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Tomorrow.

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What's your favorite way to kill someone, DramaDramaDuck?

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[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

And if you don't?

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

Force them to destroy themselves.

[Anon]

[nevergiveitback.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Strictly speaking, it could. If the soldier was in an important position. Some accounts are that the king himself falls due to the faulty nail. It's mostly a fable with a number of possible morals. The main ones are 'a single piece out of place can destroy the whole' or 'strong things are only as strong as their weakest point.'

A horse shoe is a metal cover for the hoof of a horse. A horse is a large quadruped, commonly used as a beast of burden. The shoes are nailed to their hooves, hence when a nail is bent it becomes loose and the shoe may fall off or twist into a position that will cause the horse to fall.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting answer. How do you do that?

[visestvita.livejournal.com]

A bullet in the head works nicely for a quick death.

Re: [Anon]

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

If we put someone in such an important position, we make sure they have plenty of back-up.

I see. It doesn't hurt the animal? I don't know much about hooved creatures.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Ah, guns.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

By overriding their processors, of course. Then I can do whatever I please to them. Most of the time it's enough to disable them and then finish them off myself, but sometimes it's good to go the extra mile.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It sounds as if you're talking about machines.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

Of course I am. Most of the time, it's machines I'm terminating.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You can't kill machines because they're not alive.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

And why is that?

[visestvita.livejournal.com]

Familiar with them?

[Anon]

[nevergiveitback.livejournal.com]

Wise, but what it's not to be taken too literally. A similar fable involving clocks exists, but it's possible you don't have clocks in your world either.

As far as I'm aware, no. The nail is inserted into the keratin covering of the foot, not into actual flesh. Keratin is the same material which makes up finger nails and some animal horns and thus has no nerves.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

To an extent, yes.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

Don't you know what a spark is?

Re: [Anon]

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Of course we do.

Ah, I see.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

An electrical spark? Of course.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Then why did you do it?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

War, politics. That sort of thing.

[land-of-the-sun.livejournal.com]

I never heard of firebenders before, they don't exist in my world.

[nonesodangerous.livejournal.com]

Not just an electrical spark, a spark. I believe you fleshbags call them souls.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised.

[Anon]

[nevergiveitback.livejournal.com]

I see. Do they use mechanical springs and cogs? Otherwise the fable will still be meaningless.

I'm always happy to educate.