A very productive morning, in which I’ve learned things about Andressat I didn’t know before (can the proud,\u00a0 stuffy little man really be so sneaky?\u00a0 Well…there’s a reason Andressat is still independent after all these centuries) and also had the crisis\/climax of Arvid’s situation with the rockfolk.\u00a0\u00a0 It gets rather Poe-ish.\u00a0\u00a0 And Simyits, god of chance and luck, is perhaps not the god you want to call on, when what you need is real help, right here, right now.\u00a0 The two-faced trickster has a very unhelpful sense of humor.<\/p>\n
About 2300 words so far today, which pushes me well over 123,000.\u00a0\u00a0 Since I want to know what the kteknik will do next, I intend to push on a bit, sore hands or no.<\/p>\n
LATE ADDENDUM:\u00a0 busy day at the computer, even with nap: the total count is now 125,368.\u00a0 Couldn’t stop until I found out if Arvid made it out alive or not.<\/p>\n
SECOND LATE ADDENDUM:\u00a0\u00a0 Kteknik<\/em> gnomes are more law-abiding than most humans, even thought they’re criminals to other gnomes.\u00a0\u00a0 They usually try to abide by gnomish law (there are insane gnomes who don’t, but most.) \u00a0\u00a0 Gnomish rules on responsibility are as rigid as the rest of the Law. \u00a0\u00a0 The National Rifle Association (which has often found creative ways to excuse hunters who kill non-hunters in their own yards) would have conniptions at the level of responsibility gnomes apply.\u00a0\u00a0 If someone is injured with your weapon, it is at least partly your responsibility–least, if it was stolen (but still some, because you should have prevented its theft) , more if it was borrowed with permission but you thought for a harmless purpose, and still more if it was borrowed with your permission and you knew was likely to be used to injure a particular person, and most (at two levels) if you were using it yourself.\u00a0\u00a0 Illegal intent to injure is the more serious, but carelessness (the gnomes have no other explanation for what we call accidents) is still a serious crime.<\/p>\n So if you’re a gnome and you’ve been drugged unconscious and someone has nearly killed you by withdrawing your power, and that someone injures a third party with your blade…it’s still partly your fault and you have to make amends.\u00a0 Even if you’re a kteknik<\/em> exiled from your own princedom.\u00a0\u00a0 The honor of gnomes, and the survival of the Law, is at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A very productive morning, in which I’ve learned things about Andressat I didn’t know before (can the proud,\u00a0 stuffy little man really be so sneaky?\u00a0 Well…there’s a reason Andressat is still independent after all these centuries) and also had the crisis\/climax of Arvid’s situation with the rockfolk.\u00a0\u00a0 It gets rather Poe-ish.\u00a0\u00a0 And Simyits, god of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[22,34,35,20],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-dwarves","tag-gnomes","tag-progress-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}