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Adam, I will send you a summary of what Benn gleaned from the books. Do you have specific research questions/topics?
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
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I'm really enjoying it. Sorry my posting has slowed down, had some school-related stuff to take care of.
Dorgio will have gotten some sleep. How much time do we have left before we're supposed to be back at the moot to meet the Vistani, btw?
Dorgio will have gotten some sleep. How much time do we have left before we're supposed to be back at the moot to meet the Vistani, btw?
"You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” -Wuthering Heights
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You had five days. The first day was yesterday. Now it's morning of day 2. It takes about two days to reach the Moot on foot [especially dragging a dead man's body]. You know a short cut, of course.Brock Marsh Runoff wrote:I'm really enjoying it. Sorry my posting has slowed down, had some school-related stuff to take care of.
Dorgio will have gotten some sleep. How much time do we have left before we're supposed to be back at the moot to meet the Vistani, btw?
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
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Ok we need a bag of holding badly LOL. He's dead so what would it matter if we would put him in one if we had itewancummins wrote:You had five days. The first day was yesterday. Now it's morning of day 2. It takes about two days to reach the Moot on foot [especially dragging a dead man's body]. You know a short cut, of course.Brock Marsh Runoff wrote:I'm really enjoying it. Sorry my posting has slowed down, had some school-related stuff to take care of.
Dorgio will have gotten some sleep. How much time do we have left before we're supposed to be back at the moot to meet the Vistani, btw?
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I'm going to wait for Adam to post. Two things for him: I've sent a summary of the info Benn gleaned from the books [thus far...] and Alain is trying to wake Benn.
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
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EH!! OH NOES1 lemme check...Adam wrote:Sorry, was out of town in Boston, forgot to let everybody know. I didn't receive a message from you, so I haven't seen the summary. The Incabulos book is of course of some interest.
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[As best as I can reconstruct the lost PM]
The books:
The illustrated bestiary covers many monsters, from Ant, Giant through Zombie. The art is archaic in style, some of it blocky and simple, some of it quite skillfully executed. Information about the treasures collected by various critters, as well as the typical number of such beings one might encounter in the wild or in the lair.
The wood panel portrait book contains a number of faded paintings. Most are of people [doubtless long-dead] that Benn doesn't recognize. One panel depicts the blonde girl with violet-blue eyes, the one from Benn's mirror vision in the tower. A facing panel [the first in the book] shows the mature man whom Benn had also seen in the mirror, the one who bears a certain family resemblance to the girl. The writing below the paintings is very faded, but Benn makes out the fragments:
Wol-
and
-gar
under the images of girl and the man, respectively.
The court chronicle uses an unfamiliar dating system. It describes events in the kingdom of Brosellant during the reigns of Ulfius Longbeard, Regar [called the Just] and Wolutha.
Ulfius ruled long, and much of his reign was spent with wars against 'devils of the woods', beings described as human-like but very dangerous.
Regar, son of Ulfius, presided over the years of relative peace and prosperity that followed the wars. He was renowned for his mercy and wisdom. His downfall came when he chose to suppress the ancient rites of Incabulos [human sacrifice, mainly of children]. The cultists cursed him to die of a terrible pox.
His daughter, Wolutha, then a maid of fifteen, ascended the throne. She soon began a campaign to purge the Incabulites. Her own husband [name is effaced!] was found guilty of keeping the old rites and was slain by her order.
The chronicle ends with several pages to spare [left blank]. The chronicler alternates between writing 'victories over the evil ones' and describing a series of plagues and curses that have befallen the land, curses brought down by the 'evil sons of Incabulos' and their allies 'the devil-men.'
The very last paragraph is written in a different hand. It tells of a rebellion stirred up by the Incabulites. The keep is under siege, but the queen has sworn to win out or else perish nobly, by her own hand, in defiance of all foes.
The herbal: This is a handy guide to the medicinal plants of the region. One passage is underlined:
Hemlock- The extract of this plant may be used to stop the breath and still the heart, thus bringing a quiet death to them that are mortally wounded or ravaged by illness with no hope of recovery.
The travelogue contains maps of the known lands, which look vaguely familiar to Benn. He can see no clear indications of the Shadow Rift, and the coastlines are distorted, but it does look like an outline of the Prime Continent [the 'Core']. Some half-mythical countries are depicted, such as Arak. Several modern states are missing. The map is full of archaic or legendary names: Arak[Mountains of Misery region], the Silver Kingdoms [modern Falkovnia], the North Country [modern Darkon], Borjiia, etc, etc. Descriptions of various places and travellers' tales are collected in this tome.
The lexicon translates between an older form of Imbrulian [the dialect spoken by Wat and his people, similiar to modern Darkonese but old fashioned], Balok [of an old fashioned but intelligible sort] and Northern Elvish [the Darkonian variety].
The primer on the cult of Incabulos describes human sacrifice by burial in pits, various horrific curses and hexes, notes on holy days/symbols/rites, and a mention of a pilgrimage to The Pit of Darkness [a great cavern in which the spirit of the Fear-Father is said to dwell, and out of which his night-gaunts are wont to roam when the clouds cover the moon of nights].
The books:
The illustrated bestiary covers many monsters, from Ant, Giant through Zombie. The art is archaic in style, some of it blocky and simple, some of it quite skillfully executed. Information about the treasures collected by various critters, as well as the typical number of such beings one might encounter in the wild or in the lair.
The wood panel portrait book contains a number of faded paintings. Most are of people [doubtless long-dead] that Benn doesn't recognize. One panel depicts the blonde girl with violet-blue eyes, the one from Benn's mirror vision in the tower. A facing panel [the first in the book] shows the mature man whom Benn had also seen in the mirror, the one who bears a certain family resemblance to the girl. The writing below the paintings is very faded, but Benn makes out the fragments:
Wol-
and
-gar
under the images of girl and the man, respectively.
The court chronicle uses an unfamiliar dating system. It describes events in the kingdom of Brosellant during the reigns of Ulfius Longbeard, Regar [called the Just] and Wolutha.
Ulfius ruled long, and much of his reign was spent with wars against 'devils of the woods', beings described as human-like but very dangerous.
Regar, son of Ulfius, presided over the years of relative peace and prosperity that followed the wars. He was renowned for his mercy and wisdom. His downfall came when he chose to suppress the ancient rites of Incabulos [human sacrifice, mainly of children]. The cultists cursed him to die of a terrible pox.
His daughter, Wolutha, then a maid of fifteen, ascended the throne. She soon began a campaign to purge the Incabulites. Her own husband [name is effaced!] was found guilty of keeping the old rites and was slain by her order.
The chronicle ends with several pages to spare [left blank]. The chronicler alternates between writing 'victories over the evil ones' and describing a series of plagues and curses that have befallen the land, curses brought down by the 'evil sons of Incabulos' and their allies 'the devil-men.'
The very last paragraph is written in a different hand. It tells of a rebellion stirred up by the Incabulites. The keep is under siege, but the queen has sworn to win out or else perish nobly, by her own hand, in defiance of all foes.
The herbal: This is a handy guide to the medicinal plants of the region. One passage is underlined:
Hemlock- The extract of this plant may be used to stop the breath and still the heart, thus bringing a quiet death to them that are mortally wounded or ravaged by illness with no hope of recovery.
The travelogue contains maps of the known lands, which look vaguely familiar to Benn. He can see no clear indications of the Shadow Rift, and the coastlines are distorted, but it does look like an outline of the Prime Continent [the 'Core']. Some half-mythical countries are depicted, such as Arak. Several modern states are missing. The map is full of archaic or legendary names: Arak[Mountains of Misery region], the Silver Kingdoms [modern Falkovnia], the North Country [modern Darkon], Borjiia, etc, etc. Descriptions of various places and travellers' tales are collected in this tome.
The lexicon translates between an older form of Imbrulian [the dialect spoken by Wat and his people, similiar to modern Darkonese but old fashioned], Balok [of an old fashioned but intelligible sort] and Northern Elvish [the Darkonian variety].
The primer on the cult of Incabulos describes human sacrifice by burial in pits, various horrific curses and hexes, notes on holy days/symbols/rites, and a mention of a pilgrimage to The Pit of Darkness [a great cavern in which the spirit of the Fear-Father is said to dwell, and out of which his night-gaunts are wont to roam when the clouds cover the moon of nights].
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
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Brock Marsh Runoff
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I believe that is correct.
There's no recording of what the Incabulites did with her after she killed herself is there? Finding her body and burying it properly might help put her spirit to rest. Or it might just piss her off more.
Why do I have a sinking feeling we're going to be taking this pilgrimage sometime in the future?
There's no recording of what the Incabulites did with her after she killed herself is there? Finding her body and burying it properly might help put her spirit to rest. Or it might just piss her off more.
Why do I have a sinking feeling we're going to be taking this pilgrimage sometime in the future?
"Of course," Benn mutters, "It would be a damned shame if we ever knew what the hell was actually going on."