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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 430807" data-attributes="member: 100">Thus begins Well-Met in Mu   a chronicle of Barry, Brandy, Matt and Judd's foray into the fine game of Sorcerer. "...but theirs is a hard and pitiless struggle for existence upon a dying planet..." "In one respect, at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers."    -  A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs  Excerpt from the Dictionary of Mu:  Mu’s Bed - Mu's Bed is the capital city of Lemuria, seething in the red sand wastes like a pregnant beetle. When the giants, Lemur and Mu, fought the Mu fell and this city was built on his body. Most take this tale as only a metaphor. Fools.   This is Oghma’s birthplace and it is a hodge podge of desert cultures from the Red Waste, witch and warlock refugees hoping for a crumb from the Witch-King’s plate and Lemurian peasant-folk who no longer wish to be subjected to the harsh law of the waste.  Any number of languages and songs can be heard on its streets as nomads barter with water stolen from a shallow oasis hundreds of glares away as their currency and seers offer to read your sands for only a few wheels.Life on the Bed is particularly desperate.  Children in Mu’s Bed play games that mostly persist of wrestling over the ownership of sharp rocks or throwing said rocks with deadly accuracy once they chip apart.  If one is weak, there is always the choice to lie down, let the red dust crawl down your throat and join Mu. A Message for the Witch-King  Tsunami was the first character conceived and created, so we started the scene with him walking into the hectic Witch-King's Keep. The magistrates, dressed in an open black robe and a black loin cloth were writing down the names of the many people who were demanding an audience with the king. The samurai told a magistrate that he would not deliver his message to anyone but the King himself, so a granite slab, on the back of a Gray Slave, was brought over for him to write a letter requesting an introduction. Already having a note prepared, Tsunami took the note out of his kimono sleeve. Tsunami was very polite and unfazed by the many carrion who came to pick at the crumbs from the Witch-King's plate. In time he was taken to a waiting room, through the labyrinthine halls of the keep, designed to confuse assassins who often stalked and the walking dead who often shambled down the halls. Atlanteans in Court  Fosallas found the Hanging Square, where the local trials were held. An old magistrate, fat with water and wealth was presiding, making decrees about pig farming and rhinok herds. The trees where they would hang criminals in days of old were all dead, so the condemned were hung from the balconies that line the Square. As the Wizard-Scientist approached the trial area, a young boy was thrown from a balcony and his life ended with an audible pop as the rope grew taught. His former student was brought before the court and asked questions. Matt, who plays Fossallas, also played the student as she told her side of the story, that she was attacked by the Baron and tied him up and summoned a creature to take vengeance upon him. The Baron's head was brought to the stand packed with salt, impaled on a black spike and its eyes popped open as it began to speak. The Baron's head said that he slept with the girl only to awaken to her making all manner of cuts upon him in order to summon up a creature with his blood as the bait. The crowd was aghast and murmured as such. Fossalas was then asked to step forward and testify. He told the court that his former student was a lazy, ungratefuly wretch who was in dire need of some discipline. The magistrate invited the Atlantean to a small tribunal to discuss the manner in a nearby alley, as this was a humble local court. Boot to the Groin  Recedes was drinking in a bar and over-heard a man talked about how he pleasured himself on his gray slaves when the mood took him. Even his fellow slaver friends (played by Barry, Tsunami's player and Matt, who plays Fossalas) were rather disgusted but they were drunk and chuckling along. The slavers had pole-arms in the corner, with spring loaded mechanisms made to catch throats and wrestle slaves to the ground from a distance. After a nasty exchange between Recedes and the slaver, Recedes moved to hit him with a tin mug. They exchanged shots but none of them were telling blows until Recedes moved behind him and delivered a brutal kick to the genitals. Eyes rolled back in his head, he dropped his pole-arm and fell in a pile. A nearby magistrate (yeah, they're all over the place in Mu's Bed) asked what was happening and got into an argument with Recedes. Apparently it is against the law for a non-land owning outlander to strike a respected slaver in public without just cause. Recedes stared at the magistrate with cold eyes and asked her what she was going to do about it. The Magistrate crossed her arms over her breasts and glared. A Samurai, a Pimp, a Pig-Farmer and a Spider Wait  Tsunami found himself in a room with two other people sitting at a wooden table. I told Matt and Brandy to tell me who they were and what they wanted with the Witch-King. Matt played a pimp who was here to ply his trade in the palace (Brandy immediately yelled, 'Dammit, you stole my idea!') and so Brandy elected to be a pig farmer, here to dispute the prices for the latest sales. A gray slave who could croak out crude speech came forth and made introductions between Tsunami, ambassador from the South, Garish the flesh-peddler and Dor the Pig-Farmer. Small talk was had (some cool role-playing) and drinks ordered. Tsunami asked for some fruit and the others ordered some gin. Tsunami caught a glimpse of his ancestor in a piece of polished brass who made a motion of caution when the fruit arrived. Another ambassador from the Jarl of Spiders entered, irate at the crudeness of his hosts. He had one red eye that was taking the place of his left socket and a few hard arachnid hairs growing on his face and fine gray silk clothes, made as if they were spun by spiders...which they were. Tsunami asked his mute servant boy, Bento, to take a sketch of the fruit but not to eat it. Garish and Dor fell over, poisoned and then the curtains parted quickly to reveal the guards, who charged in to kill the remaining guests. To be Continued...</blockquote>

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