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It Belongs to a Museum

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Gavin Prince said:
It's a problem more with the English language than anything, but talking about Luthor's personality fragments as a "they" is less accurate than a "he" that acts differently at different times. "They" implies more independence than the fragments have, that they might be acting against one another or plotting to take permanent supremacy.

Rather, it's like you when you're drunk versus when you're stoned versus when you're on cocaine. You're still you, and you don't really regard the other-you as a separate person. Just a you whose actions differ from the ones you might take if you were in the same situation right now.

The thing is that at no time does Luthor consider himself sober any more. He's effectively always stuck on some kind of narcotic, randomly switching between the flavour, and while he can ask himself "what would sober me do right now?" he doesn't always; when he does the answer is skewed because he's on uppers or downers or hallucinogens at the moment; and the considered response doesn't feel right to his current state, regardless.

All of Luthor Harkon wants to be sober again.
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I read this and now all I can think of is a Luthor Disco Elysium style quest.
 
Island is part of the vampire coast's history, far enough away for Lutr not to fear mood swings but close enough to still interact regularly.
Ziggurat is in its own way also part of that history, plus as a ruin it holds a ceratin appeal to host a museum and is something that can't be replicated by that pretender in the maelstrom.

For names :
Neferhotep because Neferatem + Nyarlathotep (+ nefarious? And + hotep in honor of The Mummy)
Lazharek because it sounds close to Lazarus.
Lahazutek because of it is my favorite amongst the learders of the pack.

[x] [PLACE] Island
[x] [PLACE] Ziggurat
[x] [NAME] Lazharekh
[x] [NAME] Neferhotep
[x] [NAME] Lahzutekh
 
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Crossover: Disco Coast
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    • Shogeton said:
    I read this and now all I can think of is a Luthor Disco Elysium style quest.
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    Disco Coast

    THE IMPRUDENT ONE - The doors to the center of Your power open, revealing Your most unexpected... Guest. His body is preserved well, differently to those disciples of Arkhan who had been sent to You previously. His motions are spry, curious - and he looks at You with a familiarity You do not share, his eyes roaming across the armor You wear to the throne You sit upon, striding forwards confidently as he finally speaks.

    THE IMPRUDENT ONE - "Lutr! It is you!"

    SEKHA [Challenging: Failure] - Like the granules of sand Your memory has become, the name of this figure slips away from Your mind and returns to the sky of thoughts, slips away from You, again and again. You can tell the outline of what he is, a Liche Priest, of the Mid-Dynasties, and he believes he knows You well, but you cannot think of anyone who would fit this criteria-

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE [Challenging: Success] - You are incorrect. The name may have been forgotten to Us at this moment, but He can only be one figure, to approach Us in such a fashion. It is as we had reviewed in what texts we could scrounge up from Our homeland and from Araby, it is the Teacher of Monsters, Neferata's former toady, the Last Liche Priest of Lahmia, at least in her time. What could he want of Us, and what does he possess that would make Us think such is a valuable deal?

    THE IMPRUDENT ONE - As Your mind combed through the details, he stopped dead in his tracks, your gaze seemingly unnerving him. Now is your chance to speak.

    YOU - "You knew me,"

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - Your voice is not cruel, but it very carefully leaves open the door to cruelty, if such becomes desirable. It is academic, Your tongue speaking through a stolen lexicon, and clearly not what the Imprudent One would have expected, though this is a judgement of Your mangled magical senses and not the result of any physical motion upon his own part.

    YOU - "A genuine Liche Priest. Mid-dynasties. Eastern accent. Expecting a warm welcome, but unadapted in the way that Arkhan's disciples are. Well, that only leaves one possibility."

    SEKHA [Challenging: Failure] - ...We still do not actually know his name.

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - Give it a minute.

    SEKHA - We're not just going to sit here and stare at him until he gives Us his name, are We?

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - We will be doing exactly that, and You can go in the box with the rest if you want to complain about it. There will be no talk of mutiny against My orders upon this ship.

    HARBOURMASTER - I told Us putting this One in charge would be a mistake, I said it, and don't pretend like I was wrong - I know these things.

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - You were not given permission by Us to speak.

    THE IMPRUDENT ONE - The... Liche Priest of known titles but unknown name stands there, seemingly also having allowed his consciousness to wander. You wonder what he could possibly be thinking about, that it would distract from Your own ending of the sentence-

    MANGLED BALL OF MAGICAL NERVE ENDINGS [Legendary: Success] - It's Crabs. Crabs and Islands. It's Crabs and Islands? It's Crabs and Islands.

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - What?
     
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    • Mopman43 said:
    Though I don't believe anyone has actually pinned down what Mazdamundi is a reference to.

    (Knowing old-school GW, it might literally be Mazda the car brand)
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    Wiggy said:
    I always figured it was just Master Mundi as in mundus as in 'the world', so, master of the world.
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    deathofrats0808 said:
    I was under the impression it was a Mappa Mundi reference.
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    I thought the "Mazda" part was just for "wisdom", from Ahura Mazda ("Ahura" = "lord", "Mazda" = "wisdom").

    Combined with the "mundi" part referring to the world (in contrast to the heavens, as in "Axis Mundi", so referring to the material universe instead of just a specific planet), that'd mean Mazdamundi's name means something like "Wisdom of the world/universe" or "Worldly/Universal Wisdom".
     
    I figured someone just smashed words together until they found something they liked and ended up with Mazda Monday. GW weren't exactly at their wittiest and most subtle with early lizardman names, not that the later ones really got more so.
     
    grimboooooo said:
    THE IMPRUDENT ONE - The... Liche Priest of known titles but unknown name stands there, seemingly also having allowed his consciousness to wander. You wonder what he could possibly be thinking about, that it would distract from Your own ending of the sentence-

    MANGLED BALL OF MAGICAL NERVE ENDINGS [Legendary: Success] - It's Crabs. Crabs and Islands. It's Crabs and Islands? It's Crabs and Islands.

    ARCH GRAND-COMMODORE - What?
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    :rofl:
    Genuinely beautiful, I was literally laughing out loud
     
    [X] Sutekh
    [X] [NAME] Lahzutekh
    [X] [NAME] Pahtsekhen

    [x] [PLACE] Island
    [X] [PLACE] Bespoke

    A mobile museum isn't a museum. It's a curio show.
     
    I would be very happy with an island victory, but I can't in good conscience put my vote on anything but Big Crab. My mind can't let go of the idea of hiring some Clan Moulder help in order to create a monstrously sized crab abomination museum to serve as roaming symbol of the Vampire Coast.

    [X] [PLACE] Leviathan
     
    [X] [PLACE] Hulk

    I'm a big fan of Scar by China Mieville, so anything even resembling a floating pirate city gets my vote.
     
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