by Autolycos » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:14 pm
[quote="Marchessa_red_witch":qk77911s] You haven't been to China much recently, the sky isn't often blue in the major cities.[/quote:qk77911s]
Marchessa messages are typically boring, cryptic, and often undecypherable snippets of geek code that are used to inform another mudder that he or she has screwed something up. Often, this is completely and incorrectly viewed as the fault more often than not, that it lies with the immorts for failing to check said codes on his or her reports, and or had been checked, doublechecked, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters.
"Of course," the Guide continues, "at this point you are left with only two options. (Two if you suddenly, and for no good reason whatsoever, decide to irritate a mudder by feeding his or her grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.)
"Your first option: Panic, which as we all know is not entirely always a good idea.
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