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Written By Audric

Jan. 23, 2019, 3:57 a.m.(6/9/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

My second is learning how to rule. It does, abruptly and for no particular reason, seem necessary. But I'll say this: There's no one I'd trust more at my back when I get a dumb idea, either on the battlefield or off. Either she tells me of the danger, or will, as she has a few times, punch me in the base of the neck and take command. Battlefield decisions are never easy, though. To say they aren't is a sign of an armchair general. I've given orders that mean folks that I like and trust will die, to carry the day. As a ruler, I've made mandates that will make some go hungry for a bit in order to make sure no one starves. If someone has a problem with Shard as a ruler, do let me know. We'll talk it out.

Written By Audric

Jan. 23, 2019, 1:45 a.m.(6/9/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Jaenelle

Of course there is! Find the parties responsible, kill them, drag their corpses back to Arx and put their heads on spikes! I'll help.

Written By Audric

Jan. 21, 2019, 7:13 a.m.(6/5/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Brady

I've given him a potentially amusing job. It might kill him! Probably not. I also haven't told him the real prize if he succeeds. Let's see what happens!

Written By Audric

Dec. 6, 2018, 10:37 a.m.(2/15/1010 AR)

I have, since my denouncement of mushrooms, received several mushroom dishes. I appreciate the artistry, I do, but mushrooms are still, just, the worst. The list goes

1) Unicorns
2) Mushrooms.

Written By Audric

Dec. 3, 2018, 3:10 a.m.(2/8/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Jeffeth

I write plenty! Usually it's just also to make fun of people. I'm basically a giant huggable idiot in person, though. I just get annoyed when I see blah blah honor honor so on and so forth or people not -doing- anything to make the world how they want it.

I'm more the type to share drinks with than the Rite type, though. I'm told people get cross when you take money to perform a rite of Gloria.

Written By Audric

Dec. 2, 2018, 10:10 a.m.(2/7/1010 AR)

I'm not a terribly introspective person. I don't wonder why people hate me - there are plenty that I've wronged. It doesn't bother me. I am the sword, the knife that cuts the throat of the ones you want to deny. I don't deny what I am. What does baffle me, though, is those who question me: when the answer is so blazingly obvious. I am the monster you want to have on your leash. I am the dog you want to snap at their neck. If you want a world without my sort of people, I'll help you blaze it, even knowing I'll never be a part of it. All you have to do is pay the price.

Written By Audric

Nov. 28, 2018, 3:46 a.m.(1/27/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Carmen

What? The training my folks get is second to none - if we weren't extremely skilled, we wouldn't, y'know, get hired to defend the Lodge from the Gargantuan long enough to actually kill it. Some of them are -very- dumb, I'll admit. Mostly the ones who did something extremely stupid and got their skull half-pulped. The rest are just strange. I take all kinds!

Written By Audric

Nov. 27, 2018, 9:25 a.m.(1/25/1010 AR)

I suppose it probably says something about me when my own subjects don't think, when they want to get some combat experience under their belt, to ask me. Maybe I kill too many people? Or maybe I kill too many monsters.

It has to be the latter, right?

Written By Audric

Nov. 22, 2018, 5:15 a.m.(1/15/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Amund

Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait. I'm sorry, I missed something. You chose to be a -sellsword- because you want to -help- people? Brother, that's not what we -do-! That's what the Knights of Solace are for! Or the various protective holy orders are for! Sellswords kill people because we like money and we like killing people without being criminals! You've got it all wrong! I think we need to start from the beginning. A virtuous sellsword is like saying someone's a bloodless butcher! It just doesn't happen unless you're really bad at your job. Really, that explains so very much.

Written By Audric

Nov. 22, 2018, 5:07 a.m.(1/15/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Amund

I do believe the title you're looking for isn't Prodigal. It's Vice-Captain of the Valorous Few, or Sword of De Lire. Someone who has done a lot more to protect the compact than you ever have. You aren't being impressive when you talk about the things you've seen. I've seen them too, my friend. I've done quite a lot worse. Everyone has seen horror. Everyone is capable of atrocity.

You speak as though every member of the Compact values life as something sacred. I have been hired to butcher whole villages of the Abandoned. To go through and put every one of them to the sword, to have my folks fan out and burn every last little shack. To take spears and stick them into the eyes of every corpse, just to make sure.

Get off your fucking high horse, sellsword, until you join up with someone with some actual principles and declare yourself. Otherwise, I'll come yank you off it and drag you through the blood-soaked mud. When murder for money is your business, you don't get to judge.

Written By Audric

Nov. 21, 2018, 5:25 a.m.(1/13/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Amund

I kill. I pillage. I raid, and I burn. I do these things because I'm paid by people of the Compact to do them. Would you care to try to kill me? You're more than welcome to make the attempt! It's always so fun when people try. I hear you call yourself a sellsword, too! You should read my book, really. One of the prime rules of sellswording is a lack of judgment. I take anyone that wants a new life, make them rich, and put them to use! Although, I probably wouldn't take you. An exception proves the rule. After all, I'd have to go through all the trouble of training you, and then you'd decide all Abandoned need to die and my Prodigal second-in-command would kill you out of hand.

Written By Audric

Nov. 18, 2018, 10:37 a.m.(1/7/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Forato

Also, you're a Duke. Don't admit when you don't know things like that. I wasn't born a Lycene, but I know our games. Never admit a weakness: it's how we get you. It's how the Hounds of the Velenosa find their teeth on your throat. You really don't want that.

Written By Audric

Nov. 18, 2018, 10:35 a.m.(1/7/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Forato

Welcome to being a bad leader. A good leader can, at least, know the name and a single fact about everyone who serves underneath them. I can tell you the blend of tobacco that every member of the Few smokes, and if they don't smoke, their preferred drink. That's one of the tricks to being a good leader - you don't have to know their every detail. Just enough to connect. That way, when they die, you feel the pain and you can use it to enact vengeance.

Written By Audric

Nov. 17, 2018, 3:47 a.m.(1/5/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Eleyna

I've always found that vengeance was its own reward.

Written By Audric

Nov. 16, 2018, 6:47 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Gareth

I didn't like you much. You paid well, which counted for a lot, but you also were the one who led to my meeting Kima. For that alone, I'll take an unprofessional amount of pleasure in being there when your killers are summarily dismembered.

Written By Audric

Nov. 16, 2018, 6:44 a.m.(1/2/1010 AR)

Relationship Note on Bliss

It's an odd thing, isn't it? The reverence people have of the deceased. I still attribute it to my life as a sellsword - we celebrated our dead by laughing at their fuckups, drinking heavily to their victories, and being happy. It's why some people call me a morbid man. Death happens to everyone, it's the one thing we all have to face. Don't mourn it! Stare it in the face, embrace the wheel, and laugh when your time comes. Celebrate life, and if you have to be upset about someone dying, get -vengeance-. Like my mentor Sazine always said: Smile every day you are alive, for you'll find it much more difficult once you're dead.

Written By Audric

Nov. 13, 2018, 1:50 a.m.(12/24/1009 AR)

Relationship Note on Thorley

As was offered to me, let me offer it to you: Should you need any help with the massive amount of paperwork you're about to have land in your lap, let me know! I can help you figure it out.

The best tip, really, is to find people who really enjoy the bits you don't. I don't know where I'd be without Lys's tireless love of mercantilism and ledgers.

Written By Audric

Nov. 12, 2018, 3:42 a.m.(12/22/1009 AR)

Relationship Note on Torian

I just don't like mushrooms, man. I never have, even when I was in the Tragedy. I'd rather have gone hungry than eaten that awful mushroom soup they made. I want to free people from the belief that these squishy bastards have any redeeming qualities.

Written By Audric

Nov. 12, 2018, 12:16 a.m.(12/22/1009 AR)

Relationship Note on Shard

Not at all. I'm not known for taking half-measures, Shard!

Written By Audric

Nov. 11, 2018, 6:19 a.m.(12/20/1009 AR)

I can no longer stand unmoving against approaching fungal enemy.

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