DuaneAndSette http://www.formspring.me/DuaneAndSette http://www.formspring.me 395992697862638077 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:33:36 -0500
I stand defeated.

"You're... grey. Vexing. Tall."

All right. That could have gone much worse.]]> 395991164907440254 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:27:30 -0500 395131046359749472 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:29:42 -0500 395130150078926992 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:26:08 -0500 395129736554111149 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:24:30 -0500 395129300023541447 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:22:46 -0500
"He were right. We get back home though and you pay me and I'll get some lads together and we'll shave his dogs and egg his shop."

...we'll talk.]]> 395128949530713203 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:21:22 -0500 395127033312593479 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:13:45 -0500 395126181034226780 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:10:22 -0500 395125569945100932 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:07:56 -0500
"How come you're always yellin' at me for wantin' to explore then?!"

Because all you wish to explore are the insides of strangers' pockets, squirrel.]]> 394968113512207322 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:42:16 -0500 394967011748234567 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:37:53 -0500
"Hicks and cops everywhere, I miss home."]]> 394966527251607197 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:35:58 -0500
Would you rather that fragrance up you nostrils then? It would trouble me little to have one less blasted enchantment to maintain.

"Puh, I don't give a dog's ball whatcha do. Your pymary stink ain't no worse'n awt else's, but I'm used to it. Boo's stink is all right too. Both of 'em smell similar like... like an apple left out in the sun but also poo. Slightly off apple and poo, aye."]]> 394966108098025960 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:34:18 -0500 394964986960575150 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:29:50 -0500
"Cor, that's true. Have ya ever?"

No, but imagining the act has kept me from otherwise braining with my staff many a mutton-headed client in my scrivening shop.]]> 392578052053297445 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:25:01 -0500
Further into the earth the lines grow unwieldy, then, and the khert exercises its Laws in an increasingly unpredictable manner. It is dangerous to travel too deep.]]> 392577228057102601 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:21:44 -0500 391855239763880852 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:32:49 -0500 391854700376381948 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:30:40 -0500
"I don't imagine it, I do smell it! Some pymary smells like shuttin' your tail in a door and some pymary smells like purple and some pymary smells like slime."

That clears the matter up entirely, thank you.]]> 391854619485039065 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:30:21 -0500 391853913113913279 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:27:33 -0500 391853200195470853 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:24:43 -0500
"The answer ain't complicated, daft corpse. All women want pie and riches and interestin' monsters and some want blokes but I want POWER."]]> 391852010372100852 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:19:59 -0500 391851309684252965 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:17:12 -0500
"Yeah? What were it of?"

Nothing that would be of interest to you.

"I wanna lion all over my face. I were gonna get one but Da found out and said it'd make me ugly and if I ever got ugly he'd throw me in the Bay."

I should like to throw your father in the Bay.]]> 391851111759237416 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:16:25 -0500 391849923571641612 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:11:41 -0500 391849715836145006 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:10:52 -0500 391849471937379307 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:09:54 -0500
"Were that a knock? You knockin' me? Me favourite part about travelin' with Duane is nighttimes when he belts up."]]> 391848594044373726 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:06:24 -0500
Warehouses and wherefores and wherewithals.

"Shut up, foreigner! You dunno about the undead menace! You ARE the undead menace!"]]> 391847990395955391 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:04:01 -0500 391847345341352020 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:01:27 -0500
I cannot possibly follow that.]]> 389686862920309254 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:56:28 -0500 389686498338818298 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:55:01 -0500 389686064341600160 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:53:17 -0500
"Were he as beautiful?"

Precisely as much, but he was not nearly as compact as you are, and by the time the beauty had run the course of his mountainous body, it had diluted to a ham-faced plainness.]]> 389685840239951275 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:52:24 -0500 389685061970066145 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:49:18 -0500
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"...why ya come up with such a queer situation? No one'd ever be in that situation and it don't make no sense. You're irritating!"

Perhaps he is a fantasy novelist.]]> 389684118729806060 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:45:33 -0500
I have explained the mechanics of my voice to you, damnit. Would you like to see my lungs-

"Eww, no! I don't wanna see what's under your clothes, child-fancier! You're always wantin' me t'look at your bits!"

Here, gaze upon the marvel that is my tongue. Hand-stitched! Have you ever seen such craftsmanship?

"Aaahhhhhh!"]]> 389683462543537513 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:42:57 -0500
"Pie. I had chocolate a few times and it's good, but not good enough for the price've it. I can get three meat pies for two sem! That's frootality which Da says makes me the smartest lass he's known."

Frootality... Frugality?

"If I meant that I'da said it! Stop correctin' me, you say words that don't make sense seven times an hour and I don't trust ya t'comment on mine."]]> 389682267955421574 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:38:12 -0500 389681488259481399 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:35:06 -0500 389680457240822805 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:31:00 -0500
Uncharacteristically prudent of you.

"When we get back t'Hanghorse you should jaw with these whalemen. They seen mad times!"]]> 389680299111377828 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:30:23 -0500 388947954318199315 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:00:18 -0400 388946813396211433 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:55:46 -0400
"...that were a good madman's ramble. You get up on a box outside the shops in the mornin' and put a tin at your feet, you'll make chink and no mistake."]]> 388945845317303463 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:51:55 -0400 388943985323822869 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:44:32 -0400 388943060156833113 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:40:51 -0400 388942391958070466 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:38:12 -0400 388941685666636702 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:35:24 -0400
Swishy? I am swishy?

"You gotta get some spikes on and we make ya a helmet out've a grebber skull. 'Til then I gotta think you're a homonym what's goin' t'the hells for buggery and bein' in all ways a disappointment of an attack corpse."]]> 388941471190895051 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:34:32 -0400 388940432358262752 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:30:25 -0400 388940165709580126 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:29:21 -0400 388939067221362099 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:24:59 -0400 388938905094749956 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:24:21 -0400 388938577142109423 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:23:02 -0400 388938454425162952 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:22:33 -0400 388937794816332732 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:19:56 -0400
"Give 'em practical advice like how t'pick locks! No more've your hot air up the skirt! Proper honour is payin' your jukrum and tuggin' your forelock and doin' the biddin' of your boss-king. Dishonourableness is gettin' caught and rattin' out your mates."

Brilliant. Will you charge for this sage wisdom?

"I SHOULD."]]> 388936169947156720 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:13:28 -0400 388934902675955332 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:08:26 -0400 388934299350492955 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:06:03 -0400 387867370229621541 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:26:27 -0400 387866681839481049 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:23:43 -0400 387866370030715701 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:22:28 -0400
Nevertheless this power remains a vital deterrent against not only criminals but political activists who would speak out against the Council and the faiths. I would at times hear my aspirants mutter against Vits' all-seeing eye and far-reaching hand, and I would accuse them of guilty consciences. A law-abiding citizen need not concern himself with weapons meant for criminals and terrorists.]]> 387861918217433873 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:04:47 -0400 387865177669794701 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:17:44 -0400 387864824446475750 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:16:20 -0400 387864753768266264 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:16:03 -0400
Plagues, war, and any great loss of life can have ramifications however. The khert opens to accept passing souls. Repeated openings in the same location, in the same frame of time, for multiple souls, can allow spectral matter to pass into reality, or clog the lines of the khert with ghosts. It is for this reason one often sees ghosts or strange phenomena at the site of mass death. Genocides large enough can forever change the khert in a given area, thinning the lines, forming holes, warping the passage of Aspects or staying the exercise of certain Laws.]]> 387864515766679906 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:15:06 -0400 387862558440179882 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:07:19 -0400 387862078548894550 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:05:25 -0400 386278965381197280 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:14:41 -0400
But I have known good ones; good ssemung of principle and solid character who work hard and shun debauchery. And as a Soud I understand the irrational hatred put into most of the country towards them. My people suffer it as well. Often, too, are we Soud grouped with the ssemung - in the carts, in the shops, in the bath house. Perhaps we all are less than we have the potential to be.]]> 386278759126297699 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:13:52 -0400
But excursions lifted my spirits, battle stirred my blood, Ssael blessed my hands, and my comrades were quick to destroy my hubris. Pymary is a fine pursuit but it breeds a dreadful monomania in a person, removing him from natural reality to an artificial realm of numbers and parchment and spells. National service was a lesson I needed to learn and it bettered me in every way. Perchance my planned path would have seen me wealthy, or even one day titled, but I suspect it also would have seen me less of a man.

Not one jot do I regret joining the army. Nay, I missed it ever after.]]> 386276205118126528 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:03:43 -0400 386052330300138825 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:14:07 -0400
"Stitchers?"

In centuries past they would skin heretics for leather to bind their scriptures.

"...awesome. We got the Eye of Redemption in Hanghorse. S'a lark t'lob clods at their helms when they're clankin' about on their rounds."]]> 386051753767892006 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:11:50 -0400 386049952897327138 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:04:41 -0400 385690453468544357 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:16:09 -0400
"Tirna's me favourite god. She got bullied by the others but stuck up for herself and didn't take their lip. She don't like humans and I don't like humans either so we got lots in common. I like t'get blessin's from her shrines so I don't get no sicknesses or close me tail in a door but one time I left a whole sandwich as offerin' and the next day didn't make jukrum so I went back t'the shrine and threw a egg at a monk. Tirna's a dog's backside sometimes. I would fight her."]]> 385689242858184686 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:11:21 -0400
Faerie tales.]]> 385686413204539019 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:00:06 -0400
Porous.

"Naw, that word for like, a thing that soaks up other things."

Porous.

"NO. That word that means it's got holes in!"

POROUS.

"NOOO. Balls, I thought you was supposed t'be smart!"]]> 385686194119263704 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:59:14 -0400 385684780781424991 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:53:37 -0400 385684165942599478 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:51:10 -0400
"Haha!"]]> 385683356840388350 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:47:57 -0400
I am Sette Frummagem and I- Anteit vaosa, I shall not do this.

"I win!"]]> 385682256435366074 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:43:35 -0400 385681954420322957 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:42:23 -0400 385681811985942301 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:41:49 -0400
SETTE.

"Well, that's what I heard."]]> 385681607161304690 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:41:00 -0400 385681449321259184 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:40:22 -0400
Memories are not like books. They strengthen and solidify with handling. In days bereft when I had not the wits for reading nor a tongue for speaking nor a face suitable for the company of men, I pored over the shelves of my library of memories and turned pages and scanned lines and devoured chapter and letter and verse until every second of my life was an immortalized, gilded, burnished volume incorruptible behind my false eyes. Every face there is forever. Every face there is forever.]]> 385680900727260207 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:38:12 -0400 385679018906646875 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:30:43 -0400
Sette, you cannot be the cleverest thief in all Sharteshanian history. What of worth have you stolen, hmm? What fodder have you given the bards?

"The question asked about ALL SHARTESHANIAN HISTORY. That means past history and now history and history yet t'come! When the world ends and the oceans boil and pigs fly and the earth splits open and Dwayne Adaleer is genuinely int'resting for one minute - then anyone'll be able t'look back at history and see that aye, Sette Frummagem were the best. You just wait and watch for it, zombie face."]]> 385675714734606074 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:17:35 -0400 385674392748716611 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:12:20 -0400 385673269849641783 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:07:52 -0400 385460855287858887 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:03:49 -0400 385460584784614562 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:02:44 -0400
"BOOOORING."]]> 385460177031163447 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:01:07 -0400 385460050635812240 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:37 -0400 384967744606460953 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:24:22 -0400 384967616155896781 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:23:51 -0400 384967460165549731 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:23:14 -0400 384965862936836688 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:16:53 -0400
"I want to! I'll fight it."]]> 384965566621841802 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:15:43 -0400
Of course they exist, but the common misconception that they are the souls of the dead is tiresome poppycock. They are mnemonic detritus leaked from the khert via the worn roads of pymary and pymarics. Do not let Sette convince you otherwise.

"I KNOW A GHOST THAT CURSED SOMEONE. Old Tom who used t'mop the Cricket, he got cursed by a ghost come after everyone else'd gone and after that he COULDN'T. EVER. POO. AGAIN."]]> 384965457075000756 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:15:17 -0400 384964359945746025 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:10:55 -0400
"Too right - I'm TWICE as horrid. If I helped anyone it were only insurance so I could collect on the favour later."

Perhaps even not a quarter so horrid.

"SHUTTUP."]]> 384963430278250626 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:07:14 -0400 384958105198285718 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:46:04 -0400 384957792680690431 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:44:49 -0400
"But naw, I ain't never been t'Cresce or Ulestry. I met culls from both tho' and had me way with their skins. Crescians is all real mutton-headed with their coin; they come out the moneychanger's house all janglin' and not knowin' three fish from two mum and I sell 'em a kick in the arse at three-hunnerd percent mark-up, haha!"]]> 384957430951330355 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:43:23 -0400 384956131618869107 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:38:13 -0400 384954654288534388 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:32:21 -0400
But of course the day is not dark, and the future is bright and the past is a pleasant warmth behind me, so what a foolish thing to ask.]]> 384587449793277514 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:13:13 -0400 384585053264439358 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:03:41 -0400 384066606482876368 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:43:34 -0400 379757632111530253 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:21:14 -0400
For centuries four the poor Copper thrive;
Shunned by the khert they somehow survive.

At two centuries and a half the Jet tail the red,
Blue of eye, keen of wit, bright schemes in each head.

The childish Silver live half a century at most,
Brave warriors, these kinsmen, but not too proud to boast.

For thirty years holy Platinum suffer and pine,
They are the Twins' beloved, and their arts brightest shine.

Finally the mud-coloured Bronze lurk and skulk in-between,
Unpredictable are their years; two-hundred? Nineteen?

These are your good countrymen, yellow-haired child.
They are Dammakhert-bound and Dammakhert-styled.

Your kind come from east, from the mountains of Tain,
One mortal man's lifetime is how long you'll remain.

You and your countrymen - children of fair Alderode!
They are who they are, and we are the Gold.]]> 379757121719262576 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:19:13 -0400
To be quite honest I have never understood this disdain foreigners have for the lizardfolk. I know there is bad blood between them and it has ever kept the wee ones from showing me the courtesy of a conversation, but I find them fascinating. So little is known of their Arts! One day I shall manage to befriend one of them and fathom their mysteries.]]> 372278539573031961 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:02:00 -0400
Ssael was never perfect and even now He is not perfect. Mankind is too varied and fantastic to create from it one standard. Instead Ssael is just, determined, wise, and incorruptible. He is the ultimate culmination of this imperfect world - the son of a broken home - beautiful in His flaws, enormous in His joy, unsettled by a need to see all of His brothers and sisters freed of this flesh-prison and at His side. My God is not a distant King nor stormy-browed Father; my God is my teacher and my companion. Keep your impossible perfection.]]> 372277372939960235 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:57:22 -0400
Long ago Ssael rejected those slavemasters. He saw the indifferent cruelty of those unfit lords and enacted a great revolt against them. With that revolution, Ssael became the first Man to discover within himself absolute morality; a morality that transcended the external oppression of dispassionate gods and gave him a weapon strong enough to strike those gods down forever. That great sword of truth is Ssael's gift to all of us. He waits for each and every one of his brothers and sisters to discover it within, and arm themselves for their own revolution.

This talk of dictated morality is foul to my ears. True morality is not a decree. True morality is a discovery, one that must be made again and again by every man who feels his soul within him.]]> 365044808567249524 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:57:44 -0400 326080633870777364 Sun, 13 May 2012 15:28:01 -0400 326079995682258159 Sun, 13 May 2012 15:25:29 -0400 326079717461479033 Sun, 13 May 2012 15:24:22 -0400 326078738057948948 Sun, 13 May 2012 15:20:29 -0400 326031276425376621 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:11:53 -0400 326030949462594512 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:10:35 -0400 326029479937865175 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:04:45 -0400
"I know what that's like when won't no one let ya fit in. They do it for jealousy. Da says greatness is a burden. We're burdened great people, Dwayne, and no mistake. That's why ya like me! I'm you but small and with a tail and not a absolute disappointment in all areas of life and roguery."]]> 325546490195894966 Sat, 12 May 2012 04:05:31 -0400
"But you was in the Aldish army before, I thought!"

As a young man I served three years as a fieldwright in the Order of Chinoll, a division of the Conciliatory Army. I fought in the Foi Hellick rebellion, pushed Sonorie forces out of Avelpit, and saved the life of one of the young sons of a Temple of Song official. For this I was plucked from the army and into Temple service, swiftly climbing the ranks to finally hold a position one of my common birth had little right to.]]> 325432342317398499 Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:56 -0400 325432127808099658 Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:05 -0400 325409574196628866 Fri, 11 May 2012 19:01:28 -0400 325408097604493608 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:55:36 -0400 325406022984289962 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:47:21 -0400 325405035984864859 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:43:26 -0400 325401741128398513 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:20 -0400
"I would choose red like BLUD. I seen you pick red sometimes. That's when you're real cheesed, ain't it?"

I shan't deny it. Scary, eh? Betimes the mere colour 'red' is more communicative and more frightening than every oath and blasphemous imprecation in a sailor's handbook.]]> 325401361753596618 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:28:50 -0400
"Afraid've makin' your da cry if he fought ya again and killed ya."

Would you like to duel me, Miss Frummagem? A dry duel: daggers for yourself, and I'll restrain myself to my belt.

"If I had t'duel you I'd just throw a pig steak at your face and stab your head when you were all myeaarrrgghhbwaaains eatin' it on all fours. Ever been in a street duel? I killed seventeen people last year with a BOOT."]]> 325400085036824275 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:23:45 -0400 325397963352335044 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:15:19 -0400 325029968297883598 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:03 -0400
"But he didn't go crackers for that hat-man's blood 'cause I took off his bloody glove 'cause I'm brilliant. Out've sight out've mind! Zombies ain't so hard to manage."]]> 325029504055534268 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:51:12 -0400 325022889889778286 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:24:55 -0400
What became of him?

"He got a bad fever last year and Mr. Dead jumped him. Now I reckon he's a baby somewhere bawlin' its head off and its ma prolly can't get it to shut up and it's for Lucky not bein' able to bawl when he was Lucky, haha. Now he can do all the bawlin' he cares t'do."]]> 325020341124486226 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:14:47 -0400 325018336125539668 Thu, 10 May 2012 17:06:49 -0400 324811507424586644 Thu, 10 May 2012 03:24:57 -0400
"What's wrong with eatin' rat? Ya toff, if ya'd try it ya might even fancy it!"

...jellied monny blood was ever a favourite of mine. I have not seen it here in the south, but I could not enjoy it now regardless.]]> 324811371604634344 Thu, 10 May 2012 03:24:25 -0400 324810595817776912 Thu, 10 May 2012 03:21:20 -0400
And you like that, do you?

"Aye, it's like a puzzle. 'Course, enforcement is a grand time too, beatin' protection taxes out the shops, running jobs for nobles or whoever, knockin' about seamen tryin' to smuggle in goods without Da's permission. Da has grand parties too on feast days and on them days there's no jukrum due and everyone loves Da, and those days it would be good to be the top man and have all the city out t'kiss your backside. I would demand sacrifices of pie and I think an entire case've Beadman's ginger beer and and and there'd be seventeen sword swallowers. You ever seen them, Duane? They're MAD."

Oh, I could swallow a sword.

"You got no throat, it ain't the same!"]]> 324626036551606596 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:07:58 -0400 324622948696605643 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:55:41 -0400 324620842866594737 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:47:19 -0400 324619953397323091 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:47 -0400 324456086058858770 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:52:38 -0400 324455295348667579 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:49:30 -0400 324454918624657719 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:48:00 -0400 324454703230382448 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:47:09 -0400 324453441403378007 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:42:08 -0400
Myself, I know that God walks this world still; breathes this air, holds our hands. I do not believe Him so aloof.]]> 324453365985593558 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:41:50 -0400 324451363301916596 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:33:52 -0400
God be merciful. Take it outside, Sette!]]> 324449525374669826 Wed, 09 May 2012 03:26:34 -0400 324073301297096431 Tue, 08 May 2012 02:31:35 -0400 324070357772302306 Tue, 08 May 2012 02:19:54 -0400
"And enormous bosoms."]]> 323359424372564395 Sun, 06 May 2012 03:14:54 -0400 323357976461071595 Sun, 06 May 2012 03:09:09 -0400
In truth, sir, I do not know. The removal of even my skull has not been able to give this putrid form pause, making me fear that I am something unique not only physically, but also spiritually. What monstrous manner of spectre will not or cannot flee its own headless corpse? When the inevitable arrives and this form is at last only dust and fragments of hopeless bone, what then? Does this production spiral towards a conclusion or will the khert never accept me? Is this a special, eternal hell to which I am consigned?

I do not know.]]> 323357704502409572 Sun, 06 May 2012 03:08:04 -0400 323355412864724283 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:58:57 -0400 323353582415929243 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:51:41 -0400 323352857111715923 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:48:48 -0400
"Given away?!"

Given away!]]> 323351994716679169 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:45:23 -0400 323350835339743632 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:40:46 -0400 323350053085278870 Sun, 06 May 2012 02:37:39 -0400 322272226399227463 Thu, 03 May 2012 03:14:46 -0400 322271725188296494 Thu, 03 May 2012 03:12:46 -0400 322269402198180397 Thu, 03 May 2012 03:03:32 -0400 321905220697195734 Wed, 02 May 2012 02:56:25 -0400 321905051725472366 Wed, 02 May 2012 02:55:44 -0400 321301277176760413 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:56:33 -0400
But even Ssael, as we all are, is slave to the custodianship of the khert.

I am not so foolish that I do not realise this is a punishment; that I erred so grievously in another life that upon my death the khert itself rejected me, committing me to this state to purge my sins. In life I rose above my born station, a life the khert assigned me, and I fouled its plans, so it corrects them now. The Great System will ever catch you in its teeth in the end.

I cursed and spit and railed against it once, but the khert has ears only for pymary. I struggled and thrashed but it does not hold you with hands. I asked for a word of mercy, a word of comfort, but the khert has no mouth.

It is Ssael who has all of these things. He cannot change this, and he does not want me, but

If only I had some knowledge of what has damned me to this, I

No, it is enough to realise I took too much, yet did ever as Ssael asked. I denied the khert and took too much but I served my Lord until that last moment. That is enough!]]> 321300994363229284 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:55:26 -0400
"You do it though! I know you do! Don't lie, maggotbreath!"

Belt up, Tail!]]> 321293898179679777 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:27:14 -0400 321181858349982265 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:02:02 -0400
Most, you must realise, treated the Claw like a social club, putting in an appearance only to show off their wives or talk of the latest scandals in the countryside, but I was ever in attendance only for the music; for the melodrama of the histories, the soaring celebration of the triumphant arias, the creative coloratura of the most accomplished sopranos, the climactic deaths, the lovelorn suicides, the final note that beads like a tear on the clear cheek of the welkin, tremulous, glistening, until it rolls free and you find it clinging to your own eyelashes.

Ah, the theatre! Where no evil deed goes unpunished and love is eternal.]]> 321180689506515542 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:57:23 -0400 321177483351172468 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:44:39 -0400
In any event, it is opera that is most fashionable and most followed. Plays are popularly seen as childish. I myself have never taken to the stage. I lack the charisma, wouldn't you say? No one wants to come and watch Adelier, the great, stilted bore.

"Nope!"]]> 321177256825196351 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:43:45 -0400 321175449969375346 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:36:34 -0400 321120044144672392 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:56:24 -0400 321120009608764015 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:56:16 -0400 321119917954837889 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:55:54 -0400 321119683086396298 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:54:58 -0400
"Oh, well, it's not like REALLY eatin' people. See, when Yerta first was all fat with the world and all us humans, Sister Tirna didn't like it at all. She thought her sibs were making a stoopid mistake and all us people would only cause them mischief and bother, and she was jealous too. She got the notion to feed Fat Yerta some poison so everything in her belly would die. Yerta ate it, not knowin', and felt real poorly. She was almost gonna die! The whole world flooded with poison and the earth went brown and almost everything drowned. But then Baelar, who's the first wright and the best wright, he made her a cure and she got all better. Yerta got sick all over the Outside and that's why the Twins' world has a poison moat all around it. The rest of the poison drained into the very bottom of the ocean where the Hells are.

"Anyway, everyone knew Tirna had done it 'cause her fingers was red with the softi venom she'd used. Yerta got craaazy angry and ATE HER! It must've been amazin'. Yerta ate her and Tirna was stuck in here with all've us to learn what it was like to be a person and, I dunno, having to eat and to poo and to deal with wankers and such.

"So Tirna, she goes all around and mostly she hates us, but she starts missing her sibs too, and after a long time her heart went soft and she started not hating us so much. But sometimes she still hates us. Tirna is very confusing! I like her though because it took balls and cunning to poison Fat Yerta, even if she didn't get away with it.

"Aaaanyway, on the first day of Tirna's quarter and the first day of Yerta's quarter, the important priests all over sacrifice a twin and eat 'em to please Tirna, who hates us sometimes. It's a good idea because I reckon Tirna mostly wants to murder all of us but if we do it a little bit it calms her down and shows we ain't gettin' too big for our britches."

There you have it.]]> 321119532066286166 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:54:22 -0400 321116133199448728 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:40:52 -0400 321115608982754946 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:38:47 -0400
"HEY! Cussin' adds flavour to conversation. You speak all in water and mush."]]> 321115111282442798 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:36:48 -0400 321113498157332433 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:30:23 -0400
A First Material weapon is in itself a powerful tool, but it is most effective in the hands of a specialist who can use it to not only cut the khert and block spells, but catch spells upon its blade and direct them back towards the caster. Such an opponent is one to be respected.]]> 321111938446666320 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:24:11 -0400
I prefer not to.]]> 321110530192326227 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:18:36 -0400
Beglamoured acne... not the most honourable act, I say.]]> 321110294489205039 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:17:39 -0400
Better that than the other, my darling.]]> 321109854322169254 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:15:55 -0400
"Ahahaha! Pig pee breath!"

...my windpipe is molded rawhide. It is the delicate vocal folds alone that are pymarics, a fine arrangement if I do say so myself. There was a great degree of interference between the folds and my eyes for months, and even now when the khert is troubled they interfere with each other. I've a kill word installed into the pymaric cords however, so I can cease and sequester their enchantment when it's necessary, allowing my eyes a wide, stable field in which to function. It is not a perfect system but I am still here. It must suffice.

There are grim days when it strikes me I am more ensorcellment than man. Through stitch and spell, leather, bandage, and wire I bully this vessel through a sea of days when mayhap justice should have seen it sunk long ago. But you must eat, aye? Eat and breathe and pump your hot blood-pulse. So too must I submit to my strange, cold biology and pray my being isn't damnation in itself.]]> 320426943730158728 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:02:16 -0400
"Completely original pymaric? Think there's money there?"

I posted the design to the Window years ago, my wee venomous darling, but when I finally drop you may scavenge this corpse for the piece and see what the pawnbroker will give you for it.]]> 320420320169174137 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:35:57 -0400
Silver daggers, you say? That is useful information.

"...balls."]]> 320380618003189328 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:58:11 -0400 320287295393509367 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:47:21 -0400 320287078724145678 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:46:30 -0400 320287016136751845 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:46:15 -0400
It was not a lizard. Sette, I believe a few of these people are telling us tales.]]> 320286225086812976 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:43:06 -0400 320285674504718751 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:40:55 -0400
((Ashley: Duane hates your questions :3 ))]]> 320239594010321153 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:37:48 -0400 320221027789451450 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:24:02 -0400
"Aye, well, Black Tongues is all over Sharteshane. Savvy coves know where to find 'em when ya need a favour or a job done. They're too dangerous for me own tastes; ya annoy 'em and they'll kidnap ya forever for experimentin' or skin ya and do things with your skin. I need me skin for holdin' things in! Hahaha, that rhymed."]]> 320219920107307504 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:19:38 -0400 320218681697121063 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:14:43 -0400 320217557954999369 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:10:15 -0400 320081524055617072 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:09:41 -0400 320079518922443649 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:01:44 -0400 320079259005625448 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:00:42 -0400 320078663158601718 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:58:19 -0400 320074698329167086 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:42:34 -0400 320074199467043820 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:40:35 -0400
This is why you have no friends.

"You shouldn't be talkin' up strange women!"

It was a hypothetical!

"You're a hyper thetical!"]]> 320073887859609738 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:39:21 -0400 319952837909944361 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:38:20 -0400 319906724486058936 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:35:06 -0400
...]]> 319905176569789163 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:28:57 -0400 319709537026183975 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:31:33 -0400 319709227708846525 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:30:19 -0400 319697869441345897 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:45:11 -0400 319697199053153945 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:42:31 -0400 319694329008360268 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:31:07 -0400
No.]]> 319647410684961384 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:24:41 -0400 319646935818448567 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:22:48 -0400 319646555466371692 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:21:17 -0400 319646486679792377 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:21:01 -0400 319645501949483523 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:17:06 -0400
Striking the cooking pot with the cooking spoon is not 'playing drums.'

"Is so, ya just don't comprehend the complex melodies. It's a new manner've modern drumming."]]> 319645402770970942 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:16:42 -0400 318968993383721337 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:28:54 -0400 318952445126384257 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:23:08 -0400 318951205474674889 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:18:13 -0400
You are growing increasingly difficult to transcribe. E-nun-ci-ate, my dear. Our mouth is not a sack of marbles, hmm?

"Rrrrrribbit."]]> 318950727357566681 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:16:19 -0400 318949881848797485 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:12:57 -0400
It is a white rodent with a long and bushy, striped tail. In eastern Alderode they are popular meals; in the west, we keep them as house pets. I have never understood it myself.]]> 318772700266894434 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:28:54 -0400 318637811546728930 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:32:54 -0400 318637650728724781 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:32:15 -0400 318637385552246792 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:31:12 -0400 318636623992461903 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:28:11 -0400 318164281944180011 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:11:15 -0400 317921694436040574 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:07:18 -0400 317921507642719964 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:06:34 -0400 317921021887785987 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:04:38 -0400
"Oi! I ain't gonna die! And if I do die the first thing I'ma do is FIRE YOU for FAILIN' to do the one thing ya was tasked to do!"

I would well deserve it, too!]]> 317919974779782547 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:00:28 -0400
In death, Sonum Ssael amassed an army of dissident dead and rose against the Twins. Save for Tirna, they were destroyed. Ssael was buoyed by the belief and love of his army, and made custodian of the Twins' seized powers, becoming Lord of the celestial Outside. Ever after from his perch the one God sits in wait to share the prize of eternity with his brothers and sisters when they are ready to accept it.]]> 317874023407037581 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:57:52 -0400 317837618391814053 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:33:13 -0400
"You killed 'em? Were you like a Redemptionist?"

Of a sort. The March are anarchists and murderers; their rejection of spiritual truth and law is the least of their crimes.]]> 317769520494155172 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:02:37 -0400 317761449504029835 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:30:33 -0400 317761081814548481 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:29:05 -0400 317761029712917611 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:28:53 -0400 317760840621109441 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:28:08 -0400 317760762225367574 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:27:49 -0400 317759475253510857 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:22:42 -0400 317681073054035317 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:11:09 -0400 317680909098695542 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:10:30 -0400 317551791837290194 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:37:27 -0400
I am not here.]]> 317551552271224158 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:36:29 -0400 317550581138859302 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:32:38 -0400
I am not starting this conversation with you.]]> 317550481914202199 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:32:14 -0400 317549909391709660 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:29:58 -0400 317549039585329566 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:26:30 -0400
What? What have I done?]]> 317524560167574304 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:49:14 -0400 317524292898130368 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:48:10 -0400 317430915238211323 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:37:07 -0400 317430828336430609 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:36:47 -0400 317429964976691037 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:33:21 -0400 317429533168906243 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:31:38 -0400
"I like his hound, it's pretty."]]> 317429444543254878 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:31:16 -0400 317428707662772010 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:28:21 -0400
"Ya played hooky to buss girls?"

To kiss them? Heavens, no! To make them wish that I was..? Perhaps. What is this intimation that you are not sleeping sufficiently? Is this the cause of your bile?

"All these persons is mad, Dwayne, ya can't believe nawt they say."]]> 317427556053695123 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:23:46 -0400 317339258509593353 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:32:54 -0400 317339048668567272 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:32:04 -0400 317204668214163140 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:38:06 -0400 317203101394142850 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:31:52 -0400 317201990520154386 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:27:27 -0400 317201244919700848 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:24:30 -0400 317200059181580165 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:19:47 -0400 317199737906277822 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:18:30 -0400
Continuing that perfection has become an interesting challenge these last few years, but careful maintenance of my hands helps enormously. I have never had a customer complain, in any case.]]> 317199393717486635 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:17:08 -0400 317091952354933281 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:10:12 -0400 317004027411839953 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:20:49 -0400 317003741729404697 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:19:41 -0400
It was difficult. My legs pained me, the children were a distraction, and the Plat's blatant treachery inspired a distracting ire. The pressure blast was decisive but it was dangerous and sloppy. I may have won the engagement but there was no honourable thing present in that duel, and I shan't crow over my victory.]]> 317003582652032088 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:19:03 -0400 317000628851193069 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:07:19 -0400 316997698551034549 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:55:40 -0400
You DO have a sense of morality! It is twisted and malformed, but it does thrive!

"Course I got morals! Pig-stoopidity like yours and Bodkins' is why the whole world needs a dictator like me to conquer it and make it a more better place."]]> 316994323184883204 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:42:15 -0400 316990322775178124 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:26:22 -0400
They do not like me.

"No animals like you, you're a monster thing."

Would you blunt for me that poignard 'twixt your teeth were I more a man than a monster?

"I doubt it. You'd still be Dwayne."]]> 316990120513247931 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:25:33 -0400 316989262199262206 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:22:09 -0400 316988321345583539 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:18:25 -0400
Mainly. Sette is already a marvellous hand at sums; she's added numbers in her head that would have given me pause. I suspect she would enjoy higher maths.]]> 316988097067754980 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:17:31 -0400 316986929188974848 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:12:53 -0400
"Did ya have a big nose afore it fell off?"

Some said so.]]> 316986631817014202 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:11:42 -0400 316985660084853183 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:07:50 -0400 316985517231052558 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:07:16 -0400 316985111293726553 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:05:39 -0400
Ephsephin was the brutish fellow in the unfortunate hat. You introduced him to asymmetry and infection, I should say.

"Ooohhhh, that one. He tugged on me tail like a handbrake when you was playin' with the Plat's bugs. I had to bite his face to defend me dignity and rearmost property! He won't die; no reason t'get worked up."]]> 316984836424206903 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:04:34 -0400 316984017146616863 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:01:18 -0400 316837511374574834 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:19:09 -0400 316836851048513965 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:16:31 -0400 316835497571781614 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:11:09 -0400 316833496096062612 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:03:11 -0400 316832552797080913 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:59:26 -0400 316832127767291342 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:57:45 -0400 314788620110150395 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:37:35 -0400 314788199144620895 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:35:55 -0400 314788148695536329 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:35:43 -0400 314173456633566317 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:09 -0400 314173291944230145 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:52:29 -0400 314171120787925904 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:43:52 -0400 314170382112272598 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:56 -0400
You've not yet stolen my heart, Sette; only leased it a while. I begin to suspect 'cool' is some manner of slang among these persons.

"These persons is dim as dogs."]]> 289143183365912383 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:11:46 -0500 289141398790216678 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:04:41 -0500
She will pinch your wallet.]]> 289141226412705814 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:04:00 -0500 289141087941952740 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:03:27 -0500 272288465620574381 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:57:09 -0500
When I was no more than fifteen, I saw a boy only a year older than myself learn what it was to become a component out of place in the vast mechanism of this reality. We were to melt stone in precise patterns, applying the Liquid aspect in a pail of water to sections of courtyard our master had measured out the night before. It had rained that morning, however, and water had seeped into the ground beneath the pavement, pooling beneath the stones where my schoolmate was working. When his enchantment reached a certain depth, he unwittingly attempted to apply liquid to liquid, and the khert balked. The spell ricocheted, and his right palm burst like a squashed grape.

To this day I do not relish working with liquid aspect.]]> 272287516147596570 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:53:22 -0500 272233321793070270 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:18:01 -0500
Think of our world as a living entity, containing within it all systems we associate with living entities: flesh, mind, soul, skeleton, heart, and arteries. Know then that what we see with our eyes is but the exterior flesh of Creation, called Aspects, and the great Khert is the mind and skeleton lying beneath our immediate discernment.

Like a skeleton, the khert is the core frame upon which visible reality is draped. Like the mind, the khert categorizes and maintains, holding within it all laws that govern the interaction of Aspects. The khert is the great Caretaker of the world's flesh, suturing wounds, mending burns.

We ourselves are part of the flesh of this world, and so we too are beholden to the khert, subject to its custodianship. However, we are not only a part of, but also microcosms of our world, containing with us laws unique to humans - laws we must embrace always lest we be forever subservient to the base laws of the khert. Only by detaching from the khert and passing through it to the Outside are we able to transcend this world and know the fullness of human law.]]> 272231936016002896 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:12:31 -0500 272226980647143331 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:52:49 -0500 272226668012111429 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:51:35 -0500 272211869500967977 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:52:47 -0500 272210605069318710 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:47:45 -0500 272133130452744523 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:39:54 -0500 272120660304596643 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:50:21 -0500 272119934203463084 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:47:27 -0500 272118897186965767 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:43:20 -0500 272118810016749518 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:42:59 -0500 272118578738627803 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:42:04 -0500 272118428704183050 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:41:28 -0500 272117872153594936 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:39:16 -0500 272117792457628489 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:38:57 -0500 272117057351324076 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:36:02 -0500 272116772163826155 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:34:54 -0500 272116652299000931 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:34:25 -0500 272115474731375849 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:29:44 -0500
I have but little time remaining to field these many inquiries, but rest assured we shan't be interrupted again by Miss Frummagem's antics. She SHALL NOT have any pie.]]> 272115180748422827 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:28:34 -0500 266063696545985110 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:42:08 -0500 it

do you have the pies]]> 266044626320762717 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:26:21 -0500
go

go have fun and start a fight]]> 266043660196393512 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:22:31 -0500 266043522358980967 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:21:58 -0500 266043429442553770 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:21:36 -0500 fat people wonder about that]]> 266043378884413281 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:21:24 -0500
the boys]]> 266043129889555933 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:20:24 -0500 266043041859507522 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:20:03 -0500
lk or write and
i

cant smell]]> 266042897835492511 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:19:29 -0500
I cannot reply properly, she won't stop shrieking. God's Beard, girl, I'm warning yoasdawekl
asda
w

aopn,yh]]> 266040170615156367 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:39 -0500 266039624147680014 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:06:29 -0500
SETTE. Sir, I understand your plight. I can neither smell nor taste and it does make for a grey existence.

"You can't smell either? FREAKS FREAKS FREAKS. AAAAAH!"]]> 266039429750077897 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:05:42 -0500 266036570266541609 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:54:21 -0500 266036332013303469 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:53:24 -0500 266035911920196055 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:51:44 -0500 265929679611894041 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:49:36 -0500
Something indeed sustains the ocean's cold lives but it is something anathema to mortals. Beware sounding that profundity.]]> 265919050842910891 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:07:22 -0500 265915883568763920 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:54:47 -0500
"Wouldn't anyway. Cor, lookit the size of this'n."]]> 265915638235533480 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:53:48 -0500 265914848842356145 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:50:40 -0500 265914085458065348 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:47:38 -0500 265638070273970622 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:30:51 -0500 265637183392594728 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:27:19 -0500 265636398000780081 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:24:12 -0500 265632973364141609 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:10:35 -0500 265631201262308340 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:03:33 -0500
Does some Aspect pin you to the ground? The weight of a stone? Has the dimensional border of the very earth been shifted and left you embedded in the pavement? This latter technique is a favourite of mine, and devastating. It is best not to fall into this situation at all. Run a merry dance with your foeman and do not remain standing on one piece of ground long enough for it to be swept from under you!]]> 265530709098109083 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:24:14 -0500 265527781708795845 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:12:36 -0500
Momentum is an intriguing Aspect, endlessly useful. It can be reversed, it can be slowed, it can be directed. Wrights cannot fly of course, however

"Ya can fall with style!"

That is a catchy wee phrase I must say.]]> 265527210994046968 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:10:20 -0500
That's right. The problem is that I speak properly and you speak as if gargling acorns.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! There was that time ya couldn't get the word 'thoughtless' out and was spittin' everywhere like a hungry lizard."

You had just hit me in the face with a chunk of fire wood! You split my tongue!

"It were so nice the quiet afterwards."]]> 265392934625477774 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:16:46 -0500 265390477413457348 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:07:00 -0500 265389951548402116 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:04:55 -0500 265389327666657226 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:02:26 -0500 265388243715884917 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:58:07 -0500
You are correct in recognising the vast important of the voice for most wrights. Years ago, when a new caster would enter my company and I would invite him to the circle to engage me and display his mettle, I would make certain there was at hand a barrel of water. His voice could not be silenced directly but he could not make a sound once I had wrapped his head in liquid. Such techniques are the proper course.

"Cor, you was a mean teacher!"

On the contrary; I cared for my fieldwrights too dearly to see them ignorant of all that foemen might inflict.]]> 265313396042244441 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:00:42 -0500 265297394759903689 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:57:07 -0500 265295753130285671 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:50:36 -0500 265295536150550710 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:49:44 -0500 265294903343331077 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:47:13 -0500
"Dwayne's a good hand at blowin' things up and also makin' fire. That is a good part of his personability."]]> 265294780567650990 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:46:44 -0500
"Everyone'd find out all your crushes too."]]> 265294082803240182 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:43:58 -0500 264893068249930587 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:10:29 -0500 264892856244642192 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:09:38 -0500 264892571065527991 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:08:30 -0500 264891442495763164 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:04:01 -0500 264889779273871862 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:57:24 -0500 264888225397477056 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:51:14 -0500 264888016546311935 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:50:24 -0500
Indeed they've long since left this continent, though I have heard tell from sailors that the great cats still exist elsewhere in the world. Once great cats called "lions" were common on the Madishanian plains but Gefendur warriors hunted them to extinction long ago.]]> 264887329871627649 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:47:40 -0500 264886263268514318 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:43:26 -0500 264775413308337600 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:22:57 -0500 264664772417434194 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:03:18 -0500 264664573330587683 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:02:31 -0500 264664366857592677 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:01:42 -0500 264663122747338111 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:56:45 -0500 264662586899831243 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:54:37 -0500 263939752980386763 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:02:20 -0500 263939625905554305 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:01:50 -0500 263718955238046375 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:24:58 -0500 263718658298099204 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:23:47 -0500
"Dwayne, you ever lost a duel?"

Absolutely not when pymary was the weapon of choice.

"What about when it was other weapons?"

Would you care to duel me, my Lady?

"Yes!"]]> 263718192466102366 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:21:56 -0500 263693612624129522 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:44:16 -0500 263693132044973961 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:42:21 -0500 263692613717068310 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:40:18 -0500 263692253925475705 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:38:52 -0500
"Stormy morn, sweet winds by eventide. Blizzards at the witching hour thawed to spring by dawn." No misfortune lasts an eternity. Given time, storms, flames, and mortal suffering all run their course, and up comes the sun.]]> 263692041064557207 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:38:01 -0500 263690193914045457 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:30:41 -0500 263565640067989090 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:15:45 -0500 263565418596144265 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:14:52 -0500
"...brilliant."]]> 263564390735821479 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:10:47 -0500 263529626725258675 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:52:39 -0500 263528758814704174 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:49:12 -0500 263528239673114628 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:47:08 -0500 263525963873139804 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:38:05 -0500 263525836127209191 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:37:35 -0500 263525165793547344 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:34:55 -0500 263521930210983244 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:22:04 -0500 263521725109503646 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:21:15 -0500 263521135319071328 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:18:54 -0500 263520957065335625 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:18:12 -0500 263520784843028746 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:17:30 -0500
"You're bein' a prat and no mistake."

I apologise. Ulestry is a beautiful country. The unspoilt Westgate range are the most beautiful peaks I've seen, surpassing by far the strip-mined and overhunted horison of Alderode's Gold mountains. The forests and streams seem touched by divinity, and I can understand why the pilgrim's path - the same road the Gefendur say Tirna travelled - cuts through them. Sharteshane may be a crime-ridden land but its navy is efficient, doughty, and beyond reproach. It far outstrips the Aldish fleet.

"What else? What else about Sharteshane is the best?"

It produced a betailed urchin of undeniable charm and wit with a fearsome spring, a ready blade, and the nose of the hoariest boar-hog.

"Awwwww. I knew ya could be sweet if ya really wanted. Gimme a foot rub, corpse-slave."]]> 263413369795524635 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:41 -0500 263410703564554165 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:00:05 -0500 263403328317166072 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:30:47 -0500 263401551261873394 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:23:43 -0500 263399864728038095 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:17:01 -0500 263399037481270851 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:13:44 -0500 263398915271834734 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:13:14 -0500
Even Cresce will not abide them save to hold discourse with representatives. She takes their secrets when it suits her and lops their heads off when they grow inconvenient.

In regards to the khert, you know not what it is you suggest.

((Ashley: Tainish for Black Tongues.))]]> 263398535821538980 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:11:44 -0500
And then you compensate by allowing additional lies their free run from your lips.

"All things in balance, me old deader."]]> 263395703512891699 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:00:29 -0500 263387670883870988 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:28:34 -0500 263387320969868203 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:27:10 -0500
Sharteshane is among some few nations that have yet to join Cresce's farcical "West Kasslyne Alliance," refusing to quit their trade with us or close their borders to our sailors and scholars. Cresce and their Peaceguard rats chew their ways deeper into Sharteshane's bedrock with every year, however, slowly poisoning the well of public perception. I've no great love for the Gefendur paladins that haunt much of Sharteshane, but they do make the Crescian Peaceguard unnecessary (and unwanted) supplements to the underfunded Sharteshanian constabulary. It has forced Cresce to make charitable gestures instead of peacekeeping ones, coming into the country with books and "educational materials," food and clothing for the slums, but all know their true motivation.

"Don't no one like Aldies and you weren't the first I met. They're always kickin' around the docks on leave actin' better'n everyone, gripin' o'er how they can't wait to get home, and tellin' everyone off in that language no one knows. 'Course Crescians is the same, their noses in their air like all've Sharteshane stinks and they can't manage a clear breath. I wish everyone'd stay out if they don't like it."]]> 263387124189889538 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:26:23 -0500
"Greed!"

Jealousy.

"Sausages!"]]> 263358254954852266 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:31:40 -0500 263357710139926679 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:29:31 -0500 263354560095985906 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:16:59 -0500 263353780827854646 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:13:54 -0500 263352229258343369 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:07:44 -0500 263352045988220913 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:07:00 -0500
Does my vitriol against Cresce seem excessive on these pages? You must understand I am six years the lonesome shadow-skulker, daily enduring biases instilled throughout all Kasslyne by the Crescian propaganda mill. It chafes a man until I feel every soul without Alderode is a soft-headed child with Crescian digits plunged into their skulls, kneading them into more convenient arrangements. There is no escaping it.]]> 263351670652541649 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:05:31 -0500 263348887283041460 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:54:27 -0500 263348562992051302 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:53:10 -0500 263348342824640956 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:52:17 -0500 263225819705388706 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:45:25 -0500 263224454220352134 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:40:00 -0500 263222729954559347 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:33:09 -0500 263222603718600016 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:32:39 -0500 263222327297193003 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:31:33 -0500 263220426111454812 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:23:59 -0500
"Gaaaaag."]]> 263220174155419017 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:22:59 -0500 263219406555847429 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:19:56 -0500 263219238972426893 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:19:16 -0500
"Don't you dogregate me Da, zombie! He's worth twenty-seven of you plus a pork dinner!"

Derogate.]]> 263218400770136008 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:15:57 -0500 263217150368429178 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:10:58 -0500
"Scary blokes ya don't wanna cross. Jump-Around were the grocer's boy as has the shoppe 'cross from the temple? He struck a deal with a Black Tongue, I heard, and then he weren't seen no more save for a blood stain they found dead centre've his bed. They got no love've the Twins so no reason to be good or stop from cuttin' people up. Don't never let 'em give you no Evil Eye, or you're dead meat."]]> 263216902497645517 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:09:59 -0500 263215673512038499 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:05:06 -0500 263215423988699113 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:04:07 -0500 263214916217867917 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:02:06 -0500 263111134796590374 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:09:42 -0500 263110543378757631 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:07:21 -0500 263110125638661215 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:05:42 -0500 263109741343935116 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:04:10 -0500 262987521430918639 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:58:31 -0500
Ah, so you would have me put my money where my mouth is?

"Aye, you- ha ha ha!"]]> 262987298130374088 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:57:37 -0500 262986604954523899 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:54:52 -0500 262986489623746429 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:54:25 -0500 262985697831423147 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:51:16 -0500
What you will see begin to happen is the scrim between khert and reality will have holes burnt through it, causing strange phenomena to evanesce as Aspects leak freely between planes and mnemonic stores escape their channels. Left untreated, the fire can spread quite far before the khert contains it. Often it will attempt to stymie such blazes by rushing antithetical Aspects to the site. Hence, though one may stand in the very heart of the khert blaze, and see those dreadful spectral flames reaching to the heavens, one will feel only the iciest chill.]]> 262985438975763704 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:50:14 -0500 262683076813926095 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:48:45 -0500 262682582854933580 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:46:48 -0500 262682248304658297 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:45:28 -0500
As for what wright I have met whose craft was of highest quality, I daresay I have not found one who could best me in nearly ten years.]]> 262681996403158554 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:44:28 -0500 262679367077869110 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:34:01 -0500 262679090383823440 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:32:55 -0500 262679003733696778 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:32:34 -0500 262678693229368268 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:31:20 -0500 262678422331858868 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:30:16 -0500 262677976636727595 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:28:29 -0500 262677553632776934 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:26:48 -0500 262676940966599074 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:24:22 -0500
"Dwayne Addyleer is the best way to say it and the official way too. I'm Setty!"]]> 262675824199604599 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:19:56 -0500
Efficiently.]]> 262671216400142347 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:01:38 -0500 262613591524376951 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:12:39 -0500 262494078883594415 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:17:45 -0500 262492737771670486 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:12:25 -0500 262492465867524804 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:11:20 -0500
How you are still alive is beyond my understanding.]]> 262491840232565726 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:08:51 -0500 262491429253687864 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:07:13 -0500 262491201553307162 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:06:19 -0500 262490541290170101 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:03:41 -0500
"Milk and pie."]]> 262490213043933863 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:02:23 -0500 262488468351880244 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:55:27 -0500 262487741600631101 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:52:34 -0500 262487171481474830 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:50:18 -0500 262486897140443588 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:49:12 -0500 261958944828690389 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:51:19 -0500 261958832891116253 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:50:52 -0500 261958344720258837 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:48:56 -0500 261957042812494300 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:43:45 -0500 261888313416230709 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:39 -0500 261885430285219176 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:59:12 -0500 261884890826413402 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:57:03 -0500 261883605465171497 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:51:56 -0500 261883039947165672 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:49:42 -0500 261882867477394937 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:49:01 -0500 261882317432162183 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:46:49 -0500 261881277760674793 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:42:41 -0500
Sette, education isn't for all but for those whom God has positioned on the privileged end of society it is a doorway to the wisdom of the past and hence a foothold to a loftier tomorrow. Whence come the pymarics upon which you rely unless from wrights adequately schooled?

"Suck me toe."

Intolerable.]]> 261880989045758102 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:33 -0500 261878689430511992 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:32:24 -0500
"Bah, pymary's for toffee-nosed swells anyway. I like me knife!"]]> 261878556768869187 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:31:53 -0500 261876646930295036 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:24:17 -0500 261876390079496699 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:23:16 -0500 261654135458243784 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:40:07 -0500 261653500809719464 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:37:36 -0500 261653363643395402 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:37:03 -0500 261650998093690541 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:27:39 -0500 261645757759623037 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:06:49 -0500 261645348760456128 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:05:12 -0500
"'SHORT!' Ha ha ha!"]]> 261617616727058055 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:15:00 -0500 261604384591327972 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:22:25 -0500 261603791441239889 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:20:04 -0500
"I ain't scared've ya puffed-up wankers. Ya talk as if you're tryin' to pass cobs out your rears."]]> 261602794211916542 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:16:06 -0500 261601467842953286 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:10:50 -0500
"Beheadin's is more excitin'! FHWAP! THUD."]]> 261600478134014332 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:06:54 -0500 261599578933953550 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:03:19 -0500 261598472472378445 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:58:55 -0500 261598171543637894 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:57:44 -0500 261597432981240883 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:54:48 -0500 261525574680318548 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:09:15 -0500 261524880367819176 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:06:30 -0500 261522561513295244 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:57:17 -0500 261522100353763313 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:55:27 -0500 261521467382960135 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:52:56 -0500 261521171214775399 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:51:45 -0500 261520966289463777 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:50:57 -0500 261520526030144536 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:49:12 -0500 261519388337782631 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:44:40 -0500 261519174394712613 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:43:49 -0500
Sette's is a caring hand with animals. I've marked her smiling at hounds when she thinks my attention rests elsewhere. She is not as cruel as she would have the world believe.]]> 261518263748407796 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:40:12 -0500 261516940407746918 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:34:57 -0500 261514569938115638 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:25:32 -0500
I would say it was SOMETHING - something I wish you had solved in a different manner.

I confess I know little of the current military actions taking place. I garnered from an Ulestrian paper it had something to do with Crescian surveyors pushing too far north into the DMZ, and Vits responding in the forthright way Vits normally responds. How her Majesty enjoys provoking us and then shrieking horror and surprise when we do not tolerate it. Typical Crescian warmongering.]]> 261514026981273262 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:23:22 -0500 261355932934473200 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:55:10 -0500 261333950390084712 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:27:48 -0500
Sette assures you she is content with her current conclusion.]]> 261332561844769723 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:22:18 -0500 261330700093884576 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:14:54 -0500 261330182869091742 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:12:50 -0500 261301473994880542 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:18:46 -0500 261288531211586626 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:27:20 -0500 261287135787617423 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:21:47 -0500 261221692083288214 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:01:44 -0500
Hair colour is indicative of ssultet - of caste. As for its core importance, it may interest you to know that the Tainish word for 'hair' and the Tainish word for 'crown' are the same. As an outsider in Sharteshane, one of the strangest sights for me and certainly the most difficult to acclimate myself to was that of customers in a barber's salon leaving their hair trimmed and discarded on the shop floor. Where I come from the trimmings would be burnt - a superstitious practise perhaps, but I am unaware of a good Aldishwoman who would sleep well through the night knowing her hair was in another's dustbin.]]> 261221222908436808 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:59:52 -0500
Such a practice encourages only murder, I am certain, to keep the ranks stocked. Tales travelled north, betimes, of killers lurking outside clinics to spirit away the infirm and dispatch them to an unlife of servitude, all for some paltry handful of coins. Even in Sharteshane there were rumours of it. Do not believe the propaganda you may see slathered over city walls.]]> 261214631794578285 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:33:41 -0500 261211517473532438 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:21:18 -0500 261211254968819424 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:20:16 -0500 261211114447051934 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:19:42 -0500 261210813937747890 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:18:31 -0500 261209278965092062 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:12:25 -0500 261209191438359933 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:12:04 -0500 261207810597990415 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:06:34 -0500 261161385315020004 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:02:06 -0500
"I wager ya dish duty she's a girl. Girls gotta ruin everythin' with kissin'. Go kiss a goat, girl!"]]> 261160400492441549 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:58:11 -0500 261159862413568078 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:56:03 -0500 261159622084140596 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:55:06 -0500
Sette is cackling. I can just make out her reply between snorts: "I SHOULD get a medal! They should award me a medal that's a pie plate pymaric that refills itself with pie every time I give it orders. Dunno why ya think I'm so cruel to the zombie though; he can have some've me infinite pie in exchange for not pratin' on of bothersome nonsensory for an hour."]]> 261159151978158005 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:53:13 -0500 261157771011954021 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:47:44 -0500 261157328059901683 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:45:58 -0500 261156076240510931 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:41:00 -0500 253719239108606127 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:09:40 -0400 252904468423642426 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:12:03 -0400
Aye, I realise it may seem strange that though I excel at martial pymary, it is illusory pymary that fires my imagination. However, 'tis easier to destroy than it is to create, and I'd rather leave a modest monument in my wake than a smoke-belching crater.

To your other question Sette replies: "Me most impressive acquisition? Mmm, it's hard to recollect this removed from me horde at home but lessee... I spose it's the cache I lifted off that merchantman from... oh, I don't wanna talk about that, never you mind. I do got a real toe! It's nigh long as me thumb and I tied twine 'round it and sometimes it brings me good fortunes when I wear it. You ever had a real toe all your own as weren't attached to a foot? I'll sell ya one for a bargain I wouldn't give me own granny!"]]> 252881031265270953 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:38:56 -0400
Of course, even were I to be released from this errand I do not believe I could in good conscience leave her to the caprices of the black-hearted employment into which she's been bound. The day may come when I can convince her to leave it - until then, I stand ready shield between her and calamity.]]> 252846863185617242 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:23:09 -0400 252845214132080224 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:16:36 -0400