Books/Comics Quotes
- "The smell is appalling and there's nose from beyond the mirror door; a relentless antiphonic clashing and roaring. I imagine agonized women giving birth to dreadful machines. Choirs singing in hell might sound that way. I don't dare consider what its world might be like, the world on the reverse of the mirror. No, I do dare.. I sometimes wonder what would be waiting if I stepped through, like Alice.." ~Sutton's Diary, The Invisibles, Apocalipstick.
- In context or out of context, this is _brilliant_ material, and the inspiration for starting a Quote section to the Media Resources. ~Ataxia
- "After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything." ~ Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
- I was rereading this, and the quote screamed out at me as very Puzzleboxian. Is, indeed, everything done in the Mess part of a pastime, a game, a giant sprawling theater-in-the-round? Even the more ascetic and demanding factions... well, some people prefer structured games with rigid rules to free-form play. And the prevalence of amnesia -- is it merely the setup for an elaborate and immersive riddle-game of Who Am I? Is the game perhaps a game to its inhabitants as much as to their players? Shades of metatextuality... ~ Cascade
Game/Video/Mutlimedia Quotes
- "I feel the grey goo boiling my blood; As I watch the dead rise up out of the earth; Try to hide from the lies as they all come true.." ~Mr. Bungle - California - 'None Of Them Knew They Were Robots'
- If only it were quicksilver.. But, then, sometimes strange is that biological blackened or greyed mix, and I've seen few people play that up. ~Ataxia
In Puzzlebox Quotes
Denote OOC or IC, interesting tidbits, context or no context, of things particular to the nature of the Muck and its unique culture!
- OOC "Whoever thought gouging out an eye could be a bonding experience?" ~Lysette to Kehari?, after Kehari helped replace Lysette's failing eyes in a rather gruesome (but largely painless and endearing!) manner.
- [OOC] Sasamui says, "Oh good grief. Now the 5th wall is talking to the 4th. My brain hurts." - after being asked OOCly about whether or not one of Sasamui?'s puppeteers was drinking on the job.
[OOC] Trilogee says, "If I don't see a log of this, someone is gonna' suffer, and it ain't me."
[OOC] Flyte says, "I never log ephermeral art."
[OOC] Flyte says, "Especially when I can't spell it."
- Completely IC, and very late at that.
- Altis murmurs, "You are welcome. If you should have time, reach me via the datasphere or seek me in Epsilon Sector, Upwarp. I am easy to locate."
- shinsei nods, smirking. "I'll do that sometime. Anyway, you owe me bondage, I owe you ego."
- Altis murmurs, "I will hold you to that. "