Today (well, Sunday)

[shadowravyn]

was simultaneously incredibly awesome and heart-wrenchingly sad. The sadness is not mine to discuss, so I won't, but I do wish to give a shout-out to doompuppy for being great, and evan712, lucasthegray, and docsmiley for holding down the fort (and cleaning it up) after we left.

Tis No Deceit (To Deceive a Deceiver) was a ton of fun. I was a pretty, pretty princess (and NOT a whore,

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[juldea]

Jimmy = electric_d_monk
Disembodied Voice = lediva

Oh princess! You've swooned! Do you need to go to your stateroom right now?

[nyren]

She apologized to me for that later, and I was like "Uhh, yeah, I rather noticed why you were doing it." And she was insisting that she swooned just like the women in her romance novels. I didn't disagree :P

[juldea]

That scene was fantastic because I really didn't know you were right there! I was so nervous about rewriting my song to fit a new situation that I didn't look around to see who was there, and boy would I not have done that with Cuthbert right there!

[shadowravyn]

The was quite possibly the awesomest thing that was ever very awesome.

[juldea]

I wish rigel and her camera had been around, because I'm sure the look on my face would make a fantastic user icon.

[nyren]

I said your name several times, too, trying to get your attention, but stopped when the singing started.

[juldea]

I completely missed it. :D Not too used to answering to, "Mimi!" after all!

[nyren]

Silly land pirates, stealing my fiancee :( But, you know, even though I loved you, I didn't really do things out of love. I was dry, patient, and boring. And, I loved England more than you, so trading you for rulership of Austria was a fair trade

[juldea]

I am a little sad that there wasn't a duel for my hand, but the game seemed to be light on dueling on the whole. But if you had marched off and challenged elenuial to a duel over me, the mistaken identity conflict would've been fantastically hilarious!

And yeah, sadly, the dry/patient/boring was your downfall, at least as far as Mimi's heart went. But the match with Inga fit much better. I don't know if you noticed, but I did run up to her and tell her how you were a perfectly nice man and that I thought you two would do very well together. I guess she agreed! :) Although I guess the "next in line for the throne" was more tempting than the "perfectly nice man"...

[nyren]

But it wasn't mistaken identity. Adam WAS the one who stole the kiss from you, or so he told me later :P

And, I tried MANY times to duel Adam. He wouldn't duel me, period. I even did told him, look, I'm just trying to not ruin my name here. I don't care who wins. You'll come out as the Blank Verse Bandit, I'll tell everyone to back away, we have an honorable duel to fight, we'll fight to the humiliation, we'll do it near the railing, and if he wins he can jump off the railing, and if I win I'll push him off the railing, and in either case, he can return to the ship as Schmander, and no one will know. I have no desire to capture him, he's too small for me to care about.

But no~o, he wouldn't do it. :(

[juldea]

Wait, what? Adam stole the kiss? I think I'm still confused on points of mistaken identity, here! :) I'm going to have to work out with the various Blank Verse Bandits as to which ones did which things to me! *blushes horribly*

And fie on him for refusing the duel, that would've been AWESOME.

[electric_d_monk]

Well... unless the character sheets contradict each other and the Horace sheet claims differently, from my sheet I was the one who stole the kiss at the highway robbery (though, due to stumbling over my own tongue trying to talk, I was being prompted for what to say by Horace).

[juldea]

So Jimmy was better at the pre-planned, penned word, less so at the on-the-spot lyricism?

[electric_d_monk]

Well, seeing Mimi is what inspired him so much to write the poem.

The stealing a kiss piece I interpreted as nervousness being in person. Which, he'll get over in time (I had at least attempted to portray that in game).

I mean, there was no real intimation of nervousness back in the days with Natasha, so once the initial 'will she accept me' jitters are over, he'll be much better. While Horace was the typically poetry spouting one, I think Jimmy would be that way with Mimi once comfortable simply because she inspires him.

[juldea]

Well, not actually knowing how that situation was written, I'm assuming that Natasha and Jimmy were friends first, enabling him to be comfortable in her presence by the time his feelings turned to love. Certainly he'd be nervous about whether or not she returned that particular depth of feeling, but not about whether or not he as a person was accepted. Which is quite different than with Mimi, who Jimmy can't yet believe to accept him as who he is - she has no reason to do so yet, after all.

[electric_d_monk]

Eh... the Natasha situation. The first start of it occurred during a heist we were tasked with by Sweeny (aka, our mentor/guardian, Fagin by a different name). Jimmy talked her into hiding in some Lord's broom closet and kissing, instead of stealing the Lord's jeweled walking stick. In sheet, it came off as rather skillful on Jimmy's behalf. Completely unlike his dealings with Mimi.

Not being comfortable with Mimi do to not really knowing her is one explanation... I was thinking more along the lines of his confidence having been shaken due to the tragic past relationship. Which is also what I see as his main impetus for wanting out of the thieving business... If he gets over the Natasha thing more thoroughly, I suspect he'll not be quite so enchanted with the idea of an idyllic peaceful life anymore (I mean, this is the guy who pickpockets people by instinct walking up the gangplank... he's damn good at it and it's too much a part of him).