The messenger is a nervous woman clad in black, and bearing a curious curved horn or carnyx, and the strange Peacock Swan sigil of Versipelles-Gorlagon.
She says:
- My Lord Setebos... House Versipelles-Gorlagon greets you with the grace of our gentle swan. On behalf of your honoured speaker William Games, on the eve of the Dance Of Beasts, would you honour us by reviewing the choice of Bull and combatant, in preparation for the welcoming ceremonies of the Great Certamen?
>Oh excellent, you are going to get to spectate on some decadent, bloodthirsty gladiatorial battle royale / obscene animal cruelty (human?) cruelty bull sacrifice ritual. Eagerly accompany Setebos and Mariamne - maybe you will get to choose amongst the victims to be sacrificed!>(blabber truth) Actually... akshually, I don't think any of these versions of "The Lord Of The Rings" are correct at all. What this insane author (jab into the invisible air to pierce into the demented mind of the QM) has done is he has taken stories from these other authors and strangely replaced characters with those from the actual Lord Of The Rings in similar vignette situations. I am afraid Mariamne, all of this work is completely heretical. >(boldly proclaim) You know, no-one has actually read any of these ancient works, they are far too obscure. We should just rewrite the Lord Of The Rings with a female heroine, that appeals to Lady Praxagora, and present it as a play or dramatic performance.>(boldly proclaim) Why is this Discourse On Salt And Iron so controversial? Lady Praxagora must be really stupid if she cannot even resolve a simple argument over some salt and lumps of metal. I bet I could do it! (optional:)
>Ask Setebos a question>Ask Mariamne a questioneg which story she would choose etc.
>(protest and rant at QM) what happened to the story about all the guns and mechs and violent underdistrict gangs and the three-armed mercenary dangling from the ruined Underdistrict vertical slum? I want to know what happened there!>>5405774>Something else? 