ER:Glorfinkle

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A very short-lived NPC in the Errant Road on-line free-form role-playing game. Not only does he not exist in the Poe-verse, as per the usual disclaimer; he doesn't exist any more in Errant Road, either.

This fellow was one of the "red-shirted ensign"-class crew of the Bonny Read, the centerpiece of the "Airship Pirates, Chapter 1: Isabel" thread. Nothing was seen of him in the flesh (although bits of his flesh were certainly seen), so it is unclear whether he was wearing a literal red shirt or not (nor, for that matter, whether he was an actual ensign; probably not). He was manning one of the "crow's nest" observation stations on the BR when their arch nemesis, fellow airship Queen Alice's Revenge, literally got the drop on them in the skies above the coast of Farrel. A small raiding party, consisting of one goon named "Cuthbert" and another whose name has been lost in grisly anonymity, had shinnied down a rope from the Queen A to sabotage the BR; landed in the crow's nest; messily disposed of Glorfinkle; and gone on to throw a magical monkey wrench into the BR's engines.

At least his messy death was not entirely in vain. PC Rip, ordered to find out why the ship was flying ... abnormally and to see why Glorfinkle made no report when queried, makes his way to the crow's nest, there to find what's left of Glorfinkle strewn messily around the bottom of the platform. Rip and fellow PCs (and crew members) Garlock and Reyn flush out the evildoers, kill the unnamed one in a manner befitting his crimes, and take Cuthbert prisoner, or at least what's left of him after being "subdued" by a bonk on the head from a fossilized dinner roll. (It makes sense in context, as they say.) He is taken prisoner and interrogated before meeting another messy end at the hands of ship's doctor Doc Barrel, but not until he has implicated the Queen A in what happened; at least that's first mate Kattie Amhurst's story. Of course, there was no airship within miles of these two when the boarding and vandalizing occurred, so there couldn't have been much doubt where the two deceased goons had come from, but it's still nice to think that Glorfinkle died for the sake of the good guys. Relatively speaking, anyway.

The alternative spelling "Glorfingle" refers to the same red-shirt.

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