Saturday, 10 March 2007

Some notes from the field, on Lord Gryffon

videodrone says:
I think they have something to do with strength

Modesty Blaise says:
more importantly, I would say, *conspicuous* strength
like a mechanical peacock's venomous fan

videodrone says:
Those were invented by Lord Gryffon I recall

Modesty Blaise says:
during his Bile Period

videodrone says:
yes that was it
Lord Gryffon, it has very recently emerged, is the first human to pledge alliegiance to HA
but we all saw it coming of course

Modesty Blaise says:
he was certainly the first to sign the documentation necessary for access to his hypothalamus

videodrone says:
I heard his servants never see him now
they say they receive his orders through long pipes that run through the mansion
and they just hear a strange stilted tinny voice commanding them from afar
that Lord Gryffon eh.

Modesty Blaise says:
he was the last of the 20th Century Giants to emerge, and the first of the 21st Century Giants to submerge

videodrone says:
I think I quite like him
The children in the streets have a new song.
"Lord Gryffon Lord Gryffon,
Lord Gryffon Lord Gryffon
Lord Gryffon..."
like that

Modesty Blaise says:
that pleases him greatly...
as a child he was disgusted to hear the quicksilver wordplay of his contemporaries, whether stickballing or hopscotching, when they made their rhymes
all that has gone now

videodrone says:
At night he cuts out their tongues whilst they sleep. He replaces them with files or boxes of staples determined by sex.

Modesty Blaise says:
and genitals, over time, are rendered more sensitive, so as to distract their developing minds from spiritual matters

videodrone says:
Apparently he has the trees in his grounds painted in pheromones to attract the blossoming your females
and he coats the branches with strong glue, having got the idea from Dahl.
then he wanders around under the boughs gazing upwards at succulent flesh
and throws small metal objects up
the aim being to get them to stick.
Apparently.

Modesty Blaise says:
His mechanical delight is tempered, however, by his frustration. Because his twisted hybrid form is incapable of partaking of the aforementioned succulent flesh, he uses his Portable Workshop to practice Night Doctory.

videodrone says:
He keeps certain parts of his long deceased mother alive
and he is teaching them to talk in that Workshop
You can hear them weeping.

Modesty Blaise says:
and with the still almost fresh disembodied reproductive organs of his deceased father, and the scrapings of his mother's womb, he creates clones of himself via the medium of AMBIONIC FLUID, and he is pleased with his work

videodrone says:
did you know that he has replaced his own head with metal grill?
He wears a crown, and hangs chains off his ears

Modesty Blaise says:
when the starlings in his Sphere/Zone are suspected of turning, they are promptly barbecued as an example to the others

videodrone says:
but it has been noticed that he kills a very specific number of them
such as 444 one day
of 555 another

Modesty Blaise says:
H.A.C. (Human Advance Central) have a highly, psychotically developed quota system

videodrone says:
he styled his new head, by the way, on the wrong side of the one penny piece

Modesty Blaise says:
he likes to be called queen, and insists that his portcullis rump be addressed thus at all times, even when he isn't there.

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