{"id":6757,"date":"2019-09-04T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2019-09-01T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T02:47:59","slug":"jim-how-will-we-defend-this-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/jim-how-will-we-defend-this-place\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jim, How Will We Defend This Place&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>relied more on firepower than martial arts<\/li>\n<li>Rock and wiggle. Rock, then wiggle.<\/li>\n<li>a contact high<\/li>\n<li>taken a few too many painkillers<\/li>\n<li>small mouth with crooked teeth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 420 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jim, how will we defend this place if the fire eaters attack?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t bother lisping, because Jim didn&#8217;t seem to care whether it was me or Jason taped to the chair. In fact, he hardly seemed to care that I was speaking, all his attention focused on Violet or Harriet Donut. &#8220;They&#8217;ll send the Draconis Corps, Jim!&#8221; The guild&#8217;s most fearsome warriors, like ninjas who <em>relied more on firepower than martial arts<\/em> &#8212; the power of literal fire spewing from their faces.<\/p>\n<p>If Jim&#8217;s motive truly was to protect our sister, then he should have been treating me as an ally instead of a prisoner of war. Watching him try to argue with a mime, I concluded that if anyone was going to keep Domino from marrying Jem, it was going to have to be me. But I couldn&#8217;t do that if I was stuck in this chair, so I focused on working my way free. <em>Rock and wiggle. Rock, then wiggle.<\/em> Gradually the tape loosened.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jim and Violet or Harriet Donut spun through a silent pasodoble as he tried to jab her in the neck with a syringe. Jem and Jem sustained their cobra yoga, effectively neutralizing the rest of the mimes in the chamber. The weirdness of the scene before me made me wonder if I was getting <em>a contact high<\/em>, like I&#8217;d had a blood transfusion from someone who&#8217;d <em>taken a few too many painkillers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of Clyde the mime-dog in my lap only deepened my distrust of my own senses, as he &#8220;barked&#8221; soundlessly, working his <em>small mouth with crooked teeth<\/em> bearing the message he had been conditioned not to voice.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>relied more on firepower than martial arts Rock and wiggle. Rock, then wiggle. a contact high taken a few too many painkillers small mouth with crooked teeth Tune in next time part 420 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Jim, how will we defend this place if the fire eaters attack?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t bother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,112,403],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-mime","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6764,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/6764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}