This file contains the accompanying text for the barack.tif file. The
artwork is by Dominic Green, was scanned 300 DPI monochrome and is in TIFF
format using LZW compression. It may be reproduced anywhere but as a matter
of courtesy please email owen.smith@net-tel.co.uk and say what you intend
doing with the artwork so I can keep Dominic up to date.

Owen Smith (owen.smith@net-tel.co.uk)

The newly constructed barracks of the Pan-Tahsian army in Vamdrey, based on
the ruins of the Tower of Noise, a gull priest funeral temple burnt to a
shell during the Battle of the Caterwauls, and still exhibiting the
distinctive hexagonal floorplan of old Vamdreyan temple building. The temple
was originally used for the dispatch of the elderly and infirm, who would be
chained to the tops of its six towers and be mercilessly pecked to death by
the temple's coterie of genuine terran herring gulls. The "P.P.Q.P" above
the temple entrance is made of hammered and twisted iron missiles from
Vamdreyan naval ballistae. An old Vamdreyan legend had it that, when the
gulls left the Tower of Noise, Vamdrey itself would fall. To this end, the
invading Pan-Tahsian soldiers had orders to shoo the beasts from the
building. Rumours of Pan-Tahsian army troops throwing fantastically winged
Vamdreyan gull priests from the top of Gullcote Tower with the ironic words,
"Fly NOW, you bastards" are unsubstantiated.

Note to Sholari: The "thing" atop Gullcote Tower is identical to other
"things" atop the Prefectory Tower in Meard, and St. Joan's Cathedral in
Simbi. It is a small wooden shelter with drop-down walls, used as a weather
cover for the isho cannon. There is, as you are aware, no isho cannon in
Vamdrey, but Gullcote Tower is highly secret and used for storing guano for
the Colmon-in-Command's durlig garden. HE's not having anyone else know the
secret of the size of his Koistran Green Glories.
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