*It is inappropriate to try and hog-tie a dragon.
*Driving a motorcycle around a minotaur waving a red flag shouting ?OLE Doggie!? is not funny.
*Offering a vampire a nice, cool glass Iced tea made with holy water, also, not funny.
*Offering a vampire a plate of spaghetti you cooked in holy water... not funny.
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She pulled out the list she?d started when she got here on things that you shouldn?t do in Rhy?din. It was things that Jacks told her after she had already done them in an effort to shame her into not doing them again. It hadn?t worked, but he had stopped taking tea, or food from her home.
The list actually made her giggle because each and every one of the things on there she thought was damn funny. It?d been awhile since she made a new friend in this town, to be fair she rarely tried to make new friends. Few people got her sense of humour, put up with her incessant need for knowledge, her rambling about different computer innovations... she just wasn?t the people-person that was exemplified by her cousins.
Then there was Dr. Daniel Jackson. He was older than she was but it was rare she found someone her age that she felt comfortable around. If she could just manage to keep the crazy geek part of herself to a minimum around him maybe he?d keep talking to her? There was some part of her brain that nagged at her, telling her that she should just chalk it up to having a nice conversation or two and leave off. In a day or two he?d be head-over-heels in love with someone, probably one of her cousins, and wouldn?t want her hanging about asking him questions.
She crumpled up the paper in her hand and tossed it at the wall. ?Stupid. How many times you gonna get your hopes up to get ?em squished like a bug? Might as well be a hound dog trying to get a ticket to the ball as think a man like that?d want to be your friend.?
And yet... Oh, she?d said she was going to wait for him to test her puzzle solving abilities but that word he?d used, StarGate. had struck a memory so deep that the context of it had been lost. Everything she saw stuck in her memory but sometimes when she tried to pull a memory back up it was fragmented, as though the pointers to the bulk of it had been corrupted.
Accessing her computer had yielded her results quickly. It had been a program she?d run into one of her trips into the Void, that nebulous place created by hackers, for hackers, an homage to the Neuromancer, and her home away from home. The language that had been used was like none she?d ever seen before and she?d spent months searching out other texts so that she could figure out what the symbols meant. She was fairly sure she did a good job of it and the riddles, and once translated they were easily solved.
All had been easy to solve except that the last of the three seemed to be missing a word, well maybe Dr. Jackson could shed some light on that too? ?He?s going to run from you faster?n the speed of light, Summer. Why not just open with 'this is not the droid you're looking for' next time you see him.?
With a sigh she went about the painstaking process to recreate the writing so that it was legible. The viking runes and Egyptian hieroglyphs had been easy because she practiced those...more than she ever wrote in English. This was something she?d only read and never written and so it took her a try or two before she was satisfied that he would be able to read it.
Sending the note along to the Inn ℅ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
Dr. Jackson,
First off, I hope the dinner with my family wasn?t too scary, we sure appreciated the company. Second, I know I said I wouldn?t bother you if you didn?t want to do the puzzles, but I would really like to see how you fare with these.
Summer
Written in what Daniel would call the Ancients language, but Summer knew only from the files she?d found in the Void and called ?Atlantean symbology?, naming it after the tag name of the one that spread these puzzles all over the Net.
I'm struck and cut, shaped and cooled, then bound by rings to release what's stored.
I shake the earth with booming thunder, fell forests whole and homes complete! I influence ships, topple kings, sweep down swift yet remain unseen!
Battle-scarred in times of strife. Resistant to...
*Driving a motorcycle around a minotaur waving a red flag shouting ?OLE Doggie!? is not funny.
*Offering a vampire a nice, cool glass Iced tea made with holy water, also, not funny.
*Offering a vampire a plate of spaghetti you cooked in holy water... not funny.
?
She pulled out the list she?d started when she got here on things that you shouldn?t do in Rhy?din. It was things that Jacks told her after she had already done them in an effort to shame her into not doing them again. It hadn?t worked, but he had stopped taking tea, or food from her home.
The list actually made her giggle because each and every one of the things on there she thought was damn funny. It?d been awhile since she made a new friend in this town, to be fair she rarely tried to make new friends. Few people got her sense of humour, put up with her incessant need for knowledge, her rambling about different computer innovations... she just wasn?t the people-person that was exemplified by her cousins.
Then there was Dr. Daniel Jackson. He was older than she was but it was rare she found someone her age that she felt comfortable around. If she could just manage to keep the crazy geek part of herself to a minimum around him maybe he?d keep talking to her? There was some part of her brain that nagged at her, telling her that she should just chalk it up to having a nice conversation or two and leave off. In a day or two he?d be head-over-heels in love with someone, probably one of her cousins, and wouldn?t want her hanging about asking him questions.
She crumpled up the paper in her hand and tossed it at the wall. ?Stupid. How many times you gonna get your hopes up to get ?em squished like a bug? Might as well be a hound dog trying to get a ticket to the ball as think a man like that?d want to be your friend.?
And yet... Oh, she?d said she was going to wait for him to test her puzzle solving abilities but that word he?d used, StarGate. had struck a memory so deep that the context of it had been lost. Everything she saw stuck in her memory but sometimes when she tried to pull a memory back up it was fragmented, as though the pointers to the bulk of it had been corrupted.
Accessing her computer had yielded her results quickly. It had been a program she?d run into one of her trips into the Void, that nebulous place created by hackers, for hackers, an homage to the Neuromancer, and her home away from home. The language that had been used was like none she?d ever seen before and she?d spent months searching out other texts so that she could figure out what the symbols meant. She was fairly sure she did a good job of it and the riddles, and once translated they were easily solved.
All had been easy to solve except that the last of the three seemed to be missing a word, well maybe Dr. Jackson could shed some light on that too? ?He?s going to run from you faster?n the speed of light, Summer. Why not just open with 'this is not the droid you're looking for' next time you see him.?
With a sigh she went about the painstaking process to recreate the writing so that it was legible. The viking runes and Egyptian hieroglyphs had been easy because she practiced those...more than she ever wrote in English. This was something she?d only read and never written and so it took her a try or two before she was satisfied that he would be able to read it.
Sending the note along to the Inn ℅ Dr. Daniel Jackson.
Dr. Jackson,
First off, I hope the dinner with my family wasn?t too scary, we sure appreciated the company. Second, I know I said I wouldn?t bother you if you didn?t want to do the puzzles, but I would really like to see how you fare with these.
Summer
Written in what Daniel would call the Ancients language, but Summer knew only from the files she?d found in the Void and called ?Atlantean symbology?, naming it after the tag name of the one that spread these puzzles all over the Net.
I'm struck and cut, shaped and cooled, then bound by rings to release what's stored.
I shake the earth with booming thunder, fell forests whole and homes complete! I influence ships, topple kings, sweep down swift yet remain unseen!
Battle-scarred in times of strife. Resistant to...