Wheel Smashing Lord 2-40
Chapter: 2
I. ENTRANCE PAY IS FORBIDDEN
II. PAY FOR LINENS LIMITED TO HUNDREDTHWEIGHT CURRENCIES ONLY
III. NO BLOOD
IV. NO SPITTING, SECRETION, OR URINATION
VI. NO WASHING LAUNDRY
VII. NO BLOOD ALCHEMY
VIII. LIMIT TIME TO TWO BELLS ONLY
IX. NO SHEDDING OF SKIN
X. EXPIRED PERSONS (see code 13) STRICTLY FORBIDDEN FROM BATHING
– Stele 14 (Public Bathing rules), Concordance of the Demiurges
Only a peacekeeper, huh?
Nyave entrance in 3… 2…
Oh you’re totally right
Does this mean she manage to go from sacrificial maiden to god-queen in the span of like 4 years? That’s one hell of a glow up!
*President god-queen
Are Zaid and Nyave a couple now?
I mean, isn’t that how Mottam did it?
But running on the wet floors is allowed? What kind of establishment is this, sirrah?
Bleeding is already against the rules, what more need there be rules forbidding injury?
they got any rules against internal bleeding?
One way to find out, aye?
Just rule ten…
Not every being has blood, you know.
Purge the poison of the past. The loathsome That Which Has Been. Only through casting one’s own gaze inward. And see the rotten core that drives your corpse husk, pluck the strings and change Harmonics, receive That Which Has Not Been Given.
The edge of what will be and what has been is a blade with which to bleed the Gods.
solomon david, you cad! couldn’t even make white chain the factotum? shameful
Paternum was diamond but has been split, the holy act of division. Unity through division, the Republic is a unity held up by the Demiurge guardian angel and the Factotum, and a thousand thousand pillars and stones and gravel and mantle beneath.
And I think we can all guess who the new Factotum is 😬
Nyave? She was trained to do pretty much every job.
And that is, indeed, what “factotum” means: from Latin fac (“to do”) + totum (“everything”).
I suspect that the endpoint of the whole story features Zaid holding the master key, as per prophecy, married to Nyave telling him what to do with it.
I doubt it. Jadis knows the future because she knows the shape of the wheel. If this cycle is indeed different, then Allison will break the wheel, and the world will not be exactly as Jadis saw it
That doesn’t mean Zhaid won’t end up with the key. It does seem like he’d be good with it considering. It’d just happen after she breaks the wheel. Mind you, I’m not saying that’s how it’ll end. But “hey I’m dying tomorrow… better take care of the key today. Hey Whit- oh wow she’s actually running andddd there she goes out the window. Zhaid! You’re standing here, how bout it?” Doesn’t seem impossible.
If you can’t prevent yourself from slipping and falling, then you ruin it only for yourself and NOT the other patrons. Carry on.
Please be Oscar please be Oscar please be Oscar
I’d settle for Hrotomos too
Let the factotum be Giant Baby!!! (Baby Giant!!!)
Are you suggesting… Boss Baby?
Is like… is the factotum like “The Parliment”?
Like- its a republic now right? Is Alison going round being like “You’re Emperor!” and White chain be like “THERE IS NO EMPEROR! THAT IS THE ENTIRE POINT”
A few pages ago when Allison stomped through the front door, the head guard was mentioning “the Factotum and the chamber,” so it does seem like a single person, while the chamber is more of an assembly of people. Like a President/Senate kind of deal, presumably all elected.
It’s him isn’t it
Teethbros… it’s our time…
No blood alchemy in the public bath houses? No wonder Incubus is so stinky all the time.
I’m wondering how someone managed to make that necessary without also violating rule three.
I’m going to go on a limb and say that the Factotum is Nyave. She’s the one that was taught how to lead and shine in Mottom’s the court, after all.
Well, since it isn’t going to be Zaid or Princess, the only other possibility would be 10 Vigilant Gaze Audits the Proceedings. >:=)>
oh to be a fly on the wall during the concordance that set the bathhouse rules. How strictly is the no skin shedding rule enforced? Is Alyson leveraging her royalty to avoid accidental exfoliation?
One has to assume that the ‘shedding of skin’ rule applies to reptilian organisms which slough off an entire suit of the stuff.
Forget ye not the invertebrates which do the same with exoskeletons.
Shes Either going to go see Himself or the Queen of Worms. Not sure which would be worse.
Come on, White Chain, we need to get the gang back together!
Rule V has been stricken from the record. You know why
I just noticed that when you pointed it out. There really is no point V!
For the less perceptive minds, might one inquire the implied details of this stricken “rule V”?
No Running
White chain is all sorts of fine
Soaking, fruit
sari, monkey, zoot,
anniversary suit
Nyave is totally running things!
So you are telling me diving is allowed?
Yes, but no cannonballs.
Someone needs to tell White Chain that taking a day off might cost you time in the short run, but save you WAY more time in the long. Overworking can lead to negative productivity pretty quickly and, while she can probably stave that off longer than most, I’m willing to bet she can’t hold it off indefinitely.
She’s still new to her human body. She’s probably not familiar with the concept of overworking yet.
It is not the lines on the body that marks the angel.
It is the body on the lines.
A CROWN cannot be shed as easily as one’s skin. The THRONE moves only when anointed in heartsblood. This is the way of ROYALTY.
major Whoops.
She does know the fourth syllable of royalty. I wonder if she thinks she’s bound by it? Or maybe she just didn’t get all of Solomon David’s curses to herself.
what happened to rule V?
We don’t talk about the dog park–I mean Rule V.