Sload Soap

Geico the Argonian addresses imperial guards atop the ramparts of Fort Moonmoth.

In this scene, Geico the Argonian addresses imperial archers atop the ramparts at Fort Moonmoth.

Geico: ... We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land. Through the region of Molag Mar, through...

Guard: Where'd you get the sload soap?

Geico: (taken aback) We found it.

Guard: Found it? In Molag Mar? Sload soap is tropical!

Geico: What do you mean?

Guard: This is a temperate zone!

Geico: The cliff racer may fly south with the sun, or the guar or the netch may seek warmer climes in winter, but these are not strangers to our land!

Guard: Are you suggesting that sload soap migrates?

Geico: Not at all! It could be carried.

Guard: (incredulous) What, a cliff racer, carrying sload soap?

Geico: It could grip it in it's beak!

Guard: It's not a question of how 'e grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five-ton bird could *not* carry a pound of sload soap!

Geico: (exasperated) Well it doesn't matter! Will you go and tell Larrius Varro that Geico the Argonian is here?

(pause)

Guard: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a cliff racer needs to beat its wings forty-three times every minute, right?

Geico: Please!

Guard: (insistently) Am I right?

Geico: I'm not interested!

( Enter Guard2. )

Guard2: It could be carried by a Cyrodiilic cliff racer!

Guard: Oh, yeah, a Cyrodiilic cliff racer, maybe, but not a Tamriellic cliff racer, that's my point.

Guard2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.

Geico: (exasperated) Will you ask Larrius Varro if he wants to join my expedition to Red Mountain!!

(pause)

Guard: But then of course, Cyrodiilic cliff racers are non-migratory.

Guard2: Oh yeah...

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