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Post by ditkanate on Mar 14, 2022 14:37:52 GMT
ok welp i started this last night. apparently you've already read it and rated it a whopping 3 stars SO I AM VERY EXCITED!@#$$#@ thought i'd jot my thoughts down as i go. see how a one sided thread goes.  so in the forward some golden haired chick on this planet goes looking for her family heirloom necklace that was stolen or lost back in great gramma's day or something. :dunno; |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 15, 2022 7:27:00 GMT
hmm. i'm pretty sure that doesn't have anything to do with anything. just a nice forward time for you to spend time reading about gold hair, which we know you love, and heirloom tomatoes and necklaces and things.  |
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 15, 2022 13:25:47 GMT
hmm. i'm pretty sure that doesn't have anything to do with anything. just a nice forward time for you to spend time reading about gold hair, which we know you love, and heirloom tomatoes and necklaces and things.  ;hyper; oh man! bae. finished teh forward last night. THAT WAS A LONG FORWARD! anyway this golden haired beautiful maiden chick gets taken to space by these ugly gray cavedweller peeps who the "star lords" have helped learn industrial technology! and goes to a space museum where Rocannon is and he gives her this fancy necklace that was her inheritance. her race is like stuck in the middle ages so she doesn't understand anything of what's happening. but due to time dilation of space travel she goes back home and feels like it's been like 24 hours but 9 years have gone by and her hubby is daid  and her little daughter is now 19 and they look like sisters!  ;leer; also she flies arounf on some sort of flying horse!@#$ or dragon.. i dunno. a flying furry beast. so this planet has multiple species. these middle ages peeps who are becoming poor cuz they ain't up with the new tech. a split race of little weird elvish type peeps. above ground ones who are all OHHHH WE LUVS TEH SUN AND LIGHT AND LAUGHING AND HAPPY AND WHATEVER!@@#$ and then their opposite half underground cave gray peeps of tech and machines and ugly and bulgy and serious.  no idea wad the actual story is gonna be tho. |
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 16, 2022 13:36:39 GMT
Part 1: teh starlord the flying creature is called a "windsteed" I guess Rocannons ship is blowed up  he was on this planet with a delegation of 12 or so peeps studying the intelligent life and whatnot and they is all daid except for him and he has not ship. So! He's marooned, at least 8 years away from anything. Gonna see if he and semleys (goldhair) grandson can get the ship from the clayfolk that they used to take goldhair to get her necklace in space! ;dunno; so we'll see. |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 17, 2022 6:39:11 GMT
i vaguely remember some of this. so he's with goldhair's grandson. so that forward was way in teh past and this is teh now which is teh future and there is rocannon and he's gonna see if he can get unstranded or something. right?
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 17, 2022 17:30:47 GMT
pretty much yeah. so rocy and goldy's grandson go as the clayfolk to borrow the spaceship. the clayfolk are uncooperative. they just keep saying "no ship". so rocy and goldy leave. with no ship. they dun no if "no ship" means they can't take the ship? or they don't HAVE the ship any more? did someone else take it? is it blowed up too? who knows. anyway, there is an enemy force on the planet (thus rocannon's blowed up ship). And now they've massacred a village of these guys: a split race of little weird elvish type peeps. above ground ones who are all OHHHH WE LUVS TEH SUN AND LIGHT AND LAUGHING AND HAPPY AND WHATEVER!@@#$ only one of them survived and he's with rocy now. i guess that split race are telepathic! so everyone in their village sort of group thinktalks. only now he's alone and his village is wiped out so he's like  ehhh... and also sad.  the neighboring castle of the warrior middle ages folks got wiped out too. so anyway now roakana and his new fiian frienf are flying windsteeds to the south to try to get a message out or weapons or something. they think the enemy has a ehh.. ansible? i think the word's ansible. a device that can talk across teh universe in real time w/ no time lag. so he wants to get it and send out a msg. |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 19, 2022 1:09:29 GMT
man it's been a long time since i read this one. i read the later ones in the series recently, but not this one.
2017 from my records. the ansible is something teh bobs has isn't it? but they dun call it that. a common piece of sci-fi tech tho.
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 21, 2022 14:35:37 GMT
man it's been a long time since i read this one. i read the later ones in the series recently, but not this one. 2017 from my records. the ansible is something teh bobs has isn't it? but they dun call it that. a common piece of sci-fi tech tho. yeah bobs have some sort of instant communication. is that SCUT? not sure. also it is difficult years later, especially without a personal review to give your brain helpful self reminders! Ok, so read some more. Granddaughter old Lady gives rocy the necklace for his trip. Her son flies off with him, the fiian and four midmen. (i think midmen are like white people? but they are sort of serfs or slaves to the goldy haired tall people). anyway they fly off and end up battling a castle near the sea. Spear some people and burn their castle down and secure two ships. IV: they get across the sea (after one of the ships sinking and drownding two of the windsteeds. ). they start hiking thru teh fog and are immediately attacked by the locals. rocy is captured and has a staring contest with the leader. these dudes remind me of old school vikings. barbarians. the leader tries to chop rocy's head off but his magic future suit (invisible second skin suit thing that protects him from elements) keeps his head safe! so then they try to burn him but that dun work either. so now they is perplexed. okthat'sitsofar |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 22, 2022 3:48:27 GMT
i think scut might be it, yes! well done!
i dun remember much of that necklace crap. but i DO remember the skin suit thing saving him! i had forgotten, but you just jogged my memory! i'm not sure if you meant to jog me that hard. :dunno:
is rocy a five-legged rock based super smart sing talking creature? i dun remember THAT!
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 22, 2022 14:42:09 GMT
i think scut might be it, yes! well done! ;vernug; he just had to give it to some dudes to save him and his new servant from being kilt. so if that is the end of the necklace storyline it didn't end up being super significant. BROTHER THAT IS THE EXACT AMOUNT I WAS MEANING TO JOG YOU! no  he's just a human. well, i guess i'm not 100% sure that's true. he said he'd from Hain. so he's Hainish. and he married a human (Terran, actually) but they can't has kids cuz they is not quite exactly the same though they both pretty much look the same. seems like this universen spits out a lot of humanoid life!!@#$ REDDED SOME MOAR - finished part 1 actually: rocy escapes from the barbarians with the help of one of the midmen from his expedition. but he is tired and weak (they had him chained standing up like 3-4 days with no food) and they end up taking shelter in the shack of some weird hunter midmen dude. oh! also, i said those dudes that captured him tried to burn him alive right? so, all his normal clothes burned off! his skinsuit thing is transparent! so, he's basically walking arounf nekked. but the skinsuit keeps him comfy temperature and alive-wise so that's good. anyway the dude they shacked up with was friendly, but then his two hunter buddies come back and are immediately   at these strangers. so rocy and his servant are all, WELP! BEST BE TIME WE BE HEADING OUT!@#$ GOTTA GET SOUTH YA KNOW. and the dudes are all sure sure, we'll give you a boat ride across the inlet there. save you 6 days walking. no no no, not necessary really. we're good!! oh please, we insist!!! (knives out) ok sure why not! *gets in boat* so this is where rocy pays for the boat trip with the necklace, rather than having them slice and dice them. well, rocy would have survived cuz of his suit but he couldn't just tost his new friend servant who saved him to the curb! so then they hike south. and it sort of turns into this horrible waterless foodless land. after a few days rocy is like, ehh... i think we have to turn back. cuz, you know, no food and stuff. and a flock of windsteeds decend!!@#$ END OF PART 1 OR WHATEVER PART I WUZ READING. |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 24, 2022 10:26:18 GMT
BROTHER THAT IS THE EXACT AMOUNT I WAS MEANING TO JOG YOU! i guess that makes sense. if i think about it. yeah, it's like their human but not the same human. are kidses either dun pop out or pop out daid! this all sounds REAL familiar! i definitely remember some guy walking arounf in his naked skinsuit thing all dum dee do dah. and i remember them being saved by teh windsteeds! or attacked! something probably will happen that is not turning back. maybe captured, maybe saved. hmm.
welp! ur welcome for teh insights! :vurnoog:
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 24, 2022 16:03:35 GMT
this all sounds REAL familiar! i definitely remember some guy walking arounf in his naked skinsuit thing all dum dee do dah. and i remember them being saved by teh windsteeds! or attacked! something probably will happen that is not turning back. maybe captured, maybe saved. hmm. welp! ur welcome for teh insights! :vurnoog: this is working out to absolute perfection brother! spicier than i had any reasonable reason to expect!!!@# two things. 1- the skinsuit i guess is called an "impermasuit"! it is a tip! 2- ALSO YOU WERE RIGHT BIGTIME UP AND DOWN!@# IT IS A TIP THAT ATTACKED!@# so, they're flying souf through this unexplored land and one night whilst sleeping these human sized winged angel(bat?) creatures attack them. they bite them which paralyzes them and they fly them up to this gleaming city with they feed paralyzed things to their larvae children!@#$ ;hyper;;;; rocy saves them cuz they can't bite through his skinsuit and so he isn't paralyzed but whoo! good times. so now they keep flying south. they stay overnight at a few of the fiian villages (friendly mindspeaking tree peeps). after a few days of windsteed flying travel they get to the base of a mountain range that they need to fly over or find a pass through or something. i think they think these planet enemy people are on the other side somewhere. k i gez that's it for now. :B |
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 26, 2022 15:12:21 GMT
welp they made it over the mountains. just 3 of them now, rocy, mogien (tall blonde Lord dude) and ehhh can't remember his name but rocy's servant midman guy. anyway, a helicopter comes and mogien rams it with his windsteed to save rocy. so now it's just rocy and his servant and i dun no wad's gonna happen really. ;dunno; oh and some creature in the mountain gave rocy the ability to read minds now. |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 27, 2022 2:03:09 GMT
this is working out to absolute perfection brother! spicier than i had any reasonable reason to expect!!!@# well this is good for everyone! alright sir. :bigtimevernoog!: i remember this! i thowt u wuz foodz!
maybe that is the bat things.
ok! i'm following here. mostly. there is a lot of mindspeak mindreading in teh series. it is a tip for YOU! a helicopter? wow. this stuff is a little less memorable for me. rocy is saved!@ WHOOOO!! :dunno: |
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 28, 2022 1:32:00 GMT
well this is good for everyone! if me and you = everyone then yes!@# THEY WERE TOTALLY RIGHT TO THOWT THAT! NOW THEY IS ESCAPED FOODZ THO. another timely and correct tip! as mindspeak reading factors heavily into the finale here!@#$@#$ yeah so rocy got lasered by the helicopter before mogien saved him i guess. he wakes up being tended to by the swoot locals. he recovers there for quite a while, like 100 days or more. all the while he's mindhearing wads goin on over in the enemy camp ovur dare!@# then he hatches a plan. hops on a windsteen. sneaks in when no one is arounf. luckily he can mindhear when all is clear! very helpful. sneaks on one of their FTL ships and ansibles out a message that there are enemies on this here planet not following the agreed upon planet exploration rules of the galaxy or whatever. (starfleet? ) anyway, a few hours later the place is absolutely cratered with a bomb. not 100% sure i understand where the bomb came from. was there help like really really nearby in system? can they teleport in? can they ansible scut weaponry over? i dunno. but anyway rocy saved teh day. all i has left now is epilogue. kinda weird these guys have ftl ships and then also helicopters. |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 28, 2022 13:25:14 GMT
if me and you = everyone then yes!@# as far as i know that is exactly what it means! i suppose no one said the food had to be happy about being food! i had forgotted about how heavy a role it played in ol booko uno! right, didn't even rocy not no really how teh bomb come? well, they work gude! :stuburn:
if you read teh next two i will remember mower becuz mas recentez readingo! (that's spanish)
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 28, 2022 14:44:35 GMT
i suppose no one said the food had to be happy about being food! food's mood has no bearing on it's foodness i don't think!!@# i keep forgetting this was book uno. cuz the series doesn't really have an order per se, just a bunch of books about random planets. but now that you say that this kinda feels like a first book like she's just sort of beginning to sketch out this idea. the other books of hers i've read seemed like they were more in depth, really diving into the culture and ways of whatever planet they're on. this one just kind of glosses over them as rocy galavants about. i think he did though the reader doesn't really get an explanation. in the epilogue he says "they can send death at once but life is slower". So he lives there and ends up dying before any help arrives. but hey they name the planet after him! so that's cool. he did mention the FTL ships can't contain life. life can't survive teh ftl process in this universen, just the ships. so that probably has something to do with the instabomb. i dunno. is it? yeah the next one is "Planet of Exile" which... you also rated 3 stars. so yay! |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 29, 2022 4:47:32 GMT
food's mood has no bearing on it's foodness i don't think!!@# 🎵 it's good mood food!!! 🎶 yeah, it's not really a trilogy. there just are 3 books in this universen. but the 2nd two are totally connected BIGTIME! oh wow. i dun remember that at all. but ftl isn't really in teh next one. :B regional, probably. i was being harsh i think. it was probably 3.5. |
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Post by ditkanate on Mar 29, 2022 17:34:18 GMT
🎵 it's good mood food!!! 🎶 it's extra tasty due to it's rarity!!@# also there are way more than 3 i believe. Looks like at least 10 or 11 according to the old goodyreadys ovur dare. not much to remember. literally one throwaway line in the epilogue.  honestly that's probably what rocy is for me. perfectly fine book. not upset i read it or anything. but nothing to write home about. PLENTY TO WRITE TO MY HORRIBLE BROTHER ABOUT THO!@# ;HPER;;;;; |
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Post by isthisamo on Mar 30, 2022 13:49:30 GMT
it's extra tasty due to it's rarity!!@# i do love rare food. unless it's steak. that's gross. well, gross is exagg. but too much for me. oh, well only these 3 count. :stuburn: *beating myslef upon thine head and chest with frustration of my lack of remembrance! i basically AM home. 
well i liked the next one. weird but good. and then the 3rd one sucked me in good.
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and her little daughter is now 19 and they look like sisters! 
;leer;
he was on this planet with a delegation of 12 or so peeps studying the intelligent life and whatnot and they is all daid except for him and he has not ship. So! He's marooned, at least 8 years away from anything. Gonna see if he and semleys (goldhair) grandson can get the ship from the clayfolk that they used to take goldhair to get her necklace in space! ;dunno; so we'll see. 
ehhh... and also sad. 
he's just a human. well, i guess i'm not 100% sure that's true. he said he'd from Hain. so he's Hainish. and he married a human (Terran, actually) but they can't has kids cuz they is not quite exactly the same though they both pretty much look the same. seems like this universen spits out a lot of humanoid life!!@#$ 
at these strangers. so rocy and his servant are all, WELP! BEST BE TIME WE BE HEADING OUT!@#$ GOTTA GET SOUTH YA KNOW. and the dudes are all sure sure, we'll give you a boat ride across the inlet there. save you 6 days walking. 
