ or _EoA_

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:10 pm

FOUND IT! Of course, after all the detective work that voralfred has done, not sure I can actually claim a "find".

Ethan of Athos, the conversation between Ethan and Brother Haas, discussing the failure of Brother Haas', uhm, sample, to actually progress into a viable fetus due to the age of the CJB culture. Oh, the rumor is that ALL the cultures may have been poisoned or "Some damned Outlander vandalism-" was to blame.

And in my rush to beat anyone else to the answer, I've only committed six spelling errors, "most" of which I've corrected!

James

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:20 pm

Got it! Your sherlock and you're up!

(been having trouble with typing errors myself lately, so you weren't going to get any comments about it from me!)

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:53 pm

Are the questions getting tougher or am I just getting old?

"...I have no wish to descend again for adventure's sake."

Book?
Speaker?
Who are they speaking to?

James

P.S. Last month I went to FenCon in Dallas, a very small fiction convention. The guest of honor was LMB! I got in line to get an autograph and noticed a guy walking up and down the line, saying "No more than three books to a person please, no more than three books to a person." Apparently, no one at this convention could count! Oh, and guess who didn't think to bring a book? I thought, "So what would Miles do?". I looked around, spotted some advertising paper about the cabaret that night sitting on a table next to a pitcher of ice water. I grabbed one, folded it in half and presented it to Lois when I finally got to her table. She opened it up to see what was inside andwhen she saw the advertisement looked up at me. I panicked and blurted "ForgotmybookinOklahomaCity". Bless her, she smiled and signed it, now it's framed on my wall!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:01 pm

JKCade wrote:Are the questions getting tougher or am I just getting old?

"...I have no wish to descend again for adventure's sake."
Book?
Speaker?
Who are they speaking to?

James

_Brother iin arms_
Ivan, about the London tide dam, speaking to Miles and Mark?
Not sure of your question: only one person is talking, isn't it?
So: "Whom(plural) is he speaking to?" or I am missing something

JKCade wrote: P.S. (...) I thought, "So what would Miles do?". (...). Bless her, she smiled and signed it, now it's framed on my wall!

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:27 pm

Sorry, not correct.
My apologies for the confusion over "they". Only one person is speaking, and only one is listening. I used "they" instead of "he" or "her" to make it a little more difficult.

Okay, a little more:

"...I've been to the bottom of the pit, thank you. I have no wish to descend again for adventure's sake." His tone mocked the very word.

James

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:44 am

The quote expansion puts a different spin on it. It sounds like a memorable quote, but I'm not remembering it.

I have a list of suspects for the quote. I tend to wait the 5 days before I start looking when I did the last quote, just to be sure I'm giving everyone else a sporting chance at it.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:13 am

Got it from the start, but I'm waiting for precisely that reason ^^. I'll post it tomorrow if no one else did.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:17 pm

Terrence C to Ethan Urqhart, end of Ethan of Athos ? After something like "Is Hell an adventure, compared to Paradise ?"

JKCade · Post by **JKCade** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:44 pm

Correct! Congrats! Your up!

James

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:17 am

Alright, next one :

"[...]There's not too much I haven't seen before."

Book, speaker ?

Bonus : find a mention of someone with the same name as "speaker", but not in the same serie ^^.[/quote]

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:10 am

Caroline, your quote is driving me

A little hint, maybe?