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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/185",
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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 185,
    "subject": "Quetzal's Desciption; Pike the Vampire Slayer; Mucor Wakes the Gods",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1997-04-11T09:44:20+00:00",
    "last": "1997-04-11T09:44:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0004-0029@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David_Lebling",
        "address": "david_lebling at avid.com"
      },
      "date": "1997-04-11T09:44:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Quetzal's Desciption; Pike the Vampire Slayer; Mucor Wakes the Gods",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "mantis sez:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "P.S. vizcacha--glad to have you onboard the \"Pike Aquastor\" bandwagon.\nAlga won't come onboard anytime soon since she's the one who came up\nwith the very interesting Quetzal-as-Pike theory."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Actually, I thought _I_ came up with that one. Like Lasrach, I am\ncurious about the limits of inhumu shapeshifting.  Could Q disguise\nhimself as Pike?  We don't get much of a description of Q's body, other\nthan that it horrified those who went to prepare it for burial (or\nwhatever one does on a lander).  I visualize an inhumu in its natural\nstate as having a more-or-less human-looking head, what you would get if\nyou made a cartoon version of a snake's head. (Actually, his description\nis like nothing so much as E.T.!) The neck in its relaxed state is very\nwrinkled, in its erect state is like the hood of a cobra. It has wings\nwhich can be shaped into arms and a snake-like body which can be shaped\ninto something fairly leg-like."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "There is definitely a tie between Quetzal and Pike.  For starters,\nQuetzal is most likely the same devil/vampire that Pike fended off so\nmany years ago."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "When did Pike fend off a vampire? He told Silk that devils had\ninfiltrated the whorl, but do we know he had an actual encounter, much\nless an encounter with Quetzal?  (Just curious exactly how long and how\nsturdy your bridge of inference is...)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "See, Pike followed Quetzal back to the land of the living for a quick\nvisit and was happy with what he saw. OR psi-magically, having both\nQuetzal and Silk thinking about Pike made mischivous Mucor go wake\nthe ghost up for a visit, in the same way she seems to activate the\nother \"sleeping\" gods of Viron."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "How often exactly does Mucor wake the gods/goddesses? She was obviously\npresent fairly close to the Kypris theophany (but Kypris was probably\nawake already, viz. Silk's close call in Hyacinth's boudoir). When did\nshe awaken a god(dess)?  (Not arguing, just curious).\n\n     -vizcacha\n     (david_lebling at avid.com)"
        }
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