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Keith leaned against his dragon’s muzzle, stroking one hand down the smooth cool scales in thought. The scales were cool, but the skin in between them was warm and softer. His dragon wasn’t as formidable as she looked outside of her size. These were weak spots in her plating and there were many of them. Making a good dragon was harder than he imagined.
“Great!” Keith suddenly broke into a broad smile. Harder than he imagined? He could imagine a lot of things and refine them. “Let’s go find Chel!”
“Read the manual.” Zaile grumbled as a large leatherbound book appeared in his hands. He handed it to Keith who scowled at the book and opened it quickly. Pages and pages full of words and only a few pictures. This was going to take a long time and how much of the book was gibberish that wasn’t even important?
“Is there a Cliffs Notes?” Keith whined slightly in Zaile’s direction.
“Read the manual.” Zaile replied in a no nonsense tone. It was important and he couldn’t help but feel he’d be held responsible if anything happened to Keith in his own mind.
9 thoughts on “Day 26 Part 3 Pg 18”
chibidoll
Or, better yet, a quick reference guide?
Greenwood Goat
How about a flash animation presented by cute, talking dragons?
MadMann135
not many people want to read the manual. I have seen adults asking kids how to do something when the manual is next to said adult and the kid pick up the manual and show it to said adult. I was said kid, I am an adult now and I still get that. Manuals are boring yes but useful.
Raynar
lol, actually I’m kindof the opposite, I read the manual to a couple of cars just because I found it interesting. If you understand something well enough you can make it do just about anything it can be made to do. I also read computer manuals and many other kinds of manuals. Unfortunately if you know too much everyone asks you to fix everything, which becomes a problem when you have other things to do. Sometimes it’s amusing though when the problem is obvious but even the tech department can’t figure it out. 😀
MalikTous
Given the same situation, Zaille would hear me subvoke ‘man relay’ and appear to go into trance as the manual included in the relay link appears for convenient browsing as i figure out how to both use it and keep it secure. (Protocol I’d try first is based on UNIX. If that didn’t work I’d look for how to list the directories (ls or dir), ask someone, or use the paper copy. I’ve had to rid far too many systems of malware and ‘1D10T’ user errors to consider it trivial.
HSishi
If I had to say “read the manual” again, I would say “READ THE F***ING MANUAL!!!”
Refugnic Eternium
It’s amusing to see how many people with an obvious computer background comment on this particular page.
Yeah, RTFM and DTARS (Don’t touch a running system) are the most fundamental truths if something with computers…or anything really…goes south.
Nice reference on the manpages, Malik.
Regarding the tech department…where I work, we finally got the Linux server we needed for our versioning system and testing platform…we DO have a tech department…but I’m still configuring most anything by myself. Why? Simply, cause I’m sick of waiting for things I can do myself just fine. So what if it gobbles up my actual work time, the time saved by a working system and gain in experience is worth it!
*Ahem*…there is no perfect creature in this world or any other. So he has ‘weak spots’? Much rather, he has ventilation. Any animal needs to transpire, one way or another.
Dogs do it by hanging out their tongue, humans cool their skin by sweating…now, seeing how a dragon is a creature of fire, I can imagine, that he has a lot of sweating to do in his natural habitat…and now try to imagine a dragon with a dog tongue.
nesu42
People who know what they’re doing read the manual.
People who only think they know what they’re doing don’t.
Wild Star
Wow, there’s no way anyone can imagine….*starts imagining ships sailing I a dark sea and bla bla bla…..*
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