Chimera
Elena the Curious has a knack for creating chimeras. She's just made a frog-human chimera.
Maybe Krek the Swift can make chimeras too, but no one knows where he is right now.
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Disorder
For a Wizard, disorder is when something does not happen the way he's decided it should happen.
For a Witch, disorder is when something happens that she does not know already how to make right.
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Minitel
- What's this doing in your cockpit? Is that a French Minitel from the 1990's?
- Ask me again when the tactile dashboards go on the fritz and that thing is the only way to control the ship.
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Beetle
Titan ships look like Titans, to make it clear that their crew look like beetles.
Their very first question to Earth pilots was why their ship was a long tube with two bulges at the base.
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Explore
"I wish", said the man, "to explore every facet of the power of an absolute tyrant!"
"Your wish is my command", said the Genie. "You are from now on the personal slave of Arama the Ruthless."
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'Ah, so, bad at geometry AND ignorant in theology? I shall explain then: with a triangle, you invoke an angel who forces a life of suffering onto you and takes your immortal soul. And don’t read the small text, it'll sadden you further.'
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Musician
"Father! Mother! Why on Earth are you hiding under that table? What will my friend think? What? Absolutely not! She's a musician! A harpist! Not a harpy!"
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Simulate
Wizards simulate all sorts of combat situations all the time in order to be ready when a real one comes about.
Witches solve problems that present themselves around them all the time, because somebody's got to do it.
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'I shall slay the Dragon!' exclaimed the Knight.
'Good, but it is your seventh attempt for today only,' said the Princess. 'I don't mean to intrude, but I would suggest therapy...'
'GROOAAAAAARRRR !'
'... for the both of you.'
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Cassette tape
Ghosts on photographs lasted until the mid eighties. Then came ghosts on video cassette tape, and now, ghosts on digital videos. Technologies come and go; ghosts adapt.
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Neuron
When we ask a telepath if their ability comes from a specific sort of neuron, they smile and say that we know the answer already, only our unconscious mind does not trust our conscious mind with that knowledge.
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Blob
One popular theory posits that space-native species (as opposed to those who have access to space but come from a planet) all sport a blob shape, due to living permanently in zero gravity and in vacuum.
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Decryptor
'Well? Did your team manage to apply the decryptor to the Aliens' message?'
'Yes.'
'And?'
'And half of them is still catatonic, and the other half shaking with nervous laughter.'
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Forget
I am terminally precog: I know absolutely all that will happen to me, every minute until the last one. The only way I've found to handle my future is to forget my past. I know what will happen to me, but I don't know who I am any more.
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Room
I feel fine anywhere inside the Locust, and even outside when when I go inspect the hull. But I enter the engine room, whether during conventional flight or hypervelocity, only in case of *absolute need*. I’ve seen what can happen there.
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Sampler
Another Schabash device which everyone is after is their sampler. You put a piece of something in, you inject a few megawatts and poof, mass replication. It works with armor steel just as well as with cereal.
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Riddle
'Ask your riddle, Sphinx!'
'What… about a game of checkers?'
'… I must best you in a game of checkers?'
'No! just play. And talk. My visitors die or leave after two sentences at the very most. I *long* for one hour of small talk.'
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Leaking
What the Aliens said was 'Did you know your star is leaking? But don't worry, we'll can stop that, and for free'.
Who would have passed such a deal?
What the Aliens *did*, though, was turn our G-type Sun straight into a black hole.
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Barmaid
Yes, the barmaid takes her own sweet time preparing cocktails, and don't go and berate her about it, or she'll fix *you* a drink. Everyone calls her Kikki, but her true name is *Kírkê Polyphármakos*. Ah, I see you know your classics. Good.
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Albert ARIBAUD ✎
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