[fail lock from Arthur]

[forgerofdreams.livejournal.com]

Alright, it's opinion time, duckies. Christmas is right around the corner and the time for wracking one's mind for gift ideas is at hand, especially if you have any hope of getting something decent. Which is why I ask:

Would it be totally, completely, mind-bogglingly blasphemous to buy one's ever-luscious boyfriend a handgun for Christmas?

Because, on the one hand, giving weapons as gifts seems rather strange on day celebrating baby Jesus. On the other hand: Arthur likes guns.

And besides, I can see it now: a nice black semi-automatic with a pair of dice engraved on the side. Maybe wrapped with a bow on it.

Thoughts?

Comments

[urbandev.livejournal.com]

Hoping that you'll be more sympathetic to my cause, mostly. I'd like the chance to study and build a PASIV device for use in urban planning in my world. To be entirely honest, I already asked Arthur, and he turned me down.

[forgerofdreams.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Did he say why he turned you down?

[urbandev.livejournal.com]

Not specifically, but I think it has to do with ultimate power and the abuses thereof. Just a guess.

[forgerofdreams.livejournal.com]

Could be. I can imagine some other concerns he'd have as well.

I can talk to him, but I'd want to know first if you've got anything specific in mind. 'Urban planning' in the general sense, or in the 'I have a project in mind that I am being vague about' sense?

[urbandev.livejournal.com]

Gaia needs a renewable source of energy, one less damaging to our environment. That's not the sort of thing I can model small-scale, not with any sort of reliability or at any kind of reasonable cost. We need an affordable method of testing knew technology, to assess dangers in their construction and methodology. Rufus's solar generators are going to fail in five years, and with a PASIV I could prove that.

[forgerofdreams.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, that's reasonable. Most people's answers would be a bit more...well, self-serving, I'm going to say, and leave it at that, because I have seen things I would like to scrub my eyeballs of.

I'll talk to Arthur. If that's why you need one, it might be easier to persuade him to think it over.

Just a warning, though: dreams don't work the same as reality. Which is why dreams can get a bit addictive if you aren't careful. Lots of people aren't, and the damage is hard.

[urbandev.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that it will make it complicated to keep the tests impartial and accurate, but I think the potential risk is worth the potential gain.

Thank you, Eames.

[forgerofdreams.livejournal.com]

Don't thank me yet -- we'll see what Arthur does first.

And if he does relent, you need to talk to one of us about steps to take to make sure you don't lose track of what's real and what's not. It...can get very tricky sometimes.