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”i works for Underby like… as an assistant, an whatever else e needs… i’m willin t’ elp oters too, tho. it’s nice city, it is, i likes the soot and the darkness ever so much. and, miss Kaylee, she is darlin’ pretty, she is, and gots a gleam in er eye i likes. i may stay.”
==History==
Pippin Jollygoodfellow Steamer, also known as Pipplion Wensel Steamer, is a hob serving as a familiar to Mr. Underby. He was freed from his contract by Underby’s apprentice, Lo. Soon after, Mr. Tenk went into an unusual fit of rage and chased him out of town.
He was rumored to be inhabiting at the Dagon Temple in Vernian Sea, and was summoned by Underby while Underby was in an incorporeal state. Pip renewed his bond with Underby after his return on the Ghost Train, willingly or not it is not known.
Pip was ordered to stay behind to keep an eye on Underby’s wife, Phaedra, when Underby departed for Ravila on a tramp steamer heading south out of Clockhaven.
While living with Phaedra Underby, he fell into a territorial feud with Pocket String over who was to mind the fires in the bakery ovens, which was the source of considerable hijinks and damage to Phaedra’s business. Eventually he returned to live with Mr. Underby at the Bucket of Blood.
It was revealed that Pip was actually a Homonculus when Mr. Underby used him to attempt to frame a priest in murder. Pip taunted Brother Lapis, recently arrived from Ravila, into arresting him, then Mr. Underby used his power of suggestion to gain access to the cathedral dungeons and slip a knife into Pip’s heart. The Church claimed the act of causing an automaton to cease functioning was not murder and the case was dismissed.
==Songs==
Pip was a great lover of song and the dance. He was often seen dancing on the roofs of Clockhaven and always had a jig ready when Bib Blackrain took up his fiddle at the Bucket of Blood. I Have No Idea What She Wants
===We Were The First===
we were the first, and we shall be the last
when the world opened up like a flowers morning yawn
we danced in the hills and sang, drinking dew
with our songs came the flying birds
with our laughter came the running beasts
in the evening around the great fire
we told our stories and reveled in the night
sister midnight she was jealous
of our laughter and our songs
they should be ours, she said, ours alone
we created this world, and the darkness all around
why should they all steal the joy when it should be ours
and our childrens?
so she travelled to see big swifty
as he sailed across the blue sky
she wept and wailed awful hollered
please o swifty swifty bring them
bring our children from out the ground
now’s the time for them to shine
banish the laughter and the singing
lest our people die in silence
and big swifty saw she wept
and he saw the ache inside her
so he pointed to an ash pile and smiled upon it
and the ashes crawled and shuffled
and the ashes moaned aloud
and the ashes watched our laughter and they slowly tried
then the ashes stood up tall
looked down on us and sneered at our joy
when they saw they could not join us
they had to have it and so they slew us
one by one our people fell
to the dirt and to the ashes
one by one our voices called out
but sister midnight turned her face
some were hiding when the death came
some hid by and watched the horror
through the screams and the ichor
they held their tongues
in the morning crept away they
hid themselves under the grass
still we wait there, o we wait there
someday someday we will come back
to the fields where laughter echoed
to the grass where dancing lived
we sang then and we will sing again
we were the first, and we shall be the last
==References==
Blog: Sweet Sabotage
Blog: I Have No Idea What She Wants
Blog: The Beginning of the End for Pip
