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Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Shepherd's Crown': Epilogue / Afterwords

Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:15:09 +0000

Death List 41.01b The Shepherd's Crown Apparently past me decided to go out with another debut offering. Bold move past me. Coming to you from an 2015 Doubleday HC, running left to right from pg 1 to 333. It's a tough one. So here we go kids. Definitely died - on page Granny Weatherwax - died in her sleep (pg 35-38) 3 elves- killed by Tiffany (pg 239) Nightshade, Queen of the Elves - killed by Peaseblossom (pg 311) Peaseblossom - killed by the King of the Elves (pg 317) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Lord Swivel's father - died from drinking or related falling over (pg 15) a keen young philosoper in Ephebe - found one morning, most of him anyway, surrounded by a number of purring, and very well fed, cats (pg 56) Nanny Gripes - made Granny a witch (pg 77) Jim Twister's mother - Tiffany was with her when she was going (pg 137) Becky Pardon's granddad - died (pg 157) Judy - died (pg 163) a person - Nanny had spent the night at a deathbed (pg 242) 2 children - killed by a man in some hamlet, Spickle, Spackle, something like that (pg 243) a man - hung for killing 2 children (pg 243) a husband - died years ago (pg 259) Might have died a husband - trampled by a bad-tempered young bull (pg 134) Mr Slack - slack enough to lose his body (pg 216) a trader - encounters the elves 'Aargh!' (pg 220) a little girl - wandered into the river (pg 220) an unwary traveller - dancing to elven music that would never stop (pg 220) Death toll? Old men left behing when their wives died. (pg 108) Taking the paid away from those nearing the end of their days. (pg 140) Elves were skilled at keeping their playthings alive, sometimes for weeks. (pg 161) Riding the flumes. Some, of course, never got the chance to say anything to anyone ever again after an early mistake on the logs. (pg 213) The lumberjacks were not men who would run away from a fight, and the terrible metal of their axes destroyed more than one elf. (pg 217) Elves killed by the miller of Stank. (pg 219) The elves kill their Queens. (pg 230) The many battles and campaigns against the dwarves and trolls that Mr Sideways had been involved in. (pg 274) The battle for Lancre, against the elves. Covered in swarth, shot by Magrat's crossbow, flying yarrow stalks shot down, spells unleashed, Nanny and her boots with nails, Petulia boring, gyrfalcon to face etc (pg 303-305) Battle for the Chalk. Feegles against the elves. (pg 315) That seems to be it? Huh. This is... weird. Now what am I going to do? One last call for additions/corrections/cash money? For old times sake? You've been an wonderf^Waudience. R 'fin' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Raising Steam': Part 25

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:28:08 +0000

Aaaaand off we go again: Death toll? In the past there had been so much war, far too much. (pg 19) Lord Vetinari's coach was hijacked by assassins. (pg 20) Hundreds of years of trolls and dwarfs trying to kill one another. (pg 25) Killing in the darkness by those bastard deep-downers and delvers. (pg 26) A sudden fall of dark toffee. (pg 35/36) Plenty of orphans anxious for a new home in their country. (pg 51) In the end there were only two casualties among the wedding party. The rest of the attack? (pg 51/52) A second clacks tower had been torched. (pg 66) Two more clacks towers were torched. No one has died except for the dwarfs. (pg 78/79) Rival engineers are making all the mistakes Ned's father did. Including the fatal ones? (pg 87) Bandit attacks on the journey to Uberwald. (pg 95) Goblins eaten by bandits. (pg 167) Moist and the goblins attacked the dwarfs who killed the railway workers. There were goblin fatalities as well as dwarf.(pg 173) There was a mine collapse. (pg 201) When dwarfs schism they schism. Others had already fled and died. (pg 205) People who believed that if they held out their palm to the oncoming locomotiveit would stop for them immediately. Were they *on* the tracks at the time? (pg 242) The delvers attacked the trains. (pg 271/272) Both lots are heading for the tanty (pg 279) All of them? Another group of delvers attacking the train. There were screams, sometimes high pitched, as the delvers lost their hold and fell down either under the train or into the water still fighting the speedy goblins. (pg 307) The foe is either fleeing or dead. (pg 308) A number of Grags, delvers, dwarfs killed by the Flyers exploding boiler. (pg 316/317) Yet another train battle. (pg 346-350) Such grags as were alive or weren't definately dead were trussed up. (pg 350) A certain clash of opinion between dwarf factions. (pg 354/355) Killer John Wagstaff - An accuracy of naming? (pg 372) The Undead Lady Margolotta - vampire Otto Chriek - vampire Captain Sally von Humpeding - also vampire Aaaaand we've reached the terminus for our journey today. How went the deathspotting? Collect the set? R 'chuff' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Raising Steam': Part 25

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:26:55 +0000

Death List 40.01b Raising Steam Now coming into the station the penultimate list of the season. Fresh out of the yard it's a shiny 2013 Doubleday HC, running left to right from pg 11 to 375, and making all regular stops. All aboard! Definitely died - on page Mr Simnel - disappeared in a cloud of furnace parts and flying metal, all enveloped in a pink steam (pg 12) Blodwen Footcracker - killed by delvers (pg 52) another member of the wedding party - killed by delvers (pg 52) a dwarf - very, very dead (pg 65) two delvers - killed by goblins (pg 107) 9 workers - killed by dwarfs (pg 172) 3 dwarfs - killed by Moist (pg 173) a dwarf - killed by Iron Girder, filling the aire with a pink fog (pg 190) Jed Wesley - killed buggering around with a steam contraption (pg 197) Crucible Wesley - killed buggering around with a steam contraption (pg 197) a dwarf - the knives got her before she stumbled (pg 201) a train driver - killed in a train collision (pg 242) a dwarf - throat cut in the darkness by a delver (pg 278) two corpses - dead (pg 320) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Dick's maternal grandfather - on his deathbed (pg 16) Dick's paternal grandfather - a bit slapdash like his father (pg 87) Bedwyr's father - the old boy was dead (pg 105) a baby - lost during delivery (pg 275) another grag - killed by Aeron (pg 354) Might have died two gargs - heads smacked together by Bluejohn then thrown off the train (pg 347) another garg - fell from the carriage on to the tracks below (pg 349) a couple - Lady Margotta made a couple of examples (pg 351) This trip is long. We now pause for water and refreshments...

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Snuff': Part 26

Mon, 2 Dec 2019 14:55:41 +0000

That makes sense in the "Might have died" section, or at least as I tend to use it. And that is a perfectly valid add. Added.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Snuff': Part 26

Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:08:33 +0000

We're baaaaaaaack: Death toll? Treasure-hunters plundering goblin settlements and the retaliation by the goblins themselves, has coloured human-gobiln relationships even to the present day. (pg 11) "The dreadful algebra of necessity" and the unggue pot called "soul of tears". (pg 11/185-187) Whom may die so that some may live. Drugs that make trolls heads explode. Probably fatal even for trolls. (pg 11) On the streets if you don't learn fast you're dead. (pg 41) Suspicious-looking burial mounds. Often contain the dead. (pg 45) Hangman's Hill. It's right there on the tin. (pg 47) Sam Vimes was no stranger to death. Suicides, murders, hangings. (pg 50) Some days are bad days. (pg 212) The Ramkin family crypt. Those grandfathers and grandmothers down the centuries.(pg 51) Lord Rust, without whose unique grasp of strategy and tactics several wars would not have been so bloodily won. (pg 62) Should have gone for the Marquis of Fantailer. That has been carves on mnay a gravestone. (pg 82) The Light Dragons, Makepeace is the only one left. (pg 92) The lime pit next to the Tanty Gallows. (pg 106) No major murders. So... (pg 118) You don't last long in the military as a killer. (pg 123) Makepeace has seen too much killing is his time. (pg 125) The yellow grass weevil of Howondaland has been known to enter the skill via the ears, lay its eggs in the victim's brain and leave the poor victim hallucinating continuously until it exits via the nostrils. Death inevitably ensues. (pg 143) They're very good at getting skulls scrupulously clean. Sam Vimes has killed people. He likes to think he tried not to. Presumably we've not seen them all. (pg 153) What happened to the goblins 3 years ago. (pg 163) A man was hung for the contents of his cellar. The contents of which Vimes would not burden Feeney with. There may have been a death involved there then. (pg 165) The goblin family of Miss Beedle's mother were all slaughtered. (pg 180) Lord Justice Hangnail, "criminals always lie" and involved in the rope industry. (pg 206) Crystal Slam, taken by trolls a few times and they drop down dead. Manufacture is a hanging offense. (pg 218) Giving King's evidence, it's death by hanging if you lied. (pg 220) According to the Omnians, murder was the third crime ever committed. (pg 246) The Goblin deaths at the tobacco farm in Howandaland. (pg 259) The Glorious Peggy was blown out of the water by a gas buildup. (pg 286) Victims of the vicious and inventive murderers that Vimes has dragged to justice. (pg 287-288) Stratford has killed maybe sixteen people, not including goblins. (pg 294) Mr Trooper's clients. The first time the goblins were taken. (pg 342) We're done? We're done. There's quite a bit to digest there. Did someone bring the weevils? Contributions? You know what to do. R 'hang' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Snuff': Part 26

Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:07:09 +0000

Death List 39.01b Snuff Debut Death List Season continues. It's Debut Death Lists all the way down? This sort of past me behaviour is really not quite up to Snuff. The numbering comes from a fresh 2011 Doubleday HC with pages 9 through 378. Bring on the old Treachery: Definitely died - on page a goblin - head mounted on the pub's wall (pg 56) The Pleasant Contrast of the Orange and Yellow Petals in the Flower of the Gorse - murdered by Stratford (pg 142) additional goblin - Wee Mad Arthur "ended its suffering" (pg 259) another goblin - died on the barge (pg 283) a pirate - the sound you heard was one of the pirates dying (pg 290-292) Stratford - killed by Wilkins (pg 366) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Stump's great grandfather - his skull is kept in the hermit's grotto (pg 40-41) Stump's father - his skull is also in the grotto (pg 40-41) Stump's grandfather - also residing in the grotto (pg 40-41) Sybil's granddad - when he was alive (pg 41) One of Sybil's Great Uncles - killed in a duel (pg 41) Ming Chang - died a few months ago (pg 110) Mr Upshot - died (pg 112/165) Mistress Slightly - dead (pg 147) Mr Beedle - killed in the Klatchian war (pg 161) a man - hung (pg 165) The wife of the Marquis of Fantailer - murdered by the Marquis (pg 174) Wilkin's mother - passed away (pg 205) a baby goblin - the "soul of tears" unggue pot attached to Colon (pg 234) Jethro Jefferson's dad - died (pg 342) a guard - throat cut by Stratford (pg 363) the last snarkenfaugister - died in a freak pencil-sharpener accident (pg 368) Might have died a pirate - Mister Harrison got one of them (pg 291) Mister Harrison - stabbed by another pirate (pg 291) A quick break as this list runs long...

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'I Shall Wear Midnight': Epilogue / Author's Note

Wed, 2 Oct 2019 13:27:15 +0000

Huh. I am not sure how I missed Macintosh. But you're certainly correct, at the very least he died there in the fire. The Cunning Man I didn't count because, as you say, he's just banished and will, inevitably, be back. Added.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'I Shall Wear Midnight': Epilogue / Author's Note

Wed, 2 Oct 2019 12:18:58 +0000

Death List 38.01b I Shall Wear Midnight Once more with a Interwebs Debut Death List. It does seem like past me started coasting a little towards the end there. Slacker. At least it was down on compressed vegetable matter this time? It's numbered by way of an 2010 Doubleday HC with pages 9 through 345. Time to leap into the fire. Definitely died - on page The Baron - died (pg 80) Mrs Coble - fell into the cellar (pg 210) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Baby Petty - killed by Mr Petty (pg 30) An old woman up near Slice - died in her bed (pg 38) Mrs Snapperly - died in the snow (pg 61) The Baroness - passed on (pg 71) The Baron's father (the Baron) - died (pg 80) Brian's Nan - died (pg 84) The old blacksmith - helped to his death (pg 110) Mr Proust - passed on twenty-five years ago (pg 125) An old lady - beaten to death (pg 137/138) The King of Ankh Morepork - decapitated by Stoneface Vimes (pg 155) A witch - burned at the stake (pg 162) The witchfinder - thrust out of the world (pg 163) William's grandad - died (pg 192) Mr Coble - died (pg 209) Mavis - a freak accident involving a flight of stairs, a cat and a scythe (pg 244) Death toll? Smoothed an old man's path to his grave. (pg 17) Probably not just the one. There was still a torture chamber in the castle and even though it hadn't been used for hundreds of years... (pg 26) Darker Crimes against the Music. (pg 34) Witches being burned, being pressed flat on the ground with lots of stones. (pg 142) The Tanty. The inmates and the victims of inmates. They killed people for a hobby, or for a god, or for something to do, or because it wasn't a very nice day. (pg 149) Mr Proust was a hangman. (pg 150) What was found in the King of Ankh Moreporks private dungeon. Possibly not everyone lived? (pg 155) A witchfinder, a book-burner and a torturer. (pg 160/161) Suddenly witches were everywhere, but not for long. (pg 162) Those taken over by the Cunning Man. (pg 163) Witches that have fought the Cunning Man and died. (pg 164) Deceased Feegles and their complicated theology. (pg 165) Lord Rust's men. (pg 175) Seating the ghosts. Avoiding another massacre. (pg 186) Feegles vs humans. Taking a shovel to a Feegle mound.(pg 269/270) The victims of Macintosh. (pg 280/281) The Undead Mavis - a ghost Skeleton (formerly screaming) - a skeleton The First Duke - a ghost Aaaaand out again. Sins of omission? Bring it! R 'older' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Unseen Academicals': Part 26

Thu, 8 Aug 2019 01:22:14 +0000

Buy things! Aaaaand we're back. Play ball! Death toll? A certain prowess with the stiletto dagger. (pg 9) Sometime people left in disgrace, in a box or, in a few cases, in bits. but there was no tradition of resigning at all. (pg 23) It has been the cause of a number of homicides. (pg 26) Play until full time, first man dead or first score. (pg 28) So there were all those big battles. (pg 35) The Dark War had engulfed Far Uberwald. (pg 36) A leader who was not stupid, mad or dead. (pg 44) Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted. (pg 52) When a wizard who blinked died. (pg 54) The used them to kill. (pg 58) Any unreformed bloodsucker who tried to make a killing in the city would be hunted down by the people who knew exactly how they thought and where they hung out. (pg 59) They came in thousands, like lice, killing everything and eating the dead, including theirs. (pg 60) Unofficial evil wizards. (pg 82) Big pole, spattered with red at the bottom. (pg 87) The unofficial motto of the Lady Sybill Free Hospital was 'Not everybody dies'. (pg 97) If it takes an Igor to bring you back, you were dead. Briefly dead, it's true, which is why the murderer will be briefly hanged. (pg 98) The losing team was throttled. (pg 129) Wizards exploding in a cloud of pomposity. (pg 198) Selecting an Archchancellor. (pg 202) Early blokes kicked a dead enemy's head around. Unlikely but...(pg 208/234) Three dead languages, and the people who spoke them? (pg 223) Just about every genuine battle between wizards has hitherto resulted in wholesale destruction. (pg 226) Lord Vetinari is challenged very frequently. It's just that they don't win. (pg 228) The Loko Business. (pg 228) An expeditionary force into Far Uberwald. (pg 229) Orcs all got killed off hundreds of years ago. (pg 271/277) The battle of Orc Deep. (pg 281) A lot of really interesting stuff happened under the Evil Emperor. (pg 284) When King's fight Kings. (pg 284) We used to fight dwarfs once. (pg 286) Hen and Chickens Field. Where people were hanged. (pg 288) All of the Orcs were hunted down after the war. (pg 309) Pepe has done more damage with a broken champagne bottle. (pg 317) It was a bloody war. (pg 321) Mrs Atkinson, surely one of the most feared Faces who had ever wielded a sharpened umbrella with malice aforethought. (pg 327) A terrible mining accident and a rather unusual rock slide. (pg 333) Men killing one another and beasts tearing decent folks apart. (pg 368) The arena of the Hippo, oceans of blood over the centuries. (pg 382) Forgiveness is the name of Pastor Oat's double headed battle-axe. For Mister Oats the crusade against evil is not a metaphor. (pg 395) The Undead A Zombie who worked in the Kitchen (pg 37) Charlie - Skeleton You think it's all over? Well yes. Yes it is. Unless we're going to penalties? R 'offside' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Unseen Academicals': Part 26

Thu, 8 Aug 2019 01:21:12 +0000

Death List 37.01b - Unseen Academicals There's only one Death List 37.01b - Unseen Academicals! Ooooooonnnnnly one Death List 37.01b - Unseen Academicals! It comes from a Doubleday HC of an 2009 vintage, playing a classic pg 9 to 400 formation. Let us commence the listing of death! It is now! Definitely died - on page Nutt - whacked hard with a club (pg 94/97) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Juliet Stollop's mother - dead (pg 12) The previous Master of Traditions - dead for two hundred years (pg 23) A senior director - from having his head from his head shut repeatedly in quite a small filing cabinet (pg 26) Archchancellor Preserved Bigger's Bequest - dead then (pg 29) Widow Crowdy's husband - dead (pg 50) Three men - hanged last week (pg 58) Evans the Striped - evaporated (pg 62) Dave Likely - killed by The Dollies (pg 70/92) Glenda's mother - luck to die with all her fingers (pg 104/106) Charlie - he's dead (pg 139) A person - head severed (pg 242) An Orc - died (skull from the battle of Orc Deep) (pg 281/282) Trev's mum - dead (pg 341) Might have died Bishop Horn realizing that alligator quiche was an unwise choice. (pg 191) Uh oh. Looks like we're going into extra-time! Right after these messages from our sponsors!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Making Money': Chapter 13, Part II / Epilogue

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:46:55 +0000

Death List 35.01b - Making Money Money! Get Away! Get a new death list right now and you're okay! Sorry? It's a brand new Collectors Edition list. That's gotta be worth investing in right? A 2007 Doubleday Hardcover investment, stretching the dollar from page 9 to 349. The payoff starts... now.

Definitely died - on page Mrs Topsy Lavish - known to be very ill. (pg 74) Mr Morpeth - crossbow shot to the head from Cranberry (pg 88/178) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Dyslexic Alphabet Killer - page 1 of the Tanty Bugle. Presumably hung. (pg 27) Person A - victim of the Dyslexic Alphabet Killer. (pg 27) Person W - victim of the Dyslexic Alphabet Killer. (pg 27) Former Master of the Royal Mint - died at age ninety, of a schism of the heart. (pg 30) Sir Joshua Lavish - died in his own bed, aged eighty, after a very large meal of devilled oysters. (pg 31) Mr Shady 1-17 - hereditary foremen. Man who made the eyebrow training machine - poisoned by Cosmo Lavish. (pg 111) A couple of mysterious murders - had helped get Vetinari the Patricianship. (pg 111) Boy in the hat shop - killed my Cranberry in a drunken brawl. (pg 113/116) The brother of Cosmo's great-grandfather - pushed over the balcony. (pg 121) Harry King's last clerk - caught fiddlin' (pg 150) "Owlswick Jenkins" - hung. (pg 177) A man - dying of fear as Cribbens prised out his teeth. (pg 183) Professor Flead - the late Professor Flead. (pg 198) Charlie - he's been at the University for _ever_ (pg 213) Fent - Professor Flead's concubine. Died more than 300 years ago. (pg 218) Professor Cranberry - dead. (pg 307/312) Ribcage Jack - kicked to death. (pg 307/312) Mr Bent's mother - died. (pg 329) Death toll? The Tanty Bugle was noted for its coverage of murders (preferably 'orrible), trials, prison escapes, and the world that in general is surrounded by a chalk outline. (pg 27) To get a job at the Mint you had to wait until someone died. (pg 40) Things with the names of dead men on them. (pg 86) Cosmo Lavish - Probably bought death when he needed it. (pg 89) City of Um was in first war with the Ice giants. People most likely died. Subsequent wars too. (pg 198) In Professor Flead's day you had to find your own corpse or make one. (pg 218) The Umnians were quite creative in human sacrifice. (pg 221) Dr Hans Forvold created a revolutionary living-brain extractor. (pg 246) Assassins' School Scholarship boys got bullied. Some of them survived. (pg 303) One of Vetinari's predecessors had people torn apart by wild tortoises. (pg 334) The Undead Mr Slant - zombie Otto Chriek - vampire Cha-ching! You can take this one to the bank. Queries? Questions? I am sure to take an... interest. R 'mintyfresh' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Wintersmith': Chapter 13, Part II

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:23:15 +0000

Death List 34.00b - Wintersmith Tis the season! The season of debut electronic editions of Death Lists. Still. Past me was turning into quite the slacker. It's that most wonderful time of the year? With the freezing rain and the ice pellets and the oceans of slush[1] and the... Uh... sorry... where was I? Ohright I was with the 2006 Doubleday Hardcover edition. With pages running from page 9 to 399. Everybody dance now! Definitely died - on page Miss Treason - died on Friday, just past before six in the morning (pg 118/170) Mr Tissot - he was dead (pg 248) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Roland's mother - is dead (pg 344) a man - the Wintersmith is freezing the sweat on a dying man, lost in a terrible blizzard (pg 357) Death toll? Witches drowned or burned in the past. (pg 52/56) Petulia has sat up with the dead and dying. Some humans. (pg 154/155) People died. It was sad, but they did. (pg 155) Tiffany sitting up with the dead and the dying. (pg 162) The war in Klatchistan. (pg 262) When Anoia was a volcano goddess. It was good work apart from the screaming. (pg 263) Lots of poor seamen got drownded. They hit an iceberg in the fog. (pg 312) No man has ever gone over the Lancre falls and lived to tell the tale. Except for Mr Parkinson. (pg 331) The Wintersmith is a gale wrecking ships, freezing pipes in a snowbound town... (pg 357) Roland's ancestors had come to own the Chalk by killing the kings who thought they did. (pg 357/358) The Underworld. Dead when you shouldn't be and there's no place to go. (pg 360) The Queen of Fairyland has pets that feed you dreams until you die. (pg 368) Is it spring yet? R 'listsmith' id [1] Band name.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Thud!': Part 23

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:32:29 +0000

Death List 34.00b - Thud! It looks like it's fresh lists all the way down now. At least past me managed to write this one down already? Leaving this preamble to come hot off the press(ing of keyboard) and stumble back into the light. We are, as is the way amongst out people, numbering from a Doubleday Hardcover, this time coming from 2005. Pages running from 9 to a respectable 362. Into the Listing Dark... Definitely died - on page Gunder Ironcrust - killed with an axe (pg 169) another two dwarfs - killed with an axe (pg 169) Lars Legstrong - throat cut (pg 173) a deep dwarf - stabbed with an ice knife by Wilikins (pg 223) another deep dwarf - incinerated by a dragon / exploding flamethrower (pg 226) once more a deep dwarf - suicide (pg 230) Helmclever - died of fear andor guilt (pg 262/263) a dwarf - very dead, stalagmite had formed (pg 323) deep dwarf guard - exploding flamethrower (pg 325) the slowest four deep dwarf guards - went down to the axe and the sword (pg 326) B'hrian Bloodaxe - died in the caves (pg 345) Diamond King of Trolls - died in the caves (pg 346) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Methodia Rascal - Born, painted famous picture, thought he was a chicken, died (Pg 26) Lance-Constable Horace Hitherto - walloped on the back of the head (pg 149) Garg Hamcrusher - killed with a mining hammer by another Garg (pg 256) Sybil's late aunt - she's a late aunt (pg 281) Might have died a troll - Chrysoprase said it would not be a problem making sure Vimes never laid eyes on him again, and indicated a small box (pg 111) two more deep dwarf guards - Vimes whirled the sword around in a circle (pg 326) Death toll? Discussions on the vexed area of turf issues by the Shamlegger Street Rude Boys with the young men from Rope Street. (pg 12) Koom Valley Days in Ankh-Morpork - there had been some deaths. (pg 32) Sally's family had a history of throat-biting. (pg 53) Koom Valley - There have been 15 or 16 battles referred to by that name. (pg 142) The first battle, interrupted by a thunderstorm, a flash flood full of boulders. (pg 235) Dead dwarfs cremated at the end of the valley. (pg 278) Hundreds of dwarfs and trolls swept up in famous flood and many had never been found again (pg 295) The dwarfs and trolls now covered by stalagmites and stalactites. Cockbill St stopping the territorial agression of the Pigsty Hill Dead Marmoset Gang. (pg 229) Sybil's great grandmother once cooked, personally, a full dinner for eighteen in a military redoubt that was entirely surrounded by bloodthirsty Klatchians. Her grandmother defended the embassy in Pseudopolis against a mob. (pg 281) Visitors to Koom Valley. (pg 305/306) The Undead Otto Chriek - Vampire John Smith (aka Count Vargo St Gruet von Vilinus) - Vampire Sally (aka Salacia Deloresista Amanita Trigestatra Zeldana Malifee... von Humperding) - Vampire Thud! R 'Where's my List?' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Going Postal': Chapter 14 / Epilogue

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:49:36 +0000

Oh I'm sure they definitely died. For some Reason (probably) in the Feet of Clay list I gave them their own section. So this is just following along with that. Though it's possible visiting with Death should move them to the full list also. Hmm.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Going Postal': Chapter 14 / Epilogue

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:41:01 +0000

Death List 33.00b - Going Postal Once again a first day covering of a list. A proof if you will. Or indeed if you won't. Proof of what? Proof that I can be really bad with preambles. So let us quickly preamble our way through this 2004 Doubleday Hardcover edition. With pages running from page 7 to a concluding 352. Delivery time! Definitely died - on page John Dearheart - fell to his death from a clacks tower. (pg 9) Mr Gryle - thrown into the Sorting Engine. (pg 239) Reacher Gilt - fell to his death. (pg 352) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) a bloke who made his way down the prison drain - fished out and most likely hung. (pg 13) Mr Mutable - fell down into the big hall from the fifth floor. Head first, it was a bit... splashy. (pg 80) Mr Sideburn - fell down the back stairs and broke his neck. (pg 80) Mr Ignavia - they said it was his heart. (pg 80) Mr Whobblebury - an industrial accident. His head was all over the wall. (pg 82) Frederick - passed away ten years ago. (pg 90) Sadie Parker - buried up in Small God's for the last five years. (pg 90) King Het of Thut - the land of Thut slid under the sea 9,000 years ago. Possibly not how he died. (pg 153) The Priests of Upsa - Upsa was destroyed by the explosion of Mount Shiputu. They might have died before that. (Pg 154) The Fishermen Kings of the Holy Ult - Anghammarad worked for them before sliding under the sea. (pg 154) Professor Goitre, Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy - he took Early Death (pg 173) Crispin Horsefy - mauled to death in his house. (pg 177) Moist's Father - dead. (pg 204) Moist's Mother - dead. (pg 204) clacksman - died on Tower 93. (pg 212) another clacksman - fell from Tower 93. (pg 212) Mr Gryle's grandmother - he ate his grandmother, gnawed her bones. (pg 223) one of Igor's previous masters - stepped into a pit lined with spikes. (pg 273) Might have died someone - Moist was certain he saw someone fall off a clacks tower. (pg 192) Death toll? The Flotillas of the Dead. Dead ships with their skeleton crews. (pg 7) Sometimes clacksmen thought they could fly. (pg 8) Daniel "One Drop" Trooper the hangman has hanged dozens of people. (pg 14) Rival clacks companies have failed quite quickly, sometimes in distressing circumstances. Falls from the tops of clacks towers, and so on. So not just John Dearheart? (pg 74) Those whose deaths were hastened by Moist's actions. (pg 95) The souls of dead linesmen stay on the Trunk. (pg 99) The Hour of the Dead, Just before Dawn. That's when people die. (pg 210) One man has died for every three towers standing. (pg 328) Burglers who get *into* Harry King's yards at night. Saves on having to feed the dogs. (pg 129) The land of Thut slid under the sea 9,000 years ago. (pg 153) Upsa was destroyed by the explosion of Mount Shiputu. (Pg 154) Many Kings. Many Empires. Many Gods. Many Gods. All Gone. All Things Go. (pg 155) A lot of the older Wizards are taking Early Death. (pg 174) Lady Sybil Free Hospital, some people don't die. (pg 234) Not as many mountain bandits as there were. Never found out what wiped them out. (pg 284) The Undead Mr Slant - zombie The Golems Anghammarad - exploded. (pg 241)
List *posted*. Which is what lists are for really. R 'glom of nit' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Going Postal': Chapter 14 / Epilogue

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:31:45 +0000

I would guess delivering letter(s) to the gods?

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'A Hat Full of Sky': Chapter 15

Fri, 7 Sep 2018 19:25:34 +0000

Two posts for Arthur within a minute of each other. Which one is the burner account!? One pondered Arthur and couldn't decide. But there's probably enough wossname for their own place. I will add. Yeah those invisible footsteps should be included too. I must have fallen asleep there. R 'adding up' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'A Hat Full of Sky': Chapter 15

Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:30:43 +0000

Death List 32.00b - A Hat Full of Sky And once again it is time for the Death List trials. Another debut entry because a past *someone* found it too much effort to transcribe a scibbled paper note to a scribbled electronic notepad. Tcha. What kind of example is that for the kids of today? The kind that comes from an 2004 Doubleday Hardcover edition. With pages running the gamut of page 9 to 349. Which is a lot of gamut right there let me tell you. Which is a lot of gamut right there. What? Bringing on the list ye scunner! Definitely died - on page Miss Level - the Hiver... killed (pg 204) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Miss Level's mother - died not long after she was born (pg 85) Professor Sensibility Bustle - all that could be found of the Professor was buried in a jar in the old Rose Garden (pg 96) Widow Tussy's husband - *Widow* Tussy (pg 111) Toby Weavall - dead for 15 years (pg 114) Mary Weavall - died quite young (pg 114) 12 husbands - killed by a Desert Queen with scorpion sandwiches (pg 240) Nancy Weavall - dead (pg 265) Tiffany's other grandmother - died before she was born (pg 286) Might have died Miss Level's father - at sea and never came back (pg 85) The so-called Archchancellor and the College Council - what the Hiver-possessed Professor Bustle did to them (pg 96) Mrs Happen's son - lost at sea thirty years ago (pg 311) Death toll? Those that get to know the Feegle and survive. Sooo the other ones. (pg 9) The ancient kings whose burial mounds are lived in by Feegles. (pg 11) Victims of the Hiver. The brain that was doing the thinking for it had died. They always died. (pg 15) The voices of Feegles that died long ago. (pg 44) The ill-fated First Expedition to the Loko Region. (pg 93) Sittin' up all night with some poor old man who's leavin' the world. (pg 250) The type of Royalty that *is* beheaded or has something nasty done to them with a red-hot poker. (pg 256) There when old folk are dying. (pg 320) That certainly was an Trial right there. Challenges? R 'what a list is' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Monstrous Regiment': Part 23

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:48:12 +0000

Aaaand we're back. Death toll? Too many young men had left over the last few years, and not enough had come back. (pg 12) There was always a war. Usually it was a border dispute. Sometimes it was bigger. (pg 13) A few pockets of resistance in some of the more inaccessible areas of the keep, but they are being dealt with. (pg 19) Several clacks towers were destroyed. (pg 21) Borogravia fights everybody. (pg 21) Sometimes, now, smaller parties of men came back. (pg 36) The Town of Lipz. Viciously attacked. (pg 50) All this stuff is off dead men. (pg 71) Officers'll get you killed. (pg 74) Casualties are mounting. (pg 104) Igor's passed through Munz. Accidents happened, fast, sudden accidents. (pg 134) An arrow dropped through your mates head. Jackrum is probably talking from experience. (pg 147) Heard the 10th got wiped out. Might be somewhat true. (pg 152) Won't be the first Officer I've killed. Sergeant Towering *and* Jackrum. (pg 153) Kicked a lot of backsides over the years. (pg 160) The remnants of the Tenth took part in a brave but, frankly, suicidal attempt to retake Kneck Keep. Most of the survivors are prisoners of war. (pg 174) The Alliance are fed up with slaughtering the Borogravians. (pg 175) Last year Bororavia invaded Zlobenia *again*. (pg 175) Almost impossible to bring someone back to life. (pg 190) Jackrum had been in a few famous last stands. (pg 199) The Working School. It is unlikely everyone made it out alive. (pg 156) Some of the older Women wore the Motherhood Medal, awarded to those women whose sons had died for Borogravia. (pg 261) Amazon warriors of Samorthrip, merciless in battle. (pg 279) The female bodyguards of King Samuel of Howandaland, deadly with the spear. (pg 279) Girls sent to the flour mill who never came back. (pg 287) Back to the War. Prisoners freed from the keep. (pg 292) The Keep was shooting at itself. (pg 299) Jackrum and forces arrived at the gates as the other Borogravians did, got 'em coming and going. (pg 309) Major Derbi had a famous victory over the enemy. (pg 312) Colonel Cumabund led against a detachment of Kopelies. (pg 312) Jackrum has waded through seas of blood for the Duchess. (pg 316) Jackrum: Saw the cavalry break at the Battle of Slomp, part of the Thin Red Line that turned aside the Heavy Brigade at Sheep's Drift, saved the Imperial flag from four real bastards at Raladan, met very interesting people who they mostly subsequently killed. (pg 341) The Working School burned down. Fatalities? (pg 346) The Undead Constable Reg Shoe - Zombie Mal - Vampire General Puhloaver - Zombie Brigadier Galosh - Zombie Major-general the Lord Kanapay - Zombie General Annorac - Zombie Other zombies in the lower crypt - Zombies Otto Chriek - Vampire It was quite the scribbled down upon piece(s) of paper (also an Abomination?) let me tell you. Let's workshop this puppy! Uh... ...figuratively? R 'I'm late! I'm late!' id

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'Monstrous Regiment': Part 23

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:35:52 +0000

Death List 31.00b - Monstrous Regiment Soooo who has two thumbs (probably an Abomination) and discovered on Sunday that they hadn't, it would appear, a previously crafted and workshopped list for this very tome? Spoiler: Vg'f zr! But hey, that would make this a world exclusive debut release? Yes! Let's go with that! A world exclusive that is not at all hurried and no doubt full of misfilngs and gratuitous errors of judgement! Taken from a vintage 2003 Doubleday Hardcover, from page 9 all the way through 352. Let us be off. Though caution is advised, the path may be bumpy. Definitely died - on page a soldier - poisoned (pg 142) Sargeant Towering - shot by Jackrum wiith a bow (pg 153) Definitely died - off page (ie referred to by someone) Polly's mother - died after a long illness (pg 9) Widow Chamber's husband - she's the Widow Chambers (pg 10) Duchess Annagovie - died (pg 24) The Young Duke - gored by a wild Pig (pg 24) a soldier - died in Polly's arms (pg 41) a person - it wasn't even his head (pg 44) a man - had just died (pg 59) Charcoal-burner - there was a great deal of blood (pg 116-117) Charcoal-burner's wife - there was a great deal of blood (pg 116-117) a soldier - ran into Jade head first (pg 142) 10 soldiers - killed by Jackrum at the Battle of Zop (pg 237) Nuggan - is dead (pg 258) a miller - died when flour mill blew up (pg 287) the miller's wife - died when flour mill blew up (p 287) a sentry - killed by Jackrum for a water bottle (pg 309) 5 soldiers - killed by Jackrum (pg 337) William - killed at Sepple (pg 340) the soldier who killed William - skewered by Jackrum (pg 340) Might have died a maid from The Working School - gone in three months, and Polly never found out why (pg 156) a captain - sliced by Jackrum (pg 309) It looks like we're going long here people. See you on the other side.