Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
6/20/2012
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They're definitely Mesoamerican, then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_Serpent_(deity)
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Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it.
Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Martin Hopfield
Posts: 21
6/28/2012
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Byron Man wrote:
So many hints. Touched by Fingerwork. The Fingerkings. The true lords of London.
Putting my metagaming hat on, perhaps they are an analogy to something that lurks the other side of the glass to Fallen London, twitching fingers controlling the lives of Fallen Londoners - us the players.
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amaresu
Posts: 209
6/28/2012
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I'm in the Mirror Marches right now and one of my cards allowed me to look out from a mirror into the dressing room at Mahogany Hall. This increased my Touched by Fingerworks quality.
Just thowing that out there.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/28/2012
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Martin Hopfield wrote:
Byron Man wrote:
So many hints. Touched by Fingerwork. The Fingerkings. The true lords of London.
Putting my metagaming hat on, perhaps they are an analogy to something that lurks the other side of the glass to Fallen London, twitching fingers controlling the lives of Fallen Londoners - us the players.
The one who truly controls Fallen London is the writers... They twitch their fingers at keyboard and things happen.
FBG: *type on keyboards*
*The House of Chimes opens*
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Twoflower
Posts: 264
6/28/2012
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You know, you Glass fellows are lucky. You get to uncover the secrets of mirrors and the Fingerkings, and the Shroud gets to uncover the dark and hidden secrets of how to bang on a table to fool old widows.
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Maddyanne
Posts: 67
6/28/2012
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I'm really wondering how those of us in the Shroud who sided with the Cats will eventually get to make discoveries of our own. The Mirror Marches are full of very knowing cats, cats who are in Fallen London in their different feline forms, after all.
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Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
6/28/2012
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Twoflower wrote:
You know, you Glass fellows are lucky. You get to uncover the secrets of mirrors and the Fingerkings, and the Shroud gets to uncover the dark and hidden secrets of how to bang on a table to fool old widows.
Well, life's all about making the right choices, isn't it? ;-P
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Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it.
Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
6/29/2012
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Twoflower wrote:
You know, you Glass fellows are lucky. You get to uncover the secrets of mirrors and the Fingerkings, and the Shroud gets to uncover the dark and hidden secrets of how to bang on a table to fool old widows.
On the bright side, the secrets of the Fingerkings are more hinted than revealed even to affiliates of the Glass. It was a storyline that actually left me with a dire thirst for more explanation, can't wait for it to continue :s (Also: I'll be happy to be in the Glass only if in the future there will be the chance to betray and hinder the Fingerkings BIG TIME).
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Twoflower
Posts: 264
6/29/2012
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Wieland Burandt wrote:
Twoflower wrote:
You know, you Glass fellows are lucky. You get to uncover the secrets of mirrors and the Fingerkings, and the Shroud gets to uncover the dark and hidden secrets of how to bang on a table to fool old widows.
Well, life's all about making the right choices, isn't it? ;-P
Yeah, but I thought they were basically the same thing. I only picked the Shroud because I really like cats. I guess it's a Guide Dang It moment.
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/29/2012
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Wieland Burandt wrote:
Twoflower wrote:
You know, you Glass fellows are lucky. You get to uncover the secrets of mirrors and the Fingerkings, and the Shroud gets to uncover the dark and hidden secrets of how to bang on a table to fool old widows.
Well, life's all about making the right choices, isn't it? ;-P
Are you quite sure Glass is really a good choice? You are not exactly just "discovering" secrets of the Fingerkings. You are... actively collaborating with them. And considering how far the Master went out of their way to smash mirrors.... And the exhibit in the Labyrinth of Tigers....
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
6/29/2012
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Byron Man wrote:
Are you quite sure Glass is really a good choice? You are not exactly just "discovering" secrets of the Fingerkings. You are... actively collaborating with them. And considering how far the Master went out of their way to smash mirrors.... And the exhibit in the Labyrinth of Tigers....
I'm heartily hoping for a spot of "for a few dollars more" here...
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
6/29/2012
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streetfelineblue wrote:
I'm heartily hoping for a spot of "for a few dollars more" here...
Are you quite sure it's not "for a few echoes more"?
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Curses
Posts: 32
6/29/2012
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Not to completely change the topic, but one must wonder what the dearly beloved Mr Mirrors must think of this. He is, after all, in charge of mirrors and, if rumor is to be trusted, the owner of the House of Mirrors, where one can go into the Mirror Marches directly. On Mr Mirror's Twitter, he has been questioned about the Parabola, but he simply shrugged off such accusations as rumor. Somehow he much be related, no matter how indirectly, considering he deals in such wares. Oh well. 'tis something to consider.
Also, it may be worth noting that Sorrow Spiders can go through mirrors, as told in the university story line. I forget if this is explained further, but is still... peculiar.
How clay men fit into this and how this all comes together is still beyond me. I'd love to see a revolt of claymen from Polythemere come from behind the mirror or something like that. Ah, but I dream.
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
6/29/2012
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Byron Man wrote:
streetfelineblue wrote:
I'm heartily hoping for a spot of "for a few dollars more" here...
Are you quite sure it's not "for a few echoes more"?
LOL "To the heart, Duchess, to the heart! Didn't you say that in the deepest matters of the Bazaar, you always look to the heart?"
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Anathema
Posts: 8
8/7/2012
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Every time I see "fingerkings" or get a raise in my "touched by fingerwork", I can't help but think of the *fingers* of the Orz. I never actually played Star Control 2 but one of my former lovers did go on about them: hard-to-understand alien beings from *below*, who might possibly just be the parts of single a higher-dimensional being intersecting normal reality in multiple places.
Whether or not Echo Bazaar's Fingerkings are influenced by the Orz *fingers* remains to be seen, I suppose.
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RageBox Alice
Posts: 112
8/7/2012
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I wonder if the thing in the Palace cellar, behind the fifth door, is related to the thing you can choose to set free in the Third Coil. It has an interesting reaction to being given a mirror, and a strange way of speaking.
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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
11/8/2012
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For our further speculation, a conversation with a Bawdy Cardsharp: 'That d--n fool of a captain got us lost, and we ended up in some uncharted, miserable Tomb-Colony. Worse than usual. Dust and death and... you don't want to know. Three of them lording it over the colonies. Serpent, red bird, cat. But if you ever end up there, know this. They play games, and they don't cheat. We only got out because the Cardsharp beat them at rummy.'
And with a Northbound Parliamentarian: I got the captain drunk enough and he took us right there. They feared me, you know. They fear those who seek the Name. Perhaps we can undo everything they've built. Perhaps they know the Name. Perhaps they took it and hid it behind a black mirror. What do you think of that, eh?'
With all that's been found on the serpentine and the feathered in this thread, I cannot help but wonder at the mention of serpent and red bird in a tomb-colony across the zee. And as for the black mirror ... Well. John Dee had such a mirror.
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pinstripeowl
Posts: 53
12/29/2012
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Following from Theodor, all of the new random characters talk about this island of serpent, bird and cat. It's interesting seeing them together.
Speaking of snakes, as no one else has mentioned them: I have a dreadful habit of being attacked in the Museum of Mistakes by snakes coming out of mirrors and startling me.
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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
6/26/2013
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More on the place called Parabola: Parabola is the enemy-kingdom. The Judgements determine what is. Parabola’s citizens are Is-Not. Sunlight destroys them, starlight corrodes them. Dreams come at night. Dreams thrive in the Neath. The Judgements cannot see -
Found in the Shrine of the Deep Blue Heaven.
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Waffles54
Posts: 56
6/27/2013
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This might suggest a filled mirror catch box is a reliable weapon vs snuffers
edited by Waffles54 on 6/27/2013
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