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[Sir Kalthorine]

MADE YOU LOOK!!!

Hehe... no, seriously I am very lucky to have such an excellent team working with me, but they are bloody useless in recognising some of my more obscure TV/film quotes (an annoying habit of mine... although Hendryk has on at least one occasion caught me out as well!). In particular, I named one of the threads in the Workroom "Bloody *well* through playing...", and even after a hint that it was from one of Joss Whedon's TV shows no one has managed to guess (or even made an attempt!).

So, the first person who responds here and gets the character and episode correct can request a single short Chrysta banter spoiler from the following list:

Chrysta-Haer'Dalis
Chrysta-Minsc
Chrysta-Jaheira
Chrysta-Jan
Chrysta-Edwin
Chrysta-Viconia
Chrysta-Cernd
Chrysta-Valygar
Chrysta-Korgan

And feel very privileged when you do... I have a (deserved) reputation for being extremely reluctant to release spoiler material. This might be your only chance! I will post the winner's chosen banter on this thread.

So feel free to guess away, giving the following in your reply:

• Name of character who speaks the line "Bloody *well* through playing..."
  
• Which show it comes from, and which episode
  
• Which banter you would like to see as your prize if you are right!

Edited by Sir Kalthorine, 18 April 2005 - 01:58 AM.

[Sir Kalthorine]

I believe it was Spike in the Buffy episode of Crush...
Chrysta-Haer'Dalis

We have a winner!

And your prize:

Haerdalis ~Little hummingbird, you remind me of Lady Regina in a way. She was not a person but a character, the fulcrum of the plot, in the Damnation of Holtis.~
Chrysta ~*I* remind you of a character in a play? It would seem the author couldn't have had much to say about her, then.~
Haerdalis ~It was not so literal as that. But large portions of Lady Regina's past were unknown to her and each discovery regarding it placed the drama upon a new, and murkier, footing.~
Chrysta ~Oh. I wouldn't want to be that important, I don't think. Certainly not in *that* way.~
Haerdalis ~Then let us turn to something lighter. In my former home, I had many an opportunity to regard individuals of... mixed... ancestry. Indeed, it was a minor hobby of mine; useful for passing idle hours without boredom.~
= ~I can say, out of a certain amount of both experience and lore, that I have never met nor heard described a person with exactly your enchanting characteristics.~
Chrysta ~Hmm. That's a little disappointing. I had hoped for a moment that you might be going to tell me *what* I am, if not precisely 'who'.~
Haerdalis ~Oh, I conform to the multiverse itself in disappointing expectation. But my information, though of negative sort, does eliminate quite a large field of speculation. No celestial, cambion nor alu-fiend are you, my hummingbird, and that is not nothing.~
Chrysta ~So, I am what you call a Prime then? That is comforting... a little. Thank you, Haer'Dalis.~

Edited by Sir Kalthorine, 18 April 2005 - 02:56 AM.

[Sir Kalthorine]

Congrats!

Great dialogue by the way, I'm looking forward to the completed mod

Thanks... and credit where credit is due. That banter is one of Hendryk's typically eloquent pieces.

[Deathsangel]

Actually Chrysta is a lot more not, if Haer'Dalis did not see something alike in Sigil.

No celestial, cambion nor alu-fiend, aasimar, tiefling, zenythri, chaond (*OT* this discription could actually be pretty close to Chrysta, but PM me if you need more info on that), bladeling etc. etc. (I could go on quite for a while, but I better stop ranting) are you

[Hendryk]

True, but this is a conversation, not a learned lecture; therefore, a reference or so, rather than the full catalogue, is more appropriate.

[Deathsangel]

True, but this is a conversation, not a learned lecture; therefore, a reference or so, rather than the full catalogue, is more appropriate.

Though I understand that, but wouldn't it be rather appropiate to let him say 'No, humming bird, you are not a like many of strange 'birds' I have seen and that is not nothing.' Or something alike as to show it actually is very important info...

Edited by Deathsangel, 18 April 2005 - 06:19 AM.

[Meira]

Just that you know Sir K: as far as I know HD will call Bons' Syrayah a hummingbird; and not only that but he'll use the same bird for my Amber. I see no particular problem with him using that from Chrysta too, but I though that there is no harm in letting you know.

One day I'll gather a list of NPC and birds that Haer refers to... One day...


HD banter would have been my choice too.

[Hendryk]

Heheh. First, reserve your prefix for variable names. Then the avian species for HD. Ah well.

Considering its habits, I had thought that the cuckoo was actually the best choice for Chrysta but it has a strong and undesirable connotation of frivilous insanity, at least in the US. And nomenclature like Hairy Western Nuthatch doesn't trip too felicitously from the tongue.

Greater Titmouse anyone?

Edited by Hendryk, 18 April 2005 - 07:01 AM.

[Deathsangel]

I let HD use cuckoo for Kido, for being weird and he is somewhat insane

Edited by Deathsangel, 18 April 2005 - 07:06 AM.

[Sir Kalthorine]

Greater Titmouse anyone?

Does anyone fancy a shag*? :^^:

*seabird of the cormorant family

[Andyr]

One day I'll gather a list of NPC and birds that Haer refers to... One day... 

NiGHTMARE posted a list around a year ago... somewhere. I think there is a copy in the UB workroom and one somewhere at G3. I am sure he will PM it you or post again if you ask.

[Sir Kalthorine]

Thanks Andy :thumb: