A moofable feast. ([info]alexandraerin) wrote in [info]ae_stories,
2009-02-17 21:50:00
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Tales of MU Chapter 353: Piercing Questions

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Note: It's readable now. This one has me boggled. All the settings were normal. Unpublishing the story and republishing it seems to have worked, though. Let me know if it's still gone for anybody.
Tags: muniverse, tales of mu, update

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[info]alexandraerin

February 18 2009, 03:52:15 UTC 3 years ago

Typos, please.

[info]pyrtolin

February 18 2009, 05:24:22 UTC 3 years ago

Re: Typos, please.

Not exactly a typo, but it the near repetition here (of something from the last chapter) intentional?

"Excellent," Caron said. "Let's get you decked out... and I'm willing to be flexible, if only because I think those tits need ornamenting. If you want a set of nipple piercings, we'll call that one piece and one spell."

(Previous chapter said:
"I'll be flexible, if only because I think those tits need ornamenting," she said, and she took the paper from me and amended it to read "or 1 set nipple piercings" and "or 1 mass binding spell", then handed it back.)

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[info]alexandraerin

February 18 2009, 03:53:01 UTC 3 years ago

Other Tales Suggestion Box

Tomorrow's Wednesday... Other Tales day. If there's a character you feel's been neglected or someone or something you'd like to read more about, feel free to throw a shout out up here.

[info]narel

February 18 2009, 04:28:23 UTC 3 years ago

Re: Other Tales Suggestion Box

I know you've been putting her in quite a bit recently, but I'd like more of a look at Pala and her family life sometime, as the comments she's made about it are... curious.

Also the mock dragons/dragon handlers.
Or someone in the administration of MU who has to deal with problems students create. Or MU administration in general.

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[info]chahuahuas

February 18 2009, 04:11:50 UTC 3 years ago

story

Story is not quite up... the link to story 353 doesnt quite exist yet... please fix!

[info]jaggywar

February 18 2009, 04:12:03 UTC 3 years ago

I'm not seeing the chapter :(

[info]misslynx

February 18 2009, 04:15:17 UTC 3 years ago

Er... this chapter doesn't appear to exist yet. The above link is broken, and the listing at http://www.talesofmu.com/story/ stops at 352.

[info]zathras_ix

February 18 2009, 04:22:15 UTC 3 years ago

I thought that Chapter
353 was up but
I was mistaken

[info]katthevamp

February 18 2009, 04:56:33 UTC 3 years ago

Still no story?

[info]alexandraerin

February 18 2009, 04:58:11 UTC 3 years ago

Can you not get to it? It should be up, the link works for me.

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[info]chahuahuas

February 18 2009, 05:11:57 UTC 3 years ago

yay!

storytime! its up.

[info]cursor_mortis

February 18 2009, 05:33:31 UTC 3 years ago

"'Baby, that’s one reason why we should have talked about it,' Amaranth said. 'Don’t think I don’t appreciate what you did, but don’t think you’re going to get off easily for that stunt.'"
This pissed me off so frakking much. Command her, you stupid nymph! Run roughshod over her now! Don't do it only when it's convenient for you, do it when it's actually good for Mack.

[info]katthevamp

February 18 2009, 05:49:46 UTC 3 years ago

"I encouraged it, but now you're in trouble for it"

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[info]zathras_ix

February 18 2009, 05:47:51 UTC 3 years ago

Mackenzie now has
Something she can discuss with
Feejee besides food

Amaranth now has
At least parts of Mackenzie
Under lock and key

Nipple piercing gives
A new meaning to the words
"Loving tenderness"

[info]hnmic

February 18 2009, 15:56:02 UTC 3 years ago

I think this is my favorite Haiku yet. beautiful.

[info]misslynx

February 18 2009, 05:49:25 UTC 3 years ago

I hate to mention this after the initial broken link problem, but the "Discuss this story" link in the story has no URL in it.

I shall balance that with saying that I forgot to mention in the comments on last chapter how very much I loved this particular exchange:
“I thought you were Steff’s friend,” I said.

“Funny, I thought you were,” she said. “You know her. Why would you think that’s a recommendation of character?”
Truer words were never spoken. Well, except perhaps occasionally by Dee and/or Two...

[info]brenda_ea

February 18 2009, 06:39:33 UTC 3 years ago

So does anyone think she's going to remember about that staff before she gets out to the field tomorrow? (Tomorrow in the story, whenever that turns out to be.)


I was REALLY glad Caron's girlfriend intervened when she did. It was creepy enough already.

And yeah, Amaranth is even more hypocritical than usual here.

[info]janewilliams20

February 18 2009, 07:51:30 UTC 3 years ago

Remember? Staff?

“Is there anything else you need while we’re here?”

“I can’t think of a thing,” I said, and we headed back for the coaches.

No, completely forgotten it. Not even "yes, a staff, but I'm not wasting money on one".

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[info]andy9306

February 18 2009, 14:32:49 UTC 3 years ago

Oddly enough, the question I am most looking forward to hopefully being answered is whether the binding spell makes her piercings magical with regards to her invulnerability.

It seems to me that they are more "under an enchantment" than "enchanted". They are affected by a spell that is cast around them, with them as the focus, but the magic is not imbued into the piercings themselves. Of course, the nature of the enchantment could make it difficult to discern whether any resistance to forceful removal is due to her invulnerability or the enchantment itself. So really, I don't know.

The only other real reference points are Jamie's top-of-the-line piercings which are crammed full of protective and security features. Which I don't find particularly useful because they are quite a bit more sophisticated and designed with the possibility of theft expressly in mind. As well as the ramifications of possible different results of different approaches to the ways that the spells could work.

The one here is just a binding spell. A relatively weak binding spell, like Mackenzie said, but it is still magic. The assumption I am going to go with is that mundane force can not separate her from the piercings, or rather, them from her. Hopefully the situation does not come up that my theory is tested. Though, the next time Mackenzie "plays" with one of the mermaids will probably serve.

[info]melech_ha_olam

February 18 2009, 15:22:57 UTC 3 years ago

Infection?

Caron mentioned infection. I don't recall if the word has been used before in a non-Scientific context. Is this one of those "Dwarves know a little Science" things or is the term just used more generally for infectious humors or ethers or whatever?

[info]stormcaller3801

February 18 2009, 15:57:16 UTC 3 years ago

Re: Infection?

Given that there's also 'cure disease' and the possibility of picking up diseases from sex, I think that an infection is much the same thing. Only it isn't quite the same to the degree of bacteria and virii and so forth. Instead it's disease as you see it in fantasy roleplaying games: they're akin to curses or negative enchantments that can spontaneously show up in a given situation.

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[info]faile486

February 19 2009, 08:30:41 UTC 3 years ago

Mackenzie's Piercings

Have you ever seen jewelry that actually looked like what you described? If so, do you know where it could be purchased?

[info]alexandraerin

February 19 2009, 18:03:09 UTC 3 years ago

Re: Mackenzie's Piercings

I'm afraid not. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if somebody has used a small padlock as a nipple piercing before, but I don't know of any designed as such.

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[info]cartesiandaemon

February 20 2009, 16:48:20 UTC 3 years ago

Oh dear. I so wish they could have arranged to receive the Jewellery AFTER making payment.

[info]barrendur

February 20 2009, 20:31:42 UTC 3 years ago

Thursday's update?

AE, what happened to Thursday's ToMU update? According to your edited schedule, there was supposed to be one.

[info]alexandraerin

February 20 2009, 21:03:41 UTC 3 years ago

Re: Thursday's update?

Oooooh, sorry, I thought I blogged about that yesterday but I guess I only planned on it. I'm still trying to fix the "It's posted!"/"No it's not!" thing that you may have noticed on the last two updates... both times that happened, it almost ground my server to a halt with people refreshing.

[info]barrendur

February 20 2009, 23:10:40 UTC 3 years ago

Friday's update?

AE:

So do these technical difficulties mean there will not be a ToMU update for Friday, either?
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