If I know Gastrope' and I do, he is after all, my accursed master. Didn't see that coming, he must have tricked me and bound me. So now I have to try to break free and eat him one of these days. It's in the job descriptions after all.

But anyway, I am sure Gastrope' is going to spend a lot of time trying to keep Jenn from knowing about Tom/Rupert, and the whole D'Orc thing; cause he figures (correctly, I am sure) that she will freak out, possibly permanently if she finds out that Gastrope' is working for the very dark lord that is freaking out the elves so bad, and that she also worked with him.

Of course, there is also the problem that if the alvar find out, the two will be going to alvaran jail, or maybe the stake for consorting with the FOE. The alvar appear quite calm and rational to most humans, but the really are a rather bloodthirsty lot when riled up.

Of course, you can be sure that Tom is doing everything he can to avoid talking to Rupert about his mom, since he could quickly be exposed as not being Rupert's dad, which would crush the boy.


Technically the chick was his lady love, not sure they were married, I think just betrothed. But yes, that is going to be quite amusing. I personally am looking at that as my best opportunity to torment the paladin.

Yes, that's what I've been thinking. Although to be fair, I've never had a lot of luck making friends for some reason.

Boggy, Tom, Gastrope', Antefalken and Rupert are about the only friends I have. OK, Maelen said he was a friend, and Jenn said so too outside Freehold, but I am not certain she meant it. And I do get along OK with Darg-nargoloth, but sometimes I get the feeling he's only interested in a business relationship rather than friendship.

The Raunchy Orc is actually north of Lenamare's former school by about 120 leagues. On the map(s) if you locate Lenamare's school, due east of Freehold, then go north to Lake Tris (hard to read in the forest). It's in a village on the south shore of Lake Tris, which is due south of the small city of Tris. Tris is about the same size of Murgatroy. Probably not as rough and tumble though.

There are good sized bands of satyrs and centaurs in that area. (around 50 or 60 members each). The Raunchy Orc is in a village with about 100 people (of various races). In the mountains to the west, there are Orc brigands who are a bit nefarious. They are, however, more scheming and criminal than 'evil.'

They do do occasional raids (of distant regions) via their dragons. Yes, they ride dragons. Not sure why I have that on the Astrometry and Astrology page but...

BTW, the giant orc with the young human riding behind him is actually an Orcgre, half orc, half ogre (they have several other names, sometimes called/confused with Urak Hai or Great Orcs).

The inside of the Raunchy Orc, in fact the scene you refer to is seen in the business of wizards image.

The reason it cannot be down by Murgatroy is that wizards can't teleport that far. Murgatroy is thousands of leagues away. This is actually a problem for Damien and Vaselle in getting home from the party. Tom brought everyone hew knew that could summon/contact him from the various worlds to Doom, and now there is only one person left who can summon him (aside from Lenamare of course--who is inside Freehold's wards, so can't and won't). That's Gastrope' and he's in Murgatroy. They can get there, but it's going to be a long walk home. (just try finding a flying carpet for sale in Murgatroy--not easy).

Hortwell is the bald guy, generally in white robes that shows up in several pictures around the site btw.

I wanted to do more with Hortwell and Zargy in Volume II, but it was already so overstuffed. Believe it or not, I did work to restrict the PoV's a little bit.

They will show up again, probably in Volume III, but much more later.

T-A-G

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There may be some hints on the Rupert/Tom family ties in AOD (even if there were going to be definite hints, I couldn't tell you there were going to be, hints have to sneak up on you from behind) but the parental mysteries are probably not going to be resolved until the last book or close to it.

There is a fair amount of information hidden out there in the Library and the maps, some of which are hints, a lot of which are background. I continue to add to it, but the problem is, somethings I can't put in the Library until a book comes out or it gives too much away at this point.

Oh wouldn't that be amusing...and probably very destructive!

It does sound like something he might do.

But as Tom's bestest friend in the known multiverse, my own advice is to stay away from Lillith until the Lords of Chaos have finished being ticked off at her.

This is one period in time where being persona non-grata in the Courts is a serious benefit!

Yes, I think it would be very pleasantly violent and destructive!

Is that a YouTube "Best SF Theme Songs Playlist" you listen to, T-A-G likes to play them while writing.

I have to admit, I've never see that. Do you have trouble with the remainders of the hinges tearing your surface tension/viscosity when you ooze through the doors after jiggling the door off said hinges?

I imagine that would be painful. Nice thing about the Abyss, most of the doors are larger than a 10x10 openings (lots of big demons with bigger egos here)

Did you even notice that it was me?

I've hacked T-A-G's account and was posting as him!

Is he going to be mad!!!!

Tizzy!

Her curmudgeonly attitude would be a great fit.

However, not sure she would have much patience for their war like attitudes...and I am sure she would think they looked evil...she's very racist in that regard. She seems to prejudge everyone from the Abyss as being evil for some bizarre reason.

So they would probably like her, not sure about her liking them.

Hmm, D'orcgres would be really sweet. I'll have to look into that...not that I can do anything about it...

You see, that's the complication. Most demons are really nice people (other than Lillith) and while most deities are evil, not all of them are.

I suspect it's not going to be a very straightforward battle of FOG vs FOE....

In extra dimensional politics, there are lots of side shifting games going on.

The main rule, at least in the Abyss is: "just don't eat your current allies" you can betray them, backstab them, etc. Just do NOT eat them.

I've found that if you eat your ally, or, for that matter, your opponent, it tends to just end the argument right there.

Of course, that is Lillith's preferred way of ending most arguments she gets in...but I find that over time it gets less effective as others tend to start avoiding you. And they definitely avoid your dinner parties.