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Given all the professions available in the Neath, which would you least like to have?[/quote]
Pickpocket I have to say. I can barely imagine–and I could certainly not actually DO–a job that required I NOT draw attention to myself. How tiresome!
Question: What is the title of your favourite Neathy book?
Favourite book? Well, I myself have been the author of a great many books, such as the political treatise- "London Wanes from Devil’s Bane", my collection of poetry and plays- "Gravitas", and of course, the Holy Bible. However, a certain friend, or at least acquaintance, did write a highly entertaining series of satirical songs directed at my own person. The title is almost as good as the songs, namely "The Radical- or An Homage to Oswald’s Inability to Remove The Soapbox From His Feet". Cracking good read.
Well, there’s no question to answer, so…
If you were a Master of the Bazaar, what kind of goods would you trade in?
[quote=Parvorus]Well, there’s no question to answer, so…
If you were a Master of the Bazaar, what kind of goods would you trade in?[/quote]
I do believe I would endeavor to be Mr. Dreams, and I would deal in the sweetest of prisoners honey so splendid this great nectar is.
Now my question to the next will be: What would you do should Jack of Smiles came to your door and asked if you’d wish to dine with him that evening?
How exciting! I’d let the poor, misunderstood fellow in and break out my best cheese! I’m sure we’d exchange some lovely professional tips over a bottle of absinthe.
Question! A lorn-fluke or a clay man - which one would you choose to eat alive, if given no other option? I need this for… research.
Oh my, it would have to be a clay man; they’re certainly less vile. One does enjoy pottery classes, surely it’s not that difficult?
Question: You’re tasked with writing an epic novel; what is it to be about?
I’ve already written an epic novel! It is The Phantom of Sin: a Gothic Romance featuring an orphaned heroine, a large inheritance, a scheming uncle, a brave and pretty friend, a haunted(?) mansion, secret passages, and a great many flimsy nightgowns. Banned in fine bookstores all over London.
Question: Do you think The Black-Shirted Radical -forgot- to ask a question, or is he attempting to radicalize our discussion by -intentionally- not asking a question?
He’d be the first radical I ever met who was more willing to answer questions than to ask them. Revolutionaries are more averse to skepticism on their dogmas than most vicars, when you get right down to it.
What’s your favorite fungus? There are a seemingly infinite variety down here, from the wine-making ones to ambulatory pets.
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[color=#ffffff]My favorite fungi to use…for other activities…would be the Kaentake. They’re quite useful to me. My brother and I would also often see this in the forests we would explore, and I would always harvest them secretly, as carefully as I could.
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[color=#ffffff]As for the Neath, my favorite fungi down here are undoubtedly the Blemmigans. I find them rather adorable. I’d like one of my very own if possible.[/color]
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[quote=Haneul]
For my next question…
What is your most favorite aroma?[/quote]
Astherson: Used to be aromas of autumn bonfires and post-rain scent. Now these smells compete with fragrance of someone special…
Mustela: Fish’n’chips with beer ! If you tried it at least once, it will haunt you 'till the judgement day.
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Mustela: Don’t you think that this particular salon became over-lively of late ? As if we were paid for asking&answering. If so, then I demand to know where to cash-up !
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Come now, Mustela! As long as the wine is good and laughter sprinkles among us like snow, why worry?
Now, friends, tell me: Where can one find a good card game around here? Not that damned high stakes one that everyone whispers about. I mean just a pleasant card game with a few toughs where one can sip whiskey and relax?
[quote=JackiePink]
Now, friends, tell me: Where can one find a good card game around here? Not that damned high stakes one that everyone whispers about. I mean just a pleasant card game with a few toughs where one can sip whiskey and relax?[/quote]
Mustela: Whiskey ? Whiskey is rarefied down here, unlike card games. Probably each slide of london’s society has their prefered games. Zailors may want to play gleek; clergy sometimes organise a "losing lodam" gamble tournaments (keep hush on that, though); constables tend to kill some time at blackjack (predictably); urchins also do like cards… literally… especially those with naked ladies depicted on cover side.
Mustela: Your wildest cooking experiment ?
Lisbella: Rat Pâté made by bludgeoning one with mushroom.
Kelly: starving to death
Lisbella: Repeating that question again since I want the answers from other: Your wildest cooking experiment?
I once tried to boil a egg in Melted Lacre. Terrible idea. As in “Everything’s on fire AND smells bad” bad.
Have you ever had a idea that seemed like a good one at the time, only for it to turn out to be a absolutly terrible one? If so, what?
“A while back I held a ballet in the court, let’s just say it ended with a nymph on the prime minister and me with a one way ticket to exile.”
What do you think is the strangest thing you’ve seen in Fallen London?
From Vorcast - "The Strangest thing I’ve seen? Easy, A beast of the zea! I went fishing a while back and brought up the oddest lump of a fish, quite odd."
What’s the strangest accomplishment you’ve accomplished?
“The strangest accomplishment?” he muses, before turning to his mantlepiece. “I feel that would be this. An eggshell. Painted black. I think, I’m fairly sure, it is in fact just an eggshell painted black. Despite my best efforts to discern its secrets, it remains stoicly an eggshell, and stoicly black. I found it, sitting on the end of my bed after a bizarre dream, with the certainty that I’d Accomplished something. So whether or not it really was an accomplishment, it was certainly the strangest. My question now. What is the single most treasured possession that you own?”
i do not place much value in material "things", even before i lost my soul, so i suppose my most treasured possession would be my knowledge or perhaps my experiences.
for my question: what would hurt you the most to lose?
Hmm… Perhaps my soul… Or my dearest… Perhaps the memories that remain…
No, I know. The Neath itself, the spires of the Bazaar, the lights on the roof, the Apocyan glow of the waves of the zee, the Viric behind the mirrors, the honey, the glim, even the devils! Oh I once lived far from this cave of miracles, how I now do not know. This is indeed why the Liberation of Night must not succeed, oh but I digress, forgive me
My question: What faction do you dislikes the most, and why?
[quote=NotaWalrus]
My question: What faction do you dislikes the most, and why?[/quote]
Astherson: revolutionaries, criminals, hell. In mentioned order.
I hate and trace and hunt those [censored] red-bellied rots, mostly because they’ve crossed the path of a persen I deeply care about, because they break civil laws and aim to break universal laws (means that they want to turn everything into a huge Iron Republic analogue). In addition, back in my cadet days I was tutored of rebellion suppression and counter-terrorist activities, means that, as if previous reasons were not enough to set me to kill them, they are my class enemy.
I hate criminals for the fact that they are a bit more practical sort-of-hell strata, drawing human misery and destroying peoples fates. They do not produce, fix of maintain anything, they are the parasites who feed upon society and infect it with the spores of ill in return. They often work with rebels, which is the bloody good reason for me to open fire at the first sight.
Hell… Devious, merciless, cynical parasites, much like criminals, but unlike revolutionaries and underworld representatives, they break only those who are willing to be broken. Means that they are the most "lawful" among the social maggots I’ve mentioned. But still, I hate them and they hate me.
Astherson: How many of you go for occasional trips to the surface ? Or are you not afraid to lose the sun tolerance ?
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