delight of the evening

[kaberett]

Okay. So.

Admin: the LRP has a variety of in-game resources. One of the more valuable ones is mithril, which gets used for all sorts of things, like armour and weaponry and building works, particularly military ones.

This event we are seeing the launch of The Cow Stock Market. This inevitably was a topic of discussion over this evening's pizza: discussion of the designs of the I Promise To Pay The Bearer On Demand One (1) Cow slips! speculation over Cow Futures! debate over the impact on the gold mithril standard!

It'll be fiiiiiiiiiine, says A. It'll all be TOTALLY fine. You can absolutely build fortifications out of cows!

-- and at this point, for those of you who are abruptly cackling, I need to point out that A has not read Nona the Ninth.

I also need to point out that I am in a specific groupchat, specifically set up following the event where someone managed to get their hands on some copies of Nona a few days before official release and there was consequently significant in-field bartering for who got to be next in the queue to inhale them, that is named after. well. the cows. did you know that cows have best friends.

But A had no idea why I was abruptly losing it, and I decided that rather than attempt to explain I was in fact first of all going to Depart Our Table, find my Nona dealers, and relate unto them the story of The Thing A, All Unawares, Just Said.

The reaction was extremely gratifying.

Comments

[lireavue]

*shrieking with glee* oh A no

[rydra_wong]

OH NO

[simont]

I Promise To Pay The Bearer On Demand One (1) Cow slips

Something something "moo-lah"?

[kaberett]

Oh you see we'd all got distracted by the botany inherent in the system!

[silveradept]

That is absolutely worth having a cackle over with people who understand the cow jokes.

[azurelunatic]

COWS HAVE FRIENDS, JOHN.

(When the screen in the elevator of my cancer center had the "cows have best friends" tidbit as their factlet of the day, Silver and I about fell over laughing.)