User:PhineasCrank/notepad

It wouldn't suprise me to find anyone stealing these bits. In fact, I almost encourage it. But, if you plan to use something, please let me know.

Possible Inventions

• Lightning Gun
• Aether Ship
• Fefferberry Scones
• Umlaut Tea
• Doctor Crank's Interlinear Escape and Vent Shaft (Ist das verboten?)
• Doctor Crank's Highly Adjustable Animal and Mythical Beast Call
• Ghoulwood Viola
• Perpetual Pocketwatch w/ alarm
• The Takemitsu Journal
• Kagerō Diary
• Tales of Toyokage

Flora and Fauna

• Honey Lotus
• pacyosaurus
• pygmy parasitic vampire swallow
• dragonwort
• goblinwort tree
• dung louse

People and Places

• River Naught
• Ebony Academy
• University of Havernot, Department of Occult Science
• Albertus Crank
• Plintz
• Nikolaus Otto Crank
• Sheldon Byron Pocklewadging
• Ulyanov Djugashvili Bronstein
• Maximilian Gustavus Grande

Just some crib notes: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/m.gratton/19th%20Century/1800-1810.htm Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin ..... French novelist who wrote under the pseudonym of George Sand. She had strong feminist ideals and believed that women should be able to enjoy the same kind of freedom as men. She often wore masculine clothing and was celebrated for her open affairs with such famous men as the poet De Musset and the composer Chopin. No lover ever left her, it was she who tired of the affair first and she made popular the theory that ' love as an end justifies any means'. In 1822 she married a country squire, Casir Dudevant, the union lasted eight years. In 1831 she left him and took their two children to Paris where she was determined to earn a living as a writer. With another writer she wrote two novels which were published under the name of Jules Sand and it was from this that George Sand was derived. Her first independent novel was Indiana in 1832 which dealt specifically with the role of women in marriage. Her next two novels were reflections of her own marital experiences. She became a follower of socialist and humanitarian ideals in the early 1840s and her books in this period were - Consuelo (1842) and La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1843). Disillusioned by the 1848 revolution she returned to country living and died in 1876. Her biography Intimate Journal was published in 1929 ….. " Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy "

Jane Digby ..... English aristocrat who shocked her upper class world by collecting and discarding husbands at an alarming rate before finally disappearing into the desert to marry a Bedouin sheik. She was a descendant of two extraordinary families - The Digbys whose line could be traced back to Edward the Confessor and the Cokes whose roots went back to King John and the Magna Carta. Her father was Captain Henry Digby, a hero of Trafalgar but it was the enormous wealth of her mothers family, the Cokes, that had built palatial Holkham Hall in north Norfolk where she spent her childhood. In 1824 a great ball was given in her honour and it was here that she met her first husband, Lord Ellenborough. He was twice her age and a widower and she was barely seventeen when they married. By the year 1856 she was married to her Arab sheik leaving three husbands still living, countless lovers and several children and had shocked her upper class family beyond belief. In this year she made one more journey home in the hope of being reconciled with her mother but English society found her new marriage too much to accept. After six months she kissed her mother goodbye for the last time and set off back to her new husband and his Bedouin tribe. She spent the rest of her life with him, sometimes in the desert, but mostly in a charming house he bought for her in Damascus and where she received many English visitors. She loved riding and on her 73rd birthday he bought her the most beautiful horse she had ever seen. A year latter in 1881 she fell ill with a virulent dysentery and died and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Damascus. The grief-stricken Bedouin rode out to the desert and sacrificed his best camel to her memory

Events

• Cantalope Crisis
• Kumquat Crisis

--Doctor Phineas Crank 06:36, 13 Sep 2004 (EDT)

Occult Lore

• Ghost Magic
• The Grim Booke
• Grimporke Grimoire:
  • History: The name of the Grimporke Grimoire takes its name from the bad ham which is believed to have inspired it. Said ham having laid about after a great feast and rolled in both spilt Ball Lightning Liqueur and soured Fefferberry juice before being ingested by the unctious author, one Ibaan Malmiz. Ser Malmiz, also known as the Drunken Prophet, was quite infamous in his foolhardy explorations of both occult lore and dubious culinary "delights". In spite of this, the Loony Loolier, as he was known due to his fascination with said tribe, made a regular diet of this unholy concoction. It is believe that this odd culinary choice fueled many of his subsequent visions.

In any case, Ser Malmiz claimed on more than one occasion to have plumbed the secret depths of knowlege not only of the Sarfelogian Mountains but also the ritual secrets of the ancient Looliers. He spent a great amount of time recording his various discoveries as a virtual hermit on the Wasted Plains of Maliatt, or "Blood" in their native tounge, far from the mountains for which he is known. It is said that he was shunned by the few natives of that land because he was quite visibly and material haunted by a rather large shining spirit that took a shape not unlike that of a great, pink Aelfant, though he was often the only one who could see it, without the "aid" of his favorite pork dish. Indeed, shortly after announcing, via postal mail, to a former collegue that he had completed his unholy work, he was seen by a local tribesman being carried off at great speed by that self-same spirit and he has not been heard from since! In his terrible memoir, he claimed to have seen fabulous Sayaziha, or City of Spheres, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was rumored to be a former member of the Brothers of the Lantern, but, if he was, he was only an indifferent Brother, and was no doubt expelled for worshipping the unknown entities whom he called Nyogurt and Leemonje'lo. In later years (-220 EC ?), this Fefferberry defiled text was translated into olkuull by the infamous occult scholar, Maximilian Thaddeus Dossleham. A very limited number of these translations were circulated, but one slightly damaged copy managed to eventually (circa -100 EC) find it's way to the hands of Agwa Reeum on his island home, where he translated it yet again into untch, which has long been favored by scholars of occult lore as a "lingua franca". This edition was quite widely reprinted, though it was almost successfully repressed by the Brotherhood. It is believed that at least one copy of this edition is in the library of the Karcist League, though, of course, none of the League members have been available for comment. Another, apparently incomplete copy, was known to be in possesion of Hirum Paul Macklefoot during his tenure at the University of Havernot as Dean of the Department of Occult Science. He translated that copy into our own sublime language, intending to use it as a text book for his "First, Do No Harm" class for advanced students of occultology. Unfortunately, he dissapeared under somewhat mysterious circumstances while on holiday in the Sarfelogian Mountains. His original copy, from which he was working, was with him when he departed for parts unknown and we are left with his quite interesting, but definately incomplete, translation. This translation is still in the archives of the University, along with what few notes Professor Macklefoot left behind. This version of the text is what most occult scholars know today and has been widely redistributed under several printers and printings. Though, it is still rumored that significant portions have been left out of the publicly available editions. Another copy, apparently also translated from the Reeum copy was translated and resides in the Bute University, though it is unknown how much of that edition is missing. In fact, that edition itself has not been seen in some time and may have gotten lost in the "clocktower incident". It is rumored that certain formulae in this book, along with assistance from the Stone of Wisdom, will allow the deceased to go on about their business "like unto a living man". http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/nechist.htm

Good Words That Mean Nothing, Yet

• citylendinds
• cipang
• cultipler
• catectoric
• danupsycled
• dynary
• douset
• daerow
• eolocaller
• eckling
• gleets (actually, that one does mean something...)