Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
I s'pose. And the classic favored for melee/ranged seems to be 'with my favorite weapon' which will mean just about all of the time (although we've just had an example of the 'well, this is all that was available'), so it's clearly not supposed to be a hard/exceptional pickup.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Oh pffff, anyone can do the latter, it's a question of getting away with it.
There's an old bon mot about the initiation of an affair of honor where the gloves are thrown as follows:
"My seconds shall call upon you in the morning!"
"And my seconds shall call upon you in the alley!"
The trick is not being able to call RJ "Bloody Rose" to her face. Anyone with a tongue can pull that off. The trick is doing it without being attacked by outraged weasels. Including herself, sooner or later.
(If this is confusing to anyone (although in this crowd it probably isn't), the idea here is that the same fellows who would act as one's seconds in a proper duel of honor would simply administer a beatdown to anyone foolish enough to issue a challenge that was beneath the station of the recipient. i.e., the proverbial commoner with a sword who wants to take on the nobleman... Outside of Hollywood, this person simply gets thrashed by the noble's hangers-on.)
Rosza is scandalous. She's not ahistorically scandalous, there were such sorts, and often as not they did NOT have a heart of gold (Rosza only mostly does...We've seen her lean towards cruelty.). She operates just barely within the bounds of propriety and gets away with some things simply because she is believably less dangerous to pretend to overlook than to affront. In some part due to her own rakish reputation for being a dab hand with pistol and blade...But also in some part because I imagine that her generation of the Vieuxponts has created its own little reputation even among the Lissemanteau...So she's riding somewhat on the reputation already blazed by her siblings.
I am still horribly sick and somewhat out of it between decongestants and painkillers. I had a really awful sneezing fit and actually clenched hard enough that I cracked a filled molar. BONUS PAIN. So if RJ is more lackadaisical than usual I blame it upon a surfeit of motrin and nyquil.
Natalia Ivanova |
Lackadaisy! That's it!
Thank you both for reminding me of the name of one of the intermitent comics I follow.
I had forgotten the name, and couldn't for the life of me find it again.
And yet, there it is: Lackadaisy.
Anthromorphic cats in St Louis during prohibition. Well drawn and fun. Take a look yourself.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Motrin and nyquil have now been upgraded to hydrocodone and amoxicillin and the winds are kicking up a ton of pollen so I get to add benadryl on top of that and why am I still standing up?
Anyway, I don't THINK you curtailed conversation, there hasn't been a real 'posting cycle' since your last post? Only Natalia has posted so far. (Woo! Go Natalia!)
I was rather tickled with the interjection of the childhood image of Natalia and Rosza getting hold of someone's paintset...And then someone went and upstaged it with mature Natalia finding her social mojo in the most awesome possible way. :D
UltraFennec |
Ooooh, prescription drugs. You got something real then! Dang, get better soon. Lucky that Benadryl's enough to help your allergies though. Antihistamines basically don't work on me anymore, except topically applied stuff for insect bites.
The drowsy part of Benadryl totally works way too well though, so much so that I usually end up awake still, feverishly wondering if I'm still moving and alive or if I'm actually a ghost or some sort of existential spirit creature.
No, seriously, that happened the last time I took Nyquil. Ask Ceallach, we were living together at the time. I swore to everyone there that if I went to sleep I would die, so I couldn't sleep, because dying was BAD.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
I had a flu with horrible awful sneezing fits. It developed into a really painful sinus infection.
I tried to stop sneezing. The sneezing fits were so bad I was getting sore muscles all through my abdomen and thighs.
I stupidly tried to 'clench' through a sneezing fit and cracked one of my molars.
My whole jaw on that side kind of exploded into an infectious mess along the nerve that laces through the jaw. It was swollen up outrageously.
All the inner areas were full of stuff they shouldn't have had. Which meant numbing them was almost impossible.
I ended up having four teeth removed on that side including the split molar (already root canaled and such) so they could be sure to clean out the horrible infection dug into my mandible. It was really bad because of the inability to numb places and how deep they had to go. I went in at 0830 and got out at 1pm. All but a half hour of that was in extended surgery with multiple re-applications of local anaesthetic to try to numb areas as they were cleaned.
So now I have a mouthful of gauze and I am kind of a rag-doll wreck from longterm adrenaline burn and involuntary muscle spasms.
Hopefully things get better now.
Rosza Juette de Vieuxpont |
Yeah, except that the generic hydrocodone I had previously was also hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen...
They're even the same dosage ratio (5/500).
They were prescribed by different doctors. One was a GP just giving me something for the pain until I could see the dentist for surgery. The other by the dentist post-surgery. Brand-name preference?
Anyhow, I am goingt o take a little nap and will probably post in 3-4 hours.
Take care everybody
Natalia Ivanova |
And here I thought it would be safe with a discussion, when the raccoon drops his towel. And then poses. :/
I sort of hope that Rosza's cousin Penny decides to "make your acquaintance", in her own uninhibited fashion.
And I hope that Rosza and her teeth turn out well. I've never had that bad of problems with mine (despite wisdom teeth removal and two seperate root canals). I hope you get better soon.
Delroy Callidus |
Bad Gm. :P
As quickly as I want Delroy to make his his mind to grab his towel or just go into the bath like he meant to drop his cloth, I'm waiting on the others to react before deciding what the 'coon may do.
Not even sure why I did it, other than the fact that Del seemed to have a slight reason to be nervous, and he only had one article to fidgit with.
I just figured that's a possible if not probable outcome (Raccoons and their hands) and, well, I went with it.
UltraFennec |
As I'm sure Rosza will attest, there's a reason why so many italicized words get used between them. Both of them have a reputation that doesn't fit their noble image amongst their peers (the common folk, on the other hand...) even if they aren't entirely true in some ways.
Penny's ah...lascivious behavior is well-known enough nobody can refute it. I imagine that the fact that many suspect the same of Rosza is endlessly anger-engendering.
Natalia Ivanova |
Delroy, It can't be that perilous.
I'm sure that a veritable army of handsome young men of Triskellian have braved that peril already.
And your paladin friend seems to think that you aren't in peril at all.
Perhaps she feels you lack the necessary skill at arms? That you don't have the internal stiffness to rise to the occasion ?
Hee, hee, hee... (~_^)
UltraFennec |
My god, what have I unleashed?
Not sure Penny's response about analogies is actually doing what I wanted it to but I can't really think of a way to make it clearer so...whatever! It'll stay there.
And now I roll out an actual plot thread! There's actually a second one aside from the surprise sort-of-tertiary one that appeared, but it won't show up quite yet because it's another sort of surprise that has to happen outside the bathhouse. I think I'll link it up to happen after the Constabulary visit tomorrow. Or maybe during since I think we've at least one weasel that doesn't want to lollygag about the law's abode, hmmm?
UltraFennec |
Alright, I think I've just about done everything I wanted to do at the party. The question is, have all of YOU done what YOU want to do here? If so, then it's time to move on, and probably call a Chapter and whatnot because that took longer than I planned for, and involved more STUFF than planned for.
UltraFennec |
See it's that watching things without reactions that confuses me and makes me wonder where people have gone because they're not posting. You don't need to react to everything obviously, just let me know you're still alive once in awhile.
Anyway, that's two votes for done, do I hear more?