allthenotes | Entries tagged with asch the bloody (tales of the abyss)

Marian, if you could meet me out in the gardens at the usual place when you see this, I'd appreciate it.

Also, I'm looking for a few people who didn't check in over the night. If anyone knows where Hope and Argent are, please point them in my direction before I go looking for them, otherwise they are both going to be damp and cold for worrying me when I find them.

[It's not a thread if it's nonlethal, right.]

sky_sharkling

I'm not sure what happened last night, but it seems like a lot of people aren't feeling good about it. And I've been kind of out of the loop with things lately, so I was trying to think of a way that might help cheer everyone up as well as maybe get together with people again.

It's getting colder, so it made me think of something. Back home, around the end of the year in the colder months (at least it's cold then in the part of the world I'm from), there's a holiday called Christmas. It's basically a time that everyone gets together with family and friends and exchanges presents with them.

Maybe we could do that here? Have it on the next Day, so people can get ready for it and the like. Everyone could come to the town for it, if the townsfolk don't mind. It could be like a festival.

bloodyashes

Couple things -

First, it's become apparent that at least a few people have had need of... discreet healing and medical exams recently. If that applies to you, you can seek me out, I won't break your confidentiality.

I might charge you a strong drink for it, though.

Second, if anyone has an encounter with the shape-changing flowers that were in the garden a few nights back, or still has changes that they're looking to reverse, I've gotten my hands on the recipe for a potion used as an antidote. The Apothecary may also be able to provide such; the things are apparently a common menace in certain parts of this world. If you get stuck in a form that leaves you unable to communicate normally, put a paw/foot/whatever on my right foot and I'll get it together for you.

Third, I'll be in the gardens for a good portion of the afternoon if you want to exchange information and updates.

Also, the tomatoes planted in the gardens are mine, I'm not against sharing but I want at least some of the first harvest when it happens. If you have a recipe to request, I can probably figure it out.

bloodyashes

Is anyone else concerned about the maids and guards getting stuck on loop? I've been watching since they started doing it last Day and it only seems to be getting worse.

And with no chores assigned for the Day again... (Credit for trying, Tricks, but that doesn't really count. Also, you forgot laundry buckets.)

It's really giving me the shivers. The Qliphoth didn't give me this many shivers.

On that note, I'm starting to get concerned about our funds as a whole - we have the gardens for food right now and they seem to be resisting the cold, but that's not all we need to survive. With no chores, there's no money flow. I know a couple people have gotten work at the shops, but is that really enough to sustain everyone? And those who don't have any fallbacks like that... Well, I'd hate to start charging for lessons.

Also, did anyone other than Marian and I investigate the tailor's last night?

birdwingsandthings

After the flowers, did anyone have really wierd dreams?

[Yes, Luce hasn't realized he misspelled that]

Like too real types?

birdwingsandthings

[Lo and behold some drawings being done, in very familiar childish script. They are two seperate drawings. Above each one is 'MISSING' then drawings of what could be very much Zeph and Alayne, along with their names underneath each drawing.

Underneath each one is: IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT LUCE GARZA-CRESTA.
REWARD: A FRUIT.
THEY ARE VERY MISSED.]

[Because you know, that is what EVERYONE wants. A fruit. Singular.]

bloodyashes

If anyone is interested, I've cleared a section of the garden that's wide enough to be used for sparring, provided you don't go overboard. It seems like a good day for it.

Take the door out the side of the castle and head mostly to the wall across from you, with a slight veer to the right. The paths aren't completely trustworthy but the location seems to be.

wheretheresawill

[This is a new handwriting, plain and printed, not particularly tidy, sprawling across the page a bit.]

Can someone help me? I got this note, but I'm not sure I understand all of it. Maybe someone who's been here longer would know what it's talking about.

Meet me in the stableyards if you want to have a look at it.
-Terra

whiteofcrime

[ Sometime early in the night, during Kaito's downtime, a series of lines begins to draw themselves across the next empty spread of pages.

The lines aren't completely straight. His busted shoulder means that even with a ruler, he can't utilise both hands to make the schematic perfect. However, his hand is steady and he works with patience to make sure everything lines up the way it's meant to. He'd practised on other non-journal sheets beforehand.

Eventually the map below takes shape, annotated in blue and red. ]

(click image for larger version)

[ In the corner, Kaito writes some notes about the watchtowers. ]

Watchtowers
There are four towers. The stairs lead to the tallest one.
They're lined up alone the side of the castle (you can see them from the Horticulturalist's room).
There's a guard room on the way up that has weapons, supplies etc.
Also a fox which can see through magic maybe.

(Disclaimer: All the above names are ones which Kaito has decided on. They are not necessarily the official names.)

byheartandblade

[ Syhr'd been fortunate enough to Echo the information correctly enough to infer, she believes. So she's going to do this for others there. ]

Eorzea is my world. So I figured I'd give a quick guide so you lot can understand what's being said.

Ilm seems to translate to inch.
Fulm would be foot.
Yalm is yard.
Malm is mile.

We use bells, not hours.

Our year is about three hundred eight-four suns.
Suns are days.
Moons are months.
An epoch is a measurement of twelve years, as opposed to a decade.

We say nameday instead of birthday.

Onze instead of ounce.
Ponze instead of pound.
Tonze instead of ton.

I can answer any questions you have, if you have them.

bloodyashes

Two things -

First, to those of you I've been teaching, a warning: This kind of weather usually leads to thunderstorms over the night, at least where I come from. Do not use the Third Fonon (wind) during any kind of electrical storm. It GREATLY increases your chance of getting struck by lightning.

[The word 'greatly' is written at about twice the size of the text around it, and doubly underlined.]

In unrelated news, if anyone has an interest, I've got a bunch of peppers here that haven't been tasted for spicyness. If anyone wants to volunteer, you can pick your poison over by the garden door.

[[OOC:If anyone wants to thread out getting a random pepper, feel free to give me a log-style reply to this post! They range all the way from bell peppers to pointy-red-hot style to some tiny black ones that are crit-fail levels of spicy. Feel free to roll!]]

whiteofcrime

[ Written in an unsteady hand: ]

It's not about what you say, it's about the impression you leave.
We got it wrong. I'm an idiot.
I'm going to join the birds for a while. Where did he go in town? I need to know for sure.

[ Bit of a pause and then, in a different hand (as if someone else were writing it): ]
The view is nice from the watchtowers.

(ooc: I added a prompt for post-midnight meetings with Kaito to his open post. If you're interested in what he knows about the third floor, this is him offering information.)

bloodyashes

It occurs to me that with as many animals/etc as we have around here now, it might be worth people setting up some kind of system for care of their creatures if they're dead or missing.

Just. It's the sort of thing you should have a plan for.

[He is not writing this from the kitchen with Sync's puppy asleep in his lap. Absolutely not.]

bloodyashes

'Tricks' -

Dawn in the throne room, if they're done using it by then. You know why.

Only excuse for missing is if you're dead. Anything else is a forfeit.

serpente

I suppose when a man gives you a ring and a precious stone, one can consider themselves 'engaged'. That IS how it works, isn't it?

[ After the ring of teeth marks left by Hibari, he's just received a mini-sun stone that used to be a jewel off Rei's hair. It's very warm and, as someone with cold-blooded physiology, he appreciates it very much. ]

humble_scholar

Are those who received invitations last night well? I know the maids ushered a number of folk upstairs, and given what has been said of our 'gracious host', even that is concerning.

If anyone is missing, then the more we have looking the better our odds of learning something; and if anyone was hurt or drugged, I may have something in what meager supplies I've managed to gather to be of aid - or at least, a public notice on this may make it easier to locate a more skilled healer than myself.

maverickhunterx

If you're near the town and see a bonfire, don't go near it.

It's dangerous.

-A

earlessblank

[Someone is using their notebook as a sketchpad. It takes them about half an hour to finish; a blanket, draped over the corner of one of the dorm beds.]

[Edit: A few hours after the initial drawing, color starts bleeding onto the page. Those who know art will note it's watercolor paint. Blues and oranges fill the blanket in, making it look warm and comfortable.]

shuttersense

Who tells someone to join them for a meal and sends a collar to wear?

[The writing is pressed down hard, and for those who knows their writing can see? This writer is ticked off.

Seriously.

Put that person in a bucket and send them out to sea.]

bloodyashes

[This handwriting is probably familiar to the network by now, after HORSE POST and his update at the beginning of the previous night. The lines are straight again, though, not looking like they'll potentially veer into each other.]

W - Meet me in the usual place in town, soon as you can, for that discussion I promised you.

K - Same as above, regarding your bout of illness last night.

Obnoxious Keterburg genius - Another of our number is here. The annoying, Fon Master shaped one. [Whether this is addressed to Dist or Jade is intentionally ambiguous.]

To everyone I've spoken to about fonic artes instruction - I've put a list of terminology on the next page. Make my life easier, learn it before you come. Drop a note here so we can get everyone together, I hate repeating myself. L, you're welcome to come but you're ahead of the rest already.

Everyone else - Auldrant's New Year's should be somewhere around midday, if I'm judging my calendar correctly. If anyone wants to celebrate (I certainly intend to), then assuming no disaster strikes, I'll be in the town square around nightfall.

( And sure enough, on the next page... )

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couple hours after dawn 13

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Night 009

A Guide to Eorzean

someone take the notebook away from him

not long after Lord's return

after You Tried Rescue/closer to midnight

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After X ends up in the Town Square, and sees things.

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