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Black Wood

The **Black Wood** is a weapon of last resort used by the Crown Empire to destroy dangerous organisms and render entire continents uninhabitable; lying fallow for later colonization.

It is a deadly variant of Builder's Wood.

The only thing known to resist it is Wolf's clover.

## Trivia

* Brings to mind a weaponized form of dry rot, wood can become weak form spores coming in and causing fungus to grow.

## References

1. ↑ "Black wood, [...] Builder’s wood,” the Treasurer said. “But it’s meant to contain and disrupt something like a self-propagating lifeform. Wall ’em in, and when the builder’s wood reaches maturation, it sends out spores. Existing wood, non-meat food supplies. Turns it into more black wood, provided the raw material is there and there’s any moisture. A lot of builder’s wood structures crumble, I think, integrity gone.”

“We’re surrounded by forest,” I pointed out.

“Yep,” he said. “But it’s going to take time. Pneumonia-like symptoms for everyone in the city that breathes it in, enough to keep them put. Minor complications with diet and eating. Wood grows in at the usual rate, you could give it a few days to a week before it gets as far as the city periphery. Keeps going until a gust of wind can’t carry a spore to the next bit of green. They’ll probably burn a circle to control its progress.”

“And if they don’t?” I asked.

“They will. They have to,” he said.

We’d never really fully discussed the extent the Infante might be willing to go to. The consequences he might put into action to silence a dissenting voice. - Excerpt from Gut Feeling 17.18
2. ↑ Epilogue 2
3. ↑ Epilogue 3
Cat out of the Bag 2.1

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**Cat out of the Bag 2.1** is the first chapter of Cat out of the Bag. Lambs get a new mission.

## Characters

### The Lambsbridge Orphans

* Rick
* Gordon
* Lillian (visiting)
* Helen
* Jamie
* Fran
* Sylvester
* Mary
* innumerable unnamed younger kids

### Academy

* Professor Hayle
* Dog and Catcher
* Gorger
Black Sheep

**Black Sheep** is the thirteenth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Dyed in the Wool and followed by Thicker than Water.

## Chapters

* Black Sheep 13.1 (Abby)
* Black Sheep 13.2 (Lillian)
* Black Sheep 13.3 (Emmett)
* Black Sheep 13.4 (Helen)
* Black Sheep 13.5 (Ashton)
* Black Sheep 13.6 (Nora)
* Black Sheep 13.7 (Lacey)
* Black Sheep 13.8 (Lara)
* Black Sheep 13.9 (Duncan)
* Black Sheep 13.10 (Mary)
* Black Sheep 13.11
Head over Heels

**Head over Heels** is the sixteenth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Bitter Pill and followed by Gut Feeling.

## Summary

Coming soonish, please feel free to fill it out yourself.

## Chapters

* Head over Heels 16.1
* Head over Heels 16.2
* Head over Heels 16.3
* Head over Heels 16.4
* Head over Heels 16.5
* Head over Heels 16.6
* Head over Heels 16.7
* Head over Heels 16.8
* Head over Heels 16.9
* Head over Heels 16.10
* Head over Heels 16.11
* Head over Heels 16.12
* Head over Heels 16.13
* Interlude 16.x (Lambs; Ashton)
Beattle Academy

A lesser Academy in Laureas. Not the most prestigious one.

## Points of Interest

### The Academy

An undistinguished academy focused on turning out product. Its buildings are scattered unobtrusively through Laureas, only excluding other random buildings in the center.

## History

Came under Fray's focus during Bitter Pill.

## References

1. ↑ Beattle was a poor school, an Academy that accepted the bottom-rung students. It hadn’t been a place for innovation, and the course work of students had been, in part, an effort to pay the school’s dues. Drugs had been one thing, and the Rank had gone to some effort to learn that lesson and take it elsewhere. Stitched had been another thing, a mass-produced export. Munitions like the one I was using were yet another.

I hadn’t had to ask too many people or go to any great effort to figure out what we needed to produce gas canisters and then get teams in place to make it a reality. The canister launcher required a few more questions and a bit more searching before I found students ready and able to make one. - Excerpt from Head over Heels 16.3
2. ↑ Beattle Academy didn’t convey the sense of an *institution*.  It clung to the city as a man might cling to a crumbling cliffside.  In many places, the buildings weren’t identifiable as Academy buildings right off.  It took a glance through windows or a glimpse of a plaque or lettering on the front face of the building, or attention to the students coming and going.

There was a ‘heart’ to Beattle, a core of the city center where nearly every building was Academy.  As one got further away from the heart, the hold on the city slipped, and the Academy dormitories, classrooms, stables and labs were more spaced apart, interrupted by businesses restaurants and apartments.

Excerpt from Bitter Pill 15.6
Epilogue 4

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**Epilogue 4** is the fourth chapter of Forest for the Trees.

## Major Events

* Lambsbridge Lords welcome the King
* The King sees nothing objectionable in their conduct

## Trivia

* Despite Robust speculation it is not confirmed that High King Adam has any relation to the Fictional Mr. Frankenstein's creations.

## Characters

Lambsbridge Lords* Lord Simon
	+ Doctor Foster
	+ Doctor Garey
* Lady Jessica
* Lady Margaret
* Lady Helena
* Lord Asher

High King Adam & Retinue* Floating Fortress
Gym Leader Alfred

**Alfred** is the first gym leader of the Twitch region. After you beat his team, he will trade you his Kippa for your Kappa. His signature pokemon is Kippa. His signature move is Pursuit.

## Badge/TM

Badge: Shine Badge
TM: Pursuit

## Rematch Team

To unlock the rematch battle:

* Complete the game
* Take his trading offer (If you beat the game before you trade, you have to wait a day)
* You will find him in Amber Tower, floor 3, use a Dawn Stone to unlock the room he is in. He will not appear here until you: a. finish the game, or b. trade with him.

 TBA
 TBA
 TBA

## Sprites

Alfred's versus shot.

Alfred in the overworld.
Cut To The Quick 11.13

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**Cut To The Quick 11.13** is the thirteenth chapter of Cut To The Quick.

## Characters

* Jamie

Bounty Hunters* Dog & Catcher
	+ Augmented Ghost
	+ Flamethrower Bruno
* Sanguine ("felt")
	+ Arachne
	+ Tentacles
	+ Traitor arablast Bruno of Catcher's

## Trivia

* Apparently Sylvester had something to do with Mrs. Earles and an icebox.
* Flamethrowers are apparently a thing, greek fire possibly over jellied gasoline.
Enfranchisement

The world of Twig is a world of created life. With the constraint of some traditions lifted, with others imposed, the world of Twig has different standards and morals regarding the worth of a person versus the 1920s seen in the Real World.

## Examples

### Women

Women are seen in uniform, female nobles are seen with equivalent standing to male Nobles.

### Minorities

The Crown system is descended from European aristocracy and as such is primarily white. In the Crown states. 'Orientals' and 'blacks are seen, but are considered rare, especially in positions of power.

### Clones

Clones and other human creatures not of women bornehave limited rights.

## Trivia

* Enfranchisement can mean the giving of a right or a privilege.

## References

1. ↑ “Not knowing what you are, I’m not sure I’m willing to risk it. For all I know, you’re a human they grew in a jar.”

“I’m real. Woman-born,” I said. “An adjustment made after the fact, so my head works in a slightly different way. A shot to the heart will kill me. But maybe one to the heart, watch me die, then finish me off with one to the head? As one experiment to another, it would be very much appreciated.” - Excerpt from Taking Root 1.7
2. ↑ “My lord?” she said, and she stopped. For a long instant, I thought she would stumble. Then I saw a light in her eyes. “The welfare of clones, my lord?”

“That is one I have never heard of before,” he said. He smiled, his voice still warm as he instructed her, “Tell me of it.”

“My friend commented on it once, and it stuck with me,” she said. She still looked bewildered, but talking on this topic seemed to center her. “Clones are grown and raised to perform menial work. Stitching carpets and clothing in factories where they sit in row and column with others like them. The law doesn’t protect them, but says that they are not actually human, because they are not of woman born.”

“The law, in this instance, favors the corporations, which fund the city, which funds the law, you see,” the noble said. “That sounds like a wonderful pursuit. If you paint it as something that troubles children or child-like things, you could romanticize it. In fact, I would see little trouble in giving you my backing for this task. You could achieve real change, a footnote in history, but, even so, that isn’t to be understated.” - Excerpt from Thicker than Water 14.4
3. ↑ That same light made the cases on their backs and shoulders seem to glow, and the jaundiced color of their skin became especially apparent, a sallow yellow marked with dull grey tattoos.

Prison tattoos. Convicts. They weren’t stitched. They were *people*. The Academy needed its fodder for human experimentation, and prisoners of war, the worst criminals, and ex-slaves deemed unfit to be citizens of the crown were all candidates for such. - Excerpt from Lips Sealed 3.2
Abby

An experiment from Sous Reine

Great with people and animals

Has a pet lamb named Quinton.

## References

1. ↑ “I want to grow up,” Abby said.  “I want to get all the way to as old as I can be before I expire.  I want to stay out of danger so I can live as long as I can, and I want to live a peaceful life with animals all around me.  I’d like it if some of you were there with me.  I was thinking maybe it could be a place for warbeasts to go when they’re done fighting, but a farm would do too.  A place like Sous Reine.” - Excerpt from

	* Interlude 16.x
Cat out of the Bag 2.7

**Cat out of the Bag 2.7** is the seventh chapter of Cat out of the Bag. Interview with the shepherd goes badly, though Sy comes away very impressed.

## Plot

> "*I'm guessing there's more that I don't know about?*"
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Cecil sucks at gentle interrogation. The others are better, but the Shepherd doesn't drink the tea Mary spiked with Lillian's headache powder. Instead he talks about the American war, that the Crown won, that his father fought in; he talks very little of the war he fought in. Sy is very impressed by his abilities.

## Trivia

* The first time that American war is mentioned.
* Telephones are also mentioned, by 1921 transatlantic cables were commonplace in out world.
	+ It is unknown if the industry of the crown empire would be dedicated to such an achievement.
* One of the first twig chapters to have part of it adapted into a comic.
Crown of Thorns

**Crown of Thorns** is the twentieth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Root and Branch and followed by Forest for the Trees.

## Chapters

* Crown of Thorns 20.1
* Crown of Thorns 20.2
* Crown of Thorns 20.3
* Crown of Thorns 20.4
* Interlude 20.x
* Crown of Thorns 20.5
* Crown of Thorns 20.6
* Crown of Thorns 20.7
* Crown of Thorns 20.8
* Crown of Thorns 20.9
* Crown of Thorns 20.10
* Crown of Thorns 20.11
* Crown of Thorns 20.12
* Crown of Thorns 20.13
* Crown of Thorns 20.14
* Crown of Thorns 20.15
* Crown of Thorns 20.16
* Crown of Thorns 20.17
* Crown of Thorns 20.18
* Crown of Thorns 20.19
* Crown of Thorns 20.20
Interlude 9.x

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**Interlude 9.x** is the nineteenth chapter of Counting Sheep and the first interlude.

This chapter is from the perspective of a Primordial.

## Major Events

* God dies and releases a plague as vengeance.

## Characters

* The red-haired tormentor
	+ sound directed attackers
Dog Eat Dog

**Dog Eat Dog** is the eighteenth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Gut Feeling and followed by Root and Branch.

## Chapters

* Dog Eat Dog 18.1
* Dog Eat Dog 18.2
* Dog Eat Dog 18.3
* Dog Eat Dog 18.4
* Dog Eat Dog 18.5
* Dog Eat Dog 18.6
* Dog Eat Dog 18.7
* Interlude 18.a (Enemy I; The Infante)
* Dog Eat Dog 18.8
* Interlude 18.b (Lamb I; Mary)
* Dog Eat Dog 18.9
* Interlude 18.c (Enemy II; Mauer)
* Interlude 18.d (Lamb II; Lillian)
* Dog Eat Dog 18.10
* Interlude 18.e (Lamb III; Jessie)
* Interlude 18.f
* Interlude 18.g
* Interlude 18.h
Hubris

A working bred, patchwork dog, created for and similar to, Gordan.

## Appearance

Hubris, like his master, is a mishmash of other breeds to create something great.

## Project Goal

Stop-gap measure to prolong Project Griffin. Gordan realized that Dog was able to detect issues Gordan has with his own heart before he could, which lead to Hubris being created to detect theses same irregularities.

Hubris is intelligent enough to understand and execute commands such as "Touch my right shoe, then Gordon’s left knee, then sniff the door, and bring me the umbrella."

## References

1. ↑ Hubris was in the train car with us, draped over the seat next to Gordon, head in Gordon’s lap. The animal was a fighting breed, square-headed, eyes obscured by bushy brows. Even with the coarse, rust-colored fur that covered him, Hubris’ raw strength was apparent at a glance. - Tooth and Nail 7.1
2. ↑ "“Touch my right shoe, then Gordon’s left knee, then sniff the door, and bring me the umbrella,” Mary said.

Bemused, I watched as the dog went through the motions.  Nose touched to Mary’s shoe, then Gordon’s knee, before it hopped down from the wall, rounded the table to touch nose to the door, pausing.  It eased an umbrella out of the rack by the door and carried it over to Mary, being careful not to strike me in the back of the knees with the pointed end." -Excerpt from Tooth and Nail 7.10
Black Sheep 13.1

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**Black Sheep 13.1** is the first chapter of Black Sheep. A barnyard girl gets barnyard companions. Her human adjacent companions disapprove.

This chapter is from Abby's perspective.

## Characters

* Ashton
* Lara (name revealed)
* Emmett
* Abby
	+ Quinton

Civilians* Ignorant townspeople

Mention* Renegade Lambs
	+ Sylvester
	+ Rabbit-man
* Lambs Classic (Over link)
	+ Lillian
	+ Mary
	+ Helen
Cut To The Quick

**Cut To The Quick** is the eleventh arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by In Sheep’s Clothing and followed by Dyed in the Wool.

## Summary

Vacation comes to an end.

Sylvester meets some old friends and gets involved in what some people might call a carnival of killers.

Plague outbreak.

## Chapters

* Cut To The Quick 11.1
* Cut To The Quick 11.2
* Cut To The Quick 11.3
* Cut To The Quick 11.4
* Cut To The Quick 11.5
* Cut To The Quick 11.6
* Cut To The Quick 11.7
* Cut To The Quick 11.8
* Cut To The Quick 11.9
* Cut To The Quick 11.10
* Cut To The Quick 11.11
* Cut To The Quick 11.12
* Cut To The Quick 11.13
* Cut To The Quick 11.14
* Cut To The Quick 11.15
* Interlude 11.x (Lamb; Duncan)
Jessie Ewesmont

Sylvester's partner in crime, girlfriend, foil.

## Personality

Serious, stern, and not willing to put up with Sylvester crap.

Has an excellent memory and can extrapolate well.

## Project Goal

Can imagine things easier but can not unload and reorganize memories. Bad at timing.

## History

The second incarnation of the Caterpillar Project, previously named 'Jamie', she comes out to Sylvester in Arc 15 as not feeling any connection to being a boy, and decides to start presenting as a girl.

She helps Sylvester build his rebellion.
Dog

Ships people and is a glutton.

#### Gordon

One of the few that can communicate with him. The others being Catcher and the two scientists who maintain him.

## Appearance

Picture a man in the shape of a canine, and about the size of a very large horse. Add metal joints and braces here and there where the flesh didn't grow in well. Then you essentially have Dog.

## Project Goal

Part of a hunting and retrieval duo.

Has good smell hearing and other senses.

### Expiration Date

Subject requires constant maintenance it will degrade and eventually decease in as little as or five years.

## References

1. ↑  Gordon [...] had always had an affinity for other experiments. There were maybe four people who could communicate with Dog, despite Dog’s general inability to vocalize; Catcher was one, two scientists who maintained and looked after Dog were another couple, and Gordon was a fourth. - Excerpt from Stitch in Time 4.10
2. ↑ Cut To The Quick 11.4
Esprit de Corpse 5.1

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**Esprit de Corpse 5.1** is the first chapter of Stitch in Time.

## Major Events

* Lillian kisses Sy, ostensibly to help her cover.

## Trivia

* Introduction of the Exorcists Rifles.
* Talk of a previous project screaming Mimis.
* Non-white person appears.

## Characters

* Lillian
* Mary
* Shipman
* Jamie
* Gordon (mention)
* Helen (mention)

The Rebellion* General Ames
* The Plague Men
* Stiched
* new commander

Civilians* Mayor
* Chinese guy

Mention* Academy provided wooden doors
Bitter Pill 15.14

**Bitter Pill 15.14** is the fourteenth chapter of Bitter Pill.

## Plot

Sy talks to Genevieve Fray on the streets of Laureas. She tries to set terms for the conversation, and he responds with questions. She promises she doesn't mean him harm, now, and questions what the Lambs will do when they inevitably arrive, whether Sy will try to trap her for them. He agrees not to.

Fray warms her hands and learns Jessie's name. She disclaims responsibility for the red plague. Sy believes her. They discuss who might have designed it—maybe the Crown, seeking to punish rebels after the fact, or a single actor wanting to impose peace, who might have fled the country. Telling people that the plague germinates after blood and gunpowder would chill any violent rebellion, but Sy says he could tell the Beattle students that and just not kill many people.

He asks why Fray wanted the students, and she says it was to form an underground academy that could train doctors beyond the Crown's control. Then he questions what she and Mauer were looking for, since she claimed to already know the Nobles' secret. She says learned it on her way to being a professor, that it's been discovered by rebellions before, and that the Crown has laid waste to *continents* to avoid losing.

Sy feels confused, about what she's doing and who she is. He doesn't want to drink tea with her and Jessie. She offers to advise them on how to hurt the Crown, and he says he'll think about it. He takes out a cigarette, she remarks that he's grown older, that there are healthier habits, and then she stumbles into admitting that she won't die of Wyvern nearly as soon as Sy will.

He's furious. He's known since he was seven or nine that he'd lose his mind before he was twenty-two, he worked out the Academy treated him like you would a dog, and if she can stand there a call herself a doctor five to seven—no, given advancing science, more like eight to eleven years—then there isn't anyone, actually, who's like him. And how dare she tell him what to do, even if she calls it advice.

Fray... falters. Sylvester demands that she surrenders to the Lambs. That if she gives in, he won't spread the secrets she thinks will kill them all.

## Characters

* Genevieve Fray
	+ Dolores

Discussed* Beattle
* Jessie
Dyed in the Wool 12.1

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**Dyed in the Wool 12.1** is the first chapter of Dyed in the Wool. An exploration of the Crown legal system.

## Characters

* Jamie II ("non-existant")

Prisoners* The Runner
* The Bloated Man
* The Businessman

Marais Cavelier* Scale
* Magda
* Agnes

## Major Events

* Sy is arrested
* Lost Lambs stage a Jailbreak
Communication technology

**Communication technology** is important for any society.

## Wireless

Radio Wave communication is an essential early communication technology. In the world of Twig, with it's focus on biotechnology to the exclusion of all else, the very fact it is created is available speaks to the world's advancement.

### functionality

How it works, also link science journals and similar. Like Radio and the related technology of the Telautograph.

## Real World History

### Early Days

Tesla put major theory of it into practice, marconi stole the credit.

### Comparable

state of technology of Radio in the 20s. Short wave and similar.
Hag Nerve

The superweapon of Radham Academy

## Appearance

It looks like water, but able to move somewhat. 99% composed of water, with the remaining 1% being filaments like spider web, and the translucent organs that make the webs. The filaments allow it to take shape and move, acting as though sentient spider web was added to water until there was enough to take form. It is gigantic and can expand at will.

## Abilities

The **Hag Nerve** is equipped with a minor acid that acts like its giving you an Indian Burn with something caustic on its hands.

## Project Goal

The intended goal of the project is to protect Radham Academy should it come under attack.

## References

1. ↑ “Hag Nerve,” Duncan said.

“I don’t know that one,” Lillian said.

“Superweapon,” Duncan said. “Mucin glands, they spin out collagen-axon chains-”

“The nerve in the hag nerve,” Lillian said.

“-And filament chains. To form skeins that catch the water.”

“It’s actually made of water?” I asked.

“Ninety nine percent,” Duncan said. “Water, filaments like spider web, and the translucent organs that make the webs. It’s a blob of the slime you’d get if you dumped enough spider web into the water to keep it all collected into one mass.” - Excerpt from Crown of Thorns 20.16
2. ↑ She moved her leg around, raising one of her pants legs to expose her calf. Red.
“Plague?” I asked. I was aware of the change in expressions.
She shook her head. “Acid. It’s mild. Diluted, but the Hag Nerve grips you. Like an indian burn with something caustic on your hands.” Excerpt from Crown of Thorns 20.16
Bleeding Edge

**Bleeding Edge** is the eighth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Tooth and Nail and followed by Counting Sheep.

## Summary

Some of the lambs search for an aristocrats missing daughter in order to get some backers for Lillian. Things don't go well.

They find themselves in Lugh and are caught up in a rebel effort to create Primordials for the Civil war.

Turns out their old pal Mauer is behind it. The Duke and some other Nobles are coming along to 'fix' the situation.

## Chapters

* Bleeding Edge 8.1
* Bleeding Edge 8.2
* Bleeding Edge 8.3
* Bleeding Edge 8.4
* Bleeding Edge 8.5
* Bleeding Edge 8.6
* Bleeding Edge 8.7
* Bleeding Edge 8.8
* Bleeding Edge 8.9
* Bleeding Edge 8.10
* Bleeding Edge 8.11
* Bleeding Edge 8.12
* Bleeding Edge 8.13
* Bleeding Edge 8.14
* Bleeding Edge 8.15
* Bleeding Edge 8.16
* Interlude 8.x (Enemy; The Duke)
Black Sheep 13.3

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**Black Sheep 13.3** is the third chapter of Black Sheep. The boy with the academy body talks with the boy with the academy brain about their past.

This chapter is from Emmett's perspective.

## Characters

* Ashton
* Lara
* Emmett
* Abby
	+ Quinton

Renegade Lambs* Sylvester
* Rabbit-man

Civilians* Women

Mention* Lambs Classic (Over link)
	+ Lillian
	+ Mary
	+ Nora
Dyed in the Wool

**Dyed in the Wool** is the twelfth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Cut To The Quick and followed by Black Sheep.

## Chapters

* Dyed in the Wool 12.1
* Dyed in the Wool 12.2
* Dyed in the Wool 12.3
* Dyed in the Wool 12.4
* Dyed in the Wool 12.5
* Dyed in the Wool 12.6
* Dyed in the Wool 12.7
* Dyed in the Wool 12.8
* Dyed in the Wool 12.9
* Dyed in the Wool 12.10
* Dyed in the Wool 12.11
* Dyed in the Wool 12.12
Evette

Evette is a possibility that was not sifficently potentiated.

## Project Goal

She was meant to hold academy knowledge this role was filled by Lillian and later Duncan.

## References

1. ↑ Seeing this Lillian at work, I was struck by a thought. Evette. She’d never had a first incarnation, nor a second. The idea had been floated, but it had been Ashton we got in the end.

The idea had been to have Evette as the group’s problem solver. A floating element, not for combat, but for the background. To equip us against threats, and to devise very specific solutions. Of all of the Lambs, she would have had access to Academy knowledge. The rest of us would have been forbidden.

I didn’t know what Evette would have looked like in the end, or what her personality would have been, but I imagined she would have existed with the Academy maintaining a tighter, firmer hold on her. Having her with us would likely have meant an adult chaperone at all times, to rein her in and watch over her.

In darker moments, and today was a darker moment, I allowed myself to muse on the fact that her project had been *allowed* to fail. That they had decided it was too much trouble, that the Lambs *couldn’t* have access to that knowledge. Easier to give us a conventional medic and not worry about losing control. Two now, if I counted Duncan. - Excerpt from Counting Sheep 9.7
2. ↑ *I’d snooped. I’d met Ashton and Evette, in a way. I’d seen the aftermath, the labs where their remains were interred. Evette dead before she even awoke,* - Excerpt from Esprit de Corpse 5.5
Cat out of the Bag 2.3

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**Cat out of the Bag 2.3** is the third chapter of Cat out of the Bag.

## Trivia

* First major appearance of Lamb Sign Language.

## Characters

Lambsbridge Gang* Gordon
* Helen
* Jamie
* Sylvester
* Lillian
* Mary

Academy* Hayle (mentioned)
* Walter Gund (student)
* Dog and Catcher
* Gorger (mentioned)
Edward Willard

a young student of Mothmont

friends with Gordon

tries to beat up Sylvester, has a reputation as a bully.

About 12 years old.

## References

1. ↑ The boy was dark haired, with dark brown eyes, but very much of the same type as Gordon. Big, healthy in stature and build without showing a hint of being fat, handsome, and confident enough that he was probably one of the top dogs. Between me and Gordon in size, a couple inches taller than me, an inch shorter than Gordon. Twelve or so? - Taking Root 1.4
Franco Figueroa Alcorta

Género
 Pelo
 Ojos
 Rango
 Nacimiento
 Signo zodiacal
 Zodiaco chino
 Ocupación
 Educación
 Lugar de nacimiento
 Hermanos
 Abuelos
 Otros
* Octavia Montgomery (sobrina)
* Sofía Montgomery (sobrina)
* Agustina Montgomery (sobrina)
* Alma Montgomery (tía abuela)
* Ricardo Catalán (tío abuelo político)
* Juan Francisco Catalán (primo)
* Juan Ignacio Catalán (primo)
* Eric Iraola (primo político)

**Gastón Figueroa Alcorta** (nacido 18 de septiembre de 2013) es un estudiante de jardín maternal del Colegio Esclavas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. Es el primer y único hijo de Nicole Montgomery y Jacob Figueroa Alcorta. Es medio-hermano de Ángela Figueroa Alcorta. Fue gestado a través de fecundación in vitro.

## Trivia

* Su madrina es Camila Contreras.
* Samuel Benítez cuida de él muy seguido.
Wyvern

You may be looking for Project Wyvern where the stated purpose was seeing how much the subject could endure before destruction.

Fun stuff

The injection process is extremely painful, usually ameliorated with pain relief drugs but these become ineffective in high enough concentrations of Wyvern.

## References

1. ↑ To be clear, long term use isn't that bad. Long term, heavy use is.

Sy is taking several times the maximum dose from ages 8-18.

**[Edit]** To be more clear, remember that Wyvern primarily grants plasticity/'liquidity'. The ability to learn languages or adapt your brain to a task as if you were a child again. Students would take it to essentially refresh the brain, discard the 'little things' and the walls that stand between them and their ideas, focus, or ability to take in new information. In high doses it allows retraining of the brain to emphasize certain qualities at the cost of others, as if you spent your entire life to that point dedicated to, for example, analysis of people and faces, or taking in environmental cues, or math, or hand-eye coordination.

Side effects include trauma (from the pain), memory loss, and the chance that an unprepared mind may inadvertently 'train' in new habits or tendencies, obsessions or compulsions. Regular users at the academy might develop tics as a consequence, if not going off the deep end, but this is more easily dealt with if the brain is introduced to Wyvern while still plastic, such that dealing with Wyvern becomes the brain's primary focus. - WildBow on Reddit
2. ↑ To be clear, long term use isn't that bad.
farfel08: I think people are underestimating the fact that it is super painful.

Wildbow:This is very much a factor. PTSD-inducing pain.

mannieCx:Even at tiny doses? Or just Sy doses?

Wildbow: Even in regular doses. - WildBow on Reddit
3. ↑ “Wyvern,” Lacey said. “Modified, and in high P-concentration, for Sylvester’s project.”

“Ah. I’ve used that regularly enough, often with other drugs to dull the pain after injection,” the man said. “Should I have my people look for any stolen pain medications? I’d imagine he’d have some dependencies.”

“None,” Lillian said. “The P-concentration is too high. He took doses high enough that nothing would put a dent in it, from the beginning to the present.” - Excerpt from Black Sheep 13.2
Jamie

**Jamie** was created by Mr. Hayle as part of Project Caterpillar.

## Psychology

Kind, very aware of the situation he is in. Can lie with the best of them.

## Appearance

Jamie typically wears his long dirty-blonde hair in a ponytail, his face is usually hidden behind glasses atired ill-fitting clothes and in perpetual company with a large book. The cloths serve to hid the scars from his appointments.

This appearance was somewhat cultivated through the other Lambs influence, if exaggerated it can truly sell the "orphan" look. Was very scarred from his appointments.

## Project Goal

Project caterpillar is based around the ideal of perfect recall. This project is accomplished by creating a symbiotic organism that lets the subject organise their memories.

Of unknown relation is his slow response time, which includes physical as well as mental. He is able to hit a stride mentally and reach into his memory.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Even on the best of days, Jamie was something of an odd bird. The glasses, the book he carted around with him, and the longer, dirty-blond hair, currently tied back into a sailor’s ponytail, they added up to a strange picture. He had a way of looking uncomfortable in any clothes he wore, as if they were someone else’s and he was just borrowing them. He tended to be quieter than the others, with Helen excepted in most situations. He was probably the worst of us when it came to a fight, myself excepted, and the slowest of us to react when it came to a non-fight crisis.

With all those things put together, he should have and could have been a shadow of a person, the low man on the totem pole, the gawky, awkward one, the bookworm. But he walked and spoke with confidence. His book was inside a waterproof backpack, slung over one shoulder, and he spoke without looking at me, eyes roving over the surroundings.

I’d spent five hours in this town for every hour Jamie had, but he was the one who knew his way around. He led the way to the theater, and we took the main roads. - Excerpt from Esprit de Corpse 5.2
2. ↑ “But-” Jamie said, and I had to suppress a smile at hearing his tone. The tone and the wide eyed look he gave her through his thick glasses was wounded, concerned, and bewildered. “Ma’am. We’re orphans. We don’t have a home.”

It wasn’t quite how I would have timed or phrased it, but it wasn’t quite an option for me. I felt like if I tried to go the pitiful orphan route, someone like this woman would look me over, see the scruffy hair, see the eyes, the thin mouth, and think, ‘yes, that’s an orphan.’

But Jamie was another thing altogether. His long hair was tied back in a sailor’s ponytail, he wore glasses, and his clothes didn’t quite fit him. He was just a step away from being an ordinary child, so fixable, and the effect came across well. Perfect for when we wanted to put people on the defensive.

I’d worked with him on that one, with Helen’s help. - Excerpt from Cat out of the Bag 2.4
- Excerpt from Lips Sealed 3.7
Louis Peralta

A member of the Rebels faction in Radham.
Son of a soldier, his father's service presumably providing him with opportunity.

Made a craystalized poison.

## References

1. ↑ Louis was a soldier’s son, the man had moved on to active military service, lying about his age to get in sooner. - Excerpt from Interlude 4.x
“It’s poisoned,” I said, my voice still tight. “Or it’s crystallized poison or it’s *something*. Ow.”
 - Excerpt from Esprit de Corpse 5.13
Nora

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Nora is a twin who talks with her sister all the time.

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## Appearance

Nora's appearance combines aspects of a human girl and and insect. Features include segmented body sections, white hair and having multiple pupils in her eyes. Preportedly she is less developed then her sis ter Lara, lacking the same number of foot claws.

## Project Goal

A failed project trying to make more coordinated war beasts through ultrasonics. It was subsumed into the lamb project

## History

Had sisters in the vats these were done away with.

Appreciated Sylvester

Had a growth spurt.

## References

1. ↑ Off to the side, Helen was helping Nora disrobe. Under the hood, Nora’s hair was white. Her eyes were dark and red rimmed. Prone to infections and irritation. It was much in the same way that her hair and filaments came out in clumps and her fingernails and claws could come off in a bloody mess if exposed to direct sunlight. She was a sensitive creature, in many ways.

A sensitive creature who festooned with natural weapons, Lillian noted. She had only had a few opportunities to examine Nora and Lara in person, and that had been on a table, with doctors pointing things out. Too up close a view. Standing aside, observing, she could see the way that the shoulders, ribs, elbows, the spine, and the girl’s fingers were all segmented.

The ribs, like everything, had pronounced joints at set intervals, joints that strained against skin like a fist clenched to the point that the knuckles had gone white. Where joints would normally already be, they were exaggerated. At the end of most fingers were scythe-like claws, roughly six inches long, normally hidden by the loose fabric of sleeves. Other fingers were actual fingers, and some were a melted-together blend of both blade and digit. Pure chance, what she had ended up with. Lillian knew from the short tutorial with Nora’s creators that there were more blades at the spine and joints of the shoulder and elbow, but they were buried within the joints.

They were meager natural weapons *now*, but Nora was expected to grow.

Helen showed no concern for the blades, both the retracted ones and the existing ones, as she helped Nora into the other end of the bath. - Excerpt from Black Sheep 13.2
2. ↑ -*Do not. Smelly Nora. Telling lies. You only have three claws on your two feet. Inferior sister!*- - Excerpt from Black Sheep 13.6
3. ↑ As Ashton approached with Lara and Nora, the two twins now asymmetrical,
[...]
One of the two had had a growth spurt, and was a foot taller than her sister. The shroud of clothing that covered her now covered her lower face, her overlong neck, and the two long forelimbs that now stretched from shoulder to toe. The dangling claws scuffed the ground and the edge of stairs as she walked down the path to where we were in the garden.
[...]
“Where do we sit?” the smaller of the twins asked.

“Find a compost heap and sit in it,” the larger twin said. “Then you might grow some, and you’ll smell better.”

The smaller twin gasped.

“Be nice, Nora,” Lillian said. - Excerpt from Root and Branch 19.1
In Sheep’s Clothing

**In Sheep’s Clothing** is the tenth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Counting Sheep and followed by Cut To The Quick.

## Summary

Sylvester does a badder than usual thing.

He and Mary kill the Baron Richmond and his one surviving sister, then Sy stabs Mary and defects.

## Chapters

* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.1
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.2
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.3
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.4
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.5
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.6
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.7
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.8
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.9
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.10
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.11
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.12
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.13
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.14
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.15
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.16
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.17
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.18
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.19
* In Sheep’s Clothing 10.20
* Interlude 10.x (Lamb; Helen)
Black Sheep 13.2

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**Black Sheep 13.2** is the second chapter of Black Sheep.

This chapter is from Lillian's perspective.

## Characters

* Mary
* Helen
* Nora (name revealed)
* Lacey

Renegade Lambs* Sylvester
* Rabbit-man

Academy personnel and affiliates* Headmaster Johannes Mistry
* Academy officer

Mention* Neo-Lambs (Over link)
	+ Duncan
	+ Ashton
	+ Lara
	+ Emmett
	+ Abby
		- Quinton
* Combat Drugs
* The Barren (Spears off-shoot)
* The Devil’s Men
* The Bergewall Neddies
* The Skippers
* The Apostle
Whiskers

This creature was created to explore the five senses. Resulting in a beast that was near impossible to surprise or sneak up on. It is covered in abrasive scale-like growths. It had no mouth and so fed by rubbing it's body against people, stripping their flesh off, and absorbing the nutrients through it's skin.

## Project Goal

Walter made Whiskers to be quick, and it be controlled through a high pitched whistle, similar to dogs. The reason stated for creating it was to explore the five senses.

For successor project see Ghosts. They're internal structures bear some resemblance to whiskers and they make heavy use of enhanced senses.
Twig Wiki

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Twig

**Twig** is a biopunk web serial, the third one published by John C. McCrae (AKA Wildbow), and can be found at twigserial.wordpress.com.

The story follows a group of children with extraordinary abilities from the Lambsbridge Orphanage, as they make their way in a world, where the dead walk again, immortality is within reach and bio-engineered monsters roam the streets.

## History

It won a Stabby award for Best Serialized Fiction in 2017.

## Timeline

*Main article: Timeline*
See more at the events category page or on the link above.

## See Also

* Twig (TvTropes)
* Other Web Serials by Wildbow

## References

1. ↑ Announcing the 2017 Best of r/Fantasy Stabby Award Winners! Best of r/Fantasy - Stabby Awards 2017
Ravage

A deadly plague of red flowers made by God to punish mankind.

Unlike much academy derived science burning it actively spreads it.

## Reminiscence

The flowering stage, also likely the one where it is a parasitical growth on a host.

Reacts to attempts to remove it, feeding on blood and reacting to adrenaline.

## Trivia

* Has many names, this is the one decided upon, may change.
* While not officially a superweapon it is just as deadly and was originally thought to be a product of the academies science.

## References

1. ↑ Working small, working subtly, as it had learned to do from the beginning, it copied the plants and it produced seeds. Too small to host life, to be spawn, the seeds would nonetheless grow.

The creature knew what came next. It had learned that in the beginning too. Pieces were cut away, and then given to fire.

But maybe with enough seeds, some would survive the fire. Those seeds would plant themselves in human flesh, they would cause pain, agony, hurt, and they would be a bitter, stubborn thing, more tenacious than any weed, more efficient than any plant. Undying hatred given form.

Others would settle into the human flesh that couldn’t rub or scour them free. They would flower, and they would scatter more seeds to the wind and the water.

Red, the creature decided, to match the hair of the man it hated most. - Excerpt from Interlude 9.x
2. ↑ “The attack on the train station and the rebellion’s earlier attempt at seizing it saw casualties. Some were afflicted with ravage. They stacked the bodies, afflicted and not, within the grocery store. As efficient as our masks are, they have their limitations. Burning the ravage spreads it. Smoke carries it. If we remain too long, the masks will fail. Our enemy knows this.” - Excerpt from Head over Heels 16.9
3. ↑ Cut To The Quick 11.10
Thicker than Water 14.7

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**Thicker than Water 14.7** is the seventh chapter of Thicker than Water.
Bitter Pill

**Bitter Pill** is the fifteenth arc of *Twig*. It is preceded by Thicker than Water and followed by Head over Heels.

## Summary

Coming soonish, please feel free to fill it out yourself.

## Chapters

* Bitter Pill 15.1
* Bitter Pill 15.2
* Bitter Pill 15.3
* Bitter Pill 15.4
* Bitter Pill 15.5
* Bitter Pill 15.6
* Bitter Pill 15.7
* Bitter Pill 15.8
* Bitter Pill 15.9
* Bitter Pill 15.10
* Bitter Pill 15.11
* Bitter Pill 15.12
* Bitter Pill 15.13
* Bitter Pill 15.14
* Bitter Pill 15.15
* Bitter Pill 15.16
* Interlude 15.x (Lamb; Jessie)

## Trivia

* No known relation to the character Bitter Pill
Bruno

"Bruno" is slang for anyone, typically men, who is "more strong than smart". It's also used to describe manual laborers who get back alley modifications to increase their strength. There are multiple ways to create a Bruno, with each method having its own drawbacks. They do not have a reputation for living long.

## Individual Examples

* Six unnamed men- Each is a slab of muscle with hunched posture and arms that are as thick around as their massive legs. Sy suspects that if a normal man was carrying as much weight as they could, these Brunos would be able to pick-up one of those normal men in each arm, while the men are holding that weight.
* Emmett-bonded to full body prosthesis
* Adam- a nice 'old' man in Lugh

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 He was a ‘Bruno’. While Bruno was slang for a brute, a guy that was more strong than smart, it also was the term used most often to describe the men and the exceedingly rare women who went to back alley clinics and walked out with more muscle than they’d had when they started. Sometimes it was drugs, sometimes it was a rewriting of their physical makeup, and sometimes it was grafts, from vat-grown sources or from animals.

Most did it because the cost of the procedure was low, compared to the added dollars they could make being manual laborers. It meant a year or two to pay off the medical expenses, then a few decades of living like a king. Relatively speaking, anyway, in a place like Lugh.

But the drugs meant dependency and tolerance. The rewriting of one’s makeup always had other consequences in the long run. Grafts from animals meant possible rejection or having to take drugs, and grafts from vat-grown life didn’t always last that long, meaning more surgeries and replacements.

It amounted to the same thing. A shortened lifespan. Maybe a halved one. - Excerpt from Bleeding Edge 8.4
2. ↑ Boil
3. ↑ *So you say, but do you know how many years those muscles you bought are going to take from you? There are no old Brunos.*
[...]
“An excellent doctor won’t run into that problem,” Jamie said. Before I could make a counter argument, he provided it himself, “But he said it wasn’t top dollar work.” - Excerpt from Bleeding Edge 8.4
4. ↑ I tried to avoid staring as we passed a collection of six men with roughly identical builds, each with slabs of muscle, hunched-over posture, and arms as thick around as their legs, which were thicker around than I was. Where the next guy could pick up a given maximum weight, these Brunos could carry two of those ‘next guys’ and the weights besides.

I knew the type – manual laborers, taking some cheap and freely available option to alter themselves. - Excerpt from Bleeding Edge 8.3
5. ↑ Bleeding Edge 8.4
The Four Humors

Academy wetworks squad gone rogue and hiring themselves out to the rebellion.They each have a kind of 'class' ring as a form of comradeship between them.

## Structure

Unlike the Lambsbridge Gang they were not built on the idea of cooperation.

## Members

* Cynthia Imlay (Temporary and last handler)
* Choleric
* Melancholy
* Phlegmatic
* Sanguine

## Trivia

* They take their name from an old medical Philosophy, where the body had various fluids that had to be kept in balance to insure proper health.
	+ They were also used to categorize personalities.

## References

1. ↑ Interlude 4.x
2. ↑ “Do you know what their real plan was for us?” she asked. [...] “Four of us. Bastards kept giving us missions. Even when one of us weren’t in full working order, or when we were feeling the hurt from recent surgeries. Do this, find this person, kill them. Bring us the body. Again and again. [...] They told us if we failed too many times, or if we got recalcitrant, then they would move on to phase two. Take us, butcher us, and keep the best pieces of each. My nose, Phlegm’s ears, Cholera’s body, ‘Guin’s eyes. As for brain, well, that’s how they tried to set us against each other. Telling us that the most obedient, the one most willing to turn on the others-”
 - Excerpt from Esprit de Corpse 5.14