Toes, almost never referred to as jumpy-jumps or skippy-skips, are oftentimes frightening and frequently silly appendages which so often grow at the frontal ends of people's feet. Little studied and thus poorly understood, as of yet nobody is certain what function toes play, only that there presence requires that their host person must wear shoes slightly longer than would be necessary if they were toeless like a porpoise.
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| - Toes, almost never referred to as jumpy-jumps or skippy-skips, are oftentimes frightening and frequently silly appendages which so often grow at the frontal ends of people's feet. Little studied and thus poorly understood, as of yet nobody is certain what function toes play, only that there presence requires that their host person must wear shoes slightly longer than would be necessary if they were toeless like a porpoise.
- Toes was a squad mage in the Bridgeburners. His Warren was Hood's Path. "Toes had earned his name by his habit of collecting toes among the enemy's dead — whether he'd been personally responsible for killing them or not. He had concocted some kind of drying powder with which he treated his trophies before sewing them onto his vest - the man smelled like a crypt in dry weather, like a pauper's pit before the lime when it rained. He claimed to be a necromancer, and that some disastrously botched ritual in the past had left him over-sensitive to ghosts — they followed him, he would assert, adding that by cutting off their mortal toes he took from the ghosts all sense of balance so that they fell down so often that he was able to leave them far behind.Indeed, he looked a haunted man, but, as B
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| - Toes, almost never referred to as jumpy-jumps or skippy-skips, are oftentimes frightening and frequently silly appendages which so often grow at the frontal ends of people's feet. Little studied and thus poorly understood, as of yet nobody is certain what function toes play, only that there presence requires that their host person must wear shoes slightly longer than would be necessary if they were toeless like a porpoise.
- Toes was a squad mage in the Bridgeburners. His Warren was Hood's Path. "Toes had earned his name by his habit of collecting toes among the enemy's dead — whether he'd been personally responsible for killing them or not. He had concocted some kind of drying powder with which he treated his trophies before sewing them onto his vest - the man smelled like a crypt in dry weather, like a pauper's pit before the lime when it rained. He claimed to be a necromancer, and that some disastrously botched ritual in the past had left him over-sensitive to ghosts — they followed him, he would assert, adding that by cutting off their mortal toes he took from the ghosts all sense of balance so that they fell down so often that he was able to leave them far behind.Indeed, he looked a haunted man, but, as Blend had pointed out, who wouldn't be haunted with all those dead toes hanging from him?" ―Picker prior to the Battle of Black Coral Toes often kissed one of the mummified fetishes about his neck before preparing to use his magic, sickening fellow mage, Bluepearl. He was prone to fatalistic outbursts during combat.
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