Group Topic: Halo
July 17th, 2010
Covenant frigate High Dudgeon: personal flagship of the Prophet of Condescension
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Group Topic: Cats- Creatures of Mass Destruction
April 10th, 2010
Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
~Lords and Ladies
Group Topic: Messianic Prophecy
March 20th, 2010
And when the lint of man’s hate meets the strewn crumbs of his fear,
and when it rises upon man in retribution for his shortsightedness,
they who see the future will send one of their own
to save man from his folly and beat the future into his thick, collective skull.
-The Lady in the Closet
Group Topic: Dickens Coat of Arms
October 10th, 2009
This is a classic example of calligramancer heraldry. Though as such, there is not a great deal one can learn from it just at present, but I shall attempt. The calligramancers devised their own form of heraldry centuries ago, and while there are perhaps more written records pertaining to this particular sect’s history than any other, all these records were taken down by members thereof. So it is hardly surprising that perusal of said histories is one of the more dangerous home occupations.
According to Clarinda Hemp’s notes on the subject, the central figure often denotes something “roughly equivalent to a personal familiar, though not exactly, actually not very like at all.” The figure positioned directly above it seems to act as a modifier of some sort to the central figure; I believe it serves as a technical notation regarding the thing’s exact nature to other calligramancers, but I am uncertain to the symbol’s exact meaning.
The outer symbols are less mysterious, if they are indeed examples of Baldwin’s Stars, the “nasty, pointy ink blots of death” Clarinda wrote about. These exist as a sort of numerical code; a trio in a coat of arms signifies that the bearer used his arts to rendered military service to crown.
-Ophelia Himmle, The Search for Guppy
Group Topic: Summer Movie
September 12th, 2009
It all began when an employee of Nine Palms Retirement Community became exposed to the contents of a mysterious thermos confiscated by internal security forces. It ended when a number of Nine Palms residents escaped the community in a garden shed secretly modified with a few thousand helium party balloons. The aforementioned security forces were unable to prevent this as they were, at that time, pinned down by the aforementioned employee, encased in a flock of inexplicably vicious pigeons.
Group Topic: Tom Bombadil
August 7th, 2009
In Buckland it is often more important to keep trees out of the fields than crows.