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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

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[amourtician]

Anzu laughs, and says, "would'st thou believe it, darling, if I said I'd be fascinated to hear about representative democracy? I've been on the Talons Ghetto Commune committee ... ah, nu, we call it the Gecko, since calling it anything dignified takes too much time. Feh! I suppose it's rather like the Great Assembly of old, except secular and mostly concerned with the rubbish bins being emptied on time and the trams not running people over."

He grins; he's clearly proud of how his city's faring these days.

"Cities are complicated, yes," he says, and his gaze grows wistful. "Cities are alive, and they all have their own habit, and each is different from her sister. And sometimes, a city has not various faces, but many heads, like a zmey. Our Talons, across the river from her is the old capitol of the Empire. But 'til the commune rose up, they were held to be one and the same city. Well, feh!" he snorts, "by the ones on the other side. But even our Talons, the Talons I see is not the Talons of my neighbour. Even if I be an extreme case, since most of what I see is sickrooms and hospitals and the good place."

[tehilim127_1]

Civic pride, that's a feeling she recognizes deep in her bones; where she lives, one might say.

(The good place takes her a moment; the euphemisms she's more used to are house of honor, house of rest, house of (eternal) life. The cemetery.)

"Many heads," she says with appreciation, "that's about the size of it. You could say New York has five, one for each of the boroughs." Plus the mostly-invisible sixth, but that's a whole other story and actually encompasses all five of the mostly-material ones regardless. "Some of them used to be towns of their own, and then they sort of merged. Kind of like London -- does your world have a London?"

[amourtician]

"We have Londinium," Anzu says, thoughtfully. "I've been told that London had that name, in places where there is a London. By us back home, it's a great city-state, wedged between whatever the Frankish lot are doing these days, and the Eastern half of the Holy Empire. It's likened to Venezia, though I'm told the weather's much less pleasant there."

He has not traveled much, though once he'd thought he would.

"I know such things only by hearsay, nu? I thought once I might make it to the far Western plena, one day, or back to Vilna ... but it seems I've put my roots down in the Talons."

He smiles, a little wistfully.

"A charming place, really. I do love it. For all that we have to bury the dead in niches in catacombs, as in times of old."

[tehilim127_1]

Well, if she needed any further indication that their worlds aren't the same ... "By us it's the capital of an island country. Used to be a massive empire of its own, but it's come down in the world a little bit."

At the last, she cocks her head. "Catacombs, why? Is the water table too high for burial? That's a problem in some cities way to the south of us, they get terrible floods ..."

[amourtician]

"Well, nu, it's either the catacombs under the city or, feh, the marshes past the outskirts," Anzu says, with a shrug.

"The catacombs are more convenient, I suppose? I believe the water table's not so much a concern as, nu, the lack of soil past a certain depth. Makes a feld easy to avoid, should one need to, too. Makes my job rather harder on occasion, but it'd be hard regardless, and mercifully, I rarely have to deal with those what can't pass on because they were buried not in the proper manner."