Written By Orathy
April 27, 2018, 11:08 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Shard
His arse looked better than yer face ever will.
Written By Shard
April 27, 2018, 11:03 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
Oh this is fucking rich. This from a man who kissed the ass of Abbas once-Thrax both before and after he was de-nobled. All of a sudden you're going to cry about 'barbaric murder'?
Written By Orathy
April 27, 2018, 10:59 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
Reckon ya think that defense works for those of us still in the boroughs? Aye?
Be seemin the ticket out of bein called a criminal is to get a title bout your neck so you can kill people without anyone thinkin otherwise about it.
SHIT, we callin it justice too while we be at it?
I AM A SELLSWORD.
Be seemin the ticket out of bein called a criminal is to get a title bout your neck so you can kill people without anyone thinkin otherwise about it.
SHIT, we callin it justice too while we be at it?
I AM A SELLSWORD.
Written By Joscelin
April 27, 2018, 10:55 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Kima
[There's nothing written, a sketch of a dress made entirely of gold chains and flowers set with diamonds. Scandalous, really, the figure of a woman beneath the 'dress' made of metal and gems. It's an old drawing, nearly three years old, with the words 'Kima Saik' and 'only she could pull something like this off' written in the bottom corner.]
Written By Audric
April 27, 2018, 10:54 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
I'm from the Boroughs. Someone hurts a friend of mine, they get hurt in return. Some people killed a friend of mine, so I killed them. So, yes. You're entirely correct. My business is war for hire, I do a lot of what people would consider murder. I don't see your point.
Written By Orathy
April 27, 2018, 10:52 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
Aye, so barbaric murder it is!
Written By Audric
April 27, 2018, 10:48 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
Absolutely not.
Written By Hadrian
April 27, 2018, 10:48 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
Remind me to give you another box and bottle, next year.
Written By Hadrian
April 27, 2018, 10:47 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Kima
It would seem that while rusty, I've not lost my touch when necessity calls.
Rest well, my dearest friend. May you return to the Wheel and someday return to the world.
Rest well, my dearest friend. May you return to the Wheel and someday return to the world.
Written By Orathy
April 27, 2018, 10:46 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Audric
Reckon I suppose since yer noble 'n shit, yer gunna claim self defense.
Written By Alessandro
April 27, 2018, 10:43 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Since I have come to Arx, I have found myself reflecting on my career thus far, in the hope that I may continue to improve in my practice of the law. Though by now I have defended several, the first one always sticks in one’s mind. That first time, I was absolutely certain the man I was defending was guilty. I did not even entertain the idea of his innocence. However, I took it as a test of my knowledge of the law, and I was certain that I would prevail. There was no way to //prove// he was guilty.
Unsurprisingly, I lost.
It taught me a valuable lesson in both humility, and looking at every side of a case. If even I am unable to see my client as innocent, even for a moment, how can I convince anyone else of it? The letter of the law is not the only thing at work in a trial. No matter how well-reasoned an argument, if it is completely dispassionate, it is likely doomed to fail.
Unsurprisingly, I lost.
It taught me a valuable lesson in both humility, and looking at every side of a case. If even I am unable to see my client as innocent, even for a moment, how can I convince anyone else of it? The letter of the law is not the only thing at work in a trial. No matter how well-reasoned an argument, if it is completely dispassionate, it is likely doomed to fail.
Written By Audric
April 27, 2018, 10:39 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
I do love finally taking care of something that's been bugging me for... a long, long time now. Don't listen to anyone who says that revenge doesn't feel fantastic.
Written By Caspian
April 27, 2018, 7:56 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sparte
Are these sketches your ideas for the sigil of House Fatchforth?
Written By Cassima
April 27, 2018, 7:10 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
I make a note in the whites to alert my friends and acquaintances that I am, in fact, still among the living. However, I have not seen the world beyond my office in some weeks. The safety of the seas means that merchants are once again upon the Salt, and with this happy change comes a sudden influx of messages, invoices, manifests, and more.
The piles of paperwork grow shorter, however. There is light at the end of this tunnel.
The piles of paperwork grow shorter, however. There is light at the end of this tunnel.
Written By Margret
April 27, 2018, 6:47 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Dear apprentice,
Pain is thought of as an individual experience. It is not. Loved ones and the community at large share it.
Today a lad of six was brought to the Commons Clinic. He had been on a cart that overturned breaking his leg. The trouble with breaks is they must be set for the bone to have a chance at healing correctly. The muscles in the limb must be stretched out in order to manipulate the bone. This is no easy task, and requires several assistants. It is also remarkably painful: sometimes more painful than the initial injury.
There are times when we must cause our patients further discomfort in order to help them heal. However, everyone who loves that person experiences that pain at some level. His mother wept as she held her son down. As I am not a mother I cannot imagine her anguish at knowing what was best for him will cause him suffering. The boy’s grandfather watches as his grandson and daughter-in-law suffer, and he is made helpless to stop it. But it goes further than just the family. Their neighbors know the boy is hurt, and they ache because he is such a sweet natured child. Their children call him a friend and they are touched by his pain. They don’t play as boisterously as usual, and there is a cloud cast over them.
And they are all relying on you, apprentice, to fix the problem. You are a human and you will feel their pain, but you cannot let it show because you are the rock in the midst of this maelstrom of pain and emotion. You are the professional. It is not just your responsibility to end pain, but to be strong. So you must detach yourself from their suffering. Feel it later when you are not in their presence if you must. But do not burden them with your pain as they are already dealing with enough of their own.
Pain is thought of as an individual experience. It is not. Loved ones and the community at large share it.
Today a lad of six was brought to the Commons Clinic. He had been on a cart that overturned breaking his leg. The trouble with breaks is they must be set for the bone to have a chance at healing correctly. The muscles in the limb must be stretched out in order to manipulate the bone. This is no easy task, and requires several assistants. It is also remarkably painful: sometimes more painful than the initial injury.
There are times when we must cause our patients further discomfort in order to help them heal. However, everyone who loves that person experiences that pain at some level. His mother wept as she held her son down. As I am not a mother I cannot imagine her anguish at knowing what was best for him will cause him suffering. The boy’s grandfather watches as his grandson and daughter-in-law suffer, and he is made helpless to stop it. But it goes further than just the family. Their neighbors know the boy is hurt, and they ache because he is such a sweet natured child. Their children call him a friend and they are touched by his pain. They don’t play as boisterously as usual, and there is a cloud cast over them.
And they are all relying on you, apprentice, to fix the problem. You are a human and you will feel their pain, but you cannot let it show because you are the rock in the midst of this maelstrom of pain and emotion. You are the professional. It is not just your responsibility to end pain, but to be strong. So you must detach yourself from their suffering. Feel it later when you are not in their presence if you must. But do not burden them with your pain as they are already dealing with enough of their own.
Written By Margret
April 27, 2018, 6:26 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
It has been suggested to me that I record my musings regarding the profession of healer for those that wish to learn it. Of course the Physician's Guild and the Mercies of Lagoma has plenty of instruction regarding practice. My journal entries shall be in regards to the character and mental fortitude a healer must possess.
Written By Eirene
April 27, 2018, 6:03 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Why do you think I handed the Guild over to you. Sorry. Not sorry.
Written By Eirene
April 27, 2018, 6:02 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Aureth
Here's one for you.
Knock knock
Who's there
Spider
Spider who
Spider in her underwear, it was blue with purple polkadots.
Knock knock
Who's there
Spider
Spider who
Spider in her underwear, it was blue with purple polkadots.
Written By Aureth
April 27, 2018, 5:23 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Sometimes, part of embracing the gift that is life is remembering not to take ourselves so seriously all the time, and I think that the celebrants at the Harlequins' Picnic last evening really got what we were going for there.
It's been suggested to me that I send the winning spider as a gift to the Nox'Alfar embassy, from the Arvani Harlequins of Death. I'm taking suggestions for an accompanying joke.
It's been suggested to me that I send the winning spider as a gift to the Nox'Alfar embassy, from the Arvani Harlequins of Death. I'm taking suggestions for an accompanying joke.
Written By Oswyn
April 27, 2018, 4:35 p.m.(8/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Khanne
Lady Khanne,
I would be more than happy to take notes on future occasions. I'm sure there are other scholars who would be similarly interested as well.
Again, thank you for hosting.
I would be more than happy to take notes on future occasions. I'm sure there are other scholars who would be similarly interested as well.
Again, thank you for hosting.
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