The bucket
Artefact
Receptacle maintained by John Virgil at Pex ’n’ Quads and containing the institution’s least marketable mystery. Exposure to its contents is considered scouring.
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From the books (2 passages)
…John Virgil obtained the requisite signatures; from Nero Cesare, by dint of showing him the contents of his bucket – no invitation to his windowless office being deemed necessary; and from Petra Mountjoy very willingly, that harridan still smarting with indignation over the undermining of her authority in the matter of the apprehension, torture and liberation of Farokh the Engineer.
…than fleeting reflection as to the propriety of resorting to the display of the contents of a certain bucket.