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	.PLAYING GUIDE. Welcome to "SATYR". Here you'll find the PLOT, RULES, a list of available CHARACTERS, and PB/FACE CLAIM.	4	4	on Nov 27, 2007, 5:35pm by EM in character LIST
	.AUDITIONS. (2 sub-boards) Guests can post in this area. When you're sure about what kind of character you want and have read the rules, fill out a form here. Moderator: EM	2	4	on Dec 2, 2007, 11:47pm by EM in Adora Belladona Smith
	.SUGGESTIONS/QUESTIONS. Got a question? Know something that could improve the board? Don't hesitate to ask your admin here.	1	1	on Dec 3, 2007, 4:35pm by adora in Question!
	.ANNOUNCEMENTS. all admin announcements are placed here. please try and keep up with the news.	0	0
	.OOC CHAT. all OOC lurk threads/chat goes here.	0	0
CHARACTER INFORMATION
	.CHARACTER BIOGRAPHIES. once you've been accepted, do tell us about your wonderful character using the form provided (feel free to add to it).	1	1	on Nov 27, 2007, 5:39pm by EM in biography FORM
	.CHARACTER PLOTTING. Friends or allies? Decide here.	0	0
	.LETTERS. (IC) Feel the need to contact someone? Write them a letter.	0	0
.CENTRAL LONDON.
	BRIDEWELL PALACE This "house of correction" is designed to reform drunkards, criminals and vagrants. They are put to work including spinning and cleaning sewers. Prostitutes and vagrants are whipped on arrival, with twelve lashes for adults and six for juveniles. Disobedience or any other offence is punished by further flogging. Whippings are carried out in the courtroom. The palace has become a bit of a tourist attraction for those whose idea of a good day out was watching half-naked women being flogged.	0	0
	WHITEHALL PALACE Home to King Charles II himself. This palaces stretches along the Thames river for almost have a mile. Around it sit several large courtyards and the King's infamous sundial.	0	0
	THE THAMES The river is congested with traffic. There are approximately 3,000 watermen plying for hire along the river between Westminster and London Bridge alone. The watermen operate a kind of taxi service, transporting people by wherry, a type of rowing boat which is wide at the centre and could carry at least eight passengers comfortably.	0	0
	THE LONDON BRIDGE About twenty feet wide, it is lined with houses and shops. The buildings on the bridge are fairly tall - three or four storeys - with sections hanging out over the water. There are about forty buildings altogether, set into four groups of ten houses each, with gaps between each cluster; the gaps are to enable larger vehicles to pass each other on the bridge.	0	0
	THE TOWER The Tower in the 17th century is not merely a tourist attraction; it is the barracks of a military garrison, a prison, the home of the Royal Mint, and the repository of all public records.	0	0
	TYBURN The main 'hanging place' of London. The public are invited to watch the hangings, and drunken mobs often line the streets trying to get a glimpse.	0	0
	WILLS' COFFEE HOUSE The most famous coffee house is Will's, at the northern corner of Russell Street and Bow Street. It is known as a meeting place of wits and poets; while most of the customers were seated in groups at small tables, John Dryden has a special place of honour, next to the fire in winter and on the balcony overlooking the street in summer. Everyone wishes to sit as close to Dryden as possible - to speak to him is considered a privilege.	0	0
	ST. BARTHOLEMEW'S HOSPITAL The site chosen for the Royal Hospital for the sick was West Smithfield, bordered on the west by the Fleet River. Part of it was a horse-pond, the biggest outside London. The availability of water made it London's chief cattle market. It was also the scene of many executions. Over five hundred heretics were burned alive at Smithfield - more than two hundred of them during the brief reign of Mary Tudor.	0	0
	BEDLAM A hospital for the insance, Bedlam is one of London's main tourist attractions. On Sundays, the public are admitted on payment of a penny to watch the antics of the people confined there.	0	0
	THE BEAR GARDEN Every Sunday and Wednesday in London there are bear-baitings... The theatre is circular, with galleries round the top for the spectators, the ground space down below, beneath the clear sky, is unoccupied. In the middle of this place a large bear on a long rope was bound to a stake, then a number of great English mastiffs were brought in and shown first to the bear, which they afterwards baited one after another.	0	0
	THEATRE ROYAL Where all theatrical performances take place. The crowd is rucous and most stand - unless you have the money for a small cushion - the upper-classes sit in the royal boxes and watch from above. Afterwards, Lords have been known to go backstage and take their pick of the actresses.	0	0
	MR. WELLS' ACADEMY The fields between Leicester Square and Soho are the home of an "Academy" where it is promised that you will acquire all the acomplishments taught in the academies of the nobility, such as riding, shooting a pistol, carrying a lance, and running at a ring. Established by a showman named Wells, the Academy features artificial horses in perpetual motion from morning until night and several sorts of musical instruments "befitting the subject".	0	0
	PALL MALL Pall Mall was almost rural. There were haystacks near St. James's square; the north side of the road was completely open. One hundred and fifty elms trees were planted, making the street a shady walk where perwigged fops and fashionable ladies in "flame-coloured taffetas" would disport themselves.	0	0
	TOTTENHAM COURT Tottenham Court is famous for its taverns and tea-houses. It is a favourite place for Sunday and holiday expeditions, with cream cakes and beer as well as hot drinks available.	0	0
	ST. GILES St. Giles is a notorious thieves' rookery where watchmen and constables rarely ventured. It isalso one of the poorest areas of London. Houses in St. Giles are often nothing more than windowless huts with dirt floors. It is not uncommon for several people to share one room, perhaps with an assortment of pigs and chickens as well.	0	0
	THE LONDON WORKHOUSE The London workhouse houses about 40 youths, between the ages of 7 and 16, fetched from the parish of St. Giles. All persons not within those ages are turned away with the explanation that the workhouse is not a nursery, nor is it a hospital.	0	0
.OUTSIDE LONDON.
	SOUTHWARK Southwark has been a recreation centre for Londoners, teeming with gaming houses, bear gardens, brothels, theatres, and taverns. It has a wild and dangerous atmosphere and sudden violence is common.	0	0
	DEPTFORD Deptford is the home of the naval yard. Recruiting is a problem as pay and conditions in the navy are generally bad, so men are abducted and forced onto ships by press-gangs. The food is terrible, usually poor quality salted beef or pork with peas and biscuit, washed down with stale beer or brackish water. The bread is often contaminated with insects. Lice and diseases are common.	0	0
	LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS These fields are a gathering place for various rogues as well as the homeless.Many of these mumpers were "rufflers", impersonators of maimed soldiers, who molested and begged from the people of fashion who drove through the square.	0	0
	HOLBORN The gardens of Holborn grow a wide variety of herbs and flowers: musk, roses, spurge olive, monk's privet, dogsbane, balsam and thorn-apple. Carrots and cabbage grew wild. Situated between the city and open countryside, the area is known for its many coaching inns.	0	0