i also find the luggage slightly sinister... the way it snaps at butterflies is particually suggestive. but then again, how can you knock something that bites off people fingers?
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/5/02 2:39 pm) Reply
Re: luggage
With great difficulty and in a lot of pain, how fast do you think the luggage could run? Would it have a co-ordination problem with all those legs?
Re: luggage
I have enough of a coordination problem with 2 legs. The luggage does run though, right? I can see it stampeding over things, easily. I've always seen it as being able to move quickly, never thought too much about the practicality of that. It would be funny if the luggage was running and -er, tripped. It's never seemed to clumsy though, just homicidal.
Scarlet Phoenix
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/8/02 9:06 am) Reply
Re: luggage
*Grins at the thought of flying luggage* I bounced off three seperate pieces of furniture yesterday in an attempt to leave the computer...it didn't work.
Millipides manage I suppose and they have...erm...lots of legs. A million wouldn't work.
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/8/02 7:54 pm) Reply
Flying?!
It's a bird...it's a plane...it's...the Luggage?!
Okay, well, I just had a weird flash of the Luggage soaring overhead. How odd.
Er- it runs a lot. But- I mean, it's magical, so maybe that helps a bit when it sprints. It must have to run a lot to keep up with Rincewind, hehe.
I wonder what would happen if we tried to paint the Luggage...can't you just see it splattered with colors as if we threw paint balls at it? Okay...don't mind me...
Mrs Grim
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/9/02 5:05 am) Reply
Re: Flying?!
Hmmm... I think the Luggage would probably eat the paintballs as they came flying through the air (in the style of a dog jumping for a frisbee, maybe?)
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Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/13/02 8:22 pm) Reply
Paint balls?
Not if we go from all sides! LOL!
Mrs Grim
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/17/02 4:14 pm) Reply
Re: Paint balls?
SPLAT ATTACK!!!!!!!!
And there would be safety in numbers - if we surround the Luggage, then it wouldn't be able to get us all...
Now - about surrounding the Luggage...
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robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/17/02 4:41 pm) Reply
Re: Paint balls?
You can leave me out of that one. I wouldn't go near that homicidal handb-
*shlup*
I mean who would dream of attacking that perfectly nice travelling accessory.
nice luggage... please let go of my foot... please
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/18/02 3:49 pm) Reply
Eaten by the Luggage
*giggles hysterically* Oh my...that really amused me...
But- what DOES happen if the Luggage 'eats' someone? Did we ever find this out? I mean, where do they end up?
Being trapped in the Luggage would be...er- a definately unique experience. Any volunteers? C'mon robcraine, you've got one foot in already. I mean, why not explore for the sake of science? So what if we don't quite know if you can come OUT of the Luggage again...
Mrs Grim
Persephassa Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/19/02 5:51 am) Reply
Re: Eaten by the Luggage
I reckon that they get changed into nicely laundered shirts in a bizarre interdimensional translation. Otherwise how can you explain that that is all thats in there when you open it up innocently?
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Re: Eaten by the Luggage
I don't think anyone really can try to explain the Luggage, we just love it! That post was great, I love amusing little things like that. OOOOOh- in The Light Fantastic when the people who captured Rincewind & Co were getting paranoid? Hehehe. Far too funny.
Scarlet Phoenix
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/19/02 4:12 pm) Reply
Re: Eaten by the Luggage
Oh my...I almost suggested the clean shirts thing! LOL! Great minds...
Mrs Grim
Notepadfreak Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/22/02 1:07 pm) Reply
meeeeeeeep
You get stuck in an alternate dimension? Doomed forever to launder Rincewind's clothes?
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/22/02 1:52 pm) Reply
Re: meeeeeeeep
In The Last Continent Rincewind and that girl who was pretending to be a drag queen (Nigella?... something like that, I think) hid in the luggage, to no ill effect.... I suppose the luggage decides whether you are laundered, just sit in a wooden box or.... dunno what happens to people he doesn't like- I could be wrong, but I don't think Death has ever turned up for anyone eaten by the luggage (/please/ correct me if I'm wrong), so maybe they're not dead just elsewhere.
Re: meeeeeeeep
I have to go with the alternate demension idea. I never thought about the Death thing, but I think you're right, he hasn't shown up as far as I know.
HEY! I think we've just found out where the stuff you lose in the dryer goes to! The luggage steals it! (actually I've never lost a shirt, but close enough)
Scarlet Phoenix
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/26/02 2:38 pm) Reply
Re: meeeeeeeep
Yep- just finished Last Continent. Rincewind and what's her name DO go into the Luggage. I found that quite amusing especially, "Is that a stud? Did you get your lid pierced?!" Okay, so that's a nice misquote...I'm too lazy to find the book!
Yeah, if teh Luggage doesn't like you, you...er- disappear. Maybe you're subjected to a lifetime of laundering Rincewind's clothes...
Mrs Grim
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(9/28/02 4:08 pm) Reply
Re: meeeeeeeep
laundering Rincewinds underthimgs can't be an easy job, especially with all the 'stercus stercus'-ing he does.... although with his new role as Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography he hasn't had to *physically* leave the UU yet, so he might be in for an uninteresting future.... somehow I doubt it though.
Re: meeeeeeeep
what is there not to love about a 200 kg lump of magical pearwood, who can eat people, stare down the highest of demons, and then still turn out pressed laundry.
the luggage is probably the most dangerous thing on the disk. i mean, who else has fought cohan and lived to tell the tale, let alone won. the wizards should hire him to clear out the DD.
i recon the luggage just uses a similar sort of storage as the library. maybe its T-space (trunk space)? who knows.
Young wizards could make promotion real quick by putting "do not open" notes on his lid and leaving him around for the senior wizards to find... probably a good way to deal to ridcully, not that we'd want to risk him coming back pissed as ever. Take for example the idea of schrodingers cat - it can be in any of 3 states which are indetirminable until opened: dead, alive, and bloody furious.
u know, i bet bloody stupid johnson would have a feild day if he had ever got to meet the luggage. so would leonard of quirm for that matter....... the things that he would try would probably result in the destruction of the disk... not good.
yay luggage
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