304 – Jolly Bottles

Jolly Bottles is a swarmling loyal to Those Rat Bastards, a minor but rising swarm on southern bank of the Garbagetown section of the Potomac River. Jolly Bottles is a member in good standing in the Black Toe Society, the clandestine organization open to all male urchins after they survive their first east coast winter. As Master of Ceremonies for the Society, Jolly Bottles is one of the prime organizers and instigators for the society’s annual Gadabout festival, in which society members don colorful, outrageous costumes in mockery of anti-urchin authority figures and perform elaborate, scatalogical farces. Althoughly technically a secret society, almost all urchins know the membership roster.

Jolly Bottles was one of the primary opponents against opening the Black Toe Society to female membership when the matter went to referendum before the Black Toes Althing in 1926. Female membership was eventually rejected, and again in 1932. The matter did not come up again, although girl urchins are believed to operate their own analogous society. The name of the girl secret society and its members are currently unknown to urchin researchers.