[quote=Mr. Zane]
Well, I may be biased, as an editor for St. Cyriac’s as well, but I feel it is our duty both to improve on translation, but to record our insights into that Bronze Age text as born out by recent events. In fact, I think a new edition, illuminated with sigils of the Correspondence may be just the thing. Once the revisions are complete, of course.
Apropos of the above, do you ever think that the search of knowledge is overrated and there are times when we should remain blissfully ignorant?[/quote]
No, never. Knowledge as they say is power. Knowledge helps one in time to develop wisdom. That is to say better judgement. Judgements define reality. I agree maybe it is wise for others to remain ignorant. The brutish, the cruel, the selfish. But me? Never. Why I’m perfectly sweet and harmless ;-)
Would you ever dare make a nearly snow angel? Or perhaps even, try to write your name in said snow?
If given the choice, would you prefer seclusion and perpetual irrelevancy or the distinction and attention that comes from a closeness with the Bazaar?
[quote=Sephiroth2727]
As for you all, what is your standing on those Londoners among us unseen behind bandage, those destined for the Colonies?[/quote]
Quite frankly, i feel sorry for them. Their souls floating in a half-dead shell, their life-candle burned out and reforged, a collapsing mess of wax that’d fall apart with the slightest touch, leaving nothing but frost behind.
And to make matters worse, HIGH SOCIETY inflict HORRIBLE atrocities on them! THEY ARE DRIVEN OUT OF HOMES OR CONDEMNED TO THEIR OWN ATTIC, FOR HELL’S SAKE!
Personally, I feel anyone who does something like that should involuntarily donate their mortal form to a deserving tomb-colonist.
I’ve lived a long and violent life. I’ve zailed to lands beyond the Empress’s grace and walked through mirrors. I stalked the forests of Presbyterate and saw what lies beneath the Shuttered Palace. I fought spider-councils, Unfinished Men and tomb-horrors. I’ve been down the hungry well and clawed my way back to the light. I have faced many terrors and have been a terror to many.
Of all these things, there is only one that I truly fear. Of all these places, there is only one where I will never ever set foot again. Only one thing in the Neath or elsewhere can fill me with mindless dread and paralyze my reason. I will not speak of it, for it has ears even in London. If you wish to know more, there’s a book I’ve written, currently held in the archives of Ministry of Public Decency. Twenty-second vault, cabinet ‘Aleph’, fourth shelf from the bottom, small brass-bound tome. And then, once you’ve read it, never go there.
You’ve gained 1x Iron Republic Journal.
Now to more pleasant subjects. What do you think of Sinning Jenny?
Now to more pleasant subjects. What do you think of Sinning Jenny?[/quote]
A most lovely lady, if you’re into that sort. If you’re not… she’s interesting, but not attractive to me. Though i have to respect anyone who’ll strangle a devil, paid service or not.
She is the pinacle of an under-represented profession, and i worry that she’ll be forcefully shipped to the tomb-colonies… probably again… when i think of her at all. Which is mostly when i’m especially worried about my orphans or employees.
How do you feel about urchins? edited by Grenem on 12/4/2015
Growing up I was a bit of an urchin myself, so I do have a soft spot for those young criminals. I also find them rather useful in some of my endeavors. If only things had been different perhaps I could have had…no, that’s a story for another time.
What’s the best way to get rid of Neathmas carolers at the door?
[quote=JackiePink]Growing up I was a bit of an urchin myself, so I do have a soft spot for those young criminals. I also find them rather useful in some of my endeavors. If only things had been different perhaps I could have had…no, that’s a story for another time.
What’s the best way to get rid of Neathmas carolers at the door?[/quote]
Get rid of them! You Scrooge! You invite them in for mulled wine and figgy pudding.
With Mr Sacks on his way any day now, tell me have you been naughty or nice?
[quote=Parelle]
Which of the Masters would you invite to dinner with your closest friends? Or your closest enemies? Or both?[/quote]
Mr Veils, for sure! We’d have much to learn from each other. However, there is talk of a certain forgotten Master, and if those rumours are true, well, Mr Veils becomes a second options, so to speak…
Now, the question. Let us say that you have a chance to become a power equal to, if not greater than, a Master of the Bazaar. What’d be the most precious thing you’d be willing to sacrifice for that? Asking for a friend.
[quote=Kolanowski][quote=Parelle]
Which of the Masters would you invite to dinner with your closest friends? Or your closest enemies? Or both?[/quote]
Mr Veils, for sure! We’d have much to learn from each other. However, there is talk of a certain forgotten Master, and if those rumours are true, well, Mr Veils becomes a second options, so to speak…
Now, the question. Let us say that you have a chance to become a power equal to, if not greater than, a Master of the Bazaar. What’d be the most precious thing you’d be willing to sacrifice for that? Asking for a friend.[/quote]
Very little. The levels of power that are worth having are far above that point. Reaching such a height would be rising up just high enough to be worth worrying about, but not enough to strike down anything that would take interest in you. There is a reason the masters are chained, even if they defy their true master.
Brother, that is a metaphor. You need to make your metaphors clearer, or they’d be taken literally. To elaborate on his, my, point: The bare minimum of power to be worth having is the level of the paraboleans. beyond that, you need to be greater than the stars, or they’ll simply strike you down.
[quote=Kolanowski]
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Now, the question. Let us say that you have a chance to become a power equal to, if not greater than, a Master of the Bazaar. What’d be the most precious thing you’d be willing to sacrifice for that? Asking for a friend.[/quote]
Pyrodinium
"I already lost my most precious thing" Pyro said curtly as he looks at the Blooded Knife tied in his waist.
"And gained something that can rival the power of that of a Master" he grins, his peligin eyes eating the light out of your foxfire candles.
"In any case, I think your friend must only lose something from his, her or er… their person. It can be inane things like money or land or it can precious things… like love."
Rudolph
A figure clad in a worn-out dress produces a small Magnificent Diamond from its smelly pockets. An eye looks at you intently from inside its battered hat. Seeing that you meant it well, it grabs the diamond then reaches its green tinged arm towards you. The diamond looks much brighter in its almost mossy grasp.
"dis" it croaks
EDIT: forgot the question
"What’s in store for you in 1894?" edited by Pyrodinium on 12/5/2015
Fortunately, no. I despise wolves. I am generally uncomfortable around canines of all kinds - I prefer cats, if only by a slight margin. If one were to speak to me, it is terribly likely I would deign not to reply.
We’ve had a few Master related questions. The talk borders on seditious. In my view, however, it could stand to be a little more seditious. To that end:
If you were a Master, what would your purview be and how do you suppose you’d get on with the other Masters?
[quote=Amyntas]Fortunately, no. I despise wolves. I am generally uncomfortable around canines of all kinds - I prefer cats, if only by a slight margin. If one were to speak to me, it is terribly likely I would deign not to reply.
We’ve had a few Master related questions. The talk borders on seditious. In my view, however, it could stand to be a little more seditious. To that end:
If you were a Master, what would your purview be and how do you suppose you’d get on with the other Masters?[/quote]
I apologize in advance but you’ve put the song in my head,
‘If I were a Master,
ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.
All day long I’d biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy bat!
I wouldn’t have to work hard.
ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle bat!’
I would like to have purview over secrets, mysteries, forbidden knowledge and ciphers. I don’t think Mr Pages would like me very much.
To keep with Amyntas excellent theme - what is the most seditious and/or scandalous thing you have ever done? What is the one you didn’t even dare tell at Hallowmas? edited by Charlotte_de_Witte on 12/5/2015
While I have never done anything that I wasn’t willing to confess, there is one (and only one, that I can remember) instance of scandalous behavior that I seriously regret.
A gaggle of aristocratic in-laws had staged an invasion from the surface, and as my wife had quite enough of their ilk growing up, we conspired to comport ourselves in such a manner as to send their propriety-starched figures fleeing in horror back to Cumean canal! And in concert with Lady Sapho L. Byron (who will probably be a little ticked that she didn’t get to answer your question!) we all dressed as if we were going to party with Sinning Jenny and headed off to meet them at Dante’s. Great fun, except that two of us died, and we never caught the poisoner. And… Eris very nearly didn’t come back. That was a sobering experience, to say the least.
London is full of people who have come to indulge their appetites, and even more who have found previously unmentioned ones stoked to life. But what of the opposite? Have their been incidents that have inspired, or frightened you to act less scandalously than before?