TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/12/2017
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My conviction falters. I have been zailing for over a year. The next button I click has the chance to end it all. Help me decide how the zee should take me.
And pray for me, red and glistening siblings.
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Kaijyuu
Posts: 1047
5/12/2017
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Maybe just... go to port? Or would that not be in the spirit of things 
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Be of good cheer. Our contacts have assured us that your sins are forgiven.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/12/2017
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There's a chance I survive these demons, each time I face them. Suffocating on dry land admits sure defeat.
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Vexpont
Posts: 137
5/12/2017
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This is how Captain Nemo bought it. I always thought it a cop-out that he escaped the Maelstrom and died of old age.
I vote for Drownies:
Come follow us, and smile as we;
We sail to the rock in the ancient waves,
Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea,
And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.
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Dangerous to my enemies; loyal to my friends. Not too handy at telling the difference.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Vexpont
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
5/12/2017
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Follow the sirens wherever they may lead, I say.
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
5/12/2017
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Quitter :P
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SeveredJoke
Posts: 171
5/12/2017
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I vote for leviathan. It would be a suitable ending for a zailor and intrepid exlorer:
Let us sing of another brave nautical soul:
"Albert stood at the stern of his ship
A giant octopus had him in its grip
A vortex of spiraling death below ripped
and sharks and electric eels all made the trip
to see Albert
sink to the bottom of the sea
Just before he went down
he called out to his crew
It's obvious that my time has come
I'll let this ending ensue
I've led an exciting nautical life it would seem
and there's no better end than a death by the sea
His crew sang
Captain Albert Alexander
He went down in the sea
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in history"
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Annabelle McAllister - Nemesis
Marlon JD - Bag a Legend
Suzi Bapsthwaite - Light Fingers
Delilah Moreo - Heart's Desire
Alexei Totkinder - Nemesis
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
5/12/2017
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SeveredJoke wrote:
I vote for leviathan. It would be a suitable ending for a zailor and intrepid exlorer:
Let us sing of another brave nautical soul:
"Albert stood at the stern of his ship
A giant octopus had him in its grip
A vortex of spiraling death below ripped
and sharks and electric eels all made the trip
to see Albert
sink to the bottom of the sea
Just before he went down
he called out to his crew
It's obvious that my time has come
I'll let this ending ensue
I've led an exciting nautical life it would seem
and there's no better end than a death by the sea
His crew sang
Captain Albert Alexander
He went down in the sea
But that Captain Albert Alexander
He'll go down in history"
Your preference is what it is, but I have no desire to be anything's lunch. It's the Drownies for me!
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Cathy Raymond
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Bertrand Lyndon
Posts: 95
5/12/2017
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Join the great Leviathan, and make Thomas Hobbes proud.
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 Bertrand Lyndon, a former Sergeant of the 7th Dragoon Guards who deals in crime and secrets.
(My main profile: a Midnighter available for Orphanages)
 Jordan Farchild, a kid who often meddles in things bigger than herself, and Bertrand's ward.
(I check this profile less often than Bertrand and I use it only for very light roleplay)
Call me Barren on the IRC.
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The Dark Gentleman
Posts: 188
5/12/2017
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It may be old-fashioned, but many an intrepid zailor died at the hand of starvation. Join in that band of the malnourished, and sink yourself without the strange phantasms of leviathan or Drownie... Real Zailors Die Hungry.
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The Dark Gentleman~ Social actions welcome. Menace reductions upon request. Newspaper interviews by appointment. Falconry by invitation only.
"THE HOURS FEAR THE NAMES.
THE NAMES FEAR THE LONG.
THE LONG FEAR THE KNOW.
ALL FEAR THE HOURS."
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
5/13/2017
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The Dark Gentleman wrote:
It may be old-fashioned, but many an intrepid zailor died at the hand of starvation. Join in that band of the malnourished, and sink yourself without the strange phantasms of leviathan or Drownie... Real Zailors Die Hungry.
A real zailor eats their crew. It's the tagline for a reason :P
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Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
 Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/13/2017
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"The song is vast and melancholy. It tells of brotherhood and comfort in the cold depths.
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No! They will surge up from the water and they will come for me! And I will let them! I cover my ears and open the throttle so hard the lever breaks off. They will not have me!"
AHAHAHAHA!
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
5/13/2017
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The choice, however, looms again almost immediately. I don't want to spam the forums by creating another poll, but as I steel myself for another harrowing click, weigh in on whether I should be:
— fascinated once more by the Drownies' call (what old hat)
— swallowed by a leviathan (petulant at its second place finish in the voting booths)
— incinerated by the volcanic cough of the Stone Pigs (New! Improved! Porcine!)
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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Borbali
Posts: 4
5/13/2017
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What better way to honor the Unterzee than to offer yourself to its greatest beast?
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Teaspoon
Posts: 866
5/13/2017
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pigs pigs pigs
pigs pigs pigs
pigs
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Alt%20Ern
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laskaris
Posts: 66
5/13/2017
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Leviathan.
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/laskaris
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Anchovies
Posts: 421
5/13/2017
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The volcanoes will fill the Zee! AND SO YOU SHALL ZAIL ON THE LAND!
(The whole "blot out the sun/fight in the shade" thing doesn't work underground)
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
—Sir Arthur C Clarke
Lionel Anchovies. Character on indefinite hiatus.
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Vexpont
Posts: 137
5/14/2017
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Teaspoon wrote:
pigs pigs pigs
pigs pigs pigs
pigs
Around the turn of the C19, many people would have supposed a ‘stone pig’ was actually a very large hot water bottle. Like so:
In spite of the assurances that the cork cannot possibly come out and cause the pig to wreak mayhem, I have serious doubts.
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Dangerous to my enemies; loyal to my friends. Not too handy at telling the difference.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Vexpont
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
5/14/2017
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Vexpont wrote:
Teaspoon wrote:
pigs pigs pigs
pigs pigs pigs
pigs
Around the turn of the C19, many people would have supposed a ‘stone pig’ was actually a very large hot water bottle. Like so:
In spite of the assurances that the cork cannot possibly come out and cause the pig to wreak mayhem, I have serious doubts.
It appears, then, that Failbetter has played a little joke on those of us not familiar with this old usage by naming those nemeses of the Neath "Stone Pigs." :-)
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Cathy Raymond
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Optimatum
Posts: 3666
5/14/2017
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Perhaps the Bazaar is feeling a bit ill.
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Optimatum, a ruthless and merciful gentleman. No plant battles, Affluent Photographer requests, or healing offers; all other social actions welcome.
Want a sip of Cider? Just say hi!
PM me for information enigmatic or Fated. Though the forum please, not FL itself.
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