Why you should never give an elf a Vuvuzela, a treatise

[bythewaves]

Who: Maglor and all of you
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Huntress
When: Right Now

[ The gift basket got a curious look, and Maglor fished idly through it before uncovering some odd instruments.

Which he tries.

So sorry, everyone on the Huntress, you just got disturbed by the most annoying sound in the world

Later on, he'll also try some of the other instruments, which will lead to the whole Fleet being "treated" to ... well something rather unexpected from an elf ]

Comments

Voice

[bythewaves]

Sorry. It was in the gift basket, along with others - is it actually an instrument, then? Based on this sound, I would have thought it is more some sort of alarm!

Re: Voice

[english_dignity]

Not an instrument for music, that's for sure. They're for sporting events, and to be blown outside.

Whoever invented them deserves to be loved in an echoey room with a thousand of them.

Voice

[bythewaves]

For sport? [ He sounds so confused ] But it is a warning sound, rather than a cheerful one, I would have thought...

Re: Voice

[english_dignity]

Football, rugby, anything that's played in a stadium.

It's worse when you have several hundred of them all played at once.

Re: Voice

[bythewaves]

But that must be deafening! Would that not disrupt the game?

Re: Voice

[english_dignity]

Please, there's not a lot that could disrupt those matches.

Voice

[bythewaves]

Truly? Is the game itself that loud?

Voice

[english_dignity]

Between the crowds and the announcers, it really is. You can hear it from quite a distance away. But that's part of the fun.

Voice

[bythewaves]

It sounds a very large affair! It must be very popular then?

Voice

[english_dignity]

Extremely! Through most of the world, actually. It gives my peers and I something to compete with these days without battle.

Voice

[bythewaves]

Ah! That is well. It was both a source of puzzlement and sometimes grief, how often Men would turn to bite at each other. I am glad you found alternatives!

Voice

[english_dignity]

It's something we're very good at.

[Won't pretend he didn't enjoy a good battle from time to time. Especially when he could shoot certain bearded gits in the arse.]

War certainly still happens, but not nearly so often. And sports certainly come with less of a price in lives.

Voice

[bythewaves]

I noticed. [ Maglor says dryly ]

But anything that reduces the cost of lives is a good thing, I think.

Voice

[english_dignity]

We're in agreement there. And it's easy enough to kick a football into Francis' face without involving my population.

[Fond smile at the thought.]

Voice

[bythewaves]

Who is Francis?

Re: Voice

[english_dignity]

France. The nation across the channel from me. I've had to deal with his nonsense since I was little.

voice

[bythewaves]

Ahhh. Rivals, as well as neighbours, then?

voice

[english_dignity]

It put it simply.

voice

[bythewaves]

It must be so strange to deal with each other as both people as well as warring nations. [ He muses ]

Do you have much will of your own, in that regard?

voice

[english_dignity]

Well of course we do.

For example, I'm now technically allied with that frog. That doesn't stop him from insulting me at every chance.

And breaking into my house to bother me when I'm doing my stitching.

voice

[bythewaves]

That is something, at least.

[ He does not laugh, because it would be rude ]

You sound almost like brothers.

voice

[english_dignity]

[Sounds absolutely scandalized and more than a little disturbed.]

Excuse me?!

voice

[bythewaves]

[ A soft laugh ]

Well it's not too dissimilar to how my brothers and I would sometimes behave.

voice

[english_dignity]

That git is most certainly nothing like a brother to me!

voice

[bythewaves]

As you say. [ Maglor doesnt quite laugh ]

I apologise.