LMB Quote Game

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:31 pm

voralfred wrote:RK, it is cold now, you can answer if you know.

I'm waiting for this

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Shards of Honor, Aral, Bothari, Cordelia

Because she's born on Barrayar

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It was really hard. In LMB's books women don't cry

. I was thinking about Paladin but couldn't find. I don't know why but I placed this in Barrayar so was again looking for

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voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:50 am

Book?

Reede Kullervo wrote:
Shards of Honor

Correct
And indeed, when looking for hte passage to ask the question, I also first looked in Barrayar and only after not finding it decided to look in Shards

"she"?

Reede Kullervo wrote:
Aral

No, that was Elena Bothari

XXX and YYY?

Reede Kullervo wrote:
Bothari, Cordelia

The answer was Aral and Bothari

ZZZ?
No answer!
The correct answer was Cordelia

But because I am vey generous I will still grant you the Sherlock and the next question, because:

Bonus

Reede Kullervo wrote:
Because she's born on Barrayar

is correct and clearly refers to baby Elena!

So one extra half-point

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:51 pm

O no, next time I will be presise

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"If Iâ€™d strangled her while she slept - which I had a chance to do - none of those horrors would have come to pass."

Book?
Who said that (I)?
Who is she?
To whom is said that?

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:43 am

Finally a quote that I know where to start looking for!

Book: Vor Game
Who said that: Gregor
Who is she: Cavilo
To whom is said that: Miles

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:32 pm

Blackwing, I'm glad

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A Sherlock for you

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Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:17 pm

Their eyes were glassy and reproachful, as X leaned precariously overboard and tried to collect them with the net.

The book?
Who's X?
Who else is in the scene?
Where is this taking place?
What is being described?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:00 am

Book: Memory chapter 20, about 1/3 or 1/4 from the end

X is Miles, and Simon Illyan is present too.
Both are fishing in a boat on the Long Lake at Vorkosigan Surleau.
After some unsuccessful angling Miles decided to use a faster method that would be highly illegal if the whole lake hadn't been his. The glassy reproachful eyes are those of the fish he had just "depth-charge"-d.

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:00 am

Correct! A Sherlock for you!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:47 pm

"I wouldn't ask XXX for the time of day. Nor would he give it to me." YYY1 brooded. "ZZZ would hint obliquely where I might find a chrono. You..." his metaphor extended itself, unbidden, "would give me a clock."
"If I had one, YYY2, I'd give you *****," WWW sighed.

Book?
Who are XXX, YYY, ZZZ, WWW?
Any unambiguous designation of the characters will do, neither YYY1 nor YYY2 as appearing in the quote are needed.

Bonus: Exactly how are XXX, YYY (two occurences with different appelations), ZZZ and WWW called in this particular quote? And fill in the blank: what would WWW give to YYY?
Even the bonus might just barely be answered by memory (if you have and eidetic chip in your brain, of course)

risi · Post by **risi** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:27 pm

voralfred wrote:
"I wouldn't ask XXX for the time of day. Nor would he give it to me." YYY1 brooded. "ZZZ would hint obliquely where I might find a chrono. You..." his metaphor extended itself, unbidden, "would give me a clock."
"If I had one, YYY2, I'd give you *****," WWW sighed.
Book?
Who are XXX, YYY, ZZZ, WWW?
Any unambiguous designation of the characters will do, neither YYY1 nor YYY2 as appearing in the quote are needed.

Bonus: Exactly how are XXX, YYY (two occurences with different appelations), ZZZ and WWW called in this particular quote? And fill in the blank: what would WWW give to YYY?
Even the bonus might just barely be answered by memory (if you have and eidetic chip in your brain, of course)

XXX is Simon Illyan
YYY1 is Mark
ZZZ is Gregor
YYY2 is son
WWW is Cordelia

Book is Mirror Dance as Mark starts talking about wanting to go back to Jackson's Whole (pg 339 in my edition).

Bonus: Cordelia would give Mark a clock factory, if she had one.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:39 pm

risi wrote:
XXX is Simon Illyan
YYY1 is Mark
ZZZ is Gregor
YYY2 is son
WWW is Cordelia

Book is Mirror Dance as Mark starts talking about wanting to go back to Jackson's Whole (pg 339 in my edition).

Bonus: Cordelia would give Mark a clock factory, if she had one.

Ahem...
The answer is certainly correct, so you get the Sherlock and the next question, but as for the bonus.. is there a difference between our editions? One of the five exact names differs in mine, though the character is correct. Could you recheck? I keep the bonus back for a while.

risi · Post by **risi** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:15 pm

voralfred wrote:Ahem...
The answer is certainly correct, so you get the Sherlock and the next question, but as for the bonus.. is there a difference between our editions? One of the five exact names differs in mine, though the character is correct. Could you recheck? I keep the bonus back for a while.

You're right.. the exact text uses her title instead of her name, so it's Countess not Cordelia.

risi · Post by **risi** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:20 pm

He dared not say more until he'd decanted XXX in private. There were security angles, political angles, personal angles--how many angles could dance on the head of a pin?

Who is he?
Who is XXX?
What book?

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:48 pm

Miles
Bel
Diplomatic Immunity

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risi · Post by **risi** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:16 am

Correct! A Sherlock for you, and the next quote.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:15 am

risi wrote:
You're right.. the exact text uses her title instead of her name, so it's Countess not Cordelia.

Yes, you get the bonus, too!

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:45 am

"He can sell her contract," said Xxx, mustering a glassy tolerance. "Which is what we are discussing. A private discussion."

Who is he?
Who is she (her contrack)?
Who is Xxx?
Who interrupted private discussion?
Which book?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:55 am

He is Baron Fell
She is Nicol (a Quaddie)
Xxx is Baron Ryoval
Bel THorne is interrupting in Labyrinth.

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:00 pm

A Sherlock for you

.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:30 am

"And this was your friend?" XXX raised XXX's eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you."

Book?
Who is XXX? (XXX's really means "his", "her" or "its", of course)
Who is "you"?
Who is "your friend"?

Post by **clong** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:17 pm

Shards of Honor
Cordelia
Aral
Gottyan

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:13 pm

Correct on all counts!
Shaerlock and next questio nto you.
Sorry for the delay, my access is not as good as usual!

Post by **clong** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:21 pm

Here's the next quote:

"Don't be afraid," XXX said. "The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.'

Speaker and story?

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:20 pm

clong wrote:Here's the next quote:

"Don't be afraid," XXX said. "The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face that, I find.'
Speaker and story?

Tersa Boni
Shards of Honor, last chapter Aftermaths

Post by **clong** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:27 pm

You are correct, RK. You get the Sherlock, and can post the next quote.