Thread #013 Punishment EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>97862211Previous Thread>>97735596Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTION>Your favorite media: books, films, anything
>>97871282Oh yeah? And what's the price on this handsome mug up to now? Just curious.>>97873121Really? A showdown at high noon? Or I guess midnight in this case. How stereotypically Texan can you get? Ha!Sorry, hombre, but only a sucker walks into a throwdown on his enemy's terms. If you want me, you're gonna have to work for it.Besides, I'm more of a knife fight kind of guy anyways. I can still leave you the keys to your French whore's place if want though.
>THREAD QUESTIONChinese literature: too many classics to list: Shījīng, Dàodéjīng, Huáinánzǐ, Hánfēizǐ, Sānguó Yǎnyì...Hindu literature: Mukhya Upaniṣads, particularly Bṛhadāraṇyak, Chāndogya, Māṇḍūkya, TaittirīyaBuddhist literature: Milinda-pañha (Questions of Menander), Prajñāpāramita-Hṛdayam Sūtra (Heart Sūtra).Various Ancient Egyptian funerary texts.The fragments of the Presocratic philosophers.Plato's writings, especially the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic.Plotinus' Enneads.Corpus Hermeticum.Bible, particularly the sapiential books of the Old Testament and Johannine literature of the New Testament.I'm willfully excluding books by and for Cainites and other occult literature that aren't accessible to kine learning institutions, as I wouldn't call them media.I'm also excluding a millennium of Japanese poetry anthologies since the Kokin Wakashū. But instead of a classic collection, my first recommendation for an English reader would actually be Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, compiled and translated by Yoel Hoffmann.I must point out that haiku as they are known today became popular as standalone poems a few decades after my embrace, and this name is a 19th century invention, they used to be called hokku (発句).As translated by Hoffman:Life is like a cloud of mistEmerging from a mountain cave,And deathA floating moonIn its celestial course.If you think too muchAbout the meaning they may have,You'll be bound foreverLike an ass to a stake.- Mumon Gensen
Hello Kindred.I have words from the web, may they help you>What's a man to a corncob?>55 State Street, Boston MA>There is a black star over the east>The Blood in the sands is hungry>Juneday! Juneday!>DO NOT OPEN IT>Trust the Heckin Hyperscience!>Not sponsored by Pentex>Openmaw was NOT inevitable.>They're coming. Run.
Travel log #14 [ Memphis, Tennessee ]-[*5/10 ]>>>>>Pros> This is a town where you can fuck up and people won't notice> Even if the train networks on the continent aren't what they used to be this is still a safe centre to travel through> Outside threats seem mostly focused on other things, so for once, the Blood around here slips under the radar>>>>>Cons> The Prince of Memphis is probably the most dangerous Toreador I've ever seen and tolerates no carpetbaggers or nomads> Her sheriff is also the kind of person who'd make some of you blush in terms of raw cruelty> For some fucking reason the First US civil war is being fought here among rival cliques between high and low clannsWeird town, not for any of us. Did meet up with some old friends however. Hatshepsup and Hippy seem to have set themselves up well enough, even if the former hates the Bass-Pro abomination and the latter is still absolutely depressed about losing everything in Marquette. Most of us who survived didn't have large networks, but Hippy basically had a whole congregation of naturalists and pot-boys running her operation. Still a long way from recovered, but her sitting down with Mèo and our new companion did her some good. Left out some of the tribulations we've gone through recently. We are still being followed and the creep who did it last night basically spent an hour atop an eighteen wheeler. Creepy as sin.>>97874559I've got a special place in my heart for 'Day of the Triffids' as a rip-off radio drama. Back in... God was it 58 or 59? Can't remember.It was there for me for a nasty hide-out in a farm's attic. I can still recite lines from Dr. Voreles.
>>97874559>Your favorite media: books, films, anythingI'll get literally eaten alive by you people if I say a word about this, so, no, nuh, nuh-huh.>>97875778Hiiiiiiii, sorry for the delays, we are currently trying to not go back to the fucking stone age here! Everything that uses electricity now has a penchant for being haunted, short-circuiting and so on, and there's that fucking aurora in the sky, sometimes, but only if you look right and only from very specific angles. It's definitely not a regular electricity thing, and one of those mangy pizza-eating wolves is eyefucking our electronics while looking very, very worried. Not offering to help, Heaven forbid they do that. Betting ten bucks on that it's the Goriatrix tribe, or whatever I scryed for, sending a hello in a novel and annoying, yet not excessively harmful way. Theeen like five bucks on that it's something more caern-related, and maybe three on that it's a problem outside of our usual context.It sure can't stop me from scrying though!So, the creep. I'll go for three basic questions, and then let you ask further ones and let me scry for them, that'd be the most practical method.>What is the creep's nature?The Magician - Upright. Resourcefulness; skill; willpower. Praying it isn't literally what the card depicts, they're the worst.>Why is the creep after the H0Trio?Page of Wands - Upright. Creative spark; new beginnings; exploration.>There's many paths - confrontation, avoidance, seeking outside assistance, bribery, trickery. Which way to go? Is there even a best way?Six of Wands - Reversed. Unrewarded efforts; fall from grace; insecurity due to overreliance on outside assurance and not on internal clarity.Cards are feeling Somewhat Fucky still, after my Goriscrying, so tread carefully.
>>97876499>I'll get literally eaten alive by you people if I say a word about this, so, no, nuh, nuh-huh.It's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, isn't it?
>>97876499>Hiiiiiiii, sorry for the delays, we are currently trying to not go back to the fucking stone age here! Everything that uses electricity now has a penchant for being haunted, short-circuiting and so on, and there's that fucking aurora in the sky, sometimes, but only if you look right and only from very specific angles. It's definitely not a regular electricity thing, and one of those mangy pizza-eating wolves is eyefucking our electronics while looking very, very worried. Not offering to help, Heaven forbid they do that. No worries. Also, if that's who I think it is tell him that the boys in San Francisco expect him to help PROACTIVELY. Because god knows we all need to actually get over our hang-ups.I met his sister. I was told of the 2008 incident. I'm not afraid to share it if need be.>That ScryingThis thing is creepy sister, it's pretty focused on me and if it wanted the kill it would have gone for it after the attack. Pulled stuff on Gün I've never seen and it SMELLS like my bloodline but... Off. Weird like. Closer to the un-things that congregate around the Caern but distinct from them.Could you ask the mistress of the library for information on bloodlines related to Gangs like me? My knowledge base is a lot of circumstantial stuff and filled with hearsay from old farts and I've neglected some of that research.
>/tq/pretty bold question, i bet most people lie or chicken out rather than fess upbest answer is probably my telenovelasi got a pit full of vhs tapes i go through>>97874691more than you've ever had cabrón >>97871550good work newt but i'll be real these are nifty little novelties for defending the burrowdoubt even he is dumb enough to attack us at homeshame that>>97873577to be a meat griller in czexan countrybein real and serious with you, that seems like an amateur move holding the camera steady, unless its a deliberate bait i guess.
>>97878226>that seems like an amateur move holding the camera steady,You're not wrong. Perhaps I should visit or perhaps he doesn't care because he knows he's on a observation mission and he knows that licks have keen senses during the worst of times. >Thread QuestionI will admit a fondness for cowboy or western literature. My favourite would likely be Robert Lewis Taylor but there are many good ones. Hell it even got a theatrical adaption at one point.
so just came out of a long sleep. My human gf was working for the cammies sense before I met her. I thought working at a blood bank and her liking me were just luck but no. My regent never trusted me and put her on me like a collar thinking I'd go rabid or some shit. I don't know why she covered for me or hell if she covered for me when I got hit by a car but she fucking sold me out. I never drank from somebody and she was told I had a time limit and if I didn't hit I'd be forced. She told me when I woke up in a cage with a homeless guy I was friends with. He knew about vampires and was apart of some group called the union or unit I couldn't make out what they were saying at first but he was handcuffed and he kept saying you don't have to do this but I hadn't had a bag in a month. I was so hungry. I let it win. They let me out and she drove me home telling me I did good I protected the masquerade but they won't let me see my dogs until I drink from someone else with her reporting on me. Pray for me for all the good that does. God i hope they aren't monitoring this phone>>97874559>TQi like guy richie movies
>>97878307Prove to them you can keep the Beast at bay and they'll stop testing you at some point. An upcoming rite of passage will probably involve a blood doll or a less willing mortal you'll feed from, and you mustn't drain him or her to death in order to pass.
>>97876515It's fucking Homestuck. She's foreseen me ratting her out, and I've forseen her, as she's doing right now, banging on my door, so I locked it. Too bad!>>97877363>Could you ask the mistress of the library for information on bloodlines related to Gangs like me? My knowledge base is a lot of circumstantial stuff and filled with hearsay from old farts and I've neglected some of that research.I've gone to check since the Mistress of the Library™ is feeling extra iffy about electronics and wouldn't go online to tell you stuff herself, and HSE is barred from the place following a recent incident involving a phone going on fire. From what we can see thus far, there's a lot of very shallow and poorly-developed stuff, mostly footnotes, myths and third-grade information piled on with the cohesiveness of a hoarder getting things just because. Like, I'm right now looking at two profiles, from the same book, which seem to describe basically the same fucking thing, a watery Gangrel, except there's minor cosmetic differences between the two, so they're filed as two distinct bloodlines. Just on a glance:>two water Gangrels, with one extra deep-sea Gangrel recorded in an instance where carcass was fished out by a commercial vessel, woke up, proceeded to eat everybody aboard, excluding the fish, broke the ship hull apart, and sunk with it, with this incident only being recorded thanks to compromised cameras aboard (Nossie agents of some dipshit Ventrue were trying to snoop on workers of on of his shell businesses, or whatever, and the tape got sold and re-sold five times before my Sire got it)>A variety of Gangrel for every combo of climate and human habitation style>Druids?>Druids but Norse, for some reason?>Norse Gangs, but not druidic??>Four different pre-Columbian North American varieties???>Doggerland Gangs, supposedly?????>'Hybrasil survivors'?????>'DROGEO DEVOURERS'???So, uh, anything specific you want us to try and dig up?
roleplay thread? On fucking 4chan?
>>97880009 a shocking concept, I know; a roleplaying thread, for a game built for literal actual physical LARP, on the traditional games board, which typically are fairly roleplay-focused. We should close these threads and go jerk off to elves or argue about local lords or bitch about how nobody paints minis instead, that's productive.
>>97879996>It's fucking Homestuck.My spirit slave Polyglot Girl, who lived and died recently enough to know about these works, was shocked by this revelation. My Great-grandchilde believed it was Twilight, while another ghost of mine, Architect Prime, thought it was something called My Immortal by Tara "XXXbloodyrists666XXX" Gilesbie.
>>97879996homestuck runner is good. "everybody~ everybody!everybody la-dee-dah-dee-dah!" classic.>>97880041i hope you were right because they had me feed off of my girlfriend to both of our surprise. Guys she actually likes me I could taste it! And she was a little woozy after but she's fine! We watched In Bruges (hilarious btw) as she went to sleep. Anyway suns dawning so I'm out of here for now. I still feel terrible about Bobby but nothing I can do other than not let it happen again.
Travel log #15 [ St. Louis, Missouri ]-[*3/10 ]>>>>>Pros> While St. Louis is a Camarilla city, the hold is weak, a lot of the population is Nos split between different dens> The Low clans basically control the night to night in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere> Big arch is alright I guess>>>>>Cons> If it isn't my cousins the County-Gangs making attacks, it is the Loups> This place doesn't have the 'fun' or 'easy to exploit' type of instability, being closer yo Yugoslavia apparently> The Firedancers down south never got over being pushed out of and Atlanta wants to raze this cityWell I got to see the silly half circle and I got to make a little pilgrimage to Cahokia. Not much else to say other than I get the feeling at some point something terrible is gonna hit this city. Again. It's basically ground zero for any jyhad-crusade-insurrection shit in the States. Also lacks a defensive space unless you do what our hosts did and dig.>>97879996To be fair, a lot of that's the experience in-clan. it took me being scholarly for decades (egh time flies) to get the information I have now sorted. I should write a paper at some point on my pre-columbus cousins, but I digress.Focus on the 'Druids,' I think I can place most of the other things for the most part. Anything you can pull up that isn't completely unverifiable or obvious slander.
>>97878226Awww c'mon, humor a guy, would ya? And which baron decided to add to the fund? The Samedi? Or the Ventrue?
>>97880187There's always finding out who gave the order and killing them.
>>97880312It's also where the Midwest CanaDanavian meets Southern Drawl to create a truly mystifying dialect.
>>97880499>>97874691192.168.3.710.3.7.2Found you mods this is not an actual IP attack please don't nuke my post like you've done in the past.
>>97881620If you want to be the one to bump off Janus in a glorious act of REVENGENCE, I'm okay with that.[/spoiler ]
>>97875000>Yes>Maybe>No (thank FUCK)>Oh no why that one?>No>No>Yes>Maybe>No...?>Yes :)>Yes :(I miss being out of my mind when you hit me with this shit brother-brother. It's like someone hits me with a stained glass window.>>97879996Way to be a narc LL. Let he who was never cringe cast the first stone.>>97878307You just need need to find your legs for it, sucks, especially cause you can't really do the 'lure in' I can do. But you'll manage. God isn't here. But we are for you. :)>HIS FACE AFLAME IN RUIN AND WET WITH SLAKING THE PAUPER KING FOUND NO KINSHIP IN BETRAYLS AND DIED IN CHRYSALIS, AND THE BEAST OF THE STAR FOLLOWED, AS THE PRIESTESS OF THE BEAR SWALLOWED THE SUN, AND THE LORD OF MONSTERS SOUGHT AFTER, AND THE STARRY DISTANCE LOOKED ON. OH MAGUS, SUMMON THY SPLENDID ARTS AND DISCIPLE ABANDON THY MASTER TO HIS WRETCHED COCOON. THE WHEEL COMETH, AND ALL MEN AND MONSTERS ARE CRUSHED BENEATH THE COMING CHANGE. LET HE WHO JUMPS ASTRIDE CALAMITY AND DANCES INHERIT THE RUBBLE.
>>97881620>>97881774Sorry for the second OOC post. I was just thinking that if you make it a team up with Necrophage, that's even cooler. It would be kind of a shame to leave him out.
>>97881774>>97882031 that'd be cool. One glorious act of revengence for such an unceremonious death of Bleu. Do you also do necrophage?
>>97882031>>97882165No, he's not me, I'm me. I'd be down for a climax with Janus though.Granted I've just been thinking about the old man just enjoying his new ghoul's company, so I'll follow your leads before hitting the gas.
>>97882200>double dubs>I am yu, he is mialright. I'm not full on thinking of ending things like the next post, but likely before the end of this thread or beginning of next thread. A bit of cat and mouse along the eastern sea board, like a reverse of Sherman's march to the sea.
>Question for the kindred at homeHow many 'lethal accidents' have you caused feeding during your present unlife? One of my coterie's boys had a little mess when he was finishing up tonight, hit me that I've got no point of reference outside of the withered testicle that is my sire.
>>97881620Damnit, why are all you super persistent types always so fucking quick? Can't a guy have a few nights of peace to himself?>>97883806I've never counted. I mean, you've never bothered to count the number of times you've stepped on a bug in your life, have you?
>>97881899>>97879765I got shot tonight but it wasn't so bad! I was me and J and R in a truck out in Angeles Forest. Apparently someone else had been hunting there for a couple weeks and they weren't drinking but instead just stabbing people and leaving them by the road. This is a dumping ground for my boss so this couldn't stand. They wanted us to find him and go wild. I found him in a tent 10 minutes off the road in a tent laughing at a piece of flesh (gross). I thought I had the drop on him but he turned on me and shot me in the chest with a glock. It sucked but not as much as I did >:). Didn't even drain him! I kept the beast (i hate giving it a name) in check. We tossed him in the back of the truck and took him back to LA to the deputy. He said I did good finding the guy and I got to see my dogs again. Things are good! My buddies from the help group even reached out to make sure I'm doing ok. Thanks guys.>>97880041I would never say I would do something like that! See I'm getting smarter (I think)
>>97883806This took me back to my fledgling nights when I mostly fed off corpses. In over four centuries, many vessels died, none by accident.
We busted a tire and it stopped us from reaching Kansas City.Wonderful. >>97883806I've never had a 'lethal accident' with a person. Plenty with creatures of the forest when I was young and half-feral. Would be remiss of me to say I never caused a 'freak bear attack' intentionally though.
>>97881620It seems the duel is being postponed yet again...
>>97889074And good 'ol boy better get used to it.
Getting sick of these modern voodoo practices My 120 year craft boiled down to Fat Women> and Tremere Putting black dyed sand in circles with candles to curse some random internet personality So close to do stupid things that will call a bloodhunt
>>97889937You're doing the same thing as the Roman Catholics.>Oh I can't believe it! I don't bring on new people who know the actual Gospel while zealously guarding it and now some peasant has decided GOD IS THE BAD GUY, but only one third, but it's the third I actually like because it lets me flog landowners >:(You gotta spread that shit or you go the way of Mithras.The religion. Not the dicky.
>>97884618>>97889368Your proximity to the exit and my flair for the dramatic saved you. Sadly the F3 tornado that hit the tornado about 2 minutes after you left didn't spare the rest of the inhabitants. Hope you enjoyed the lack of brakes though. There will be no rest, respite, or peace for you. For I am my brother's keeper. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is THE LORD when I shall lay my vengeance upon thee!>>97890190hey, we still take the side of the poor by default. Otherwise Lawrence of Rome wouldn't have been grilled alive and died cracking jokes!
>>97881899>It's like someone hits me with a stained glass window.The wisdom is in the cracks. That's where to look. Most birds don't know what a TV is.
>>97889937>voodoo practices>curse some random internet personalityThis reminds me of a story from five years ago. There was this influencer who built his fame by combating scammers. His modus operandi with alleged mediums was pretending to have recently lost his mother and seeking a way to contact her in the afterlife - only to reveal that the mother was still alive by videocalling her in front of the camera and the medium's face.A young man from the main Family was his next target and asked a disciple of mine for advice, and the disciple asked me in turn. The advice was: "Do the session as scheduled, put on a mask, don't blink, close your eyes for at least a second if you must, do not laugh, my associates will take care of the rest." You will never guess what happened next! Can you believe the influencer's mother went to the Other Side right before the session started? How very unfortunate - but it makes for good content, doesn't it?If you overhear a fledgling or neonate from the Clan of Death saying: "I'm dead, you idiot!", "Answer the damn phone!", "The hospital is calling you!", or "What are you doing!? Tell the rest of the family!" and giggling like a schoolgirl, mostly when using the phone, this is the reason.Those are all "memes", as my spirit slaves call them, from this fiasco.Shortly after, we found out a Malkavian gave the influencer our youngster's contact information, and since we had so much fun with this practical joke of his, we returned the favor by sending his soul to the nearest Rossellini camp next to mother and son, that he may offer his condolences.
>>97890495You wish to continue the hunt? Alimania. His time is limited without his pack. But I know that does not sooth insults.Come down to the town of Willacoochee, on the road south, you will find me there.I have a price. Pay it, and I shall aid you.
>>97889937Voodoo? Isn't that a Serpent of the Light thing? Their own cool kids' version of blood sorcery or something?>>97890495I gotta say, your indiscriminate carnage is pretty impressive there, cowboy. I mean, I hate that is directed at me, but other than that? Mmmwah! Chef's kiss! Love it!>>97891083Heh! Got 'em! Epic prank!
Children of the corn bullshit.> Oaoahao look at me I'm the worst version of the wild blood, please acquaintance help me with the child cult I runThe things I do for 'friends' and support. I guess we're staying in Yellow-Brick road country for an extra night. Damned concrete nightmare.>>97890495Please don't throw out multiple tornadoes, I've been told creating a Dead-Man Walking could be very very very bad. >>97891386Genuine question, when were you bitten?
>>97883806Accidents? None really. If I'm pissed off I set out to drink em dry, otherwise I restrain myself. I think it's cuz of tge way my Sire gave me my first meal. God, I'll never forget that...So the Horseman was all theatrical about my Embrace. Burries me in a shallow grave (symbolisim, I think) and there's a raging thunderstorm to boot. I dig my way out, no clue I'm already dead. Wearing nothing but mud and rain (cuz babies are born naked, i guess...?) And a bolt.of ligutning shows me the biggest motherfucker I've seen in person on the biggest horse I've seen and while my mind is trying to decide if it shpuld try and make sense of all this or if it should just give up and break down now the Horseman scoops me up with one hand and takes off riding at full gallop.I think he was hitting full force with his Majesty, because I never even thought about trying to fight my free, even though I had no idea who he was or qhat was hapening. Hell, I didn't even wonder about feeling so damn cold; I was wet and naked on a galloping horse!Anyway, we get to the Horsemans ranch, I meekly follow him inside, and tge first thing I see is a naked dude tied to a chair and gagged. Horseman walks up ro the guy, lifts a fancy silver table knife, and lightly pricks tge guys throat whike he's struggling and screaming into the gag.Seeing, smelling that one drop of blood...oh God. That little sparkling ruby. I didn't know it at the time but I full on Hunger Frenzied. I tackled that poor guy to the floor, straddled him...and ripped his throat out. It was MESSY. And because of the Kiss, even as he knew I was killing him, he had a raging hard on the whole time. Even came before he died.I've NEVER let myself lose control to my Hunger since. Not after that shit.
>>97891083The prince of Eastwood still has a blind bloodhunt for you >>97891829Speaking of corn I've seen a new group Tzimisce creation being let loose in crop fields that have been described as>Fat burnt soggy screaming hamsThat keep the "Ghoul Food" safe
>>97891829June of 1988. Why? You've been hanging around the cat long enough, you should know the kind of things we consider pranks.>>97892104>And because of the Kiss, even as he knew I was killing him, he had a raging hard on the whole time. Even came before he died.See! When I say stuff like this, I'm a "sick fuck." Oh but when you say it's "a heartfelt retelling of my first kill." This shit's not fair!
>>97892104as humiliating as it is to reference a german, this reminds me of 'die fröhliche wissenschaft'. how self-important a ceremony. how base. but it would be a lie to say such results were not sufficient. so often my degenerate high clan neighbours sire mewling worms that have no idea what they truly are.which is why my social is composed of nosforatu, ghouls, and kine.
>>97892474The difference your degenerate ass can't see is that the whole damn thing was so traumatic I've never succumbed to Hunger Frenzy since...which was the whole point, I guess. You, on the other hand, would have been just as hard and dry humping the corpse.>>97892511Funny that. My Sire is German. Hessian from way back when.
>>97892625curious. were he from hesse-hanau, there is a not zero chance he shot at me once. back in the 'good old days' when i was technically fighting on the same side as the assamites and things got messy. the landeskinder might be famous for their occidental forays but they had a reputation down here as well.
Night draws near. Time to pay the 'Rat-King' a visit.>>97892104Good grief. I can't add much but that is something.>>97892422Do you got more information? I'm morbidly curious and due to help with some stalking through corn country tonight. No that there's much corn grown but better to learn.>>97892474>Why?You sound like a belligerent mortal teen who shoots squirrels for kicks. And the curse of Malkav takes many forms. I'm very familiar with my Cat's condition, and it is why I tolerate the Blood Bond woith her.
>>97892853Sure, I kill for kicks. Or because I'm hungry. Or because I'm angry. Or because I'm annoyed. Or as part of the Sabbat's mission. Or as part of my experiments to find where exactly the soul resides in a body. Or for any number of reasons, each as equally valid as any other. We're killers, it's in our nature. I'm comfortable with that fact. Are you?Since we're sharing with the class, how about you, H0T? When did your heart stop beating, and what drives you to kill?
>>97892898>When did your heart stop beating, and what drives you to kill?Ironic... I was mauled back when the Great War was being fought I'll admit, the specific year is fuzzy. Either 16 or 17. We are predators and haemovores. At the end of the day all that is required of us is blood. When I hunt I hunt for sustenance, mine own or others. The same reason people hunted back before the bite. Except I did not have weapons when I started, I was hurling myself at deer and moose like a wolf does.Nature kept me and humbled me. Still does. I return the favour more literally.Now if you'll excuse me I have to flog one of my upstart cousins because he has decided to wage a rodent-corvid-child war.
