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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4331368" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>Places:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Watchtower District is named for the structure which rises from its streets, towering over the waterfront. It's a carved representation of humanoid arms, raised high and cupping an enormous eyeball which floats a few inches above the stone. The eye is in constant motion, scanning the Aster Sea, looking for someone or something. Its original purpose is long forgotten, but the luminescent quality of its gaze allows the Tower to function as a sort of lighthouse.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The University District is also the home not only to the university but to the port's largest library. The library houses the Cataloged Mysteries, a collection of untranslated and possibly untranslatable books from Beyond-the-Sea. The librarians have been acquiring them from the Black Ships for years.<br /> <br /> The librarians all carry arms, and know how to use them. They also carry water-soaked cloths with them at all times while on duty. Because there is a a group dedicated to killing the librarians, or better still, burning the library to the ground. They're called the Illiterati (also the Know-Nothings, the Know-Nothing Brigade) and they believe one of the books in the Cataloged Mysteries is the Doomsday Book. If it's successfully translated it will bring about the end of the world.<br /> <br /> It's possible that the Illiterati are merely ignorant of the fact that the world has already ended, or perhaps their motivations are something else entirely...</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Residents of the port think of the Petitioner's Hall as a kind of church. They write their petitions, only the nasty ones, you see --may so-and-so lose their beauty or fall ill or suffer a fatal accident-- on scraps of paper, place them in boxes along with a great deal of money, and them hand them to the Petitioners, who ask no questions. They believe the Petitioners then voice their petitions to the powers Beyond-the-Sea.<br /> <br /> This is, of course, nonsense. The Petitioners are warlocks that act as fixers. They do the dirty work themselves; if it's convenient, if it looks fun, if the sums in the boxes are sufficiently large. The petitioners <em>do</em> petition their patrons Beyond-the-Sea, but it's never with their clients petty requests. Theirs are of a more serious bent, and they keep them to themselves.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4331368, member: 3887"] Places: [list]The Watchtower District is named for the structure which rises from its streets, towering over the waterfront. It's a carved representation of humanoid arms, raised high and cupping an enormous eyeball which floats a few inches above the stone. The eye is in constant motion, scanning the Aster Sea, looking for someone or something. Its original purpose is long forgotten, but the luminescent quality of its gaze allows the Tower to function as a sort of lighthouse.[/list] [list]The University District is also the home not only to the university but to the port's largest library. The library houses the Cataloged Mysteries, a collection of untranslated and possibly untranslatable books from Beyond-the-Sea. The librarians have been acquiring them from the Black Ships for years. The librarians all carry arms, and know how to use them. They also carry water-soaked cloths with them at all times while on duty. Because there is a a group dedicated to killing the librarians, or better still, burning the library to the ground. They're called the Illiterati (also the Know-Nothings, the Know-Nothing Brigade) and they believe one of the books in the Cataloged Mysteries is the Doomsday Book. If it's successfully translated it will bring about the end of the world. It's possible that the Illiterati are merely ignorant of the fact that the world has already ended, or perhaps their motivations are something else entirely...[/list] [list]Residents of the port think of the Petitioner's Hall as a kind of church. They write their petitions, only the nasty ones, you see --may so-and-so lose their beauty or fall ill or suffer a fatal accident-- on scraps of paper, place them in boxes along with a great deal of money, and them hand them to the Petitioners, who ask no questions. They believe the Petitioners then voice their petitions to the powers Beyond-the-Sea. This is, of course, nonsense. The Petitioners are warlocks that act as fixers. They do the dirty work themselves; if it's convenient, if it looks fun, if the sums in the boxes are sufficiently large. The petitioners [i]do[/i] petition their patrons Beyond-the-Sea, but it's never with their clients petty requests. Theirs are of a more serious bent, and they keep them to themselves.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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