Mystic Ward
15 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Day 6 of Moonfair 6.00 am
Missed the wagon but decided to go anyway. Who knew they'd make such an early start? Z hasn't turned up either. Maybe he chickened out. Will need to find a couple of equines to get us through the pass. Wonder which ones will help....
Ashlings' guildleader
15 years ago
Mon Sep 21 2009, 09:09pm
Ashlings' guildleader
Dreamscape Artist
Day 6 of Moonfair 1:00 pm
Was caught talking to Jaygar while I was supposed to be in the kitchens washing up. Have been sentenced to another day's chores for shirking. On the bright side, I won't have to do any of them since Jaygar agreed to take me as far as the white valley. I'm sure there'll be plenty of places to adventure there; and if not, I'll hitch further south with one of the Darthnor carriages. In the meantime however, I'm up to my elbows in dirty dishwater and Z still hasn't shown up. Doesn't he know it's not good to keep a woman waiting?
Day 6 of Moonfair 5:25 pm
Pilfered some supplies from the kitchens for my adventure. Why didn't I think of this when I missed breakfast? Highly efficient way of getting fed :nod:. Jaygar and I will slip off as soon as it's dark, Z better show up soon if he doesn't want to be left behind.
Day 6 of Moonfair 6:00 pm
Left Z behind. Who needs him anyway? Not me, that's for sure. Need to stop writing now as Jaygar and I are approaching the tainted ground and will need our wits about us. Need to stop writing about Z in general. Obsession is not healthy.
Dreamweaver Ward
15 years ago
Mon Sep 21 2009, 11:02pm
Dreamweaver Ward
Dreamscape Artist
Day 6 of Moonfair 6.15pm
Forgot about the Coercers stationed near the pass. Am currently being held at their camp, but will soon be escorted back to Obernewtyn. Unfortunately Jaygar is in trouble as well, for agreeing to carry me. Maybe I can say I forced him to take me? Really, I think he just wanted to get out and have some adventure. It's been too quiet lately.
I wonder how they'll punish me this time - wouldn't be surprised if it's the worst yet. :-/ Will definitely have to go at night next time, and maybe convince Gavyn to come so he can hide us... I can send him back once we get past the coercers - I'm sure he'd be perfectly safe with Rasial.
15 years ago
Wed Sep 23 2009, 10:41pm
Day 7 of Moonfair
Got back to Obernewtyn yesterday. Z cheered me on as he saw me returning from my failed attempt of adventure. His father quelled that response with a look. Now Z is not allowed to talk to me. :|
I think I'm going to braid Elspeth's hair in her sleep :D It is so shiny, but she never seems to particularly care about her looks. I think my Next Adventure shall be to make her look pretty. Then on her next trip, as an exchange, she can take me with her :D My plan is absolutely foolproof. And this plan won't require Z either!
Day 7 Moonfair, 1:00pm
Back in old room. They seem to have given up giving me tasks, and confined me to my quarters until nightmeal.
Plan to braid Elspeth's hair foiled; they heard me coming ::) should have guessed...farseekers, mind reading and all that. Elspeth seems quite affronted that I think she needs prettifying, too. Sent me back to the farms with a sterner than normal glare.
On the plus side, she sent Z to escort me.
Humph. Everyone trusts Zarak, nobody trusts me. Why? It's not like we're that different. Maybe it's because he's a Ward? Everyone knows he only got that Wardship because he kicked up a fuss when they said Aras would get it. Now he can do whatever he wants, and boss everyone...
8-| new plan. Become Beastspeaking Guild Ward. I can't mess this one up!
Day 7 Moonfair, 2:30 p.m.
I mentioned to Alad that I would like to be considered for Beastspeaking Guild Ward the next time a new wardship is appointed. He openly laughed in my face :|
Why is it that nobody seems to take me seriously? It couldn't possibly be because all of my plans seem to fall apart...or could it?
Okay, so my next plan should either involve A)my plans actually following through the way I intend for them to, or B) to somehow come across as responsible.
I think I should work out the details a little more :-/
Day 7
I have been trying extremely hard to be responsible. I have: not picked my nose in public. Stopped playing who can run the fastest with the chickens. Stopped calling Alad " a lad" and wash my face and hands before every meal.
And what response do I get? Javo sent me to the Healer hall. :|
*sigh* Why did Zarak have it so easy? Just because he's a boy. *snort* *grumble*
Day 7 5.30
I have been moping about trying to prove to people that I am worthy of wardship, but to no avail. All this work is making me tired and what do I get evertime I tell people I want to become ward, they laugh at me! It's all very disheartening. I think I will sleep before night meal.
Day 7 6.50
I just woke up from my nice little nap and had an epiphany! I was reading me last entry where I asked why Zarak had it so easy, and I realized that I should just ask him that question! Everyone will gather for nightmeal soon and I will ask Zarak then! I am so brilliant! ;D
Ashlings' guildleader
15 years ago
Wed Oct 07 2009, 09:23pm
Ashlings' guildleader
Dreamscape Artist
Day 8 of moonfair, 4:35 am
Zarak never turned up for nightmeal. I'm not sure why. Must investigate. Then ask him. Have you ever been so desperate to ask a question that it felt as though the words were burning a hole in your tongue? No, I don't suppose you have. Book's generally don't have tongues. Maybe I should ask my shoe.
Have woken up extra early in an attempt to show responsibility. At least that's what I'll be telling Alad. In all actuality, Khuria kept me awake all night again. Figured I'd get up and actually be on time for breakfast rather than missing it all together.
Day 8 of moonfair, 5:00 am
Was third to arrive at first meal, helped to set the tables. Everyone kept throwing me suspicious glances. It was almost as if they were wondering what I was up to. After all my years of hard work trying to bring humour and amusement to Obernewtyn, you'd think they'd give me a little more credibility. Wonder if there is some way to use my vast experience to become more responsible. Consider volunteering for occupation, entertainment and supervision of small children. They know how to have fun.
Mystic Ward
15 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Day 10 of Moonfair, 6.30am
Wow I can't believe its been two whole days since I found time to wrie in here. I have been so responsible that I've even surprised myself. The working with children idea didn't go down very well for some strange reason and instead they have given me the task of helping the beasts born this spring learn fingerspeech. I still don't know why us Beastspeakers can't work as translators but I like being around the baby beasts. Theey are ssoooo cute and they don't try to tell me what to do.
Mystic Guilden
15 years ago
Sun Oct 11 2009, 12:11pm
Mystic Guilden
Mage
Day 10 of Moonfair, Midmeal.
Excuse the odd format of the text on this page. I managed to spill
some of my vegetable broth on the page while I was eating it.
Now the ink wont adhere to the parchment there...but I had
to write. A new plan has come to light that should garantee me
the wardship. All I have to do is find some brildane and using my superior
beaskpeach skills, gradually intergrate them into life on the farms. I will have to make sure they are completely ready before I let them near the other beasts. I'm fairly sure Alad would skewer me with a pitchfork if I let the brildane attack any other the other animals. Oh, Lud forbid if they attempted to attack Rushton's pig....You know what, I think I might scrap that plan now. Have to say though, Javo's outdone himself with this broth!
Ashlings' guildleader
15 years ago
Ashlings' guildleader
Dreamscape Artist
Day 11 of Moonfair, 6:00 pm
Am sitting in bed in the healer wing. Needless to say, teaching the brildane finger speech didn't go to well. Have suffered one bite to my left leg and two to my right. Left arm was also slightly mauled. :"( Lucky I'm right handed! ;D
Was rescued from wolves by Rasial, who hasn't stopped going on about 'stupid funaga and their stupid antics' since. Seems to think I would've been eaten if she hadn't come along. I however, think that I could've gotten myself out of there just fine. I thanked her anyway of course because a) I'd be in worse trouble if I hadn't b) it's polite to respect one's elders (even the ones that are younger than you, dogs age differently to humans) and c) I do feel kind of awful x_X so while I was clearly fully capable of rescuing myself, maybe it's a good thing that I didn't have to.
On the plus side, Z hasn't stopped fussing over me since! :-} Decide that there are definitely advantages to being attacked by wolves :nod:
Even if I do feel awful x_X
Decide that maybe there might be better ways of getting Z's attention. Resolve to make a list of those ways to enact upon release from healer ward. Decide that this will be a useful way to avoid the boredom inherent in bedriddeness. Roland has annoyingly insisted that I won't be getting out for a while.
Decide to take advantage of my new location and catch up on some sleep. Stupid Khuria.
Mystic Ward
15 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Day 13 of Moonfair, 8.45am
Looks like I'm being released this morning. Not sure i really want to return to the farms (and Khuria's snoring) just yet as I won't see as much of Z back there. I've been feeling very pampered the past couple of days. It was almost worth being mauled...almost. Kella says the scars will fade over time so long as I continue to use the smelly ungent she has been putting on the wounds.
Firstmeal is due soon. Another good thing about being injured; regular meals. Yum
Day 13 of Moonfair, 9:00 a.m.
No one sat next to me at firstmeal this morning because of all the smelly ungent Kella made me use. You'd think I had a contagious form of the rotting sickness the way everyone was avoiding me and holding their noses :|
I have officially decided that no one appreciates the effort I put forth to try and help the brildane. Once again, I need a new plan to show everyone how responsible I can be. Maybe I'll ask Z for some suggestions.
Although maybe I should bathe first...
15 years ago
Sat Oct 24 2009, 01:59pm
Day 13 of Moonfair, 10am
Lud, responsiblity is hard work. Have spent the last hour making self generally indisp[strike]unsubile[/strike] indisp[strike]utaeble[/strike] indisp[strike]ensationabel[/strike] indis[strike]spens[/strike] useful as tried to come up with grand plan of self-promoting selflessness, and nobody noticed a thing. Nobody! I even tested Javo's horrible new travelling biscuits because nobody else would give him an opinion.
You know what I wrote earlier about questions burning holes in your tongue? Forget the part about questions. Javo's stupid biscuits do it fine on their own.
Anyway, nobody noticed a thing, and Javo even got cranky with me for running around the kitchen screaming when I tried the biscuit, as if that was rude or something. Am sick of being unap[strike]reshi[/strike] unap[strike]recciatted[/strike] una[strike]ppreciatedd[/strike] unloved. People were much nicer to me when I was sick and mauled.
Hmm. Idea. Wonder if faking sick will earn much-deserved sympathy [strike]and Zarak's attention[/strike]? Worked for the Farseeking Guildmistress - everyone knows that story about how she faked plague to get rid of soldierguards, and everybody loved her for saving Obernewtyn. I mean, sticking on a few fake sores (not enough to look ugly, of course) and coughing pathetically every time I'm round Zarak is practically the same thing, right?
Am genius.
15 years ago
Thu Oct 29 2009, 01:34am
Day 13 of Moonfair, 1 p.m.
I pretended to swoon at midmeal. It did not go as planned, planned being that everyone would shower me with their concern. Instead, I lay for a good five minutes on the cold, stone floor.
Finally, my only friend (although he should have reacted much, much faster) Z, walked up to my prone body, nudged me with his foot, and asked what I was doing. I think I played it pretty well, as I pretended to be confused with a "What? What happened? I don't feel very well."
When I looked at the Healers table, not one of them seemed concerned. In fact, they were all pointedly ignoring me. They couldn't have possibly known I had faked the swoon. I mean, they're not Farseekers, right?
Actually, I should probably, discreetly, ask Z if any of the Healers have farseeking abilites. Although, even if there were any Healer/Farseekers, they would have asked permission to enter my mind, right?
I'm so confused. I couldn't have been that obvious. I need an unbiased opinion. Maybe I'll go ask one of the horses...
Day 13 of Moonfair, 2pm
Avra told me that my acting skills need work. I protested this, but then she asked me, rather tiredly, whether I had remembered to close my eyes when I'd feigned fainting. Thought back, and realised where the problem lay.
She didn't have to laugh so much, though.
Next time, will definitely pay more attention to details. Learn from your mistakes, right? This has taught me that acting isn't my strength, so will have to rely on something else to be convincing. Maybe those fake sores? Or some dye to make my face turn purple? Or...I know! Something that will make me actually sick - herbs! Not really sick, of course, but maybe a bit green and sweaty, just enough to get some proper attention.
Don't know much about the different kinds of herbs, but I'm sure I can figure out the right one. It can't be that hard, right?
Mystic Ward
15 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Day 13 of Moonfair, 6pm
Well apparently it can be that hard. Here I am back in the Healer Hall, though not as a patient. scrubbing out these bed pans is no fun at all and not the result I was after when I raided Katlyn's herb garden.
It was just my luck that Roland would come along and catch me picking the exact right herbs for disinfecting things. He thought I was trying to be responsible. So responsible in fact that he rewarded me by giving me this sticking job!
15 years ago
Thu Oct 29 2009, 08:49pm
Day 13 of Moonfair, 8pm
Am becoming more and more di[strike]llu[/strike] di[strike]zzilu[/strike] di[strike]ssol[/strike] disillusioned about responsibility. It really is as bad as I always thought. Have been very clever to avoid it so much so far in my life.
Spent so long disinfecting the Hall that I missed lastmeal. The lack of food and the weird fumes the disinfectant herbs gave off has made me light-headed. Maybe I really will get sick now, and not even be able to appreciate it. The injustice!
On the plus side, Roland seemed mildly impressed by the fact I'm "actually making myself useful for once". Should resent this, but thought I caught an impressed look from Zarak as he passed by, so will let it go without even trying to slip disinfectant into Roland's firstmeal.
Still hate this stupid responsibility thing, though. Very overrated.
15 years ago
Sat Oct 31 2009, 05:28pm
Day 14 of Moonfair 5:30am
The herbs have made me feel lightheaded and wheezy, and I didn't sleep well last night. Ughh I feel horrible! I woke up early, so I was one of the first people to arrive at firstmeal this morning. People look concerned as I offered to help with setting up, and one girl told me that I stunk. Thanks.
Anyway, my plan has gone well- I manged to slip disinfectant into Roland's firstmeal as I helped prepare the meal. I hope he'll feel the exact way I feel now- weak, wheezy, sweaty and sore.
7:00am
Roland ate his soup, but it seems the herbs don't have any affect on him. He just went back upstairs to the Healers Hall. Will follow behind to see what happens.
8:00am
Got caught hiding behind a wall. One of the healers asked me why I was here, and I admitted that I didn't feel that well. They checked my forehead temperature, and immediately escorted me to a free bed.
12:30am
Was spoon fed some sort of delicious warm chicken brooth by a kind healer. I feel too weak to do anything, or even write. The healer told me that Roland was being checked on, because he had a sudden high fever-just like me.
Mystic Ward
15 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Day 15 of Moonfair 11.37am
Seems it wasn't the herbs making me sick after all. Obernewtyn is going through something the Teknoguilders are calling an epidemic. Some visitor must have brought some plague germs to make us all sick. I'll bet it was Malik.
Have to have some more blood taken so they can make a cure...there is another word for it but I'm too sick to remember what ir is. Roland is having his blood taken as well. Its just as bad as last time only worse because then I only had to have one needle and now I have to have more than everyone else.
2 Months after Moonfair, 11am
It turns out that in all the chaos created by the epidemic, I misplaced my diary. So not only have I been sick, but I've gone nearly insane from keeping all my thoughts and antics stuck inside my tiny head.
The Healers and Teknoguilders worked together to create a cure, and now almost everyone at Obernewtyn is completely well. They suspect the sickness will have a resurgence in Sador, but more prickly, medicine-filled needles are already on the way there.
On the plus side, I got lots of sympathy towards the end of Moonfair. The sympathy slowly disappeared as everyone else got sick :| Although I was well by the time Z got ill, so I got to mop his sweaty brow ;D
