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Eisen & Twine. Pty. Ltd.

The Gift of Iron and Twine, Freehold of Sydney

This page is still under construction. the information and the history for the venue are still being worked out.

Come all ye young men of learning,

And a warning take from me,

I would have you quit night walking,

And shun bad company,

I would have you quit night walking,

Or else you'll rue the day,

You'll rue your transportation, lads,

When you're bound for Botany Bay

What is your substance?

Where are you made

That millions of strange shadows on you tend?

- Emilie Autumn

1 Location
2 Court Structure
3 History
- 3.1 The Legend of Iron and Twine
- 3.2 Modern Day
4 Time Line
5 Prominent Locations
6 The Hedge
- 6.1 Trods
7 Freehold Traditions
- 7.1 Pledges
8 Courts of the Lost
9 Motleys
10 Freehold Laws
11 News
12 Rumors
13 Inspiration
14 Resources
- 14.1 Errata
- 14.2 Reference
15 OOC Contacts

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Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Needs link to VSS

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Court Structure

The Freehold works according to a Corporate structure, and is currently deciding on a new logo. Please vote:

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* Excerpt of the Corporate Charter

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History

I was brought up in London town,

At a place I know full well,

Brought up by honest parents,

For the truth to tell.

Brought up by honest parents,

And reared most tenderly,

Till I became a roving blade,

Which proved my destiny.

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The Legend of Iron and Twine

Before the Bèerewalgal, the people from the clouds, came in their gull-ships - there was the Dreamtime. That's important, because it was a Dream, and so kept us safe, and Time that was different from now. Time ran from the sky and the sea, from the moon and the stars, it was a place, and wasn't split by the static ticks of iron on iron.

White man's time is the tick of Iron. It's important to understand that before we begin, but I don't think you'll understand until the end.

Mr Cook - he may not have been a great man, or even a good one, but he came here, and then went home again. He made notes with an iron-tipped pen, and so bound the form of the Land to paper. Some say he was a Hound of the Wyld Hunt that got called too far from the Red Rock that sealed the Compact of Red Earth, some say he was lost in the Hedge and managed to find a safe hollow in the storm, an' some say he was rejected from the Dreamtime because of the iron nails he wore in his shoes.

His skin was different too - it was grey like iron, not brown like the land or blue like the sky (or burnished gold like the sun). That may have made him different, too.

His book he wrote says he threw his nails and some twine on the shores of what's now Botany Bay, and Sorrow still rules there because of it. His ship got caught in a storm later too, and he found the red earth and shaped it.

That broke the Dream, and broke the Time too.

Before that, the Terror Australis could have thrown him back - held him off with misty forgetfulness, but it couldn't fight it's own iron, and so he remembered.

And so, the land where Time still ran like a river to the sea became sectioned and divided by a grey-man's pen. The Terror that protected it became null and void, and we Lost lost our way.

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Modern Day

Farewell to old England forever

Farewell to my rum culls as well

Farewell to the well known Old Bailey

Where I used for to cut such a swell

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Time Line

This timeline is in reverse chronology

2007 - Summer Eternal: The Summer Games go off without a hitch.
2007 - Summer Rising: There is momentary panic at the change of seasons as several prominent freehold members see a translucent spear appearing in the hands of The Valkyrie, during the crowning ceremony.
2007 - Spring Eternal: The Spring Court purchases a floor of the MLC building in Martin Place and donates it to the Gift as a centralized location for freehold rule.
2007 - Shivva abdicates her throne and crown to Winter's former war leader and her faithful lieutenant, the Valkyrie. The action is angrily condemned by Summer, as the new Winter Queen's hands are red with the blood of many Summer courtiers, slain in the war, but the Valkyrie publically Pledges to defend the treaty with her life, and with her death, if necessary.
2007 - Shivva and Joe Gillman call a detente, and forge a treaty that will subject both their Courts to eternal peace for the good of the Freehold. Summer and Winter warily draw apart, swords lowered but not sheathed. The crimes and casualties of a decade are not forgotten, by either side.
2007 - Spring Rising: Winter cedes power to Spring, fearing that there will be too much disruption to hold back The Others. The cycle of the seasons is restored.
2007 - Winter Waning: Winter is given an ultimatum by Autumn - cede power to Spring and the normal cycle of seasons, or else...
2006 - Autumn Rising: The Summer Court again refuses to cede to Autumn's title. The Summer King (Sean McPherson) dies peacefully in his sleep, his dreams untroubled, and all fingers point to the Autumn court. The Winter Court gratefully takes power.
2006 - Summer Eternal - The Autumn King - Marcus Cunningham is dethroned by The Tempest, destabilizing support for Autumn Court rule during this cycle.
2005 - Summer Rising - Cronulla Riots occur, during which the Tom Ugly's Bridge is burned. Spring court members assist Summer with organizing their rituals.
2005 - Spring Rising - Although the Spring Court does not hold a seat on the Board, Susan Bye urges many of the younger Lost take the Shareholder's Oath, begins encouraging freehold members to celebrate season changes even when the leadership of the freehold did not change and as such begins to be considered defacto leader of Spring.
2005 - Winter Fleeting - The Fortress is abandoned by the Winter Court when the Cave Clan are enlisted by the government to officially explore urban tunnels in the CBD and surrounding areas. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16199176-2,00.html
2005 - Summer Fleeting - Riots continue in Macquarie Fields housing estate following deaths of two teenagers in police pursuit.
2004 - Autumn Rising - Violent riot in Redfern after death of 17-year-old Aboriginal boy Thomas Hickey
2003 - Winter Rising - Drought continues around Australia with winter crops in doubt without substantial rain
2003 - Autumn Fleeting - Australia's front line troops officially welcomed home from Iraq with the nation's leaders describing them as one of the finest forces in the world.
2003 - Summer Fleeting - Hundreds of thousands of people participate in peace rallss across the country in protest against likely Australian involvement in a war against Iraq. Susan Bye becomes a member of the freehold.
2003 - Summer Eternal - Old Sydney Town closes for the last time.
2003 - Summer Eternal - Bushfires across ACT, Vic, NSW, SA & Tas destroy homes and livestock throughout January and into February. Hundreds of people evacuate alpine towns in Victoria and NSW.
2003 - Much of the medical equipment of the Callan Park Lunatic Asylum is revealed to have been stolen
2003 - Infighting begins between the Sydney Cave Clans. Several members of the Winter court are dragged into the conflict, and several duels are fought
2002 - Autumn Rising - Autumn does not take power, effectively allowing the Board of Directors to be ruled by Summer and Winter alone.
2001 - Summer Rising - Summer, headed by Sean McPherson, takes power.
2001 - Spring Rising - Spring again refuses to provide assurances that they won't cater to the True Fey beyond the Shareholder's Oath, as "to do more would give Their fear power." They destabilize their support within the court, and the current leaders are branded as Loyalists.
2001 - Winter Rising - Winter takes the Chair in the normal time
2001 - Autumn Rising - The Autumn Director declares that it is "happy with the current direction that the company is moving in", and elects to let the Chair stand.
2001 - Summer Fleeting - The Freehold of Sydney begins to tear at itself in panic
2000 - Spring Rising - The Winter Court refuses to cede power, without assurances that Spring "will not cater to the True Fey's wishes". The Summer Director openly attacks the Winter Director - taking the crown at iron-point.
1999 - Summer Rising: The Summer King of Sydney (Matthieu Sauvage) disappears, and is thought assassinated, although this cannot be proven. It is widely accepted that he was a Loyalist, and that this was part of a large-scale Keeper's game. As nothing can be proved, due to the many differing accounts, it is thought to be mass hysteria.
1999 - Winter Rising - Stadium Australia, built for the Olympic Games, opens
1998 - Summer Rising - Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race hit by severe storms, several sailors lost overboard
1998 - Spring Rising - the location of the Sydney Showground is moved to Homebush Bay in preparation for the coming Olympic Games. The Spring Court maintains control of the original location of Moore Park, which later becomes the Entertainment Quarter.
1998 - Winter Fleeting - NSW Health Department discovers high levels of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in the water supply and advises Sydney residents to boil their drinking water before consumption.
1997 - Summer and Winter go to war, initially a cold skirmish, fought only with barbed words and the odd cruel prank, but soon escalating into all-out physical conflict.
1997 - Shivva arrives in Sydney. Moves in with the Valkyrie, in a communal living arrangement that the gossips of Spring titteringly refer to as, "A frigid nightmare."
1997 - Winter Eternal - Deregulation of the telecommunications market
1997 - Autumn Fleeting - Reconciliation Convention held. Howard refuses apology to Aboriginal people -> Mortals National
1996 - Spring Eternal - Return of aboriginal remains to Tasmania from overseas museums. Also on November 15, 1997
1997 - Star City Casino is permanently established
1996 - Como Hotel is burnt down, sealing a trod to Faerie
1995 - Star City Casino is temporary opened
1994 - The Bunker Boyz are formed to explore abandoned bunkers
1994 - Summer Eternal - Severe bush fires in Sydney & Blue Mountains
1992 - Winter Fleeting - Sydney Harbour tunnel opens
1992 - Autumn Fleeting - Police in NSW and Victoria take 130 children of the Children of God religious sect into protective custody
1992 - The Sydney Cave Clan discovers "The Fortress" http://www.sydneycaveclan.org/
1991 - Sydney Cave Clan is formed to explore urban and artificial caves. The Valkyrie arrives in Sydney, on the run from her past in Europe. Sets about breaking balls pretty much immediately.
1990 - Spring Fleeting - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission founded (ATSIC) -> Mortals
1988 - Summer Eternal - Tall Ships again visit Australia, reigniting tensions about the wisdom of using the Gift in the first place
1987 - Spring Eternal - More than 25,000 Vietnam veterans participate in welcome home march
1986 - The Year of Silence. The Gift of Iron and Twine is silent for a year, and doesn't communicate with any outsiders for a year. Many speculate about why this is so, but no-one offers an explanation.
1985 - Spring Eternal - Ayer's Rock and the Ulhuru National Park handed over to the Mutijulu Aboriginal community
1985 - Autumn Rising - Palm Sunday peace rallies attended by 300,000 throughout the country
1985 - Faries Dust enters Sydney - a mix of cocaine and goblin fruits
1981 - Spring Rising - Australia tallest building publicly opens, the 25-story AMP Centrepoint tower
1980 - Summer Eternal - Survey of Aborigines finds 47% men and 37% women over 50 are blind in one or both eyes. Many changelings blame the effects of poisoned boons
1979 - Winter Rising - The city's eastern suburbs railway, originally planned in the 1870s, is opened
1979 - Winter Rising - A fire on the ghost train at Luna Park claims 7 lives
1979 - Autumn Eternal - Australia's first international air hijack attempt ends with the police shooting dead an Italian man *after a 5-hour standoff at Sydney Airport
1978 - Winter Rising - Inaugural Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras to mark International Gay Solidarity Day
1978 - Summer Fleeting - Two civilians are killed after a bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting
1977 - Summer Fleeting - 83 people die in Australia's worst train disaster when a section of a bridge collapses on a train at Granville. The Rail Wars threaten to begin again. -> Rail Wars
1976 - Rozelle hospital moves mental health services from Callan Park to a more modern facility after almost exactly a century of use - http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/rozdev/history.htm
1976 - Winter Fleeting - Peter Kocan wins Commonwealth Literary Fund Prize. Kocan spent time in a psychiatric hospital after his attempted assassination of Labor Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell
1975-76 - Beginnings of Carnival Anarchism (Anarchist theatrics) at the Sydney Anarchists Conference
1975 - Summer Rising - 13 people die in Savoy Hotel fire in Kings Cross
1975 - Autumn Eternal - First colour broadcast ABC TV
1975 - Summer Eternal - The Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and 11,000 spectators celebrate the grand opening of Old Sydney Town a living tribute dedicated to the nation's colonial past.
1973 - Gay Pride Week organised
1973 - Spring Eternal - Fierce demonstrations in the Rocks area over a longstanding battle by resident action groups and the Builders Laborers Federation to prevent development of an area containing some of Sydney's oldest buildings
1973 - Spring Eternal - The Queen officially opens the Sydney Opera House
1972 - Summer Eternal - Amalgamated Metal Workers Union formed
1971 - Autumn Fleeting - Qantas pays out $500,000 ransom to alleged bomber
1970 - Autumn Fleeting - Vietnam war moratorium demonstrations across the country
1970 - Summer Fleeting - Indian Pacific passenger train's inaugural journey. The journey from Sydney to Perth covers 4,352kms
1966 - Autumn Eternal - The first Australian conscripts fly out for Vietnam. Anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators could not get near the RAAF base at Richmond
1965 - Captain Cook Bridge is opened, which crosses the Georges River mouth at Botany Bay
1965 - Summer Waning - The first hydrofoil ferry service begins in Sydney Harbour
1964 - Spring Fleeting - National Service reintroduced
1964 - Summer Fleeting - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager in Sydney Harbour, cutting it in half and killing 82 of the Voyager's officers and crew in the worst peacetime naval disaster in Australian history
1962 - Peace March from Sydney to Canberra
1961 - A Royal Commission into Callan Park Asylum is called by the Mortals
1962 - Autumn Eternal - The Rail Wars are declared over. The Southern Aurora arrives from Sydney on the new uniform-gauge line that now links the 2 states
1961 - Summer Fleeting - Last tram runs from La Perouse to Randwick workshops
1960 - Summer Eternal - Heat waves kills 13 in Sydney
1958 - Summer Rising - The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) opens
1958 - Autumn Rising - 2UE publishes first Australian Top 40 chart
1957 - Spring Rising - Remains of The Bounty found off Pitcairn Island
1956 - Spring Fleeting - Inauguration of the the ABC's first television broadcast by Prime Minister Menzies.
1956 - Autumn Rising - Shearers strike when wages are reduced by 5%
1956 - Summer Eternal - The Circular Quay loop of the underground railway opens
1951 - Winter Fleeting - Start of National Service
1951 - Summer Fleeting - CSIRO reports successful trial of myxomatosis
1950 - Spring Rising - Commonwealth police raid Communist Party headquarters in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Hobart & Darwin
1950s - The events of the movie "Dirty Deeds" occur -> Clarify
1948 - Summer Rising - Publication of Ruth Park's book The Harp in the South about the slums of Sydney
1947 - Summer Fleeting - Reported divorce rate for 1946 double that of 1945
1945 - Summer Rising - Inauguration of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race.
1945 - Winter Fleeting - Australian cities and towns celebrate VJ Day after Japanese surrender announced -> Directional Courts repulsed
1944 - Summer Fleeting - Month-long strike by coal miners begins
1943 - Winter Eternal - Household rationing begins
1943 - Summer Eternal - Sergeant-Tracker Alexander Riley is first Aborigine to receive King's Police and Fire Service Medal for distinguished service - First indigenous member of the Seasonal Court (Summer)
1942 - Winter Rising - Japanese submarines shell Sydney suburbs and Newcastle
1942 - Unused tunnels in what is now St James Station are rumored to be used as a military shelter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_railway_station,_Sydney
1942 - Autumn Rising - Registration of all persons over 16 years for identity card to be issued and carried at all times. Changeling identity crisis begins in earnest.
1941 - Summer Rising - Link discovered between German measles (rubella) and birth defects
1941 - Australia declares war on Japan
1941 - Autumn Fleeting - Mortals launch the Daily Mirror newspaper. Several of the editorial staff are ensorcelled and insert encrypted stories about local Freehold events into the publication, which then becomes known colloquially as The Lost Mirror
1940 - Spring Rising - British prison ship Dunera docks in Sydney. The ship is carrying Germans, Austrians and Italians fleeing Hitler
1939 - Summer Rising - Mortal short wave radio service Australia Calling begins broadcasting
1939 - Spring Rising - Australia follows Britain and declares war on Germany
1939 - Summer Eternal - Black Friday bush fires rage from South Australian through Victoria to Gippsland and NSW. 71 people die
1938 - Summer Fleeting - 19 drown in Sydney Harbour after overcrowded launch Rodney capsizes
1938 - Summer Fleeting - Freak 35 ft high wave at Bondi Beach kills 5 people. 200 bathers saved by lifesavers
1938 - Summer Fleeting - Empire Games begin in Sydney
1938 - Summer Eternal - Australia marks 150 years of colonial settlement
1938 - Spring Waning - Spring Court cedes control of Kings Cross due to overwhelming presence of the Others, and moves their headquarters to the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales Sydney Showground
1935 - Spring Eternal - BHP merges with Australian Iron and Steel
1933 - Spring Eternal - First traffic lights installed in Sydney
1932 - Winter Eternal - Thirty percent of registered members of trade unions now unemployed in Sydney
1932 - Autumn Rising - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
1931 - Spring Rising - Public riots in Melbourne and Sydney over increasing poverty of the unemployed
1931 - Winter Eternal - Australian National Airways folds after one of its aircraft, Southern Cloud, disappears over the Great Dividing Range
1930 - Summer Fleeting - First flight for Kingsford Smith's and Charles Ulm's Australian National Airways arrives from Sydney
1929 - Autumn Fleeting - Tom Ugly's Bridge to the Shire is completed, which is named afer a mispronunciation of local resident Tom Huxley's name
1929 - Summer Eternal - One coal miner shot dead in riot as 8,000 miners converge on Rothbury near Newcastle in protest
1928 - Spring Rising - St Mary's Cathedral opens after 60 years of construction
1927-1930 Razor Wars in Darlinghurst (which becomes nicknames "Razorhurst") between Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s485143.htm
1927 - Spring Fleeting - 37 die as steamer Tahiti collides with the ferry Greycliffe in Sydney Harbour
1926 - Summer Rising - First section of the electric underground railway opens between Central Station and St James
1926 - Spring - 27 people die in the NSW's worst rail disaster
1925 - Autumn Rising - Foundation stone of North Shore section of Harbour Bridge laid. The Summer court swears by the stone to defend the territory of the Gift, and moves their headquarters to a more convenient location.
1924 - Winter - First human voice successfully transmitted from London to Sydney
1921 - Summer - Mascot Airport opens
1920 - The Decade of the Bridge Builders begins
1919 - Winter - The first official wireless broadcast within Australia -> 1918? 1924?
1918 - Spring - The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs are published
1918 - Spring - WWI Armistice
1918 - Autumn - First direct wireless broadcasts (Morse Code) are sent from the UK to Australia
1918 - Autumn - The Red Baron is shot down by Australian gunfire
1917 - Summer Rising - Mandatory conscription voted down for the second time
1917 - Spring - Railways strike involving 95,000 workers around the country collapses after a settlement hostile to unionists
1916 - Spring - Mandatory conscription voted down
1916 - Winter - The RSL is established as the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia
1916 - 5,000-strong Australian Light Brigade pub crawl starting at Darlinghurst and ending in a riot at Central Station - http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s485143.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station%2C_Sydney
1915 - Finger Wharf is constructed
1915 - Winter - BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle
1915 - Autumn -The Gallipoli landing begins
1914 - Winter - World War I begins
1914 - Winter - First airmail delivery from Melbourne to Sydney
1914 - Darlinghurst Gaol ends use as a mental asylum
1913 - Winter - Sydney is quarantined as a smallpox epidemic sweeps the city
1913 - May Gibbs enters Sydney, and begins writing about gumnut babies
1911 - Australian Capital Territory is established, ending the Capital Wars -> Canberra ST
1908 - Henry Lawson pens "Starvinghurst Gaol" about his time spent in Darlinghurst Gaol
1907 - Winter - Telephone trunk line opens between Sydney and Melbourne
1907 - Summer Fleeting- Bondi lifesavers save first life (a 7 y.o. boy) -> Lifesaver Entitlement
1907 - Last hanging in Darlinghurst Gaol -> Mortals
1906 - Current Central Station is built -> Mortals
1906 - Summer - Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club established
1905 - Winter - Sydney: First cinema opens
1904 - Winter - Sydney installs electric street-lights
1902 - Summer - British execute Breaker Morant - Breaker! Breaker! Breaker!
1901 - Norman Lindsay begins producing political satire
1901 - Summer - Australia celebrates Federation
1900 - Spring - 103 people killed by Bubonic Plague in Sydney alone
1900 - The Rise of the Union of Iron-Founders & Rope-Twiners
1898 - Queen Victoria Building is opened
1890 - Maritime Strike http://www.takver.com/wharfie/aa288_01.htm
1888 - Declaration of control - The Escheat

Summer Court declared control of the Sydney Harbour docks and North Winter declares control of Botany Bay and South Spring Court declares control of Kings Cross and East Autumn declares control of the Callum Park Asylum for the Mentally and Criminally Insane and West

1885 - Banjo Patterson's works are published in the Sydney edition of The Bulletin
1885 - Rozelle Hospital opens a mental asylum
1883 - Henry Lawson moves from the Blue Mountains to Sydney
1882-83 - Robbery Under Arms is published in the Sydney Mail - written about the bushranger Captain Starlight (Frank Pearson), and becomes a literary classic
1880 - Summer - Bushranger Captain Moonlight (Andrew George Scott) is hung in Darlinghurst Gaol
1876 - Callan Park Lunatic Asylum for the Mentally and Criminally Insane is established in Rozelle http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/rozdev/history.htm
1851 - Sailor's riot in Sydney http://www.takver.com/history/riot1851.htm
1841 - Darlinghurst Gaol begins to be used as a mental asylum
1841 - First prisoners enter Darlinghurst Gaol
1836 - Bushrangers role as folk heroes is first noted
1835 - St Bridged's School is established - the oldest place of Catholic Worship in Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millers_Point%2C_New_South_Wales
1788 - Bèerewalgal ('People from the clouds') arrive in 11 tall ships, and the colony is established, including Observatory Hill. The damage of Terror Annullius to the land means that a colony is able to be established
1770 - Autumn Fleeting - The Token of Iron and Twine is thrown to the shore, in an attempt to create Terror Anullias

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Prominent Locations

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The Central Business District

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MLC Building

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Nightshade Kaberet Klub

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The Teahouse

Located just North of Chinatown, The Teahouse is run by Susan Bye and is situated in the centre of a large, lush, walled garden.

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The South

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Botany Bay

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The Shire

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The West

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Callan Park Lunatic Asylum

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The North

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Luna Park

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The East

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Old Sydney Showground

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The Hedge

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Trods

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Freehold Traditions

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Pledges

Taint leaving old England we cares about

Taint cos we mis-spells what we knows

But because all we light fingered gentry

Hops around with a log on our toes

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Courts of the Lost

Former Office Bearers
Sean MacPherson - Summer Director; 2001-2006

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Spring - Investments

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Summer - Mergers

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History

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Summer Director

Joe Gillman

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Politics

A house divided does not long stand...
...and wouldn't be much good for protecting the rest of you all.
Within the portfolio, there is almost no conflict at all, as a carefull harmony is maintained to present a good example to the rest of the freehold.
Externally, they are the weakest Court in Sydney, by a significant margin.

Tread softly (and carry a big stick) has never been a more apt statement.

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Shareholders

Firebrand
Jack Tailor
Willow

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Autumn - Acquisitions

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History

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Autumn Director

John Addams - Current CEO

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Politics

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Shareholders

The Tempest
Marcus Cunningham
Mouse - Street Rat, Mistress of Contracts
Robert Peterson - Dream Feeder

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Winter - Holdings

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History

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Winter Director

The Valkyrie - wax doll, and unholy military bitch

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Politics

The Winter Court act, think and move with one mind, as cohesive and disciplined as a well-oiled machine...or, rather more accurately, a military unit with the grit to snap their own fingers to prove a point and never betray a moment's pain. Far from weakening the Court, the Ten Year's Seasonal War has served to weed out any and all weaklings, both physical and mental, among their number - the result being that the Winter Court today are by far the most militant and formidable faction of the Seasonal Assembly, while retaining their natural tendency toward and talent for subterfuge and espionage, bringing to mind nothing so much as a well-organised resistance movement, or sub-Black Ops intelligence cell. The enigmatic Winter Queen has barely been sighted in public since her ascension last year, but her courtiers continue to act with one purpose, and one goal, suggesting that their Director is still there, somewhere backstage, issuing commands from on high. Their loyalty is unquestioning, and their efficiency, undeniable.

Frost bites, indeed.

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