Practice threading for Distant Skies!

[jurisimpudent]

I'll not waste my breath pointing out the utter idiocy of your plans to join this game; such words are, to my way of thinking, trite by virtue of their inevitability. Yes, you - like nearly everyone else - have comparatively limited time. And, of course, you wish to play the martyr over this, agonize and complain, so that others will know just how busy and important you are. I'm not going to enable such self-indulgent behavior.

Rather, I'll merely tell you this: if you think you're so utterly and terribly busy, if you think that you've so little time, then don't waste it further with whining. Instead, make it count. I've no use for someone who will dither rather than be a productive member of society.

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[jurisimpudent]

One can have a productive profession, to begin with. Teacher, for example. Police officer. Lawyer, perhaps.

[atrumcanis]

Counterfeiter. Tomb robber. Minister. All right, yes, got it, continue, allez!

[jurisimpudent]

No. With the exception of minister, those professions are patently non-productive. Indeed, they are parasitic.

[atrumcanis]

You what! Are you saying that patently productive parasite is out as well? What am I to do with all my training?

[jurisimpudent]

That isn't a career, Mr...

[atrumcanis]

Parasite.

[jurisimpudent]

I'm asking for your name.

[atrumcanis]

Sorry, are you insulting my surname?

[jurisimpudent]

Your surname is not "parasite." That's not a surname.

[atrumcanis]

Yeah, all right, except mine absolutely is. The most Noble and Ancient House of Parasite. So that's us at an impasse, mate.

[jurisimpudent]

Stop being a fool. I suspected you were being an idiot from the very start, and this only confirms what I believed.

[atrumcanis]

I could very well have your head off for that, you pirate-costumed prat! Insulting a Parasite! Calling a Parasite a fool--a head, if not half a head, or a hand, or a frill!

[jurisimpudent]

It's not an insult. It's an honest assessment of your low and lacking character, your failure in manner and deed, and your lack of intelligence.

[atrumcanis]

Yes, but at least I'm not a pirate.

[jurisimpudent]

I'm a prosecutor-in-training. A "pirate" is the opposite of who I am.

[atrumcanis]

Oh, sorry, mate--brilliant costume, in that case.

[jurisimpudent]

It's not a costume! They're my clothes!

[atrumcanis]

But you're-- oh! Oh, right, I see what you did there--you're a pirate, so you lied to me. Well done!

[jurisimpudent]

These are the clothes I will wear as a prosecutor.

[atrumcanis]

Right. A pirate prosecutor.

[jurisimpudent]

A regular prosecutor! I'll have nothing to do with pirates, unless I'm arresting them.

[atrumcanis]

Or dressing as them, apparently. Do you really get to arrest people!

[jurisimpudent]

...Hmph. No. But I get to put them in prison.

[atrumcanis]

Personally.

[jurisimpudent]

Correct.