Written By Monique
Aug. 22, 2017, 2:48 p.m.(1/25/1007 AR)
Let us see how well my guests like stealing their supper in a forest bower!
Written By Merek
Aug. 22, 2017, 1:54 p.m.(1/25/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Sameera
Written By Raphael
Aug. 22, 2017, 1:05 p.m.(1/25/1007 AR)
Written By Dominique
Aug. 22, 2017, 1 p.m.(1/25/1007 AR)
All this marital mess is on hold indefinitely. Such negotiations serve only to cloud the mind in the face of much more pressing issues.
Written By Leona
Aug. 22, 2017, 11:32 a.m.(1/25/1007 AR)
The measure of a person is not in the moment of glory. The moment of success. The true measure comes in that moment of failure. When mistakes, poor choices, terrible tactics, misinformation - when it all comes to a head to produce a horrifying failure - when people are dead because of choices you made: What do you do? And therein lies the heart of what makes a man great or coarse. Do you own your mistakes? Do you seek redemption? Do you admit you were wrong, as publicly as the effects of the mistakes you made, and seek redemption? Or do you lie? Do you blame others? Do you attempt to slough it off, as though it were of no matter at all?
There is no deed done that is so secret that no one knows of it or ever will. And I have no time for cowards.
Written By Archeron
Aug. 22, 2017, 9:29 a.m.(1/24/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Victus
No. I am actually encouraged. Prince Victus has accepted, owned and now seeks to deal with the problems we face. Were more of his vassals so focused on results and less on pride, he would be served better.
Written By Quenia
Aug. 22, 2017, 7:56 a.m.(1/24/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Lucita
Written By Lou
Aug. 22, 2017, 7:53 a.m.(1/24/1007 AR)
I am reminded that I need to go to him for weapons training. In the meantime... I wonder what kind of snake... well, no... that'd be punishing Reese and I've no need to do that. Sigh. Maybe frogs in his shoes then...
Written By Halsim
Aug. 22, 2017, 4:04 a.m.(1/24/1007 AR)
Hopefully, this is the last of this form of... event.
Written By Victus
Aug. 21, 2017, 10:57 p.m.(1/24/1007 AR)
The fault of the horrible mistake made at the Shrine of Mangata is mine alone. Were I more attentive to my own prayers to the Goddess and had the self-control to keep my head in check while I was speaking to them, maybe that monster never would have come here. I don't know why, I'm not even sure of the how, but I know what happened is my burden to bear.
To the people of Thrax, you can rest the weight of our sailor's deaths on my shoulders. I know how all of you suffer the moment I laid eyes on my cousin's body. I will carry that suffering with me and as is my responsibility now, I'll find justice down to every last fucking man.
Don't fear the anger, because I sure as shit am not fearing my regret. Let it be what drives you forward in the weeks and months to come that we rebuild, gather our strength and raise up from the ashes better than we've ever been. Never forget the why, the who and what can be done about it. Many have tried to break us, no amount of tentacles will be what tears us down so long as the Isles stands.
Tears in our wake, never at our wake.
Written By Rook
Aug. 21, 2017, 8:39 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Mydas
On a more serious note, you do good work for yourself, your family and your liege - you should be proud if even half of what I've heard is true.
Written By Mydas
Aug. 21, 2017, 8:27 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Written By Merek
Aug. 21, 2017, 7:56 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Ida
Written By Reigna
Aug. 21, 2017, 6:28 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
The blood ran so thick you could taste it like a copper fog. The ground squelched underfoot in the worst kind of mud and the bodies... children's bodies split open like too ripe fruit, splayed open for carrion feast I... It was the pattern written in their viscera that drug the memory of the Children of Malar to my mind. Once we knew who we were dealing with we laid those poor souls to what little rest we could offer them.
I am not a Mercy, not for lack of interest, I simply was called to Vellichor rather than Lagoma. I have never been on a true battlefield, the closest I ever came was the Grand Melee and to think, that was not true intent to harm. There was no malice, no urge to hurt and maim and kill. That day on the river I saw malice and cruelty in depths I did not know were possible. I lost a part of myself, the sight of what human beings can do to one another, what savage pleasure in death looks like.
I fear I could not handle the sight of it. A poor Mercy I would be, I lost what little was in my belly. I forced myself to look, to see, I felt that loss within myself, a bit of the child still left, a small spark of something forever lost.
Later that day Kael was wounded when fighting those abominations. He is healing well and will be back to himself in full soon.
Praise Lagoma for watching over him.
Praise Limerance for keeping him by my side, as he promised to be.
Praise Mangata whose seas brought us home.
Praise Gloria for watching his back and guiding his arm.
Praise the Sentinel for overseeing justice done to the butchers of those children.
Praise Gild for seeing us safely home from our journey.
Praise Petrichor for the success in seeing Valardin lands expanded.
Praise Jayus for the dream of freedom granted our newest Prodrigals.
May these words serve as my praise to Vellichor, my devotion to him writ in these words, this tale, painful as it is to retell.
Written By Ida
Aug. 21, 2017, 6:26 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Morrighan
Written By Ida
Aug. 21, 2017, 6:20 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Written By Reigna
Aug. 21, 2017, 5:30 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Edain
Written By Merek
Aug. 21, 2017, 4:45 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Doll
Written By Morrighan
Aug. 21, 2017, 4:30 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
Relationship Note on Ida
Written By Reese
Aug. 21, 2017, 2:25 p.m.(1/23/1007 AR)
1. People will be divided into two teams.
2. Everyone needs to choose a role. Possible roles are warrior, commander, healer, inspiration, civilian and audience. Audience will not be part of a team.
3. Steel weapons only allowed.
4. Any armor is allowed.
5. Anyone may leave the battle at any time. One may hold up their hands and head toward the audience to announce they are departing. A departing person may not be attacked.
6. The audience is an illegal target and cannot be attacked.
7. Non-combatants who are part of the mock battle can be touched with a weapon to represent a hit, but cannot be truly injured. A non-combatant who is touched with a weapon must lay down on the ground and play injured until they are treated by a healer. Anyone other than a warrior may declare themselves a non-combantant. Non-combantants may not attack, but can take other actions such as healing, inspiring and so forth.
8. Anyone who is trained in medicine may use their action to treat someone. They may treat real injuries or pretend to treat the pretend injured.
9. Civilians may be captured. If captured they are tapped on the shoulder and said to be captured. They then head over to the pretend prison camp and must stay there until rescued.
10. Warriors are expected to lay down, stop fighting and wait for treatment after they have been seriously injured. Warriors should not fight until they are unconscious unless well one blow got that them that hurt.
11. Targets laying on the ground and playing injured can be tapped again to be killed. Dead targets are out of the game. One may not truly attack with intent to injure anyone who is laying on the ground.
12. The team with the most living and non-captured targets at the end of the game wins.
13. Commanders and Inspiration will likely spend their turns giving orders and boasting morale. They make take other actions though instead of such. They may only attack if they are marked as a combatant.
I will be running the battle, but will not be part of such. It is my goal to keep everyone safe and I will be watching for such.
Reese
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