Minna Harper, VULPE Wiz/Alc, Lv. 36

I was in the Great Wonders of Mundus Crashout of '47 and all I got was this foxgirl avatar. Currently stuck in Salzstadt cause I'm #BannedFromVerdholtz Streaming on Twitch and YouTube. (This is an in-character account for a VTuber.)

[minnaharper]

Sunday Stream

I’m doing another King of the Castle stream at 3:00 Pacific / 6:00 Eastern today! Streamers can join my royal court, voting on the important issues in the Queendom, and surely none of you would even contemplate scheming to put your guy on the throne instead of me, right?

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[minnaharper]

Man, those long hours illuminating manuscripts in the scriptorum can be murder. Today Minna Harper on Twitch will be streaming Pentiment at 3:00 PM Pacific!

For those unaware, Pentiment is an end of the middle ages-beginning of the renaissance murder mystery in the style of illuminated manuscripts of the era where Andreas, a journeyman artist, must clear the name of a monk accused of murder in the Bavarian town of Tassing. Deets here!

[minnaharper]

That was fun! I’ll be doing King of the Castle again on Sundays at the same time, and start doing Pentiment on Thursdays also at 3:00 Pacific. Next time I’ll be better prepared, but I didn’t expect things to go smoothly.

(To do: get a schedule graphic, movable arms, my staff, and a soundboard. And lead with Banned from Verdholtz and raid after lol.)

[minnaharper]

Talia B. (@taliadoesrpgs.smallbird.social)

#vtuber Twitch account is www.twitch.tv/minnaharper, and I am going to see about doing some King of the Castle runs 3:00 pacific 5/APR/2026.

My #vtuber Twitch account is

https://www.twitch.tv/minnaharper, and I am going to see about doing some King of the Castle runs 3:00 pacific 5/APR/2026. It’s possible my laptop will complain but we’ll see!

Twitch

[tidalparticle]

The first sacrifice to Echidna which she learned from watching her parents was a deceptively benign one. One would leave out two eggs – one broken, the other unbroken – in an offering bowl after dark, and ask the Mother of Monsters that the fearful things lurking in that darkness would pass up one's family for other prey. Fertilized eggs were preferred if they could be had without raising excessive suspicion. Species did not matter.

The surface reading of this ritual is simple: snakes eat eggs. The reading slightly below the surface is that eggs are fragile and helpless – a better choice of prey than waiting for it to hatch and grow into something that can fight back – and that breaking one of them lets the Serpent Queen verify that she's not being cheated.

The mystery cult symbolic parallel construction underlying all this is that the ritual establishes an expectation of the supplicant's complicity. Even though it would take a rare and odd Namer to consider "breaking the fertilized egg of a beast" to be a sin, one still can't get away with just leaving the eggs out and telling one's self "whatever happens, happens;" one must break the offering by one's own hand. ("You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. If you can't stomach that much, why are you even here?") Once in place, this expectation can be leveraged as a control technique when later initiations inevitably raise the stakes.

When she was young, there came a day when she was given permission to make the offering herself. On that occasion, her parents candled the eggs and selected ones with a well-developed embryo; seeing a tiny bird's freshly bloodied carcass pour into the bowl – where, before, she had only seen white and yolk – she predictably recoiled in shock, and was reprimanded for her irresoluteness by being made to repeat the offering until she didn't flinch at doing it.

Someday, if she hadn't left first, she might've been called on to perform the same ritual with something other than a hen's egg.

[minnaharper]

Well, at least it's not too expensive for Salzstadt. Food's good, beds are clean, I can reserve a table for Stupid Sendjewel Tricks.