PINS - Rule Four: Write Out Orders

(I grabbed its legs, I heard it squeak!)

Now we have done something, (anything), we can safely write out some orders.

According to the photocopy that shows the rules, we have to write out orders for each move for each unit - “without a clue to the objective.”

There is a lot to unpack, here. The following are just suggestions.

Firstly, what is a unit?

Loose NORI bricks, made from fireclay from the Accrington lake, squared on a pallet.

(We will return to units, later.)

Who writes these orders?

Pairs of porcelain dogs, of all varieties, handed down.

Those of good balance.

The man who shook his head in the pub when the Beatles came on.

Those who can identify a dock leaf.

How and where can these orders be written?

On the Greensward.

Eight Miles High.

By the pond in which the hedgehogs drowned.

With the full consent of the rank and file of the 20th Regiment of His Majesty’s Foote, according to the 1742 Clothing Pattern Book.

As an illustration made by John Minton.*

By blowing into a horse’s mouth or whistling at a sty full of pigs.

By learning the Tree Alphabet.

How will these orders appear? 

• In button boxes, with buttons various. Each button can be an order, or a token of an order. Just whisper to them, and they’ll reveal all.

• Hidden in a silverplate tea set from the New Victoria Cotton and Spg. and Mgt. Co. Ltd. Bury, Lancs. 

• On old lost internet pages. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409093445/http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloads/canal_walk_LEAFLET.pdf

We are spared objectives. This is a blessing. At least for now. But the first thing to do is to see what is left. As we are told, we haven’t a clue** and seeing what’s left may help. And if a future objective turns out to be a doctor’s surgery, we would recommend Stygian gloom, linoleum, and steps leading to a basement entrance guarded by stone lions. (SIDENOTE: Immunisation injections take place in Prefabs.)

*NOT John Milton.

**According to the photocopy that shows the rules, we have to write out orders for each move for each unit - “without a clue to the objective.”