Today is definitely on my top 5 list of worst days. I had decided to visit Jade. Grandfather is there, since he's ambassador, and I hadn't seen him in a while. I still didn't get to see him. Instead I had a man die practically in my arms. I don't know why, or by who, just that it was a masked man. The murderer apparently contacted the authorities, ( Read more... )

I got back from Cibola a day or two ago. Not that I returned quite how I expected to. But I suppose that is the price one pays for learning adventures. You get surprised. Or rather, you get surprised and spend a couple hours in a book, stuck in a pyramid, watching people. Though it was my own fault too. I asked the Vizier to give the pyramid the ( Read more... )

So here's the deal. Erika is a character meant to run plots. Specifically, she's meant to drag people around in order to help her find information, artifacts, books - she IS a Chantris after all! With that in mind, Erika is a bookworm. She knows books, she knows book magic. She isn't, however, a fighter. And adventure is rarely safe. What fun would ( Read more... )