Written By Galen
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:42 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Book,
It has been too many nights since I have seen my siblings, I shall seek to remedy that, I need their presence, and their counsel, much is changing and many decisions are being made which I feel they should be privy to...Not to mention I simply miss them, one of my greatest joys in returning to Arx has been seeing them.
Though between my training, drinking, charity work and Sorrel, my own time has been limited...I will figure out how to combine all of those things into one!
It has been too many nights since I have seen my siblings, I shall seek to remedy that, I need their presence, and their counsel, much is changing and many decisions are being made which I feel they should be privy to...Not to mention I simply miss them, one of my greatest joys in returning to Arx has been seeing them.
Though between my training, drinking, charity work and Sorrel, my own time has been limited...I will figure out how to combine all of those things into one!
Written By Serafine
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:38 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Apollis
How disappointing.
Written By Galen
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:36 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Book,
It has been much lately, continuing to drill with the fleet, continuing to have meeting after meeting to discuss the coming battle. I can say firmly, one way or another I look forward to some true peace for a while once this is all over.
Much less time spent drinking with friends, much more time spent planning for war! But, should we make it back, there is a silver lining in my future, though, that is a story for another day.
It has been much lately, continuing to drill with the fleet, continuing to have meeting after meeting to discuss the coming battle. I can say firmly, one way or another I look forward to some true peace for a while once this is all over.
Much less time spent drinking with friends, much more time spent planning for war! But, should we make it back, there is a silver lining in my future, though, that is a story for another day.
Written By Reigna
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:32 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
I am leaving Arx today, for a few days. More heartwrenchingly, I am leaving Aeryn. It seems like it should be a small thing, I will not be gone long, but the idea of not seeing him. Of him not seeing me... it...
It is only a few days.
A few days.
It is only a few days.
A few days.
Written By Calaudrin
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:29 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sabella
Sure, that's a great route to go if it's one incident. But they frequently come up time and time again. And while it may be 'vexing' to you, it's far more frustrating to us. I assure you.
Written By Sabella
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:26 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Street vendor food is amazing, don't let anyone tell you different.
On the other? I find it vexing that when something like this is discussed it's nobles and commoners. Why not just let it rest on the person. If someone says or does something rude, put their name to it.
There are plenty of nobles and commoners who don't act in the way that most expect. Plenty have courtesy, respect and kindness to people, despite their station.
Those who don't, name them, and let them think about their misdeeds as a person, not their title.
On the other? I find it vexing that when something like this is discussed it's nobles and commoners. Why not just let it rest on the person. If someone says or does something rude, put their name to it.
There are plenty of nobles and commoners who don't act in the way that most expect. Plenty have courtesy, respect and kindness to people, despite their station.
Those who don't, name them, and let them think about their misdeeds as a person, not their title.
Written By Apollis
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:26 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Calaudrin
Sorry to disappoint you, love. My lack of grace has always been an issue.
Written By Calaudrin
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:20 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Always disappointing to see nobility jump on commoners in the whites. I'm often astonished by /their/ lack of grace when dealing with the people they're
supposed to have the "burden" of protecting and caring for.
By the way, if you don't like street vendor food? Perhaps you're the one who should go!
supposed to have the "burden" of protecting and caring for.
By the way, if you don't like street vendor food? Perhaps you're the one who should go!
Written By Apollis
Jan. 28, 2018, 9:10 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Naomi
Seems like quite a bit would be 'beyond you'. Can't keep a few yer graces and m'lords in your thick skull? You don't belong here. Take your fried street food and go home.
Written By Naomi
Jan. 28, 2018, 8:16 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Met a princess yesterday at the training center. Pastel pink and soft-spoken, and I think I stuck my damned foot so far up my throat, I could write a treatise on the complex flavors of boot leather. I miss the Corsairs; being around people, not titles. Damned if I know who's a 'grace,' 'highness,' 'lord,' or damned pot-scrubber on sight.
Also why she trots around with a hawk is beyond me. City pigeon may be a treat for your average street-sweeper, but I can't imagine the nobility takes much satisfaction from hunting such a poor meal. Hawks belong in the mews. Unless, of course, it was just for appearances, in which case, I fear for the safety of the Grayson army, being led by such an idiot commander.
Had a fried pastry drizzled in honey yesterday, piping hot from the stand run by an old man and his gap-toothed grandson.
Give me that and a pigeon pie and I'm a happy woman.
I don't belong here. Dammit, Ford.
Damn.
Also why she trots around with a hawk is beyond me. City pigeon may be a treat for your average street-sweeper, but I can't imagine the nobility takes much satisfaction from hunting such a poor meal. Hawks belong in the mews. Unless, of course, it was just for appearances, in which case, I fear for the safety of the Grayson army, being led by such an idiot commander.
Had a fried pastry drizzled in honey yesterday, piping hot from the stand run by an old man and his gap-toothed grandson.
Give me that and a pigeon pie and I'm a happy woman.
I don't belong here. Dammit, Ford.
Damn.
Written By Cassima
Jan. 28, 2018, 8:12 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Caith
Ho---------
*It looks like someone began an entry here, but the pen slid off the page as the person keeled over dead or in a faint.*
*It looks like someone began an entry here, but the pen slid off the page as the person keeled over dead or in a faint.*
Written By Alexis
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:40 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
I didn't know Prince Fergus or Princess - Marquessa - Freja very well. I met them, and I managed to win that hand-wrestling contest Prince Fergus arranged. I spoke with his sister briefly during that, too.
But I didn't know them. Not like others did.
So I just read the journals with reverence. They touched many lives, and did many good things.
Perhaps we can be inspired by that.
But I didn't know them. Not like others did.
So I just read the journals with reverence. They touched many lives, and did many good things.
Perhaps we can be inspired by that.
Written By Alexis
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:37 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Viviana
Lady Viviana and I have found ourselves far too busy lately, but - well. Sometimes you make time.
And we did. And it was good. And I've missed her terribly.
Now I'm sitting here, scribing my journal, and already I miss her again.
And we did. And it was good. And I've missed her terribly.
Now I'm sitting here, scribing my journal, and already I miss her again.
Written By Darrow
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:36 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Not unexpected that some cannot keep thoughts private.
Why put ink to paper ?
Why put ink to paper ?
Written By Mydas
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:26 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Brogan
Thank you, uncle. Yet I will not be the only one. Your time has not yet come. The future, and its choices, await you, with the potential to change just as much.
It's a matter of Choice.
It's a matter of Choice.
Written By Thesarin
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:15 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Been talk in the Whites about right, wrong, redemption, and the will of the gods. I've got thoughts, but I don't know that they're worth setting to paper. Confess I'm ignorant on the will of the gods, and on redemption. And to right or wrong, might be I've got little ground to stand. Say one way of killing folk is right and proper, but another's past thinking of.
So I'll put that to one side, and wonder at the claim that it was necessary. That, setting aside rights and wrongs and gods, the Compact stands better than it would if things were otherwise, because of what Abbas Thrax did.
I don't doubt that some of them died, among the young and the old and the unlucky, would have been on the boats sailing at us now if they lived. I do doubt if, in a hundred years of thinking, anyone who reads these pages could think of a better way of driving the Abandoned into the arms of the enemy moving at us than what happened.
I wonder how many of them manning those fleets, who'll be killing men and women and children of the Compact before the end of spring, are kin to them killed by sickness, or allies, or just scared that they'll be the next who'll see their children made plague-crows. Folk who saw an awful wrong done, and decided they'd stand with one monster for the sake of justice on another. I wonder if it's a number bigger or smaller than was denied the the armies by setting out the plagues.
Don't reckon I'll ever know, but I wonder.
So I'll put that to one side, and wonder at the claim that it was necessary. That, setting aside rights and wrongs and gods, the Compact stands better than it would if things were otherwise, because of what Abbas Thrax did.
I don't doubt that some of them died, among the young and the old and the unlucky, would have been on the boats sailing at us now if they lived. I do doubt if, in a hundred years of thinking, anyone who reads these pages could think of a better way of driving the Abandoned into the arms of the enemy moving at us than what happened.
I wonder how many of them manning those fleets, who'll be killing men and women and children of the Compact before the end of spring, are kin to them killed by sickness, or allies, or just scared that they'll be the next who'll see their children made plague-crows. Folk who saw an awful wrong done, and decided they'd stand with one monster for the sake of justice on another. I wonder if it's a number bigger or smaller than was denied the the armies by setting out the plagues.
Don't reckon I'll ever know, but I wonder.
Written By Silas
Jan. 28, 2018, 7:11 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Everyone fails.
Though some moreso than others.
Though some moreso than others.
Written By Norwood
Jan. 28, 2018, 6:38 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
I have no qualms about being knocked upon my physical rear by someone more skilled than I am. I find it much more disconcerting to be knocked by something so simple and yet also so complex.
Written By Norwood
Jan. 28, 2018, 6:33 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
I find it no shame to be bested by one with great skills. To be disarmed by something unexpected is more eye-opening.
Written By Arn
Jan. 28, 2018, 6:04 p.m.(1/20/1008 AR)
Everyone dies. Parents die, siblings die, children die. You're all gonna die. One day you'll be dirt. Might be five minutes from now, might be five decades. Better get used to it. So have your memorials and your remembrances. Write your journals. Time's gonna come soon that too many will be gone to remember. Too many to write about. When those ships come, countless poor bastards are gonna die. Might be you're one of them. Might be I am. Few will be remembered. Will you? Probably not.
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.