Neera: "Jerome and Anton"... who?

maliagante

Just started ToB, and at one point Neera starts musing about what she'd do if she wasn't here with charname -- birdwatching is one option, she claims. You can then reply: "Birdwatching? Jerome and Anton isn't enough for you?"

Can't remember which characters (if any) those are, and googling doesn't give me any obvious answers. A joke I'm simply missing? Not important, just slightly annoyed that they'd include a reference in my partychat that I seem to have no knowledge of whatsoever... Anyone know?

Tresset

Did you kill Gromnir yet? If not, then you would not have been introduced to them yet.

They are Neera's messenger birds. They deliver messages between her and Telana. The joke is that they have been doing so for the whole time Neera was in the party but Charname doesn't notice at all until ToB when Neera gets an important message from them.

Coutelier

I thought maybe Jerome and Anton were characters in the movie Gattaca, which starred Jude Law who was in Sherlock Holnes, which was of course based on the stories by Arther Conan Doyle who believed in fairies but nevertheless was once friends with Harry Houdini who later devoted his life to debunking spiritualism and near the end of his life tried to write a book attacking superstition with contributions from H.P. Lovecraft. So basically it was a Cthulhu reference.

But what Tresset said is probably more likely to be true.

maliagante

Tresset:
Aha -- a simple bug then, or should I say an error in the writing. See, I haven't even gone near the palace yet, and that exchange you mention most definitely haven't taken place (yet). Guessing I'm not the first one to be confused by those names being dropped with no explanation.

But thank you for clearing it up!

Coutelier: Probably. And, disturbingly, I knew all of that -- except the names of those characters.

kiwidoc

@Coutelier I just about fell out my chair after reading that. Brilliant!!

@maliagante you knew all that ... now thats VERY disturbing

SharGuidesMyHand

Coutelier said:

...in the movie Gattaca, which starred Jude Law...

Excellent movie.