Other City Watch Related Characters

Design Notes

Rodney

In the Fifth Elephant Rodney is part of the Traffic Division. The imp is placed in his iconogragh high on Brass Bridge by Colon, who has to use a ladder, to make pictures of any cart and particularly their drivers who pass between two white lines painted on the road in less than a minute. He has salamanders for when it is dark.

Cable Street Particulars

The plain clothed section based in Pseudopolis Yard. Also known as "The Unmentionables".

Agony Aunts, the (The reason there is no need for a vice squad)

Dotsie and Sadie. Possibly sisters. Possibly even real aunts.

Most of the Guilds have their own laws and some means of enforcing them. The Ankh-Morpork Guild of Seamstresses is no exception, although what they police are not so much laws as acceptable standards of behaviour. There are some things the ladies of the Shades will not put up with, in short. But no one wants the Watch clumping around the place, putting everyone off and ogling at people who have reasons for not wishing to be ogled, and so when the traditional troll with a big club is not sufficient the Agony Aunts are sent for.

Dotsie is short and plump, Sadie is tall and thin. Neither smiles much, at least not at the things most people would find amusing. Both always dress in black and carry a large handbag. Their actual mode of operation is unclear, but at best an offender will wake up in the street without any clothes and covered in paint in a place where turpentine is really going to hurt. Or may find himself on board a ship headed for the incredibly distant island of Sumtri by way of Cape Terror. Or may, indeed, never be found again at all if the offence warrants it; it is rumoured that merely killing someone is only about halfway up the Aunts' scale of punishments.

They are seldom required these days, and generally spend their afternoons taking tea in some small tea-room somewhere. They are seldom seen talking to one another, except about matters in hand; the impression is that they did all their talking a long time ago.

The position of the official Watch on the subject of the Aunts is typical of that pragmatism which is the soul of Ankh-Morpork. Since they know that the Guild has a very flexible approach to what is acceptable and, indeed, natural, they take the view that anyone even capable of complaining to them after the ministrations of the Aunts got let off lightly. But a bottle of turpentine and a scrubbing brush are kept at Pseudopolis Yard for the more pathetic cases. (picture 30/9/2000)

Cemetery for Small Gods

Most watchmen are buried here. Against a wall a thicket of lilac trees has developed from the whippy suckers of a single plant. It is covered in pale mauve blooms. There are 7 graves in front of it just visible in the tangled vegetation. Only one grave is maintained, its marble headstone shiny and moss free, turf clipped and stone borders sparkling. There is moss covering the wooden markers of the other 6 but the central one has been scraped of moss revealing the name JOHN KEEL. Carved underneath his name by someone who had taken some pains is "How Do They Rise Up". A huge wreath of lilac flowers bound with purple ribbon and an egg also tied round with a piece of purple ribbon are on his grave.

Watchmen from the time of John Keel, Reg, CMOT, Mrs Palm and Mrs Battye all visit these graves on the 25th of May each year.

Due to overcrowding it is the custom to dig up graves and move the bones into the crypts where they are sorted into the various type of bone and kept on shelves. These grave having been in the ground for over 30 years were well past the time that they should have been dug up.

Legitimate (Leggie) First - black clad skinny figure. Moves with a high speed sidle. He is the gravedigger and enjoys living in the crypt.

Watch Men from other Periods

Herbert 'Leggy' Gaskin

was a member of the Watch who died shortly before the start of Guards! Guards!. Carrot was his replacement. His widow still lives in Mincing Street.

Andre

Fair haired young man and member of the Cable Street Particulars, assigned to find out who was responsible for all the dead bodies dropping like flies out of the flies in the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. He also plays the piano quite well.

Corporal Hildebiddle

Has the honour of being the only Watchman to be nearly buried alive. He was assumed to be dead and only came round and was able to bang on the coffin lid just in time. Happened before Nobby joined up.

Corporal Jennifer

was Chief Interpreter of the Watch, during the Music With Rocks In era.

Day Watch

integrated with The Night Watch at end of Men At Arms. Usually armed with crossbows

Captain (Mayonnaise) Quirke

was the Captain of the Day Watch before the two Watches were combined to form the City Watch. He was called Mayonnaise because he is thick, rich and oily, and smells faintly of eggs. He has a hat with plumes in.

Sergeant Hummock

was in charge of the day squad who were to line the route during the coronation of the new king, after the 'slaying' of the dragon. Skully Muldoon and rest of the men had crossbows.

Skully Maltoon

was the younger of the two guards sent to deliver a proclamation to the Night Watch. He used to live in Mincing Street - his mother used to make cough sweets, until she fell into the mixture and died. He knows Nobby.

Sergeant Skully Muldoon

member of the Day Watch. He went to the Night Watchhouse to try to get the off-duty Night Watch to help him in the 'ethnic trouble' caused by the usage of the gonne, but more directly by the wrongful arrest of Coalface the troll. (Both Skullys may be the same person at different period of their careers (due to similarity of name?)

Captain Doxie

was Captain of the City Guard during Reaper Man. He was summoned to the Palace to try and explain the mysterious events of the book. He was unable to do so.

25th May - Details of the Night Watch 30 years ago.

Others

71 Hour Ahmed - same height as Vimes. A network of scars around a nose like an eagles beak. The scars affected the growth of his beard and moustache so much that the hairs stuck out in strange bunches and at odd angles. He looked like he had been hit in the mouth by a hedgehog. A slight case in one eye. He could have been any age and some of the scars looked new. His mouth was full of several gold teeth. He was a D'reg, a warlike desert tribe and had survived 7 years in an Anhk-Morpork public school. He wore a black turban and carried a big curved sword slung over his back. (picture 1/1/2000)

Gonne had rifled barrel, bluish sheen to metal and 4 sets of metal tubes. MAA 177/197

Carser - is a nutter in two minds but they are not in conflict they were in competition. He smiles all the time in a cheeky chappy sort of way and has an irritating patronising chortle. Very good at the injured innocent look even when clearly guilty. Has Stronginthearm's crossbow after he killed him and three or four concealed knives. Boots.

Model ideas (items I am planning to make plus corrections to finished models):-

1) Sergeant Colon and Nobby in guard house over Main Gate with dark skinned boy on elephant and dust of the other 999 arriving
M'Bu 12 years old, teeth sharpen to points. Elephants brush and shovel. Clipboard dark glass thing over eyes
Nobby standing threatening with his spear just outside the wall in centre of the gateway. Colon is leaning over the top of the wall shouting advice. M,bu sits on elephant looking down at Nobby. On the inside of the wall built onto one side of the gate is the old Watch House. It is being repaired. Pots of paint, tools , the old front door out side. The lower floor is built of stone and timber and has no windows. A new Troll sized door is being fitted. From the first floor a circular turret projects and rises above the height of the walls. The walk way passes between it and the outside wall. The turret was originally to watch from but now has a clack and gargoyle operator. Wooden floor with trap door and bank of levers to operate clack. (Build as a removable item to aid transport and storage) The first floor can be wattle and daub but tower should be stone or brick. At least half should project from side of the building.
Steps down from battlements and door into first floor room.
One of Visits posters on wall and cart with clamp.

2) Colon and Nobby watch CMOT doing Singing in the Rain (MP p91)

3) Colon and Nobby in plain cloths (p75 J)

4) Colon and Nobby in Arab dress as per Laurel and Hardy and Beti disguises (p201-216 J)

4) Angua and Nobby on an undercover operation. Nobby in taffeta with a hat with flowers around it holding a large handbag which Dunnit Duncan takes only to be stopped by Angua in wolf form, who leaps on his back pinning him to the floor, while slavering in his ear. Dunnit is know to confess to any crime going, even ones that that the Watch don't yet know about.

5) Clinkerbell - Tooth Fairy, Slightly smaller troll than normal wearing a tutu and a small pair of gauze wings glued to its back. Sack of stolen silver items.

6) The Watch River Patrol - (based on Australian river races) . Two watchmen in a bottomless dingy. Straps from the hull over their shoulders so that the boat hangs between waist and knee height. The boat has a normal interior with planks for seating and oars. Footprints can be clearly seen on the rivers surface behind them, but not very deep, as can anything else that is floating depending on the size of the base used, i.e. brass bedsteads, bricks, Gaspode's empty sack etc.

7) The million to one shot - using resin dragon. Carrot Colon and Nobby on the damp rooftops and greasy walkways, forest of chimneys and Jim Bearhuggers whiskey distillery. They are about 30' high and jump into the very deep pond which is used by the distillery to provide cooling water for the stills. The assassins guild is far enough away for its weather vane to be a test target and there was a gargoyle on the opposite rooftop that was hit in the ear by the test shot. This arrow then rebounded back passed Colon. Colon's longbow is of an ancient design and is wrapped in sacking together with a quiver of arrows. Carrot fitted a new string because Colon was unable to bend the bow sufficiently. The luck arrow looked the same as all the rest. As they sat in the shade of a chimney stack Carrot wrote a letter home. They thought that if Colon stood on one leg with his hat on backwards and with a handkerchief in his mouth he would have a million to one chance of hitting a dragons voonerables - he then ..........
Sorry don't want to spoil story.

8) Lady Ramkin - dragon lady lower half with correction to dragons wings and nose - then add blue collar for Chubby. Not sure about body as arms are too thin and unusual positions, head may be all right.

9) ALL troll models require lichen. Chert requires fine notice attached to triangle.

10) tT72 Watch in chase through a flower shop,

11) Dis-organiser - Does it use a demon or an imp. An Imp would require living accommodation but a demon not. Must open. Battered leather cover with brass corners, did Sybil have it engraved? One side, left, would just be a flat lid the other a little deeper. In the centre a circular metal grill or tea strainer type cover which is the speaker grill. This would hinge open to revel the demon. Because it belongs to Vimes it is likely to have paper notes or even an official issue notepad and pencil attached to the cover with an elastic band.

12)

This is a sketch I did when I first read about the semaphore system. I felt that Dwarfs, and some of the other officers might be too short to see the top of the Watch house so they could build these small structures at street corners. Inside there would be a periscope to view out of the glass piece on the roof and controls for the semaphore both of which can rotate. It looks so small that you would think that there was only room for two people inside, but on a wet night you'ld be surprised at how many officers it can hold, even Detritus would find a secluded corner to sit in. Made in typical timber, stone, wattle and daub and painted blue so that it stands out. For some strange reason CMOT would be nearby selling sofas to hide behind.

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