Universe B Misc Bits

'Cross my palm with silver,' said the crone. 'And I will tell you what is in your future.'

'No, thank you,' Axel said wearily. 'We both know what will happen - you'll give me a prediction and it will either be something great or something terrible, and if it's great it will come true but at some horrible cost that will negate the benefits of the great thing, and if it's terrible I won't be able to avoid it, and in either case I'll be cursed. I'm not walking into that hole again.'

'I object to this kind of lazy stereotyping,' the witch said. 'That is not necessarily what will happen, you're just making assumptions.'

'No I'm not,' Axel said. 'You're a witch, and I know how witches behave.'

'"Witch" is an offensive term,' the witch said indignantly. 'That's not what we're called any more by enlightened folks. I demand an apology.'

'You're sitting there outside your covered wagon,' Axel said. 'With your witchy tools and charms and talismans in plain view, and you expect to be called... what exactly?'

'Spell engineer,' the witch said.

'Oh, piss off,' Axel said.

'Right,' the witch said, reaching into her bag. She pulled out a spell gun. 'I'm going to put a curse on you.'

'Very un-witchlike, I'm sure,' Axel said.

'Apologise,' the witch said, taking aim with her gun. 'Or I'll put a curse on you... I mean it.'

'Right,' Axel said, his patience entirely depleted. He withdrew his own spell gun from his RUCsack. 'You just go ahead, and I'll put a curse on you back.'

The witch screamed and pulled the trigger on her gun. Axel dodged just in time to avoid being struck, and the boulder behind him lost all weight and shot up into the stratosphere like a reverse meteorite.
'Screw you, you turnip-nosed bint,' Axel shouted, and fired his gun in the crone's direction. For once the human's aim was spot-on, and the gun's beam hit her dead-centre. Immediately her body lost all its rigidity and collapsed like a heap of deflated tyres.

The dark lord had learned to harness the power of Evil. The only problem with this was that every once in a while his power was depleted and he became nice and vulnerable until he could recharge.

From somewhere nearby he heard a voice. It was female and though it was close by there was something distant about it, as if the singer were calling out to him from another universe. It reminded him of the deep shadows gathering under trees on a summer's day, or a well whose waters sank deep into the earth where daylight couldn't reach, or of liquid silver. The voice sounded young yet the words sounded ancient.

• Mercury is the god of commerce, travel and thievery in Roman mythology. The planet probably received this name because it moves so quickly across the sky.
• Venus is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet is aptly named since it makes a beautiful sight in the sky, with only the Sun and the Moon being brighter.
• Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, many other names for our planet in other languages.
• Mars is the Roman god of War. The planet probably got this name due to its red color.
• Jupiter was the King of the Gods in Roman mythology, making the name a good choice for what is by far the largest planet in our solar system.
• Saturn is the Roman god of agriculture.
• Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god.
• Neptune, was the Roman god of the Sea. Given the beautiful blue color of this planet, the name is an excellent choice!
• Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Perhaps the planet received this name because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness.oman god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Perhaps the planet received this name because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness.
me because it moves so quickly across the sky.
• Venus is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet is aptly named since it makes a beautiful sight in the sky, with only the Sun and the Moon being brighter.
• Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, many other names for our planet in other languages.
• Mars is the Roman god of War. The planet probably got this name due to its red color.
• Jupiter was the King of the Gods in Roman mythology, making the name a good choice for what is by far the largest planet in our solar system.
• Saturn is the Roman god of agriculture.
• Uranus is the ancient Greek d#'Ceity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god.
• Neptune, was the Roman god of the Sea. Given the beautiful blue color of this planet, the name is an excellent choice!
• Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Perhaps the planet received this name because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness
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