Wet Hair in the Basement
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tanarillCold.
I should really shut up about Heres Tanarill and go work on TTW, but the Bahama-bunnies had a part last night (yes, that kind of party) and the only ones active today were the Heres Tanarill crossovers. Things:
1. Why Heres Tanarill loves timekeepers and worldwatchers: worlds with one or the other or both tend not to need Walkers. This is a good thing, as it means less work for our poor overworked maintainers-of-the-space-time-continuum.
2. Why Heres Tanarill hates timekeepers and worldwatchers: by the time they call in help from Walkers, or worse, are presented with a Walker as an ultimatum, everything is down the tubes anyway. Generally, they can't fix things at that point without performing a Great Unbinding. See yesterday for why Great Unbindings are bad. Also, timekeepers and worldwatchers are arrogant beyond belief, and so is Heres Tanarill. A peaceful partnership this does not make.
3. Why timekeepers dislike Walkers: see point 2 above. Also, they really hate it when Walkers Unravel time, because then they have to fix all the problems that come with doing something like that. Since Heres Tanarill is generally dead for about a decade after doing it, she's never any help at all.
4. Why worldwatchers dislike Walkers: they're like Auditors. They dislike everyone.
That said, CW is not average, even among timekeepers. For one, he thinks preventative action is far better than waiting until it's too late and then running around trying to fix things. For another, he's good; he doesn't attempt to fix things himself if he can get someone better for the job to do it [points at FS and Dan] for example. And to Heres Tanarill, who has never encountered a timekeeper like him, it's a refreshing if completely infuriating change.
Title: Bahama-bunnies, STFU
Fandom: Kinda Butch Hartman's DP, but once again this is mostly AS!RP based
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild swearing
“All right, timekeeper. Spill.”
Clockwork raised an eyebrow. “Spill?”
“Don’t insult my intelligence. I’ve been over every unbinding and rewinding I can find, twice, and they are as neatly tied off and woven in as you damn well please. There’s only about the half the usual number, too, so I’m assuming that you patched up the easy ones so well that I can’t find them; in a decade these are going to be hidden too. I contacted the Three, and they had no complaints with you. I checked the standing magic fields all the ways I know how. You’ve got humans who know what they’re doing patching the weak places and humans who have no idea what they’re doing reinforcing the strong. You have half a dozen people running around outside of their correct time, but you’ve balanced them against each other so finely it’s like watching a gyroscope on a knife edge.”
“So?”
“So, I want to know why I was sent.” She was angry–it was coming off of her in waves–but she was angry with a purpose. Heres Tanarill got angry like a scalpel.
“You know why you were sent,” said Clockwork calmly. “You were needed.”
“Don’t,” she said. “I know your type. By the time a Walker gets sent to deal with timekept worlds, by the time you’re desperate enough to ask for help, things are always shot to hell already. Except that here, they aren’t.”
“I’m very careful.” That was as close to an explanation as he meant to give, but something about her attitude demanded more. “You are here because there’s going to be a problem. If we handle it carefully, you won’t have to Unravel time. If you screw up–”
“Timekeeper. Please. I’m a Homeward Walker of the Outer Worlds. At least pretend to have some faith.”
As he watched her walk away, he muttered, “Faith’s not the problem. You’re a Walker, that’s the problem.”
I want my Bahama-bunnies to come home. Especially my porn rabbit. I wanna write poooooooooooooooooorn.
I should really shut up about Heres Tanarill and go work on TTW, but the Bahama-bunnies had a part last night (yes, that kind of party) and the only ones active today were the Heres Tanarill crossovers. Things:
1. Why Heres Tanarill loves timekeepers and worldwatchers: worlds with one or the other or both tend not to need Walkers. This is a good thing, as it means less work for our poor overworked maintainers-of-the-space-time-continuum.
2. Why Heres Tanarill hates timekeepers and worldwatchers: by the time they call in help from Walkers, or worse, are presented with a Walker as an ultimatum, everything is down the tubes anyway. Generally, they can't fix things at that point without performing a Great Unbinding. See yesterday for why Great Unbindings are bad. Also, timekeepers and worldwatchers are arrogant beyond belief, and so is Heres Tanarill. A peaceful partnership this does not make.
3. Why timekeepers dislike Walkers: see point 2 above. Also, they really hate it when Walkers Unravel time, because then they have to fix all the problems that come with doing something like that. Since Heres Tanarill is generally dead for about a decade after doing it, she's never any help at all.
4. Why worldwatchers dislike Walkers: they're like Auditors. They dislike everyone.
That said, CW is not average, even among timekeepers. For one, he thinks preventative action is far better than waiting until it's too late and then running around trying to fix things. For another, he's good; he doesn't attempt to fix things himself if he can get someone better for the job to do it [points at FS and Dan] for example. And to Heres Tanarill, who has never encountered a timekeeper like him, it's a refreshing if completely infuriating change.
Title: Bahama-bunnies, STFU
Fandom: Kinda Butch Hartman's DP, but once again this is mostly AS!RP based
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild swearing
“All right, timekeeper. Spill.”
Clockwork raised an eyebrow. “Spill?”
“Don’t insult my intelligence. I’ve been over every unbinding and rewinding I can find, twice, and they are as neatly tied off and woven in as you damn well please. There’s only about the half the usual number, too, so I’m assuming that you patched up the easy ones so well that I can’t find them; in a decade these are going to be hidden too. I contacted the Three, and they had no complaints with you. I checked the standing magic fields all the ways I know how. You’ve got humans who know what they’re doing patching the weak places and humans who have no idea what they’re doing reinforcing the strong. You have half a dozen people running around outside of their correct time, but you’ve balanced them against each other so finely it’s like watching a gyroscope on a knife edge.”
“So?”
“So, I want to know why I was sent.” She was angry–it was coming off of her in waves–but she was angry with a purpose. Heres Tanarill got angry like a scalpel.
“You know why you were sent,” said Clockwork calmly. “You were needed.”
“Don’t,” she said. “I know your type. By the time a Walker gets sent to deal with timekept worlds, by the time you’re desperate enough to ask for help, things are always shot to hell already. Except that here, they aren’t.”
“I’m very careful.” That was as close to an explanation as he meant to give, but something about her attitude demanded more. “You are here because there’s going to be a problem. If we handle it carefully, you won’t have to Unravel time. If you screw up–”
“Timekeeper. Please. I’m a Homeward Walker of the Outer Worlds. At least pretend to have some faith.”
As he watched her walk away, he muttered, “Faith’s not the problem. You’re a Walker, that’s the problem.”
I want my Bahama-bunnies to come home. Especially my porn rabbit. I wanna write poooooooooooooooooorn.
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Date: 2007-02-14 05:41 am (UTC)Though now I'm wondering what it is she is going to be preventing?
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Date: 2007-02-14 08:49 am (UTC)P.S. I also hope you find your porn rabbit. XD
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Date: 2007-02-14 10:18 pm (UTC)People, when not in their proper time, tend to screw the timestream over [points to Danny screwing with the ghost distaster in the past] So CW figured out a way to balance two people who are living out of time against each other. They cancel each other out. But it's delicate, and adding more factors required CW to rebalance everything. When Heres says that there are half a dozen people outside of their own time, she's talking worldwide, and even then, it's a tightrope act.
All six people are not far out of their own time, either, no more than a few dozen years.
Someone is about to arrive from several thousand years in the past. To balance this, CW would need to shove forty people a few years out of time and use them in a headachingly complicated equation so that time doesn't implode.
Or, he can just call in a Walker. Because of the way that Walkers distort time, they can act as "grounds," balancing the equation. This is because like the earth accepting any amount of electrons from an electrical circuit because no amount of electrons can equal the huge number the earth contains, no amount of time can equal the huge amount a Walker can balance. It simplifies things for CW, allowing him to use one variable instead of forty or more, and if Heres Tanarill were to go back and look in a decade, she'd barely find a blip where a huge distortion would otherwise be.
I also hope you find your porn rabbit.
She not lost. She's on vacation in the Bahamas. I want her to come back too ;_; And you just keep egging her on! I love you
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:24 am (UTC)Okay so Dan is one. Who are the other five?
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Date: 2007-02-15 12:56 pm (UTC)Dan's kid is one of the other five; the last four are just random people, whom the AS group may or may not meet in their travels. IE, we get to invent them as necessary.
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Date: 2007-02-14 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 10:53 pm (UTC)She'll learn.
And then she'll bounce back bitchier than ever, because she really doesn't like to lose. CW won. Because CW always wins.
Dan's gonna be pointing and laughing at her, too, at least until she throws a brick at him.