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[-Buster]

The letter has some cup ring-stains on it from resting on a bar and smells vaguely of stale cigar smoke...

Hey chums,

It's Buster Grimes, writing you. I need to say, I was equally flattered and impressed to find my name and brews being sold and used in your emporium. But other people have suggested it may be a sleight against me, to sell the products of my good name and work without seeing a dinar to me.

Ha! But I don't think that way. I like making chums. Seeing as you seem to have somehow cracked the code of the Buster Brew Enigma Machine of the Creep and replicated it, I'd like to talk business. I've been trying to find a way to get a machine up and running to bring Buster Brews back, officially, to the good laborers of the Well.

I almost just bought thirty mugs or something and rented them out, but that just sounds insane to me!

Let's chew the fat, talk shop, you know? I got a guy working on this too, we can collaborate.

I'll be in touch.

-Buster

The letter has some cup ring-stains on it from resting on a bar and smells vaguely of stale cigar smoke...

Hey Scribes,

I'd like to sit and discuss an idea I have that would include work for your hands. It would involve filling both the treasury and your own pockets much like licenses do currently. I think you'll like it a lot, from early discussions I've had.

But I'd like to iron out the kinks, as they say, to make sure it's worthy of suggestion.

Find me at your earliest convenience, I'll be in touch.

-Buster

[-Buster]

The letter has some cup ring-stains on it from resting on a bar and smells vaguely of stale cigar smoke...

Legates,

I was approached by a man of the Well, a quiet man who rarely seems to ask or seek much with a proposal for me, which I now bring to you.

The property opposite mine, nearer the Glazier's has suffered long periods of disuse and properties are always in great demand. As the construction on the District grinds to a halt and the business of election seems destined to be delayed, I suggest putting the idle hands of the laborers to some good use. Tear down the Wall beside the Hope to open up the space for better use.

Doing so will bring more dinars into the treasury and provide more opportunity for the projects and people of the Well to have a place to use. I can't imagine it'd even cost anything with the hands of laborers sitting idle with nothing to work at until the District Mess is cleaned up.

Thank you kindly for your consideration, I'll be in touch.

-Buster

[-BB]

Who IS Ilmaz and how does she know so much private stuff? Stuff that's only ever said inside your head? Is she a Seer? A prophet? Some kinda expert spy?

A little creeped out, a little impressed, a little comforting.

I'm gonna have to keep my eyes on her. She's a lot more than she appears.

She's giving me that weird Sister feeling....where I'm hanging on her every word and want to run from her every word before I hear it.

-BB

P.S. I hope I made you proud kid. I did what I shoulda done a long time ago. We'll see what happens.

[-BB]

Don't think I've ever felt as useless as I did today.

Felt good seeing Skink come into her own with the mission at least. Always knew she had it in her. She knows her stuff.

Qa'im conspiracy don't even make sense to me. I've got a gut feeling more is going on than people want to look at.

Voting machine got busted, I've got my doubts about how and why that happened too. But what can we do about it?

No rest for the weary.

-BB

Restoring much honor to stalker sorcerers. Orson did what every spooky stalker sorcerer dreams of, making everyone paranoid and talking about them even when they are never online at the same time as them.

o7

I said to Skink "I don't know what people see in me, I'm nothing special" and her answer stuck with me "Honesty". Is that really all it takes, is someone who isn't a two-faced worm?

I think I'm due a little honest to the one person I've done everything to avoid, ain't that right Buster?



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That election was more than just another fight, wasn't it chum? You know it, I know it, but they don't. It left a wound on you that isn't healing, you can't ignore it forever now. "He claims he's a family man. But where's his family? Some protector if he can't even protect  his family".

Yeah. I can't stop seeing those words, just a bit of political skullduggery, but it found my weak point and jammed that knife in hard. I can't let them, not even Skink see it though. Haven't slept a good night since. The nightmares are back again, thought I put them behind me....but this time is different.

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The first one I see the kid and the wife, black figures of Nothing standing. They keep getting closer and closer to me, it's not comforting, there's malice and hate in their eyes. They move at me without moving until they're right up on me. The kid speaks "Why didn't you save us daddy? Why daddy? You were supposed to come back for us. Why did you let the bad men take us?" ....I can't speak, I can't move. They stare at me and then they melt... they melt like too much black ichor and the dream is torn away. Why can't I forget? The King made me forget every other cacking detail, names, faces, memories....WHY not this one? Why do I have to remember? Please....let me forget.

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It comes again, this time different. I'm running through the Rings, chasing the caravans, I'm too slow. I keep looking back over my shoulder, panicking. There they are, the walls of blackness are closing in, closer, closer to them....I stop looking back. I stop....I stop....I keep running.

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I don't know the truth anymore. Is this a punishment for my failure? Did the King do this to me? Or am I just tormenting myself, like one of those shades dwelling beneath our feet, too afraid of something good I don't deserve?. Maybe I don't deserve it. Maybe I should let all the schemes and daggers aimed at my back find me.

What kind of father was I really? What kind of husband?

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I hope I never find out. I hope Skink never finds out.

Just let me forget...there's nothing good at the bottom of this bottle of truth.

-BB

Buster Grimes

//I'll respond ICly later meant to earlier but I work until 4-4:30 PM CST mon-friday, whatever time on weekends works, but the proposed time doesn't.

Skink,

Vulture made me take a turn telling the joke on the last job I was out with her so I thought you should get to read it when you get back.

Back in the Peerage woard, a boy of House Velstra, no more than twelve, marched up to a knight of a rival House, Orza and jabbed him in the chest and said "I challenge you to a duel!"

The Knight laughed at him, not even looking away from his drink "Wait for me on the bridge at dawn, I will accept your duel when you are a man."

So every day the boy went to the bridge at dawn, waiting, expecting the Knight to show, but each day he never came. One day after another he would go and wait, for years this went on.

The boy met a woman after some years and they wed and happily consumated the union, in the throes there was a scream. The boy looked up ot see the greatblade of the Knight jammed through his back, leering down over him he said "Did you think the duel would take place on the bridge?"

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She found it quite funny. This is why I struggle so much with the Balladeers, these are the stories I have of 99! Where do they get these hopeful stories of good and caring men that stood for Lords?

-BB

A couple suggestions to make them more usable for some RP/economical reasons as someone who's been using them a ton:

1) Make notes lockable, as in they can't be copied if you lock them. I don't mind copying notes if it's just some nothing note, but sometimes it doesn't make sense for people to make copies of huge, effortful notes with a 1 gp click. It would also enable people to sell notes/parchments of certain kinds of things.

2) Allow an option to "pull out a temporary/dissipating copy" of pages inside books. Once you lock books, you can no longer do the very convenient thing of placing sheets from inside them on the ground for people to read. This is mostly an OOC thing as you can't very easily just display a page from a book to a crowd, in my case this means the rules to a game such as Nines

3) Allow the owner of a book to unlock them at anytime, in case of accidental locking or wanting to add more to a book it kinda makes sense.

4) Maybe a little more controversial....but just make books 0 weight, or 0.1 weight. I know it makes sense, but you can carry unlimited notes for no weight already so I think it's the right call for QOL.

Skink,

If you're feeling sad about everything that's happened I read about this remedy that should help. Drink a few glasses of water before bed. It'll give you a reason to get up in the morning.

-BB

Hey Skink,

Q:What prophecy did the chef give to the Sultan?
A:The Sultan-ate.

Q:Why are couriers so hard to spot?
A:They all wear hide.

Q:What do you call coffee made from beans?
A:Garbage

Q:What do you call a Gold League charity worker?
A:A merchant

Q:What do you call a Richo box?
A:Unbeelievable

Q:Why did the cobbler quit the board job?
A:They wanted better heels

-BB

I feel like the stones are all but cast in this election. I made some bad plays along the way, but I never started any game with a strong hand now did I? I still feel like there's a good shot at winning. Probably gonna lose but at least I gave it my all eh? This time next week I'll be Legate for sure.

Everyone around me seemed to want me to be something else, say something else, become something else for their support. At a certain point I just decided enough was enough and let Buster be Buster. Maybe I'm not braying for blood enough for some. Maybe I'm not stately enough for some. But I won't run this campaign as anybody but who I am.

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How could I be so stupid not to see it? It was right in front of my face. I wish I was just a little dumber to not have noticed.

-BB

P.S. I helped this kid move his grandma's stuff out of her place you woulda been proud. She was one of the poor innocents that died in the torment attack. Everyone thinks I'm just working angles. I wish more people could see me like you used to.

[be]

Dear Legate Faith Kreuhtzer,

I believe I've been fairly decent and reasonable, patient even in waiting for a response and explanation to this but I and those wronged seem to not have been given the due rights we are promised as Voiced Citizens of the Well.

The Revel, owned by Vaskr was broken into, furniture smashed and items seized by the Fourth. As I understand it a Legate must sign off on such an operation. I'd hope by now you'd have a report telling you that nothing of illegal nature was found, because there was nothing to be found.

Regardless of that fact, no explanation was given us, no apology. To top it off, the Sergeant seems to have decided to fine me for a charge of "Smuggling' when there was nothing that even the broadest interpretation of the obtuse laws of the Well could be called that within the Revel.

I think it's time you pony up an explanation.

Did I mention it wasn't even my property to begin with, the Revel that was broken into?

I'm sure the Sergeant is just mixed up and we can get all this cleaned up.

I may have let some frustration slip into this here letter but you'll have to forgive me, I've been patient and I've been given little of the respect I've given. That's all I'm asking for.

I'll be happy to talk in person, I don't like making a stink of things over the bellows, unless people leave me no choice.

Five hundred in damages and a thousand in fines wrongfully claimed.

-Buster