Category:Rubbery Men: Difference between revisions

"The Rubbery Men are the ones who resemble squids, a little. They trade deep amber for the tiny blind fish that they eat, and for human music. They seem sad, anxious and very polite. But they are terribly menacing. Faces like squid! Occasionally one is stoned to death in an episode of civic high spirits."

"Do you recall how they came to that place? And we sang of our lightnings and shapeful disgrace? They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires. We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs. If we could remember those days. If only we could remember."

Rubbery Men, mysterious crosses between squid and humans who cannot speak intelligibly, deal a brisk trade in amber. They hail from the planet Axile, brought to the Neath by the Bazaar (most likely because of Mr Candles). They are also eager to take the amber back.  Despite their apparent harmlessness, they still face xenophobia and its effects - devils refuse to take their souls, and occasionally one is stoned to death. Even so, at least one of them has risen high enough in society to be an at least semi-influential businessman; he's called the Tentacled Entrepreneur. 

What do Rubbery Men trade?

• Deep Amber
  Deep Amber
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  Warm Amber
• Trembling Amber
  Trembling Amber
• Pulsating Amber (a mark of recognition)
  Pulsating Amber (a mark of recognition)