Silence may be golden, but it can also be a curse.

On the second day of the new year, Mintle awoke from a disturbing dream of a strange, cadaverous man and his eerie companion, who discussed her familiarily, though she knew them not. While she blinked dazedly to clear her mind of the numbing fog that echoed the chill that seeped through her linen wrappings, she looked about her sparse but calming room.  A bed, a low table, a chandelier, a window, and a door, silent attendants all.  Where were the people, crowding around her, where were the shouts, the snarls, the cruelty, the stink of fear and sweat?

Moreover, why did she think they would be here?

Welcome to Mintle's silence. Here you will find her quiet perceptions of  the chill paradise that is Castle Marrach.  Here you will find some explanations of her behavior, a list of some of the things she does to pass the time, and perhaps, if you stay long and quietly enough, you will join the silence enough to hear the gentle snow fall on a hushed wintry forest.  Only then can the music be heard.

When one cannot speak, one must listen.

Confused and frightened, she tried to call out "Hello?"  The responding sound however, was far more disturbing, like a guttural gurgle. Horrified that such a sound came from her, she tried again.  A sound just as base issued from her mouth. In a panic, she realized why.  She opened her mouth, put her trembling fingers into the space where her tongue should have been.

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Mintle is a character concept I developed to play in Castle Marrach, a wonderful on-line roleplaying game put out by Skotos Tech.  I finally found a picture I thought vaguely evoked her appearance and demeanor, so I built a webpage around displaying that picture, which is a part of the painting, "Tristan and Isolde" by Edmund Blair Leighton. As this page is under construction, I'll probably change what gets linked here.  Any In-Character information I need to put out will go here, but I'm extremely leery of putting Out-of-Character stuff here.  Watching people cross the IC/OOC line sets my teeth on edge.  For this kind of character, secrets are the most interesting part, so to give away secrets is like telling someone what you got them for Christmas before they have even seen the box. Maybe I'm just being immature -- which is okay, because this is my first real on-line RPG game; I'm bound to make some pretty normal errors.  But it's my error, so I'm going to make it. Anyway, before we get to the links, I'd like to thank Skotos for this incredible opportunity, and Matt Seidl, for that great client that makes playing Mintle feasible (my record is still three mutually exclusive conversations held simultaneously over scroll!)

This page was last updated on: August 5, 2002

ADDENDUM: Most of this website was completed before Mintle got her doll.  I've added a page, but it's still very rough. Leave me a note in my guest book (found in the contacting Mintle page) if you have any suggestions.  Thanks for coming to my site!