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peladon, Bill and maybe watervole too - do you recall the saga of Dorian di Chrysaetos and Jehanne de Valerian?
I still refuse to use her married name. That marriage was annulled, and I was furious when the newsletter referred to her as Jehanne Morgan when they printed our obituaries - ironically, on the same page as our marriage announcement. Damn them, our marriage was the legal one, short as it was... I'd have protested, but for being dead and all.
I'm back in the roleplaying saddle, that's all, and seeing certain parallels. It makes me want to reminisce. I wish to hell I still had the love letters I wrote her. I wish I hadn't destroyed so many brain cells in the intervening years.
Apologies to the 98.9% of the f-list who have no idea what I'm talking about and care less. I'll try not to do it again.
peladon, Bill and maybe watervole too - do you recall the saga of Dorian di Chrysaetos and Jehanne de Valerian? I still refuse to use her married name. That marriage was annulled, and I was furious when the newsletter referred to her as Jehanne Morgan when they printed our obituaries - ironically, on the same page as our marriage announcement. Damn them, our marriage was the legal one, short as it was... I'd have protested, but for being dead and all.
I'm back in the roleplaying saddle, that's all, and seeing certain parallels. It makes me want to reminisce. I wish to hell I still had the love letters I wrote her. I wish I hadn't destroyed so many brain cells in the intervening years.
Apologies to the 98.9% of the f-list who have no idea what I'm talking about and care less. I'll try not to do it again.
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Everything is on the Intarwebs somewhere
and there's a mention of Delenda in this Wikipedia piece. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game)
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You still have old Eagle's Cry copies? Can you scan any?
...I know what you mean, one didn't remember things one wasn't involved in so well, and the Jehanne/Dorian affair really only involved Chris and me, and whatsisname who played
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Ah, the memories. Khan Gurbit Chevalier's rousing speeches to his troops... the Border Horse... the Fireguard... rum and raisin ice cream in a satin-lined dungeon...
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IIRC Cardinal Drachenfel survived because David was camped in the garden and he was therefore deemed not to be in the college (or something of the sort).
I distinctly remember Delenda meets with Graham Dixon in the library his ear pressed against the floor listening to the plotting below in the kitchen.
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I never got very far with the listening thing (oh yes, I tried), although I did once persuade another player that I was Jill Candlish. I didn't tell him I was, you understand, just didn't correct him...
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And no, she wasn't referred to as Jehanne De Valerian, but her marriage to
that scumbagEwan Morgan had been annulled by then, and therefore that's how I will refer to her. It's a matter of principle.From: (Anonymous)
On memory....
Santuary was offered, and safe passage indeed, was offered, and both refused. The matter could have been rendered safe outside of that refusal, but compulsion was never our way. Whatever others may have spoken when your Pontiff took better judgement in similar trials.
That the flames took the College was also, and by my word and honour, not of my doing. Nor that of mine. Nor the Caliphal Intelligence Agency. How could it be so, since no such group ever walked?
That Jehanne fell, and not a dungeon step involved, was of sorrow. That Fortress Feyer did not was a matter of time and circumstance. There were those both sides of Jehanne's beds... er, bed... that had intent by their word, but far fewer and none that held word as valued as the Caliphate.
And do not forget, if we speak of beds, that the daughter of the Kharijis shared many, and not all her sheets were left crimson...
It is strage, and past strange, to wake in these times. The days we speak of were long past, and longer yet. But they live and they breathe, and they are a part of us, as we were and are a part of them. Does the Caliphate yet stand in some distant dream? Does the Isle of Ghosts yet live to its name, and the floating land still wander at the gift of tide and wind, and mayhap the one that broods upon the mount of fire? i sleep more than wake, and dream mmore than sleep. But ever I remain... at least in part....
Ibrahim Yunus
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Also, Ewan Morgan and Jehanne's marriage was never consummated, which is how it could be deemed never to have existed. She told me so herself, and surely she wouldn't have lied?
*grin*
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While a single Khariji walked, the Caliphate has not fallen.
While the floating land yet danced the waves, then do not think the Caliphate is past, or the Hiyiros or that which birthed them is gone.
Caliphs live, and Caliphs die. Armies come and armies go. And others might have lived, and others may have died had I not had need of sleep.
There is a land where the dream we speak of yet lives. And there is a land where a hundred hundred of thy ' friends' may yet see thee ride from my camp bearing much gold and my gratefull thanks for a recent victory... {grin}.
That which was, is. That which will be... will be.
That which I am, I remain.
And my voice comes as it it is spoken... such is the way of things here. {big grin}.
Selim Huseyin
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Selim Huseyin
Ibrahim Yunus
Kamal al Kadir
Selim Huseyin
Sephiranoth ShadowSeeker
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Sephir DeathDancer
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It is Sephir DeathDream
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I remember the time ye speak of as one most interesting. I had... interests... in respect of Fortress Feyer, and it seemed both sides of that bed were willing to speak on the matter. And both sides made offers, but none of those offers were made whole. As was expected... And then the daughter of the Kharijis moved among the words and deeds there and all came to naught. But in time it might have been else... The Caliph had made the matter of Iparti more of import, and whatever any thought, I moved to the Caliph's will. When the Caliph knew what it was, of course...
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Jehanne was perfectly capable of playing both sides against the middle; and yet, I'll swear she loved me truly. It was a very good match, in some respects.
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