Vine
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1/15/2014
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The other day Flyte ran a bit of a contest in the IRC. He asked us all to submit our own translations of Correspondence Sigils, and the results were so good that I wanted to open it up to the forums. Here's the ones we came up with already, please add your own.
If you like any of them particularly, consider sending a gift or a token to the writer. *and if anyone would prefer their submissions not be up on the forums, let me know here or in IRC and I'll take them down*
AnstrutherBarron
'The noise that silence makes.'
'A silent look between lovers or enemies.'
'The creation of a work so that you have something to destroy.'
Benveniste
'The ripples on the surface of a beverage caused by the agitation of the imbiber.'
'The feeling of exclusion caused by references to a conversation that had not been witnessed.'
'The outrage of a winner cheated of their prize.'
Cocytus
'Unthinkable mutual harm as a foundation for intimacy.'
'The unease of a crowd witnessing a terrible injustice.'
'Love that pours from the eyes and spills from the skin.'
Deadcrystal
'The hunger that visits knife-bearers.'
'An approach that leaves one further away.'
'Awareness of the shape of space between you and another.'
DismallyOriented
'Regret of words shared but never spoken.'
'The daunting task of taking on a mentor’s responsibility.'
'The moment of savored release before oblivion.'
Eadin
'Anticipation for an event that, at the same time, you wish never to be realised.'
'The light that shines without a source.'
'The fear without a reason.'
Inthrall
'A percolating tragedy in motion.'
'The obviate sibyl who ruminates for relevance.'
'Where the veneer of dreams is exalted.'
Otaara
'The heart within its cage, beating like red wings.'
'The sensation of crossing through a doorway made in a bonfire.'
'Love created in the image of night.'
Roland_Jones
'A daring escape into a different sort of prison.'
'Running endlessly in circles.'
'Clawing one's way to the top, only to discover the movement was ultimately lateral.'
Saharan
'The ratio of lovers one has scorned to one's time well-spent, in seconds.'
'The final parting moments in which both realize an acquaintanceship was never really enjoyed.'
'A moment which had resolved itself to occur, and regretted it almost immediately.'
Streetfelineblue
'The sensation of missing the crucial hint in the solution of an enigma while all people around you have already guessed right.'
'The other side of a shadow.'
'Molten lead in a tear duct.'
Vine
'A social engagement wherein all attending plot against one another.'
'The inspiration that spawns in forgetting.'
'The joy of creating opposed by the despair of error.'
Zakamutt
'The feeling of regret over not having performed a terrible deed simply to experience it.'
'A glint of sunlight in a dark place, as perceived by a creature that hates light.'
'The act of attempting to erase every connection to a place and failing.'
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Vine
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Captain~Umber
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Cocytus
Posts: 187
1/22/2014
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Another Limerick of the Correspondence:
"There was a young Market from space,
Who desired a sun’s soft grace.
To show her its worth
It came down to Earth
And abducted the whole human race."
edited by Cocytus on 1/22/2014
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Cocytus, the Avuncular Wordsmith, a river outside a box.
Stock Titus, a rapturous individual ahead of its time. (Dormant)
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Curious Foreigner
Posts: 210
2/8/2014
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I have the vague suspicion that the Sun is constantly shouting "a reminder that things which have died should remain that way" at the Earth...
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Cochimetl went North, and beyond. No poems, only candlelight now. (Well, maybe one poem.)
The Gun-Toting Gallivanter, after an extended absence, is back in London again.
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Cocytus
Posts: 187
1/21/2014
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A Limerick of the Correspondence:
“A sensation of sudden sharp pain
From being hooked at the end of a Chain.”
Or perhaps, “A memory of love
Shining down from above;
But now, there is only rain."
edited by Cocytus on 1/21/2014
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Cocytus, the Avuncular Wordsmith, a river outside a box.
Stock Titus, a rapturous individual ahead of its time. (Dormant)
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Dio Ermine
Posts: 16
8/8/2015
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Here.
"The slow sorrow of a mutually agreed parting of lovers."
"Pain from the eyes from a headache from a tumor from staring into the sun for far too long."
"The taste of syrup, copper and freshly fallen petals."
"An unwelcome but defiantly present tear on the cheek."
"Silk pressed between fallen wood and old soil."
"A willing self-sacrifice." (related to 'a willing sacrifice')
"A willing self-sacrifice for knowledge."
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Leraika
Posts: 56
1/19/2014
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In response to a challenge from Mr. Flyte: that I should write a definition in haiku, with bonus points for references cosmological:
This sigil could mean
"The last irrational warmth
felt in a blizzard",
or perhaps it means
"A sudden glimmer of light
outside a black hole".
edit: and now, more!
"The descent of souls
from a shell celestial
to a home of glass"
"The knowledge that all
Things last but a few seconds
as Time marches on."
"A hot beverage
that is almost completely
unlike Earl Grey tea" 
"The sort of smile
that displays more of bared teeth
than of good humor."
edited by Leraika on 1/19/2014
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Leraika - Smoldering Academic and occasional woman-about-town
Feel free to send me requests!
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
12/10/2015
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"The unsettling feeling that one left the heat on before embarking on a journey."
"That sinking feeling when you realize you studied the wrong chapter for the test."
"The dread and embarrassment felt when you realize your fly is open."
"Does this Sigil make me look fat?"
"For a good time, call Mary 555-7128."
-- Mal
edited by malthaussen on 12/10/2015
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Kolanowski
Posts: 148
12/10/2015
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"The desire to smash one's foes using a hammer made of lightning".
"The crunch of a wrist turning a key in its hole".
"Drowning in a dead law's pulverized bones".
"Sudden awakening from a long sleep in a chamber of steel and frost".
"A sabling of a sun".
"The droning noise of a mind consumed by primeval hate".
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Kazimierz Kolanowski, gentleman, scholar, humble servant of the Maw. Chaotic Evil. Open to all social actions & accepting almost all requests. Might sell you to Satan for a single corn chip.
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Gonen
Posts: 817
12/11/2015
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"When one enters a forum after a day and a half and can only see the last 20 hours of unread posts"
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 The Ashen Anesthesiologist - Paramount Londoner
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.
The long journey to eccentricity:
On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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The Absurd Rogue
Posts: 1049
7/27/2016
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" Violent thoughts caused by the improper use of a semi-colon "
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"There is never another story. There is only one, and I try to tell it with every page. I fail, and I try again. There are no new stories; I have this one."
-S.N
RemainProfane#2532
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Nathanael S. Wells
Posts: 80
1/22/2014
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"The inverted abstraction by which an unfortunate happenstance in matters of pure luck becomes reason to assign sentience and conscious malevolence to ones randomly determined misfortune"
"The begruding act of contemplating imaginary advantages one is the beneficiary of, at the behest of a particulary moralist opponent for usually no purpose at all"
"A string of déjà-vues from which one can no longer learn or gain anything"
"A semi-imaginary currency, the transactions of which are exclusively in the business of extraordinary fates"
"An encoded message written in the bodies of thousand and thousands of dead, small mammalian creatures"
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Nathanael S. Wells, the Epicurean Polymath.
Founder and Patron of the Damnation Army, a philanthropic society devoted towards bringing food and clothes to the destitute and impoverished Seekers! Consider donating food (no Rubbery Lumps, please!) or clothes (no Veils-Velvet, please! We don't need another incident.)
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Katarina Moller
Posts: 12
1/17/2014
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Oh I love these, a few I've been pondering myself
- "A stolen glance across a crowded continent."
- "The sound a lie makes as it moves from one ear to another."
- "A tongue of flame stolen from the mouth of Hell."
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Katarina~Moller
Draped in Scandal, Chocolates, and Honey. Terrified of Dark water.
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Elias Phillip
Posts: 6
1/31/2015
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I just couldn't resist coming up with a few myself. I love this kind of thing.
Biting the Inside of One’s Cheek, to Remember the Sensation of Pain
The Sudden Awareness of a Life other than Your Own
The Slow and Unnoticed Decomposition of Hope over the Span of a Lifetime
The Panic of a Soul, upon Finding Itself Imprisoned within a Body.
The Preference of an Uncaring God over a Nonexistent One
The Moment of Fear upon Waking and Discovering the World Anew
The Infinitesimally Small but Crucial Difference between Death and Freedom
Destruction for the Sake of Nonexistence
The Cruel Satisfaction one feels when Witnessing an Atrocious Misdeed
The Desire of Something For the Sake of Depriving Others
A Lie that Upon Closer Inspection is merely a Particularly Malicious Truth
Kindness for the Sake of Concealing Ill Intent
The Crumbling Roar of a Slowly Decaying Universe
The Gift of a Scar that Will Not Heal
The Light of a Star that has been Extinguished
The Morbid Anticipation of One’s Own Death
The Murder that All Men are Capable of
Also, I'm working on a way to translate english words into correspondence sigils and vice versa, because I love doing that kind of thing. Unfortunately, the Correspondence is slowly eating away at my sanity and I worry that I have little hope of completing my work before I loose my mind completely. Also, I need to buy less flammable computers.
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"Then he began to gaze about,
and saw within the walls a rout
of folk that were thither drawn below,
and mourned as dead, but were not so."
- Sir Orfeo
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Elias~Phillip
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Hobnail
Posts: 179
11/30/2015
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THE HESITATION PRECEDING A BETRAYL
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
11/10/2015
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'The acquisition of a valuable and needful thing at suspiciously little cost.'
'Locked redundantly and recursively by obsessed hands.'
'A number of alarming frequency and prevalence.'
'An unexpected loss to an inferior opponent.'
'An undertaking at another's behest with no investiture in the outcome.'
'A secret that seems worth knowing only before it is understood in detail.'
'The act of drawing up the corpse of an old friend from the place where it had been left.'
'The moment of understanding that comes only after it is too late to prevent the outcome.'
'A belief held earnestly but in no nobler spirit than the appeasement of those around oneself.'
'The crossroads between popularly-defined heroism and the necessities of personal conviction.'
'The seemingly amorphous emptiness left by the loss of a thing promptly forgotten.'
'Insurmountable hunger to exist in a capacity beyond one's means.'
'The coldness that comes in realizing that one has done all that one can but that none of it has influenced the conclusion.'
edited by Amyntas on 12/3/2015
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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Breckner
Posts: 38
9/26/2014
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"A permanent injury to one occupying a liminal space."
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temet sarci ut sarcio rex piscatorum
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William The Marshal
Posts: 24
5/7/2014
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"The pleasant pattern of light and shadow on the blade of a striking knife"
"The ever-decreasing difference between a monster and (s)he who hunts it"
"The disappointment felt when a keenly-anticipated pleasure proves less spectacular than expected"
"A rather cunning and subtle ruse undone completely by accident thanks to the sheer blind idiocy of its target"
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William the Marshal - a Pensive Professor and Sorrowful Soldier. A gentleman of very little importance, except perhaps in his own mind. On good terms with the Bohemians and, oddly, Society. Do feel free to drop by for a visit. http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/William~the~Marshal
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Pyrodinium
Posts: 639
1/31/2014
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The owl-like vigilance of the eye longing for the companion that's locked within an arachnid's grasp.
The silent protest of the soul that's forcefully extracted by a feline villain.
The ecstasy of tasting blood as one bears the the brunt of an attack.
The soothing whispered secrets of the fox cuddling in your arms.
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My profiles: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Pyrodinium
(A Monster hunter on the hunt of his twin brother's killer. Overprotective dad of his twin's daughter)
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rudolph~of~Taured
(an indeterminate person of potentially rubbery lineage)
* All social actions except photographers and loitering welcome!
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Mnemophage
Posts: 5
1/25/2014
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I think I've figured these out. Of course, the last time I tried to translate these particular glyphs I caused a run on laudanum that made three fortunes and ruined seventeen, but I have true hope that this time I'll get it right. Ahem.
"The feeling of helplessness at the destruction of a valued object."
"Sudden, momentary, and fleeting awareness of one's own addiction."
"The reasonable, yet unsatisfying, justifications for an act of cruelty."
"The anxiety of knowing that one's future is dependent on an uncertain chance."
"Pleasure bought at unsustainable expense."
"Awareness of the mortality of a loved one."
"The power to change, create or destroy anything but oneself."
"Toothache caused by excessive sweetness."
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friendshipranger
Posts: 274
1/15/2014
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Sounds fun!
"The sensation of equidistance between longing and dispassion."
"A parting that becomes inevitable, unbeknownst to a participant."
"The satisfaction one feels after a successful lie."
"Parameters that are conceived by perception, yet are unsubstantial in essence."
"Experience that grants no wisdom."
And one I stole from Kevin Spacey from "House of Cards":
"Pain, of the kind that is merely suffering."
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/J.L.%20Moriarty
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Sarsmos
Posts: 42
1/19/2014
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I've always wanted to try this:
"The horror of a long-time friend collapsing into a slavering monster, and knowing that you may follow"
"The guilty pleasure of knowing that those who orbit you need your light, or risk being a desolate embarrassment."
" The silence of distance that makes a momentary meeting bittersweet"
"The absent moment between wakefulness and sleep"
"The tiny shard of night that fells the titan"
"The prideful shame of one forced to conspire with those who are believed to be unimportant"
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Insanity
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Silas Kylwood
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rozmar Nesmertal
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
6/20/2016
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Waiting for something which one knows will not arrive.
Feigned surprise for the sake of propriety.
The accidental meeting of two unwitting terminii in a vast and complex scheme.
The inescapable desire for all things to be as they were the moment before a minor catastrophe.
The act of betraying an anticipated traitor even after discovering the honesty of their intentions.
The act of betraying an anticipated traitor simultaneously to their attempt to betray you.
The act of betraying an anticipated traitor after discovering the honesty of their intentions while the true traitor in-turn sets their betrayal in motion.
Seething beneath.
Needless loss in times of scarcity.
A depth of profundity beyond one's understanding.
Not wit, but an attempt at it.
A permanent diminishing in the notion of godhood.
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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Jane Brontë
Posts: 3
3/26/2016
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"The sensation of losing everything you love and being powerless to stop it."
"The obsession with past mistakes and how things might have gone differently"
"The awareness of the extent of one's own ignorance"
"A fear of failure so great that it keeps success forever out of one's grasp"
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My Profile
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Lucan Ashfield
Posts: 7
12/10/2015
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"perpetually straining against the chains"
"the crushing darkness of deep water"
"the bitterness of a god fallen from memory"
"the cold sweat of a recurring nightmare"
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Charlotte_de_Witte
Posts: 360
12/10/2015
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E(eV)= 1.24/λ(µm)
dS = dQ / T
ds2 = gαβ (x)dxα dxβ
ds2 = c2dt2 − dr2 − r2 ( dθ2 + sin2 θ dϕ2)
ds2 = c(x)2dt2-[dx-v(x)dt]2 = [c(x)2-v(x)2]dt2+2v(x)dt dx-dx2
Eurrgh my head... I think the v stands for viric?
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"Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar."
Social actions welcome. Only, send me dupes if you need help with the Affluent Photographer please, I like the bats! [And boxed kitties, and extreme gardening]- Thank-you!
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Inchoatl
Posts: 45
7/1/2016
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After having read Spacemarine9's excellent account of their experience with Seeking, I believe I have one to add. ((The emotion is my own and is not meant to imply the emotional state of any other parties.))
“Wallowing in a melancholy not one's own.”
edited by Inchoatl on 7/1/2016
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Oh you lament the state of my immortal soul, but I shall have a life, a life as has not been seen or forgotten by the Neath in an age!
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maricolous
Posts: 56
7/27/2016
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"The act of never giving you up"
"The refusal to let you down"
"A stubborn denial of any desire to run around or desert you"
"Resisting by any means what might make you cry"
"A passed up opportunity to say goodbye"
"In opposition of telling a lie and hurting you"
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Maricolousa
(Finished)
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Kraine
Mystic on the way to becoming a Glassworker, on occasional hiatus.
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Addis Rook
Posts: 125
12/30/2016
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maricolous wrote:
"The act of never giving you up"
"The refusal to let you down"
"A stubborn denial of any desire to run around or desert you"
"Resisting by any means what might make you cry"
"A passed up opportunity to say goodbye"
"In opposition of telling a lie and hurting you"
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Suitov
Posts: 89
1/20/2014
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"The momentary heightening of senses caused by a sudden uncertainty about whether one is asleep or awake"
"To follow one around and eat one's words before they echo"
"The involuntary curling of one's extremities brought about by an over-sweet taste"
"Disappointment over something one was sold as pure black taking on a brown tinge in sunlight"
"A dream in which one feels oneself failing to keep alive that for which one is responsible"
Semi-off-topic ramblings: Funnily enough, one of my neglected writing projects (quite unconnected to FL) has a 'language' that packs *insane* quantities of meaning into a single transmission. You don't need to learn anything about it to understand someone who's speaking it, either. (Which potentially has some rather horrible implications.)
The *extremely simplified* form of one single phoneme equates to "The shade of a grove of trees by a still pool dappled with early summer sunshine and the sound of birdsong"...
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Hello, savoury persons. Shall we become acquainted?
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Helen Demeter
Posts: 100
1/31/2014
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"The ecstasy and the agony when surrendering to the will of ruins and ill-omens."
"When the lust of an individual risks the fortune of many."
"Attempting to weigh the worth of a person's story."
"Being blinded by the light of someone's eyes so you will not see their shadows."
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Helen Demeter, the Bohemian Beauty
Has finally returned after an unexpected hiatus. Please mind the dust but do know that I'm now open to all social actions and invitations.
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Shalinoth
Posts: 493
12/29/2014
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"The intentionally sweet, refreshing fulfilment of forbidden fruit."
"An immortal Mark upon a mortal bloodline."
"The gasp of temporal regret made by an atemporal entity."
"The intercession of stars in the affairs of warring universes."
AND.... for those who asked or wanted it but haven't spoken up - a list of canon correspondences to date:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S9TwcwYp5xyi0QJ5Sesv0jimTVcNq3wFdwQ-amY_Gyg/edit?authkey=CJi3rYQL
I didn't create this, but I'd urge anyone fascinated by these lyrical symbols to bookmark it and, where possible, update it as new content unfolds. Even if the wording isn't a direct quote of a symbol, but an allusion to what one seems to stand for, it'd be nice to have it documented.
Even if for no other reason than delicious head-canon!
edited by Shalinoth on 12/29/2014
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deadcrystal
Posts: 125
5/8/2014
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A particular scene in the FL RP group I'm involved in ended up with me making up a bunch of these, so...
"The Callousness of an Empty Room."
"A Sacrificial Vessel that Cannot Drain."
"An Ocean Sunk Only with Holes."
"The Delight of Once Again Being Home"
"The Breaking of Every Sinful Stone."
"The Gap Between the Hand and the Mountain"
"An Absent Mercy of the Chain."
"Drowning in Glory."
"The Pit Before You."
"Greeting the Night with a Smile."
"Without Excuses Leaping Toward the Blade."
"The Uncountable Terrors of Success."
"Seeing The Doom Before You and Leaping."
"A Festival Only for Toys."
"People That Look Like Dreams"
"Dreams That Look Like People"
"Hunger That Breaks Bones"
edited by deadcrystal on 5/8/2014
edited by deadcrystal on 5/8/2014
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A determined Dolphin - Alexis
Great Grind Empress, and Knife and Candle Queen
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Ginneon Thursday
Posts: 265
10/22/2014
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deadcrystal wrote:
"A Festival Only for Toys."
I just read this thread, and I cannot stop laughing at this.
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Ginneon Thursday: Revelrous Professor of Benthic
Departments of Mycoenology, Lepidoptery
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waters-serenade
Posts: 4
12/1/2014
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"The masks will never stop talking"
"The Break of Sunshine on a cloudy funeral"
"Every instant of The Show brought to life, then faded"
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Ami Miljkovich
Posts: 98
12/1/2014
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"The uncanny kinship one feels towards their favoured creatures."
"The hollowness one feels after destroying the thing they hate most."
"The blurry line where truth and lies intersect."
"To smite the source of one's fear and thereafter find that it was merely an innocent."
"The ugliness hidden beneath all beauty."
"When false beliefs unexpectedly lead one down the path to greater truths."
edited by Soran on 12/1/2014
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The Secret-Hungry Bat ~ "I have my bats and my works, and endless secrets and pleasures at my disposal; what need have I of a soul?"
The Dangerously-Charming Fox ~ "Let's go stab each other and then get drunk together! That's what friends do around here, right?"
The Ever-Scheming Magpie ~ "All I'm after is a fresh start... And maybe a little profit on the side..."
The Blood-Thirsty Moth ~ "This floor isn't red enough. I need to fix that. Come closer."
Meet the families.
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Blaine Davidson
Posts: 388
11/11/2015
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"The sounds the consciousness makes when it shatters into two separate and distinct entities."
edited by Blaine Davidson on 11/11/2015
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Blaine Davidson, a reserved and sensible woman with a fondness of collecting rarities.
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NotaWalrus
Posts: 221
11/11/2015
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"A taste between meaty and bitter."
"The color of darkness, when it moves."
"The capacity of the man who does not pay it heed."
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/NotaWalrus
Ignacious, the Fluid Professor, he will accept most social invitations, including boxed cats and affluent photographers (but only betrayals), though he is absent-minded and might take more time than entirely necessary. He apologizes.
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Amélie Vaincœur
Posts: 85
11/11/2015
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"the terror felt when confronted with an unassailable truth"
"the even greater terror felt upon realizing that there are no unassailable truths"
"to be convinced of being watched by someone who can never be seen"
"to be executed for a crime of passion when that passion was only feigned"
"the assumption of being loved back by someone when that assumption is wrong but that wrongness never revealed"
"the taste of a lie"
"the sound of extraction"
"the paralyzing uncertainty felt while waiting for news of a missing loved one"
"the relief felt upon realizing that a terrible accident has just been avoided"
"the relief felt upon realizing that a terrible accident is about to occur to someone else"
"the span of time in which a judgement's egg hatches"
"the death-cry of a galaxy"
"the maximum number of sentient beings that can possibly fall in love within the same nanosecond without destroying the universe"
edited by Amélie Vaincœur on 11/11/2015
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Enchantée.
An occasional player's long and winding road to Paramount Presence:
27/09/2017 - London's Blood
29/12/2018 - London's Nerves
11/02/2019 - London's Marrow
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
11/11/2015
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Rupho Schartenhauer wrote:
Sorry, I've never seen this thread before and I just have to post this: Thank you, Elias Phillip! This will be my answer from now on when I'm asked what Funeral Doom sounds like:
Elias Phillip wrote:
The Crumbling Roar of a Slowly Decaying Universe
I feel like it deserves mentioning that a handful of these would be killer MMORPG guild names.
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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NathanielSterben
Posts: 36
11/30/2015
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it should be noted that not all correspondence sigils need be interpreted in a single way, refer to intercepting messages in 'encryption of a sort'
here are some of my multiple interpretations
"sorrow that which exists in a place that does not nor ever will"
"that which gazes melancholic from beyond"
"the eye that sees into itself"
"seeing ones own reflection not from a mirror"
"the light reflected from things that do not reflect light"
"sounds heard from other places"
"communing with oneself who is not oneself"
"the feeling of being someone else"
"knowing that which was not learnt"
"seeing into the storage place of knowledge"
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My metaphysical interpretation in the neath: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/NathanielSPACESYMBOLSterben
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bitterhorn
Posts: 61
2/28/2015
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Friends, parishioners, &esteemed colleagues -
I humbly submit to this fine list a handful of the sigils whose meaning I fancy I've deciphered. While I've no doubt the Ministry shall redact from this post the exact form of the symbols being referenced herein (and truly, one can scarcely fault them for such, if so!), I include the most specific definitions possible in hopes they might aid the serious scholar regardless.
*(1) secrets superstitious (fish?) bury in the ears of (witches?) in order to forget (the context of this sense is somewhat obscure; further research required)
*(2) general term for any species belonging to an order of very large Loricifera with soft pelts woven from shed eyelashes lost in the Zee (as illustrated in detail most unsettling in the late Mr. P. H. Gosse's unpublished Liber Saeta - manuscript pages available in the University library with written permission of faculty. To my knowledge, no recorded sightings of these beasts are extant.)
**(1) a sentient ambulatory mycoid (e.g., a blemmigan)
**(2) the sound a fruit makes whilst rotting, or being gradually crushed (as inside a slowly closing fist or beneath a slightly heavier object)
***(1) the interrogation by torture of a guilty subject
***(2) the conflict of will and intent present between a forensic investigation & a civilization of flies burning the evidence for fuel [possibly a specific poetic extension of sense (1) - as attested most notably in Prynne's 'First-city Homilies' collection, Tablets 3 and 46]
*****(1) a doppelganger, an avatar, ones dream-self considered separately, or conceptual objects of bodily dysphoria in general
*****(2) a contrivance, idiom, or artificial replacement which has come to supplant its original referent in perceived authenticity
*****(3) a lie which has gained sufficient cultural currency to attain the resonance of truth
*****(4) the sum of a charlatan's accolades
May the Lord defend us all, in His great mercy, who would seek true understanding, from the perils that gird all pearls of Neathy wisdom, here amidst the palimpsest of fouled cities that are and were.
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Marsh(-)mark(ed) thurifer, bookkeeper, &c. of Blackfen-on-Zee; Bazaarine aesthete, unnatural historian, thing-about-town.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/bitterhorn
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Andrea Serafini
Posts: 169
1/25/2014
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"Slitted eyes on the reflection of a candlelight."
"An uncertainty which is preferable to both outcomes"
"Skin marred because of unrequited love"
"The augmentation of awareness caused by the loss of one sense."
"The knowledge of the vacuity of one's own promises to change oneself."
"The anguish and relaxation felt in the moment in which you stop breathing and imagine what feels like not existing."
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Mizr Edlaine Saphburgh, the Prothean Neologist
Per aspera, sic itur ad astra
(i.e. I'd really love to patron new and seasoned Londoneers, or help them in any other way possible.
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"Many" Chin
Posts: 383
2/12/2014
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this sounds like fun. i guess i'll try creating a few from random long acronyms
http://www.acronymslist.com/alphabet/R-p12.html
"Rapid Multiple Spasms Emitting a Purr of wisdom"
"The Rain that Melts Persons , Relics, Ocelots and Papers"
"All Renegades Must Scream...Very Politely"
"Ravens Over A Valley... Eagles Ravaging Rabidly and Silently"
"Ruins Of Cats, Erected with Wine"
"Running Open-eyed, Never Ending Till one falls"
"Ritual of Releasing Occult Pigeons, Clouding the Open Mist"
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and some randomness: "Fire in wine, water in smoke, and earth falling skywards."
edited by Paya Danceswithporngroove Chin on 2/12/2014
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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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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
2/20/2014
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The surrender the Sun makes of the Sky to Night.
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Journal: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/echo_theodor
Annotations & Epistles: http://theodor-gylden.dreamwidth.org/
Storylet: http://theodor-gylden.dreamwidth.org/11160.html
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Archibald Foxglove
Posts: 1
4/4/2014
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Might I try?
"The truth that lurks within the eyes of needles"
"The sounds of the lives which do not live"
"A fire that burns with the truths of lies"
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Blackleaf
Posts: 552
1/20/2014
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I messed around with a few. " Blazing skies of midnight light. " " A reckoning of cindered blood. " " An eternal lie of forgotten darkness. " " The false castle of rotten hope. "
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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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Evariste S. Crumbledon
Posts: 138
1/20/2014
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By the way, delicious friends, is there a compilation of the 'official' sigils recensed so far? [An example of official would be the recent 'Forever hurtling toward the earth'...]
In another somehow related note, I would urge the interested readers to complement their study of the Correspondence with that of Aklo...
edited by Evariste S. Crumbledon on 1/20/2014
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Evariste S. Crumbledon
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
9/29/2016
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"One of the infinite pieces of an undescribed infinite whole"
"If there is only one possibility, if I can only accept, or refuse, to be imprisoned until I accept - is that a choice at all?" (The translator would mumble of peculiarities now. Other proposals do not convey the despondent nature of the question, of the questioner and questioned, would say.)
"The forced, but passionate acceptance of the temptations of freedom"
"Star-Shell"
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Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own.
Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
10/2/2016
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Excision after a failed expulsion.
The act of conversing loudly to oneself only for another, unprecedented voice to respond.
The meaty undulation that comes with breath.
The rejection and destruction of the old ways, leaving nothing to replace it.
Asking for advice and then proceeding on your own intuition anyway.
An attempt to counterbalance suffering.
A counterweight to suffering.
Bubbling pitch as expelled from the eyes.
edited by Amyntas on 10/2/2016
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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Amelia Syrus
Posts: 626
7/1/2016
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"A pain that tides over time. Rolling through a solemn wave that breathes fire. It waits to destroy."
"Lingering still, beating through, pulsing with fire."
"Awareness of that which is seen at the peak of four crevices."
"The hunger of destruction. It seeps into the tongue and slowly corrodes through."
"Nectar of the Gods"
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Amelia Syrus: A Drunken Thief For Hire.
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
7/27/2016
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"The Expansion of Truth by Falsehood"
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Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own.
Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
7/27/2016
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I guess I forgot to mention that the symbol in that drawing of the Professor means 'a betrayal at crossroads'.
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix
My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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Morucant
Posts: 184
7/27/2016
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"A beginning brought on by another's work for their end"
"To dream of the state of your own mind"
"To sacrifice, only to later be sacrificed"
"To be forgotten intentionally, to gain nothingness"
"The light of is-not, born by shame"
"To remember that which should Not-Have-Been"
"To have severed a head to reach the edge of a round thing."
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Morucant, who was once called Scholar of the Name.
Good for Chess, Sparring, Caligula's, and perhaps Midnighter lectures at Orphanages.
Uilx-Magnus, who truly loved...to Hate.
October is as unpredictable as wildfire and twice as dangerous. Don't ask his real name.
He has seen Hallowmas, now he will stay silent no more.
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Guest
12/10/2015
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[This Sigil intentionally left blank.]
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vanillafog
Posts: 16
3/28/2016
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"Loneliness in the midst of a crowd"
"The moon illuminated by earthshine"
"Lies told to a lover"
"The unending pursuit of a goal forever out of reach"
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Profile: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sylvester~Clark
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
3/26/2016
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"The sadness of failure to optimize one's actions"
"Unwanted interaction between imagination and fact"
"The unending search for a fleeting quality"
"A question, directed at those no longer present"
"The constant possibility of sudden change"
"Lost meaning of words in a crowd"
"The influence of a single courier"
"Unintentional betrayal of an old friend"
"A trader in birthrights"
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Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own.
Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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