Interview with a War Wizard
Bryelle Vaughn

“I love your castle.”

“I have a great decorator.”

“She must charge by the hour.”

“Sometimes it feels more like by the minute.”

Polite and dressed from head to toe in midnight black with only the smallest hints of deep orange showing, he motioned to the elven loveseat to his left. Sliding herself unceremoniously onto it, Cecilie pulled up her knees so that she was cross legged and quickly withdrew her quill and journal.

“You are -THE- Sid Vicious, are you not?”

“Aye.”

“Exactly, what -do- you do here?”

Motioning, her arm flipping wildly into the air she gestured to carefully adorned walls around her.

“I am the Highest Ranking Wizard in Dawn.” His voice tingled with a sense of pride though his tone was just loud enough for her to hear. It was easy to see that he didn’t need to raise his tone for his point to come across no matter what the topic.

“Exactly what does that mean?”

Laughter rich and low echoed in the library. “It means that I am the Royal Wizard to the Crown. I’ve sworn to protect it.”

Her quill furiously scribbling across the page. “How long have you had this job?”

He stroked his beard in a downward angle, a sigh blowing soft out of his mouth. “A long long time.”

Well that certainly narrows it down, she thought.

“So that means you are to protect the Duchess because there is no one to wear the crown?”

“The Duchess is more of a Magistrate. So no. However, people are always trying for the crown and it must be protected. As head of the War Wizards, I do.”

“War Wizard?” Furrowing her brow

“Protectors. We follow a hierarchy. Wits, Loyalty, and Experience.”

“Do you have Daily tasks?”

He contemplated this for a moment, returning to stroking his beard.

“Keep an ear to the ground, watch and listen.”

In an effort to see how good he was listening to the afore mentioned ground, Cecilie stuck her foot down, stomping roughly. She watched as a smile spread across his face.

“I typically don’t worry about the citizens themselves. Just others.” He paused then as a wad of spit ejected from his mouth in a volatile fashion, landing on the paw of the dark brown bear rug. “Like Casca. He tried to take the crown. And we would not have it.”

Her quill stopped for a moment, having captured the essence of the spit flinging conversation.

“Are you married? You have kids?”

A mix of stun and shock adorned his eyes, which were relatively all that could bee seen behind the facial armor.

“No Time.”

Shaking her head and letting out a low whistle, Cecilie continued. Between the discussion of some old guy named Humbolt and a set of kidney stones, she was invited back. Reaching up on her tip toes she placed a kiss on the side of his mempo and quietly exited.

War Wizards really needed to have more fun.

Don’t Worry Santa Will Be Back!

If you missed Santa Clause over the last two days do not worry! He will be returning periodically over the next several days so keep your eyes on the Global Chat Channel for announcements of his arrival and clues to his current location from the “Sugar Plum Fairy” to claim your gift! Your characters Karma affects which type of gift you will receive.

Locations for Wednesday the 21st
Kijustsu Anei Village (Homare-Jima, TOkuno)
Community Center (Skara Brae, Felucca)
Marble Place (Nujel’m, Trammel)

Help Track Santa By Posting Here

The Christmas/Holiday Tree Lighting event over the last five years has become a tradition on the Chesapeake shard. Inviting everyone and anyone to partake in hosting and attending events. This years theme “Poseidon’s Fury Artifacts” was chosen to honor the creative and enjoyable story arch “Poseidon’s Fury” created by our Event Moderators.

Area 51 Christmas Scavenger Hunt
Hosts: Abby Normal, Pooper, Wes and Pen
Setup: Jimmy, Tilley, Jared
Prize Donation: Pooper, Pen and Jared

Kicking off the festivities was The Township of Area 51 operated by the UFO guild, with their First Annual Christmas Scavenger Hunt. The Scavenger hunt was a smashing success with higher then expected numbers for attendance. Congratulations to the hunt winners: (1st Place)Team PITS; Drecko, John and Mercedees (2nd Place) Mr Clean (3rd Place) Wild lemons

Later on in the evening hours, citizens from around the realm gathered on the island of Homare-Jima where a massive Feast was prepared for them by Lady Angelica and perfectly distilled drinks from Maedhros of Nidaros and County Cork Distillery of Kijustsu Anei Village. Goblins from Pitmuck such as Ozog Giantfart, were at the Tree accepting pressies for the Gift Exchange.

Lord Gareth gave a short welcoming speech a few minutes before Elder EM Dudley and EM Drosselmeyer arrived to light this years Trees.

“Welcome to the 5th annual Christmas Tree Lighting! I would like to thank Lady Angelica for preparing a wonderful feast. Ozog and the Goblins from Pitmuck for distributing Gifts for the exchange and a long list of people who made this Tree possible; Sundina, Demon Slayer, Abby Normal, Pooper, Nyx, Elijah Cross and WildStar. Let us stuff our faces and await to arrival of Elder EM Dudley to light this years Tree!”

After the tree was lit and the Hall of Commons meeting adjourned, the Goblins entertained the crowd with their beautiful voices (Nails on a Chalkboard) singing, Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Jingle bells and my personal favorite I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, before distributing gifts to everyone.

Ozog Giantfart
“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too”

To wrap up the night three numbers were drawn for the Angel Gift Box Attendance Raffle which were given out by Angelica during the “Angelic Feast” and Niva the Savage during the “Hall of Commons Meeting”. Congratulations to Lady Jade, Lady Xanthe Eir and Lady Sundina for holding the winning tickets.

This years event would not have been possible without the hard work and dedicated put in to make this one of our best Tree Lighting events thus far! We hope to see everyone again next year.

Christmas/Holiday Tree lighting
Designers & Decorators: Lady Abby Normal, Pooper and Lord Gareth
Ornament Donations: Demon Slayer, Sundina, Abby Normal, Pooper, WildStar, Nyx, Niva, Elijah Cross and Gareth

Holiday Feast
Hostess and Head Chef: Lady Angelica
Holiday Brewers: Musashi and Mayor Zanku

Gift Exchange
Host: Ozog Giantfart
Little Helpers: Mia Twinkles, Lure Alie, Karthec Dogaan, Grub Tanglewood, Stick Figure and Meebe Wormslayer

Tree Lighting
Hosts: Elder EM Dudley, EM Drosselmeyer and Lord Gareth

Angel Gift Box Raffle
Host: Lord Gareth
Prize Donation: Kijustsu Anei Village

Beacon and Dregs Static event begins on Friday the 23rd of December and will run until Wednesday the 28th at 8pm ET when the next event A Fun Guy’s Folly is held. Regarding the Beacon and Dregs event to come, there will be several “paths” to follow to find all…of the available information and quest relevant things to get the complete picture you’ll need to follow each path. So far we’ve got at least two but we may have as many as five. We’ll include where each path ‘starts’ with a post on the forums when the event goes live

Don’t forget to enter the Holiday House Decoration contest. You have until December 25th to submit entries.

Please be advised that Elder EM Dudley will be Out of the Office from January 17th through February 13th. He is going to the South Pacific

As mentioned last week, we were going to release a clue to the more difficult of the puzzles that was presented in the Britain Beacon Fiction…If nobody had solved it. However, it has been solved in that time and action has been taken as well. Keep an eye out for fiction to come this week

The Tokunese Address event will be sometime during the first weekend of January

We won’t be taking any formal action with Townships until into the New Year

No HoC Next sunday

Patrol Guard Ceremony
Wednesday, December 21st 2011 @ 8pm ET
Kijustsu Anei Village, Homare Tokuno

Located: The lawn/road area by the Crafter’s Hall and the Christmas Tree

This Wednesday at 8pm ET, The Village will hold a patrol guard ceremony for the new commander Mark West and his newly appointed Deputy Tanivar, second in command. There may be some fun and games involved with maybe some small prizes in the games. We shall be doing a basic patrol of the village as well to re-familiarize those who have done it before, and show the newcomers to the village patrol how to patrol the village. Be prepared, who knows what may come. It’ll be an good ceremony with good company!

List of Tower Commanders and where:
Alpha Crafters Hall: Sarberius
Beta Teleport Hub: Pooper
Charlie Nivas Hunting Lodge: Niva the Savage
Delta Mr Cleans house: Mr. Clean
Echo Mage Tower: Tanivar

(Book pages will turn every 20 seconds)

Vessel Captain and Crewmembers
SKS Roadrunner: Kaiko, Sarberius, Naomie De’Layne, Arin, Niva the Savage
SKS Star: Drecko, Santanall, Roger, Syrinx, Excallaber, Nekura, Gareth
The Lil’ Morsel [DwXC]: Sushi, Hudson, FrUiT LoOp

After skimming the pages they made their way to the City of Vesper where they met Jennifer the Cartographer’s Apprentice who was to distraught to focus on anything…

To ease her mind and continue on the quest for the “King Crab” we needed to help Jennifer locate her brother whom loved the drink…perhaps he is part of the Foxx family…any who it did not take long for her brother to be located and after giving him a nice bottle of Ale he said to tell Jennifer “StarBuck”

Supply List
Map Grade Wood Pulp
Inks of Acceptable Quality
Sealing Beeswax

Jennifer’s list was not to difficult, local merchants had all the supplies needed to get Jennifer back on track and find those King Crabs!

The word Catalhoyuk appeared to be a secrete word which was used to teleport you inside of the bed Chamber. Master Vespucci’s journal gave the final clue to his location, The Fortunes Fire Casino and Resort!

Once we arrived we located Rodney Vespucci….unfortunately he was unable to locate his clothing… to finally find the King Crab we had to get the local Bar Wench Candy to go on a date with Rodney….whom cannot be pictured due to nakedness…and due to Candy being so wenchy cannot be either. She required Moonglow Madness and a dance on the pole before she would ever go on a date with him. After locating the Moonglow Madness and a quick dance on the pole she agreed to the date and Mr. Vespucci gave us the password “Mappa Mundi” to access his Secret Basement and obtain the map which took us North of Moonglow to Ice Island.

A King Crab Carapace