Meryt did Shíma also suffer when Lena was attacked?

Meyrt did Sela have some type of attraction to Alred or just plain old respect since he was a poet?

That avatar is adorable. I wish I had thought of it!

Sela didn't have any attraction to Alred, I don't think. I would imagine it took some time for her even to understand that he was a poet, since it's a difficult word to express if two people don't speak the same language. Poetry, in itself, doesn't translate well -- to the point that neither might recognize the other was speaking poetry at all. However, there are some similarities between Anglo-Saxon poetry and elven poetry (really, more than between Anglo-Saxon poetry and later English rhyming poetry) so she probably she figured out what he was doing if he ever started reciting poetry to her.

How could ANYONE not be attracted to Alred??

But I suppose that if you're into an Egelric, then an Alred isn't really your type.

*raises hand* I'm really not all that attracted to Alred. I could probably think of twenty Lotherian men (and elves) I find more attractive in a sexual sense. It would be pretty awesome to be his Matilda, but even then...

I don't know, he's a little too florid of speech and oiled of hair to please me. He has an incredible depth of feeling, but sometimes that's the only thing keeping him on the right side of the smarmy line. His increasing age is not helping him on that account either... he could yet turn into a dirty old man type, the butt of all the young maidens' jokes. (Connie is already a little weirded out by him.)

Of course Imin skirts the smarmy line too, falling just on the wrong side in my calculations. Nevertheless, now that I think about it, Imin turns me on a lot more than Alred ever has. Maybe I need the smarminess to make up for the effeminacy? *strikes thoughtful pose*

Poor Devin, look what your thread is rapidly devolving to.

I dated him too. I done him wrong.

Never dated an Alred, but I once dated an Imin. Don't do it. Trust me.

Quoted.

OK lets change the subject

Lothere when do you expect Britmar to return?

Since Leofric's niece Gunnora is a widow and motherless does she live with her sister? Wasn't it against the law at the time for noble women to live on their own?

Do they have any type of contact with Leofric?

Does Aengus' manor have a chapel? If it does Lena should be laid to rest there. I want a beautiful service for a beautiful woman.

"doubt Aengus would be brazen enough to bury his mistress in it."
After his cunt of a wife killed her?

St. Margaret's then, its a beautiful church just make sure she's not buried next to the peasants ok.
Where is Lathir buried? And if the witch is hanged will she be buried outside of the cemetary like Elfleda?

Do you think she will repent?

It is of no matter to me if she repents or not I want her dead. What purpose can she serve in the story now.

Hmm nothing yet. I still don't have any chapters at all planned for the 28th through 31st. I'm sure they will eventually include dozens of chapters, I just don't plan that far ahead. For example on the 27th I only have one entry on my outline, but that one is going to expand into several intense chapters.

I know of some interesting plot lines that are coming up, but I don't know when they will happen. Probably not till after the new year.

Overall though the rest of this year seems likely to be rather full of drama in the elf world and the human world both. Maybe by now the thing that would shock you more would be if 1085 went out peacefully.

Probably not in the way you're thinking.

Does that have anything to do with the fact that I keep saying "there's no way Egelric's going to get off scot-free"?

A lot of the fates that could befall Egelric would necessarily affect Egelric's family.

Just about anything could happen to him now. If he actually gets convicted of conspiring with Maire to kill Lena, he could lose everything, starting with his head.

Even if he "only" raped her, bad things could happen to him. His lands do not belong to him -- they are granted him by the Duke as his fee for knighthood, so if Alred wants to dispossess him, he can do that too. Not to mention Aengus and Cearball could both be after private justice after what he did (or what Cearball believes he did, namely tell Maire to accuse him).

I know things are quite intertwined, but we mustn't forget there are two crimes here -- Lena's murder & the arson of Paul's house, and Maire's rape and battery. Even if it can be proven that Egelric had nothing to do with the former, he actually is guilty of the latter -- and I don't know how far the "But she wanted it" excuse is going to get him.

And even if it is proven Egelric had nothing directly to do with the murder & arson, if it's decided that Maire has lost her mind, it could be concluded that Egelric was responsible for that, making him indirectly responsible for the murder. (She was quite sane when Aengus left, after all.) It is probably in Aengus's best interests to try this tack since otherwise he would have to accept that the love of his life is a cold-blooded killer.

Anyway, enough speculation! I should be writing a chapter now.

The creepy eye shadow! That's another one up there with the green robe Devin.

I don't think Maire's a cold-blooded killer, even if she was kind of calm there when we saw her. I think she's a hot-blooded killer.

And as for Aengus, I don't know, but it seems to me that anyone presented with an excuse for believing that his beloved wife is not truly a murder but a victim herself, he would be all over that. And that's why Egelric had better stay the hell away from Aengus once Aengus gets his feet under him again.

And Cearball is just the kind of guy who goes off half-cocked anyway.

Noooooo that's my #2 favorite eyeshadow of all time. Approximately 1/4 of my Sims are using it, including almost all the tribe of Colin. It's just that Maire's eye shape is so wonky that it makes her eyeshadow look weird. (Also she used to have a darker skin but I never changed it to my #1 favorite eyeshadow, which is the same one, just lighter.)

That made me curious. Can't think of what that could mean to you, but I'll mull it over in my head during the day.

What did I do?

Is this a "Lena lives!" situation?

Ooooookay I won't. *trembles in clueless panic*

Edit: Pen your avatar just made my morning.

Black hair goat is fine too! *runs away*

Meryt does Martha have any contact with her brother and sister Orlaith?

I thought she was destituted judging from the dress she's wearing in her bio pic. Maybe she could move to Lothere and find a better life.

Yeah maybe I am.

lol

Lothere do you think Lady Sela would have liked Cat and Flann or found them immature?

Who's nicer Dara or Nina?

I can't answer that question its too hard.

Benedict will surely stay with Aengus. Even if Benedict knows Cat and Paul better now, Aengus is his father and he ought to raise him. Anyway Cat and Paul may end up staying with Aengus anyway, at least until they build another house or something.

There's really no point in speculating about what Egelric would do or what will happen to him, Devin. Well, you can, but since I already know a few things that are going to happen, there's no point in me speculating.

Its a shame we won't be able to see Paul's house again thanks to that Nutty bitch. How long did it take you to build it? It looked big there were like 7 rooms in it right?

EDIT: I really like this new Lena avatar. We need one of dear Cecily though.

It was a Tudor design right?

I Want Maire Dead before 1086 fund - Please kindly support

The first elven couples were Earth and Air pairs. But only one of those was khorron and the others were laiton. How can this be? Is he khorron because he's noble?

All the "khirron" can trace their lineage, but what about the kisors?

But why does Osh's story only involve two of the original four? Doesn't the other couple matter?

Nimea has long ears. Did the original four have long ears? Is it some evolutionary thing? Is there really more than one race of elf?

Oh come on, you know you want to help out an inquiring mind...

I gots karma...

Chat? Or are you busy?

Heheh, sorry Tiffany, I left work like 2 minutes before you posted that.

Devin, that bedroom is long gone. It was made of wood, remember. That part of the castle was rebuilt in stone.

Here's a picture of where it was located, superimposed on the current castle. (Second floor.)

The blue part is the old room, which was divided by a wall down the middle at some point early on.

The green part is the old open walkway on the wall, where we had such classic chapters as "Alred opens the door" and "Matilda and Alred stand beneath the moon".

Yes I would say they're quite close, Devin. I think the only chapter where we saw some Conrad-Leila interaction was in "Leila pronounces a happy phrase" but I always imagined them close. They're close enough that if Conrad had a question about the craziness of girls or wanted some advice about the same, he would be comfortable asking Leila. Not to the point that he would admit kissing Margaret.... but I have the feeling Leila knows there's something up there anyway.

Ummm I cannot think of any. I would have a hard time writing about a character I hated. The characters that you and other readers might hate are some of the characters that I love the most, because there's so much depth to them. (Same with the characters you guys love -- the Alreds and the Sigis of the world.)

If anything my "most hated" characters -- which is to say the ones I like the least -- are the boring, neglected characters like the young Earl Baldwin or most of Theobald's family. Fortunately all it takes for them is a good chapter or two and I love them too.

In summary they are all my special little snowflakes.

They don't "talk to me" in that sense... it's more like I get to watch them interacting with each other in some hypothetical future situation, and if it seems like it could go somewhere, I plan a chapter around it.

Some really pivotal chapters -- like Sigrid breaking Eirik out of jail for instance, or Alred fighting Leofric -- I rehearse over and over in my mind for weeks or months, often to the detriment of what I'm supposed to be writing at this moment. Right now this is happening to me with some of the soon-upcoming chapters featuring Aed, Eadred & Finn, Magog, and of course Egelric's fate, plus some crazy-distant stuff like what Yware is going to be doing in APRIL for heaven's sake. (Yware! )

Probably most of my chapters I make up as I'm writing them, but it's still just watching the characters act and interact, and writing it down.

So since my involvement is limited to watching what's happening or soon to happen in Lothere, necessarily dead characters don't ever come into play. In truth, once they're dead, I don't think much about them at all. They have no more to contribute to the story, so they're really gone from my head.

The only exception that comes to mind is Matilda. Every once in a while I like to imagine past situations with Matilda and Alred. I wish we had seen more of their courtship. I try to make up for it in my own mind. Call it backstory! Maybe someday Alred will tell his children (or grandchildren ) about those scenes.

I have yet to install SimPE on my new computer, Devin, but I'll try to remember to get a picture. He's kind of average when he grows up. I just noticed I don't have a picture of Ralf yet either! What the heck!

I don't know about El. It's a rare enough situation that it's probably handled case-by-case anyway. I've already said that Dru's relationship with his daughters may be somewhat unusual. (Not in a sexual way -- I mean just the fact that he wants them in his house.)

Also, we haven't seen anything about the Temple at all, but the concept of "household" may not really apply. It's probably more like Lasura has a sleeping room which she shares with her two children. Aside from the nobles, who have their own apartments, the elves in the temple and serving class live mostly communally.

I'm more interested to know why this Ru fellow has his own room. Maybe because he's 16 and sexually mature? And since he has water nature, and the lady in charge of the temple has fire? Hmmm....

If she were, wouldn't they have more kids by now?

Aside from that I reeeeeally prefer not to speculate about Dru's sex life. Someday we may get to meet the daughters or their mother or some other members of the family, and then we might know more. All we know for now is that Lasima got pregnant at 12, had two kids by Dru, and then never had any more, and seemed to get stuck in the temple despite her advancing age.