Linden Way

Linden Way.

Linden is a young balladeer who plays the lute. Although not amazingly talented, he is able to make a good living and is the feted troubadour-in-residence of ‘The Minotaur Bull’, where he plays twice a week. Such are his looks and the convincing declarations of love in his songs, it has become quite the thing for young noblewomen of Tharros to disguise themselves for the evening and make their way to the seedy establishment where they sit and listen to him in rapt attention.

In fact, Linden is not particularly good at all, but he has a knack for being able to deliver material that people like to hear. He secretly longs to be like his idol, the composer and instrumentalist Yaphet Malmzart, but knows in his heart that he will never have the talent. Malmzart, once the darling of Tharros society, is now old and his music unfashionable. Tutor to the Regent’s daughter three decades ago, Malmzart seduced the precocious and beautiful girl effortlessly with his skill and musicianship, but paid a heavy price. When information got out, Malmzart was exiled from the court, relieved of his duties and a ban placed on his music. Appalled at his treatment, Malmzart fell into drinking and blew all of his accumulated earnings on a now-legendary binge that lasted one and a half-years. Ever since then he has been a penniless alcoholic dependent on Linden for support known as Yaphet ‘Senseless’ Malmzart. In their lodgings, Malmzart gets drunk and plays his music, which makes Linden weep uncontrollably both because of its beauty, and because he knows he will never be able to make something of his own of such quality.

Linden is in love with a popular actress of the day called Celia who made her name recently by lifting her skirts during the recital of a play and taking a stiff cock in her ass. Polite society took it as a piece of revolutionary and avant-garde stagecraft, especially when she made the dick explode in her face, doing all of act 3 with jizz dripping from her chin and hanging in her hair. Linden’s protestations fall on deaf ears to Celia; he is a little too small-time for her and she prefers the intimacies of her secret club.

To assuage his lust Linden indulges himself with the ladies who admire his limited musical talent and has acquired an addiction to Perrima’s love potions, which enable him to sport massive erections and blow enormous loads. Amazed at his talent, the young women flock to him, which means that he has to use more and more potions to prevent his conquests from ever suspecting his credentials.