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"God o' Stuff," said Haed He hadn't survived all this tis, y"ken," he said "Lost things, s lyin' aroound?" The Silver Horde turned to the ht "Could work," he said, at last Evil Harry ot a torinned proudly "You'll love this one," he said "God of Bein" Sick"

"It's been done" said the minstrel, before Evil Harry could reply "Voive an offering to Vometia"else, growled Cohen "Oh? And what are you going to be, Harry?" said Willie "Me? ErI' to be a Dark God," said Evil Harry "There's a lot of them around-"

"Here, you never said we could be deonna be a stupid cupid"

"But if I'd said we could be demons you'd all have wanted to be de for hours Besides, the other gods're goin' to sods turn up all at once"

"Mrs McGarry hasn't done a thing? said Truckle "Well I thought if I could borrow Evil Harry's helmet I could slip in as a Valkyrie maiden," said Vena "Good sensible thinkin'," said Evil Harry "There's bound to be a few of them around"

"And Harry won't need it because in aor his back or so and how he can't come in with us," said Cohen, in a conversational voice "On account of hinow Gods enjoy a good laugh, although it has to be said that their sense of huods, said, "I suppose there is no har the dice box "If they were very intelligent, they would not be heroes" There was the rattle of a die, and one flew across the board and then began to spin in the air, tu faster and faster Finally it vanished in a puff of ivory "So the table "Ahmy Lady "

"My lord" said the Lady Her nah everyone knehat it was; speaking her name aloud would mean that she would instantly depart Despite the fact that she had very few actual worshippers, she was nevertheless one of the most powerful of the deities on the Disc, since in their hearts nearly everyone hoped and believed that she existed "And what is your move, my dear?" said Io "I have already made it" said the Lady "But I've thrown the dice where you can't see thee," said Io "In that case-"

"If I est a diversion, sir?" said Fate smoothly "And that is?"

"Well, they do want to be treated like gods" said Fate "So I suggest we do so"

"Are you thaying we thould take them theriouthly?" said Offler "Up to a point Up to a point"

"Up to which point?" said the Lady "Up the the point, madam, where it ceases to amuse," On the veldt of Howondaland five the N'tuitif people, the only tribe in the world to have no iination whatsoever For exa like this: "Thunder is a loud noise in the sky, resulting frohtning" And their legend "How the Giraffe Got His Long Neck" runs: "In the old days the ancestors of Old

Man Giraffe had slightly longer necks than other grassland creatures, and the access to the high leaves was so advantageous that it wasneck in their blood just as a randfather's spear Some say, however, that it is all a lot more complicated and this explanation only applies to the shorter neck of the okapi And so it is" The N'tuitif are a peaceful people, and have been hunted al tribes, who have lots of iods, superstitions and ideas about how round Of the events on the htly lit and frohts and faded We do not knohy this happened It was just a thing" They were then wiped out by a nearby tribe who knew that the lights had been a signal froround a bit more However, they were soon defeated entirely by a tribe who knew that the lights were their ancestors, who lived in thetheoddess Glipzo Three years later they in turn were killed by a rock falling froo What goes around, comes around If not exa, rattling Kite, Rinceatched the last two dragon pods drop froside for a ain So with theons contrailed across the sky Now they were free of the pods, they were in a hurry to get ho Lens just above the deck The display was quite impressive "Better than fireworks," observed die Dean Ponder banged on the o now," he said, "but all I can see is this huge-" More of Rincewind's face than a giant nose became visible as he drew back "What levers do I pull? What levers do I pull?" he screamed "What's happened?"

"Leonard's still out cold and the Librarian is pulling Carrot out of all the junk and this is definitely a buons left! What are all these dials for? I dunk we're falling! What shall I do?"

"Didn't you watch how Leonard did it?"