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<blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4933135" data-attributes="member: 4413"><p>Hacker gives Kathalia an uneasy look, then subtly starts stepping away from her.</p><p></p><p>Hacker winces.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">"*****-a, pardner!"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker pauses in surprise. He pulls up the neck of his cloth and sniffs. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Gawds-***** dumb-***** strumpet-***** meat-*****-headed apprentice wizards can even get a ***** stain out of a gnome's clothes,"</span></span></span> he mutters.</p><p></p><p>Hacker performs a long, loud, braying belly laugh. Slapping his knee with one hand, pointing with the cigarette in the other, the gnome says, <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"I like the cut of your jib, Chinua!"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Absooooolutely!"</span></span></span> says Hacker with cheer. </p><p></p><p>If Hacker had an eyebrow, it would be raised. He looks at Woe, then at Kathalia, then back at Atreus. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"You don't listen very well, son. Here. Let me explaina again in riddle form: What has two ***** thumbs and used to be a god?"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker points both his thumbs at himself.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"This guy right here."</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Helloooooo?! Former god!"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker chuckles and lights yet another cigarette. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"You are the fourth son of Creston D'torian, a wealthy officer in the Jade Kingdom. Your mother was Electra. (Though hopefully not the actual Electra, because then your dad would be your grandfather.) Your mentor was Kalach."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker makes a ghostly sound. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Whoooooooo! Scaaaaaaary!"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Yep. Former god."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"**** yeah!"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Wait."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"What?!"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"You did not just use the possessive article when referring to me."</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Hacker Brass is a marri--"</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>He sighs and throws up his hands. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: darkred">"And she's not listening again."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>He sucks a cigarette down to ash, lighting another from its stub, and rubs his forehead. He leans forward and whispers. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: darkred">"Boys, let me tell you: Kathalia is a sweet little girl (if a little...)"</span></span> He spins a finger around one ear and makes a cuckoo noise. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: darkred">"...but set the boundaries EARLY and OFTEN."</span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker straightens up and faces Atreus. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Now, look, son. I ain't askin' ya to worship me or nothin'. *****, you can't even do that since I got bounced out of the afterlife and that starfish sodomizer, Netari, subsumed my sphere of influence as part of his divine ***** portfolio. (I mean, really, how the ***** do you get from god of the oceans to god of mules? By way of the ***** seahorse?! It's not even a gawds-***** mammal!) But I am going to ask you to man up and demonstrate some appropriate ***** respect. Otherwise, we're gonna have to dispense the obligatory *****-kickin'--and I think your buddy is going to be on MY team!"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"So how 'bout we just set aside all this foolishness and cement our friendship in the time honored tradition of all adventures, by murderin' some hapless evil-doer and ransackin' his belongings?"</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KenHood, post: 4933135, member: 4413"] Hacker gives Kathalia an uneasy look, then subtly starts stepping away from her. Hacker winces. [COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="3"][FONT="Georgia"]"*****-a, pardner!"[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] Hacker pauses in surprise. He pulls up the neck of his cloth and sniffs. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"Gawds-***** dumb-***** strumpet-***** meat-*****-headed apprentice wizards can even get a ***** stain out of a gnome's clothes,"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] he mutters. Hacker performs a long, loud, braying belly laugh. Slapping his knee with one hand, pointing with the cigarette in the other, the gnome says, [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"I like the cut of your jib, Chinua!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"Absooooolutely!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] says Hacker with cheer. If Hacker had an eyebrow, it would be raised. He looks at Woe, then at Kathalia, then back at Atreus. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"You don't listen very well, son. Here. Let me explaina again in riddle form: What has two ***** thumbs and used to be a god?"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Hacker points both his thumbs at himself. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"This guy right here."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"Helloooooo?! Former god!"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Hacker chuckles and lights yet another cigarette. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"You are the fourth son of Creston D'torian, a wealthy officer in the Jade Kingdom. Your mother was Electra. (Though hopefully not the actual Electra, because then your dad would be your grandfather.) Your mentor was Kalach."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Hacker makes a ghostly sound. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"Whoooooooo! Scaaaaaaary!" "Yep. Former god."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"**** yeah!" "Wait." "What?!" "You did not just use the possessive article when referring to me." "Hacker Brass is a marri--"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] He sighs and throws up his hands. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="1"][COLOR="darkred"]"And she's not listening again."[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] He sucks a cigarette down to ash, lighting another from its stub, and rubs his forehead. He leans forward and whispers. [FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="darkred"]"Boys, let me tell you: Kathalia is a sweet little girl (if a little...)"[/COLOR][/FONT] He spins a finger around one ear and makes a cuckoo noise. [FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="darkred"]"...but set the boundaries EARLY and OFTEN."[/COLOR][/FONT] Hacker straightens up and faces Atreus. [FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="darkred"]"Now, look, son. I ain't askin' ya to worship me or nothin'. *****, you can't even do that since I got bounced out of the afterlife and that starfish sodomizer, Netari, subsumed my sphere of influence as part of his divine ***** portfolio. (I mean, really, how the ***** do you get from god of the oceans to god of mules? By way of the ***** seahorse?! It's not even a gawds-***** mammal!) But I am going to ask you to man up and demonstrate some appropriate ***** respect. Otherwise, we're gonna have to dispense the obligatory *****-kickin'--and I think your buddy is going to be on MY team!" "So how 'bout we just set aside all this foolishness and cement our friendship in the time honored tradition of all adventures, by murderin' some hapless evil-doer and ransackin' his belongings?"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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