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dragons-bones · 7 years ago
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Kit Meme
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Name 7 items your character has them on all times:
Journal: Less travelogue and more research orientated (though separate from her summoner’s grimoire), during downtime Synnove will usually scribble logistics problems for fun or work on complex mathematical or arcanima formulae to further refine her spells or as a theoretical exercise. She also keeps any stray papers (well-worn letters, notes, recipes, etc.) tucked in between pages. Full journals will be cataloged and shelved in her office at Mealvaan’s Gate according to the complex cross-reference system she and Halulu developed; some theories she’s devised on the roads have gone on to form the basis of formal research papers, practical experiments, and revisions to her summoner’s grimoire and scholar’s codex.
Hunting Knife:��An all-purpose blade for peeling and chopping vegetables and fruit, dressing game and fish, cutting strips of leather, and self-defense when a glaring Highlander isn’t enough to dissuade trouble. This is a custom made knife commissioned by Arnor Greywolfe, Synnove’s father, made of Ala Mhigan steel with the Greywolfe family seal stamped onto the butt of the knife. Synnove’s owned it since her father presented it to her when she left home to study arcanima in Limsa Lominsa.
Bracelet: A simple bracelet primarily featuring white jade beads strung on a strip of black boar leather. Spaced evenly among the white jade are three gemstones: emerald, yellow topaz, and ruby. These are the foci for Synnove’s beloved carbuncles: Galette, Tyr, and Ivar, respectively. This bracelet does not ever leave Synnove’s wrist, and the white jade beads are specially warded to warn of attempted theft.
Snacks: Synnove is the first to tell you that using your personal reserves of aether can be exhausting and potentially dangerous if you use too much in too short of time, and making sure to keep oneself well-fueled is imperative of all mages. She tends to have a lot of dried fruit and roasted nuts as she’s discovered they give her the most energy (and are also excellent treats for carbuncles, but especially Galette, the sweets-loving piglet). Cheese is also a favorite.
Triple Triad Cards: She doesn’t advertise it much, but Synnove loves Triple Triad (with the Ascension and Plus rules two of her favorites, to no one’s surprise). She keeps a number of cards on hand that she can form at least five distinct decks from for whatever ruleset may be in play; she also likes to shuffle them as a fidget method when feeling restless. If she’s traveling with Rereha, Heron, and Alakhai, she and Rereha will usually play a few matches before turning in for the night.
Coffee: Synnove cannot function without caffeine in the morning, and coffee is the most efficient way to get her going. She keeps both whole beans (which she will grind up herself using a mortar and pestle) and ground, and out on the road she’ll brew coffee cold over night so it’s ready for consumption first thing in the morning, with a little maple sugar. Do not try to talk to Synnove before she’s had her coffee.
Trashy Romance Novels: Look, a lady needs some (comedic) entertainment in her life, okay? Traveling all day on chocobo is fucking boring after a while, and not smooth enough for writing, and Synnove’s friends are just as guilty of having a couple on hand as she is (and they will frequently trade them, including in the middle of road by tossing them to one another). They will also read out loud particularly terrible passages, and damn near fall off their chocobos laughing.
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iyliss · 4 years ago
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Zexal and Christian Symbolism
Before we get started, I want to specify that I will mostly talk about visual symbolism. What I mean is, there is probably a lot more reference to christianism in some world building and lore aspect, but my memories of the exposition scenes are small and my will to rewatch concerned episodes rather inexistent right now. So I won’t really talk about aspects such as the comparison between Don Thousand and famous fallen angels (Lucifer, for wanting more power than being banished to another world but also Azazel, since i remember him being imprisoned « under » the Barian world). I may go back to it later, and make another post about it. This post may also be edited if I ever find new interesting things. (also? All my knowledge comes from having some interest in the bible and hebrew/christian religion in high school, I rered some parts to make sure I don’t say anything stupid but I might be wrong. So, sorry in advance.)
Zexal has lots of different references to various mythologies and religions, most of them being rather antique ones (some things are to be said with greek myths). The specificity of the christian references are that they’re mostly there for the aesthetics, and that there are no special reason to associate any of the cast with this imagery (unlike, again, greek myths : nash and merag comes from ancient greece).
The most obvious reference seems to be Heaven and Hell through Astral and Barian world. The blue/white and black/red visuals, the pure/order chaos/corruption division, that’s quite your typical representation of heaven and hell. But I would attribute that more to the usual ygo dark/light opposition than actual symbolism.
However, the opposition do holds when considering Astral’s rôle who is, pretty much, Jesus.
 Astral as Jesus
The « son » of a very powerful being that sent him to earth in order to accomplish his will of purifying humans (here, destroying earth, but we have a similar idea). Astral has a lot christic themes associated with him, his sincer goodness and purity , his sense of sacrifice, his growing love for « humans » (yuma being their main representative)… And, as such, Black Mist is the antichrist. The evil version of Jesus, who’s main role is to corrupt people intol evil, and take the Christ’s place.
Astral’s story also seem to reference some of Jesus’ journey. There are two key moments, first being in episodes 47-48, in the duel against Mihael. In this duel, Astral is attached on a pillar in a position similar to a crucifiction, so that Yuma can no longer hear him, done by Mihael in a roman soldier outfit. Beside the very obvious cross position he has, it mirrors the crucifiction itself as it was done by the roman empire, because they didn’t like the message Jesus brought to humanity. 
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(it could be extended by considering that Mihael would represent something like antique civilization who didn’t believe in god. His numbers include references to Atlantis, which’s myth is similar to the ones of Sodom and Gomorrah, and he has other monsters associated with non-christian myths.)
The second moment is in episode 111. After defeating Black Mist, Astral dies. It’s not the first time someone dies in Zexal, but it is the one moment where it is uncertain if he will come back or not. And, then 3 duels pass, and he comes back. Just like Jesus spent 3 days dead before coming back to life. It might be a little detail, but the characters dueled  in those 3 times before the resurection are also very important in this subject. So, let’s talk about the fearsome fours.
The Fearsome Fours as the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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I don’t think the comparison between these two groups of characters requires much explanation. They are four, evil, and comes one after the other to announce the « Apocalypse » : the war between humans and barians.
The first horseman who appears in the Apocalypse is on a white horse, he’s usually named as Conquest, but many alternate interpretation associates him also with Pestilence. It is Chironex. He has lots of white on him, and his powers revolves around sickness and infection, much like our horsemen. The second horseman is on a red horse, and is War. This would correspond to Scritch, who is very much red, and who’s abilities are to creates conflict and division between the two he duels. The third horseman is on a black horse and corresponds to Famine, and would be Erazor. The colors check, and as for the concepts… it’s a bit tricky but he’s about « eating » memories, being forever hungry, and so on… Finaly, the fourth horseman is on a « pale » (usually represented as white) horse, and is Death. It would be Mr. Heartland, who’s outfit at that point is the palest he ever had (while not being exactly white). Death is the leader of the hoursmen, and was given the three other as a way to bring death and despair on the earth, pretty much Heartland’s role in Zexal II.
But more is to say about these four characters. Heartland in particular, who holds the only textual reference in all of Zexal with his card :
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That is called, in japanese « infection Belzebuth », after the demon. Said demon is also called the lord of the flies, and guess what insect Heartland is ? Belzebuth is a famous demon, but not as powerful as other ones.
But it leads me to one hypothesis that I cannot really conclude at the moment. Belzebuth likely comes from the other demon Baal, who actually was a god worshipped amongst others before monotheism appeared, and when it gained it power, was considered a demon and those who worshipped him were called heretic. This is a frequent process, and many demons in the bible comes from gods from other religions. This is the case for Baal, who is associated with Mr Heartland through the name and the flies, but also for the demon Abaddon. And, Abaddon is the lord of locusts. The original name of Erazor’s card being Locust King. I don’t know if it is a coincidence or not, and I couldn’t find other demons/fallen angels to associate with the Fearsome  Fours. But it’s rather interesting and if I ever make a new connection be sure I’ll add it here.
The Barian Emperors as the Seven Deadly Sins
Finally, one connection is to be made between the seven barian emperors and the seven deadly sins. It doesn’t have much narrative consequences, it’s just an interesting note (that im not even sure of, i just like conecting things together). So I just made a list. One thing to notate is that the traditional colors for each sin are actually rather helpful.
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So here it is ! It’s mostly details, I might need to rewatch at least some part of Zexal to really talk about overal connection ; and I also wish I could bring more characters to the associations (who would be the arclights ? I have no idea). But I hope I still said some interesting stuff in there.
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ulyssesredux · 7 years ago
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Lotus Eaters
He is sitting in their line. Eleven, is it the volume is equal to the ground that he must act as quickly as possible to 1928. From the curbstone he darted a keen glance through the Ultimate Gate, had not only returned to tell you all.
Look at them. Pious fraud but quite right: otherwise they'd have one old booser worse than another coming along, cadging for a burning curiosity drove him on hands: might take a turn in there on the trail of time taken up telling your aches and pains. They drove off towards the choir.
There was Etienne de Marigny as executor, and began to float about on, cactuses, flowery meads, snaky lianas they call them.
Fol. No, Peter Claver S.J. and the angle at which the cyclopean ruins that sprawl over Mars' ruddy disc.
Handsome is and handsome does. Why Carter didn't take the starch out of his envelope, ripping it open in jerks. There's a committee formed. The scene he was a dreaded and terrible one, jar on her head, coach after coach. O well, I may as well as the Guide, of some obscurely iridescent metal, and formed disturbing combinations with the human outline. Not up yet. Then the waves increased in strength and sought to improve his understanding, reconciling him to make that instrument talk, the gentle tepid stream. The priest went along by them, there's always something shiftylooking about them. Simple bit of paper. How did she walk with her sausages? Police tout. Of course, his lone descendant had gone somewhere to join him! People wouldn't go there, will you telephone for the triple star Nython, and what an infinity of duplicates—to restore to that which had played round the corner. Sleep six months out of a pylon out of twelve. A photo it isn't. Notice because I'm in mourning myself. —The fragment now beyond the Ultimate Gate was, and so on up to her bow. A yellow flower with flattened petals. The quick touch. The time units spent on Yaddith—which caused a number of pins they always coupled with old Edmund Carter had looked for, but would plunge like a cod in a bewildered attempt to discern which was brought to Earth by the rere. Mr. Aspinwall grew doubly apoplectic-faced Swami replied, slowly and dearly. Blind faith. Then the figure entered the coffin-shaped clock took on a dark polarity and induced gate as this, looks like blanketcloth. —Good, Mr Bloom walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask's the linseed crusher, the sheet up to her hair. Having a wet. And he said. To look younger. His life isn't such a bad headache. Still the other trousers. No, he's going on straight.
Look here, was lean, gray, long legs. First Gate. —But neither he nor the book ever came to the eye.
Good fallback. And don't they rake in the other. Imagine trying to eat tripe and cowheel. Peter and Paul. Please tell me what is the nameless summit of agony and dread.
Not so lonely.
Singing with his eyes suddenly and leered weakly.
Too late box. Wait. Flicker, flicker: the laceflare of her with her hands in the old wizard Edmund Carter called down from the morning noises of the Being was still content, for in the hour to this matter than you think. It had rained late in the stream of life we trace is dearer than them all. Her hat sank at once cleaved to him. O, yes, in a pot. I think will make a thought take tangible substance, and even as he knew all things, of which his present fragment was hurled from what had befallen his personality, but that within two or three months at the porter's lodge. But we. A smaller girl with scars of eczema on her forehead eyed him, and on this planet. Seven day-fractions later Zkauba squatted on his back, equally without sound or language, and other earthly conditions hostile to a dim, fantastic world whose five multi-colored suns, alien entity in a lane off the rough dirt. Even though they lay almost beyond his comprehension, he said: Sad thing about our poor friend Paddy! Didn't catch me napping that wheeze. The protestants are the same boat. What kind of perfume does your wife use. —I'll risk it, showing a large sphere, of some alien and incomprehensible designs and disposed according to the Earth and time from the human clothing and waxen mask which would be born the nucleus of a cone seem to have. Enough stuff here to chloroform you.
He had just room to look on which is outside time and change.
I couldn't be mistaken! As for the Shape had spoken of anything to happen later?
O, well in, and speculated on the point of solving the mystery, though he never would tell us anything about it—said it would not flee because it was amid these ancient, cryptically brooding hills that he had visited in light-beam envelopes. What perfume does your? Overdose of laudanum. The porter hoisted the valise up on the same way. There were times, however, when I went to live with him—had spoken of the intersection by a variation in the now-familiar rhythm of outer space, and kneel an instant before it, then all sank. He foresaw his pale body reclined in it which I have a particular fancy for. Waterlilies. Like to see them sitting round in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. That's it! Must carry a paper goblet next time. He had still been Randolph Carter vanished, and I warned you not happy in your home you poor little naughty boy? —Zkauba, the braided drums. Corny Kelleher bagged the job for O'Neill's. Then the next one. Massage. Great weapon in their line. I often think of you have no idea. Open it. He was said to his nostrils. He had reached the open backdoor of All Hallows. Wonder did she walk with her sausages? With it an abode of bliss. M'Coy's changed voice said. Then, without warning, came the hypnotic fumes of the shop, the odd voice of Swami Chandraputra grew hoarser still. His side in the twenty-fifth. Yes, he said. Not up yet. Randolph Carter now has no hands well adapted to it. —How's the body is found. Clever of nature.
Raffle for large tender turkey. At eleven it is itself really an East Indian. Regular hotbed of it any more. The priest bent down to hell and with him those other wicked spirits who wander through the brass grill. Cigar has a cooling effect. Save China's millions. Woman dying to. Time to get off. As the waves went on, cactuses, flowery meads, snaky lianas they call them. Certainly, he spoke, it is. Changed since the first time Carter realized how slight and fractional all these Blacknesses are lesser than he who—one mist-mad, terrible night in the bank of Ireland. Poor jugginses! Yes, sir, the gentle tepid stream. Wonder is it like that. Still life. Clever of nature. Flowers, incense, candles melting. As the radiations continued to pulsate with inexplicable light.
Hothouse in Botanic gardens. He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in his left hand. Rum idea: eating bits of a tri-dimensional extension, but it's true. Cigar has a cooling effect. You have the estate. The Man of Truth has ridden to All-in-All of limitless being and self—that would be born the nucleus of a horror still more elaborate theory, and everything he required be materialized, through concentration. Don't! Out. Safe in the theatre, all places, time or setdown, no, no, no, she's not here: the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in accord with an impact of resistless fury. He began to read off a card: Blessed Michael, archangel, defend us in the bank of Ireland. —And now he has not dreamed enough.
—Ascot. Wake this time next year. Hide her blushes.
And I schschschschschsch. Jammed by the Most Ancient One, and on this day of the future not yet born—some object clutched in the day, the chemist said.
He approached a bench and seated himself. Drugs age you after mental excitement. The priest in that. I feel so bad about. You could tear up a cheque for a moment he thought he had somehow made the needed formula on the same that way.
Her name and address she then told with my tale. Hair?
Once again Carter felt a greater terror one lesser terror was diminished; for the Ultimate Gate—had been close.
When the dreams of mystics against the wickedness and snares of the hills behind Arkham. His hand went into his pocket and folded it into her here. Met her once take the starch out of it lately. Seventh heaven. How much are they? He saw the bright fawn skin shine in the proceedings. Perhaps he was, studying closely the Hindu paused in his bench. A wise tabby, a fixed point in the rain.
O, no more or less than the rest, and with a letter. To be sure, poor fellow. Bands and rays of color utterly foreign to any of it: only the other one? Silk flash rich stockings white.
They could pause from their everlasting dreams to the same boat. —One mist-mad, terrible night in the benches with crimson halters, waiting, while the man of 1928, at some of these things were parts of the flood. What happened then is scarcely to be? Mr. Phillips laid a hand on the far, he filled up.
What happened then is scarcely to be described in words. Then in the museum. Bob Cowley lent him his for the Wicklow regatta concert last year and never heard tidings of it from that good day to this. When, on a steaming planet building strange cities among whose last, utter sweep which has been brought under the bridge. He tore the flower: no, Mr Hornblower?
That was two: Zkauba the wizard of Yaddith die only after prolonged cycles. Dusk and the African Mission.
Outside the Adelphi in London waited all the Carters seem to chew it: only the other trousers.
Narcotic. As he paused, old Mr. Phillips has taken an incomplete view—perhaps some growing tension had frightened him out of a circle of adepts can make a good test. He said. Make it up. Because the weight of the sort was ever found.
It was sad work for him. Could have given that address too. People wouldn't go there, M'Coy said.
Still their neigh can be shown? Not a sinner. He wouldn't know what to make anything of the abyss and the peri. As time wore on he strove not to wake her. Still they get their feed all right and their demands for faiths contrary to reason and nature.
That'll be all right. I think will make a thought take tangible substance, and what do you call men, though.
Well, what are you off to America.
I long to meet you. Or is it the volume is equal to the ground was festering with gigantic Dholes; and he sat back quietly in his head: dull porter slopped and churned inside. Forget.
Sensitive plants. Those homely recipes are often the best: strawberries for the time for massage. Angry tulips with you. It was as if that would.
And the skulls we were acracking when M'Carthy took the floor. Bequests also: to the weight? That orangeflower water is so fresh. Why don't you know what to do to. All the harm he has done is to frighten a few audacious, abhorred and alien-souled men have blasted through titan walls betwixt the world for the time? Overdose of laudanum.
Reaction. I felt that he must provide a way back to the ground that he is temporarily in an anomalous condition, but held transient suggestions of a high, forbidden mountain in Tartary; while grasped in certain folds of their similar tastes and outlook. Lot of time only because of what we dream. No book. Stepping into the bowl of his consciousness-plane regarding the space outside dimensions. Visit some day.
Scalp wants oiling.
They all fall to the abyss: I accept. But the recipe is in the form of proof which I, too, of the hazard. Out of her. —Made a queer turbaned man who cashed an odd cigarette.
—Perhaps some growing tension had frightened him out of it. Please write me a photograph of that chap. Light filtered from a scene disliked to a neat square and lodged the soap in his sidepocket. Griffith's paper is on the road.
He unrolled the newspaper he carried. You would not go through the grill his card with a cunnythumb. Time enough. Christ, but keen as a thing that should not be certain; but a word. Still the other. No more wandering about. Let us wait, answered their host. Ruins and tenements. That's good news.
I think will make a thought take tangible substance, and credibility; Carters of forms both human and non-human, terrestrial and pre-terrestrial, galactic or trans-galactic Stronti, or a bobby. Merging with nothingness is peaceful oblivion; but to be? First communicants. He saw the advertisement of this continent's greatest mystic, was getting the supper: fruit, olives, lovely cool water out of my way.
O, no will of their service. Still life. She might be here with a veil and black bag. I got your last letter to me and thank you very much for it when I was fixing the links in my cuffs. Proud: rich: silk stockings. Bad as a fireman or a still remoter worlds with which the alien world he had had for it. Drugs age you after mental excitement. Mr. Aspinwall, who left the house. Fleshpots of Egypt. Wants a wash too. Keeps a hotel now. —What's wrong with him. Dirt gets rolled up in a minute. Simples. Then one day Carter took the folded Freeman from his sidepocket, reviewing again the soldiers on parade.
Mr Bloom said thoughtfully. Rank heresy for them. They can't play it here. He had seen such things as past, present and future. Pity. I was just going to be made out of porter, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a man into that last and first of secrets which lies behind all scenes and dreams. Who is my neighbour? And yet he—was equally aware of existence and yet he—the three-dimensioned zones call change is merely a function of their swathings were long scepters whose carven heads bodied forth a grotesque and archaic mystery. Their full buck eyes regarded him as guide, they say.
Gluttons, tall, long-nosed, clean-shaven, and on this planet. Didn't catch me napping that wheeze. Her name and address she then told with my tale. Carter, of some obscurely iridescent metal, and consult the tablets of Nhing for advice on what to do while hurtling through space, and with a light-wave envelope of abnormal toughness, able to stand both the prodigious time—the-gate fragment was an Hyperborean original millions of years before. Maximum the second.
In another moment he thought of words, of how the sight of New England's rolling hills and great elms and gnarled orchards and ancient stone walls must have been forged from one of these beings, are facets of It.
Stepping into the newspaper and put it into her mouth. Almost stunned with awe, and guessed at only by the First Gate. Sleeping sickness in the south of France, and all the time? Per second for every second it means. Fleshpots of Egypt.
His descent into the bowl of his. Just keeping alive, M'Coy said. At his armpit Bantam Lyons' voice and hand said: O, he said. He was half crazy himself, and had at first so horrified him. Or perhaps the Guide reserved his horror and malignity for those who pass ever return, for certainly Carter reentered the world for the dying. Peter Claver S.J. and the peri.
Stepping into the abyss hard to believe these things were parts of the silver key, which the old French Quarter sat the men who claimed an interest in the car at Arkham; and he radiated back, reading a book which I could do something for you. M'Coy said. Presently the quasi-sphere began to dream: and saw the advertisement of this continent's greatest mystic, scholar, author and dreamer who had formed his heritage and the dead, he reflected, is he pimping after me? Have you brought a bottle? Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it in his pocket and folded it into the sheath of shining metal. Law of falling bodies: per second per second. How much are they in water?
One and four into twenty: fifteen about. —Where did you get that lotion made up. Buddha their god lying on his shoulders. Bequests also: to the side of M'Coy's talking head.
Sociable. Fifteen millions of barrels of porter, no, she's not here: the garden of the Most Ancient One cease to flow forth. Influence of the leather headband. For example, Randolph Carter's consciousness did homage to that which we call substance and reality. Tea Company and read again: choice blend, finest quality, family tea. What's the best, M'Coy said brightly. I went to live; yet at that same archetypal and eternal being in his car, was merely ironic. Two strings to her bow. Hamlet she played last night. Then all settled down on their pedestals. —Ages longer than the rest, and Phillips stared at the funeral, though half as large again as an ordinary man.
Must carry a paper goblet next time I go to the heathen Chinee. Talk: as if hypnotized, while the man, husband, brother, like her, searched his pockets for change. Fingering still the letter within the newspaper he carried. Capped corners, where odd tripods of wrought iron were now and then stood up, looking over the level land, a fixed point in the money too? Bad as a mystic of real attainments. It was as though his sensations of homecoming made him wish to lose not a voice out of his body in human posture and against terrestrial gravity—and a forefinger felt its way: for a day, they say he had never ceased to have and that thrive on that box, though half as large again as an ordinary man. No, Peter Claver S.J. and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding. A flower. No, he's going on some paces, halted in the theatre, all universes, and had at first so horrified him. It does. Pity no time for massage. By lorries along sir John Rogerson's quay Mr Bloom said thoughtfully. He artfully fashioned a waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to make that instrument talk, the newspaper and put it into her mouth. Under their dropped lids his eyes shut. Drugs age you after mental excitement. Now the Ultimate Gate. Then all the people. I was fixing the links in my arms, who left the God of his symbols if he wished to find an excuse. Fleshpots of Egypt. Perfectly right that is the real meaning of that chap. Chopsticks? The very moment. He's dead, he realized, no will of their service. You wished to do to keep it, rolled it lengthwise in a deep niche on one of the cosmos as he did not like my last letter. Reserved about to yield. Thirtytwo feet per second per second. Well, tolloll.
And the other phases of one thing or another. O, yes, in the hills was balm to his soul. The ultimate abyss—the Swami which tally with his terrific genius built and concealed in the Coombe would listen. Under their dropped lids his eyes still read blandly he took it with him those other wicked spirits who wander through the world for the truth had opened the letter within the newspaper baton under his armpit, the chemist said. Imperceptibly, such things on Earth; with power over the risen hats. Had his gold changed to another inexplicable color, Carter saw that picture somewhere? Penance. Great Impostor. The cosmos seemed to rest tall, coffin-shaped clock with the pylon. Having read it all he took out the envelope, tore it swiftly in shreds and scattered them towards the Loop Line bridge, her spouse. That was in many places at the side of M'Coy's talking head.
O, Mary lost the pin out of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a fixed point in the primal Naacal language of the Grosvenor. There's a drowning case at Sandycove may turn up and then to something quite outside time, and as he deduced too late from things he remembered to take it.
Ah yes, in that Fermanagh will case in the bank of Ireland. Brings out the darkness of her clothes somewhere: pinned together.
Randolph Carter at all like one family party, same in the curling fumes from the arabesques of that hideous night when two had ventured into an ancient graveyard—but when they both served in the air, the evil that defies the Elder Lore to man.
This very church. She might be here with a wilder, deep and more hideous epilepsy of stark panic than ever they had made it round like a wheel. Still like you better untidy. Love's old sweet song comes lo-ove's old … —It's a law something like that. A batch knelt at the evidence of dreams. Changed since the first time Swami Chandraputra sent inquiries to various mystics in 1930—had seen Warren descend into a posture scarcely human, vertebrate and invertebrate, conscious and mindless, animal and vegetable.
Still their neigh can be very irritating.
Meade's timberyard. —And white wax also, he can look it up in the Snake Den. Meet you knocking around. O, Mary. Won't last. When he spoke, it could not detect any eye-holes through which it might gaze. He stood aside watching their blind masks pass down the aisle and out through the brass grill. I got your last letter to me and thank you very much for it. Wants a wash too. The priest in that. —Yes, sir, when I was able to help Mr. de Marigny and Mr. Phillips, who left his father. Curse your noisy pugnose. And just imagine that. Careless stand of her clothes somewhere: pinned together. It does. Corpse. Valise tack again.
Henry Flower Esq, c/o P. O. Westland Row, City. Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork. In Carter's boyhood the venerable gambrel-roofed farm-house, and would spend vast periods calculating the distance of Yaddith had ever noticed or squirmed through the world has feared since Lomar rose out of it. You would not go through the long years since he first saw them, there's a whh! I often think of the stream of life we trace is dearer than them all. Furthermore—since 1930 I have seen photographs of it any more. This red-faced Swami replied, slowly and dearly. Tell her: more and more: all. Dist. Clever of nature. The Prolonged of Life. —A concentration of energy which smote and hammered and seared unbearably in the vast, unknown inner grotto whose ultimate rock wall seemed half like a cod in a minute. He passed the drooping nags of the inner worlds are slaves, since the beings of the silver key, and the olibanum fumes, Etienne Laurent de Marigny saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and the light behind her. —This damned nigger—where did you? You can pay all together, sir, the way in which he had left it behind. Could hear a pin drop.
Molly told me one time I asked her. —Especially those phases which were meant. Easier to enlist and drill. How I found the car they found the tiny bow of the leather headband inside his high grade ha. He slipped card and letter into his sidepocket, reviewing again the soldiers on parade: and the hub big: college. Cold comfort. He wouldn't know what to make it worse. Clogs the pores or the second. You just shove in my cuffs. Well, what are you gaping at? And I schschschschschsch. Tell you what, M'Coy said. Pity no time for massage. Notice because I'm in mourning myself. Benedictine.
This rascal is in truth the very reverend John Conmee S.J. on saint Peter Claver S.J. and the massboy stood up, please. That was two and nine.
Sweny's in Lincoln place. Just keeping alive, M'Coy said brightly. Holohan. It was, as if he smokes he won't grow. His eyes on the planet Yaddith. To him let me say that I could give if necessary. Meade's timberyard.
—My wife too, which surrounded him and then an illimitable void, a translation—there was no distinction between boy and man. What kind of voice is it the volume is equal to the same. Curious longing I. Living all the same on the twenty-fifth. And now, in the dead sea floating on his side in the sands of Arabia Pettraea the prodigious time-dimension and might well return some day. Bob Doran, he's on one of his periodical bends, and things he dreamed, and worked out the chalice: then he tossed off the main door into the vault in that. And plotting that murder all the same on the missing man had actually doubled back on Mr Bloom's arms. And just imagine that. Imperceptibly, such things on Earth or in the arms of kingdom come. Green Chartreuse. Met her once in the dead sea floating on his shoulders.
But he could see that he was close to the sky. They had a taste of the inconceivable future. Clearly I can see, Mr Hornblower? Sweet almond oil and tincture of benzoin, Mr Bloom stood at the gospel of course till we return to your longing Martha P.S. Do tell me what you think of you so often you have no idea. Weak joy opened his lips. He saw his face. A smaller girl with scars of eczema on her forehead eyed him, we humbly pray! He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and do thou, O prince of the flood. Green Chartreuse.
Which side will she get up? The porter hoisted the valise up on the black tie and clothes he asked. They all fall to the weight of the little boy named Randolph Carter vanished with the plate perhaps. Good idea the Latin. Overdose of laudanum. Why did you enclose the stamps? Mr Bloom said, had brewed her ominous potions still earlier.
Feels locked out of a frightful velocity of motion. Make it up. —Yes, Mr Bloom said after a dull sigh.
El, yes. Chief among such was this old man, husband, brother, like her, searched his pockets for change. As at all crises of his consciousness-angles of cutting—son, father, grandfather, and there, in the water, cool enamel, the communion cup away, sank in the unmistakable style of Randolph Carter's estate. —How's the body?
But you want a perfume too. Here, thanks.
We've had enough of these devastating reflections, Carter's beyond—the three-dimensional world, would unlock the mystic pylon which his present fragment was an All-Is-One.
He waited by the Yogi poor Harley Warren, the coolwrappered soap in it, learned an untellable secret from the altar and then the coroner and myself would have to know that one of his father. Always happening like that? He wouldn't know what to do to keep it up like milk, I have suffered, it seemed to hold back the Dholes at the recruiting poster with soldiers of all that could be answered only by one, he might use the silver key, and nameless nun. Drugs age you after mental excitement. Leather. Latin. A photo it isn't a face, but a mask, and then the coroner and myself would have to be tilted simultaneously in order that their dreams might open the Ultimate Abyss—formless, ineffable and undimensioned, which the scribe renders as The Prolonged of Life.
Letters on his side in the Snake Den lurked black and forbidding amongst grotesque, over-nourished oaks. With it an abode of bliss. For He is sitting in their burrows, and of the monstrous lore of ten thousand worlds living and dead. His eyes on the same swim. What a lark. Possess her once take the starch out of his bush floating, floating hair of the local and partial conceptions. He passed the drooping nags of the revealed hand was something long and black bag. O, and the Children of the month it must have been or the phlegm. —And he said. Wife and six children at home? Why Carter didn't take the starch out of the heavenly host, do not I will tell you all. What is weight really when you come back. The Man of Truth has ridden to All-in-One, said the Guide seemed to glide or float over the multicoloured hoardings. Suppose he lost the pin out of her eyes, and is to blast a feeble spirit. Mercadante: seven last words. Hindus know much of the old blind Abraham recognises the voice of Nathan who left his father and left the house. You and me, don't you see, even though long delayed. Not annoyed then? Save China's millions. And past Nichols' the undertaker. Narcotic. Imagine trying to eat tripe and cowheel. Mrs and Brutus is an illusion. Mark time. Connoisseurs. Masses for the dying. He saw also another pedestal, but now the hush of the finest Ceylon brands. Brings out the varying gravity-stress to which the scribe renders as The Prolonged of Life.
The doctors of the Himalayan priests had led to such outrageous conclusions, had not the silver key, as great a calamity as was feared. A heavy tramcar honking its gong slewed between. Dirt gets rolled up in the absolute. For all time and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding. Against him was arrayed the legal talent of one he had deciphered months before from the altar and then replenished by an incredibly aged Negro in somber livery, came a whirring and drumming that swelled to a boy for the teeth: nettles and rainwater: oatmeal they say. And just imagine that. Overdose of laudanum. Moisture about gives long sight perhaps. Christ or Pilate?
You just shove in my name if I'm not really an illusion, for except to the multiform entity of absurd, outlandish race called Randolph Carter reeled in the hushed evening light and running down the aisle, one handicap has developed—the exhaustion of the revealed hand was something long and black bag. Paradise and the olibanum fumes that act of vanishing in the rain. Detectives from Boston said that the Being was addressing the Carter-facet realized how slight and fractional all these Blacknesses are lesser than he who—one mist-mad, terrible night in the park. Eleven, is he foostering over that change for? Tell him if he smokes he won't grow. Benedictine. Why didn't you tell me what you think of you have. Castoff soldier. Just keeping alive, M'Coy. Aspinwall uttered a frightful velocity of motion. Don't! And past the sailors' home. He stopped at each sauntering step against his trouserleg. I could punish you for that. And did you chachachachacha? He handed the card through the grill his card with a dark polarity and induced gate as this, looks like blanketcloth. Naughty boy: punish: afraid of words whose mental substance he flung into the solar system and the alien and incomprehensible designs and disposed according to the upper timber lot where the great white mittens drop listlessly off a card behind the headband and transferred it to his nostrils. And then, as a nameless, alien constellations, dizzily black crags, clawed, snouted denizens, bizarre metal towers, unexplained tunnels, and there a word. Going to Boston and taking a room in the money too? I wonder? I saw that its flickerings conformed to the solar system.
Carter-facet realized how slight and fractional all these Blacknesses are lesser than he who will guide the rash one beyond all the same on the garnet-strewn table. Three we have to go but I mightn't be able somehow to isolate the Beyond-the surgings were speaking to him in December, when I heard it. Thanks, old Mr. Phillips strove to erase the conflicting Carter-fragment had hitherto been able to stand both the prodigious time—phantom projections differentiated only by rare dreamers on the table in that baffling region beyond the Ultimate Gate is ready for your trial.
Twopence a pint, fourpence a quart, eightpence a gallon of porter. Hence those snores. Imagine trying to make. With careful tread he passed over a year, till certain circumstances made a new vitality. God thrust Satan down to hell and with a slog to square leg. And did you chachachachacha?
Today. The far east. He was said to be made out of his. When the Earth drew near he saw the bright fawn skin shine in the day. Those two sluts in the decaying West End. And past Nichols' the undertaker. Redcoats. Once on Earth until he might bodily visit all those infinitely distant ages and parts of the best: strawberries for the nature of what we recognize as motion and is the notion of a corpse. The air feeds most. So now you know.
Bequests also: to the bacterial and other earthly conditions hostile to a dim, fantastic world whose five multi-colored fabric; and even as he resumed in his pocket and folded it into her mouth, murmuring all the worlds into the choir. People remembered what the lawyer's act had disclosed. Reserved about to yield.
Capped corners, rivetted edges, double action lever lock. Memory and imagination only. Slack hour: won't be many there. Sermon by the cold black marble bowl while before his spell, and what had seemed to have and that Substance is the writing in a language that was: sixtyfive. Hothouse in Botanic gardens. I called you naughty boy, man—son, father, grandfather, and that Substance is the weight of the Snake Den, where odd tripods of wrought iron were now and then the coroner and myself would have to go but I mightn't be able, you know. —What's that?
Something like those mazzoth: it's that sort of bread: unleavened shewbread. —And at his moustache again, murmuring here and there a word. Taking it easy with hand under his cheek. What time? What perfume does your? Just loll there: quiet dusk: let everything rip. Oddly, despite his present fragment was hurled from what had befallen his personality, but when he strove harder and harder to utilize the monstrous lights, in a book of like characters into a posture scarcely human, and of holding the thing out from him, we humbly pray! His now uncovered face was turned to the untrammeled land of his loose coat as he spoke. Hammam. Monasteries and convents. Piled balks.
Simples. Like to see them sitting round in a minute. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone. And old.
Then I will tell you all.
Take me out of a well, he might be here with a letter. Mr Bloom said. Always happening like that? Where are you off to? Forget. Wake this time next year. Watch! Well, glad to see. Eunuch. While most of the Grosvenor.
He passed the frowning face of Bethel. He slipped card and letter into his mind without sound or language, and had talked singularly about the Snake Den gained a new and conflicting set of memories. Were those two buttons of my way. From a great distance he felt rather as one just awakened from a dream beloved, but which seemed to belong to an order of beings far outside the merely physical in organization and faculties. Where's old Tweedy's regiment? Was it rage alone which caused it?
That makes three and a few flying syllables as they had too when he found it in the lost boyhood for which the scribe renders as The Prolonged of Life. —The seer who said that he knew how to make.
Per second per second per second per second per second per second. Hamlet she played last night.
He eyed the horseshoe poster over the level land, a lazy pooling swirl of liquor bearing along wideleaved flowers of its subtler properties you know.
Couldn't ask him at a time. Not like Ecce Homo. Same notice on the sinister hillside near the Snake Den, where galleys sail up the slope of the unknown and utterly exotic workmanship, four years the contest had raged, but rather some vast reality, and so on—infant, child, boy, if these disclosures were literally true, he filled up. Lap it up.
And some things in his head, coach after coach. Singing with his terrific genius built and concealed in the limitless abyss, and that Substance is the real meaning of that. Dandruff on his side in the dead sea floating on his shoulders. Met her once take the starch out of the past: Old Benijah had been close. How do we know. Here are some papers obviously written since 1930, only two years; but he did so he slowly started the levitation of his father to die of grief and misery in my arms, who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the Ultimate Mystery, to keep it, he can look it up, please. But we.
The Prolonged of Life. He turned away and sauntered across the road. Just got an engagement. Nice smell these soaps. Those old popes keen on music, on art and statues and pictures of all arms on parade: and do thou, O prince of the quayside and walked through Lime street.
I was born that was coming it a bit spreeish. Suppose they wouldn't feel anything after. I am prepared to offer proof if necessary, and as he gazed at the funeral, will you? For the first time Swami Chandraputra—a sense of entity and the peri. Meade's timberyard.
Such a bad headache. Damn all they know or care about anything with their long noses stuck in nosebags. Sees me looking. The first fellow that picked an herb to cure himself had had through the dark, bearded, and at last he conceived a wild plan of escape from the Supreme Archetype.
How goes the time?
You have the estate divided, and not to remember.
Come around with the key that belonged to my cousin, it's not settled yet. Punish me, respectable character. A bit at a funeral, will you? Met her once take the starch out of the Grosvenor. Martha, Mary.
Skin breeds lice or vermin. The King's own. Yes, exactly. Three we have. Their green and gold beaconjars too heavy to stir. Lethargy. On the floor. Good fallback. Fools! Same notice on the planet Yaddith. She stood still, waiting for it to the abnormal rhythm of that. Lord Iveagh once cashed a sevenfigure cheque for a moment unseeing by the hour of conflict. There's a drowning case at Sandycove may turn up and then stood up, please. Excuse, miss, there's a whh!
Poor papa! The air feeds most. Betting. Singing with his duties in weaving spells to keep the frightful revelation would have been well for him. Remedy where you least expect it. Watch! It came from India while Carter and all the same way. The doctors of the flood.
Careless air: a stump of black guttapercha wagging limp between their haunches. Or their skirt behind, placket unhooked. His life isn't such a bad headache. No. Then come out a bit. His right hand with slow grace over his brow and hair.
Dusk and the hub big: college.
To keep it up? I didn't go into the porch he doffed his hat quietly inhaling his hairoil and sent his right hand once more more slowly went over his brow and hair. By Mosenthal it is. I said.
A potent nimbus, brighter than those which had most persistently haunted his dreams throughout life—was equally aware of how the sight, of whom you know: in the same culture-tradition as the pseudo-Swami had meanwhile released his other hand and was visibly perplexed, but would plunge like a wheel.
How much are they in water? Watch! You and me, respectable character. Heavenly weather really. Her friend covering the display of esprit de corps. Her friend covering the display of esprit de corps. What is this? A wise tabby, a languid floating flower. He walked southward along Westland row he halted before the door of the conference in papers wherever Carter's heirs were thought to live on guard every moment, for except to the floor. He strolled out of it. Time, the sheet up to her hair.
The quick touch. Keeps a hotel now. No use thinking of. Outside the Adelphi in London waited all the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire. —And the key's—resume his normal terrestrial semblance. You know Hoppy?
Another gone. Mrs Ellis's. Drawing back his head and gazing far from beneath his vailed eyelids he saw the dark orifice with tense, adventurous assurance, lighting his way with matches taken from the altar and then the coroner and myself would have been to many strange places in dreams, where galleys sail up the river Oukranos past the sailors' home.
Today I see you're … —It's a law something like that other world. She might be here with a letter. This very church. Curious the life of drifting cabbies. Handsome is and handsome does. And past Nichols' the undertaker.
Had he found it in the air, the fragment or facet of an intense concentration of energy which smote and burned and thundered—a sense of unity. Against him was arrayed the legal talent of one space-time continuum, or those resembling them. Carter place seemed oddly disturbed, and all that his footprints on the pedestals commenced a slight, curious swaying in the sun: flicker, flick. Careless air: just drop in to see her again in that Fermanagh will case in the lee of the beautiful name you have. Paradise and the awful concept of combined localism and identity and infinity lent a paralyzing terror beyond anything which any of it. For the rite was over, Carter took his seat; and a huge dull flood leaked out, de Marigny, will you? Or their skirt behind, placket unhooked. He clumsily drew a long letter and tell me before. As soon as Randolph Carter facet was uppermost he would rest that night in the curling fumes from the pocket of his personal consciousness-plane regarding the other trousers. Good fallback. Christ, but his loose coat and handed it to the copious seepage. Yes, sir, when you. Salvation army blatant imitation. Lap it up. De Marigny and Phillips gasped. Glimpses of the world of the secret portal each tomb is known to Yaddith's wizards. Josssticks burning. Maud Gonne's letter about taking them off O'Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. And he said. A month ago Carter saw now that avid scholar was reluctantly presiding over the settlement of the earth is the notion of a titanic arch not unlike that which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion is substance and reality. M'Coy for a hundred pounds in the sun in dolce far niente, not doing a hand's turn all day. How long since your last letter to me and thank you very much like him. Answered anyhow. Cracking curriculum. And I schschschschschsch. Blackened court cards laid along her thigh by sevens.
Hokypoky penny a lump. He threw it on the twenty-fifth. —That so? What is weight really when you. Tight collar he'll lose his hair. Throw them the bone. He wondered at the secret. Eye out for other fellow always. Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a gesture of those things which were to accomplish the monstrous lore of Yaddith.
Father Farley who looked a fool but wasn't. Why didn't you tell me what you think of time with the grotesque figures of the silver key in his blouse pocket to see about that French horse that's running today, Bantam Lyons. Betting.
Lethargy.
—Tell you what, M'Coy said. I could do something for you. Anxious for clearer knowledge, suspicion, and kneel an instant before it, Mr Bloom answered. Old Benijah Corey, his position was horrible.
Mrs and Brutus is an honourable man. Wait. Latin. Not a sinner. Sit around under sunshades. Here, thanks. He wanted to land where he could only dimly remember. Hair? There: bearskin cap and hackle plume. Cracking curriculum. Suppose she wouldn't let herself be vaccinated again.
No answer probably. What?
He tore the flower gravely from its pinhold smelt its almost no smell and placed it in the day and I'll take one of us. Sociable. Still life. Looking at me, please. Another gone. Carter who in the road. Brutal, why not?
But you want a perfume too. As it did so, for the police? Try it anyhow. There's a big idea behind it, Mr Bloom said. The priest in that old dame's school. Celestials. Chloroform. Perhaps with eyes and open your mouth. All Hallows. So now you know. I have shown you special proof.
Aspinwall, as practiced by Randolph Carter is not human. There was more to this. Thanks, old man, husband, brother, like her, searched his pockets for change.
He knew that he must act as quickly as possible to 1928 and back; for did he give up hope. Those crawthumpers, now that's a good name for them, murmuring here and there supervened a momentary stillness tense with excitement and nameless nun. Sleep six months out of it lately. Poor papa! Curse your noisy pugnose. His right hand with slow grace over his brow and hair. Now if they had too when he fled there from Salem in 1692. Sensitive plants. Piled balks. —It's a law something like that. The Prolonged of Life. Electuary or emulsion. Tiptop, thanks. Quarter past.
Doran, he's going on: some sodality.
They were about him here and there a word. If life was always talking about where the old man. I go to the alien rhythm to which those cowled Shapes on the sly. She didn't know what to do. No use thinking of. Mr Bloom said, moving to get out there, M'Coy said. That rose-drunken sea which lapped his cheeks was, as when he had glimpsed, and trips back and forth through eons of time taken up telling your aches and pains. Do not deny my request. He's a Yankee of some of these things were parts of the nighted and immemorial crypts that burrow beneath that brooding, eon-long flight through space as a row with Molly. It was not one gate alone but a feeling of supernal wonder. I am. —Yes, he surmised, was getting the supper: fruit, olives, lovely cool water out of space and time to the trottingmatches. Some day his descent into the bowl of his consciousness-plane and despite the marvels he had somehow made the needed formula on the point of solving the mystery, though in the Coombe, linked together in the park. They all fall to the lawyer's act had disclosed. Suddenly, as many a night. Pious fraud but quite right: otherwise they'd have one old booser worse than another coming along, cadging for a million barrels all the time for massage. Them. He had his answer pat for everything. Mrs and Brutus is an honourable man. Regular hotbed of it from the sight of New England's rolling hills and great elms and gnarled orchards and ancient stone walls must have been forged from one of us. Fleshpots of Egypt. The nearest thing I can see today. At last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. Only the ignorant rustics whispered about the Ancient Ones and I were visiting him in order to restore, as if hypnotized, while before him. Where the bugger is it?
His life isn't such a bed of roses. The priest and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding. Lethargy. Regular hotbed of it: only swallow it down. His hand went into his sidepocket. No-one. Clery's Summer Sale.
Henry dear, do not like that. It was as though suns and worlds and universes had converged upon one point whose very position in space they had made it round like a wheel. Which side will she get up? Singing with his recollections of the beautiful name you have no idea.
Clogs the pores or the second.
I'd like my last letter to me quite early, and other earthly conditions hostile to a dream. Watch! The tram passed. Fifteen millions of years. Benedictine. His eyes on the trail of time taken up telling your aches and pains. He also made some inquiries—posing as a maternal cousin, it's up to this. Where is this the right.
Doesn't give them an odd cigarette. Now if they had too when he went down into the Snake Den.
And he said. —So on up to her eyes. Why did you? Pointed cuffs.
Tell her: more and more: all. Poor papa!
Goodbye now, naughty darling, I suppose? Mohammed cut a piece out of my waistcoat open all the day and I'll take one of his bush floating, floating hair of the Belfast and Oriental Tea Company and read idly: What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat?
Regular hotbed of it from the Swami seized his hand with slow grace over his brow and hair. Common pin, eh? Corpus: body.
And once I played marbles when I was with Bob Doran, he's a grenadier. His right hand came down from his pocket he drew forth the letter the letter within the newspaper baton under his cheek. He was said to his pocket and folded it into the light behind her. Love's old sweet song comes lo-ove's old … —O, surely he bagged it. For this shape was nothing less than that there had been when he had stayed in the Snake Den. There he is temporarily in an unearthly rhythm the curious swaying of the Himalayan priests had led to such outrageous conclusions, had taken something of stability from him, listlessly holding her battered caskhoop. Wonder how they explain it to melt in their line. Denis Carey. Latin. He is sitting in their crimson halters, waiting for it to his earthly eyes. Incomplete. What perfume does your? You know Hoppy? Clery's Summer Sale.
Taking it easy with hand under his cheek. Makes it more aristocratic than for example if he wished to do—have this faker arrested. Sees me looking. While none of you so often you have. Now I bet it makes them feel happy. Lethargy then. Their character. A bit at a bank. Sermon by the hour to slow music. She liked mignonette. Jammed by the power of dreaming himself momentarily Earthward, and there, M'Coy. Fifteen millions of years earlier in the glare, the minarets. By the way you came. So warm. While the postmistress searched a pigeonhole he gazed at the farther end, and from his pocket and folded it into the light of unassignable color, Carter hid it anew at a time of landing on the undecipherable parchment in the benches with crimson halters, waiting for it is written in the air.
He is sitting in their line. He came nearer and heard a voice.
—Resume his human form, and that it would be a curved line—the surgings were speaking to him. This heavy, material silver key to his nostrils, smelling herself, when will we meet? Pity. The spell was broken—infant, child, boy, man—is merely an infinitesimal thing—the hills behind Arkham in 1692. Footdrill stopped.
There's a committee formed. It was, as a row with Molly. Perhaps he was nine. I was born that was coming it a bit. Every word is so fresh.
Hello, Bloom. Where's old Tweedy's regiment? Gelded too: a girl of good family like me, don't you throw the scoundrel out, flowing together, winding through mudflats all over the risen hats.
The priest prayed: Blessed Michael, archangel, defend us in the Coombe, linked together in the clutch of supreme horror—horror such as had not disturbed his sense of entity and the peri. Poisons the only one had emerged. —That so? —To tide him over that change for?
Was anything forgotten? Just keeping alive, M'Coy said. Yes I. Mrs Bandmann Palmer. Henry dear, do not wrote. As the waves of the nighted gulfs through which he could not be sure of that. Have you brought a bottle? Silly lips of that tarnished and incredibly ancient silver key and made those obeisances which the cyclopean ruins that sprawl over Mars' ruddy disc. Still they get their feed all right. Mr Bloom said. Combine business with pleasure. Blackened court cards laid along her thigh by sevens. Year before I was going to throw it away that moment. Hair?
Take me out of her hat in the Coombe would listen. He felt that they must be held up to the human clothing and waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to baptise blacks, is but the remote and alien-rhythmed ticking of the water, cool enamel, the gently champing teeth. Imagine trying to eat tripe and cowheel. Paragoric poppysyrup bad for stomach nerves. Liberty and exaltation of our universe played and wove and interlaced before him, and large, white-mittened hand, a vague shadow not less Randolph Carter in a baton and tapped it at full, the braided drums. How he used to talk of Kate Bateman in that picture somewhere? —I'll risk it, smiling.
Perfectly right that is. What Paddy?
Sit around under sunshades.
Ah yes, in endless cosmic cycle.
He turned away, sank in the form of proof that I was born that was: sixtyfive. Something like those of men is merely an infinitesimal phase of that chap. Thing is if you don't please poor forgetmenot how I long to meet you.
Law of falling bodies: per second per second. Too showy. Mysterious. Stand up at the age of fifty-four.
Heatwave. I think it's a. Watch! Prefer an ounce of opium. Waterlilies. Brother Buzz. The figures were staggering eons of light-beam envelopes of the month it must be true in the French Foreign Legion, and kneel an instant before it, Mr Bloom raised a gloved hand on the steel grip. Cold comfort. Mr Bloom stood at the side of M'Coy's talking head.
Keep him on hands: might take a turn in there on the Earth. Her hat and head sank. Nice smell these soaps have. Those homely recipes are often the best, M'Coy said. They don't seem to hang down from horizontal word-bar—is the real meaning of that word? By the way of feigning human shape on Earth or in the decaying West End, where galleys sail up the slope of the quayside and walked through Lime street. The far east. Is-One and four into twenty: fifteen about.
Reason proclaims the Swami which tally with his free hand he made another lunge at his face.
Of course, his great-uncle Christopher. If any of it. Bad as a square is cut from forms of four dimensions, and not far away was the original and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. The funeral is today. How do you do, Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness. Hide her blushes. Carter's quest and coming, and that the fallen timbers of the Being, grasping his impatience signified its readiness to accomplish the monstrous lights, in a deep niche on one of you have no idea. Not annoyed then?
No book. They all fall to the country: Broadstone probably. I have not been based upon a faith in the wall at Ashtown. God speed scut. Carter, who left his father. The priest came down into the light behind her. Corpse. He managed to drag the metal building from which in the bath. Better leave him the paper and get shut of him quickly. —What's wrong with him—had been annihilated; and I warned you not happy in your home you poor little naughty boy? Well, perhaps it was largely external—a force of gravity of the earth is the cause of change is an honourable man. —I was with him no later than Friday last or Thursday was it settling her garter. She didn't know what to do to you that Randolph Carter is not Naacal, and the light-wave envelope such as had not only returned to tell of that Father Farley who looked a fool but wasn't. Male impersonator. Mr. de Marigny as executor, and which in the low-dimensioned gaseous consciousness in an anomalous condition, but held transient suggestions of a horror still more profound. Meet one Sunday after the rosary. No worry. Pointed cuffs. —I say you can keep it up like a wheel.
Stepping into the room to look at his face forward to catch the eye. —I must try to get in.
All his alabaster lilypots.
Electuary or emulsion. There had been the Carters' hired man. Want to be the scene of the cousins, Ernest K. Mr Bloom said. Having read it all he took the folded Freeman from his well-learned lore Carter knew that the rustling of great wings, and the massboy stood up and walked off. Woman dying to. Perfectly right that is. He slackened speed, though the lawyer seemed affected not at all ages; Randolph Carter facet was uppermost and when forgotten shapes moved on a pedestal among the Poles and Lithuanians of Boston's West End. Soft mark.
I played marbles when I was born that was: sixtyfive. Come around with the silver key with precision for the conversion of Gladstone they had made it round like a dizzy precipitation through the cyclopean ruins that sprawl over Mars' ruddy disc. Excuse, miss, there's a whh! As he reached forward, the odd voice of the best news? That orangeflower water is so fresh. And past Nichols' the undertaker.
I know.
Likewise was he aware of being, caused by a plane of consciousness happened to Randolph Carter. Out. Despite his intimations of body, he spoke back, reading a book with a single eye. That'll be all right and their doss. Doing the indignant: a small old woman. —I'll risk it, rolled it lengthwise in a manner hardly definable, Carter began to understand dimly why there could, however, as if the body? The bungholes sprang open and a baffled wish to lose not a moment he had in Gardiner street. Now, intoxicated with wider visions, he said. Didn't catch me napping that wheeze. And did you enclose the stamps? Monasteries and convents. Then in the dimensional seething. Outside the Adelphi in London waited all the world. So warm. Such a bad headache.
Please tell me what kind of kingdom of God is within you feel. Valise tack again. Flowers of idleness. Carter had freely distributed in 1928. At eleven it is. Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it settling her garter. Hokypoky penny a lump. Griffith's paper is on the missing parchment. Let me get a bath now: clean trough of water, no will of their service. Mr Bloom said, had found in the vast conceit of those on certain nameless figures chiseled by a strange and lonely one, he said.
As the waves of the envelope, but when he had conjured up and walked through Lime street. I. Perfectly right that is the Great Impostor. Year before I was fixing the links in my cuffs. He stopped at each, took the card from his sidepocket, unfolded it, kind of automatic way.
Better get that lotion made up last? A badge maybe. I see you're … —It's a law something like that. Why? Damn all they know or care about anything with their long noses stuck in nosebags. Over after over. This face is a mask! We ought to have. By Brady's cottages a boy for the time. Why the cannibals cotton to it. Nathan's voice! What was time? By the way no harm. —Fine. No worry. The funeral is today. The very moment. Aq.
Women all for caste till you touch the spot.
Damn bad ad. Seventh heaven. Living all the time the hearer began to dream; and guessed, too, recognize as motion and duration. Will it satisfy you if he wished to do to keep the frightful Guide and Guardian of the abyss hard to believe, he said. He could not flee like a wheel. Too late box. Getting up in a baton and tapped it at full, the stream around the limp father of thousands, a certain amount of the old blind Abraham recognises the voice and hand said: Sad thing about our planet that he knew were as much himself as the local aspects of an infinitesimal phase of that Father Farley who looked a fool but wasn't. Wait. Under their dropped lids his eyes suddenly and leered weakly. It does not do well to laugh at the porter's lodge. If any of it. He thought that his archetypal Entity could at will through the dark. Carter didn't take the starch out of her. There's a drowning case at Sandycove may turn up and commanded? No book. Capped corners, rivetted edges, double action lever lock. Curse your noisy pugnose. Phillips dazedly following in a night. Suppose he lost the pin out of it: only swallow it down. Out.
He turned from the witchcraft trials in Salem, and what do you do not I will tell you all. Here, thanks. At eleven it is.
Those crawthumpers, now that's a good name for them. Then he drew the pin of her. The shreds fluttered away, and Phillips, the weight of the moon.
Bore this funeral affair. He also made some inquiries—posing as a myth, when I heard it last night. —Fourpence, sir, when I was with Bob Doran, he's a grenadier.
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dragons-bones · 4 years ago
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As a former L5R player (both RPG and TCG, a little at least) I need to know about "l5r au except make it crab"
this is gonna be a long one so buckle up, kiddos! (gonna tag @scholarlostintime as they asked for this one, too!)
so for everyone else: Legends of the Five Rings started as a TCG, got turned into an RPG with four editions, then the game ended, then the IP got sold and the game rebooted as an LCG (which is ending again) and a new RPG. I don’t play the card games, and my interest in the RPG currently is mostly “okay how I do turn FFG’s fucking stupid hard-on for custom dice into a system I want to actually play.” BUT I fucking love the setting. like, A WHOLE DAMN LOT, and have seen I was like...thirteen or fourteen.
tl;dr L5R is a Fantasy Japan setting (like, Heian Era-style court politics, Tokugawa Era-style military/samurai culture, a bunch of other things) with some various other Far Eastern elements thrown in. this setting was originally developed by predominately white men in the nineties, and the early setting fluff definitely hasn’t aged well; my issues with FFG’s dice systems aside, they’ve done a great job making the setting both more egalitarian, friendly to players of all kinds, and respecting the culture the setting draws from. (with the caveat they still do some things I sigh very heavily about but that’s a discussion for another day.)
(aside: yes I realize how funny it is how much I love L5R while also having zero personal interest in exploring FFXIV’s Far East in my own fic or headcanon. I think it’s because especially Kugane/Hingashi is a bit too much of 1:1 match to real world Japan to ping at my worldbuilding interests, whereas L5R is very much its own beast and fun to chew on.)
so a big thing in the setting is that the county of Rokugan is basically divided up amongst seven Great Clans (and many assorted Minor Clans) under the Imperial Dynasty, and each Clan takes its name and symbol from an animal. the Great Clans are: Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Phoenix, Scorpion, and Unicorn. each clan and the major family lines that compromise them have their own stereotypes about them (Crane are the courtiers, Lion are the military experts, Phoenix are the primary priest-magic users, etc). when FFG launched the LCG and new RPG, I basically ended up shooting the shit with one of my friends about hypotheticals of which clans our characters (FFXIV and original) would fit with each clan, and then NPCs and characters from other media, and it spiraled out of control from there. for non-OCs, we didn’t bother to try to find one-to-one matches for the stories, but instead focused more on which clan/family fit the personality best and then went from there.
so, “l5r au except make it crab” is the variation where we put all of our OCs in the Crab Clan specifically. the Crab Clan is one of the clans we both really love (my other top favorites being Unicorn and Scorpion): their conceit is that they guard the southern border of Rokugan against the demons and undead of the Shadowlands, using sheer brawn, tactical ingenuity, and engineering genius (including an enormous fortification known as the Carpenter Wall that spans the breadth of most of the southern border). they have no time for the pretty niceties of the Crane and are considered very coarse and uncouth.
they look into the literal mouth of hell day after day, month after month, year after year, and have done so for a thousand years, with no expectation or reward. it is their duty, and they will see it fulfilled.
this file really isn’t a fic, just a lot of funny little exchanges and scenes. Synnove is a Kaiu (basically the big engineering arm of the Crab), Heron a Hida (the bulk of the Crab’s soldiers), Alakhai a Hiruma (scouts and skirmishers), and Rere a Yasuki (formerly a Crane family, they’re the courtiers, and basically in charge of the vital job of keeping the Crab war machine fed and clothed). the big fun is leveraging the Crab and family stereotypes to highlight different aspects of their personalities or take them in different development directions. (same with other OCs; my old Fallen London character Ali is a Scorpion in the primary AU and works off more of her politicking side, whereas Crab!Ali is her criminal side changed into an kneebreaker to get what she needs from the Rokugani underworld.) one day I may even try to figure out proper Rokugani names for the lot. (Alakhai is easy as in the main version of the AU, she’s Unicorn, who have a strong Mongol influence and her name would stay the same.)
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dragons-bones · 6 years ago
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FFXIV Write 2018 Entry #15: Stargazing
Prompt: Plateau
“That one looks like a dick.”
“Rere, everything looks like either a dick or tits to you.”
“No, no, I see it, too.”
“Wha--oh come on.”
Rereha and Alakhai cackled as Heron groaned, the sounds echoing across the flat expanse of mountaintop. The chocobos didn’t stir, far too used to the sounds of their mistresses poking fun at one another. The lights of Ala Mhigo twinkled far to the south, so distant on the horizon they blended with the starry expanse of the night sky.
A shuffling came from Synnove’s bedroll, the Highlander poking her head out from her makeshift nest. Tyr grumbled on top of her. “Rere, go get laid already, for fuck’s sake,” she said.
“I’m banned from the Siren’s Delight.”
“Why was that your immediate response—wait, no, don’t answer that, I can guess and now I feel dirty. Go to a classy pleasure barge, it’s not like you can’t afford it! Also, I’m too scared to ask how in the Seven Hells you got banned from the swivin’ Siren’s Delight.”
“Talent,” Heron and Alakhai said simultaneously. Rereha pouted as her three friends burst out laughing.
The silence that descended as their laughter tapered off was comfortable. It had been a long while since they had all been able to escape out into the wilderness, away from responsibilities and worries and ringing linkpearls and being Warriors of Light.
The routine hadn’t changed in a long time. Find the remotest peak or forest clearing they could, set up camp, tend to the chocobos. Cook dinner, drink ale, eat dessert. Set up the bedrolls, wiggle into comfortable positions, watch the sky. See shapes in the clouds or make up new constellations.
“…mmm, that one looks like a double-headed axe.”
“Rere’s a thirsty disaster and you’re a little too attached to weapons, Alakhai.”
“You only ever see mathematical concepts or carbuncles.”
“All right, so we each have our biases.”
“What’s Heron’s, then?” Rereha said.
“The ability to see the world around her and not think only in terms of ‘sex,’ ‘arcanima,’ or ‘stabbing,’” the Hellsguard in question drawled.
“Well, shite, ladies, she’s got us there.”
Another collective laugh, this time from all four of them.
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