Role Play Room

[Trace Carter]

"It's a very long story," said Z

[paladin313]

Chrono said, "You two should go somewhere and talk.  you'll spoil the party."
     Meanwhile, Skuld said, "Bah...I can do better.  BANPEI!"
     He walked up and said, "High Tech Irish!"
     Speakers came out, and he played this:

https://www.youtube.com/v/J-S68QDmRMA

[Trace Carter]

Z chuckled at skuld's antics.

[paladin313]

(Is Z going to take her away?)

"Okay," said Ian, "Now...  Hmm...  This one is a bit sad, but it is one they sing on ANZAC day in Australia...their Memorial day."

(I hoped you saw the whole Sham Rock video!)

https://www.youtube.com/v/cZqN1glz4JY

[Trace Carter]

(If she wants.)

[paladin313]

(Then this is how she will learn the truth.  Oh, and that next song?  The Pogues reduced an audience of punks and skinheads to tears with this one.)

[Trace Carter]

(i dislike songs that make me sad)
Z looked at megumi, "want an explanation?"

[paladin313]

(Sorry, but one of the muses would have glommed onto it.)

She just nodded, a bit in shock.

[Trace Carter]

(oh.  Melpomene, right?)
"Follow me," said Z as he got up.

[paladin313]

(Yes.)
She followed robotically.

[Trace Carter]

Melpomnene was enraptured by the song, dabbing at her eyes with a napkin.
Z took her to his room in the temple, which doubled as his workshop where he worked on combining runes with technology.

[paladin313]

He went into the last lyrics...

"And now, every April, I sit on my porch;
and I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades--how proudly they march;
reliving their days of past glory.
I see my old comrades as they march before:
The tired old heroes of a forgotten war.
And the young people ask me, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda;
And the old men still answer the call.
But year after year, they get fewer and fewer;
One day, no one will march there at all.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda;
Who'll go a'Waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard, as they march by the billabong;
Singing, "Who'll go a'Waltzing Matilda with me..."

"I don't get it!" she said, "What is my brother into!"

[Trace Carter]

"I liked that song," said Melpomnene.

It's complicated," said Z, "let me start at the begining.  I'm not human...well not completely human."

[paladin313]

"Well, every once and a while I like things that make you think."

"Yeah!  No S$%^ Sherlock!"

[Trace Carter]

"Indeed, " said Clio.

"do you believe in heaven and hell?"