Can that be the young man the Reverend Mother meant? Is that a bloodline we must preserve?
- Lady Margot Fenring
Feyd-Rautha dipped his head with the required courtesy. He stared at the Lady Fenring. She was golden-haired and willowy, her perfection of figure clothed in a flowing gown of ecru — simple fitness of form without ornament. Gray-green eyes stared back at him. She had that Bene Gesserit serene repose about her that the young man found subtly disturbing.
- Dune
- Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
- from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
You wake groggily to a distant but ominous droning "thump-thump-thump" echoing over the rocky outcrop. You and your companions crawl out of your tents and stagger to the rock's edge to look across the sands. You see two figures. One stands quietly next to the thumper she has activated. Behind you, someone cries, "Aiii, she calls a maker!"
Closer to you, and moving rapidly toward the woman is a man with sword at the ready.
The woman is a guileless study of defiance and resignation. The thumper's drone is drowned out by the harsh sounds of heavy scales against sand.. Shai Hulud is almost directly beneath her feet. This one is a great grandfather of the desert, monstrous in size. The sharp scent of melange is overpowering even here on the outcrop. The huge sandworm rises, then glides grandly over the dune, to dive deep into the sand once again.
When the worm is gone, no trace remains of sifaka save a few footprints in the sand.
The swordsman stops, turns and makes his way carefully back to the rock.
sifaka was Lady Margot Fenring, Bene Gesserit, mother of Feyd-Rautha's infant daughter, and scum prostitute.
The Atreides and allied Fremen win. Congratuations, town!
MVP goes to irreligionist, aka Duncan Idaho, Swordsmaster of Ginaz. Good Game!
I look forward to your feedback about the game design. I'll share my thoughts after I take my licks.
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