Written By Bastien
June 13, 2018, 4:20 p.m.(12/23/1008 AR)
I find it curious that the Crown apparently can't find the funds to actually _pay_ anyone for the work of putting together the Commoners' Bulletin.
Written By Bastien
June 6, 2018, 4:48 p.m.(12/5/1008 AR)
Not everyone can afford the best. Someone has to provide the middling.
Written By Bastien
June 2, 2018, 12:28 a.m.(11/24/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Sabella
I am most certainly _not_ Sabella Grayson's friend.
Written By Bastien
May 16, 2018, 12:34 a.m.(10/2/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Niklas
People are going to want to be around you even less than they do already.
Written By Bastien
May 7, 2018, 12:10 a.m.(9/12/1008 AR)
It was, wasn't it.
Written By Bastien
April 28, 2018, 10:53 p.m.(8/21/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Niklas
I thought you were meant to be attempting a life as a drunken playwright? Your dedication is lacking.
Written By Bastien
April 27, 2018, 11:51 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
I am honestly astounded each day your idiotic brain even remembers how to breathe.
Written By Bastien
April 27, 2018, 11:43 p.m.(8/19/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Orathy
Ah yes, moralizing on the sins of violence from one Orathy Culler, the thug of the Lowers. So concerned with the plight of those in need! In between his regular diet of beatings, throat-slittings, and back-stabbings, I'm sure. It's amazing he has the time to complain about others'.
Written By Bastien
April 23, 2018, 1 p.m.(8/9/1008 AR)
Why are people sending me gifts?!
Written By Bastien
April 18, 2018, 2:19 a.m.(7/26/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Niklas
No.
Written By Bastien
April 18, 2018, 1:36 a.m.(7/26/1008 AR)
Sometimes people get what they deserve, and it really is remarkably delightful.
Written By Bastien
April 14, 2018, 11:58 p.m.(7/20/1008 AR)
Still getting mail about the Commons Clinic. Perhaps I need to find new depths to my rudeness to make it stop.
Now starting to consider taking payment to publicly insult someone of the payer's choosing. Probably only if it's someone I already want to insult.
Yes, someone should simply pay me to insult people I already don't like.
Now starting to consider taking payment to publicly insult someone of the payer's choosing. Probably only if it's someone I already want to insult.
Yes, someone should simply pay me to insult people I already don't like.
Written By Bastien
April 14, 2018, 12:15 a.m.(7/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Itzal
I see you.
Written By Bastien
April 14, 2018, 12:11 a.m.(7/18/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Nothing proves to the world what an upstanding noble you are than whining at commoners in the Whites, to be certain.
If I was actually making some sort of _effort_ to turn the Lowers against some clinic that I don't care about, you would certainly notice, and not from my Whites. Which you are free not to read.
Just as I am free to refuse to be some sort of "commoner whisperer" to make people like you more.
If I was actually making some sort of _effort_ to turn the Lowers against some clinic that I don't care about, you would certainly notice, and not from my Whites. Which you are free not to read.
Just as I am free to refuse to be some sort of "commoner whisperer" to make people like you more.
Written By Bastien
April 13, 2018, 10:20 p.m.(7/18/1008 AR)
To be clear: my public criticism of the nobility does not mean I am available for hire to advise anyone to be less of a blight on my awareness. Do not send me letters asking how to make the commons not hate you! I don't care about making the commons not hate you! I am not here to offer you common sense on charity!
I hope the commons hate all of you.
I hope the commons hate all of you.
Written By Bastien
April 13, 2018, 1:10 p.m.(7/17/1008 AR)
Cats are more honest and worthy creatures than humans, anyways.
Written By Bastien
April 8, 2018, 2:16 p.m.(7/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cara
Read again, your highness. I said "deaths or disappearances."
I do take pride in my work, after all.
I do take pride in my work, after all.
Written By Bastien
April 8, 2018, 12:45 p.m.(7/7/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cara
Princess Cara has been close to the following deaths or disappearances in, as far as I can tell, chronological order:
Lord Zaccheri Rubino, her first brother
Lord Addison Ashford, her first husband, traitor to the Crown
Baron Eos Saik, her friend
Duke Giovanni Rubino, her father (that her second brother apparently murdered)
Marquis Vincere Igniseri, her betrothed
Lord Pietro Igniseri, her friend and betrothed's brother
Princess Dawn Grayson, her friend and first appointer to Voice of Grayson
Duchess Sylvie Zaffria, her once sister-in-law
Duke Valkieri Rubino, her murderous second brother
Lord Killian Ashford, her friend and once brother-in-law
Lady Aislin Ashford, her friend and once cousin-in-law
One must imagine, after making a close inspection of the journals written by and about her, that they were all in a rush to escape from the incredibly large weight of the princess's ego. It's rare to find someone who clearly admires their own cleverness quite so insufferably as she clearly does. Either that or her particularly large streak of vengeful spitefulness. Perhaps they all wronged her and just didn't want to deal with hearing her complain about it. Gods know I wouldn't care to. Hopefully her latest husband manages a painless death for himself.
She even had the poor form to grovel to the Faith to take her back.
Please direct all complaints about this entry to its commissioner, Princess Cara Grayson née Rubino by way of Ashford.
Lord Zaccheri Rubino, her first brother
Lord Addison Ashford, her first husband, traitor to the Crown
Baron Eos Saik, her friend
Duke Giovanni Rubino, her father (that her second brother apparently murdered)
Marquis Vincere Igniseri, her betrothed
Lord Pietro Igniseri, her friend and betrothed's brother
Princess Dawn Grayson, her friend and first appointer to Voice of Grayson
Duchess Sylvie Zaffria, her once sister-in-law
Duke Valkieri Rubino, her murderous second brother
Lord Killian Ashford, her friend and once brother-in-law
Lady Aislin Ashford, her friend and once cousin-in-law
One must imagine, after making a close inspection of the journals written by and about her, that they were all in a rush to escape from the incredibly large weight of the princess's ego. It's rare to find someone who clearly admires their own cleverness quite so insufferably as she clearly does. Either that or her particularly large streak of vengeful spitefulness. Perhaps they all wronged her and just didn't want to deal with hearing her complain about it. Gods know I wouldn't care to. Hopefully her latest husband manages a painless death for himself.
She even had the poor form to grovel to the Faith to take her back.
Please direct all complaints about this entry to its commissioner, Princess Cara Grayson née Rubino by way of Ashford.
Written By Bastien
April 8, 2018, 1:37 a.m.(7/6/1008 AR)
Relationship Note on Cassius
I was surprised to receive a commission from Duke Cassius Pravus, once Lord Cassius Nightgold. I expressed to someone who knows slightly more of him than I do that I didn't have the impression that Duke Cassius had a sense of humor about himself, to which I was informed that Duke Cassius doesn't have a sense of humor at all.
So I took to his journals. And I found that Duke Cassius is, in fact, one of the worst things a person can be.
Dull.
Faithful, self-righteously dull, even, which is much worse. "Stalwart" is one of the most damningly boring words you can see used to describe a person. Duke Cassius belongs in the Oathlands, but he is a Northerner by birth without their sense of freedom and boisterousness, and a Lycene by marriage without their flair for wit or intrigue. It is little wonder Stonedeep traded him away, and I can only imagine he brought much of Nightgold's gold with him to offer any sort of temptation to Pravus to take him. One assumes that he was relegated to Setarco for so long in hopes that he'd learn how to be interesting and to give his wife space to find actual entertainment in Arx.
Perhaps the Pravuses have simply estimated that they can save money on poison by bringing Duke Cassius to dinners with their enemies and letting him converse about the Gods until they go ahead and poison _themselves_.
Please direct all complaints about this entry to its commissioner, Duke Cassius Pravus.
So I took to his journals. And I found that Duke Cassius is, in fact, one of the worst things a person can be.
Dull.
Faithful, self-righteously dull, even, which is much worse. "Stalwart" is one of the most damningly boring words you can see used to describe a person. Duke Cassius belongs in the Oathlands, but he is a Northerner by birth without their sense of freedom and boisterousness, and a Lycene by marriage without their flair for wit or intrigue. It is little wonder Stonedeep traded him away, and I can only imagine he brought much of Nightgold's gold with him to offer any sort of temptation to Pravus to take him. One assumes that he was relegated to Setarco for so long in hopes that he'd learn how to be interesting and to give his wife space to find actual entertainment in Arx.
Perhaps the Pravuses have simply estimated that they can save money on poison by bringing Duke Cassius to dinners with their enemies and letting him converse about the Gods until they go ahead and poison _themselves_.
Please direct all complaints about this entry to its commissioner, Duke Cassius Pravus.
Written By Bastien
April 7, 2018, 7:41 p.m.(7/6/1008 AR)
From the responses I often receive to my Whites, it seems that many -- particularly among the nobility -- are strangely in want of insult. And while I am always happy to compose insult to suit my own whims, I have no intention of doing so by request.
I will, however, consider doing so by commission. I will glance at the buyer's Whites or draw from what I know of their public behavior to compose something suitable. Pricing will range from 1,000 to 10,000 silver for nobles ranging from the family of Barons and Baronesses to the High Lords of our Great Houses.
Or 50,000 if the King is feeling bored. He does seem to be enjoying an unreasonable amount of goodwill since his return to society, and I'm sure he has days he might enjoy some viciousness.
To be clear: if you send me money, I will be insulting you, not some other target of your choice. I will offer no refunds when I hurt your feelings. That is the point.
I will, however, consider doing so by commission. I will glance at the buyer's Whites or draw from what I know of their public behavior to compose something suitable. Pricing will range from 1,000 to 10,000 silver for nobles ranging from the family of Barons and Baronesses to the High Lords of our Great Houses.
Or 50,000 if the King is feeling bored. He does seem to be enjoying an unreasonable amount of goodwill since his return to society, and I'm sure he has days he might enjoy some viciousness.
To be clear: if you send me money, I will be insulting you, not some other target of your choice. I will offer no refunds when I hurt your feelings. That is the point.
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.