[quote=Waffles54]This might suggest a filled mirror catch box is a reliable weapon vs snuffers edited by Waffles54 on 6/27/2013[/quote]
I think you’re confusing Parabola with The Elder Continent.[li]
Parabola might well contain those curious souls you can spy through a black lens. The Elder Continent would appear to be home to Snuffers and Vakes. Possibly.
The 4th level of the elusive medal suggests that the snakes that reside in the mirror can use other people’s skin to walk in the neath. Check my profile if you want to read it http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ducky~Inc
The manner in which the Fingerkings borrow skins is more akin to possession than theft of faces. This is apparent from some of the Labyrinth’s superficially human inmates. Also consider that exposure to the Fingerkings raises Touched by Fingerwork, whereas Snuffers are associated with Approaching the Gates of the Garden.
I agree that Mirrorcatch Boxes are meant to be weaponised, but their natural targets are the Fingerkings and others whose existence violates the Judgements. Perhaps the Judgements also interdict Snuffers (perhaps indirectly, through the prohibition of living dead), but if so, that’s a separate thing.
[li] edited by Flyte on 6/27/2013
[quote=Waffles54]Well I stand corrected but why are snuffers the living dead?[/quote]They may well not be. I’m speculating. Here’s my reasoning.
[ol][li]Humans can survive death in the Neath, due to their proximity to the Garden. Such people might fairly be called living dead. We know that they do not fare well in honest surface sunlight.[/li][li]So far as we know, the Boatman only concerns himself with the dead.[/li][li]Snuffers are denied the Garden, and we are told that they wear strange faces to hide from the Boatman. It would therefore seem that the Boatman takes an interest in them, and therefore that they are dead.[/li][/ol]As for the bit about the Judgements and the living dead:
The Neath is vast, but it isn’t that far underground. Accordingly, some places on the surface are closer to the Garden than much of the Neath. Yet it seems that death works as expected above ground.[/li][li]The Judgements appear to have power only under in the light of Sun and stars. If one of the things they prohibit is life after death, the above observation is explained.
Have you Uncovered the Secrets of the Face-Tailor? It would seem that humans may become Snuffers; or at the least, that they could do so once.
Perhaps the procedure is fatal. Certainly it is immoral. What then emerges from a Snuffer’s loins? Humans? Snuffers? (And if so, stillborn?) Or merely barrenness and desolation?
Perhaps you know someone who could broach the matter with their wife? edited by Flyte on 6/27/2013
If you referring to the dream, the idol offers a wig and a mask but if one were already human that disguise would be obsolete unless humans in the elder continent are born without skin… edited by Waffles54 on 6/27/2013
[quote=Waffles54]If you referring to the dream, the idol offers a wig and a mask but if one were already human that disguise would be obsolete unless humans in the elder continent are born without skin…[/quote]Did you ever sacrifice to your idol?
Three nights running, you dream of a limestone cave half-lit by candles. The candles are extinguished, one by one. As the darkness draws closer, you raise your hands to your face and pop it free, easily and painlessly, as if it were a mask adhering under light suction. The cool cavern air on your face-beneath-a-face is delicious. It makes you grin toothily in expectation.Research at the University is also suggestive.
I’m not far enough to know anything about Parabola other than what I’ve read on the forums, but one thing I do know is parabolas are use to find the trajectory of objects that are in orbit, orbit being something referenced by the bazaar (written in correspondence on a spire) itself in the University storyline “The mounting excitement when one’s beloved reaches the closest point of his orbit.” as well as a piece of fatelocked content, if you choose to drive a certain acquaintance insane. So it seems as if Parabola may be more tied to watchful than we think. Especially with the Mirror Marches being a nightmare menace, nightmare being the menace for watchful challenges.
[quote=Flyte]Have you Uncovered the Secrets of the Face-Tailor? It would seem that humans may become Snuffers; or at the least, that they could do so once.
Perhaps the procedure is fatal. Certainly it is immoral. What then emerges from a Snuffer’s loins? Humans? Snuffers? (And if so, stillborn?) Or merely barrenness and desolation?
Perhaps you know someone who could broach the matter with their wife? edited by Flyte on 6/27/2013[/quote]
Remember when so many of us were so very far off in terms of speculation, like this here?
Ah, strange times.