All the world’s a stage.
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Brita, pencil behind one ear, wants to know how long this Masquerade can go on. Her notebook is almost full of quotes…
High strung
“Sir?” she murmurs, ever so quietly. “I’m strung and loaded in five
seconds. Should you need it.”
From: “Leslie”
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:48:07 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Robin / Julian]: After the Waltz
Dancing with fire…
“Ambassador,” [Jovian] whispers, remarkably without tension. “It appears that something is afoot. If it is an ally of yours about to act, I pray you consider Gateway’s interests and sever the alliance right here and now.” From his fair approximation of a warm, playful, good-trouble tone of voice, actually, it *could* be an indecent proposition.
[So sue me. He’s still a bronze rider dancing with Nicole Kidman. ;-P]
From: “Mark Eric Stein”
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:23:12 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jovian/Harper] Masq Hr 3: Representing the Waltz
If they give us sippee cups, they deserve the canes…
Paige: “[Martin] is, a Prince of Amber. He might belong to the younger generation physically, but where it counts, he’s an elder, a Prince.”
He smiles. “Hmm. I used to be one of those. They’re not all they’re
cracked up to be. Heh. ‘Elder’? Is that what you all call us? That’s great. I’ll have to pass out canes and walkers at the next family meal.”
From: House of Cards-GM
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:46:54 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Paige/Random] Unnatural rhythms - Late Hr 2
Ironic, isn’t it? We organized the Masquerade…
He looks at the vast sea of costumes, masks, and hidden identities.
“Our recognition phrase,” he says, “is ‘bitter irony.’ This is so not
good.”
From: John Novak
Date: Sat, 31 May 103 21:34:57 +1900 (CDT)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Cambina/Martin/Folly] Hr3: After the Moonlight Waltz
Robin’s flirting..er, flitting…around
“Oh!” hip-bump to L’tarn again, “Would you tell Maranth that he’s
mighty Mighty, too, bronze-boy?
From: “Leslie”
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:16:53 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Robin / Dragonriders]: Just after the Pavane - Outside the snack room
Jerod, in character for a Rebman
“I merely wish to…watch the fish run for cover.” Jerod says with a smile.
From: “Blake Moorcroft”
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 00:12:43 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod/Bend] Rascally Rebmans
Drama class
“Worried for me?” Jerod asks with an amused look. “Why
Paige, I never would have guessed. Perhaps I have not been suitably arrogant enough. I must endeavor to rectify that.”
The compressed green smile broadens for him. “No thank-you. I like things just as they are. You keep the arrogance subdued and I’ll keep the drama to a minimum.”
From: Blake Moorcroft
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:53:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod/Paige] Hr 3: The Waltz
We’re all just bricks…
No, Jovian is not a brick…
Of *course!* Jovian’s not a brick - he’s an energy-projector. ;)
From: “Mark Eric Stein” and
From: “Leslie”
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:50:00 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Jovian/Cambina] Hr 2: Fireflies by Moonlight
Sarcasm? From Paige?
“Amazing how easily an exquisite night like this can so quickly devolve to politics,” Paige comments.
“Oh, wait, it always was politics, wasn’t it?”
From: Kunkel Kristopher
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:46:08 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod/Paige] Hr 3: The Waltz
the Universe is watching…
The universe hates it when you watch.
From: “Leslie”
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:59:00 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Robin / Reid] After the Pavane - Grande Hall
Quiet Vere waltzes with Battleaxe Vesper
>LOL! Oh, God. The man is pure evil. I love it!
>
Vere is the living embodiment of why you must always look out for the quiet ones. :)
From: “Rich DiTullio”
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 15:31:00 -0400
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [Gerard / Vere] Masq Hr 3: Representing the Waltz
Sippee cups???
[Robin] Followed by an explosion of gin and glass shards as the frail vessel in her right hand finds itself unable to cope with the ranger’s clenching fist.
Random’s gonna make us youngers use the sippee cups if you guys don’t stop doing that…
From: Kris Kunkel
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:11:57 -0400
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Easy on the stemware…
Amber Standup Comedy Club
>Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week. You’re a great audience.
>Remember to tip your waiter or waitress.
>
>James
>
Don’t tip them too far or they’ll fall over. Try the veal!
From: “Rich DiTullio”
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:20:32 -0400
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [Gerard / Vere] Masq Hr 3: Representing the Waltz
Describing Paige
“She’s frisky.” A wink to L’tarn.
“She’s been in Amber for *ever* and knows everyone.” A smile to
V’laren, though Robin has to fight back the ‘in the Biblical sense’
addition.
“She’s got business interests in the city, and sat on the Regent’s council for trade and legal issues. Or something like that.”
From: “Leslie”
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 20:29:26 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Robin / Dragonriders]: Just after the Pavane - Outside the snack room
The importance of being Earnest
He has switched his mind completely over to courtier mode, something that few in Amber have ever seen him do, and he radiates earnest harmlessness and good nature.
From: J&C Myers
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:12:25 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Vere/Lady Vesper] Masq Hr 3: Representing the Waltz
How will you like me to react
How would you like me to react when your verb tense slips like that?”
From: John Novak
Date: Wed, 28 May 103 23:54:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Cambina] Hr3: Moonlight Waltz
Did you lose the e-mail?
Usually, I have no idea what I’ve said. What did I say?”
From: House of Cards-GM
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:37:33 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Cambina] Hr3: Moonlight Waltz
And no gray matter in between…[not Jerod!]
And [Jerod] has his Court face on.
Yeah, his Court face is always black on one side, white on the other, with a wavy line of division. Explains a lot about how Court has gone lately, doesn’t it? ;-D
From: “Mark Eric Stein”
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:15:49 -0400
Subject: [hoc-ooc] [Jerod/Paige/Viking] Hr 3: The Waltz
In the lands of Seuss and Carroll, the Swan and the Otter were walking down the beach…
“Ounce for ounce, and flounce for flounce?” he asks, smiling. “I prefer the galleon to the gallon, and both to the gallows, should it come to that. But I’ll hang tight for this turn,” he’ll give her a little whirl.
Folly laughs with delight at the turns of both body and phrase.
“A man who has need of clever friends could be thus warned that he’s in over his head. But I’ve never been drowning in wit; I prefer just to get my feet wet and maybe splash around a bit.” He smiles one of those smiles best akin to an animal showing its teeth.
“Chalk it up to your strength as a swimmer, Lord Otter,” Folly replies, returning the smile. “Your wit suits you, and I am glad to see you wearing it again.”
From: “Karen D. Alfrey”
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:27:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Marius, Folly] Bird and water weasel
Allies? I don’t need no stinking Allies! [Typical quote from Cosmic Encounter]
>This time, the plan isn’t even going to survive contact with the allies.
HAHAHAhaha! Quote!
Actually, it sounds like the tagline to the movie of Brennan’s life. :)
From: ferwerda
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:15:22 -0700
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Brennan/Cambina/Martin/Folly] Hr3: After the Moonlight Waltz
Violins are playing…
Caine, on his funeral: “I hear the services were touching, if brief and mostly overshadowed. Mind you, there weren’t political reasons to build me a monument like Corwin’s, but one can’t help but feel somewhat under-appreciated, all things considered.”
From: House of Cards-GM
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:17:54 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Aisling/Caine] Cake or Death
How Vere avoids a topic: a 500 page, 8-pt font report or…
“I can tell you a great deal about her, Father, as I can about any of my relatives….”
From: J&C Myers
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:42:04 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Gerard / Vere]: Dance floor - During the Pavane
I so would not want Jerod as my dentist…
Blake wrote:
This might be a Masquerade, but for him it’s just warfare in disguise.
Karen OOC: Dude, this is Jerod. _Brushing his teeth_ is warfare in disguise. ;)
From: “Karen D. Alfrey”
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 00:00:22 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Jerod] Keeping busy…
Rooting out the insidious corruption of the second left bicuspid! He will not be deceived by its apparent whiteness!
From: ferwerda
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:01:37 -0700
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Jerod] Keeping busy…
Only if he doesn’t floss afterwards…*deadpan look*
And thus we note the importance of flossing…:)
From: “Blake Moorcroft”
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 06:06:08 -0400
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Jerod] Keeping busy…
Observant is Reid’s middle name. Not that he has a last name, per se.
From: Chuck Ivy
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:34:58 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Reid /Vere] - A brief word with Harlequin
He is dead, isn’t he?
Aisling looks thoroughly bewildered. “I don’t /think/— I’m pretty sure King Oberon had no part in my creation…” She trails off, looking somewhat appalled.
“You can never be sure now days…” Reid replies amusedly.
From: Chuck Ivy
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 00:31:01 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Aisling/Reid] Meeting of old Cymnites
Enemy – def. Descendant of Oberon
“We have met the enemy and they are us.” Robin
From: “Leslie”
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:01:26 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Conner / Robin] - Hr 2, Post-Pavane
Properly Paranoid – def. Descendant of Oberon
Lilly finds her smile once more. Sometimes it was good to not be the only properly paranoid person in Amber.
From: Tara Kunkel
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:18:58 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Lilly] Sword Dance
Doctor, it hurts when I do this…
John on Benedict: The tersest member of the Family.
*There’s* a Trump Reading I want to see…
“You’re going to die.”
“Alone.”
“Painfully.”
“Then it gets worse.”
“Very straightforward. Any qestions?”
From: John Novak
Date: Sat, 10 May 103 18:02:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Paige/Benedict] Fashionably Late (fwd)
All part of the Family…
Blake wrote:
> And Jerod will need to know whether or not
> to have to arrange an accident for Bend if she decides to do
> something foolish about Folly.
Awww, Jerod is *so sweet* — in a Mafia hitman kind of way,
granted, but still….
From: “Karen D. Alfrey”
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 22:37:20 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [hoc-ooc] Re: [hoc] [Jerod] Rascals and Rebmans
One Amberite says to another…
“What a peculiar family.”
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:19:22 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Bleys] Tricks and Deviltries
Jack of all trades…
“Do you read the Fortunes, Uncle?”
“I do everything, Niece.”
From: House of Cards-GM
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 16:19:18 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Paige/Benedict] Fashionably Late
She was a good cook…
Jade knew the virtues of insuring that I was well rounded.
From: Tara Kunkel
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:44:43 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
More than paths will cross…
Lilly to Jerod: “I prefer to spar first thing in the morning. Perhaps our paths will cross.”
From: Blake Moorcroft
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 07:34:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
Not the mask I’ld wear…
Still, it was—jarring—to see him in person this evening after
someone wearing his face tried to kill me.”
From: House of Cards GM
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:32:01 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Lilly/Merlin] Masq Hr 1: First Dance
Kings and Queens are useful pawns
Solace offers him a flirtatious grin back. “Just because you’re not a king or queen doesn’t mean you can’t be a useful pawn sometimes.”
From: House of Cards GM
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:31:33 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Conner/Solace] The Masquerade on Time
Meet the ARC – Amateur Redhead Cabal
OOC on an Ossian/Robin/Marius cabal: the thought of those three together. It’d be like the Amateur Redhead Hour — ‘cept no one’s a redhead.
Never judge a book by its cover…
Lilly: “Hmm… never underestimate the readings of a redhead.”
From: Blake Moorcroft
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
history lesson
Robin to Conner: “you would have been holding a … prince of Amber against his will. Trust me. Only badness comes from *that.*”
From: “Leslie”
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:41:16 -0700
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Conner / Robin] - Hr 2, Post-Pavane
It’s all a lie!
Cambina: “Of course for many, the greatest mysteries will always lie inside themselves.”
From: House of Cards-GM
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:19:16 -0500
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Jovian/Cambina] Hr 2: Fireflies by Moonlight
How many box tops did you send in for yours?
“Since it doesn’t look like it’s on anyone else’s To-Do List,
that leaves us.”
‘Us’ in this context is pretty obviously the set of people with ruby
decoder rings.
From: Tara Kunkel
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:25:08 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
Lilly’s in the Mist
I am more [than] a sword wielding buffoon.
From: Tara Kunkel
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:25:08 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
I wouldn’t underestimate her
“Do you believe they will underestimate the Queen? And for that matter do you believe they are the type of men who will underestimate the Queen’s guard?” The latter most definitely is Lilly’s way of referring to herself.
From: Tara Kunkel
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 11:04:03 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Jerod, Lilly] Dancing - Act II, Scene I
Optimistic ambition
“I find ambition is more trouble than it’s worth,” Jovian admits,
“though I do try to maintain a cautious optimism….”
From: “Mark Eric Stein”
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:08:40 -0400
Subject: [hoc] Re: [Brennan/Jovian/Cambina] Hr 2: Fireflies by Moonlight
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