Episode CMXVI– Torquado

These we found first in our water as we crossed a bilious valley and then, amongst us, lodged in peculiar places where they had their way with our flesh in the most distressing but oddly fascinating ways until we were fully undone and had to flee. Those most infested among us developed a strange urge to adorn themselves with pleasing scent, to pursue unnatural pleasures and to adopt an unusual gait. We dealt with such aberrations with fire and the garrote as is decreed in the Sacred Teachings as promulgated by the High Priests of the Holy Place. (From “Field Guide IV – The Fauna” as prepared by the Imperial Surgeon and Natural Philosopher © mmg 2007)

Episode CMX1X – The Trap

Those men who look upon her lustfully and come close, perhaps to share a pleasantry or to offer an inspirational word, but driven suddenly by unbridled lust, undiluted by the healing power of uplifting thought, are first beguiled and then transfixed until, under her all powerful scent, they succumb and are struck dumb, ready prey for the beast who keeps her and , who with fang and claw makes quick and crunching work of such hapless victims and, from by removing and devouring their manhood, takes strength needed to make its mistress glad, filling the smoking and evil vale in which they dwell with her shrieks of joy and also much smoke. Far from home and bearing untold hardship, how many sorry souls have fallen into her clutches we know not, but we lost some of our greatest warriors of faith to her wiles. (From “The Voyage of Discoveries” ©mmg 2007)