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#16
Sunny D is better.
#17
Illul 7th, IY 7788



EPHIA VICTUS!


TOTAL VICTORY!


THE EASTERN CAMP IS WON!




Word spreads like wildfire that the Lover's Gap is pacified. The Weapon there destroyed. The forces pushed west, fleeing the Kah'eshi, routed. Zthae'ikos, The Spear, dead.


A broken detachment lead by Sergeant Seymour Duncan finds its company halved. Those brave enough to sully forth to meet the host, count among them dead names listless as poets and historians work to put them to phrase and prose.


The Banda Rossa make jab and cheer for the victory of the Well and despite their discounted involvement. Removed from the War Council days prior to this entanglement, they toast the death of Janissaries who rebuked them and the victory won that much more difficult.




The assembly prior stirs its own strange energy, rumors of children being bartered for the securities of the western front work through the ears of stranger and friend alike. A foul taste fills the mouths of those with concern like ash. Surely it was all jest. A princess was present and some insane halfling was said to have broken into the event and flung disgusting gases twice if not three times or more before the Janissary put a stop to it.



Perhaps this is an upswing for Ephia's Well in the conflict, even if matters domestic are muddled.
#18
Screen Shots & Obituaries / Re: Samton Ashworth
July 07, 2024, 04:47:11 AM
o7
#19
Bashir Khatara, Weaver of Chic,

I don't do anything cheap, I'm afraid. If you require a great deal of Baz'eel fine silks I can arrange a delivery, a spool comes at five thousand dinar, but for you, I could do four thousand.

As for keeping away flame, this flamewing silk would indeed be useful for you, but rare. I do know a few people that could arrange to gather it, but it would take a bit of time and again, more dinar. For five thousand dinar I could arrange for as many spools as my contacts could manage. I imagine at least six.

Let me know if you need either of them.

~o- Illydo -o~
#20
Correspondence / Re: [A golden letter to Bashir]
June 23, 2024, 08:43:40 PM
Bashir Khatara, Avid Seeker of Style,


Meravigliosa! The twenty-ninth will be the date then. I look forward to seeing your own works again, and whatever the rest of the Well might piece together.


~o- Illydo -o~
#21
Tabbah 23rd, IY 7788

The war drags on, failures and victories roll into a an economical struggle to the benefit of survival. The "Dragon" Argent Argyris, claimed a seat amidst the heart of the war, with his fellow Golden Legate Balstan Gloamingdaith. They vowed widely the notion of Total Victory, and through much difficulties secured the funding for the new district, in entirety. Whether these things are to go as so planned is a heated topic.

Promises and arrangements has been stretched thin and made tense. It is a confused matter who will have majority control of the new structures, and more importantly, how they will operate. Though, much of it seems due to the matter of Conscription.

With the continued asylum of refugee, the strain on resources and proper protections is obvious. And as the enemy host continues its assault, drastic actions were taken. Men sent to march on the eastern front, piled with the security of a future in Ephia's Well, have brought one step of Victory Further, or died trying. These securities bought the men on the Eastern Front by the Lover's Gap enough time to set up siegeworks and hammer down upon even now the blasting walls of the Thousand Clan's Encampments there.



This aid from the scattered masses was cut short, the night before the completion of a Massive Weapon that it is rumoured when tested, took a large chuck out of a mountain side. The reason for the appeal was obvious, as the Grandmaster herself decried the horrible treatment of Conscripted Quarry workers, and told the self-named Dragon that it must cease.

However, plans quickly shifted on the frontlines, any hopes in capturing the Fortress and this Weapon now lost. Through quick action a Kan'Zuzu force assembled by works led under direction of Warmaster Rennik Colmes, and driven by the strange guidence of Thrasamund Sorrow-Marked, sapped underneath the castle and within.

The halls were spoken to be a nightmare, even with the outside distraction and siege. The many of Ephia's Defenders worked there way to the top of the Fortress, with Sergeant Samton Ashworth detonating a massive bomb to destroy the Weapon. Even in this victory, they could not celebrate, and the many had to work their way back down the castle and back through the now collapsing tunnels. Soldier of the Fourth Legion Duncan MacGregor and one Antonio Caravari were lost in this effort.




Even on the foot of victory, things remain uncertain. The Rampart Nusrum has fallen almost completely into the Thousand Clans Control, and efforts South remain likewise besieged. As the election ends, Purple Legate Marcellus Saenus takes a victory over Gloamingdaith. The golden majority ends, but the war and the expenses compiled to its efforts and this new district are hardly finished.
#22
Correspondence / [A golden letter to Bashir]
June 23, 2024, 04:53:56 PM
Bashir Khatara, Most Excellent Designer of Ephia's Well,

It is nearing the end of Tabbah, and we were hoping you would be included and in charge of next month's Fashion Show. Our products have been moving, but we would like to help the people of Ephia's Well celebrate with new visions for our future, and the new faces that flock to us daily.

Let us arrange a best time for this, so we may inform the general public.

~o- Illydo -o~
#23
Really great screenshots! Their books and works will live on.
#25
Screen Shots & Obituaries / Re: Akna Ymir
April 06, 2024, 06:07:01 PM
No one will be able to stop them from digging now.
#26
Tammuz 4th, IY 7788



The Well is all activity, now. Spears are sharpened and shields tested for cracks. In homes, through toasts, in furtive embraces in the shady corners of the Well - farewells are spoken. For today is the day that Ephia's Well enters the fray.

It is said that Rennik Colmes, Warmaster of the Heron, has decreed that a force shall be dispatched to offer aid to a beleaguered fortification far to the south.

A voice, crisp and clear, resounds across the Bellows

'Those who march, gather at the Divan.'




Above the Well, the great terrace of the Sultan is awash with activity. The Water-Priests of B'aara are lively in their intonations. Their voices can be heard, deep and sonorous: 'O! B'aara! Mother Most High, weep for thy belov'd dead...'

An Ash-sail in deep Janissary green, bearing the Caliphal numeral 'VI', glides into dock above. Two tiny figures can be seen departing..

Below, about the Pyramid, all eyes look towards the leadership. Those who seek to lend their arms to the day's sport head towards the Pyramid, their countenances grim, yet tempered by a fluttering anticipation..

First Blood. Clanging Bronze.



Tammuz 4th, IY 7788.




While elections, laws and leisure continue onward in Ephia's Well, War has begun. The Office of the Legates and much of the bellows overrun with issue over the new "Accorded Governance" law which sees all those members of the accord, past or present barred from service to the government of Ephia's Well.

The Purple League has managed to secure a powerful majority headed by once more Legate Marcellus Saenus and the once Prelate for Gausim al-Marain, Nasreen Shabani. Gausim al-Marain served a short period before rumors gave way to some reason they may have vanished. Reasons range from being called back to Baz'eel in protest of the upcoming War, needing to see to a sick relative, to being abducted by the tormented below. No one really knows, and it doesn't matter.



War is here, the truth of it cemented violently as if a concussion. Prayers and rites to the Wroth are given in dark depths, in simmering agony. Four names are spread across the Well by Legate Marcellus Saenus. The details of the assault are lost in the fog of anguish. A victory traded for lives of those bright and promising. A Zenithar laments a future that was never to be. A Star Falls. War is here.




Quote from: City Whisper by Legate Marcellus SaenusHeed me, people of the Well. I bring news from the South. Both of joy and of sorrow. The Battle of the Boundary was victorious. We have won. But, four of our brave people will not return to us. Lift your cups to the heroes of the Battle of the Boundary. Apothar Cosine Mevura, Sergeant Lightdew... Legate Akna Ymir... Recluta Baako Mahmoud. May their bravery never be forgotten. Live and drink.


Quote from: City Whisper by Zenithar Oro KonthazThis is another one of your flights of fancy, isn't it boy? Well.. I don't find it amusing. Get ah- get back to the Tower, on the double. You're needed...


High atop the Eagle's Mount, just beneath the clouds, a terrible display of lights as one man begins to hurl burning fire and scalding ice into the skies.

Faint sobbing, some swear, could be heard above the incessant winds on high.
#27
Screen Shots & Obituaries / Re: Cosine Mevura
April 05, 2024, 01:32:22 AM
No one is left to save us from piano djinn now.
#28
Suggestions / Re: Cooking station in the Souk
March 19, 2024, 06:38:59 AM
I might adjust something around it in a bit here.
#29
You forgot the best loot:

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#30
Correspondence / [A letter to Domhnall Judicael Guivarch]
February 16, 2024, 05:26:35 AM
(A small sweet smelling letter is delivered to where-ever Domhnall might be getting his mail forwarded to, or otherwise. The handwriting is crude and childish and there are cartoonish drawings of laurels and roses along the border)

Hello Mister Guivarch,

We wanted to write you to say thank you for saving us from the really bad place from before. Sister Xian helped us make this for you. We're studying really hard to help the Well like you helped us. One day maybe one of us will be Legate too and we can help other people.

- Signed

Emily!

Coraline ~

Marriam.


(A small paper badge with the word hero is enclosed)