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]]>Imp lives in a house with pathways to the past… and we never really got a full origin story for The Mandate did we… :-)
]]>AND: That cloned index: PH10FYI==?'For your information, [Iʼm ]quite basic.'
…or '[…]base'.
]]>You mention in a throwaway line that The Mandate's face is now on the money (and presumably coins, stamps, etc).
How does that work, anyway? We're told that he is horrifying to look at, and that his face looks human only for the briefest of times.
So is the picture of him on banknotes etc just what his host looked like before Nyarlathotep took over? Or does his gaze look out in all its terror?
If the second, it would certainly increase the velocity of (physical) money.
]]>So I expect it would be a multi-shot exposure, then "Ohhh... I think we'll go with that one... Stop puking, it's not that bad!".
]]>the others aren't that bad.
]]>"What about the other 8?"
"... the morgue."
]]>In the States, at least, the two descriptions are contradictory, though of course he could have got the neat facial hair trimmed-off…though it is characteristic of (at least) the movie Bond's awfulness at spying that he eschews all disguise short of full yellow-face. (See:a wonderful Venture Brothers flashback to the '60s.)
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I agree it isn't something you'd really expect in character.
]]>1.) So my guess: the 'sliver of [Rupert's] soul' Eve feels in her is literally there, and it's enough for the soul-locks (a term introduced with this book?) for her to take command of the people an instruments slaved to or authenticated by it.
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