The Gemini Society

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The Gemini Society
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"At the intersection of Victoria Avenue and South Garden Street, in the heart of Little Uganda, stands the Southwestern branch of the Gemini Society (AKA the Sorcerer's Benevolent Society, AKA the Urban Magical Defense League). Since 1947 this branch has been headed by the hydromancer Gwandoya Kyoga. Kyoga is known to some as 'Old Waterballs' due to his penchant for levitating globes of water from the lake (complete with fish and, on one occassion, a frightened swimmer), and floating them above the city streets like so many bubbles before letting them splash into the pond in nearby Entebbe Park. . . . The Geminis, particularly since the Banishing, have styled themselves as an unofficial complement to the city's police force. Although their efforts have benefited the city on more than one occasion, the municipal authorities have never been sanguine with their relationship. It was this tension which led Mayor Faldbakken III to rather infamously label them 'magilantes' after the upheaval of the May Day Earthquake (see p.574-9) . . . Kyoga had a long-standing feud with Walter Wenstrup which only ended with the latter's disappearance. Many of Kyoga's followers believed that the hydromancer would succeed Wenstrup in his mystical post, a faith which has only been partly shaken by the failure of a new Sorcerer Supreme to materialize. . . . Membership in the Gemini Society is by invitation only, and only in recent years have women been invited to join--chief among those is Wen Ming, the floramancer credited with finally solving the city's food shortage problems." (p.107)

Comments

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

I used to pass by that building regularly during college when we'd make late-night trips down to South Garden for cheap matoke and luwombo at this little place that didn't mind the student trade and didn't card.

It might have been the warangi, but it always seemed like the building had changed somehow in the brief duration between walk to the restaurant and the walk home...

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hughfaller believes that the Geminis are still attempting to return the city to the sundered earth, despite the ban on such attempts which followed the Conjuror's Plague. Hence the building and its environs undergo frequent reiteration . . .

Matoke was hard to get for a long while, until the floramancers found a way to grow bananas on the Green. Yet another reason to be thankful for Wen Ming.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that's "waragi" of course. Was always thankful for it at the time but not so much for the Curse of Wen Ming headache you'd have the next morning. :)

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

This just might be my favorite one.