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Written By Derovai

June 1, 2018, 1:18 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Venturo

"Should someone only read a snapshot in time of what we document, what wrong assumptions might they jump to?"

I'd suggest that our Whites read as exactly the picture we mean to portray, and that any assumptions others make aren't necessarily wrong but merely the product of impressions left. If you brew a beer with coffee in it, most will say it's too bitter for them, but three or four might like it. Who is right in that circumstance?

Written By Oliver

June 1, 2018, 1:16 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Mongoose, I encourage you not to despair over the writings of your owner. You are a good dog.

Written By Torian

June 1, 2018, 1:14 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Joscelin

At the risk of revealing that I have my apprentices keep tabs on journals related to the Guildmaster,

If she needs good drink and good company, I can make a recommendation on both.

Written By Venturo

June 1, 2018, 1:01 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Joscelin

Nonsense, Guild Mistress. Drinking can fix many things. You just need the right drink to enjoy with the right company. I'll prove you wrong yet on this particular matter.

Written By Venturo

June 1, 2018, 1 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Cambria

I knew a fellow once who would only read the very last couple of sentences of a missive. 'Venturo,' he would tell me, 'it's only at the end that people get to what they want from you.' Once, he skipped past a missive whose last lines were a plea for money from his sister, dismissing it as yet another attempt to grab what silver he'd been able to save over the years from what he led me to believe was a greedy member of his family. Later, he'd find out, it was an askance to help tend to their mother who had grown ill, and only when news of her death came to him did he understand the consequences of that choice. From that point forward? He read each and every word of the messages that came his way.

I wonder if our whites aren't the same way. Should someone only read a snapshot in time of what we document, what wrong assumptions might they jump to? Are we best off to keep such detailed notes that our whole life might be explained, for fear of being captured wrong for all of posterity? Or are we best off leaving that mystery, keeping to only the important parts and let the future read into it what they will.

Written By Joscelin

June 1, 2018, 12:57 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Addendum:

My dog is still a traitor.

Written By Joscelin

June 1, 2018, 12:54 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

A few things I learned the last day:

My dog is a traitor.

Gems bounce even more when they have friends.

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Drinking fixes nothing. When sobriety kicks in, you still have the same shit to deal with after. If you're still drunk? Harder to handle the mess, it's easy to just fall over and leave it. I don't work that way.


Also never in a million lifetimes did I expect to read words, written by Victus Thrax himself, asking if I needed a hug. Everything is sideways now. What the fuck. But. Thanks, Lord Victus.

Written By Octavia

June 1, 2018, 12:30 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Victus

I think I'm with High Lord Edain on this. The only hugs I expect out of Victus are the sort that involve subsequently throwing someone off of a ship.

Written By Reigna

June 1, 2018, 12:29 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

*While the penmanship is clearly in Reigna's elegant hand, there is a distinctly languorous scrawl to it, the loops wide and embellished with a tendency to trail off at random.*

Kael makes the most delicious drinks in all of Arx! They are fruity and they taste of the color... mmm... they taste... pink? No. Purple! They taste of purple. It makes me happy. I have not had one in moooonths. Thanks be to the gods for wet nurses, am I not right other women who have recently birthed children? My word! I had two drinks of Kael's magical purple fruit drinks and I am feeling... well I am feeling a lot of things and so things have gotten loud for the first time in quite some time, so that is well and good I suppose, even if it shall make sleeping impossible, but then I closed my eyes and the room was spinning so perhaps sleep is not the best idea quite yet, though is surely sounds nice. In any case, the purple was delicious and I am thinking that Aeryn should get a present to perhaps ease him into brotherhood. He never had issue with Kata, though in truth, she was here before him, my sweet and darling little girl. But he's taken to saying 'NO!' every time I pick up Talis, poor thing. Though amusingly that is not unlike me when I see... you know, I think I need to put the quill down.

Yes.

Written By Sabella

June 1, 2018, 12:26 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Victus

I am glad to see that you, as a patron, are learning from the wisdom of your protege!

More hugs!!

P.S. Get your wife a present. No occasion necessary!

Written By Eirene

June 1, 2018, 12:14 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Babies are weird. Thank the gods for wetnurses and nannies.

I can go back to my previously scheduled life of weirdness, blood, pain, and loss.

Written By Octavia

June 1, 2018, 12:03 p.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

To clarify for High Inquisitor Tikva, the court would request an inquisitor fight in a Trial of Combat if and only if the accused requested one after being accused of crimes by the Inquisition. I do not believe it at all unreasonable to request the Inquisition defend its accusations with a blade if necessary. I do not see it as a matter of jurisdiction, but a matter of putting your steel where your mouth is.

If the Inquisition believes that to be an overreach of the Court's power, then they are welcome to express that to His Majesty.

Written By Caith

June 1, 2018, 11:58 a.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Victus

I fully support you hugging people! Yes! Yes!!

Written By Fredrik

June 1, 2018, 11:39 a.m.(11/23/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Edain

High Lord Edain is every inch the righteous and upright man I thought he would be. His offer to assist in the rebuilding of House RedTyde was enough, more than enough, and humbled me in many ways. But his offer of patronage? Of being his protege, as a gesture of the bond between his blood and mine? That touched me to my core, and I cannot repay him for that, even though I will certainly try.

Great-Uncle Viktor would be so very proud of you, I think, Your Grace. Our blood may be a distant connection, but when I think of how it thrives in the veins of Edain and his relatives? It makes me so very hopeful for the future.

Written By Edain

June 1, 2018, 10:41 a.m.(11/22/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Victus

Who are you and what have you done with High Lord Victus?

Written By Victus

June 1, 2018, 10:38 a.m.(11/22/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Joscelin

Do you need a hug?

Written By Cyril

June 1, 2018, 8:55 a.m.(11/22/1008 AR)

Wait, no one said anything about winter. Ew.

Written By Sabella

June 1, 2018, 8:14 a.m.(11/22/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Gianna

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to assist you in what I think is a great endeavor!

Written By Austen

June 1, 2018, 6:17 a.m.(11/21/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Tikva

I recently had the fortune to read a prayer written by Princess Tikva Grayson.

Thank you for your words, your highness, they have been most helpful in my time of need.

Written By Clover

June 1, 2018, 3:30 a.m.(11/21/1008 AR)

Relationship Note on Ryhalt

*A sketch drawn of a moment caught in time; a dark headed man holding a swaddled child upon his chest, both asleep in a chair.

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