"I'm suffering from bronchitis at the moment.

[wraithwitch]

...Psychosomatic bronchitis, I'm sure. But nevertheless, it's bronchitis. Oh it's all too much, too grim, too lovely, too - how should I put this? It's general chaos."Edward Gorey is unspeakably great

Comments

[ketchgirl]

Hey Witch,
1. Would you plus any keechers shadowing you like a lift to the pub tomorrow and
2. I seem to have lost (again - sorry!) the website for shiny coats - can you remind me again, please?

Hope Cinnamon finds Bedlam. Could you re-paint the painting of Cinnamon on the wall of wherever you live next? I love that painting ;)

[wraithwitch]

1) yes please, although i think it's just me and no guests this tim =(

2) erm... www.thedarkangel.co.uk at a guess is the one you're after.

When I have a den-nest (heh, preferably 50R.rd) then I will do that painting an much more besides - I have plans of doom a plenty. (any place I own will end up looking like a set for gormonghast or the storyteller or somesuch =)

[kostika]

Why not have Cinnamon tattooed on you. I don't mean her name, but her. Either a simple small B&W drawing of her, or a simple small one of her from the shoulders up.

A character becomes partof you once you've played them for a while. Can't forget things that become part of you after a while.

[wraithwitch]

A character becomes partof you once you've played them for a while. Can't forget things that become part of you after a while.

*nods* I know really. the tattoo thing is because I'm being paranoid and odd, but still, in some way or other I seem to have marks or jewellery trinkets I wear always to remind me of significant things. Seems fitting for Cinnamon to have something. I thought of having a picture, but that will take a lot of work to get right (i prefer symbols to pictures in body art) ...but then again it's easier to define her that way =)

[blue_cat]

Cinnamon was one of those charachters that Maggie sort of liked, and realised was important, but was irritating as hell in a 'nice stable domain' way.
I hope she finds a way out.

as for images - bloody tears and white striped hair. ankh yes - but that was a symbol for her, not of her.

[wraithwitch]

as for images - bloody tears and white striped hair. ankh yes - but that was a symbol for her, not of her.

*laughs* yep, that sums her up very well. tricky to turn into a tattoo though =/

[blue_cat]

I was googling and found that both Cinnamon and Bedlam are Hebrew words.

meh. I have an image of just the hair, with hair over the right eye, left eye showing sort of looking up, with the bloody tears. black mouth. I wish I could draw.

Oddly akin to this picture of Clara Bow (hope the link works!) but ... like I said - um,.... or looking at that pic, the idea of the shadow/bedlam face vs the light/cinnamon face ....

blah. *Grin* yeah. or there are enough photos of you in b/w being cinnamon - one of those with the tears in red. and maybe odd to have you on your own skin.

Or the word cinnamon in hebrew?

[wraithwitch]

*considers* hebrew isn't really my language - but that's not to say if it looks interesting I won't consider it =)

*grins* i know exactly what you mean about the half covered face and the mascara smudged bloody tears - I'm wondering if I could have my eye of horus tatoo re-worked into a vague and abstract Cinnamonish look... that pic of clara bow is very crispy - also kinda cinnamon in a wonderfully pouting 20's way =)

heh - if I did a drawing from a photo of me it would have to be very styalized - in my opinion I never managed to do her looks justice (me not being a madly prophetic god-touched six-stone-nothing malkavian =P )

*smiles* but I will scribble doodles and ideas and see what I come up with - the input is as ever appreciated =)

[sea_cucumber]

do her name in hieroglyphs?

[wraithwitch]

*ponders that one*
in a cartouche perhaps?
hmmm...
*goes off to see what it would look like*

[ex_thankyouk577]

I don't recall ever saying that the Orpheum goes to Heaven... I can see players making the assumption, but why would I have ever done that in an Egyptian-afterlife themed game?

I wrote that the Orpheum opens the way to Ascension, and thus access to all of The Far Shores, which opens up just about every form of afterlife. Which leaves a lot to the player's imagination; that was the point. It opens the way to Heaven, the Duat, Nirvana, etc. Even Bedlam. But I was kind of leaving that to the reader to figure out.

[wraithwitch]

True, you didn't say it went to heaven. (I meant 'heaven' as a short hand because I can't be arsed to type the many religious and philisophical variables there are.)

But Bedlam isn't an afterlife - not in the traditional sense. It's not a Far Shore. You don't get the christians going to heaven, the pagans to elysium fields, the pure to nivanna and the insane to bedlam.

*shrugs* Without being expressly told, it feels like cheating (in a way that probably only makes sense to me) to assume Bedlam is there, and that going through the Orpheum will magic Cinnamon to its keeping.

All of this is probably because I imagine the wraithlands as having quite a few entrances and exits to various places, which you can use if you have the skill. However I imagine heaven (et al in general) to be more of a closed room which you can only enter or leave with express permission.