Written By Joscelin
June 18, 2018, 3:33 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Luca
You were insufferable before, I'd imagine after winning that contest you'll be properly impossible to live with now.
Written By Joscelin
June 18, 2018, 3:26 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
I've several commissions on my docket but I've cleared up half. If you're interested in a commission feel free to send a missive, my recent focus has me feeling I've learned more in the last month than I have all year. Even when you're given the term 'master of trade', it's foolish to think you ever stop learning.
Written By Shae
June 18, 2018, 2:58 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
I'm curious about Aleksei Morgan's penance. Does this mean as he is supplicant at the mercy of the Gods, pious in his penance, will he have to relieve himself as he kneels? Be made to soil himself?
Why do you look at me that way, Scholar? I can't be curious about these things?
It will be cold too. He might freeze in place if he's made to be outside. Perhaps padding his clothing with dry moss? After the first day, which his fasting, it'll be easier if-
Why do you look at me that way, Scholar? I can't be curious about these things?
It will be cold too. He might freeze in place if he's made to be outside. Perhaps padding his clothing with dry moss? After the first day, which his fasting, it'll be easier if-
Written By Kenna
June 18, 2018, 2:01 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
It IS TOO possible to love everyone all at once!
You can't tell me any different!
You can't tell me any different!
Written By Orathy
June 18, 2018, 1:34 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
What a fun fuckin night out! Thanks to me friends Aleksei, Saedrus, Mae, Magpie, and Jeffeth.
I swear I ain't seen that much frothin in one place since, shit, yesterday.
I swear I ain't seen that much frothin in one place since, shit, yesterday.
Written By Alaric
June 18, 2018, 1:01 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
The real reason I don't often go to the Grotto is that it's very difficult not to walk by a bath, see someone stand up to bow or curtsy, then see everyone else in the bath stand up to do so because the first person did, then see everyone else in the other baths stand up to do so because the first bath did, and not feel like you've needlessly disrupted far too many people's personal relaxation time. I imagine that's like walking into a nursery and intentionally making loud noises to wake up all the babies; it feels morally incorrect on a deeply fundamental level.
That said, their wine selection is delightful and the indoor gardens are a wonderful way to recapture a bit of spring until the real one comes along, so I can't say I've never dropped in on a cold winter's day to warm up on the way from the Palace to the Bank or vice versa.
That said, their wine selection is delightful and the indoor gardens are a wonderful way to recapture a bit of spring until the real one comes along, so I can't say I've never dropped in on a cold winter's day to warm up on the way from the Palace to the Bank or vice versa.
Written By Samantha
June 18, 2018, 12:41 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Aurelian
There but for the grace of the Gods (and Gabriel Bisland) I might have gone.
Written By Aurus
June 18, 2018, 12:40 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Should I purchase clothes?
Should i wear clothes?
Such weighty questions...
Should i wear clothes?
Such weighty questions...
Written By Margret
June 18, 2018, 12:04 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Grazia
It appears that one can own an entire gem mine, and still not afford to buy class.
Written By Lisebet
June 18, 2018, 12:04 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
I went to the sip 'n spar at the Golden Hart today. It was good to catch up with friends and family, even in times of sadness and trouble. Maybe even more so during such times. The sparring was good to watch, though I think this is the first time there that I have seen so many people decide to fight without armour. It makes me wonder if this is the start of a trend. I am at the least completely certain that such fighting is not for me, which may well please my family. This does not mean that adventures are not for me; I think I still will have to go off and find things or learn things. Preferably both.
Written By Galen
June 18, 2018, 12:01 a.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Book,
A joyous day, I cannot explain the rush of emotion that has overtaken me. Becoming a father has been the most amazing thing to ever happen to me, it is as if I thought I knew what love was, but then the first time I held him I really knew what love was.
How something so small and so helpless can bring me to my knees escapes me, my entire mindset altered in brief moments, suddenly I find myself being more concerned with my own choices, I must live the example I want my son to see, I must teach him the things a father should.
What a blessing the Gods have given me in both my beautiful wife and my amazing boy!
A joyous day, I cannot explain the rush of emotion that has overtaken me. Becoming a father has been the most amazing thing to ever happen to me, it is as if I thought I knew what love was, but then the first time I held him I really knew what love was.
How something so small and so helpless can bring me to my knees escapes me, my entire mindset altered in brief moments, suddenly I find myself being more concerned with my own choices, I must live the example I want my son to see, I must teach him the things a father should.
What a blessing the Gods have given me in both my beautiful wife and my amazing boy!
Written By Lyiana
June 17, 2018, 11:54 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Today I was in the garden with a beautiful woman. It was cold as ever but we were sitting in the Grotto's warm garden. What is love, do you think? For me, it is a feeling, though for other's I do not know what it could be about. Perhaps for some, it is a feeling of warmth in the pit of one's stomach?
In all honesty I have not felt love in so long, at least not recipricated love, that I do not know what to call it. I have felt love, yes. I know the flutter of my stomach when someone I love walkes into a room, but there are different types of love, I think.
Perhaps this is just me being interspective and having a late night, but it is a thought. What is love to one person? What are the feelings one gets when confronting it?
In all honesty I have not felt love in so long, at least not recipricated love, that I do not know what to call it. I have felt love, yes. I know the flutter of my stomach when someone I love walkes into a room, but there are different types of love, I think.
Perhaps this is just me being interspective and having a late night, but it is a thought. What is love to one person? What are the feelings one gets when confronting it?
Written By Galen
June 17, 2018, 11:48 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Book,
This tour has done good for my mind, my body and my soul. It has given me some direction and let me see some of the needs of our people up close and personal. I have ideas now, plans even for what the military can do to help Thrax as a whole become a more favorable House than it even is, and plans for helping our lesser Houses rebuild and flourish.
In truth, being at sea where I feel my calling has been a great blessing and getting to take my wife along to let her see it all was a bonus.
This tour has done good for my mind, my body and my soul. It has given me some direction and let me see some of the needs of our people up close and personal. I have ideas now, plans even for what the military can do to help Thrax as a whole become a more favorable House than it even is, and plans for helping our lesser Houses rebuild and flourish.
In truth, being at sea where I feel my calling has been a great blessing and getting to take my wife along to let her see it all was a bonus.
Written By Lumen
June 17, 2018, 11:42 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Alaric
I can think of no finer chaperone nor dance partner in all the Compact!
Written By Bashira
June 17, 2018, 11:26 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
I arrived in Arx a little over two weeks ago and to say that I was unprepared for the city was an understatement. But most, if not all of the people that I have met have been kind and warm in their welcomes. I've met nobility and commoner alike. Mostly Nobility and it's been very different than I've dealt with in the past. It's refreshing in a way. I know there will be those that are very stern with traditions. So I will be alert and always use the etiquette that I've learned. I'm just still getting used to my new home.
Written By Amanda
June 17, 2018, 11:25 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
There's so much to be written, so much to be reflected upon, so many words that I could spread with this ink. But, instead of all that has been happening of late, I'll focus on something smaller. I've had a few successful client-students begin lessons with me at Whisper House. Getting back to this work, to that which I was raised to do, is to very rewarding. I thank the Gods for this opportunity.
Written By Blossom
June 17, 2018, 11:24 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
<this journal is just a doodle of the sun rising over the Bay of Thrax, with the Carlotta in the background. The ship seems to have captured her attention, given how much detail she put into it.>
Written By Blossom
June 17, 2018, 11:23 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Mirari
I think Mirari's going to ask me where I've been all of this time. I wish I could remember. Maybe I'll try to paint it?
She's upset. I don't want her to be upset.
She's upset. I don't want her to be upset.
Written By Khanne
June 17, 2018, 11:21 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
As many know, I have been far too busy for too long. Too much paperwork. Too many travels far away. A lot of things keeping me from the city itself, limiting me largely to communicating via missive. I settled into my suite yesterday and smiled, thinking, finally... finally I will be able to catch up on all the things I need to. Finally I will be able to meet with all those people I promised meetings with. Finally.
And then... well, just... an explosion of things needing my attention and making my head spin.
I decided it was best for me, after a long day of being informed of numerous, well, mind blowing actions taken, to sleep on it and address matters with a more clear head. I thought... today.. I would expound on this matters and speak at length and eloquently....
But, right before I fell asleep, Marquis Cirroch planted a seed of thought in my mind. While I slept, that seed grew, sprouted lovely flowering vines that reaches out, branched off, and idea after idea bloomed.
And so, i have spent majority of my available time today working at those ideas. Putting them into the beginning stages of action.
And so, here it is, late at night... past the point of my ability to be eloquent. I will not be addressing in full my thoughts on the recent proclamation by Dominus Aldwin. Though, I will say I often wish people would let things sink in fully before they react abruptly... much less misunderstanding might occur if people would just take the time to clarify and understand before they act or react.
But... I will say that I remain hopeful and excited for the future. If all goes well in the coming days or weeks, and this idea, these plans, take deeper root and are allowed to continue to grow, I think it could bring great things not just for those who are devoted at least in part to the Spirits, but to the Compact as a whole. Perhaps. Perhaps I am too hopeful, but, I suppose we will see....
The basis of this idea is that there are many here in the city now who have stepped down from the positions they held so dear for so long. Some of these positions held were not just a vocation, but a way in which people identified their very lives as being meant to do. However, not being able to work within the Faith due to a duality of beliefs, does not mean these people cease to be talented in their areas of expertise.
While we cannot offer the same thing, at all, what we can do, and plan to do, is create a directory of people who are not within the long established and highly respected Faith organizations, and how they can serve the Compact. So, if someone came to us and said "I am planning an expedition and am looking to take with me a healer and a guard," we could give them the names of people who have informed us of their talents in these areas and suggest they begin by speaking with them to find people who can help.
This is just at the baby stages of planning, but I wanted to let the people know, you will not need to stop doing what it is you love to do... you can do it in a different way.
Any questions, please, feel free to ask me. It is late, and I hope this is at least somewhat clear enough that those reading it can perhaps see the vision for this.
And then... well, just... an explosion of things needing my attention and making my head spin.
I decided it was best for me, after a long day of being informed of numerous, well, mind blowing actions taken, to sleep on it and address matters with a more clear head. I thought... today.. I would expound on this matters and speak at length and eloquently....
But, right before I fell asleep, Marquis Cirroch planted a seed of thought in my mind. While I slept, that seed grew, sprouted lovely flowering vines that reaches out, branched off, and idea after idea bloomed.
And so, i have spent majority of my available time today working at those ideas. Putting them into the beginning stages of action.
And so, here it is, late at night... past the point of my ability to be eloquent. I will not be addressing in full my thoughts on the recent proclamation by Dominus Aldwin. Though, I will say I often wish people would let things sink in fully before they react abruptly... much less misunderstanding might occur if people would just take the time to clarify and understand before they act or react.
But... I will say that I remain hopeful and excited for the future. If all goes well in the coming days or weeks, and this idea, these plans, take deeper root and are allowed to continue to grow, I think it could bring great things not just for those who are devoted at least in part to the Spirits, but to the Compact as a whole. Perhaps. Perhaps I am too hopeful, but, I suppose we will see....
The basis of this idea is that there are many here in the city now who have stepped down from the positions they held so dear for so long. Some of these positions held were not just a vocation, but a way in which people identified their very lives as being meant to do. However, not being able to work within the Faith due to a duality of beliefs, does not mean these people cease to be talented in their areas of expertise.
While we cannot offer the same thing, at all, what we can do, and plan to do, is create a directory of people who are not within the long established and highly respected Faith organizations, and how they can serve the Compact. So, if someone came to us and said "I am planning an expedition and am looking to take with me a healer and a guard," we could give them the names of people who have informed us of their talents in these areas and suggest they begin by speaking with them to find people who can help.
This is just at the baby stages of planning, but I wanted to let the people know, you will not need to stop doing what it is you love to do... you can do it in a different way.
Any questions, please, feel free to ask me. It is late, and I hope this is at least somewhat clear enough that those reading it can perhaps see the vision for this.
Written By Selene
June 17, 2018, 11:19 p.m.(1/13/1009 AR)
Aren't we all just feeling fabulous?
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