'Tain't natural

[jhetley]

Temperature reached 58 F yesterday, thumping the old record for the date. Lost our evening walk to a spell of pounding rain, after which the moon and stars appeared. Thermometer reading of about 40 F this morning. Sunshine now. Maine? January?

I don't know if this represents "Weather" or "Climate", of course.

Starting to poke back into POWERS a bit, after a couple of month's vacation from writing. I think Old Guy may not be human. Not sure if he's a gnome or a nibelung. Seems to be able to talk to iron and steel, though, something of a wizard at forging laminated steel blades and such. Not much of an economic skill these days -- if you want to sell custom knives and swords, you have to be at least mildly famous. This doesn't work for a recluse with no valid ID because he's about 300 years old...

Maybe he needs a marketing front-man?

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

if you want to sell custom knives and swords ...

...to the mass market, you have to be at least mildly famous. In collector/enthusiast etc circles, Word Gets Around. Clearly superior work is its own advertising.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

He'd really prefer that no one knows he exists. Probably needs a front. We're working on it.

Yeah, "word" gets around with insiders. Same thing in illegal antiquities, which makes the Morgans rich men.

I don't know if I dare let them meet...

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

What makes you think they haven't? I would imagine they have and the Morgans do the selling for him. Pass it off as an antique blade.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the minor problem that they don't inhabit the same universe...

Which I could change, of course. Portrait of the Author as God.

Would parallel-Morgans still be pirates?