entry ten - serious plans.

[pleasesmirk]

[Private to Sirrus]I have an idea. Let me run it by you, because you'll be the one doing the difficult part here. Well, aside from my inevitable dumping in zero but ho-hum, it's now a hazard of the job

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VERY private

[mystakenpromise]

You are wonderful, you know that?

Now, you have to let me spell this back out to you so that I can get this right.

You want me to pretend that you tortured me using ginger beer? But I cannot be too specific on the details? And, in doing so, I will create the illusion that this ginger beer is something you can use to create pain and fear?

I think I can do that.

VERY private

[pleasesmirk]

I have my moments. Winder nearly always seemed to think so, anyway.

...Yes. Absolutely. Do it as publicly as possible. I'm trying to get someone else to do the same (admittedly, with less detail than I gave you) to give it more credibility as a story. Oh, and I use a bottle of ginger beer. Be as vague as possible and let their imaginations do the rest.

Brilliant. Thank you.

Re: VERY private

[mystakenpromise]

A bottle, eh? Swing, sometimes I think you are more sinister than you let on. Let me know when I need to do this.

You'd be surprised at how well I can act.

VERY private

[pleasesmirk]

Well, my reputation did precede me at home. Here? It's less well known how sinister I am. I will. Soon. But I need to have words with others. Oh, and get someone to give me ginger beer. It has to be credible.

I look forward to being surprised.

Private

[cautionarystory]

I'm listening.

Private

[pleasesmirk]

I need you to pretend I've tortured you. Horrifically. Through the medium of a bottle of ginger beer. You have to be very vague on the details, though, as I'm not going to actually do anything. I just want people to use their imagination. Put it down to trauma or whatever.

If your warden doesn't believe you? That's his fault not yours. After all, who'd ignore someone saying they'd been tortured? You either get sympathy or you expose him to be an uncaring git. Either way, it works for you.

There's one thing - I need a reason to have done it. If you can tell me something minorly criminal you've done in the past few days/weeks, then I can use that.

Private

[cautionarystory]

Why? What's in it for you?

Private

[pleasesmirk]

Do you really want to know?

All I want is to be taken seriously. I want to have something to use against people without actually having physical weapons. You, of course, are already immune, as you know there's nothing to it.

please, four, notice this one. read it aloud, four.

[pleasesmirk]

Well! I'm thinking you could group places like Ankh-Morpork and Sto Lat and Uberwald together - they're pretty close and a bit like...dunno, Europe, perhaps? And all the different countries around Klatch can go together - although Djelibaybi and places are so small that we'll have to miss them out.

You really need a map for this, don't you?

win win win.

[pleasesmirk]

Djelibeybi. It's Klatchian, I think. Possibly. They all have names beginning with Pt, that's all I know. Very odd little place.