LMB Quote Game

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:24 pm

Correct on all counts

The next question and one and a half Sherlocks!

risi · Post by **risi** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:24 am

XXX listened with open-mouthed delight. YYY, if this works I'm promoting you. . . .

The italics are thoght, not spoken.

Book/story?
Who is XXX?
Who is YYY?

BONUS:

YYY appears/is mentioned in two other stories. What are they?

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:42 pm

risi wrote:
XXX listened with open-mouthed delight. YYY, if this works I'm promoting you. . . .
The italics are thoght, not spoken.

Book/story?
Who is XXX?
Who is YYY?

BONUS:

YYY appears/is mentioned in two other stories. What are they?

Labyrinth
Miles
Murka

Bonus, in Brothers in Arms, when Miles dreamed and in Borders of Infinity (Dagoola IV)

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risi · Post by **risi** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:36 pm

Right on everything! Next quote is yours.

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:26 pm

Thanks, risi

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"Well, I'll be your bodyguard any time, lover. Just give me the sign."

Book?
Who's speaking (I)?
To whom (lover)?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:39 pm

Trick question, eh?

Book: Mirror Dance

I= Taura
to whom: not Miles, but Mark (masquarading for Miles, of course

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Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:23 pm

Not enough tricky for you

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Sherlock and next question

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voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:48 pm

(...) is a false destiny, and do you know how I know? xxx takes everything, but xxx doesn't give anything back."
"Real destiny takes everything...and gives it back doubled."

Book?
Speaker?
Whom is this told to?

xxx is a pronoun, but not part of the main question

Bonus:
Explain the "false destiny", and this includes expliciting "xxx"

marcyb · Post by **marcyb** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:56 am

I have been sure, that, little of miles that I have read so far, I knew this. But after skimming the spots where I thought I might find it this is now just a shot in the dark:
Book: Shards of Honor
Speaker: Cordelia
speaks to: Aral
talking about fleeing duty for some twosome Utopia.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:16 am

Sorry

, but your shot in the dark has missed!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:47 pm

So hard? A longer quote, then:

"Destiny! What do you know about destiny?" (...) "I'm a frigging expert on destiny. XXX is a false destiny, and do you know how I know? xxx takes everything, but xxx doesn't give anything back. Real destiny takes everything- the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure- and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand fold!"

Book?
Speaker?
Whom is this told to?

xxx is a pronoun, but not part of the main question
XXX is a phrase; both xxx stand for XXX.

Bonus:
Explain the "false destiny".
XXX is still not needed for the main question, only for the bonus, part of explaining "false destiny".

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:02 pm

Mirror Dance.
Miles
Lilly Junior

Bonus:
Lotus, baronne Bharaputra made clone from herself, named her Lilly. False destiny is what was Lotus promising Lilly, to unite. Lotus' brain, Lilly's body.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:11 pm

Correct on all counts.
Next questio nand 1 and a half sherlocks

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:27 pm

"You know itâ€™s a bad dream when waking up here is an improvement."

Book?
Who said that?
To whom?
What place is here?

risi · Post by **risi** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:35 pm

"You know itâ€™s a bad dream when waking up here is an improvement."

Book? Brothers in Arms
Who said that? Miles
To whom? Duv Galeni
What place is here? the cell where they were being held by Galen

Reede Kullervo · Post by **Reede Kullervo** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:56 pm

A Sherlock and next quote

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risi · Post by **risi** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:39 pm

"If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?"

Book?
Speaker?
To whom?

PS -- Hope everyone had a nice holiday!

risi · Post by **risi** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:47 am

Ok, a longer quote:

. . . If you can't win, change the game."

XXX twitched a brow upward. "If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?"

Book?
1st speaker?
XXX/2nd speaker?

I had thought this would be an easy one! Or is everyone still too busy?

risi · Post by **risi** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:30 pm

Ok, a MUCH longer quote:

"The point is, you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as far as I can tell."

"I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, XXX. No one's just going to hand it to you." Well . . . no one was going to just hand it to YYY. Things fell out of the sky onto XXX, and had done so all his charmed life. "If you can't win, change the game."

XXX twitched a brow upward. "If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?"

YYY hesitated. "Out of the mouths of . . . XXXs. I'll . . . have to think about that one."

"Don't strain yourself, little ZZZ."

Book?
Who is XXX (speaks 1st, 3rd and 5th)?
Who is YYY (speaks 2nd and 4th)?
What is ZZZ?

XXX and YYY are proper names, not pronouns. ZZZ is neither. The ellipses are part of the text.

C'mon gang!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:18 pm

XXX=Ivan
YYY=Miles
ZZZ=genius

in Memory, chapter 6

Since I have a very irregular access I put the new quote at once, just for htis one time

XXX snapped his fingers and said "Tabs", out loud , cryptically. "Next stop YYY"

Book?
Who is XXX?
What (or where) is YYY?
For whom are the tabs?
What color are they?

Possible bonus:
Since then, ZZZ was promoted.
At this point of the writing of the Saga, what color are his tabs?
I do not know the answer, so you have to give the book and chapter for me to check, but if you do convince me yo ugot the right answer, you get one half point bonus. However, maybe onlt LMB knows the anwser. By the way, Dear Lois, you are allowed to answer, too!

risi · Post by **risi** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:34 pm

voralfred, your answer is correct, of course - I'll update your Sherlock and you've already posted the next quote.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:34 pm

XXX snapped his fingers and said "Tabs", out loud , cryptically. "Next stop YYY"

Book?
Who is XXX?
What (or where) is YYY?
For whom (ZZZ) are the tabs?
What color (AAA) are they? What rank do they indicate?

Instead of a longer "local" quote, I'm quoting the same book, but a bit further down

ZZZ fingered the AAA rectangles. "Were they yours, sir?"

"Once. I hope they don't bring you my luck, which was always vile, but--wear them in good health."

ZZZ gave him a nod, and a smile. He clearly found XXX's gesture profoundly meaningful, exceeding his capacity for words. But the two men understood each other perfectly well without them. "Don't think I want new ones, sir. People would just think I'd been BBB yesterday."

BBB is a different rank. Which one? What color were ZZZ's tabs till then?

Possible bonus:
Since then, ZZZ was promoted.
At this point of the writing of the Saga, what color are his tabs?
I do not know the answer, so you have to give the book and chapter for me to check, but if you do convince me yo ugot the right answer, you get one half point bonus. However, maybe onlt LMB knows the anwser. By the way, Dear Lois, you are allowed to answer, too!

Oops! I edited my first quote insteand of posing a new one. I'll try to put it bck as it was.
I am back, so now woever answers can expect a swift confirmation of the correctness of the answer

risi · Post by **risi** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:34 pm

Shards of Honor
XXX is Aral Vorkosigan
YYY is Vorkosigan House (in Vorbarr Sultana)
ZZZ is Koudelka
AAA is red, for Lieutenant
BBB is Ensign, and ensign's tabs are blue

But I have no idea about the bonus. I think Koudelka is a Commodore, but what color his tabs are ... I don't know.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:23 am

So one sherlock and the next question.

In _Vor Game_ the ensign's tabs are just called "blue", but they are "pale blue" for instance in _MoM_ which makes sense since captain's tabs are also blue (see the context of your previous quote in _Memory_
However, I don't remember the color of commodore's tabs being mentioned. Admiral's tab's are yellow, but though commodore is a flag rank it is not the same as admiral and their tabs" color should be different, but I don't remember seing it anywhere.

risi · Post by **risi** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:02 pm

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Book?
Who is speaking?
Who is being spoken to?