Written By Gwenna
Jan. 8, 2022, 6:28 a.m.(11/22/1016 AR)
What a true honor it was to share the stage at the Bard's College with so many insightful and talented people for the The Thirteen Sorrows premiere here in Arx. Baroness Amari was simply brilliant as the storytelling scholar who filled in the tale and made the play a reasonable four hours instead of three days. I still may commission sleeping bags just for fun. Nightingale Gianna and Lord Mattheu combined their musical talents in such powerful and moving performances that I sometimes got lost in the beauty of it all. Auda Florin's turn as Duke Uthyr and Lady Adalyn's Champion were equally marvelous, and Lord Savio and Lord Orland were just beyond in their roles. Lady Zoey did an incredible job as Queen Alarice, and I hope I was half as good as Lady Mabelle, who played Anthony Laurent to my Gwen Laurent. Baroness Amari said that my fall in the battle scene was quite believable, and I had to admit that it was so because I tripped a bit on my costume and really /did/ topple over! The bruises will surely fade quicker than my ego might. I am humbled and grateful to have gotten to be part of such an inspiring tale that also happens to have a tie to my Laurent side of the family.
The reception was so well attended and I got to cross paths with dear friends old and new, as well as do a bit of potential business. There were a couple of...intriguing happenings, but what good event doesn't have at least a bit of that? All told, it was an extraordinary evening and one I will have no few cherished memories from. I can hardly wait to do it again!
The reception was so well attended and I got to cross paths with dear friends old and new, as well as do a bit of potential business. There were a couple of...intriguing happenings, but what good event doesn't have at least a bit of that? All told, it was an extraordinary evening and one I will have no few cherished memories from. I can hardly wait to do it again!
Written By Cerys
Jan. 8, 2022, 4:46 a.m.(11/22/1016 AR)
At the Shrine of the First Choice there is a painting with a plaque next to it. It's of Prism and Skald, I think? But the piece conveys a sweet moment between lovers that find themselves again and again life after life.
I think it almost tore my heart out.
I think it almost tore my heart out.
Written By Cerys
Jan. 8, 2022, 4:26 a.m.(11/22/1016 AR)
Today, I met his Majesty the King Alaric IV, Dominus Aureth, Duke Cristoph Laurent --- oh and Lord.. Grady... uh.. Deepwood! Yes that's it.
All together in the same shrine. It was very intense.
It was also very intimidating and it took everything I had not to make a complete fool of myself. I must pursue etiquette lessons as soon as possible.
All together in the same shrine. It was very intense.
It was also very intimidating and it took everything I had not to make a complete fool of myself. I must pursue etiquette lessons as soon as possible.
Written By Kiera
Jan. 7, 2022, 10:30 p.m.(11/21/1016 AR)
I had an interesting conversation this week about the necessity of all that is within mortal experience. Life. Death. hope. despair yet it seems the darker emotions seem to come easily and people foster them in others without conscious thought these days. If balance is what was being touted than surely we must work to foster hope with conscious effort lest we become mired in our darker selves. recognizing these as natural is one thing. yeilding is quite another
Written By Kiera
Jan. 7, 2022, 10:22 p.m.(11/21/1016 AR)
What a lovely performane of a Laurent leegend at the bard's college tonight. I could have done without certain costume related oddities but oddities are not wholly unexpected in these times
Written By Savio
Jan. 7, 2022, 9:28 p.m.(11/21/1016 AR)
Relationship Note on Ravana
Unexpected circumstances prevented me from properly singing to Ravana at the after party of the Thirteen Sorrows play. Needless to say, Grimthog may have had two heads, but he's got nothing on Ravana.
I'm the humblest sailor sailing the sea
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
I killed fifty pirates with only one blade
I never say sorry, I'm never afraid
Saving a maiden? Please, I saved three
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
Take a good look before I am gone
I turn back into a wisp of seafoam at dawn
Not to be fucked with, I think you'll agree
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
My enemies fruitlessly wish I was dead --
I've done all these great deeds, and with only one head.
I'm the humblest sailor sailing the sea
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
I killed fifty pirates with only one blade
I never say sorry, I'm never afraid
Saving a maiden? Please, I saved three
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
Take a good look before I am gone
I turn back into a wisp of seafoam at dawn
Not to be fucked with, I think you'll agree
I am Ravana and Ravana is me
My enemies fruitlessly wish I was dead --
I've done all these great deeds, and with only one head.
Written By Calista
Jan. 7, 2022, 9:19 p.m.(11/21/1016 AR)
The Thirteen Sorrows Premiere at the Bard's College was for a lack of better words, exciting! While I did miss the performance, the afterparty was all the rage. Lady Mabelle, Princess Gwenna, Baroness Amari, Lord Savio, Lord Orland, Nightingale Gianna, and Lord Mattheu out did themselves with performances, music, stage set and decorations, and costumes. I cannot wait for the production to go on tour and be able to experience this in Tor.
Despite the more unexpected and frighteningly entertaining aspects of the evening, I am thankful that I was able to attend and finally make the acquaintances of so many I've heard of but not had the opportunity to yet meet. It was also quite wonderful to reacquaint myself with those I'd not seen in some time.
An excellent evening, flying mask and all.
Despite the more unexpected and frighteningly entertaining aspects of the evening, I am thankful that I was able to attend and finally make the acquaintances of so many I've heard of but not had the opportunity to yet meet. It was also quite wonderful to reacquaint myself with those I'd not seen in some time.
An excellent evening, flying mask and all.
Written By Mailys
Jan. 7, 2022, 9:09 p.m.(11/21/1016 AR)
Is renovating a ship cheaper than buying new? It should be. The numbers don't confirm this yet, but it should be. That's what I told Mirari.
Written By Gio
Jan. 7, 2022, 3:16 p.m.(11/20/1016 AR)
Leaves crackle underfoot. Eventually, even the little flame-leaved maple tree in the arcady of the Whispers House will be bare. In no time at all, the air will grow crisp with cold, it will all turn to ice -- and it's going to become impossible to traverse the city streets without a proper walking cane, else I slip and suffer a fall like I did my first winter here. My left hip still aches, in that same spot, and it's also why I will gladly learn how to darn socks in an effort to stay comfortably in one place during the worst of the winter.
Because this cane will not design and craft itself,
I suppose I better start working on one.
Because this cane will not design and craft itself,
I suppose I better start working on one.
Written By Aconite
Jan. 7, 2022, 9:03 a.m.(11/20/1016 AR)
Back to Tor for a while. Harvest is completed and they need me to handle a small emergency.
Written By Brady
Jan. 7, 2022, 7:14 a.m.(11/20/1016 AR)
I used to have a sunflower ashtray. You can imagine the kind it was the moment I say it, with the petals as grooves for the smoke and the base holding the ashes. Anyway, it was fine, I can't even recall who gave it to me. Maybe it was a five-finger discount from my youth (if it's your sunflower ashtray, please reach out). Anyway, my new ashtray is less whimsy and more art. A topographical map of the Lowers. Fancy. It doubles as a bedside weapon and the seafloor depression holds the ashes. Utility, art, and a weapon. Brilliant!
Written By Gio
Jan. 6, 2022, 1:48 p.m.(11/18/1016 AR)
There may be those who tell me I'm mad,
my distaste for rhymes in verse make them sad
but my patron, Savio, I am not -
lest you forgot
but this poor attempt isn't terrible.
my distaste for rhymes in verse make them sad
but my patron, Savio, I am not -
lest you forgot
but this poor attempt isn't terrible.
Written By Aella
Jan. 6, 2022, 11:17 a.m.(11/18/1016 AR)
Scholar, sometimes I want to strangle my bird and other times I love Runa to death. This morning....it's a fine balance between both. There was a raven feather plastered to my face and I swear at some point in the middle of the night I pftt out a feather in my mouth... I love my mischievous little friend, it's a love hate relationship. I think I may need to take some lessons in how to care for her better. Perhaps find some things to keep her busy.
Written By Romulius
Jan. 6, 2022, 11:05 a.m.(11/18/1016 AR)
The Mourning Isles are not a place known for any sort of excessive sentiment.
Sentiment is largely abhorred, really, though I do not believe this to necessarily preclude its existence outright. The past weeks have afforded me the opportunity to welcome my firstborn into the world, and there is no small amount of pride to be had in the fact that Prince Marius has been so well received by the Peerage. That such fortune is accompanied by the blessings of his health and that of my wife speaks directly to the kindness of the gods, and I pray only that their benevolence continues and that I prove worthy of it.
In the days to come, Marius is to be introduced to the place of my birth in Blackshore, however radically different New Hope might be from the Keep that served as my home for so long. I expect his welcome to be an even more enthusiastic one than those that he has received from afar in the capital, another bright-eyed scion to be wrought in paint and canvas in its halls. Once, I had been arrogant enough to consider myself the pride of my family, as though being named my uncle Oswald's heir was implicit of some unrealized greatness. I have long since disavowed myself of the notion, but even if I had not, Marius has offered the revelation that 'pride' and 'greatness' can survive no longer than a single generation in the superlative.
I wonder, perhaps, if every father learns the same.
Sentiment is largely abhorred, really, though I do not believe this to necessarily preclude its existence outright. The past weeks have afforded me the opportunity to welcome my firstborn into the world, and there is no small amount of pride to be had in the fact that Prince Marius has been so well received by the Peerage. That such fortune is accompanied by the blessings of his health and that of my wife speaks directly to the kindness of the gods, and I pray only that their benevolence continues and that I prove worthy of it.
In the days to come, Marius is to be introduced to the place of my birth in Blackshore, however radically different New Hope might be from the Keep that served as my home for so long. I expect his welcome to be an even more enthusiastic one than those that he has received from afar in the capital, another bright-eyed scion to be wrought in paint and canvas in its halls. Once, I had been arrogant enough to consider myself the pride of my family, as though being named my uncle Oswald's heir was implicit of some unrealized greatness. I have long since disavowed myself of the notion, but even if I had not, Marius has offered the revelation that 'pride' and 'greatness' can survive no longer than a single generation in the superlative.
I wonder, perhaps, if every father learns the same.
Written By Triton
Jan. 6, 2022, 10:34 a.m.(11/18/1016 AR)
I am getting some sealegs under me in Arx...or maybe landlegs is more to the point. The Lady Whitehawk is proving a good source of guidance and, of course, Rosa is endless news and Cadern is more moderate but equally knowledgable. I think there are still many experiences to surprise me, but I seem to have plenty of friends and family to help keep me from treading too heavily on anyone's feelings.
Written By Aelgar
Jan. 6, 2022, 10:28 a.m.(11/18/1016 AR)
I am going to understake a project both personal and of value to the Faith. The Archscholar has agreed to help me with this one, so I am bound to succeed. The concept is simple and the execution fairly straightforward, so I am having high hopes for this one!
Written By Esme
Jan. 5, 2022, 11:58 p.m.(11/17/1016 AR)
Relationship Note on Alaric
I saw the King today. I mean, I didn't really talk to him. I didn't hug him. I just sort of saw him.
This is notable for me. I know, I know, everyone has had dinner and is his best friend, but I am not and I am SO excited to have seen him. In person.
This is notable for me. I know, I know, everyone has had dinner and is his best friend, but I am not and I am SO excited to have seen him. In person.
Written By Caspian
Jan. 5, 2022, 9:19 p.m.(11/17/1016 AR)
I've cast my lot in for this charity tournament, hopefully it will mark the start of my return to prominence. One thing im quickly learning, if i wish to be known, duels won't be enough. With recent events, a skill like myself need branch out.
Written By Lisebet
Jan. 5, 2022, 7:26 p.m.(11/17/1016 AR)
Relationship Note on Ryhalt
My brother is a man of amazing abilities, a brilliant mind and a lovely sense of humour. I hope that all runs in the family.
Written By Aella
Jan. 5, 2022, 2:19 p.m.(11/16/1016 AR)
I had an absolute grand time at a musical impromptu session at the Aboreal Enclosure last night before heading to bed. Though I oft wondered when the tree house was going to break with all the people in it. Perhaps we need to make this a monthly thing. A little more cheerfulness together with others wouldn't be so bad, especially if it involves drinking scholar.
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