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[-Buster]

Hey chum,

I appreciate that offer you gave me. Not a lot of people are willing to reach out to people who aren't exactly cut from the same cloth as they are in the Well, I won't forget that.

I don't really want to come banging on your door looking for updates on it, so just let me know when you talk with Vellyn or get it figured out.

-Buster

[-Buster]

Hey chum,

I've been told you're the guy to talk to for advice running for Legate. Considering I heard it from people outside of your own league, color me intrigued.

Give a bellow for me sometime and if I'm not knee deep worming or some other hard work for the well I'll clean up and we can have a chat.

-Buster

[-BB]

Why did I tell Peyton why I'm going to run? Embarrassing as all cack. Well hopefully they forget and don't tell Skink...or anyone else.

-BB

P.S. Someone was asking me to get back into the ring today. I won't do it, I won't let you down....I promised. What good is a father that can't keep a promise?

[-Buster]

Hey chum,

Think you'd mind organizing a meeting the league, over the next week or two? I just want to have a proper meet and greet of the faces, see where people stand, see what people think is right and what's wrong.

Something in the non-ashfolk hours, or on the end of the week would work for me.

-Buster

[-BB]

Every day I'm not sure if things are quiet as a graveyard or if there's constant cacked groundshaking things afoot.

I'm not involved in whats and hows of it to really be able to piece it together. But something's going on and I want to stop.

Getting banned from the Creep sure has made my days a bit duller. Can't even have a proper tavern fight up here. Maybe some changes on the horizon coming.

Maybe I'll get a job with the Union and get in on that Quarry.
Maybe trashgulls will swoop in from the sky and deliver me to riches.

That rat bastard Mr. Meats made a move again. He won't be getting my Buster Brew recipe OR the locate of my Meat Closet. Over my two fists!

I tried to pull a thing related to Skink, I don't think the contact is willing to play ball. Some stuck up squares if you ask me, it's a GOOD plan...

I don't know why but I told Haknar my price if he REALLY wanted me to join the Fourth since he keeps tossing out numbers to get me to do it. Ten thousand. He didn't bug out, he didn't balk....he just said it'd take some time to get the dinar together. What the hell? Is he really going to pay it? I was joking but...if he really pays it....shit I'd feel obligated to do it.

Carlos is trying to invent a new worm machine for me. I keep giving him old samples of the signature blend of eleven worms and powders. Maybe I should offer a bounty on anyone that comes up with the best design...I could put Carlos and Kaelan in a contest for it.

I see how it starts now. I got a voice so I'm starting to feel like I should use it, starting to feel like I should join a league. I don't know who designed this system but it's more insidious than any Scorch dealer. I can see the claws trying to dig into me. I thought Themis was done for good, I wonder what brought him back from the brink to make some organization? Who knows. I don't know much about him, I wonder if he's worth supporting? I might have to join the White league if I want in on the Union. Working man's league I guess. Who knows? All the people really helping me, at all, seem to be out of the Gold League. They sure know how to hustle. I gotta respect that.


-BB

P.S. Found a noble ring from the old world kid. I couldn't figure out what house it belonged to, but I could tell it was from one of them. I'd have given it to you if you were around. I tucked it in a pocket for you, I'll give it to you when I see you...when I get there.

Since unarmed combatants loses both mainhand and offhand aspects, could it possibly be changed that if you have nothing in either hands your gloves count twice for your equipped aspects?

It has the added bonus of adding as an option for people who would like to not use holdable powerup daggers/books to simply keep nothing in their hands and be slightly less nerfed by it, still not getting the stats of an equipped item but at least you get one aspect extra.

At least brings you up to what someone with a single weapon would get.

A sealed pack of cigars arrives following this note.

[-BB]

Kicked from the Creep.

Bought a voice, got tired of putting myself on someone else's timeline and motivation. Worth it? Doubt it, but I got bored of the game of seeing if I was worth someone else buying my voice. Even the best games get dull if you play them too long.

Things are flipped upside down from what I knew a few days ago, but that's how it goes. Stay limber and loose, that's what the Champ would say.

We were out on a contract and Evarielle was probing about me buying my voice, she made some smartass comment to Skink along the lines of 'You don't want to be left behind do you?'. Trying to play on her insecurities to get her to take whatever deal they are offering her.

She's lucky I was in a good mood. I was half a step from beating her pretty face into the dirt, consequences be damned just to make a point.

Moment's passed, but I won't forget.

-BB

P.S. Still in my thoughts kid, every night.

[-Management]

Due to supply chain issues Buster Brews will be shutting down indefinitely. We'd like to thank all our loyal customers.

We're working to resolve the issue but as of now we'll be shuttering our doors.

And remember, the chunks were always supposed to be there.

-Management

It's very easy to be nearly immune to KD/combat moves without a discipline potion, just not for classes with discipline as cross-class. You just need to make slightly different gearing choices if that's something you want. There's options and choices to do it though.

Combat moves also give you -4 AB for using, so you're already making a sacrifice ontop of taking the feat to use them, sometimes you're giving up two feats and taking stats you don't want.

Grease might be too good but it's the same it's always been.

You can get like 20 discipline with almost zero investment pretty easily as a melee PC. You can get 26 with 1 buff and 1 aspect. You can get around 30 with making some slight gear adjustments.  You can even add in 2/4 piece of Brute for another 2/4 discipline if you want to go crazy about it. How much AB do you think people are having to make that hard to deal with? :P

Give up that 1 AB or whatever if you really think KD is that opressive.

[-Buster]

Hey.

It's Buster Grimes. I've been trying to get a job in the Quarry, but I hear I gotta go through you. How do I get in on that? I've got four or five jobs now so I'm multi-talented. I even got a little crew of chums for getting work done.

You know where to find me.

-Buster

Yes, in RP sense a book, but functionally just an item that lets you absorb notes that mechanically functions like a furniture board item.

[BUSTER BREWS]

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"It's disgusting!"
-Rosalba, Best Maid and Rising Scholar in the Well

"It's the -shit-!"
-Eva, Ace Nadiri

"It has an interesting taste."
-Jamileh, Famous Scholar With Suspiciously Big Interest in Goblin Thronging

"Ugh...."
-Korinthus, Hakem, Stunned into Silence by Quality Coffee

"That's a flavor."
-Annie, New Arrival So Inspired by Coffee She Joined the Balladeers

[-Buster]

Hey Legates,

It's your old chum Buster Grimes. I'm in your letter box  formally request 100 dinar seed money to help my growing small business. Buster Brews and Silver Skink Courier Services, we've got a joint operation with some less official crew members. I mean they're part of the crew, but they haven't really carved out a real hustle of a business yet. That's fine, you know? Not everyone's motivated like that. Some people just get drunk and pay the rent. Some people pay their way by telling you good ass stories about their missing hat.

We're productive people of the well.

I should get a stand in the Souk to sell my Buster Brews too. That should be easy, right?

Thanks.

-Buster

[-BB]

So Skink showed me that she got a book where she writes stuff in it, seemed like a good idea. So maybe I'll write some stuff and somebody might remember something about mewhen I meet a bad end.

I'm not a good guy. I'm not a bad guy. I'm not even a lucky guy.

But I noticed how much fear and mystical respect people give these Sisters. Almost like they are some kinda gods.

Went on this job for a Janissary a few nights back. This feels like as good a thing to start off this journal on. It was a real murder hole. Getting fried and electrified the whole way, trying to keep everyone together and whole. I didn't do so hot on the part with Skink, but at least she's alive.

Anyway, so there was this real tight turn we came down in the tunnel. We got ambushed, they had us pinned and split in two groups getting torn apart. Sister Selsi's got her hands full with goblins all around her, hammering her into the ground. I look over, see the blood, see the pretty black cloth streaked crimson. She's reaching up at me.... and I hear just one pained word "Help!".

When reality crashes around you, the masks fall off. Doesn't matter who you are, it's moments like these where you really learn who you are, who the people around you are. You learn what they'll do, you'll learn what they won't to survive. Maybe I didn't learn who she is, but I learned what she ain't.

She ain't no god.

Just another scared woman trying to survive. Maybe I can respect that more.

-BB

P.S. I still miss you kid.