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- Damon
- Pilgrim
- From: enzed
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The Xenodochium (Paragon)
In fantasy literature there are many examples of Places Between, places that allow travel between different realities, different worlds, like a hallway allows passage between different rooms.
Sometimes they are a world unto themselves, like Amber or the Hall of Worlds, the Wood Between the Worlds or Cittàgazze. Sometimes they are a metropolis, like Tanelorn or Sigil, the City of Doors. Sometimes they are confined to a single building, like the Temple of a Thousand Doors or the Great Library of the Dreamlands. Sometimes they are merely a state of being between, as one travels L-Space or goes from Stone to Stone, along the lines of ‘if’, between the worlds that might be.
There is a small stone building huddled against the Southmarch city wall on Fitter’s Row, quite unexceptional from the outside, just another anonymous abode.
Once one passes through the entrance, however, the function of the edifice becomes immediately apparent. The building is completely hollow, from the inside much larger than its façade should allow. The interior walls are covered in hundreds of doors: stout wooden doors barred with verdigrised metal; plain townhouse entrances sporting ornamental doorknockers; archways with elaborate oak fretwork; eldritch portals leering with latent menace; cupboard doors and sliding panels; rotating bookcases and the doors of safes; transparent panes of glass with hinges and handles; fleshy-pink doors that seem to throb with an edificial heartbeat. The floor is covered in trap-doors and pits; the ceiling offers egress to innumerable attics.
This is the Xenodochium, a building designed for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, containing passages to and from a thousand different lines of reality.
Each and every day, usually at just after midnight board-time, a link to a different website will be posted, derived from a dozen of the better weblogs, news sites, and ‘site of the day’ pages available online. Each link will either be funny, informative, entertaining, or just plain weird (lots of this last category).
Welcome to the Xenodochium!
Damon.co.nz: Where the homeless come to bathe"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
- Damon
- Pilgrim
- From: enzed
- Registered: 2001-05-31
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***December 18***
Today's link is a four-in-one deal, following on from the popular what-X-are-you sites come:
Get your
Viking Name
Cereal Name
Exotic (Stripper) Name
Hillbilly Name
For the record, I'm Myrkjartan the Dreadful, Cracklin Banana-berry O's, The Boy Toy Warren Cox, and Bobby Joe Stanton (but everyone calls me Hound Dog). My brother's stripper name came up with 'Smooth Forrest Hump' *chuckles inanely*
Also, if anyone has a suggestion for the Xenodochium, just send me a PM!
Damon.co.nz: Where the homeless come to bathe"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
- MoP
- Pilgrim
- From: Brisbane, Australia
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 6019
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Viking - All hail Jokull the Ruthless. Yggdrasil shall always protect you.
Cereal - Available in low-brow convenience marts everywhere, it's:
Sugar-Coated S'more Hoops
Exotic - The stage clears, and all eyes turn to you, The Boy Toy Hugh Johnson.
Hillbilly - Your name is Hank Arthur Stanton but everyone calls you Reggie.
Wow, that was lots of fun!
I'm hungry
- Aan`allein
- Hierarch
- From: The Netherlands - occasionally
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 5636
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Hrm, I think I'm going to have to stay away from here... Already have trouble attending to all my regular haunts - certainly can't use links to more and more places to visit every day. *grins*
btw, remind me... Tanelorn? Sounds awfully familiar, but unlike the others, I can't pinpoint this reference. Barnes maybe, or Walter Jon Williams? *ponders*
Anyhoo, really like the description! :)
Mozilla developer comment of the however long it'll be this time: <Mossop> run for the hills!
<Boriss> i can't, i'm at a local maximum!Just Imagine...
- djf2
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-11-24
- Posts: 678
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Kjaran the Giant enters, munching on a bowl of Cracklin Choco Hunks.
Hi, I'm Studly Warren Cox, but you may call me Buster.
*Leaves through a door with a heart-shaped cut-out*
- djf2
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-11-24
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Isn't Tanelorn Moorcock? I could be wrong, since I only read one monography and two stories by him.
- Aan`allein
- Hierarch
- From: The Netherlands - occasionally
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 5636
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Hrm, that could be... I only read Moorcock once, way back when... Six, maybe seven years ago.
Mozilla developer comment of the however long it'll be this time: <Mossop> run for the hills!
<Boriss> i can't, i'm at a local maximum!Just Imagine...
- rimses
- Pilgrim
- From: Uqbar
- Registered: 2001-06-19
- Posts: 5286
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hello Paragon
great idea, this place! i feel exactly the same when i look at the myriads of worlds on the web
- Damon
- Pilgrim
- From: enzed
- Registered: 2001-05-31
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Studly Warren Cox!
*tries, and fails, to contain fit of giggles*
Not to worry, Aan, most won't be daily sites, so there's just this one :)
Tanelorn is a hub of the Multiverse, from Michael Moorcock. I'm impressed that you got all the others, although I'm not surprised about the Stone to Stone one!
Damon.co.nz: Where the homeless come to bathe"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
- rimses
- Pilgrim
- From: Uqbar
- Registered: 2001-06-19
- Posts: 5286
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"All hail Dagr the Rude. Yggdrasil shall always protect you. "
*grins*
- djf2
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-11-24
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Paragon wrote:Studly Warren Cox!
*tries, and fails, to contain fit of giggles*
What's so funny about Warren?
- Ian Johnson
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-06-01
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- lian
- Pilgrim
- From: Where Dormice Are Cherished
- Registered: 2001-06-08
- Posts: 3012
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Ooooh...cooool...*ahem*
well, just mention Sigil, and I'm in. Is there a Lady of Pain somewhere here...? (oh. that would be Paragon himself, wouldn't it? Something's wrong with this idea...~_^)
well, anyway -- look! I brought you a little housewarming gift: A tiny Lady of Pain doll to worship! C'mon you guys, worship it! let's see if we all turn up in the Maze (aka Forum 9) ;)
*lian*
- lian
- Pilgrim
- From: Where Dormice Are Cherished
- Registered: 2001-06-08
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Well...umm...that'd be pretty overbearing, hm?
*shouts*
Of course I wanna be! I mean, the Lady of Pain is just painfully cool. Iccce cold, in fact. Adorable, anyway. Never wanted to meet her, Paragon?
(ha, well, you obviously do. wouldn't worhsip the doll, otherwise!)
But then to be honest, Annah is more like me personally...*grins wickedly*
*worships the doll some more*
(well, was that just, self-worship..?)
*wondering lian*
- Damon
- Pilgrim
- From: enzed
- Registered: 2001-05-31
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*pulls out Planescape argot guide*
Aah, ya piker!
*grins*
G'night, O Lady of Pain; I'm going to pass out if I stay up much longer tonight (it's now 3:35 in the AM).
Damon.co.nz: Where the homeless come to bathe"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."
- lian
- Pilgrim
- From: Where Dormice Are Cherished
- Registered: 2001-06-08
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gOOD nIGHT kIWI FRIEND1
whoops I suddenly turned illiterate. ah well.
-what a coibncidence: I'm not only the Lady of Pain, but also known as
'Ronguor the Murderer' in Viking. Hm.
'Frosted Cinnamon Oats'? welll...
'Spicy Misty Monutain'? Well, isn't that a little...boring...? *sigh*
Billie Jane Stanton, called Bea. helloooo brooother!
ak. should stop that!
*lian*
- Rajan
- Pilgrim
- From: In between
- Registered: 2001-06-02
- Posts: 11670
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Dagr the Dreadful
Mega Nut Pops
The Boy Toy Willie R. Wontee
Cleatus Merle Stanton (commonly called Reggie)
I would assume that all the hillbillies are related...in several ways...
- Rook
- Mantis
- From: Seattle, WA
- Registered: 2001-06-02
- Posts: 4050
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Nice digs, Paragon.
I can only imagine the temptation to name this place the "Temple of a thousand doors".
*grabs at his coffee cup, which turns out to be a key, and materializes out of the room*
"Little rag doll. Such a pretty face should be dressed in lace." --- The Four Seasons Webcomic Overlook (Reviews) | Rooktopia! (Blog about other things)
- FlutePicc
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-08
- Posts: 16570
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Viking: Svartkell the Apocalypse
Cereal: Soggy Graham-Crackery Balls (lol)
Striper: The Mysterious Jasmine Tee.
Hillbilly: Billie Sue Carter but everyone calls me Bess.
- ettelewen
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-06-02
- Posts: 10871
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viking name Haengr the Apocalypse
cereal name Chewy Berrylicious Balls
hillbilly name Bessie Jean Carter but everyone calls me Bess.
exotic name The Mysterious Gwendolyn Glistens.
smarch member #248
- Darkangel
- Pilgrim
- From: North of Crazy
- Registered: 2001-11-26
- Posts: 5468
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Islefr the punisher!!!
fluffy choclat balls
billie jane winchester call me bess
and the one and only Kitty kat
ever notice how you never need to go looking for trouble, it always finds you? So next puppy I get I am just going to call trouble... Actually will be calling her Heidi!
- Kianor
- Banned
- From: alaska
- Registered: 2001-07-12
- Posts: 15665
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Islefr the Impaler
Double Fruity Crisps
Big Larry Lizard
Bubba Ray Carter...but everybody calls me Buster
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham, England
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 4510
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Jokull the Furious
Soggy Nut Loops
The Fabulous Jasmine Tee
Billie Sue McCoy but everyone calls me Mabel
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