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{{a|heroes|{{image|First Men|jpg|[[Vlad Paripasu|Paripasu]] (the dishy dark haired-one behind and to the right) with fellow [[First Men|First Man]], “Ginger” [[Reg Margin]].}}}}Vlad Paripasu is a character from Finance Fiction mythology: one of the “[[First Men]]” who, with Norse monster [[Reg Margin]] threw out the | {{a|heroes|{{image|First Men|jpg|[[Vlad Paripasu|Paripasu]] (the dishy dark haired-one behind and to the right) with fellow [[First Men|First Man]], “Ginger” [[Reg Margin]].}}}}Vlad Paripasu is a character from Finance Fiction mythology: one of the “[[First Men]]” who, with Norse monster [[Reg Margin]] threw out the {{cotw}} and bastardised the modern precepts of financial risk management. | ||
It is said, but never proven, that Vlad lives on, [[Nosferatu|undead]], a phantom of our unexpressed and recurring fears. | It is said, but never proven, that Vlad lives on, [[Nosferatu|undead]], a phantom of our unexpressed and recurring fears. | ||
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Before long, word of his braggadocio and deception found its way back to the King. Far from being impressed with Vlad’s cunning, Mutandis exploded with rage, casting the boy out from the kingdom for ever — curse your perfidious dreams! — and bidding him never to return, on pain of death. | Before long, word of his braggadocio and deception found its way back to the King. Far from being impressed with Vlad’s cunning, Mutandis exploded with rage, casting the boy out from the kingdom for ever — curse your perfidious dreams! — and bidding him never to return, on pain of death. | ||
Vlad made directly for the great lost city of [[Salomoné]]. There he met, and forged a bond with, ginger Norse kinsman [[Reg Margin]]. The two of them discovered, in the ruins of an abandoned, ransacked settlement of the | Vlad made directly for the great lost city of [[Salomoné]]. There he met, and forged a bond with, ginger Norse kinsman [[Reg Margin]]. The two of them discovered, in the ruins of an abandoned, ransacked settlement of the {{cotw}}, the long-lost ''Dierne of Swæp'' — a mythical, sacred fruity knowledge believed for generations to be lost to the trading peoples of the world forever. Before long this knowledge was unleashed on the world like pandora’s box, and were were in a cold war, every party armed to the teeth with [[financial weapons of mass destruction]]. | ||
Vlad had not been gone a month when his dream came true: a ''real'' trickster, whom the King ''had'' welcomed into his court and treated almost as if his own son, tricked the King out of his crown, killing the King, Queen and older brother Randolph. The real trickster was Dragos, the Consul’s son, who had so victimised Vlad as a little boy. | Vlad had not been gone a month when his dream came true: a ''real'' trickster, whom the King ''had'' welcomed into his court and treated almost as if his own son, tricked the King out of his crown, killing the King, Queen and older brother Randolph. The real trickster was Dragos, the Consul’s son, who had so victimised Vlad as a little boy. | ||
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