Isabella wrote:"Roll a d100 to determine Azalin's plan."
With a result of 99 being to start a pizza and Chinese food delivery network that would cover the Core and Island domains of the demiplane?
No it was waffles actually, at least according to Steve Miller . . .
I think it was both.
While Azalin was indeed searching for the perfect waffle reciepe, he was also having S. doing market research on the potential for pizza and Chinese food delivery businesses.
(The perfect waffle reciepe would indeed be to undermine Strahd's existing chain of pancake restraunts.)
The biggest hurdle with getting to the island domains is that the mists cross both space AND time. The biggest hurdle for food delivery would be in some cases the food would arrive BEFORE it was delivered! That and Tiyet would eat the delivery boys instead of the food.
Mangrum wrote:I'll go so far as to say anyone trying to figure out what templates were used to create Malocchio is by definition barking up the wrong tree.
I'll add this: Over the course of three years, one fan has publicly guessed the whole Gazetteer metaplot correctly. (Disturbingly so, in fact.)
Everyone else -- way, way off.
Which means that even the one with the right answer doesn't know that he's right. And the rest of us, have been on the worng track for two years.... Geez, now not only we don't know a bit of the true Story behind S and the Gaz metaplot, but we now know that every thing we believed was possible is not correct at all!!
Conclusion: After 5 Gaz's, two years of discussion on the boards and a lot of wild ideas, I have no idea what this entire metaplot is about. I feel empty...
John W. Mangrum wrote:
The general level of insightful criticism has never improved, save for a handful of people. (Grey Arcanist's take on the Gazetteers' narrator probably takes the prize for most insightful. We used to sit around in the Kargatane clubhouse beaming about his insight and fretting that he'd predict all our twists.)
I did look Grey Arcanist up, but according to the date on the last post, it hasn't been for over two years. There didn't seem to be much point in PMing...
His only real danger is if stupidity is contagious and lethal. In which case, we’re all dead…-Gertrude
My recollection is that we were all posting guesses at the time as to the identity of "S" & what purpose Azalin had in having her peform this work of cataloging the core. At the time, we perhaps were still debating if "S" was even a female. (I recall my guess at the time had to do with "S" being a developing hag, possibly in the employ of Glennis McFadden due to her origin city in Darkon. ) Grey Arcanist had guessed closest to what the Kargatane actually had in mind, an Azalin clone & had her purpose pretty much down.
Catman Jim wrote:Grey Arcanist had guessed closest to what the Kargatane actually had in mind, an Azalin clone & had her purpose pretty much down.
*spittakes* Okay, I am genuinely shocked and surprised, here. I knew a few of the ******s had survived, but I didn't think any of them were women. 'S' isn't as far along yet as the more famous Azalin clone, Lewellyn Dachine, but she's well on her way.
It explains so bloody much ... And lends extra irony to S's opinion of Dachine, based on his correspondence.
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Was there any speculation on what Azalin used to 'rescue' S from the werewolves of Verbrek that was flagged as being correct? Me, I think either her bracer held a False life spell and some other enchantments, so now she thinks she's alive when she's really an undead puppet, or else the bracer serves to upload S's memories into a clone standing by in case she gets herself killed. The latter might explain why she thought some of her clothes were just slightly off.
Isn't the bracelet essentially a cloning device that turns whoever possesses it into S as she was when she last lived. Hence she wakes up herself in a house with a boiling kettle and no sign of the inhabitant, she being the inhabitant transformed into S.
Frighteningly, this is rather like a lich who has lost his corporeal form. From his phyractery he takes possession of a new set of bones and they gradually warp back into the form of his prior shape.
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For what it's worth now, the bracer (as Rock said) just downloads her memories into a clone in Darkon. While the clone's still waking up, the Kargat ship her of to wherever she died (Valachan, in this case) and dump her somewhere nearby. Having cleaned out the house first, of course, which is where the blood spot on the floor came from.
John had a really great idea about Blaustein, where S went back and found herself face to face with her own bloated corpse that I wish had made it into print.
) Grey Arcanist had guessed closest to what the Kargatane actually had in mind, an Azalin clone & had her purpose pretty much down.
Okay, I am genuinely shocked and surprised, here. I knew a few of the ******s had survived, but I didn't think any of them were women. 'S' isn't as far along yet as the more famous Azalin clone, Lewellyn Dachine, but she's well on her way.
And lends extra irony to S's opinion of Dachine, based on his correspondence.
