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Friday, 03 September 2010

Albert

Albert, known as Alberto Malich when he founded the Unseen University, tried to perform the Rite of AshkEnte backwards in order to gain immortality. It worked, in a way, since Malich was sent to Death's Domain, where Time does not flow the same as on the Discworld.

Death now employs him as his butler. He had 91 days, three hours and five minutes of Time left on the Discworld, most of which he spent shopping and using the soap and bath at the Young Men's Reformed Cultist of the Ichor-God-Bel-Shamharoth's Association (Death is not very good at making plumbing).

There was a statue of Alberto in the hallway of Unseen University, inscribed with We Shall Not See His Like Again. This, of course, turned out to be entirely wrong. After the destruction of the statue, it was suggested that a new one was built in a very secure place, such as the dungeon.

When Death went missing, Albert tried to find him on the Discworld but got robbed and his life-timer was broken. After this incident, Albert has approximately 5 seconds left, and thus cannot return back to the world of the living anymore. As Death cannot make his life longer, the remaining sand is now kept in a bottle in Albert's bedroom.

Albert is a very idiosyncratic cook, believing everything needs to be fried to get rid of the germs, including porridge.


 
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