Father Inire

Jeff Wilson · 11 Jun 2006, 21:57 · from 2006-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:57:24 -0500
Subject: (urth) Father Inire
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Message-ID: <448C91C4.4080607 at io.com>

b sharp wrote:
> In response to the possibility of Isangoma and later the jungle guide being 
> Father Inire
> Jeff Wilson notes:
> 
> 
>>However, Isangoma is butt naked; nothing to hide Inire's nonhuman nature or 
>>his ultratech gadgets.
> 
> 
> True, he is, and so is the jungle guide (except for a mask, hiding eyes?) 
> and his young twin assistants.  All four of these guys have dark 
> metallic-looking skin.  Sounds a bit alien to me. This might be Father 
> Inire's true form.

No more alien than Doc Savage, or any number of other melanin-rich 
characters of literature.  But Inire should have some obvious nonhuman 
feature to be considered a "cacogen," particularly in a metropolis where 
visible bionic limbs are commonplace and people with animal heads are 
merely unusual.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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