Blackleaf
Posts: 552
12/17/2013
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Serpents,Fingerkings,Madness...
So much dangers in Parabola that we havnt learned off yet!
On a side note. There's a very peculiar text avaible if you pay 9 fate and some stuff on the "Decomissioned steamer" card. I cant put it here but it's on my profile under "MAKING WAVES" (( Yes thats what the actual text is called. ))
Im fairly sure its not linked to the fingerkings but it does involve dreams. And machines. And now i cant say any more.
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No cats or investigations of photographers please.
Same goes for Sparring,Loitering,Suppers and Games of chess! Sure I'll accept them occasionaly but I wont help you grind them most of the time.
But calling cards are highly welcome! (Got too much influence for cards at the moment. Sorry!)
Character profile can be found here: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Blackleaf
Ware serpents and know spires.
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Trodgmey
Posts: 164
12/18/2013
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So, a few notes. First, on the identity of the Garden. Given that the Neath seems to be a sort of consolidation of the collective myths of the underworld, except of course different, the Garden probably has connotations of Eden and other myths. For instance, this name probably rings a bell...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides
Second,
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content from one of the Shrine of the Deep Blue Heaven gives us this bit of dangerous wisdom from the Fourth City:
"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 - "
after which the Dean burns the vellum rather than translate the rest.
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Trodgmey -- an otherwise pleasant chap with a peculiar obsession with the first four cities.
http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Trodgmey
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dragonridingsorceress
Posts: 622
11/4/2014
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This may be slightly off-topic, but a thought just occurred to me.
Sorrow-spiders can travel through mirrors, ie. through Parabola. Do they have a different form in Parabola?
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DragonRidingSorceress is an Author of good standing. Mostly good standing. She's happy to accept any social action except Photographer and Loitering, but requests warnings before duping/poisoning/etc.
Seeker of Names is a... being with an obsession. They're willing to accept all invitations.
One who seeks to know all that is and may be. One who dances in the silence of the void. One whose fantasies make the reality come alive.
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Ragabrash
Posts: 29
11/5/2014
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dragonridingsorceress wrote:
This may be slightly off-topic, but a thought just occurred to me.
Sorrow-spiders can travel through mirrors, ie. through Parabola. Do they have a different form in Parabola?
<Nightmare Increase> I hadn't considered this. I'm not sure... I really want to know.
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dragonridingsorceress
Posts: 622
11/5/2014
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Ragabrash wrote:
dragonridingsorceress wrote:
This may be slightly off-topic, but a thought just occurred to me.
Sorrow-spiders can travel through mirrors, ie. through Parabola. Do they have a different form in Parabola?
<Nightmare Increase> I hadn't considered this. I'm not sure... I really want to know.
Particularly if they get bigger? *innocently*
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DragonRidingSorceress is an Author of good standing. Mostly good standing. She's happy to accept any social action except Photographer and Loitering, but requests warnings before duping/poisoning/etc.
Seeker of Names is a... being with an obsession. They're willing to accept all invitations.
One who seeks to know all that is and may be. One who dances in the silence of the void. One whose fantasies make the reality come alive.
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lady ciel
Posts: 2548
11/5/2014
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Well cats turn into Panthers so I dread to think what spiders might be.
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ciel
Sorry RL means I am not a very active player at the moment. No social actions unless you are prepared to wait and definitely no sparring or other mult-action things.
No Calling Cards or boxed cats please. Will take dupes on the affluent photographers. Other social invitations welcome. Parabolan Kittens usually available, send me an in-game social action saying you want one and I will get one to you as soon as possible.
storynexus name - reveurciel
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Rook Crofton
Posts: 83
11/5/2014
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That's an absolutely horrifying thought... But I'm pretty sure *I* don't change when I walk behind mirrors, so maybe we can all hope that spiders are the same, too?
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Rook Crofton: dreamer, antiquarian, mystic
Now a Scarlet Saint. Happy to send anyone an invite to the Temple Club.
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xKiv
Posts: 846
11/5/2014
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lady ciel wrote:
Well cats turn into Panthers so I dread to think what spiders might be.
They probable change into earrings or roses or butterfies.
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https://www.fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/xKiv - a witchful, percussive, dangermous and shadowry scholar of coexplodence, hopsidirean, and walker of fallen kitties.
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"Many" Chin
Posts: 383
11/5/2014
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xKiv wrote:
lady ciel wrote:
Well cats turn into Panthers so I dread to think what spiders might be.
They probable change into earrings or roses or butterfies.
the spider colony in wolfstack sounded quite smart and polite... before it tries to kill you. maybe they turn into gentle-creatures who wear tophats and suits, like the rubbery men?
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"My little China girl/You shouldn't mess with me/I'll ruin everything you are/I'll give you television/I'll give you eyes of blue/I'll give you man who wants to rule the world"
- The Goblin King.
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KatarinaNavane
Posts: 462
11/6/2014
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Enjoying this thread! Especially after playing the genial magician's story in sunless sea and revisiting the figeting writer (I had sold my last of the final item for funds a while back and the completionist in me wouldn't have that. Good luck this run, got three) and cashing in one item at each stage for the text since I'm not sure if I even had done that before. Seems like the figeting writer and those like him are pretty closely affected, though I wouldn't say they're studying it or are organized. And you definitely get to see what groups in London are the most interested. Like it seems like the devils only care because the masters do.
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Storynexus sn Katarina Navane.
My art page (much of which is dark, Victorian, and/or full of tentacles): http://www.facebook.com/demonkittydesigns
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Rackenhammer
Posts: 354
11/6/2014
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"This is all the Red King's Dream. If he were to wake up, we'd all vanish, even you!"
~Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass
I don't think that it's any surprise that Parabola being behind the Mirrors is a reference to this seminal work of Victorian Literature, but thinking about it lately brought about another thought.
Dreams thrive in the Neath, but who is the Dreamer? Who is it that all the powers of the Bazaar are bent towards you not finding? Who are we actively discouraged to Seek?
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Of course, if "Mr. Eaten" is the dreamer, that brings up the question of which side of the Mirrors are actually the Dream. We know the things peculiar to the Neath (Glim, Prisoner's Honey, Mushroom Wine) are destroyed in the sunlight/starlight, just like that which is attributed to Parabola in the text from the Deep Blue heaven expedition.
Also, think about what happens to those who cross over unprotected. They become possessed... by the Fingerkings. Controlled by beings on the other side...
But are not Player Characters controlled as such? And by what part of our bodies?
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"DO NOT TRUST HAPPY ENDINGS. DO NOT FEAR SAD ENDINGS... NEITHER ARE ENDINGS."
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Mathieu Psmith: The Bard of Lost Children, loving husband, and a fixture of the artistic set. Can never resist making a show of things...
Irene Psmith: Adopted Daughter of Mathieu. Specializes in Information, Acquisitions, and the Acquisition of Information.
Vaughan Montblanc: Once a frontiersman of Western Canada, he now practices medicine in London. His discretion may be absolutely trusted.
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