4/8/2024
While things are getting better a lot of things are still a trainwreck on my end.
While my cat has responded to the thyroid medication, she can’t take it as a pill which is the prime reason for all of her side effects (including being vomity as all hell)
So the mighty 15 year old furball is going to be getting a topical gel in her ears, and is on anti-nausea medication and a reduced dose of the pills until she can get on the gel.
That’s one thing that’s getting better…on the other hand, the day after I posted my message about things going on pause, an elderly family member banged themselves up in a fall and is still recovering.
So we are still in wait and see mode over here. When we know more, you’ll know more. 🙁
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
Seriously, how you deal with something like this does define who and what you are, as well as who and what your enemies are – especially now that the combat is over. In a public position like theirs, it is critical that they be the “good guys”. Putting her on trial also allows them to see who many of her sympathizers are and the connections between them. Mind you, I still like the Nunnery idea 😉 .
One of Ian’s prime motivators is looking at how and why people do things and thinking that “we should be better than this”. Especially with things like this.
I kinda have the same problem at times. I look at things in the world, and some of the rotten things we do to each other, and I think to myself “For fucks sake!!! This is the 21st Century, we should be past this by now.” And it just seems like sometimes, people never will get past it.
Another thought (third archive dive here, btw) — For all that she’s trying to snark at Ian here, I don’t recall her asking “the people” what they actually wanted before starting an insurrection that could’ve gotten the gods only know how many people killed.
The ranchers in the territories actually talked it over and agreed to take up arms and take their chances when they struck out for independence. From everything we’ve seen of her, Olivia has a bad habit of just assuming she knows what’s best for people and then doing it without asking for their opinion…
That, right there is why Ian got House Caladharas to support the independence movement down there. THEY chose. THEY made the decision. And their decision had better be supported and upheld…. And since Ian is a supporter of less House influence of the Houses on society as a whole, you can see what Ian really thinks of her.
Ken
@Ken, A number of people like the Nunnery idea. 😉
One of Ian’s prime motivators is looking at how and why people do things and thinking that “we should be better than this”. Especially with things like this.
I kinda have the same problem at times. I look at things in the world, and some of the rotten things we do to each other, and I think to myself “For fucks sake!!! This is the 21st Century, we should be past this by now.” And it just seems like sometimes, people never will get past it.
The ranchers in the territories actually talked it over and agreed to take up arms and take their chances when they struck out for independence. From everything we’ve seen of her, Olivia has a bad habit of just assuming she knows what’s best for people and then doing it without asking for their opinion…
That, right there is why Ian got House Caladharas to support the independence movement down there. THEY chose. THEY made the decision. And their decision had better be supported and upheld…. And since Ian is a supporter of less House influence of the Houses on society as a whole, you can see what Ian really thinks of her.