The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - The Caretakers
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going.
He oversees a massive, Kafkaesque
bureaucracy that is unintentionally cruel
to those it rules, bizarre in the extreme
(documents require drops of blood as
identification, forms to do anything are
Byzantine, and miles of mechanically
accessed filing cabinets wind through
dusky warrens in the many basements of
the Ministry of State). Ultimately, he is a
powerbroker (both in the Great Gray City
and in Wonderland in general)—he is a
schmoozer in some cases, a monster in
others. He gets things done or stops them
from getting done. He rewards his friends
and relentlessly punishes his enemies.
Description and
Personality
A slimy political animal with multiple hands
in multiple pockets, the Polytician is by turns
charming, threatening, and pandering. He is
an expert pickpocket and to meet with him
is to be fleeced, although he usually makes a
point of giving back people the things they
“dropped” when they leave—he is not at all,
a common thief. He’s an uncommon thief and
he participates in all kinds of high-level graft, payoff, and corruption—
it’s how things get done with him.
He is also an expert manipulator.
He usually knows what he has that
you want and what you have that
he wants. In the case of people
who often “have nothing,” he is
both monstrously indifferent and
exquisitely cruel (this is the case for
most of the suffering Actors who
come across him)—but for human
Infecteds, he may have designs.
Usually he is chummy, gregarious,
and bombastic (and spits a bit
when he talks). Sometimes he is
dangerously quiet and reserved.
Servants
The Polytician surrounds himself