'If I Was A Darklord...'
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:46 pm
I wouldn't necessarily be undead, but my home would quite probably be a dread version of the Metropolitan Library from the Librarian series of movies and T.V.-series.
I would have every book ever written there, a collection of rare and potent artefacts fit to make Darth Sidious sob with envy, servant creatures constantly on the prowl for additions to my collection and ready to meet my needs
... and no time or opportunity to really enjoy any of it for a long time.
My curse would be that whenever I was really starting to enjoy myself by reading, writing or studying, there would be some problem in the domain in which my library stood. Something only I could solve -- and the library would compel me to solve it, driving me utterly up the wall with frustration.
So yes, I'd be a dread version of Flynn Carson; all the magic, knowledge and science in the world at my fingertips, and 'adventure' would keep tearing me away.
And everyone in the domain would know who I was, and that only I could keep the land from tearing itself apart.
No peace.
No privacy.
...
Yech!
So: how about you?
I would have every book ever written there, a collection of rare and potent artefacts fit to make Darth Sidious sob with envy, servant creatures constantly on the prowl for additions to my collection and ready to meet my needs
... and no time or opportunity to really enjoy any of it for a long time.
My curse would be that whenever I was really starting to enjoy myself by reading, writing or studying, there would be some problem in the domain in which my library stood. Something only I could solve -- and the library would compel me to solve it, driving me utterly up the wall with frustration.
So yes, I'd be a dread version of Flynn Carson; all the magic, knowledge and science in the world at my fingertips, and 'adventure' would keep tearing me away.
And everyone in the domain would know who I was, and that only I could keep the land from tearing itself apart.
No peace.
No privacy.
...
Yech!
So: how about you?