Quest 262
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The word "harpy", it's Greek--it comes from a word I can't quite recall, harpa-something, I think, but it means "to snatch", and that's where "harpy" comes from: it means "that which snatches". Which I suppose means they're scavengers of a sort, and rather a bit like vultures in their own way, too. When things go missing suddenly and mysteriously, it's often said to be the fault of harpies. They're also often linked to storm winds, somehow, which I imagine is likely because they're both noisy, fierce, and generally harmful. Their talons are made of bronze, their wings of steel; they're always depicted as ugly, they live in filth and squalor, and their purpose, for the most part, is to torment.
I think, from what we've seen of the harpies, most all of that fits with the ones we've been encountering here. They're different in some ways--I think there's more metal to these ones than just talons and wings, to begin with--but they're certainly noisy and fierce, and there's no doubt that they've been tormenting us ever since they arrived.
The part about snatching things away and living in squalor seems to fit, too. It seems a great group of them have taken up residence in the remains of the fallen tower; I didn't dare get close enough to really look at it, but there's certainly some sort of structure there now, in bits and scraps of metal all put together, and I saw quite a cluster of harpies circling around it, as well.
I suppose it's both good and bad news, if they are settling in. Bad because the last thing we want is for them to get comfortable and entrench themselves here, but good because if they're mostly all in one place, then it's somewhat easier to avoid them. Or to deal with them all at once, as the case may be.
Or leave, but we can't--the storms outside the barrier, they're too awful, and yet I can't seem to get the thought out of my head, that we could just leave...
Still, there's something that I can't--that is, as odd a question as this may seem to ask, has anyone noticed a...stranger on the Network lately? Someone urging people to leave, perhaps, or claiming responsibility for the harpies? It seems as though there ought to...
...Well. In any case, if you have seen someone like that, please do let me know.
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Have you been playing again, Iacho? Do you still have the professor's shoe?
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The word "harpy", it's Greek--it comes from a word I can't quite recall, harpa-something, I think, but it means "to snatch", and that's where "harpy" comes from: it means "that which snatches". Which I suppose means they're scavengers of a sort, and rather a bit like vultures in their own way, too. When things go missing suddenly and mysteriously, it's often said to be the fault of harpies. They're also often linked to storm winds, somehow, which I imagine is likely because they're both noisy, fierce, and generally harmful. Their talons are made of bronze, their wings of steel; they're always depicted as ugly, they live in filth and squalor, and their purpose, for the most part, is to torment.
I think, from what we've seen of the harpies, most all of that fits with the ones we've been encountering here. They're different in some ways--I think there's more metal to these ones than just talons and wings, to begin with--but they're certainly noisy and fierce, and there's no doubt that they've been tormenting us ever since they arrived.
The part about snatching things away and living in squalor seems to fit, too. It seems a great group of them have taken up residence in the remains of the fallen tower; I didn't dare get close enough to really look at it, but there's certainly some sort of structure there now, in bits and scraps of metal all put together, and I saw quite a cluster of harpies circling around it, as well.
I suppose it's both good and bad news, if they are settling in. Bad because the last thing we want is for them to get comfortable and entrench themselves here, but good because if they're mostly all in one place, then it's somewhat easier to avoid them. Or to deal with them all at once, as the case may be.
Or leave, but we can't--the storms outside the barrier, they're too awful, and yet I can't seem to get the thought out of my head, that we could just leave...
Still, there's something that I can't--that is, as odd a question as this may seem to ask, has anyone noticed a...stranger on the Network lately? Someone urging people to leave, perhaps, or claiming responsibility for the harpies? It seems as though there ought to...
...Well. In any case, if you have seen someone like that, please do let me know.
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Have you been playing again, Iacho? Do you still have the professor's shoe?
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