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Threadmarks: 3032, Summer Bright and Regal Gatherings.3
Mid-Summer, Freirehalt, 3032.
There are things that happen outside your notice, once the Council concludes and your household is boarding the train heading back into Gawain Lands, the towering Black Knight standing guard over the station as you make to leave.
Letters are sent out, giving a...
Threadmarks: 3032, Summer Bright and Regal Gatherings.2 - The Council of 3032.
Early July, 3032. Eastern Laoricia. In the BattleMech Training fields outside Gawain Keep.
When you recruited the Black Guard as your Family's dedicated honor guard, it was a position that thousands of men attempted to achieve, with only about a hundred meeting the grade. There were many...
Threadmarks: 3032, Summer Bright and Regal Gatherings.1
With the keep still full of joy and life from your Sister's wedding, it came as no surprise that your desk was swift to overflow with matters needing your attention again.
There were deals that needed renewing, new offers and continued conversations about other dealings, knightly requests for...
Threadmarks: 3032, A New Year, A New Throw of the Dice.4 - Natasha Gawain and Alistair Tristain cordially invite you...
May 3032, Eastern Laoricia, Gawain Keep.
Weddings are long and drawn out affairs in these times where transport is trickier to arrange. When relatives have to come from far afield, it can be expected for the preparations to be ongoing for weeks, before the day arrives and the wedding proper...
Threadmarks: 3032, A New Year, A New Throw of the Dice.3 - Meeting with old friends.
3rd Week of April, 3032.
There is major benefit to people becoming more comfortable with your DropShips, as it stretches into a year and a half of peace from the skies, the conflicts between the lordly houses mostly constrained to their own borders, men who had been neighbors yesterday...
Threadmarks: 3032, A New Year, A New Throw of the Dice.2 - Visiting the Shattered Isles.
April 3032, Constantine's Village of 'Its name is not Constantinople, Elric.'
When you headed back to the Shattered Isles, it was back to Constantine's island, his niece coming with you, and while the Black Knight did sit in the Odysseus's mech bays, you didn't plan to bring it out very much...
Threadmarks: 3032, A New Year, A New Throw of the Dice.1
January, 3032.
With a new year comes new opportunities and new concerns, the problems of the future a step closer than they were yesterday, just as their solutions creep closer on the day to day.
For your part, you finally take the time to relax, your January far less busy than your last few...
Threadmarks: 3031, Autumn leaves fall.4 - Rounding out the end of the year, and the start of the next.
The 14th of December, 3031. Mulstadia, House Cobster's Keep.
Your journey to Lord Cobster's keep is smoother than you expected, through it does take a decent amount of time, as you've decided against just taking a dropship and landing outside his home. It would send the wrong message to put a...
Threadmarks: 3031, Autumn leaves fall.3 - Spending some time with your family.
Late November 3031, Eastern Laoricia.
When you returned from your anger driven getaway to Gruenband, you swiftly appear before your father to present the agreement you penned with mayor Anatoliy, as well as your discovery of not only the descendants of political prisoners, but also the refinery...
Threadmarks: 3031, Autumn leaves fall.2 - Messing up a train, and visiting a snowball for the first time.
November, 3031. Gawain Keep, Laoricia.
When you had issued an invitation to the high Lords of the lands to discuss matters military, you had not expected many of them to come in person. It was simply a logistical challenge for men who ruled to take weeks out of their time to travel to meet...
Extras: Side Story: A Prisoner stuck, Punishment pending.
Written by ChaosDaemon, edited by LordofFlames.
Sometime in Early 3031.
Alan bounced the small ball that his guards had let him have against the wall of his cell, catching it on the rebound. It was a mindless activity but one of the few that he could indulge in since he was imprisoned a few...
Threadmarks: 3031, Autumn leaves fall.1 - The Avalon rises.
Autumn and Fall come quickly some years, and stay away for weeks yet in others, as the green and yellow leaves of Summer lose their color and shine, turning into brilliant oranges and reds, before they fall away to litter the forest floor. It is a simple fact of life that what comes before, must...
Threadmarks: 3031, Summer and the Goddess's return.5 - Handling matters in the Shattered Isles.
Late September 3031, Shattered Isles. The Isle of Ratatoskr.
With your victories tallied, rewards given, and celebrations had with your family, squire, and wards, your attention is soon enough drawn back to the responsibilities you have to the realm of your father and family. Among these...
Threadmarks: 3031, Summer and the Goddess's return.4 - Is it a real Medieval story without a Tournament?
Training Airborne infantry is a rough practice, and requires a great deal of practical experience doing things that are inherently dangerous. You can teach SERE skills on the ground, but to teach soldiers to apply those skills in the field requires they get there under the expected conditions...
Threadmarks: 3031, Summer and the Goddess's return.3 - Spending some more time with Samantha Armmore.
Early August, 3031. Meleutia.
At this point, the guards at Samantha's borders aren't even surprised to see you, though there are enough men garrisoning their north border to give you a fitting honor guard.
Traveling with a group of almost fifty guards does make you feel safer, even if it...
Threadmarks: 3031, Summer and the Goddess's return.2 - Spending some time with the Children and going hunting with Lord Knightway.
As heir to your family, you exert an untold amount of power within the domain of your house, not the least of which is in its place of power, the keep where the main family resides. If you were to go to Thaddeus' ranch, you could expect to be obeyed for the most part, but only while you were...
Threadmarks: 3031, Summer and the Goddess's return.
July, 3031. Gawain Keep.
The spring green gives way to summer yellows as the rains die off, leaving the open fields and forests of your homeland to shift, the animals migrating from the open but drying out grasslands for the shade and hidden bounty of the forest. The predators that live in...
Threadmarks: 3031, Spring's Yawning.3 - Finding LosTech, murdering local raiders, rounding out the first half of the year.
May, 3031. Laoricia.
It has taken you months to find the time to get back out to the slope you almost killed yourself on during the winter, this time clad in the cockpit of the Black Knight as you carefully, and with the aid of several knights and their tanks, descend back down the hill side...
Threadmarks: 3031, Spring's Yawning.2 - Establishing trading pacts, training new pilots, meeting the second Gladwell girl.
Eastern Laoricia, Late March 3031.
You spend a further week at Samantha's palace, spending time together as you get to further know one another.
Ironically, the topic never comes to either of your martial abilities, your record unimpeachable at this point, and Samantha's skill as a mechwarrior...
Threadmarks: 3031, Spring's Yawning.1 - Visting Meleutia, and starting a Courtship.
March 3031.
With that sordid mess behind you, you are left with so much more to do, and so little time.
Your home is not so different as you left it, even as progress on the various projects continues apace, with more steel being purchased and laid down as your nascent rail system takes...