simplestgift | Twelve Bells: [WRITTEN/ACCIDENTAL VIDEO/ACTION] The winter of our discontent.

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It has come to my attention that every copy the library has of Richard III is missing bits of his famous speech. I've noticed it in other places as well. Romeo and Juliet is lacking the lines when she wakes up and they reunite before he remembers he took poison. All for Love is also just a bit different from what I remember. Far as I can tell, The London Merchant is whole, but quite a lot of older tragedies are missing bits and pieces. Can anyone explain this?

There's something about the fight between Tybalt and Mer

[The writing stops. A second later, the journal hits the floor, showing a lovely view of the carpet in one of the many apartments in the village. In the background, Archie's voice begins, sounding a little flustered.]

Horatio, I'll be back in a few hours. Damn, damn.

Archie? [The immediate confusion is quickly replaced with a concern that he tries to make sound less pressing than he felt it.] What is it? Where are you going?

[Archie's voice comes back, less frantic but still speaking quickly as some jangling is heard from picking up his sword.] Nothing. In trying to get you settled this week, I completely forgot to practice. I'll be out back, behind the building, wishing I was dead.

Ah, of course. The pirate. [A beat.] Shall I wait here, then?

[A pause.] I suppose two could practice.

If he'd prefer to deal with only one, I would be content to just watch. [Not that he's trying to put off the inevitable-- that sooner or later, he has to let Archie out of his sight for more than a few minutes. ...To distract from that idea, he chuckles.] Besides-- would be hard for two to practice when only one is armed. Perhaps once I have a sword again, you can teach me what he's taught you.

I don't have a lesson today, Horatio. We could stop by the weapons' shop and find you something more than suitable. [He sounds slightly wistful.]

[The thought of not yet having to deal with the pirate whose boat he borrowed? Perks him up.] I'd like that.

Very well, Mister Hornblower. I challenge you to a duel!

And, as a gentleman, I cannot refuse. I am afraid, Mr. Kennedy, that in a matter as serious as this-- [the smile on his face is betrayed by his tone] --there can, naturally, be no quarter given.

[What follows behind CH1 is two navy boys gleefully trying to chop each other up. It's more akin to horseplay than practice, but it appears that "the twins" are having fun, at least. Onlookers feel free to look on.

Later, Archie will do a little honest practice on his own in the same place.

OOC: Anyone whose character knows stuff about lit history can point out that a lot of older plays in the 18th century were rewritten just a little to update them for a "modern" audience.]

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Hatfield and McCoy?

[The last name pings Archie.]

That's right, they'd be past your time. A Hatfield shot a McCoy, or vice versa — I can never keep it straight, and it doesn't really matter either way — sometime last century, and they started to kill each other like it was going out of style.

There was a dispute over a pig involved somewhere, too, but dashed if I can remember where.

[Ahahaha, Archie.]

[He'll have to ask the doctor, maybe.]

As if there isn't enough war to go round.

There was a war just ended when the feud started; I guess they must've missed all the fighting.

Some men are like that. When there's no war, they create a battlefield on their own. No sense to it.

If you're looking for good sense, Kentucky's not the place to start. But it was senseless, even by hillbilly standards.

You must not think well of my time, then. Such a thing might have been considered civilized if it were wrapped up in enough rules. Not very different from duels and battles, when you think on it.

[Archie's opinion of civilization is not great.]

Oh, the rules make all the difference; duels and battles at least seem romantic a hundred years on. I suppose they weren't exactly a walk in the park at the time, though.

They were barbaric, no matter how many rules you piled on top. No matter how you look at it, it was two men shooting at each other instead of making the effort to be civilized.

[He doesn't really consider his little spats with Jack to be duels when they were done in such a good-willed manner and with no intention to really harm.]

No doubt it's best as the stuff of fiction. However barbaric duels might be, though, at least everyone involved knows he might not walk away unscathed — it's hard to walk into one by accident.

A man was more likely to die of accident or disease than in battle, in the navy.

Makes sense enough. Pack enough men into such close quarters and send them climbing up those tall sails, and you couldn't help but end up with some illness and injury.

All it takes is for someone to slice open his hand at dinner.

And suddenly everyone's dead or dying? There's drama for you, right there. It seems like a pretty precarious existence.

It was.

Did you like it?

[Oh wow, Kay. Two conversations and we're already getting into Archie's love-hate relationship with his career.]

Not the disease and blood poisoning, no. Nor the accidents.

[Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it's always been kind enough to Kay.]

No, I don't imagine many people would care for those parts. I meant the rest of it.

That would depend.

On?

The captain
The year
The commission

[Archie's state of mind.]

Precisely what you are referring to

There's no 'overall' option?

I liked it sometimes. ~~I would have liked it more had I been Horatio's~~ There isn't a simple answer.

I suppose not.

If you liked it sometimes, though, that's something.

I can't say I'd have done anything differently, but I can't say I'd have done everything the same.

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[written] /is from KY and knows THOSE Hatfields XD

[written] /hastens to note that Kay's opinions are not shared by her mun /o/

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[written] /wasn't born in KY, so.

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