033 - Grasshopper

[deadly_ned]

I realize this is sort of coming out of left field. It's so far left that it's left the field and into the parking lot adjacent to said field.

But.


Is there anyone here who could help me build a catapult?


It's for a friend.

Comments

[mightthinkthat]

[AKA: not any place he's likely ever to go.] Oh, well, unfortunately I doubt I have much expertise that you wouldn't. But I wish you luck.

[deadly_ned]

Thank you.

Have you ever built anything before?

[mightthinkthat]

Nothing more complex than a paper aeroplane, I'm afraid.

[deadly_ned]

It's a lot of fun. And work. Mostly work. But a little bit of fun, too. But I like to work with my hands more than my words so I might be biased.

[mightthinkthat]

Different interests enriches us all.

[deadly_ned]

That's very magnanimous to say.

[mightthinkthat]

I suppose so. It does have limits, naturally.

[deadly_ned]

For instance, if your interests involved torturing people.

[mightthinkthat]

I was thinking of murder, but that is also quite true.

[deadly_ned]

Sorry. I have my priorities mixed.

[mightthinkthat]

Understandable, given the Barge.

[deadly_ned]

Or given me. Death isn't so much a, uhm. Barrier.

[mightthinkthat]

Oh? [He's curious.]

[deadly_ned]

When I touch dead things, I bring them back to life.

[mightthinkthat]

That strikes me as unspeakably awkward.

[deadly_ned]

It can be pretty limiting. No eating meat or fish. No wearing anything with fur. Being...extremely careful around piles of dead leaves.

[mightthinkthat]

You'll never eat a bad salad.

[deadly_ned]

That's...true. I never thought of it like that.

Except I can only touch something once. If I touch it again, it goes back to being dead forever.

[mightthinkthat]

I take it that's been proved an issue as well.

[deadly_ned]

More or less. Here on the Barge and back at home. To...varying degrees of awfulness.

[mightthinkthat]

I can imagine.

[deadly_ned]

...I can't remember how we got on this topic of conversation.

[mightthinkthat]

Differing interests, I believe.

[deadly_ned]

Right.

What about you? Any...special talents?

[mightthinkthat]

Nothing compared to most the people here, I'm afraid. I'm quite satisfied with that, however. Doesn't seem particularly worth it.