#manager of the royal bethlehem

[pennamepersona]

cards: come on, you have to have some advice manager-city: i really don't know why you think i can help you with this cards: we're both falling in love with people we never expected to care about! it's not *that* different manager-city: i'm settling into a marriage that we tricked a sentient plot of land into so that i could follow the fate of my once-lover who i sold my city for, which caused him to hate me for eternity because instead of healing him, the masters turned him into a city. you have a crush on mr wines. it's really not the same. cards: i feel like you're not taking me seriously manager-city: that's because i'm not

[notbeatingtheachuesations]

“…my love is a traditionalist.”

[cannoliramblings]

Locryn: What do you think of Aster so far?

Astrid: What do you think your next course of action is going to be?

"I... I don't really know what to think yet." Locryn looked uncertain, rubbing their arm and curling in on themselves a little bit. "May told me not to trust Aster, but I can't stop thinking about what he said. I'm scared he's telling the truth, that I'm only a toy for May and that our relationship will grow this dysfunctional when he's done with me." Their voice was brittle, and they wrapped the red and gold blankets around themselves. "I don't want to run into Aster again."

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"I don't know exactly what I'm going to do next, but I know for sure that I've gotta get Locryn out of the Royal Beth. I can't let May keep taking them like this and using them for his own sick pleasures." Astrid clenched and unclenched her fists. "That's probably priority number one. I've also gotta try to get out of that life of crime, but it's hard when it's all that you've ever known. Moving out of Juno's place would be good too, especially once we get Locryn back. Ve's too high up on The Cheery Man's hit list for me to be okay with Locryn and I staying there. I don't want them to get hurt in the fallout." Astrid shuddered a little bit. Context for both of these is an RP on discord.

[thedeafprophet]

> looking for a new hotel

> ask the manager if it's creepy or wet

> he just smiles at me

> pull out a diagram explaining what is creepy and what is wet

> he laughs and chucks me under the chin

> nightmares reach 8

> it's wet

[jane-d-ankh-veos]

Inspired by Failbetter's background during yesterday's stream:

Couldn't be me, of course. I always choose to share these dangerous ventures with someone more experienced:

(and I will again whenever possible ❤️)

[shrike-sorokoput]

me in the neath, after going insane: mr manager sir do you know that in your city there was this guy who sold really shitty copper

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

heart's desire

[the-insouciant-scientist]

All your craft supplies are increasingly red and gold...

Jumping on the Manager Plush train, here's a crocheted doll of him for @thedeafprophet! Done with sport weight yarn and a 2mm hook, this little fellow took me almost two months to make (LOTS of trial and error), but I couldn't be prouder. He's very poseable, has the sweetest smile, and will absolutely watch you while you sleep. (I should know, he's been doing it to me ever since I gave him a face.)

Well, at least that's pretty accurate to canon!

Patterns used under the cut for anyone who's interested! Feel free to message me if you have questions, though, I freehanded quite a bit here but I'm very willing to share my notes. :-)

Main body pattern (minus head, which I freehanded) - https://boosty.to/olyaradost/posts/6a40dd5f-35b5-4c61-a7e2-cbf21b1bb468?share=post_link

Ears - https://www.oldbaycrochetrental.com/blog/2017/3/1/human-ear-crochet-pattern but sized down slightly, using sc's instead of dc and only doing 6st in the magic ring/4-5sc around (i forgor, just do as many as seems correct)

[the-avaricious-meddler]

I don't know either

[wantedbythemasters]

I made a moodboard based on the potential manager city, during some down time at work. The lyrics (Atlas can rest his weary bones, the weight of the world all falls away in time) are from the song “Good Riddance” from the game Hades and the images are ofc from the internet, I just shifted the colors some.

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London through paintings: Manager of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel

[striehart]

Agape's first four-card lodgings!

[fallenlondonnpcfight]

Parabolan War Part 2 Electric Boogaloo

Manager art by @thedeafprophet.

[bizarrebazaar13]

so there’s these two guys that have been divorced for a thousand years minimum and one of them is an island and one runs a nightmare hotel and all the clay men have the same face as the king of the island so the manager of the nightmare hotel asks to be symbolically forgiven for his role in turning the king into an island and replacing his heart with a diamond except it’s not the same because the clay man shows him mercy and the real king wouldn’t but the manager still loves him and his heart’s desire is to become a city like the king-

[thedeafprophet]

Mr Hatman

man me a hat

make it the cutest [nightmares is increasing] [you have moved to A State Of Some Confusion]

[jane-d-ankh-veos]

...And I realized that my player character needs a visual reference sheet, not just walls of text.