Dale News - 2013-07
| Date | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | ESGAROTH | Let's talk |
| 01 | ESGAROTH | The Pipsqueak and the Dwarf |
| 03 | ESGAROTH | Bursting at the seams |
| 04 | ESGAROTH | What Not to Wear |
| 07 | ESGAROTH | Two Karaths and a Dwarf |
| 07 | ESGAROTH | Public Displays of Affection.. |
| 07 | ESGAROTH | Hawks and Healers |
| 28 | ESGAROTH | A cure for all ills! |
| 31 | ESGAROTH | Doom and Gloom |
| Post Title: | Let's talk |
| Author: | Oriana |
| Date posted: | 01 July 2013 |
| So it seems the tavern was rather dull last night. That cold strong wind kept everyone away. A dwarf, ugh what was his name? Came around and didn't much think of it, he -is- a dwarf, they seem to put themselves throught anything for a good cup of ale. It was that Lady Oriana that I had seen talking to someone, was his name Earl, Steve... Adom maybe? Hard to say I didn't hear to much, only saw them talk for a bit and then he left. Man even the rumours seem dull or maybe I just failed to overhear something.. | |
| Post Title: | The Pipsqueak and the Dwarf |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 01 July 2013 |
| Wonder if that Dwarf who was in the tavern with Lady Oriana and the other fellow was the same one I saw young LOUSE spitting apple pips at? Me, I'd have thrashed that slippery little weasel for her impudence, but he seemed more interested in finding out where she'd got the apple from. And it seems that Louse was feeling generous, for when she saw the woebegone whiskers on him she offered him her last bite. Thankfully the Dwarf had more sense than to touch it (who knows what diseases those Decks rats carry?) but next thing he was giving her a gold link from his belt! At least, it glinted like gold, though maybe it was just brass.
Didn't catch the Dwarf's name, sounded like a sneeze (could it have been AGARHAZ?). Funny thing, old Garric who used to be a King's Man swore that particular Dwarf looked familiar, said that face put him in mind of long ago. Me, I reckon Dwarves all look the same. It's the beards, you know. | |
| Post Title: | Bursting at the seams |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 03 July 2013 |
| Sometimes I can't get over the cheek of that young good-for-nothing LOUSE! The other afternoon she and that white dog of Lady Arla's, Conal, came bursting into the Suites like a whirlwind, and next thing Louse had tossed the dog's ball into the library. My, Lady ISOBEL had a few pointed words to say about that. Good on her, that's what I say! I always reckoned Lady Arla was too soft on the brat. Can't see that it did much good, though - when Louse emerged from the library a little later she didn't look in the least chastened.
By that time Lady Isobel had another visitor: Mistress MORGAINE the seamstress (who from the snippets I heard was making much of that mutt Conal). Hard on her heels was another, Master BREV. He seemed to think Morgaine's services were required - seeing as I was doing the dusting in the hall at the time I couldn't help overhearing the odd word. Something about Isobel needing new clothes over the summer? As if a noblewoman doesn't have a wardrobeful of gowns to choose from! But far from reprimanding him, Lady Isobel agreed that it was a necessity if she were to leave her chamber this year and made some remark about not fitting into her husband's clothes long either? Though I doubt we'd ever see a blueblood like her in someone else's cast-offs. Morgaine even offered to come to the Suites, as fittings might soon be uncomfortable. You don't think the Heir of Taurdain is expecting? She's certainly kept that quiet - though come to think of it, I haven't seen her out without a cloak in a while, and you know how hot it's getting now spring is here! Master Brev came out then, and shut the door tight behind him, more's the pity, so what the two ladies discussed after he'd gone I can't say. | |
| Post Title: | What Not to Wear |
| Author: | Haruven |
| Date posted: | 04 July 2013 |
| How long can an elf just sit there and read? Well, HARUVEN was in the library all day, I thought I'd have to eventually dust around him if no one came to kick him out. Lady ISOBEL eventually showed up to show him the door, though she was nice about it being the library's closing time. Say, don't you think she's looking a little thick around the middle? LOUSE certainly thought so when she showed up, and wouldn't you believe she wasn't shy about saying it! She wanted one of the lady's dresses to cut down and make into shirts, since Louse herself has been in clothing denial for a while now!
I thought Lady Isobel looked ready to spit fire at that Louse, but the elf was still there pretending that he couldn't understand common speech and that the books were just that fascinating, so Louse didn't get charred like she might have if she and the Taurdain lady were alone. Before Louse left they worked something out with spare shirts. Somehow the other two got to talking about scholarly nonsense, and how can Isobel call herself a scholar if she can't read fancy elf-books? The diplomat taught her a couple of Elvish phrases right there on the spot, but sounds like she messed 'em up a bit and called him a woman. Oh well. Long hair and fancy clothes, who can tell with Elves, anyway? | |
| Post Title: | Two Karaths and a Dwarf |
| Author: | Isobel |
| Date posted: | 07 July 2013 |
| Did you know that Master RIORDAN is back in town again? I guess that lad of his, young RIOLAN (played by ISOBEL), must be sore glad to see him again. I live just around the corner from them, see, and it seems to me that the boy gets more antsy than usual whenever his old man is away! Anyway, I saw the old dog and his pup chatting up a storm with a dwarf in the Flagon and the little beardling was saying all manner of strange things - something about perhaps getting back what he was owed, but then again maybe not.. AGARHAZ, I think he said his name was. He had a long list of names he was rattling off, y'know how it is. Son of this who's a son of that and so on and so forth! | |
| Post Title: | Public Displays of Affection.. |
| Author: | Isobel |
| Date posted: | 07 July 2013 |
| I say, I think someone really ought to tell Lady ISOBEL and her husband that however much they like one another we certainly don't like having to see them hugging and carrying on in the street like that! Don't they have a home to do that sort of thing in?
- Oh tosh, for my part I think it's rather sweet the way the two seem to dote on each other. And don't you think it's made Master BREV just a little less grumpy? Why, the other day he smiled when he passed me in the street and I said good morning! And now that his lady has someone to boss around she's going easier on the rest of us and if that's not improvement then I don't know what is. | |
| Post Title: | Hawks and Healers |
| Author: | Haruven |
| Date posted: | 07 July 2013 |
| My son Tad was out fishing this morning and wouldn't you know it but a great big hawk tried to take the fish right off his line! It got a surprise to be sure when the line snapped and it was speared right through with the fish hook, all flappin' around and carrying on fit to wake the dead. The oddest thing happened a short while after! That Elf diplomat HARUVEN spotted that unlucky creature, and talked to it and it came right to him, calm as you like! I think there's something unnatural about those folk and I don't mind saying it, but my neighbor's wife said as it was probably just someone's tame hunting hawk as had got away at some point.
Well I thought that was the end of it but that good for nothing laundress from down the lane swears up and down she saw the elf and Master BREV later in the healing hall, the elf tending to the bird's wounds just like it was a person. Don't know what Master Brev thought of that, but he had a smirk or two like he thought it all might be just this side of ridiculous! They talked about healing some after, and then Brev went off to take care of some business before going back home to tend that lady wife of his. You know he smiles when he talks about her? I think it's just darling. | |
| Post Title: | A cure for all ills! |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 28 July 2013 |
| The other afternoon, when it was too hot to be doing anything in a hurry, I saw that Green shirt girl LOUSE approaching that silent hunter fellow -GIDON, is it? Being as I was near, I couldn't help but overhear a bit. Seems that young nuisance was after pigskin (not sure I want to know why!) and Gidon hadn't got enough just yet. They agreed on collection at a later date.
At that point the Elven diplomat HARUVEN joined them. He might have regretted it, for when he asked Louse to tell him something he didn't know the girl launched into a hangover cure involving fat bacon, a piece of string and ... well, I won't go into the details. Suffice to say that Gidon fled the scene at that point. Clearly he couldn't stomach the idea (surely his abrupt departure had nothing to do with the news, tossed in in passing, that Lady Isobel is expecting?). Haruven managed to maintain both his dignity and a straight face, but I did notice that he left soon after too. Wouldn't you? | |
| Post Title: | Doom and Gloom |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 31 July 2013 |
| That Elf HARUVEN's a rum one. The other night he was sitting in the Flagon with a carafe of wine and a candle on the table, but was he happy? No, there he was wearing a long face as he read a letter. Not, as that young rapscallion LOUSE suggested, because he was waiting for a lady-friend who'd failed to show, but something about the world growing darker and not everyone being in agreement about it. Wonder what news had him so concerned? Perhaps someone should ask him about it ...
At least the diplomat knows how to deal with Louse. A half-glass of wine and a barrage of questions about her soldiering ambitions later, she was only too glad to make her (slightly unsteady) escape. | |
