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Bats or Cats, Shrouds or Glass... what to choose?
BlakeTheDrake
Posts: 237
4/28/2015
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Sticking my nose into some strange going-ons in The Spite... at first I was just looking to take advantage of the local cats'n'bats, but now it seems like I'm getting involved in something I can barely even see, and I have to make a choice. The cats, or the bats. Who, from what I can tell, are related - respectively - to the Glass and the Shroud. Spiritualists and Clairvoyants, versus Stage-Magicians and Illusionists! Problem is, I have no idea what the consequences of picking one side over the other might be. Or what these clearly-opposed factions actually STAND for.
I know that it's possible to change sides further down the road, and play both ends against the middle for a while... but sooner or later, you have to choose a side, and I don't care to be a turncoat if I can avoid it.
So tell me - what exactly am I getting into? What do these factions really stand for? And most importantly... does one side pay noticeably better than the other?
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One of these days, I will remember to record interesting things in my journal...
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Diptych
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4/28/2015
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They're both deeply disappointing. I don't mean that the writing is lacklustre, or anything like that - I mean that, between them, the Glass and the Shroud host the biggest cadre of hacks, flim-flam artists and purposeless airbags in the Neath. They hint at secret knowledge, deeper mysteries... but ultimately, it just comes down to which pack of shady, short-sighted rogues you fancy imitating. For what it's worth, go with the Shroud if you want to expend a great deal of energy achieving nothing of worth, and with the Glass if you want to come within a mirror's skin of insight without actually earning any.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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