Hoopoe’s impressions; a very large mouse; “Monkey-priests follow me”; Pinky and Thumb; the argument; Monkey experimentation; thirteen monkeys, three of them infants; Gi prepares to leave; Hoopoe’s mirrors; word one; Thumb and Wolf; wry applause; “She’s bad luck”; how to handle the freak; various missed meetings; white-baby and cheese.
September 2005 Archives
Impeccable reputations; what became of the other Monkey-mask; an invisible, unmemorable Procopian; the prisoner, of sorts; “Dibs!”; Ilba, not Ilbakinki; “Did you have your own language?”; frickin’ politics; Monkey-ties; “Perdix does like to cloister people”; impeccable devotion; the Manu Tenéreans.
The shadows are a relatively weak form of monster native to Gaetan. They appear as shadows, but are capable of motion independent of their source. Generally, they are only capable of frightening and confusing, but at their greatest strength, they are capable suffocating and killing the old, the weak, and the particularly susceptible.
Jake is going to be playing the Bookbinder, who was previously at Manu Tenere and therefore knows the visiting mages well. It seemed to me and Matt like a good first character, connected to the current plot line, a decent potential regular character who we have never seen in play, and an in to a caste within the covenant we have largely ignored (the educated Tympanians, the psuedo-Tympanians from Manu Tenere, and the urban professionals recruited from the capital city) which also includes the Chatelian, Robert (Calvus's scribe), the Finger's scribe, the chief Mason, and the secular Glassworkers.
Quentin filius Calamus Mollis of House Cristofér Perdix Carbonis Loreatus sends greetings.
House Lem is the most isolationist of the houses. Most of its members belong to pure Lemmite covenants (e.g. Westmarch, Ambulator Caeruleus and Sol Caerulius, Argutator Purpureus and Quintus Opacus), and Lemmites who belong to mixed house covenants are viewed...
House Savacion is the military house of the Order. Savacion mages are generally interested in combat magic, either personal or military, and are rarely interested in theoretical issues. They have only one, recently founded, single house covenant (Leo Compulsus), and most covenants (with the exception of the Lemmite covenants and the single house covenants of Touccio and Christopher) have Savacion members. Although Savacions are generally associated with conservative politics within the Order, there are Savacion mages associated with the Plenelunial movement as well. Fueding between the conservative and Plenelunial Savacions in the late 4th century (starting around 50 years ago) resulted in the Rogue Hunt. Leo Compulsus was founded in the aftermath of the Rogue Hunt in order to police the House. After a long struggle to select a single house ruler (the First Sword), a political settlement was reached in which the house was organized into (predominantly lineage based) Gens, each with a single Dux. The question of inheritance of the Ducal title has yet to be answered.
Some thoughts on Giles' magical abilities and nature, an accompaniment to his expanded bio entry.
Giles' Itinerary and purpose for each stop.
The Manu Tenéreans approach; “So what’s the giant ball for?”; winking; walls within walls; “Only two executions”; muzzling Lambkin; the resident freaks; itty-bitty rhododendrons; two peaches, a beetle, and some thin rainy fennel; “Your head, it’s only half-full”; the Quintus Opacus of the south; Jerry, in his smithy; Ishta and Lætitia; a spy and two Savacions; a cougar and a bear and some rats; a fucking talking sheep; the beetle and the peaches; Ishta, made of glass; inspecting the corpse.
News story from India that reminded me oddly of recent game events:
At 3pm on August 13 2004, Akku Yadav was lynched by a mob of around 200 women from Kasturba Nagar. It took them 15 minutes to hack to death the man they say raped them with impunity for more than a decade. Chilli powder was thrown in his face and stones hurled. As he flailed and fought, one of his alleged victims hacked off his penis with a vegetable knife. A further 70 stab wounds were left on his body. The incident was made all the more extraordinary by its setting. Yadav was murdered not in the dark alleys of the slum, but on the shiny white marble floor of Nagpur district court.
The consequences of beaning Lambkin; “Was there a birthday we missed?”; Monkeys and Judges and Crows; the bugs in the foundation; fetching the booze; a different person with a new name; Quintillica in an eggshell; opening the forest; the Monkey-king’s temple; three Monkey-priests—no, four; “What should I do?”
