-------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [frc] Re: amicus curae From: Ouroboros <wurm.ourobo...@gmail.com> To: Fantasy Rules Committee <frc-p...@googlegroups.com> This morning I received a package from the Library and Consolidated Archives of the Fantasy Rules Committee, in response to a missive I sent by carrier pigeon last week. They sent the text of section 15 of the Flagstone Rarity Codicil. Actually, they contacted me by phone and asked if I would authorize the expense of transportation of the original. When I denied that I needed to ship and store 42+ tons of trilithon, they offered to reproduce it in fired clay or carved styrofoam. It sounded like they were trying to up-sell me, but they were agreeable enough once I suggested they take a crayon rubbing of the relevant paragraph. I went to the barrel cellar and pinned the huge sheets of paper to the racked whiskey barrels in approximate arrangement of the triolith. I took a lunch of socca and muhamara, a glass of crisp gewürztraminer to attempt to read it. It took a button of peyote dissolved in espresso before I got the hang of reading the runic script. The Flagstone Rarity Codicil was/is/will-be the product of a consultancy contract from a shadowy conclave of druids, the heirs of whom had eventually become the founders of the Caerdydd Right, a branch of Scottish Freemasonry. Our august Committee will be charged with the investigation of the fundamental differences between stone and brick. Due to some sort of ritualistic drug-induced time travel on the part of these druids, the contract has yet to be signed or executed. Section 15 of the Flagstone Rarity Codicil presents an argument that stone blocks are cut and extracted from solid material and that bricks are shaped, formed, or extruded from plastic material. It concludes (in paragraph 1551) that stone not being brick and vice versa, masons should define themselves by the application of mortar. A footnote deals with artillerists and their place within the order. Paragraph 1510 concerns the specific differences that might be found between bricks. This is in balance to several previous paragraphs on the differences between stone, you can imagine the hash that a description of x-ray crystallography creates when written in runic script. The essence of paragraph 1510 is that bricks are fundamentally different based on their composition, function, and/or soundness. What is given is a list that looks to me as though it were cribbed from the Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: (a) those that are requisitioned to an imperial project; (b) unsquare ones; (c) ones that are not cold; (d) engraved ones; (e) tuned ones; (f) fabulous ones; (g) those that are plastered over; (h) clinkers; (i) those that are included in this classification; (j) those that twist without cracking during an earthquake; (k) innumerable ones; (l) false ones; (m) et cetera; (n) those that have just transected a plane of glass; (o) those that at a distance resemble grains of salt. The next three paragraphs contain an enormous digression into the structural qualities of compressed straw bales. There is a citation of the seismic codes of San Narciso County, which seem scarcely relevant. Compressed straw bales are then considered as potentially included in (a), (g), (i), (l), (m), and (o), above. From there, compression- formed blocks of dry vegetable matter (mustard greens, mary jane, et cetera) and "keys of china white" and "vitamin-J" are discussed. It seems as though there are a great quantity of brick-like objects that remain for our consideration, the stricture of 282:3 notwithstatnding. Intelligibility is my concern. On Oct 1, 11:57 am, David Nicol <davidni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Ouroboros <wurm.ourobo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 282:3 Rules must mention at least one brick of a fundamentally > > different sort than any previously mentioned bricks. > > The restriction in :3, made in reference to a specific paragraph of > the Flagstone Rarity Codicil (hey -- what round is this anyway) may be > flexible if more information about paragraph 1510 were to be revealed --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fantasy Rules Committee" group. To post to this group, send email to frc-p...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to frc-play+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/frc-play?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
