There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.
The corroded motto over the portico said “NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESSENGERS ABOUT THEIR DUTY” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:
DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
rocks
troll’s with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs. Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel’s.
fog.
Mrs. Cake
(It is later revealed that the missing letters in the motto have been stolen and repurposed for the sign over a salon elsewhere in the city.)
You’re falling down the Terry Pratchett rabbit hole very effectively! The best way out is to start reading.
Anoia is the goddess of things stuck in drawers.
Mrs. Cake is too be avoided because she has precognition but forgets to turn it off during conversations which leads to confusion when she answers a question before you ask it, but insists you ask anyway because she’ll get a terrible headache if you don’t.
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It involves reading this book.
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There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.
The corroded motto over the portico said “NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESSENGERS ABOUT THEIR DUTY” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:
DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
(It is later revealed that the missing letters in the motto have been stolen and repurposed for the sign over a salon elsewhere in the city.)
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Is the grass greener now that you’re on the other side?
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Praise the goddess Anoia!
You’re falling down the Terry Pratchett rabbit hole very effectively! The best way out is to start reading.
Anoia is the goddess of things stuck in drawers. Mrs. Cake is too be avoided because she has precognition but forgets to turn it off during conversations which leads to confusion when she answers a question before you ask it, but insists you ask anyway because she’ll get a terrible headache if you don’t.
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