The Dance and the Dawn and the London Fog
Raw Dump
Father and I _agree_ about something.
Yes, deathitude -- it's a real thing. Trust me. I went to college.
Clockework bodies
It is not going to be a scheme of monstrous porportions
Victor is going to tell the truth. Carefully.
Yes. Very Carefully.
Evbery indivitual sentence on will be true.
_THAT_ is too much truth! (V)
We're helping VICTOR'S reputation
That actually coincides whith where i was going
You're all terrible people
She may have to coach your father so he doesn't shock the boy by being TOO aceepting...
We were aqbout to ask Gerald his preferences in the matter
Yes, but I changed my mind
You'll never b e a maiden aunt
Oh well now youre beig ethical that always takes a lot more time and effort
Wiat, he's callling me scary?
Youre terrifying
He's... like one of those thunderstorms grown up...
It would be like a scientific experiment, right?
I thought of the other reason douglas vanessa -- she looks like alice. he has a type!
Yes!yyyyy
He can sent animals against her. They'd never be at a loss for things to do on a saturday night.
I'm going to carefullyt put my papers next to the iron so that they don't get wet and then I'm going to head into the thunderstorm and I love that that makes sense.
Find out who did them
My best friend
You just got your coolness points
There was nothing wrong with his offer. I'm never going to take him up one it. But I'm not insulted that he made it.
Is this a Mars thing?
No it's a faerie thing
Becasue edwina is kind of evil and hes kind of creepy
Its not clear that the evil and creepy harmonize well
Elaborate Social Mating Rituals
Get somebody else to do it
do you know i think thats why shes here
Would you?
Oh.
No but I can forsee far more excitement than you can handle if you spend any time in his company
They both weaqr black!
Ah Alice has brought a miniature Alice to give him. How sweeet of her
She is not a miniature alice
That is not the dimension to which I was referring
You make an excellent point. I very much wish I had a good answer for you.
Playing chess trying to leqarn things
Manipulating the situation, spying
Trying to make more friends than enemies
making enemies
Having people work in sweatshops is just as bad as cutting otheir heads off and making them work as slaves.
So[phhronis is reaqlly conflictd about change
I thinhk were good at trans for Soh by now
They might actually be Martians. Things are frequently Martians.
The Martians are a problem. Well not Alice B.
Thank you
Of course there will be! Nothing will go wrong with the wedding
Sophgronia isw a lousy p[rophet
yes thatsw why shes such gd friends with alice
I'll come and see you when we are back from E.
He doesnt have cminions yet
We're his minions
I am the soul of paranoia in this party okay maybe that's not true
I DONT WANT TO HURT SOPHRONIA NEITHER DO YOU ISNT THAT ENOUGH TO TRUST ONE ANOTHER
IF I DO SOMETHING TO HURT YOU I WILL HURT MYSELF. NONE KNOW BETTER THAN I THAT HURTING YOUR PEOPLE HURTS YOU.
You want to join him!
No I want him to join me
Semantics!
I want us to subvert one another.
Sophronia?
Yes?
Does your family disapprove of our marriage?
You understand my family is somewhat atypical. Why do you ask?
And you know what's going on with my father. So let's go to Scotland.
Because if I'm driving him away...
F giggle -- I really don't think that's it.
He doesnt want to stay
i am very angry at your father because of this. you dont deserve this. its not fair
Snake people? Like in the bible?
That's not pre4cise enufI know. that's why we have to go ourselves.
Youre running away again?
I have wings. That's kind of what I do.
Nothing about Abyzou
Alice or Alec takes opium
OIh plze far too uncouth I mean Alec wd do it
Alice borrows Laudenum from H
It doesnt like grey or green martians
Youre a red martian so thats okay
Pennsington Man of Business -- what useful options might be opened to us if we created a corporation to hold some of the pennsington family wealth?
Is this about the brandy?
Agricultural goods and import-export exotic agricultural thing Unusual chemical compoundss found overseas
find a way to legally recognize some of the contributions made by nonmembers of the famikly
to give people shares
Swing by home of F. Earl en route to Edinburgh
Story Games Dump
Prepped a scenario for Kerberos Fate, which we barely began, as we focused on ethical medical issues from last time and on a ball at a young baroness's home. Matchmaking is in progress. Reginald decided he absolutely had to pair up the Odious Edwina Campion with someone to get her off the marriage market and put Schemes into effect. The player says she's like the Soulless Lord in Dance and the Dawn.
I was informed that Deathitude is a word. I remain skeptical.
The representative of a powerful evil fae tried to bribe the PCs to just stay out of his way. He told Sophronia that the fae in question could close the ways into faerie to her creator / father so that he couldn't abscond and would stay with her. Sophronia made a thunderstorm which was praised as part of the decorations, especially after she stopped and all the water vanished, doing no damage to hair or clothing. Sophronia has forbidden her fiance from trying to convince her creator / father to stay, standing firmly by Take Me As I Am for everyone, no matter how unhappy it may make her.
Reginald exchanged notes with the NPC Talos, a 20 foot tall iron golem who is Sophronia's cousin. Talos wants to help the Chartists. Reginald wants to make sure Talos understands that the Great Game of the World is not chess, but poker.
GM: You want to join him!
Player: No, I want him to join me!
GM: Semantics!
Player: I want us to subvert one another.
One player decided to be the translation track for the Talos-Sophronia conversation.
Sophronia: What have you been doing?
Talos: Playing chess and trying to learn things.
Translator: Manipulating the situation and spying.
Talos: Trying to make more friends than enemies.
Translator: Making enemies.
Later:
Talos: When you get married, there will be a truce during the wedding?
Sophronia: Of course there will be! Nothing will go wrong with the wedding!
Translator (with a nod to Dragon Half): Sophronia is a lousy prophet.
Translator #2: Yes that's why shes such good friends with Alice.
Reginald Coda
The London Times, April XX, 1841.
The Hero Hound of Whitechaple.
There is a Beast on the loose in the streets of Whitechaple, but this Creature appears to be Infused with the True Spirit of Christian Charity. Several Assaults and other Vile Crimes we Interrupted last night by what witnesses claim was a Giant Dog, possibly some Breed of Shepherd or Wolf-hound. While no Master was seen with the Creature, Witnesses say it was clearly Tame, as it's Demeanor quickly changed from Savage to Amiable, once it had Assured itself that all Villains had been Routed or Disabled, and accepted Thanks from the Victims before Vanishing into the fog.
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The next morning, as the PCs are assembling to depart for points north, a porter arrives with Reginald's luggage. "Your pardon, mum, but Lord Sage asked that his things be stowed, and said that you could expect him to join you shortly."
A few moments later, a tremendous border collie appears and trots somewhat unsteadily to the carriage. As he approaches you notice that he smells like a cheap brothel. Putting a paw on step, he announces, in a decidedly inebriated version of Reginad's voice, "I... have been a. good. boy. I have been a Very good boy. There were these bad people, and I made them go away. And then eeeeeverybody was happy with me, and I got hugs, and bowls full of beer, and bacon, and more hugs, and a marrow bone to take home." He looks around cautiously. "I buried it in Milo's yard. SHHHHHHH, don't tell anyone, it's the one place they'll never look."
"And now, I am going to take a nap. Please wake me when we get close to the Earl's. I will probably need a bowl of water, if you would be so kind."
Reginald hops up into the carriage, curls up under one of the benches, and immediately falls asleep.
