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The Unfinished Men<br/>|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/peligin-and-pearl Peligin and Pearl] | The Unfinished Men<br/>|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/peligin-and-pearl Peligin and Pearl] | ||
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}} | }}''"Polythreme is a city where some principle in the water or earth - they say - makes everything live. This makes it a hellish place. Candles scream as they burn. Furniture is enslaved wood. Buildings are hollow shells of misery. The Clay Men are sold by Polythreme - or perhaps they escape."'' | ||
''"Polythreme is a city where some principle in the water or earth - they say - makes everything live. This makes it a hellish place. Candles scream as they burn. Furniture is enslaved wood. Buildings are hollow shells of misery. The Clay Men are sold by Polythreme - or perhaps they escape."'' | |||
''"Everything's alive there, or so the story goes. Coal burns with a long low moan, steel is forged under protest, new-minted coins still shriek with pain and horror. It sounds a horribly callous place. Not to mention remarkably noisy."'' | ''"Everything's alive there, or so the story goes. Coal burns with a long low moan, steel is forged under protest, new-minted coins still shriek with pain and horror. It sounds a horribly callous place. Not to mention remarkably noisy."'' | ||
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[[File:Polythreme4.png|thumb|A clothes-colony]] | [[File:Polythreme4.png|thumb|A clothes-colony]] | ||
Everything in Polythreme is suffused with an unnatural vitality. Coins scream, houses scream, and if you spend enough time there, even your clothes will come to life and start screaming. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see roaming colonies of clothing, banded together to wear a person instead of the other way around. It's very noisy in Polythreme, for obvious reasons. | Everything in Polythreme is suffused with an unnatural vitality. Coins scream, houses scream, and if you spend enough time there, even your clothes will come to life and start screaming. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see roaming colonies of clothing, banded together to wear a person instead of the other way around. It's very noisy in Polythreme, for obvious reasons. | ||
<p>The Clay Men aren't very fond of this place (because of all the screaming), and they're eager to get their compatriots over to London as menial workers. Many of them are more than happy to spread stories of their homeland, preferably through the words of a well-respected Londoner.</p> | <p>The Clay Men aren't very fond of this place (because of all the screaming), and they're eager to get their compatriots over to London as menial workers. Many of them are more than happy to spread stories of their homeland, preferably through the words of a well-respected Londoner.</p> | ||
== Welcome to Me == | == Welcome to Me == | ||
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{{Character|title1 = The King with a Hundred Hearts|image1 = Porticolight.png|caption1 = The King's Villa. Art from FL.|name = Enkidu (?)|location = Polythreme|allegiance = The First City|relationships = [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|The Manager of the Royal Beth]] (lover)}} | |||
''I no longer love him. How could I, after what he had done to me? But his love abides, over the sea in London. I am his heart's desire.'' | ''I no longer love him. How could I, after what he had done to me? But his love abides, over the sea in London. I am his heart's desire.'' | ||
[[File:Porticolight.png|thumb|The King's villa]]The ruler of Polythreme is known as '''the King with a Hundred Hearts'''; he is thousands of years old and may have once been Enkidu (Gilgamesh - the Manager of [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|the Royal Beth]] - 's closest friend). This is a surprisingly fitting role for old Enkidu, who was created from clay and saliva from the goddess Aruru to stop Gilgamesh from terrorizing his subjects in Uruk, who was quite literally the first Clay Man. | [[File:Porticolight.png|thumb|The King's villa]]The ruler of Polythreme is known as '''the King with a Hundred Hearts'''; he is thousands of years old and may have once been Enkidu (Gilgamesh - the Manager of [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|the Royal Beth]] - 's closest friend). This is a surprisingly fitting role for old Enkidu, who was created from clay and saliva from the goddess Aruru to stop Gilgamesh from terrorizing his subjects in Uruk, who was quite literally the first Clay Man. | ||
Very few are permitted an audience with the King, and even then his nature and appearance are something of a mystery. The King is best known for sending Clay Men to [[London]] as menial laborers who work for [[the Bazaar]]. | Very few are permitted an audience with the King, and even then his nature and appearance are something of a mystery. The King is best known for sending Clay Men to [[London]] as menial laborers who work for [[the Bazaar]]. | ||
The King is a survivor of the First City (formerly Uruk), and those who seek their Heart's Desire will find that the Manager of [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|the Royal Bethlehem Hotel]] orchestrated the fall of Uruk to save the King's life... but at a cost. The Masters, in their usual disregard for a mere human's feelings, took a piece of the [[The Mountain of Light]] and shoved it in the King's chest. The King with a Hundred Hearts is now a Clay Man, or otherwise a statue, with diamond shards for hearts. | The King is a survivor of the First City (formerly Uruk), and those who seek their Heart's Desire will find that the Manager of [[The Royal Bethlehem Hotel|the Royal Bethlehem Hotel]] orchestrated the fall of Uruk to save the King's life... but at a cost. The Masters, in their usual disregard for a mere human's feelings, took a piece of the [[The Mountain of Light]] and shoved it in the King's chest. The King with a Hundred Hearts is now a Clay Man, or otherwise a statue, with diamond shards for hearts. | ||
<p>Polythreme is the King, and the King is Polythreme.</p> | <p>Polythreme is the King, and the King is Polythreme.</p>''Original by NiteBrite/Mrs. Brite'' | ||
''Original by NiteBrite/Mrs. Brite'' | |||
[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:The Unterzee]] | [[Category:The Unterzee]] | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 7 May 2019
"Polythreme is a city where some principle in the water or earth - they say - makes everything live. This makes it a hellish place. Candles scream as they burn. Furniture is enslaved wood. Buildings are hollow shells of misery. The Clay Men are sold by Polythreme - or perhaps they escape."
"Everything's alive there, or so the story goes. Coal burns with a long low moan, steel is forged under protest, new-minted coins still shriek with pain and horror. It sounds a horribly callous place. Not to mention remarkably noisy."
Polythreme, the original home of the Clay Men, is a small island nation within the Sea of Voices.
HERE IS SCREAMING
Everything in Polythreme is suffused with an unnatural vitality. Coins scream, houses scream, and if you spend enough time there, even your clothes will come to life and start screaming. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see roaming colonies of clothing, banded together to wear a person instead of the other way around. It's very noisy in Polythreme, for obvious reasons.
The Clay Men aren't very fond of this place (because of all the screaming), and they're eager to get their compatriots over to London as menial workers. Many of them are more than happy to spread stories of their homeland, preferably through the words of a well-respected Londoner.
Welcome to Me
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I no longer love him. How could I, after what he had done to me? But his love abides, over the sea in London. I am his heart's desire.
The ruler of Polythreme is known as the King with a Hundred Hearts; he is thousands of years old and may have once been Enkidu (Gilgamesh - the Manager of the Royal Beth - 's closest friend). This is a surprisingly fitting role for old Enkidu, who was created from clay and saliva from the goddess Aruru to stop Gilgamesh from terrorizing his subjects in Uruk, who was quite literally the first Clay Man.
Very few are permitted an audience with the King, and even then his nature and appearance are something of a mystery. The King is best known for sending Clay Men to London as menial laborers who work for the Bazaar.
The King is a survivor of the First City (formerly Uruk), and those who seek their Heart's Desire will find that the Manager of the Royal Bethlehem Hotel orchestrated the fall of Uruk to save the King's life... but at a cost. The Masters, in their usual disregard for a mere human's feelings, took a piece of the The Mountain of Light and shoved it in the King's chest. The King with a Hundred Hearts is now a Clay Man, or otherwise a statue, with diamond shards for hearts.
Polythreme is the King, and the King is Polythreme.
Original by NiteBrite/Mrs. Brite
