I Hear Lake Country Is Lovely In Winter

Raw Dump

Victor, I don't think it is polite to notice a lady's gears. I can check with Alice, but I'm pretty sure it's not polite.

I don't think society has any opinion on the matter.

Well, what do you know? My opinion is authoritative.

Curses! How am I ever supposed to find out?

The lady angelina has neither magic nor a temper, but the rules don't seem to work on her.

She has indifference. It's not so much that she's stubborn and digging her heels in as that she doesn't notice people pushing at her.

No, I am not letting you out of my sight

You most certainly are. I have to go home and polish my hair.

Give Victor A CLUE about where Leon is.

I was referring to the left gastronemia, I think.

This sounds awfully complicated

Awfully complicated is the way Reginald does things

Yes, but it's HARD to understand

If Victor can figure out that these things are appearing in the zeitgeist and that Reginald is behind them, he can always ask R to stop if he doesn't like it.

You have such a twisted mind.

You read my mail, I fix your life.

Myth of the Redeemed Family

So you want to change the nobility's bestseller list.

He's Actually Interested in Art

Victor Is Secretly Noble

Well yes but all people care about is the title

Henrietta is better at life than youThat makes me very sad

You will forgibve me if i don't wish your legends on anyone else

You are forgiven mr knight

Wait he's doing what to her?! -- arch gets a fate point

Edwina Campion has an Aspect: It's All About Me

Reginald has a free tag.

_You_ are complaining about Snarkiness

Yes -- it's my job

Why does it matter that we don't talk about it?

Because people are stupid.

I would like a more detailed answer.

You think England should incorporate?

He doesmnrt play chess trhe way I do. He doesn't play poker the way you do

That isn't playing poker at all. That's making pocket change.

Legal documentation, you say?

No, no, I'm perfectly willing to tell you. You just have to stop talking.

No, I have to breing Angeline. If they actually do come back from the dead, this'll be awesome.

She couold get a whole monograph from that.

We go on the best dates.

Fake it till you make it dear sir

Exactly

What?!

They agree!

You have to understand, Douglas, that this is rather unusual

Victor! I have repeatedly asked you not to carry around that horrid thing!

Douglas covers the nail with his coat

Thank you Douglas

Douglas will ask for a mission after this one that he can come along on.

Asoula

She can't fly!@

We can ovbercome that!

I'm quite wound up because quite recently you werent!

By dropping him in a vat of acid -- er I mean kerberans

You can tell they're getting closer to getting marri\ed -- their arguments are getting more serious

This is all about whether she's going to do her own packing, yes?

The last time you ran away from me you nearly died

Do you know how dependent that makes me feel? This is mean!

Did you just tap Has to Be Wound Every Three Days?

Alice RESEARCHING associations of faeries with dead people.

Mace will ask London faeries

Victor Knight wearing Gregory's clothers

Courting angelina

Secretly a noble

It's nnot his money -- it's victor's money

Did I do that all right? I'm still working on it.

Boid rescue of Archibald by Victor

Story Games Dump

Sophronia, the nine-inch clockwork faerie, had a discussion with Victor, the brusque detective.

Sophronia: Victor, I don't think it is polite to notice a lady's gears. I can check with Alice, but I'm pretty sure it's not polite.

Victor: I don't think society has any opinion on the matter.

Sophronia: Well, what do you know? My opinion is authoritative.

Folks went to prepare for the latest ball.

Reginald (to his fiance, Sophronia): No, I am not letting you out of my sight.

Sophronia: You most certainly are. I have to go home and polish my hair.

Everyone joined forces to create advantages for Reginald to tag in the continuing saga of Improving Victor's Reputation so society will accept his marriage to Lady Angelina Durless. Victor made a point of being seen admiring art, even if he critiqued it based on realism.

Victor: I was referring to the left gastronemia, I think.

Reginald decided to draw people's attention to certain stories in the news or in books and plays and serials that could be spun as support for such a marriage. He did not, of course, tell Victor this.

Reginald's player: If Victor can figure out that these things are appearing in the zeitgeist and that Reginald is behind them, he can always ask Reginald to stop if he doesn't like it.

Victor: You have such a twisted mind.

Reginald: You read my mail; I fix your life.

Reginald was focusing on the Myth of the Redeemed Family.

Alice's player: So you want to change the nobility's bestseller list.

Victor still does not quite understand certain social conventions.

Victor: Why does it matter that we don't talk about it?

Reginald: Because people are stupid.

Victor: I would like a more detailed answer.

Meanwhile, Reginald and Alice wound up in an unusual situation while talking to a minor member of the nobility.

Reginald: Fake it till you make it, dear sir.

Alice: Exactly.

Reginald: What?!

Victor: They agree?!

Sophronia: You have to understand, Douglas, that this is rather unusual.

Meanwhile, things between Sophronia and Reginald got a bit, ah, tense.

Victor's player: You can tell they're getting closer to getting married -- their arguments are getting more serious.

And this one involved spending multiple Fate points, as the rest of us stared in amazement at the verbal tennis match.

Alice's player: This is all about whether she's going to do her own packing, yes?

Yes, yes it was. And it was about so much else that was quite important to each of them.

But, next session, Our Heroes are off to Lake Country to look into a small mystery. I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong and all the little awkwardnesses will be smoothed out.

Reginald and Talos correspond by mail

Talos: What to you suspect I believe?

Reginald: (This letter does not use formal salutations or sign offs)

I suspect you share some of the Chartist beliefs of your father Mr. Slodowy and his lover and the rest of their friends and compatriots. To wit, you believe that the distribution of wealth and power in Britain is monstrously unfair. I suspect you wish to radically reorganize British society so as to eliminate the class structure and substantially re-distribute wealth and power in a more equitable way, and make new rules about how wealth and power will be distributed in the future.

I assume that you have, in addition to making plans to bring about these radical changes, considered the likely negative side effects of making them at a rapid pace. I would like to present evidence in favor of more gradual change and recruiting the nobility into the plans.

Due to my unusual position, I am in possession of relevant information that you should include in your calculations, which may be unavailable through any of your other sources of information. I urge you not to take any precipitous actions until have provided you with this input.

Thank you, and I look forward to speaking with you.

On a less dire note, I am also looking forward to getting to know my cousin-in-law-to-be.

Please let me know if there are any assurances you need from me, or any arrangements I could make, to facilitate a face to face meeting that creates no intolerable risks.