Nothing com?lex

-- aspirantExegesist
 [AE]
 began pestering plotHooked
 [PH]
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AE: {Arethusa!}

PH: Lamia!

AE: {How pleasing that we greet each other by our first names.}

AE: {Yours suits you so well! It puts me in mind of enthusiasm.}

PH: I am not feeling very enthusiastic today, alas and alack

PH: And woe, unto all the stars

AE: {Oh dear! Why is that?}

PH: >:P

PH: My latest contra?tion is not as ...

PH: Tra??y

PH: ...as it should be.

AE: {I find that extremely difficult to believe.}

PH: A?ct?uall?y, the ?row caused it to sink, and when it sank ... The timing was U?TT?ER?L??Y? of?f!?!

PH: There was nothing com?lex or ... it was a horrible joke, the ?unchline ... Argh.

PH: I don't want to talk about it.

PH: You talk.

AE: {Oh, Arethusa, your typing quirk is becoming inconsistent again! I kept trying to read that as "apctuallpy."}

AE: {Ach, I mean "apctupuallpy." Oof, yours is a demanding quirk!}

PH: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ...

PH: Are you ...

PH: ... volunteering yourself ...

PH: ... As a test sailor for my next contra?tion? >;)

PH: ?retty brave!

AE: {It is very kind of you to say so, Arethusa.}

AE: {But I doubt I would be much of a sailor.}

AE: {Although I do have some small skill with tying knots.}

AE: {So I suppose I might be of ASSISTANCE to a sailor.}

AE: {Perhaps.}

AE: {However...}

AE: {Don't you live atop a waterfall?}

AE: {Wouldn't your contraptions sail to their demise as a matter of -- er -- course?}

PH: ?shhhhhhhhht, no! Of course not! They usually get a bit of a rocky start, admittedly

PH: It's very exciting!

PH: At least eighty ?ercent of the time ...

PH: ... HOURS of labor DEMOLISHED in MOMENTS ...

PH: ... on the icy rocks below!

PH: However, SOME ...

PH: ... shining exem?lary SOME ...

PH: ... make it all the way out to the bay. >:D

AE: {I suppose it is in keeping with your place on the hemospectrum to be taking such an interest in culling even your own contraptions.}

PH: Culling is awfully dull, the way some of the lowbloods do it. >:|

AE: {To what lowblooded methods do you refer?}

AE: {I once saw a rustblooded man lift up a neighbour's hive only to drop it on his head.}

AE: {It was not particularly elegant, but it was a bit exciting to watch.}

AE: {Although at a distance.}

PH: Oh, you know. With their des?erate straightforward contentions! No o??ortunity to savor, just a break in the night, the sudden erru?tion of violence!

PH: The rustblooded man lifting a neighbor's hive only to dro? it on his head?

PH: It's so ?unchy.

AE: {Ah, I see.}

AE: {Rather than roll with punches, you would prefer a delicate and complex sequence of alternating pummelings and, dare I say, DRUBBINGS.}

PH: Yessssssssssssssssssssss.

PH: Although ...

PH: ... I don't know if a mere CULL should really be worthy of DRUBBINGS.

PH: >:P Those are for FUN that is not ...

PH: ... immediately ...

PH: terminal.

AE: {Oh, I only meant drubbings in a metaphorical(1) sense.}

AE: {(1)A word which here means to compare a thing to another without the use of "like" or "as."}

AE: {Comparable to a cypherical sequence of card-punchings spelling out DOOM in arcane code requiring sophisticated alchemizing machinery to be read!}

AE: {But perhaps it was over-elaborate.}

PH: Whoo?s, I can't talk now!

PH: Looks like things ...

PH: ... are about ...

PH: ... to get intense!!?!?!!!

PH: Be back later!