I need some time off to breathe a little bit, and also I'm going to be out of the country all next week. I'll float on the forums a bit for the next few days before I take off, and I'm reachable off-game via email or AIM during that time as well. Otherwise, I will hopefully be a little bit lower stressed - and more pleasant - when I return from the ( Read more... )

Wheels up to Lucerne. After some business there, Kiev, Moscow and London. Please don't burn the Club down - or if you do, make sure it catches her this time.

We'll want to sit down and talk about our lost friend and how he is doing when I return. Good news would be greatly appreciated.

SS.

And people ask me why I have a low opinion of women.

( 'Swear to God that never sees the internet.' (Zenith) )

I think she forgets how much she is mine. Even if my control wanes, my influence - my ways and mores - are written into every little corner of her psyche. She may call herself a Frost, but I know and she knows who her family is.

But then, she is all the family I have, too.

( 'Your Galatea?' (Emma) )

Text Message to Bahir

Our Rook has changed her colors. Look to the pawns, consider candidates.

SS.To: "Clay Ashton"
From: "S. Shaw"
Subject: Harper

Ask Legal to bring me the file on what we hold in Harper's company. Then call her people and have them tell her I know why she cancelled dinner, and have them make a date she intends to keep.

SS.

Harper was weak. /Weak/, and we are better to be rid of her - and Washington? Those things are prizes, real power. The ladder up.

Sometimes one retreats to advance.

( 'I'm not going to sleep with you to protect Sal Harper, Sebastian.' (Emma) )

Backdated to Friday night.

And now I know how she humbled me - she's learned nothing, has she? Even her triumphs are empty - she hasn't the wit to do it by her own merits, she must rely upon the crutch of her power.

( 'We need to limit the losses.' (Bahir) )

( 'A problem.' (Linden [NPC]) )

I so want to squash that little bug. Damn him and his geriatric gay lover.

( 'You're a asshole.' (Rossi) )

Backdated to early, early Thursday morning.

Damn her for being right - damn her for the smugness of it all. /Damn her/.

( 'I will direct the Circle.' (Emma) )