Physiognomies of Exceptional Kinds, their Study, and their Subsumation
Dr. Louize Haig attributes her occult awakening to accidentally stumbling upon this “medical” text in a forgotten bookshop in New Haven.
I’m Reading…
Pages upon pages of nonsense phrenology mixed with sound medicine plagiarized from reputable textbooks. Tucked among the drivel are measurements for unknown species like homo cruces var. bombus which the book notes have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than ‘most kinds.‘
I’ve Read…
The book describes few methods that have any bearing on any medicine, though it does suggest ‘perfection of an older form’ can be achieved through shockingly simple operations on an average hen’s egg.
Effect: Memory: Contradiction
Mastery: Lesson: Stitching & Binding
Aspects
- Mystery: Moth 4
- Subject: Stitching & Binding
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Substructure
Recipes
’How!?’
talk.visitor.intercept.louize.littlenonsense
Requirements: Dr Louize Haig, t.physiognomiesofexceptionalkindstheirstudyandtheirsubsumation
Start Description: ‘First you take my place here, then have the nerve to show me a copy of what I have lost? How rude! No matter. I will consider this offense negligable if you sell it to me. How does a silver spintria sound? And I can share a scrap of my genius besides.’ [Louize will take the book and depart, forgetting about any current Incident.]
Description: ‘One of many injustices against me is now corrected. I suppose you are worthy to receive my expertise. Do you know how the Carapace Cross culled themselves? Listen closely…’
Effects: spintria.silver, x.insects.nectars, -t.physiognomiesofexceptionalkindstheirstudyandtheirsubsumation