Spice World

Thufir Hawat has been busy. We catch up with the old mentat while he is talking to a fremen. No one is surprised when the fremen is never named, but we do something about it this time. They keep talking past each other, so we mingle with the remaining troopers. They’re passing around a little something from the Caladan Wine Cellar. We all end up eavesdropping on Thufir, but we also overhear...

• Spaceships and Spacebricks,
• The Fremen fight by their own rules,
• Secret bats with simple passwords,
• Then Gurney, Gurney, Gurney gets upstaged by Giovanni!

Even camping on Arrakis is dangerous. We kick off book two buried in the tent with Paul and Jessica. They are adapting quickly to a life on the run. While Paul works to dig us out, we sit and listen to Jessica recall her dream. Drawing from our wine caches, and not thinking about how they refill, we interpret...

• Sphincter is always funny,
• Prescience Paradox,
• Wandering Zensunni,
• Then... wait, the Glossary Game is over. What does Mike have up his stillsuit sleeve?

We're taking a trip back in time for the story of Ibrahim Holtzman in a special episode of Spice World: Between Two Dunes! There are so many stories from the Encyclopedia we want to get to, but for one reason or another we cannot fit them in the normal show and must consign them to Shai-Hulud. With Between Two Dunes (B2D) we can give those stories the spotlight they need. This week we trace the tragic life of Holtzman from the thopter tracks on Liesco II in the Dark Ages, to the closing days of the Butlarian Jihad. While we turn back time and enjoy our wine…

• You Guys Look Busy,
• The Mad Holtzman,
• Stavian’s Avians,
• A Glossary Game for old times’ sake

Terrible Purpose rears its ugly head in the final chapter of book one. Paul’s abilities are taken to the next level, and we get our first taste of full on prescience. All the while, Mike and Derek sit with the Lady Jessica in terrified awe. Paul starts telling us about the future, and spoils a book he is going to read. Before the last drop of wine leaves the literjon...

• Frank meets Mike in a dark alley,
• Bill and Ted’s Rules Apply,
• Atreides are always the exception,
• Then Mike applies the Amtal Rule to Derek in the final Glossary Game.

Like a Las-Gun hitting an active shield, Piter’s plan meets Yueh’s plotting. The catastrophic results leave Mike heartbroken. We make it out the door with the Baron and get to work on our dirges (for Piter of course). While promotions are handed out we find Piter’s sapho stash. We toast and try to distract ourselves with…

• One last “That’s so Piter.”
• 00Mapes,
• Monkey Bites,
• Then Derek can’t win this one, but his spiritual standing in the Glossary Game is still within reach.

The first Sardaukar shows up, but leaves Mike a little disappointed. He basically has a clipboard and does not seem too invested in his job. Yueh makes the rounds while Arrakeen burns. Once his job is done Mike and Derek pull out that fremkit and take a closer look. With literjons of wine we rummage through its contents. Mike’s speculation runs rampant until it spills over into Worm Theory and…

• Yueh’s Many Hats,
• Sardaukar are lousy interrogators,
• Mapes' room,
• Then the Glossary Game takes pity on Derek.

It’s Piter’s special day! Mike and Derek spare no expense celebrating Piter’s promotion to Duke* of Arrakis. Long live the Duke*! This makes Jessica a loose end that has to be taken care of. Naturally the Harkonnens bring in the ‘C’ Team to get the job done. Once we get everyone's name straight it's a quick thopter ride over the shield wall.

• Derek does a Hasmir Fenring impression.
• Jessica, like all Atreides, pretends to sleep.
• The Harkonnens are a hot mess.
• Then the Glossary Game runs the gamut from supreme beings to Mike's grocery list.

*in all but name

Yueh finally takes a shot with that dart gun. It's not quite the rifle we dreamed but it will do. The Arrakeen crisis is on. We learn that Yueh has some serious plans of his own. On the upside this means Leto gets to take a nap, but on the downside we have to say goodbye to the Shadout Mapes. A toast for Mapes, not spilling a drop, to celebrate her life and influence. As Yueh bundles up his catch, we take a look at the dart gun and talk...

Mapes last words

How did everyone get in that hallway?

The “Tumble at Narcal”

Mike’s getting ready to knock Derek off the sirat that is the Glossary Game!

After Druncan Idaho spills the spice on his secret orders, Jessica confronts the mentat assassin Thufir Hawat. It's a battle of observations versus computations. Jessica knows information is her best weapon in this fight, but having the crysknife on hand can't hurt. It only takes one thing to shatter Hawat's world... the Voice. Sitting on schlag we toast Jessica's good news and get a front row seat to...

Inebriehated Idaho,

Yueh doesn't even have to try,

Seriously, how are there any Bene Gesserit secrets?

The Glossary Game keeps the sound-wave theme going and really comes to a point.

The long awaited dinner scene is here at last. Jessica has hastily arranged the attendance of the major power players on Arrakis. You could cut the tension with a knife, and some seem determined to do just that. By the time we realize we're the only ones without snoopers (snoopi?)...

• Kynes get a free cup of water!
• Only Bewt gets a name?
• Mike gets into character,
• Then Derek is hoping for a miracle in The Glossary Game!