Written By Octavia
Jan. 6, 2019, 3:53 p.m.(4/23/1010 AR)
The morning after that Philosopher's Libation drink is making me seriously reconsider if it might have been better simply to inflict my singing on others. The average Boroughs squabbles over trivial property matters are far less tolerable with a pounding headache.
Written By Kedehern
Jan. 6, 2019, 3:02 p.m.(4/23/1010 AR)
The Artshall Fete is coming soon, and it occurs to me I don't have anything to wear. Well. This will be... Interesting.
Written By Lumen
Jan. 6, 2019, 2:33 p.m.(4/23/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Samantha
Shared with somebody dear, even the least controversial of victories warms my heart. May the fondness that my cousin and I share for one another - and the familial stubbornness on which I could not be possibly made to comment - pour itself into what comes of this endeavor.
Written By Carmen
Jan. 6, 2019, 11:55 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Is there a scale of bad? In the big picture, is acid snow worse or better than huge, angry-looking ships and emissaries? Potato soup monsters are sounding pretty good right about now. That's how awful things are.
Written By Carmen
Jan. 6, 2019, 11:23 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Joscelin
My patron is back in Arx. That's great. Exactly zero surprising, unusual, or flat-out uncanny things happened to/around/at me while she was gone. The quiet was making me jumpy.
Written By Tessa
Jan. 6, 2019, 10:36 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
To my adoring fans,
I apologize it's been so long since I updated you on the many interesting things going on in my life. I fear it has simply been far too chaotic these last months. I have fought and saved unicorns, I have gone on adventures, I have learned things, I have lost things, I have been cursed, I have found a way to something I dearly wished and then felt it slip through my grasp, I have stumbled accidentally into success.
I have had joy, and I have suffered. I have learned that one must, to succeed, fail. I have learned that one must, to grow, ache. I have learned that what is boring once may become a familiar comfort later.
Life is strange. And beautiful that way.
Splendiferously,
Lady Tessa Moore
I apologize it's been so long since I updated you on the many interesting things going on in my life. I fear it has simply been far too chaotic these last months. I have fought and saved unicorns, I have gone on adventures, I have learned things, I have lost things, I have been cursed, I have found a way to something I dearly wished and then felt it slip through my grasp, I have stumbled accidentally into success.
I have had joy, and I have suffered. I have learned that one must, to succeed, fail. I have learned that one must, to grow, ache. I have learned that what is boring once may become a familiar comfort later.
Life is strange. And beautiful that way.
Splendiferously,
Lady Tessa Moore
Written By Tris
Jan. 6, 2019, 10:04 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Alrec
Go with a gift, you gauche fuck.
Written By Evangelina
Jan. 6, 2019, 9:31 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Daniella
Not only did Princess Daniella Velenosa agree to model my jewelry, she also offered me the opportunity to create pieces for an upcoming project she's working on, so not only am I incredibly happy she's willing to model for me, I'm terribly nervous about this project! I intend to do my very best work, as it's not every day you get to be part of something big and important and I don't want to let her down.
Written By Evangelina
Jan. 6, 2019, 9:28 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Berenice
Princess Berenice is so charming that even if she wasn't impossibly beautiful, she'd be impossibly beautiful, if that makes sense? Anyway, she agreed to model for me and I'm ecstatic about it, you know your dreams are taking off when the most famous model in the Lyceum agrees to support your efforts.
Written By Evangelina
Jan. 6, 2019, 9:24 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Jaenelle
Princess Jaenelle Velenosa is the very first princess to ever model jewelry of mine in Arx and I'm just so happy I can't think straight so this won't even be a very good entry but I wanted to commemorate this moment in case I ever do reach my dream of being famous and sought-after as a Purveyor of Pretty things.
Written By Raymesin
Jan. 6, 2019, 6:24 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Harlequin Raymesin.
Gutter-born bastard, lowest of the low, scum of the Compact - and now a Harlequin of the Queen of Endings.
I'd felt the call for a while, but it's true thanks I owe to Mae Culler, who took the time to sit with me and talk it all over.
Gutter-born bastard, lowest of the low, scum of the Compact - and now a Harlequin of the Queen of Endings.
I'd felt the call for a while, but it's true thanks I owe to Mae Culler, who took the time to sit with me and talk it all over.
Written By Domonico
Jan. 6, 2019, 6:14 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Lady Reigna's work and aid in helping with the injured Lady Miranda will not be forgotten.
Perhaps I may need to refrain from delivering headbutts when sparring with my cousin in the future to avoid a repeat of this.
I'm sure Lady Reigna will agree.
Perhaps I may need to refrain from delivering headbutts when sparring with my cousin in the future to avoid a repeat of this.
I'm sure Lady Reigna will agree.
Written By Domonico
Jan. 6, 2019, 6:14 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Lady Reigna's work and aid in helping with the injured Lady Miranda will not be forgotten.
Perhaps I may need to refrain from delivering headbutts when sparring with my cousin in the future to avoid a repeat of this.
I'm sure Lady Reigna will agree.
Perhaps I may need to refrain from delivering headbutts when sparring with my cousin in the future to avoid a repeat of this.
I'm sure Lady Reigna will agree.
Written By Evaristo
Jan. 6, 2019, 3:23 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Kenna
I randomly browsed some whites and came upon your gem of information. I should offer to play at this wedding! Ah, Adora - I will mourn this loss but I will bear it, knowing that Adora, this sweet gentle soul of pure kindness, will be happy.
Written By Evaristo
Jan. 6, 2019, 3:20 a.m.(4/22/1010 AR)
Singing Copper's song each evening has been an amazing thing, and once more I must thank Her Higness Sorrel for letting me perform it, to spread the message of Hope.
I've received a fair few suggestions on the last verse of my song, and today I will announce who the winner is. I'm quite pleased with the response to it, both the song itself and the competition to write the last verse which I thought of about two hours before the first concert. That skull pendant is quite fancy, I might have to make one for myself - you can wear two skull pendants, right? It's not too much? Maybe three, four... Like a whole band of them around the neck?
I mean, skulls do make for an amazing theme on jewelry!
I've received a fair few suggestions on the last verse of my song, and today I will announce who the winner is. I'm quite pleased with the response to it, both the song itself and the competition to write the last verse which I thought of about two hours before the first concert. That skull pendant is quite fancy, I might have to make one for myself - you can wear two skull pendants, right? It's not too much? Maybe three, four... Like a whole band of them around the neck?
I mean, skulls do make for an amazing theme on jewelry!
Written By Harlex
Jan. 6, 2019, 1:01 a.m.(4/21/1010 AR)
I have lived through hard times. I have nearly starved to death. I have known thirst and the delirium of the heat. The numbness of the cold.
Life can seem--cheap, from all this. It can have no special meaning.
Yet, every fight that could have been my last I clawed and bit and stabbed sometimes to where I think I lost a bit of my soul, in all that violence. Bled from me, or chipped off like a battered stone.
But I have given up the road since Arx. Has much changed? I no longer worry on hunger or finding a bed. If I am cold, I make a fire. If I am too warm? Water is so readily available.
And yet; on the road I knew the full measure of the world.
Nothing was a mystery.
I had only to follow the first Law, which has kept me alive as long as I have traveled with a sword. These days, I feel as though I fall back on that way:
Life lives on life. There are eaters and the eaten.
I have tried to moralize about it since I have come to Arx and I've failed.
There is really no moral. That's all I am able to see. Kindness is transitory, like anger is transitory. Like sorrow and joy. Hope and despair. Coming and going, round and round like a wheel turning.
You will chase it. I will chase it.
Even if it is an uncertainty. We are helpless to the fact.
But survival? That is a certainty. That is ingrained in us, in the beast, damn--even plants have it.
In the end, I know how to survive and, above all else, I know what to do when my survival is threatened.
Life can seem--cheap, from all this. It can have no special meaning.
Yet, every fight that could have been my last I clawed and bit and stabbed sometimes to where I think I lost a bit of my soul, in all that violence. Bled from me, or chipped off like a battered stone.
But I have given up the road since Arx. Has much changed? I no longer worry on hunger or finding a bed. If I am cold, I make a fire. If I am too warm? Water is so readily available.
And yet; on the road I knew the full measure of the world.
Nothing was a mystery.
I had only to follow the first Law, which has kept me alive as long as I have traveled with a sword. These days, I feel as though I fall back on that way:
Life lives on life. There are eaters and the eaten.
I have tried to moralize about it since I have come to Arx and I've failed.
There is really no moral. That's all I am able to see. Kindness is transitory, like anger is transitory. Like sorrow and joy. Hope and despair. Coming and going, round and round like a wheel turning.
You will chase it. I will chase it.
Even if it is an uncertainty. We are helpless to the fact.
But survival? That is a certainty. That is ingrained in us, in the beast, damn--even plants have it.
In the end, I know how to survive and, above all else, I know what to do when my survival is threatened.
Written By Gaston
Jan. 6, 2019, 12:25 a.m.(4/21/1010 AR)
Another successful dinner, with those I am lucky enough to call both family and friends.
The matters we discussed were grim, but their resolve and willingness to help never ceases to amaze me.
House Blackram and our allies are strong.
The matters we discussed were grim, but their resolve and willingness to help never ceases to amaze me.
House Blackram and our allies are strong.
Written By Lucita
Jan. 5, 2019, 11:07 p.m.(4/21/1010 AR)
Relationship Note on Valencia
A friendship that does not fade over time, is understanding and forgiving is a blessing.
Written By Kenna
Jan. 5, 2019, 9:13 p.m.(4/21/1010 AR)
Deputy Commander Calaudrin messaged me this morning telling me that he got the most unusual of wedding announcements. He wouldn't say who, so I am wildly guessing after skimming names among the White Journals.
Therefore, I'm assuming that it is Duke Arn Telmar and Mistress Adora from the Lowers. Congratulations to the both of them!
Therefore, I'm assuming that it is Duke Arn Telmar and Mistress Adora from the Lowers. Congratulations to the both of them!
Written By Mirella
Jan. 5, 2019, 8:51 p.m.(4/21/1010 AR)
I sometimes say that there's nothing that bites deeper than hunger. Sometimes I'm reminded that I'm wrong in thinking so.
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