DOUBLE-TIME. MULTI-DUEL. BLERNS, BLERNS!

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Eram quod es, eris quod sum

Chapter 20
Interview with a Vampire

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[stillbrainfried]

It was quite all right for young women to jump off cliffs, but she shouldn’t because all the time her parents had spent educating her would go to waste. And don't forget the money - they definitely should have mentioned that ;-)

Baron - funny thing to name the son of a count (the von Lahnsteins are counts, aren't they?) "Baron". Oh, well. To be honest, "Schmetterling" is even more weird... Butterfly? Seriously? And you named one of your OCs after my neighbour (slight difference in the first name but basically the same) ;-)

Thankfully, the chain reaction had stopped there because Ula’s grandfather was five years dead, and corpses hadn’t found a way to express their desire for a duel yet. We're not going to see zombies duelling, are we?

“There are clear rules in the Schneider-Lahnstein code duello that require the families to forgive all offenses in the event of the arrival of new family members or distant relations in order to celebrate the enlargement of our feud.” LOL. If that isn't a reason to cancel a duel I haven't heard of one

[randomhouses]

LOL, I was trying to make her parents somewhat sympathetic

[stillbrainfried]

To put it mathematically ;-): Baron < Graf (Count) < Herzog (Duke)
Everything else I simply don't know (like "Freiherr" - this is what our secretary of defense would be), but I'm sure it's less than a duke.

That would be Rosa Schneider (and I've got the feeling the name is fairly common - with Schneider meaning tailor - which makes it even more fun that you made the Schneiders aristocracy ;-))

We go to Victorian England next?

You could always throw in some astronomy or astrology - along the lines of 'There can't be any duels if the moon is in the second house of Sagittarius' (I don't even know if that makes sense but it definitely fulfils the criterion of sounding ridiculous ;-))

Never heard of that tale before - honestly. So, if you take the Brother's Grimm tales that became Disney films you should be fine - although those mostly lack the necessary wild animals. Hmmm, that's a problem...

[randomhouses]

Cool. I'm glad the United States doesn't have aristocracy considering most people can't even figure out the difference between the two houses of our legislature (or the concept of a third party). But haha, that is indeed pretty funny that they named their kid a lower rank than they are.

Well, the Schneiders are supposed to be "new" aristocracy. They started as merchants and got rich and titled that way, so the Lahnsteins look down on them. I totally don't know if that's historically accurate.

There's a mini-Sherlock Holmes arc coming (based on the movie) after Pirates and Discworld wraps up, but it's not related to Ten and Four. It's more like the Interludes of Arc 1.

Hahaha... interesting idea...

The bedroom probably won't show up again, so I hopefully won't need to make any more Grimm references anyway. Hopefully.