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10/23/2018
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Hotshot Blackburn wrote:
You ask why one would give up such a trifling thing as an eye to bring new life and new wonder into this world?
Life? Sure. Wonder? No, the word you're looking for is "horror".
Hotshot Blackburn wrote:
When one can with a trained surgeon specialized in optometry replace it with minimal discomfort?
In the 1890s? You are dreaming good sir. There's a reason that everyone who's ever made that deal now has an eyepatch- including one actual surgeon.
Hotshot Blackburn wrote:
Now Saviour’s Rocks is their own polity. They’re far from the best representatives of spider-kind. But betrayal begets betrayal, so use them as long as you need to and drop them once you’re done. And only give up your eyes to yourself.
Saviour's Rocks are nothing more or less than what happens when the spiders have the numbers to get their way. It's no coincidence that the only place governed entirely by spiders is a complete horror show.
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Azothi
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10/23/2018
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Horror and wonder are two sides of the same coin. That's the nature of the Neath.
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Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges)
Away to where the Chain cannot bind us.
 Hesperidean.
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Ixc
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10/23/2018
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If they really are
[spoiler]
calling a Judgement to the Neath
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then not having eyes would be a good thing, as you’d get mad sunspots.
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Pleased to meet you. Ixc, spy and detective. Inventor of the Correspondence Cannon.
Are you a Paramount Presence? Record your name here. For posterity, of course.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
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10/23/2018
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Don't the judgements hate them just as much as every other faction? I seem to recall that the end of the Tomb of the Silken Thread expedition implied as much.
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PSGarak
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10/23/2018
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While they may not make the best lunch companion, I think it's wise to hedge one's bets. A spider-senate may or may not be a likely future, but if that future comes, I would rather be known as a reliable ally. Or a valuable tool. Or a least comfortable bedding. It's better than some other things one might be in those circumstances.
tl;dr Practice your delivery of the phrase "I, for one, welcome our new sorrow-spider overlords."
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10/23/2018
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PSGarak wrote:
While they may not make the best lunch companion, I think it's wise to hedge one's bets. A spider-senate may or may not be a likely future, but if that future comes, I would rather be known as a reliable ally. Or a valuable tool. Or a least comfortable bedding. It's better than some other things one might be in those circumstances.
tl;dr Practice your delivery of the phrase "I, for one, welcome our new sorrow-spider overlords."
Eh, I'll be backstage when that time comes- if ever. Besides I've already made a hobby out of hunting spider councils, I'm already long past the point of parleying with them.
(And again, just because you've been useful to them doesn't mean they won't burn you. They're like junkies- you'd be a fool to trust one.)
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Six Handed Merchant
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10/25/2018
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Not all sorrow-spiders, or even councils, are evil backstabbers. You just need to be more open-minded, like the Duchess:
[spoiler]From this year's Hallowmas:You return hours later to find your Spider perched on an antimacassar sipping tea from a saucer. It occasionally licks at a sugar cube. The Duchess smiles smugly. "It merely needed to be more broad thinking. There are a great many possibilities for a spider with ambition." The spider chitters agreeably. [/spoiler]
#NotAllCouncils
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edited by Six Handed Merchant on 10/25/2018
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10/25/2018
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Uh-huh. Somehow I doubt that turning a creature pathologically inclined to backstabbing on to *politics* makes it any less dangerous.
(Also read the actual description, it's interested in being a leader of its fellow spiders. It's not reformed, it's just more interested in advancement than eyeball theft.)
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