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<blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4739316" data-attributes="member: 4413"><p>From the direction of the turtle's head, a voice speaks. Its tone is cultured and undoubtedly male. Somehow all (no matter how distant) hear its words...</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">You know the stories.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">You've told them countless times and heard them even more. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Some of you are even the heroes of these tales.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">The bold warrior. The pious priest. The clever wizard. The deft rogue. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">They leave the civilized world and enter the dark places, the untamed places. There, they find the lairs of 'monsters'--walking horrors possesses of inneffable evil--and they do battle, destroying these foul threats to all that is 'good' and 'decent'. These 'valiant' adventurers return from their journeys, laden with treasure, feted by king and commoner. And 'civilization' is safe, once again.</span></span></p><p></p><p>The clack of wooden sandals echoes across the bay. </p><p></p><p>Step by measured step, an oni walks to the tip of the Turtle's nose. The pale hair of the oni is arranged in a complicated coif of seven teirs, capped by an odd structure, almost like a small tower or pagoda, from which shines an orange light. The creature wears a kimono woven from brilliant yellow and red cloth, decorated with plum blossoms and peacocks. He holds a fan, white and painted with the turtle upon which he stands. The teeth of his <a href="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geta_(footwear)" target="_blank">geta</a> are two feet long, if an inch.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">But we are not the children of 'civilization'.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">We are the monsters in your tale. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">It is <em>our</em> sons and daughters murdered in the name of your 'goodness' and 'decency'.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">It is <em>our</em> heirlooms and relics plundered and purloined.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">It is <em>our</em> lives destroyed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">And while your pipers play for the heroes' triumph, we lift up our voices in a funeral dirge, wailing and gnashing our teeth for all that we have lost. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">And you <em>dare</em> to call us monsters.</span></span></p><p></p><p>He pauses, studies the crowd, and snorts.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">No more.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">NO MORE!</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">For we have come to you. And we shall take our revenge.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Bring us your best and brightest. We shall break them on our wheel of pain.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">For I am Aggravus Pinch.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">And this...</p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">...is...</p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">TURTLEDOME!</span></strong></p><p></span></span></p><p></p><p>The crowd roars, mad with pleasure. They've heard this all before. </p><p></p><p>Where Pinch's voice once had the solemn tone of a soothsayer, now it has risen to the fevered pitch of a carnival hawker. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">And do we have one hell of a Turtledome for you, folks!</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KenHood, post: 4739316, member: 4413"] From the direction of the turtle's head, a voice speaks. Its tone is cultured and undoubtedly male. Somehow all (no matter how distant) hear its words... [COLOR="DarkOrange"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]You know the stories. You've told them countless times and heard them even more. Some of you are even the heroes of these tales. The bold warrior. The pious priest. The clever wizard. The deft rogue. They leave the civilized world and enter the dark places, the untamed places. There, they find the lairs of 'monsters'--walking horrors possesses of inneffable evil--and they do battle, destroying these foul threats to all that is 'good' and 'decent'. These 'valiant' adventurers return from their journeys, laden with treasure, feted by king and commoner. And 'civilization' is safe, once again.[/FONT][/COLOR] The clack of wooden sandals echoes across the bay. Step by measured step, an oni walks to the tip of the Turtle's nose. The pale hair of the oni is arranged in a complicated coif of seven teirs, capped by an odd structure, almost like a small tower or pagoda, from which shines an orange light. The creature wears a kimono woven from brilliant yellow and red cloth, decorated with plum blossoms and peacocks. He holds a fan, white and painted with the turtle upon which he stands. The teeth of his [URL="http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geta_(footwear)"]geta[/URL] are two feet long, if an inch. [COLOR="darkorange"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]But we are not the children of 'civilization'. We are the monsters in your tale. It is [I]our[/I] sons and daughters murdered in the name of your 'goodness' and 'decency'. It is [I]our[/I] heirlooms and relics plundered and purloined. It is [I]our[/I] lives destroyed. And while your pipers play for the heroes' triumph, we lift up our voices in a funeral dirge, wailing and gnashing our teeth for all that we have lost. And you [I]dare[/I] to call us monsters.[/FONT][/COLOR] He pauses, studies the crowd, and snorts. [COLOR="darkorange"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]No more. NO MORE! For we have come to you. And we shall take our revenge. Bring us your best and brightest. We shall break them on our wheel of pain. For I am Aggravus Pinch. [CENTER]And this... ...is... [B][SIZE="5"]TURTLEDOME![/SIZE][/B][/CENTER][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT="Palatino Linotype"][/FONT] The crowd roars, mad with pleasure. They've heard this all before. Where Pinch's voice once had the solemn tone of a soothsayer, now it has risen to the fevered pitch of a carnival hawker. [COLOR="darkorange"][SIZE="4"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"]And do we have one hell of a Turtledome for you, folks![/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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