LMB Quote Game

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:25 am

Ok, time for a little more :

"[...] I've helped train a world of young XXX about your ages. There's not too much I haven't seen before."

Book, Speaker, and XXX ?

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

"[...] I've helped train a world of young XXX about your ages. There's not too much I haven't seen before."

I'm going to guess:
Passage
Dag
Lakewalkers

I knew it was Dag (the other Dag being Dag Benin from Cetaganda and an off-screen cameo in Diplomatic Immunity), but hadn't found the quote yet. The expansion allows for better guessing.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:42 pm

Very, very near, but not yet good enough

(Wrong book). But you'll get the bonus when I'll give the sherlock (...despite my thinking of yet another Dag : clearly a popular name with LMB

)

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:08 am

Wow, there's ANOTHER Dag?? It's the only name I'd noticed that repeated, but I've only seen it in two places, not three.

now I'm going to have to go off looking for the third Dag...

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:42 pm

As it turns out, I found it: it's in Horizon, where Dag is offering to help Calla (Sage's wife).

The third Dag, however, is still elusive. I'll be keeping an eye out for him now, though.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:14 am

Got it. One point and a half, and I'll let one half point pending for whoever finds the third Dag.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:37 pm

Sorry about the delay. It's a holiday weekend in the US, so I was driving much of the day yesterday to visit relatives.

Anyway, next quote:

"I like her. Rather better than I like you, I might add."

Book?
Speaker?
Who are the other two people referred to ("her" and "you")?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:42 pm

Finally a quote I recognized immediately!
Miles, in _Labyrinth_ talking to Dr. Canaba ("you") about Taura ("her")

As for the third Dag (or, maybe, a fourth one?) here is a long long shot.
Caroline asked about "a mention", not a quote (but is "an allusion" enough? probably not). Anyway here is my attempt:
_Cetaganda_ opens on a quote about "All diplomacy..." which is not the celebrated one by Clausewitz, but its inversion by Zhou Enlai at the 1954 Geneva Conference. Now who would be the ultimate diplomat (besides Zhou himself) but the Secretary General of the UN at that time, namely....
Dag HammarskjÃ¶ld!
OK, OK, it is "tirÃ© par les cheveux" as we say in French (by hte skin of the teeth) but I can always try....

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:55 pm

Correct! You're up!

(Though I'd say you were reaching with your suggestion for the third "Dag," personally.)

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:41 pm

How far-fetched ! That's not it, VorAlfred

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:43 pm

Caroline Tredez wrote:How far-fetched ! That's not it, VorAlfred

Well, I still guessed correctly Suzette's quote so:

"No fighting dirty," he said hurriedly. "I found her first, she's mine."

Book?
Speaker?
Who is "she"?
Who is the "dirty fighter"?

BONUS:
Who else, and in what book, tries to pilfer "her" from the speaker?

nperry · Post by **nperry** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:37 am

voralfred wrote:
"No fighting dirty," he said hurriedly. "I found her first, she's mine."
Book?
Speaker?
Who is "she"?
Who is the "dirty fighter"?

This part I know. It's Miles in Memory. "She" is Ma Kosti, and the dirty fighter was Cordelia.

BONUS:
Who else, and in what book, tries to pilfer "her" from the speaker?

This I'm not so sure of. I'm quite sure it's in A Civil Campaign, but I'm not remembering who it was. I'll take a stab at it and say Aral?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:06 am

For the main question, one full sherlock and the next quote.

For the bonus, book is correct but character is not (or, did I miss the passage?) I had another one in mind. Try again...

Maybe I should be more specific. The pilfering attempt is not actually described, only hinted at by Miles (or, at least, feared by him)

nperry · Post by **nperry** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:49 am

Ivan? Dono Vorrutyer? Alys Vorpatril? Do I still get the bonus if I guess it by naming every Vor character in the book?

Also, should I be posting another quote yet or waiting until the bonus is settled?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:13 am

As for the next quote, it is totally independent of the bonus (this is why the latter is called a bonus). Do post it as soon as you are ready!

As for the bonus.... now that you guessed it is in _CC_ I suppose noone but you is entitled to get it. But what I want now is, where is it? (either the passage I am thinking of, or maybe another one, if such another one do exist), with enough indication for me to go and check it!

So beware other players: don't spoil the bonus for nperry.

nperry · Post by **nperry** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:46 am

Someone might as well spoil the bonus, since I don't own A Civil Campaign, and all I could toss out would be guesses.

Anyway, here's the next quote:

"Do you have any idea what the fellow was doing?" asked XXX.
"Plain enough what he was doing." YYY snorted. "And got what he deserved for it."

For the sherlock on this one: Who are XXX and YYY, what was "the fellow" doing, and what book was this from?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:52 pm

Speaking of bonuses: Caroline's bonus about the fourth Dag (the third one being Dag HammerskÃ¶ld, hinted at by Zou Enlai's quote about "All diplomacy"

) can still bring half-a-sherlock, however late it is answered.

And be warned: I recognized nperry's quote, so by the end of the 5 days of the ping-pong rule....

Since you don't own _CC_ and you did mention Lady Alys... well the bonus is yours. Here is the quote, during the "Vorkosigan butterbug" subplot in the middle of THE dinner party:

Or it will burn up or dry out or something, and Ma Kosti will be very angry with us for spoiling her presentation. And she'll go work for Aunt Alys instead, and we'll all have to go back to eating Reddi-Meals.

SPetty · Post by **SPetty** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:18 pm

I know the quote, too, though it took me a minute to actually place it. Since I've answered a few lately (and just packed up my books

to move them out of the room for new carpet), I'll give someone else the opportunity to answer. After all, you all don't want yet ANOTHER quote from Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem, do you?

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:22 am

Then I won't spoil anything if I answer ^^

I'd say it's a scene from the beginning of The Curse of Chalion, when Caz and another fellow (peasant ?) find the dead merchant who cast a death spell.

XXX is Cazaril, YYY is the other fellow who came back with wood for a fire (funeral pyre), if I remember correctly, and "the fellow" from the quote is the dead merchant.

nperry · Post by **nperry** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:17 pm

Correct. In the quote, YYY is "the farmer", but I'd say that's close enough. Your sherlock will be up momentarily.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:29 pm

So, next one :

This isn't working. I don't know how to do this.

Short to begin with, but I can later expand a little.

Who is "I" and what is "this" in which book ?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:53 pm

A shot in the dark (literally)
In "Legacy", Fawn when trying to destroy the mudmen factory of the malice after Dag was drawn into it.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:32 am

nope.

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:43 am

Caroline Tredez wrote:So, next one :

This isn't working. I don't know how to do this.
Short to begin with, but I can later expand a little.

Who is "I" and what is "this" in which book ?

I is Ista
This is walking away from her mother's place, trying to start a new life.

Caroline Tredez · Post by **Caroline Tredez** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:41 am

Perfect, next quote is yours