Written By Victus
Feb. 5, 2017, 11:23 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Leona
Leona Thrax has long been unwelcome in my family. She made a choice once to defy my Lord Uncle, the Prince of Maelstrom, and there are and have been consequences to that.
But he has passed, and done is done, and oaths were sworn that cannot be easily broken.
And ultimately I find that I would have had a greater contempt for an oathbreaker cousin than I do a girl who ran off to be a knight and excelled at it.
So while I did not approve of her choice then, and still do not, she is my kin by blood and she is no longer unwelcome as far as I am concerned.
But he has passed, and done is done, and oaths were sworn that cannot be easily broken.
And ultimately I find that I would have had a greater contempt for an oathbreaker cousin than I do a girl who ran off to be a knight and excelled at it.
So while I did not approve of her choice then, and still do not, she is my kin by blood and she is no longer unwelcome as far as I am concerned.
Written By Aleksei
Feb. 5, 2017, 11:14 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
Lemme tell you all something.
Luca? Fucking badass with a sword. I haven't had that amazing a fight in years.
Luca? Fucking badass with a sword. I haven't had that amazing a fight in years.
Written By Darren
Feb. 5, 2017, 11:08 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Deva
Steadfast and sure, the other half of me. We've had our missteps, our mistakes along the way, but she will forever be the one who knows me best.
Written By Cicero
Feb. 5, 2017, 10:51 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Waiting and waiting
Showing of epic patience%So worth waiting for.
Showing of epic patience%So worth waiting for.
Written By Cicero
Feb. 5, 2017, 10:48 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
A brush to canvas
The sunset, all the colors.
Looks more like a smudge.
The sunset, all the colors.
Looks more like a smudge.
Written By Sparte
Feb. 5, 2017, 10:42 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
They're everywhere. I've been in the same room as more than half a dozen princes and princesses. One tried to reassure me he liked me by telling me what he'd do if he didn't. I just wanted some cider to drink.
It doesn't matter what I'm doing, someone noble keeps showing up. On patron, fighting in the training grounds, trying to eat my lunch. Nobles, they're all over this city.
I tried asking a friendly half-giant what to do, and he suggested I do what he did. I ended up shouting ladyship at two nobles near the city center, and everyone stared at me. I need better advice.
Written By Sparte
Feb. 5, 2017, 10:31 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
I'M A GUARD! AN IRON GUARD! I DID IT!
I've already sent a bunch of letters back home with some of my starting pay. They gave me all this armor to wear and it is heavy but I'm determined to be the best iron guard they've ever seen.
Not only that, but I'm working alongside a PRINCESS. I had no idea they could or even would join the guard. I remember all the stories about princes and princesses when I was growing up, they were all such important people with special destinies.
And... And I remember the stories about what happens to a commoner that forgets their place. This is scarier than monsters.
Written By Sparte
Feb. 5, 2017, 10:28 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Finally in the city! I've heard stories about Arx but nothing could prepare me for being here. Everything is so big! The people are so fancy! The food is so expensive.
I'm going to be trying out for the guard right away. I'm told I was lucky, they've got a recruitment drive going on. I might not be a trainee for very long. I'm so excited! I can't wait to see how I measure up.
Written By Luna
Feb. 5, 2017, 9:07 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
I made a little bit of scratch, Rein and I should be able to eat this week. JOY! I did a palm reading for Marquis Kennex. He fed us, which I am more than happy about. I suppose I should buy some shoes since winter is coming. Then I met Asger a warrior or fur trapper of some kind. I like his tree marmot, he is cute, I had to part with a thimble though. Rein isn't so convinced. I should get some warmer clothing. Rein is going to want to hibernate soon. So I'll have to dance alone for awhile.
Written By Luna
Feb. 5, 2017, 8:56 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Week 2 in the City of Arx
Meeting a lot of new people. People here seem nice. Spirits are not so nice. City spirits seem to be overall and always grumpy. I have had some offers to lay my head but I refuse to leave Reinhardt behind.
Meeting a lot of new people. People here seem nice. Spirits are not so nice. City spirits seem to be overall and always grumpy. I have had some offers to lay my head but I refuse to leave Reinhardt behind.
Written By Agnarr
Feb. 5, 2017, 8:12 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Serafine
Fear you may need a more balanced diet for it.
Written By Michael
Feb. 5, 2017, 7:59 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Jael
After inadvertently interrupting Jael's prayers at the shrine of Gloria, I aim to make it up to her.
Written By Luca
Feb. 5, 2017, 7:05 a.m.(11/9/1005 AR)
Not sure which surprised me more. Losing. Or realizing after how little the losing bothered me.
Aleksei fought amazingly. Perhaps the best I've ever seen from him.
Me? My mind was filled with my lost Essie, vengeance, love delayed, Bringers, Brand, and threats to the city and land.
Fuck me, I'd almost prefer going back to being bored out of my skull and drinking most of my life away.
Maturity is hard work and I hate work!!!
Aleksei fought amazingly. Perhaps the best I've ever seen from him.
Me? My mind was filled with my lost Essie, vengeance, love delayed, Bringers, Brand, and threats to the city and land.
Fuck me, I'd almost prefer going back to being bored out of my skull and drinking most of my life away.
Maturity is hard work and I hate work!!!
Written By Julea
Feb. 5, 2017, 4:19 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
It was a hard job but someone had to do it and sometimes one just has to sacrifice themselves for the good of the people. And if that means having to slather oil over a half naked man, then so be it, I'm more than willing to offer myself up as tribute. Even if it means that my hands will smell of oils for the rest of the week. The things I do for Arx.
Written By Serafine
Feb. 5, 2017, 2:30 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Agnarr
You big beautiful fucking bastard. I will get you one day. I will. You're that one mountain everyone wants to climb. I'll do it! Eventually!
Written By Harald
Feb. 5, 2017, 1:58 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
On foes to come:
Of the Herald and his army of the Silence: not an army like any other, though it is an army the massed strength of the Compact can overcome through wisdom and warlike power. A mix of the living and restless dead, this will be one of the grand battles beloved of mainland bards.
Of the Gyre, one may plan for a war of ships and shavs, blood mad and mindless though they be, that would much resemble any other war of fleets in recent centuries, though writ upon a larger scale. Yet there is one element of this war in the southern seas that is unlike any other since the burning of the great library: it is called the kraken.
At a gathering in the Thrax palace, I was given an account of the Demon of the Deeps, the great beast called the kraken. It is said that its arms are thicker than a strong man's body, long enough to drag entire ships to doom. That it draws near to the surface to feed, and swallows warriors whole. It is said that its hide turns aside steel as easily as it does seawater, truly a monster out of legend.
I hear these stories and am glad, for if this is all true, the monster can be killed. Not without great cost in blood and ships, but it can be killed by our mortal hands. Now I begin to consider how.
Though common steel causes its hide no harm, if it is indeed demon-spawn mayhap the higher metals might yet have an effect upon it's body much as they have on the lesser demons slain thus far in Arvum: diamondplate and alaricite, weapons fit for the hands of heroes who would stand against such a monster, though at dreadful cost, for any warrior who falls in the deep shall be lost until the final night of this world, precious weapon and all.
I have considered the use of keenly pointed rams fitted to our longships, that once the beast surfaces to feed, surrounding ships might swarm is as a flock of oar-driven arrows, though the monster's nature of being proof against common metals might make such a tactic ineffective as well as badly slowing the ships at sail and unbalancing the craft's design. As well, should such rams piece the body, great damage to the ship might be done when the beast again dives deep. An unlikely course to follow, this.
Though fire is the bane of any ship crafted of timbers and sealed with tar, one must wonder the effect flame would have upon hide and sinew. A wrack loaded as a fireship; hurled pots of quicklime or pitch; a firelance kindled from Lagoma's shrine. All of these could do much or nothing.
Lastly, there is the question of Mangata's holy water. Alas that Godsworn of our race are so few, for I would greatly desire to see the effect of thirteen holy men channeling the Goddess' blessing through Mangata's own blessed seawater, when this dire beast arises to consume a ship. Can the seas themselves boil and burn such an unclean monster?
Of the Herald and his army of the Silence: not an army like any other, though it is an army the massed strength of the Compact can overcome through wisdom and warlike power. A mix of the living and restless dead, this will be one of the grand battles beloved of mainland bards.
Of the Gyre, one may plan for a war of ships and shavs, blood mad and mindless though they be, that would much resemble any other war of fleets in recent centuries, though writ upon a larger scale. Yet there is one element of this war in the southern seas that is unlike any other since the burning of the great library: it is called the kraken.
At a gathering in the Thrax palace, I was given an account of the Demon of the Deeps, the great beast called the kraken. It is said that its arms are thicker than a strong man's body, long enough to drag entire ships to doom. That it draws near to the surface to feed, and swallows warriors whole. It is said that its hide turns aside steel as easily as it does seawater, truly a monster out of legend.
I hear these stories and am glad, for if this is all true, the monster can be killed. Not without great cost in blood and ships, but it can be killed by our mortal hands. Now I begin to consider how.
Though common steel causes its hide no harm, if it is indeed demon-spawn mayhap the higher metals might yet have an effect upon it's body much as they have on the lesser demons slain thus far in Arvum: diamondplate and alaricite, weapons fit for the hands of heroes who would stand against such a monster, though at dreadful cost, for any warrior who falls in the deep shall be lost until the final night of this world, precious weapon and all.
I have considered the use of keenly pointed rams fitted to our longships, that once the beast surfaces to feed, surrounding ships might swarm is as a flock of oar-driven arrows, though the monster's nature of being proof against common metals might make such a tactic ineffective as well as badly slowing the ships at sail and unbalancing the craft's design. As well, should such rams piece the body, great damage to the ship might be done when the beast again dives deep. An unlikely course to follow, this.
Though fire is the bane of any ship crafted of timbers and sealed with tar, one must wonder the effect flame would have upon hide and sinew. A wrack loaded as a fireship; hurled pots of quicklime or pitch; a firelance kindled from Lagoma's shrine. All of these could do much or nothing.
Lastly, there is the question of Mangata's holy water. Alas that Godsworn of our race are so few, for I would greatly desire to see the effect of thirteen holy men channeling the Goddess' blessing through Mangata's own blessed seawater, when this dire beast arises to consume a ship. Can the seas themselves boil and burn such an unclean monster?
Written By Serafine
Feb. 5, 2017, 1:33 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
Good round of lessons in the Training Center. The new recruits did better than I expected. They're a solid lot, I hope we get more like them.
The finale, as Lord Commander Silas called it, was he and I pairing off against the other four Guards.
I did not expect us to win.
The other four did very well, Reese hits like a damn boulder on a chain, Calathane is lighter on his feet than he thinks and works well with a good defender to keep him focused. Sparte received training from Leta Broadbent earlier today, and it seemed to do him quite well.
Lord Killian was there to help out the others, and he did well enough with them.
We were all breathing hard and sweaty when it was over. I'm fairly proud of them all, truly. Even Killian.
Alright. I need a bath and some bandaging. Where's that damn ointment-
The finale, as Lord Commander Silas called it, was he and I pairing off against the other four Guards.
I did not expect us to win.
The other four did very well, Reese hits like a damn boulder on a chain, Calathane is lighter on his feet than he thinks and works well with a good defender to keep him focused. Sparte received training from Leta Broadbent earlier today, and it seemed to do him quite well.
Lord Killian was there to help out the others, and he did well enough with them.
We were all breathing hard and sweaty when it was over. I'm fairly proud of them all, truly. Even Killian.
Alright. I need a bath and some bandaging. Where's that damn ointment-
Written By Michael
Feb. 5, 2017, 12:56 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
I returned to Arx today and paid my respects at the shrine of Gloria. There I had the fortune to meet Sir Preston, the prince Jasher Thrax, and Lady Jael Laurent, who I believe may be somewhat of a kindred spirit--at least in humour. My sister, Lailah, came to the temple, and I managed to reconnect with her--always a pleasure after being away.
Written By Aureth
Feb. 5, 2017, 12:15 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
I have purchased some time of Luca's at a bachelor auction for a really absurd and exorbitant sum of money and now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with him.
I have promised him that a barmaid's skirts will not be involved.
I have promised him that a barmaid's skirts will not be involved.
Written By Simone
Feb. 5, 2017, 12:08 a.m.(11/8/1005 AR)
To the gentle reader:
It was such a pleasant day.
I sourced a bit of leather from a vendor in addition to a bit more rabbit pelt to have a pair of gloves made before the proper start of winter. Cold hands, warm heart. So I'm told. Although it's may be more correct to say: cold hands, frozen fingers. I spoke to a lovely assortment of people: including my cousin and a very talented seamstress. I also began collecting some liquors in earnest, as I need to begin planning a -- ah-ha. No telling you, gentles.
Although, I am wishing to expand my knowledge of what the Compact must offer as far as refreshments. Are concerned. We have a selection of whiskey at the Lodge. A couple different rums, vodka, and now a brandy. It would be nice to have a wider selection on offer. Suggest to me your favorites, gentles. Or tell me about a drinking game, a bawdy song - or, a funny story.
M. Simone Greenmarch
11/9/1005 AR
It was such a pleasant day.
I sourced a bit of leather from a vendor in addition to a bit more rabbit pelt to have a pair of gloves made before the proper start of winter. Cold hands, warm heart. So I'm told. Although it's may be more correct to say: cold hands, frozen fingers. I spoke to a lovely assortment of people: including my cousin and a very talented seamstress. I also began collecting some liquors in earnest, as I need to begin planning a -- ah-ha. No telling you, gentles.
Although, I am wishing to expand my knowledge of what the Compact must offer as far as refreshments. Are concerned. We have a selection of whiskey at the Lodge. A couple different rums, vodka, and now a brandy. It would be nice to have a wider selection on offer. Suggest to me your favorites, gentles. Or tell me about a drinking game, a bawdy song - or, a funny story.
M. Simone Greenmarch
11/9/1005 AR
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