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I'm just wondering to what extent Tom is the Fisher King

We're The Great Old Ones Now

22:22 / 01.09.02

I mean, if he gets ill, does Barbelith suffer? I know that he suffers when the board is ill. It ties in to the Body Fictive in a way which actually makes that question far more interesting than I thought it was ten seconds ago, and I'm going to have to examine that one in the morning.

Deva, help me...

But does that mean he ends up getting drowned in liquid html each winter?

Tom Coates

22:23 / 01.09.02

I know where you live Nick. Stay away from the windows and sleep in unexpected places...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:42 / 01.09.02

sleep in unexpected places...

Like that gap in the back of my bookshelves that stuff's always falling into and getting lost?

the Fool

00:29 / 02.09.02

sleep in unexpected places

It could almost be a game show. Who can end up in the most unexpected sleeping place?

Will it be Josh? Who woke up in a tree in Botswana?

Will it be Andy? Who woke up in a vacuum matress with 16 other people?

or will it be Bethany? Who woke in a air conditioning duct of a large skyscraper?

Bonus points for not remembering how you got there...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:08 / 02.09.02

...or for being in possession of a traffic cone/unfamiliar pants/exotic disease.

doglikesparky

19:58 / 02.09.02

1 bonus point for every pound/dollar/etc you've lost but don't know how.

Rev. Orr

07:29 / 03.09.02

Tom of ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee...

Twenty points for coming to, nestled in our leader's perma-bleeding side.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

08:18 / 03.09.02

This has become far more weird and disgusting than I ever intended.

Cool.

I must figure out the truth of it, though.

Rev. Orr

08:54 / 03.09.02

Sorry, Nick - came over a little J.G.Ballard there.

Now I don't know the gentleman myself, but from what he has said on the board, I'm not sure Tom is looking for the paternalistic role you're proffering him. I prefer to see Tom as the character from "The Hitch-hikers Guide" who helped design the earth whilst we sit around bitching about all the fjords and the mice underfoot.

Persephone

11:30 / 03.09.02

E's not the Messiah, e's just a verry notty boy!

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:42 / 03.09.02

Tom as Fisher King vs. Tom as Slartibartfast.

This just gets better.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:39 / 03.09.02

You do realise that you're all fucked in the head, don't you?

Ganesh

23:19 / 03.09.02

Would it be terribly base of me to suggest that Tom is the Fissure King?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

23:30 / 03.09.02

I don't know what Tom is, but I get the feeling he's watching me through my basement window. Good thing I got a blanket stuffed up there.

Margin Walker

01:32 / 04.09.02

BBC News excerpt:

Burgulars Raid Bjork's home
Burglars have raided the London home of pregnant Icelandic singer Bjork, the same weekend as Liz Hurley and Joan Collins criticised crime levels in the capital.

Thieves broke into Bjork's luxury flat in Maida Vale, west London, on Friday night and are thought to have stolen valuable recording equipment.

The 36-year-old singer and actress is believed to have been asleep in the flat at the time.

Um, isn't this Tom's neighborhood? Do we need to start a "Let's get Tom a shotgun" fund?

Rev. Orr

07:28 / 04.09.02

Never mind Tom, I was asleep in her swan costume at the time...

Cat Chant

22:04 / 04.09.02

Deva help me

Oops! Been away and now drunk. Will ponder, and respond when sober. (You might, in the meantime, be interested to know that I am going to make my Mary-Sue* an open-source character if anyone is ever interested in writing her, so that I can see how I feel when people travesty her poor complex self...).

*She is, bizarrely, very popular. Honest.

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