[Heliotrope] Shadows Over Rhineland

Fairy is a different realm but there were some fairies that dwealt in Terra.  Germany was at one time one of the richest places in the world for such creatures, but the Big One is the primary reason they are there no more.   Creatures of spirit and nature are disrupted by iron at the best of times, but especially the ones adapted to Terra.  Those that move back and forth fare fare better, and those that live purely in Outer Fairy almost all the time best of all.  Even a Sidhe who lives in Outer Fairy (albeit very carefully given how everyone hates them) is only minorly inconvenienced by toxins and iron whereas their distant cousins in Germany were tailored to the soil itself.

Each of these lancing spiritual wounds helped kill magic, which was exactly how it was intended.  People believe the Thule society harmless but love to make fiction about how they crafted with supernatural powers not of this world.  Those people would be mistaken, because the Thule society in Terra DID actually convene with these powers; gods, goddesses, dark angels, demons and fairies.  It is believed that Terran fairies alone were responsible for 10,000-20,000 allied deaths.  Specially constructed bombs penetrated the earth and disrupted the ley lines that allowed such creatures to exist.

While they were killed or disrupted, some have been permanently so.  Many fairies can come back in one form or another, and while Germany's forests are certainly spiritual places, gaining a natural boost for their efforts at green energy and atonement of their past crimes, the fairies themselves are simply gone.  Gods and Goddesses and a few of their servants walk the land from time to time.  Ghosts? Certainly.

But Fairies? Not so much.  There are rumors that a few members of Outer Fairy have attempted to colonize the area but even should they do so, their powers at magic and connection to the land would take centuries if not millenia to be the same.

Sometimes Humpty Dumpty really can't be put back into the bottle.  Or Egg Shell.  Or whatever.

[Script] Revolution Number Eight - Page 7

John: Stop.  Just stop George.  I am not breaking up with her.

George: I don't care what you bloody do with her, just stop bring her into the recording booth.

Ringo: You'd bring her here if the 8's didn't stop you.

Paul: Look, just-

Intern Adams: (coughs)

They all stop and look at him.

Intern Adams: So...how can I help?

There is a pause.

Paul (smiling): Well I think you just did.  I think the reason Chwex sent you to us is that we need someone to help us get out of our headspace.

Intern Adams: Wait, so he knows you're not doing what they want?

John: Oh yeah, he figured it out in about five minutes.  Smart guy.

George: I'd just assume get it over with.

Paul: We're close.  Very close.

Random Small Stuff

Sometimes being the sole representative from another world (technically third since Emmit and Redwin have been beaming poetry to you for a decade, but no one reads there or realizes they're from Terra) can be tiring.  I mean, sure there i a lot I can write about.  Sponge Werewolves, or Mayan Mummies vs Egyptian Mummies, but it is a lot of work to notice things.

And honestly?

I think the smaller things are more interesting.

Like the fact that we have beer vending machines just like in your Japan.  When we gave up Prohibition, we gave it ALL up and didn't find another victim to blame it on.  You know, like making hemp...I'm sorry "Marijuana" illegal.  Being more laid back probably means why we haven't elected some of the idiots you have on Earth.  I mean, we're not perfect.  We still had a Hitler.  Hell, we even have a Soup Nazi, but Jesus Christ....there are some uptight people over there.

We almost switched to driving on the other side of the road back in the early twenthieth century as solidarity with Britain, but the Rockefellers had just bought cars and learned to drive so they crushed that right off the bat.  But some of the same people you have who are anti vaccine or flat earthers believe that there is a legal right to drive on the other side of the road.  Its called the Wrong Way movement and they're responsible for 200-300 deaths a year.

Elvis really never died in our timeline and became head of the CIA under Reagan. In 1988, he stepped down and did a live tour with the Beatles.

The Berlin wall didn't fall in Terra until 2005.

China is split between North China and South China and Taiwan is actually a protectorate of Japan.

Bears are known to use tools to get into campers; including crow bars, explosives left at mine sites and occasionally acid.  No picnic basket is safe.

There is no Key Lime Pie in Terra.  It is horrible.

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[Heliotrope] Madam Glitterbell's

When one considers that fairy tales are not only spread among the human population, but others as well, then there can be unforeseen consequences.   For example, the tale of the little mermaid was a cautionary tale for mermaids in Outer Fairy until about twenty years ago when some disney dvd's began to leak through Terra.  Not every Earth story leaks over, but the ones that do cause...interesting effects.

It should be noted that Madam Glitterbell's has existed for over twenty centuries, serving Roman Legionaires at the time of Ceasar.  Madam Glitterball is not just a brothel.  Madam Glitterbell is an institution.  Rumor has it that she is half fairy, but no one dares ask what the other half is.  She certainly LOOKS human but seems to be effectively immortal.  The resort exists in the legendary city of Stays In, by the Desert by the Sea.  It has ...well, according to rumor, if you have a Slot A, they have a Tab B.

When Blixie the Mermaid, daughter of the Duke of Baja, saw the DVD of the little mermaid, she was determined to get a prince.  She was convinced that her natural magic would let her get legs, and while this was technically true, it also did not get rid of the pervasive smell of fish.  Fish breath. Fish hair.  And it only got worse as she stayed on land.  Attempting to douse herself in sea water would not help and perfumes were few and far between.

After several months of this, her gold ran out and she desperately returned home, only to find that her father had disowned her.  There are few options for a royal mermaid tainted with the scent of human; and without the magic to remove the smell, there were few that would have her.  Madam Glitterbell was one who would.

Blixie was reluctant to provide these exotic services at first, but when combined with her services as a night singer, she continued to say long after she had successfully paid for the Periapt Against Omega 3.

[Script] Revolution Number Eight - Page 6

Scene: The four musicians and the intern sit in the room talking.

Paul
No manual for this I'm afraid.   We're just making it up as we go along.

John
Yup.  Day by day.  It's seriously not good.

Intern Adams
What are you doing?

Ringo
Keepin Mr. Tax Man from gettin us down.

Intern Adams

What?

John

They're going to use the signal to take over the world.  We're not letting them so we're making a signal of our own....but...

George
Band aint what it was.  At all.  So its takin time.