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Hey, Shakespeeps, I need a clarification

In the immortal dick joke “Some have greatness thrust upon ‘em”, is the “greatness” supposed to be “my dick” or “pregnancy”?

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cantankerousquince replied to your post: @cantankerousquince or other theatery people - I...

Depends on the kind of voice you want to achieve. Is there an accent? What’s the personality behind the voice? If I get some specifics I might be able to put together a little tutorial vid for you :)

It’s Njal’s Saga ch. 54, Too Few Men From Tunga. Approximately. I just... don’t have any experience whatsoever with doing voices. They’re all Icelandic, so I’m trying to avoid doing accents (which is tricky since in everyday speech I use them for emphasis).

Characters include:

Gunnar - Our Hero, currently suffering the side effects of being too good at fighting, i.e., everyone wants to either challenge him for being good or kill him for killing someone who challenged him. I’ve been told to take him slow, which is about the only characterization advice I’ve been given; I get free reign.

Kolskegg - Gunnar’s brother, bit of a smart aleck, and obviously close with Gunnar. His first line is teasing Gunnar; his second is impatient. Gunnar and Kolskegg are almost the only two non-villains, so they are the ones who really need voices. (Hjort, by the way, is also Gunnar’s brother, which is why they have too few men

Starkad - trying to kill Gunnar, with a large group of men. From this section, I dunno about him; he just kinda gives orders. And learns to regret his decisions.

Thorgeir Starkadarson - I reckon he’s kind of the boastful frat boy of the attackers, notable by virtue of his parentage but not actually very helpful to anyone

Kol - one line, but it’s a one-liner. Self-mocking. I like him; I think he’d get on well with Kolskegg, if they weren’t trying to kill each other.

Hildigunn the Healer - Minor figure, one line; I reckon Thorgeir has a crush on her, and she thinks of him as her idiot brother.

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Gunnar and his brothers rode on east and came to Knafaholar.  

“Do you see all those spears coming up behind the hills, Gunnar, and men with weapons?” asked Kolskegg,  “I guess you do not want to run away from them.”

“They will not be able to taunt us with that,” said Gunnar.  “We will defend ourselves on that point of land by the Ranga River.”

Starkað then urged his men to attack. Sigurð Swine-head went in front, holding a small round shield and a hunting spear in the other hand. Gunnar shot at him with his bow. Sigurð raised his shield, but the arrow went through it and into his eye. That was the first slaying.

Gunnar’s next arrow struck Úlfheðin—Starkað’s overseer—in the waist and he fell at the feet of a farmer, who tripped over him. Kolskegg threw a stone, which hit the farmer in the head, killing him.

Starkað said, “We will not get far against his bow; let us charge swiftly.”

They urged each other on. Gunnar shot arrows as long as he could; then he threw them down and took up his halberd and sword.

Then Þórgeirr Starkaðarson said, “I vowed to bring Hildigunn the Healer your head, Gunnar.”

Gunnar replied:

(I don’t read the poetry in Old Norse)

“The Girl with gold armlets cannot expect that gift, but if the maid must have my head, come closer to the clashing spears.”

They charged him; Bork and Þórkel got there first.  Bork took a swing at him, but Gunnar knocked the sword out of Bork’s hand.  Then Gunnar hit Þórkel on the neck with the sword, and his head flew off.

Kol thrust his spear at Kolskegg and it went through his thigh. Kolskegg stepped towards Kol and cut off his leg.

“This is what I get,” said Kol, “for not shielding myself.”

He stood on his other leg for a while, looking at his stump.

Kolskegg spoke, “You do not need to look. It is as you think; your leg is gone.”

Then Kol fell down dead.  When Egil saw that, he rushed at Gunnar and swung at him.

Gunnar thrust his halberd into Egil’s waist, lifted him on the halberd, and flung him into the Ranga River.

Starkað said, “You are quite useless, Þórir the Norwegian, if you do not take part. Your host, who was your father-in-law, has been slain.”

Þórir sprang to his feet and was very angry.  Hjort had killed two men.  The Norwegian charged at him and hacked at his chest.  Hjort fell down dead at once.

Gunnar saw this and threw himself at the Norwegian and killed him.  Then he lunged at Bork; the halberd went through him and pinned him the ground.  Kolskegg then cut off the head of Hauk Egilsson, and Gunnar cut off Óttar Egilsson’s arm at the elbow.

Starkað said, “Flee—these are not men we are dealing with.”

Gunnar spoke: “Telling stories about this will not be easy unless you have proof to show that you have been in battle.”

Then he charged at Starkað and his son Þórgeirr and gave them both bloody wounds before they ran away. Fourteen men died in the battle, and Hjort was the fifteenth.

Starkað and Þórgeirr came home, and Hildigunn treated their wounds.

She said, “You would give a great deal now not to have got on Gunnar’s bad side.”

“We certainly would,” said Starkað.

Hildigunn the Healer is now out of the saga.

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The mere act of walking into a Nandos with the express desire for consumption of chicken and unlimited soft drinks immediately becomes cheeky and unlocks ones inner lad. FYI ;) x

You know, I suspected that might be the case! Just to think, the real lad was in my own heart all along...

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cantankerousquince replied to your post: unfavorableinstigation: ...

If you’re open to newbies, I’ve desperately been looking for someone to start playing with? *shyly waves and bolts in embarrassment from butting in*

I’ve played precisely one (1) campaign, but my impression was that it’s a lot of improv, so you’d probably be awesome at it

but I think Stig’s Boyfriend gets to make all calls, since he will be DM-ing?

(For people who want in, please reblog/otherwise leave notes that it will be easy for Stig to find; I’m not [currently] organizing this, so if they’re just in my notifications or a reply to a post that isn’t Stig’s, there’s a high likelihood they’ll just get lost.)

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Happy Birthday you special wonderful thing! Xxx

Thank you!

(There is cake! My sister made a birthday cake for me! I am so happy! And I have no idea what it’ll be, so I’m even more happy! Surprise cake is the best cake!)

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feathercoatrenegade replied to your post “well i have somehow managed to sleep through the entire day, which is...”

I cannot possibly advise since I frequently have this problem myself. But the previous suggestion sounds good, if that seems doable.

cantankerousquince replied to your post “well i have somehow managed to sleep through the entire day, which is...”

Wouldn't want to do another 24 hours, not the best move. Maybe try a light nap later on this evening - and I mean like late late to help your body clock readjust.

sleep it is, then. thanks :)

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Ah, Quincey, we do not speak enough. O Leek Queen, I am glad you are in residence at the Palace of Leekdom to look after my fiancé.

(He is, incidentally, a Bernese mountain puppy, not a tiger. You seem to get confused about this, but I forgive you.)

I have not forgotten that you once promised to stage a Laxdæla play if I wrote one. I just haven’t written it yet, on account of not having written a stage script since I was eight, and also getting distracted.

You seem to be charming the cheeky nandos off your students, and - OOH! OOH! WAIT! So yesterday I went to Scandi and I was talking to the lady who teaches Scandi, who is a retired linguistics professor, and she was telling us what a Tamil accent sounds like and where it comes from and how to recreate one and it was so cool and I thought of you of course. Not for the linguistics - for that I was thinking of @matterforms, because she kept using terms like alveolar palate or was weiß ich nicht - but because you do aaalll the accents and I was thinking you would be interested in the conversation and also now I’m wondering if you mostly do UK accents or if you also do Tamil &c, and if you know the secret words like veela ridge, and I am thoroughly sidetracked thinking about accents.

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LEEK ALERT

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“Sigmund had returned from battle and went with a leek to meet his son.”

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