Tentacles, Squamous, Elder Things, Kilts and "Broadly Offensive"

Miss Violet Schnabel had put together a lovely setting for the Lovecraft Ball, run by the Dark Victorian group. I managed to track down a couple of songs from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society (I need to get a copy of Shoggoth on the Roof) and started with those. On to some more familiar music with tracks ranging from Marilyn Manson, Sisters of Mercy, Inkubus Sukubus, VNV Nation, Mesh, Siouxsie and a variety of other things. Ensuing chat over the evening covered many strange things and may have proved that, apart from the assorted SAN(ity) jokes, that most Caledonians are in fact quite mad. Though Miss Schnabel's cousin Phineas may just be inebriated.


"Cthulhu Grove"


The glowing and amorphous Yog Sothoth (also known as Professor Avalanche)


The Great Race of Yith, with butterflies (normally known as Fuschia)


And I shall call him... Minithulhu.


Eldritch Emilly


Cthulhu in da House!

Later in the evening (and after a quick nap) My Dearest and I helped Her Grace of Loch Avie celebrate the completion of her Manor, Taigh Ròis (Gaelic for "House of the Rose").


The dance floor full of elegant ladies and charming gentlemen.

I danced with several ladies during the evening and witnessed the dubious charge the Vulgarian Ambassador, Barken Roff, made about Caledon being Vulgarian ancestral lands. I've heard this kind of waffle before and am soundly of the opinion that whether or not a country may have occupied a territory in the past, relinquishing that control centuries in the past forfeits your rights to claim it. Of course should the Vulgarians try to make good on their claim by force, Caledon's military defences will be ready and waiting for them.

Once Roff had stalked out in a huff, the evening continued pleasantly.

Finally the evening finished with the performance of Tartan For a Day, which saw the winner of an auction some time back allowed to perform as one of the troup of Little Eva and the Tartans.


Lots of tarting.. er tartan and very little else.


Joining the dance.


Lady Elytis after realising she was overdressed for the occasion.


Lady Whup Ass and Dr. Figaro get jiggy wit' it.


And at some point in the evening comparisons were made of the Tartans with the Mousketeers. Which of course produced Tartan ears.

A fun evening all round :-)

Dark Victorian Partay

Yours truly has also decided to brave the indignities of time zones and DJ for the next Dark Victorian event.

Come along to the Lovecraftian Ball this Saturday the 18th of August from 2:00pm - 5:00pm SLT.

Located in the Schnabel Grove in Caledon Tanglewood it should be a wonderful gathering.

Dame Lapin Paris

Monday evening saw a rare event with the induction of a new knight into the Order of Caledon, in acknowledgement of her outstanding service for the SLRFL.

The simple ceremony, Presided over by Her Lyonesse as the representative of the Guvnah, was attended by a large number of Caledonians, showing the high regard in which Dame Lapin is held.


Using a spanner instead of a sword for the knighting.


The gathered celebrants and witnesses to the ceremony.

I believe this makes Dame Lapin the third (or possibly fourth) Knight of Caledon.

Congratulations to her and deservedly so.

Uuuulllaaaaa!

Disturbing reports reached me even before I had been able to arrive inworld: large meteors had apparent crashed into several places over Caledon. Large metal machines had climbed from their remains and started upon a war of destruction against the populous.


The crash site at Loch Avie.


Two of the aliens hover over Victoria City.

After having destroyed the encampment of the Blue Team in Tanglewood, the aliens were back for more destruction this time attacking the Guvnah's Mansion.


Myself, Major Vollmar, and Lady Amber repelling an attack.

Seeing them off from our beloved capitol they seemed to have discovered our teleport system and I received urgent reports that Eyre was under attack!


Colonel Somme and myself take up rooftop positions above the carriage house in Eyre. I found the chicken canon to be more effective that the rifle. I'm not sure how effective Colonel Somme's gun was but it looked impressive.

Lt. Colonel O'Toole managed to join us and sported his new steam-powered skyboard.


The hideous beastie flies at us to attack.

During this time several people were injured by what we can only assume was a heat ray or laser of some sort from the aliens. We repelled the attack and shifted the injured into hospital, only to receive fresh reports they had been sighted in Tamrannock.


Here I took to the skies trying to tackle them head on.

Not long after this I was brought low by a heat ray to the ornithopter. Thankfully my left arm withstood much of the damage and I only suffered burns to my leg.

Thankfully the Militia and other Caledonians were able to see off this invading menace. I believe we have the wreckage on on of the alien's crafts. We'll have to see what we can make of it.

Dark Victorian, dark deeds and dark music

After helping Miss Garmes and the other American patriots celebrate their fight for representation on Wednesday, and a well received Comedy Special on Radio Riel on Thursday, I was back into the DJ booth on Saturday for the launch of the Dark Victorian group in Caledon Tanglewood.



The venue was a wonderfully decorated platform high above Tanglewood with snow, gravestones, dead trees and the occasional howl in the background. Very atmospheric.



My own inner demon breaking free for the night I was attired in an ensemble of leather harness and Miss Begonia's new Dark and Dandy outfit, which thankfully was able to cope with the wings. My dear Christine seemed to have developed a rather anaemic complaint earlier in the evening and was looking decidedly pale. And rather pointy in the tooth...



The music was well received with Miss Tombola working out the time zone differences and calling for a further 10 hours worth of tunes to entertain the masses.

And not unexpectedly Caledon's werewolf put in an appearance, as he is want to do whenever there are large numbers of green dots on the map. This time though there was a different ending.

The wolf had captured Miss Paris previously, though had released her unharmed when confronted by the torch wielding mob. Earlier this evening the wolf had dashed through Tanglewood and had caused the death of Miss Artemesia Paine. So far Professor Nishi has proven to be the only witness of the incident but is hardly unbiased in her assessment. She claims it was intentional. However given the wolf's behaviour over the last month I'm highly sceptical.

This however seemed excuse for some people and when he showed his face again later that evening daggers and arrows were waiting for him.



Cut down without trial or question, the two ladies in question seem inordinately proud of having rid Caledon of this "menace", one of whom even admits to not only not having seen the earlier incident, but not even the body of the victim!



Sadly Caledon has proved its mettle and the forces of intolerance hold sway.

I just hope Sheriff Ortega doesn't plan on taking up jogging in Caledon any time soon.

Such sweet music they make...

This coming week I have a couple of musical presentations. Thursday evening, I take over helm Radio Riel for a night of comedy tunes. Tune in on your parcel or in a Media Player at http://rs3.radiostreamer.com:8100 and join me from 4PM -8PM SLT for a variety of tunes from various artists including Weird Al Yankovic, Bill Bailey, Danny Kaye, Dana Lyons, Tom Lehrer, The Doug Anthony All Stars and the boys from Monty Python. Probably broadly offensive and potentially illegal!

Then Saturday night from 6PM-9PM SLT I will be DJing for the launch of the Dark Victorian group high above Caledon Tanglewood. Spinning some dark alternative tunes from both old and new schools and hopefully enough work entice the rhythmic movements of the coldest undead or budding resurrectionists.