Look what I did - Graveyard Shift, Chapter 6

[jack]

This is nearly it, the chapter after this is a short one and basically just winding down. Several of the principal players meet, or nearly meet. A really bad pun I've been building to all story is perpetrated. We sort of meet the death of fowl.

Most things are explained, though, according to some, too obliquely (if it doesn't make any sense this time, or certainly after the next chapter, please respond, and I'll have a rethink about the ending).

He tore it open and read:

Dear Cpt. Vimes,

Unfortunately I am unable to see you at this time. However, I am forced to testify some facts which should greatly shorten your current investigation.

Vimes cursed. Did "should greatly shorten" mean the Patrician thought shortening likely? Or desirable? Or both? How did Vetinari know all this?
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Oh, and I was looking at the server logs on srcf and noticed an http_referer showed someone I didn't know reading one chapter from a friends-of-friends page. Wow, I'm famous! :)

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

:-) Oh, that's nice. Did you pick that one up from the Whizkids Handbooks, or is it just a commonly known things to chess players?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Uh, I hate to keep doing this, but could you explain that comment? Did I pick *what* up?

[atreic.livejournal.com]

The Whizz Kids Handbooks 1, 2, and 3 were some of my favourite books when I was 7(??) They contained lots of anicdotes, facts and tricks, like how to "proove" 1 = 0, how to remember a list of things (I can remember some of their sample list even to this day - it was the ten reasons Elephants don't like tomato soup) how to make a hexaflexahedron, and how to always win at least half the chess games you played simultaniously.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

DOH! Of course. No, I don't think I've read them. Dad told me about this idea when I was little, and when I was thinking about "What could the guards be chasing?" it just seemed to fit.