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spiderandthesims · 3 years

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1880s Names

Boys

Abel, Abraham, Adam, Addison, Adelbert, Alexander, Alfred, Aloysius, Alphonse, Ambrose, Amos, Anderson, Andrew, Angus, Anthony, Anton, Archibald, Art, Arthur, Aubrey, August, Augustine, Augustus, Avery

Girls

Ada, Adelaide, Adele, Adeline, Agatha, Agnes, Alice, Alma, Almeda, Alta, Anastasia, Angeline, Anna, Annabelle, Anne, Arizona, Augusta, Augustine, Aurelia, Aurora

Boys

Barney, Benjamin, Bennett, Bernard, Bishop, Bradford

Girls

Beatrice, Bernadette, Bess, Bessie, Beulah, Birdie

Boys

Carlton, Carson, Casper, Cassius, Cecil, Charles, Chauncey, Chester, Christian, Christopher, Clarence, Claude, Clement, Clifford, Coleman, Conrad, Cornelius, Curtis

Girls

Camille, Caroline, Catherine, Cecilia, Celestia, Celestine, Celia, Charity, Charlotte, Christine, Claire, Clara, Clarice, Claudia, Clementine, Conception, Constance, Corda, Cordelia, Cornelia

Boys

Dallas, Daniel, Darius, David, Dennis, Dewitt, Dorsey, Douglas, Dudley, Dwight

Girls

Daisy, Delia, Della, Delphia, Docia, Dollie, Dolly, Dolores, Dora, Dorcas, Doris, Dorothy, Dove, Dovie, Drucilla

Boys

Early, Edmond, Edward, Edwin, Eldridge, Eli, Elias, Elijah, Elliott, Ellis, Ellsworth, Elmer, Elton, Elwood, Emerson, Emery, Emil, Emmett, Enoch, Ephraim, Erasmus, Erastus ,Eric, Ernest, Ervin, Erwin, Eugene, Everett, Ezra

Girls

Edith, Edmonia, Effie, Elaine, Elda, Eldora, Eleanor, Elise, Eliza, Elizabeth, Ella, Elma, Elnora, Eloise, Elsa, Elsie, Emily, Emma, Emmaline, Era, Erma, Erna, Ernestine, Essie, Esta, Estella, Estelle, Esther, Ethel, Ethelyn, Etta, Eudora, Eugenia, Eula, Eulalia, Eunice, Euphemia

Boys

Felix, Ferdinand, Francis, Franklin, Frederick, Fredrick

Girls

Fanny, Fay, Felicia, Fern, Fidelia, Flora, Florence, Florida, Francis

Boys

Gabriel, Garrett, General, George, Gideon, Giles, Golden, Gregory

Girls

Geneva, Genevieve, Georgia, Georgie, Goldie, Grace, Gwendolyn

Boys

Harmon, Harold, Harris, Harrison, Henry, Hollis, Homer, Horace, Howard, Howard, Howell, Hugo

Girls

Harriett, Hattie, Henrietta, Hester, Honora, Hope, Hortense

Boys

Irving

Girls

Imogene, Indiana, Iona, Iris, Isadora

Boys

Jack, Jackson, Jacob, James, Jasper, Jeremiah, John, Jonathan, Joseph, Josiah, Judson, Jules, Julian, Junius

Girls

Jane, Josephine, Judith, Julia, Julie, Juliet, June

Boys

Kenneth

Girls

Kathleen

Boys

Lawrence, Lawson, Leander, Leonard, Lewis, Lionel, Logan, Lucien, Lucius, Luther, Lyman

Girls

Lacy, Lillian, Lilly, Louise, Lucia, Lucille, Lucinda, Lucretia, Lucy

Boys

Major, Malcolm, Marcus, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mathias, Matthew, Maurice, Maxwell, Michael, Miles, Milo, Milton, Monroe, Morgan, Mortimer

Girls

Mabel, Madeline, Magnolia, Marie, Mary, Matilda, Maude, May, Melinda, Mildred, Millicent, Millie, Minerva, Minnie, Miriam, Missouri, Mollie, Mona

Boys

Nathan, Nathaniel, Neil, Nelson, Newton, Nicholas, Noah, Noel, Norman, Norris

Girls

Netta, Nettie, Nevada, Nona, Nora, Norah, Norma

Boys

Oliver, Oren, Orson, Otis, Otto, Owen

Girls

Odelia, Odessa, Ola, Olive, Ona, Opal, Ophelia, Ora, Orpha, Ottilie

Boys

Patrick, Percival, Percy, Peter, Phillip, Pierce, Pleasant

Girls

Pansy, Parthenia, Patience, Pearl, Penelope, Permelia, Philomena, Phoebe, Polly, Priscilla, Prudence

Boys

Quincy

Boys

Raymond, Richard, Richmond, Robert, Rodney, Roger, Ross

Girls

Rita, Rosalie, Rose, Rowena, Ruby, Ruth

Boys

Samuel, Seymore, Sidney, Silas, Simon, Solomon, Stanley, Stephan, Sterling, Stewart, Sylvester

Girls

Samantha, Sophronia

Boys

Thaddeus, Theodore, Thomas, Thorton, Tillman, Timothy, Tobias, Truman

Girls

Tennessee, Thelma, Theodora, Theodosia, Theresa, Tillie

Boys

Ulysses

Girls

Una

Boys

Valentine, Vernon, Victor, Vincent, Virgil

Girls

Vera, Verona, Vesta, Victoria, Viola, Violet, Virginia, Vivian

Boys

Walker, Wallace, Walter, Warren, Watson, Webster, Wesley, Wilber, Wilbert, Wilbur, Wiley, Wilfred, Willam, Willard, William, Wilson, Winfield

Girls

Wilda, Wilhelmina, Wilma, Winifred, Winnifred, Winona

Girls

Zella, Zora

#1880s #baby names #sims 4 decades challenge #ts4 historical #This is part one of a series of posts #if you have trouble naming sims especially for the decade and historical challenges feel free to use this as a resource #i went thru the top 1000 names of the 1880s in the ssa name census and picked the ones i liked and hated the least lol #txt

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aurelia-creative · 5 years

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Mein Larp-Charakter Aurelia

Als meine Vestalin Aurelia entstand, gab es meinen Blog noch nicht und hätte man mir damals gesagt, was durch sie alles entstehen würde, hätte ich wohl nur gelacht. Heute habe ich einen Post zu diesem #Larp-Charakter online gestellt. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

Der Duft von Weihrauch, der Geschmack von Gewürzwein und das Gefühl von fließenden Stoffen auf der Haut. Das sind Eindrücke, die ich fest mit meinem Larp-Charakter Aurelia verbinde. Für mich ist sie nicht nur mein erster Langzeit-Larp-Charakter, sondern auch das beste Beispiel für die Magie von Larp und welche wertvollen Erfahrungen man dort für das tägliche Leben sammeln kann.

Aurelias…

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#Antike Larp #Aurelia #Epic Empires #Epic Empires Lager der Antike #Larp #Larp Priester #Larp-Charakter #Priesterin #Vesta

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jennystahl · 4 years

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— CHARACTER INTERVIEW

tagged by @noonvraith and @fillianore ! thank you so much <3

tagging @vitosscaletta, @roberthouses, and whoever wants to do this i’m bad at tagging people

AURELIA PASSERINE (pillars of eternity —— the watcher)

under the assumption that this is directly following the events of the first game

name ➔ “it’s long and needlessly dramatic... aurelia mercè vesta passerine.”

are you single ➔ “uh, married to the spirits of caed nua? just kidding. sure.”

are you happy ➔ “hundreds of souls aren’t toiling away in my mind anymore, and i probably am not going to go crazy, so yes, i’m... happy.”

are you angry ➔ “not at this moment.”

are your parents still married ➔ "even if one half of them wasn’t dead i wouldn’t know or care.”

NINE FACTS

birth place ➔ “old vailia. my city was called rustica.”

hair colour ➔ “blonde.”

eye colour ➔ “light green.”

birthday ➔ “the 7th of tarauton.”

mood ➔ “uh, right now? fine. splendid.”

gender ➔ “female.”

summer or winter ➔ “summer! the cold is awful.”

morning or afternoon ➔ “morning. mostly because many people prefer the afternoon, and mornings are decidedly empty. it’s nice to watch the sunrise.”

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

are you in love ➔ “...no.”

do you believe in love at first sight ➔ “not at all. that’d be infatuation, i suppose, but i do think you can tell when you’re going to like someone very much.”

who ended your last relationship ➔ “well, it wasn’t really a relationship, more of a fling really; but i did by faking my own death and running away from home. sounds dramatic but it had nothing to do with the guy. i kind of forgot he even existed until just now, actually. that was a long time ago, though. ...too long, honestly.”

have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ “haven’t ever thought about it, but i imagine that poor boy back in old vailia was very sad... that is a bit sad.”

are you afraid of commitments ➔ "not at all. commitment is what keeps most of us going.”

have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ “yes, but they were goodbye hugs, which are the worst kind.”

have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ "aren’t they secret for a reason?”

have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ “yes. no comment.”

SIX CHOICES

love or lust ➔ "love.”

lemonade or iced tea ➔ “lemonade.”

cats or dogs ➔ "cats! though i prefer birds and pigs overall.”

a few best friends or many regular friends ➔ "a few best friends. when you get too many, things aren’t intimate any longer, and it can go awry. in my experience, anyway.”

wild night out or romantic night in ➔ "oh, both, but i’ve had a fair amount of wild nights these past several months; not by my choice, though.”

day or night ➔ “day. there’s so much more you can get done.”

FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS

been caught sneaking out ➔ “many times, but that’s one of the main reasons i did it.”

fallen down/up the stairs ➔ "my house in old vailia was so large that i learned to be deft maneuvering flights and flights of stairs.”

wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ "how many questions am i allowed to say no comment to?”

wanted to disappear ➔ “i did, in a way.”

FOUR PREFERENCES

smile or eyes ➔ “eyes. your eyes usually can’t lie.”

shorter or taller ➔ “taller. no offense to my friends on the other side of the scale.”

intelligence or beauty ➔ “well, my gut says intelligence, and that’s true, but it is nice when things are... well, nice to look at.”

hook-up or relationship ➔ “relationship, ideally.”

FAMILY

do you and your family get along ➔ “not at all. my sisters and i fought constantly when we were younger, and my parents were just too different from me. i haven’t seen them in years.”

would you say you have a “messed up life” ➔ "not especially. nothing’s happened that i couldn’t get myself out of in one way or the other.”

have you ever ran away from home ➔ “oh, i have done far more than run away from home. well, i did that several times as well, but my latest stunt was years ago and i faked my own death, as i said before. that’s running away from home if i ever saw it.”

have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ “almost? well, that’s what they were trying to do... in a way. kicking me out of existence.”

FRIENDS

do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ “yes. durance. but he knows.”

do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ “i do. i don’t become friends with someone if i don’t intend for them to be.”

who is your best friend ➔ “eder! or... aloth.”

who knows everything about you ➔ “i don’t even know everything about myself.”

#these things are so fun but i get embarrassed doing them lol :/#thank you though both of you!!!#oc: aurelia

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garland-on-thy-brow · 6 years

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Cicero: Catilina is the queen bee. The star. Those others are just his little workers.

Sempronia: Catilina... How do I even begin to explain Catilina?

Aulus Gabinius: Catilina is flawless.

Cethegus: He has plenty of swords and a silver Marian eagle.

Crassus: I hear his beard is insured for 10,000 denarii.

Caesar: I hear he conducts fire drills... in the Temple of Vesta.

Caelius: His favorite riddle is a body without a head.

Publius Gabinius: One time, he met Sulla in the army.

Aurelia Orestilla: And Sulla told him he was sexy.

Lentulus Sura: One time, he punched me in the face. It was awesome.

#tagamemnon #lucius sergius catilina #cato me observavit #o conspiracy #mean girls

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jackpot807 · 6 years

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Stories from Atlas: Aboard the Vesta Pt. 1

This is a small side story from the universe that Wander takes place in. Wander is the “main” story, but there will be many more side stories to add depth to the universe.

WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS TO THE MAIN STORYLINE IN THIS. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP WANDER A MYSTERY

Aboard the Vesta Pt. 1

The USS Vesta is a family-owned ship, funded by the Aurelia family and built by Othoren Industries. It is 850 feet In length and 100 feet in width, with most of its movable space on the first story and the foundation equipment on the second. Its engines are two Hermes-II Iono-Nuclear hybrid engines that generate enough force over a period of a week to propel the Vesta several times faster than the speed of light. At the current speed, Silver determined the Vesta would arrive at Atlas within the hour.

Silver, the onboard AI, constructed by Google in their central lab in California, had spent the past twenty years on the Vesta, quietly calculating over and over again the expenditure of fuel (not that the Thorium would ever run out) and communicating with other nearby AI’s, as they were all traveling at exactly the same speed, no less than a mile apart from each other.

The colonization fleet, colloquially referred to as “The Giant Leap” is the largest civilian flotilla ever made by humanity. Its goal was the colonization of Atlas, a planet several times larger than Earth. It has oxygen. It has water. It has life. And it is magnificent.

Silver had woken up the family she had been charged with looking over for the last twenty years. Willhelm, the father of the family of five, was the first out of his cryo-pod. He ran his hand through what hair he had left to try and get the frost off. Looking forward at nothing in particular, he asked, “Sil are you here?”

“I am here, Will.” Silver replied.

Will looked down the hall. He could see the pods with the rest of his family depressurizing. Air rushed out of the sides, and they opened slowly. He saw William, his oldest, lackadaisy leaning out of the pod and took a step out, arching his back and standing on his toes stretching. Thomas, the younger brother, screamed out “WOW!” in amazement at the awesomeness of finally going through a proper cryo-cycle.

And from the pod next to him, a hand wrapped around the edge, and out leaned the very pregnant Ivonne, his loving wife. She had wanted to have the baby on Atlas, so she could have bragging rights about having the first alien-born child. The Aurelia family was all awake and ready for the long day ahead.

“Sil can you make some breakfast please?” Ivonne asked. To which Silver replied in her oddly human tone, “I have hot plates of bacon and eggs already on the table, Misses Aurelia. Along with a can of coffee to warm you up.”

Silver took a moment to recheck a parameter or stored data, then continued, “The fleet has begun a holding pattern around Atlas. The Fleet Leader has given the order to enter the atmosphere within the hour. I left an agenda for Mister Aurelia on the table for you to go over, but to keep things simple, you are to report to Captain Andell when we land.”

Will and Thomas were already in the kitchen, face deep in breakfast. He helped Ivonne out of the pod and the were walking out of the hall and into the kitchen as well. “Thank you, Sil. Let the Fleet Leader know that we are awake and getting ready.”

“I will.” Silver replied.

He turned to Ivonne, “How was it?” He asked.

“Well I feel a little sick, but the book said that’s good. I think I just gotta get some food in me and I’ll be all set.” She said happily. The prestige and honor that being part of the Giant Leap gave fulfilled a personal milestone for her. She liked knowing she was part of, well, a giant leap for mankind. It was named after Neil Armstrong’s quote when they first landed on the moon back when space travel was in its infancy. “One giant leap for mankind.” It held a sort of wonder for her that is normally reserved only for children. But even now, she’d look up at the sky and marvel at the enormity and possibility of it all. And she finally had the privilege to realize the potential. With her family, no less.

Wilhelm was a man of ambition. Working only directly underneath Chief Engineer Hardman, he wanted to take his place one day, and be the man who built Atlas up from the foundation. But how could he ever compete with Hardman, the genius? Hard work, that’s how. He knew in his heart of hearts that one day, the mile-high buildings will all have the name Aurelia on them somewhere.

As for the kids? Well, what young boy didn’t want to be an astronaut?

They all sat down for breakfast and got right to it. Will was seventeen, and the doctor said he was probably going to grow to be really tall. Actually, he’s tall now. 6’2 to be exact. And he eats like a horse.

“Will slow down or you’ll get sick.” Ivonne told him. He didn’t respond, but he did slow down a bit.

Thomas was ten. He wanted to be like his dad and build space stations and stuff. He didn’t know it at the time, but he wasn’t aware that it wasn’t as simple as ‘putting together legos’ like he’d always compare it to. There are wires that need to be connected, radio frequencies that need to be tuned, nuclear reactors that need coolant, etcetera etcetera.

Indeed, getting onto this prestigious group was no small feat. Wilhelm needed a hail mary to get onto this project. And he had one, in the form of the ISS. He turned that thing from a decaying husk, into a megacity floating above Earth. Almost all of the industry is done in space, now, thanks to him. His oxygen compression and modular foundry techniques are written in books, now. And that is what got him onto this project as a commanding figure. And man was it good.

Good times. Good times.

“I have a transmission from the Ambition.” Silver said, breaking Wilhelm from his reminiscing.

These moments were always super exciting for the family. A message from the flagship, the USS Ambition, were usually messages from either the Fleet Commander or a Supreme Governor back at Earth. This one, though. This is going to be an important message. Maybe even from the Emperor himself. The thought of it made Thomas both excited and nervous. He was in a world of wonder that most kids could only imagine. A world of fairytales and adventure.

“Put them through, Sil.” Wilhelm said.

On the table, the hologram of Admiral Emerson appeared. Tall, broad and commanding, Admiral Emerson was the highest authority of the fleet. Wilhelm had only seen him once, since most of the time he relays information through Hardman, who talks to Emerson. In a fleet of five hundred million people, people of Emerson’s stature gain a sort of mythical bearing. Like a King or Emperor. All those days of talking to lowly supervisors and technicians set the mood to make a visit from someone of such a high position extraordinary. Of course, it wasn’t a transmission to the Vesta exclusively. Rather, the whole fleet.

“Men and women of this fleet. For those of you who don’t know me, I am Admiral Hugh Emerson. You all already know this, but you are all a part of something big. Something monumental. Within the next thirty minutes, you will enter the atmosphere of the planet Atlas, where we will set a foundation and build up the next epoch of human history.”

He took a moment to collect his thoughts. He spoke firmly and deliberately. Each word held a significant gravitas to them, as did his character, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is a significant moment in human history. From the discovery of fire, to the industrial revolution, the first steps on the moon and the creation of AI. This is the next step in our story. And it is you who will be telling it. You are the bringers of prosperity and plenty. You are the architects of ambition. You are the creators of happiness and life. Each and every one of you are the best and brightest humanity has to offer. And I know we will create a perfect, clean and magnificent society that everyone back home will admire and envy.”

“This moment will define humanity for centuries to come.”

The words vibrated through the air, exciting everyone. An entire world of wonder was making promises of happiness and good lives to all. Wilhelm smiled and held Ivonne’s hand.

“Everyone move to your positions and await orders. This is Admiral Emerson of the USS Ambition, wishing all of you a good day. Ambition out.” And with that, the hologram flicked away.

Everybody, not just the Aurelia’s, everybody got goosebumps. Everybody in the fleet, and everybody back home had heard that broadcast. It was a message of hope - a message of wonder and a message that promised that everything will be okay.

“I am receiving a request for a system takeover by the Ambition central AI. This is per the request of Admiral Emerson and part of stage 1. Should I relinquish control to them?” Silver asked.

“Yes, please. They’ll guide us to our zone.” Wilhelm replied.

All around the planet, millions and millions of ships were over their designated landing zones, carefully selected because of their unique advantages. Some were over mineral deposits, some were by the water. Some were on especially fertile land and some were in exotic forests. The Vesta was assigned to a location near the North Pole. Wilhelm will lead a group of a few thousand engineers to place the foundation for a space elevator that would connect the planet to a space station which has yet been built. This was mainly a civilian fleet, and the few military vessels that were there, were to remain in orbit unless something required them to entire the atmosphere.

The Aurelia’s all gathered at the flight deck and watched outward. Before them was beauty so great that words cannot do it justice. Deep green mixed with the blue and white in a wonderful painting of creation. Even from up here, they could see the wide rivers and the deep oceans. The white sands of the deserts and the green of the fields and the forests.

There were auroras all over the planet. They could see them now that they were close. Velvet waves of green, blue and pink waving through the atmosphere, adding to the mystery and allure of Atlas. The placement of the planet from the star it orbited meant that such cosmological activity couldn’t have been possible. One of the big questions that scientists wanted to answer was “How are these auroras forming?” Where the Vesta is landing, aurora activity will be near the maximum level, providing a great show for the kids at all times.

“Here we go…” Ivonne said, putting her arms around her kids as the Vesta began descending along with all of the other ships. Atlas was getting closer and closer, along with all of their hopes and dreams. A new beginning was approaching.

Suddenly, the Vesta violently lurched and shook, knocking everyone off balance. This can’t be turbulence.

“Sil, what was that?” Wilhelm asked.

There was a long silence from the AI.

“Silver!” Wilhelm asked again. Thomas got close to Ivonne and she held him tight.

“...Something is happening, Mister Aurel-” Was all she could say before an arch of blue lightning rippled along the ceiling and along the flight panel, deafening them all. A fire sparked in the instruments, they could smell it. The ship began to jolt and vibrate.

Wilhelm turned to Ivonne and looked at her. She was clearly worried. “Get the kids into the escape pod.”

“What’s happening, Will?” She asked, trying her best to keep the kids calm.

“I don’t think it’s anything, maybe just-” He was interrupted by a cacophony of roars as the circuits and wires of the ship began to crackle and fizz.

“Coooooooooode 1106” Silver said, her now wobbling voice overlayed with static said. Wilhelm knew that Code 1106 meant Silver was on her way out. Something critical to her just blew up. And if she’s getting torn apart, so is the ship.

“Code 110-” Silver’s voice was suddenly replaced by a high-pitched screech as her language center melted from a fire deep within the bowels of the ship. Thomas cried out in fear and clutched onto Ivonne for dear life.

“Dad we gottta-” Will said to his father before his father interrupted,

“Everyone get to the escape pod!” He bellowed over the shaking hull and sparking electronics. They all ran out of the flight deck and to the back of the ship where the escape pod was. They got in and Wilhelm locked the door behind them. Sometime in the rush to get there, Thomas had started crying and Will was asking too many questions that Wilhelm didn’t have the answers to. He could feel the Vesta starting to dive.

“All that fucking equipment we got up in the cargo…” He cursed.

He pressed the launch button. Nothing happened. He pressed it again. Nothing happened. Now he was starting to panic. The escape pod was fried, too, even though it was a closed circuit system. This is bad. He had to think quick. He knew the Vesta would not burn up in the atmosphere. The crash is what will kill them. But if he could slowly ease down onto the flat arctic…

He decided he had no other choice. He got up.

“I have to go guide us onto the surface.” He said. Ivonne knew what that meant. Her mouth dropped and her eyes widened.

“Will, don’t do-”

“It’s the only hope we got, Ivonne! Everything is fried and if I don’t try, we’re dead!” He yelled over the roar of the vibration. Thomas was too scared to listen, but Will shot up, “No, dad, you’ll fucking die!” He said.

Wilhelm was breathing quickly. He knew he had to act fast. This might be the last chance he ever sees his family. He put his hand on Will’s shoulder.

“William I have to!”

Will’s eyes began to flood with tears, “No, dad! Don’t!”

Wilhelm gripped onto Will’s shoulder tight, “Listen, Will. I need you to step up and be strong for Tom and your mother! If I don’t make it, you need to be strong! You need to be strong for me, Will! Can you do that?!”

Will doesn’t know what made him say yes, but he nodded his head and sniffed back a tear. Wilhelm smiled, “I love you Will.”

“I love you Dad.” He replied.

Wilhelm turned to Ivonne, who held Thomas close. She yelled over the chaos, “You better come back! Don’t you dare leave me with these two!”

Wilhelm tried to smile at the horribly-timed joke, but all he could do was lean down and kiss her.

“I love you!” He said.

“I love you too, Will! Forever and always!”

Thomas was too scared to really acknowledge what was going on. He was crying into his mother’s shoulder and wasn’t listening. Wilhelm leaned down and turned Thomas to face him, saying, “I love you, Thomas!”

All Thomas could do was cry in his face, screaming, “DON’T GOOOOOOO!!!”

“I’m sorry rocket man, I gotta!” He replied.

Thomas kicked and screamed. He wasn’t going to make this better. Wilhelm said, “Thomas, remember the moon? Remember the moon Thomas?”

Between sniffles, Thomas muttered, “Yeah…”

“Well whenever you don’t think I’m here with you, just look up at the moon. Alright Thomas?” He asked desperately, trying to calm him down.

After a pause, Thomas said, “Okay…”

Wilhelm shed a tear. “I love you!”

He took a step back and looked at his scared family. His life. His reason to get up in the morning. His light. His happiness. Everything. He knew he had to do this. For them. He popped open the door, yelled a final “I love you!” to them, and closed the door.

He ran down the corridor back up to the front of the ship as quickly as he could. The ceiling was on fire, as was most of the flight panel. But he knew that, when the electricity goes on a ship like this, the massive pneumatic backup pumps could still control the wings. He could do this. He has to do this.

All of a sudden his vision shook and he couldn’t think. The world became a maddening blur of grey and black, melting into each other. What’s happening? He couldn’t breathe. He couldn’t think. He couldn’t talk and he couldn’t see. He could feel himself slipping away as if his mind were sinking into an ocean of darkness.

Focus.

He didn’t know what was happening, but the visions of Thomas and Will and Ivonne flashed into his head. Somewhere in the symphony of chaos, a single, determined resolve was made to pilot this ship to safety even if it kills him.

He grabbed the stick.

Flames were spilling over the Vesta, flowing over the cockpit window. The colors were melding with the green of the land and the grey of the ceilings and walls, adding to the confusion. All of his energy was devoted to pulling the stick up and concentrating on remaining lucid. In a moment, the ship was a mile above ground and he could see it approaching too fast. This is it. A final effort. For his family.

He pulled back on the stick as hard as he possibly could. He couldn’t see anymore. The memory of his wife and two sons and unborn daughter were…

They were melting away.

What’s happening to me? He thought.

The ground is approaching. He is nearly level, now. He doesn’t know how low to the ground he is, but he knows he is seconds away from impact. The white expanse of snow was all he saw. A perfect calm suddenly flooded over him and the ship and the turbulence subsided, as did the assault on his mind.

That final moment of calmness allowed him to try to recollect his thoughts but he found there were no thoughts to recollect.

The ground is close.

He closes his eyes.

#wander

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thepelagoislands · 6 years

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Activity Check

Two weeks have gone by, and the current activity period has ended! This post will be listing all of the characters who have and haven’t met their post requirements, as well as provide them with their pay and expenses for the last two weeks, so be sure to read this to collect/pay your bank, and to make sure whether or not your character is in danger of being dropped!

To pass, your character must have at least FIVE RP POSTS. Music, Money Posts, and Artwork don’t count for activity unless they have an RP component to them. If your character hasn’t met the post requirement, then they will fail. If they fail the subsequent check, then that character will be dropped from the Masterlist. Failed characters do not get the money bonuses from the Activity Check. Instead, they will only be awarded 500G and whatever expenses that applies to them (rent, commuter’s pass). Hopefully you’ll be able to keep up with your activity next go-round!

If you are a new arrival to the group (as in, you’ve joined during this activity period), then you will automatically pass. Additionally, if you are a new arrival and have made FIVE RP POSTS, then you will get full benefits of the check. If not, your character’s name will have a star next to it, and they will only get 1,000G for passing. This only applies to new arrivals that have been here for a majority of the activity period. If your character has joined in the week of the activity check, they will also be allowed full benefits. This also applies for people with hiatuses-- if you get off of hiatus and report back in within the week of the activity check, you will also be allowed a pass.

Here are the most recent community updates and announcements!

Please be sure to read the results below, and -- if you’ve passed -- apply these money changes to your bank account (via a money update post tagged as #pi:money and #pi:activity) according to which ones apply to your specific character.

The next Activity Check will be on Saturday, December 23rd!

Expenses (Arcadia)

[-4,000G] For living in the Eagle Apartments.

[-2,000G] For living in the Eagle Apartments with one roommate.

[-1,333G] For living in the Eagle Apartments with two roommates.

[-1,000G] For living in the Eagle Apartments with three roommates.

[-3,000G] For living in the Ocarina Apartments.

[-1,500G] For living in the Ocarina Apartments with one roommate.

[-1,000G] For living in the Ocarina Apartments with two roommates.

[-1,500G] For living in the Gigant Inn & Springs or Three Sister’s Inn.

[-750G] For living in either of those places with one roommate.

[-500G] For living in either of those places with two roommates.

[20% Off] For working and living at either of the Inns, you get 20% off of whatever rent usually applies to you.

[-1,000G] For living in the Shade Apartments.

[-500G] For living in the Shade Apartments with one roommate.

[-2,000G] Commuter’s Pass for working at a Leudan business.

[-2,000G] Commuter’s Pass for working on a discovered island.

Expenses (Leuda)

[-4,000G] For living in the Snowstyle Apartments.

[-2,000G] For living in the Snowstyle Apartments with one roommate.

[-1,333G] For living in the Snowstyle Apartments with two roommates.

[-1,000G] For living in the Snowstyle Apartments with three roommates.

[-3,000G] For living in the Inner Apartments.

[-1,500G] For living in the Inner Apartments with one roommate.

[-1,000G] For living in the Inner Apartments with two roommates.

[-2,000G] For living in the Bell Hotel.

[-1,000G] For living in the Bell Hotel with one roommate.

[-666G] For living in the Bell Hotel with two roommates.

[20% Off] For working and living at the Bell Hotel, you get 20% off of whatever rent usually applies to you.

[-1,000G] For living in the Mire Apartments.

[-500G] For living in the Mire Apartments with one roommate.

[-2,000G] Commuter’s Pass for working at an Arcadian business.

[-2,000G] Commuter’s Pass for working on a discovered island.

Profits

[+3,000G] Automatic allowance for children and teen characters under 18.[+1,500G] For your first (main) job.

You can add another 500G if you have (at this point in time) earned a degree from the University of the Pelago Island’s degree program.

[+1,000G] For your second (part-time) job.

You can add another 500G if you have (at this point in time) earned a degree from the University of the Pelago Island’s degree program.

[+1,000G] For your third (part-time) job.

You can add another 500G if you have (at this point in time) earned a degree from the University of the Pelago Island’s degree program.

[+2,000G] For being the boss of a business.

You can add an extra 500G to this value if you’ve made a menu for the business.

[+1,500G] For being the boss of a second business.

[+1,500G] For being the boss of a third business.

[+1,000G] For being an owner of a business.

You can add another 500G if you’ve made a menu for the business. Can stack with the Boss bonus (you are only allowed ONE menu bonus, however) if your character is acting as both boss and owner of a business.

[+1,000G] For being an owner of a second business.

[+1,000G] For being an owner of a third business.

[+500G] For updating your Biography / Diary pages.

[+500G] For updating your info in the Character Information doc.

[+500G] For every open post you respond to.

To prevent people from snatching up too many opens, this will only be counted for a maximum of three open threads.

[+500G] For every open post you make.

A reward for promoting activity and including others! This will also only be counted for a maximum of three open threads.

[+500G] For every work thread you complete.

And by work thread, we mean a thread in which your character sells something to another while at their workplace. Threads simply taking place at work with no transactions occurring don’t count.

[+2,500G] For being Mayor (owner/boss of City Hall).

Add another 1,000G if you’ve made a menu for City Hall.

This bonus does not stack with the regular Owner/Boss bonus. Instead, it replaces it.

[+2,000G] For being a Guildmaster (owner/boss of Explorer’s Guild).

Add another 500G if you’ve made a menu for the Guild.

This bonus does not stack with the regular Owner/Boss bonus. Instead, it replaces it.

[+1,000G] Policeman Bonus: For every arrest you make.

[+1,000G] Policeman Bonus: For every call/incident you respond to.

[+1,000G] Guild Member Bonus: For every voyage you complete.

New Arrivals:

Say hello to the new muses! Please follow these blogs if you haven’t already.

Aaron

Aurelia

Hana

Kasey

Klaus

Laney

Muffy*

Siluka

Witch Princess (Nessa)

Yuzuki

Hiatus:

Agate [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Alicia [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Bianca [Hiatus until December 21st]

Dia [Hiatus until December 21st]

Elder Dragon: Ventuswill [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Iluka [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Iris Noire [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Luke [Semi-Hiatus until December 19th]

Margaret [Semi-Hiatus until December 19th]

Mark [Hiatus until December 21st]

Neil [Semi-Hiatus until December 19th]

Pia [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Sabrina (TLV) [Semi-Hiatus until December 12th]

Sebastian [Semi-Hiatus until December 10th]

Sharron [Hiatus until December 21st]

Sofia [Semi-Hiatus until December 23rd]

Vishnal [Semi-Hiatus until December 10th]

Wayne [Hiatus until December 21st]

Passed:

Abigail

Amanda

Andrea

Angela

Cecilia

Charles

Chase

Danny

Elder Dragon: Aquaticus

Elder Dragon: Terrable

Elli

Elliott (SV)

Evelyn

Ford

Fritz

Gaius

Georgia

Gill

Hart

Harvest Goddess (Marina)

Harvest King

Iris (SoS)

Jake

Kai

Karen

Kathy

Kross [Hiatus ended this week.]

Leah

Licorice

Lumina

Maerwen

Marlin

Mary

Masked Man (Matai)

Max

Mimi

Mist

Pam

Pete [Hiatus ended this week.]

Popuri

Ray

Rick

Russell

Sam

Selphy

Soseki

Trent

Vaughn

Violet

Failed:

Elder Dragon: Fiersome

Molly

Sara

Dropped:

Amir - Dropped due to failed Activity Checks. (Please read the Activity Check bullet on the RULES page before reserving again.)

Jamie - Dropped due to failed Activity Checks. (Please read the Activity Check bullet on the RULES page before reserving again.)

Leon - Dropped due to failed Activity Checks. (Please read the Activity Check bullet on the RULES page before reserving again.)

Xiao Pai - Dropped due to failed Activity Checks. (Please read the Activity Check bullet on the RULES page before reserving again.)

These muses were personally dropped by the muns, so please unfollow them if you haven’t already!

Eve

Vesta (turned into Siluka)

Yuri

#pi:follow #pi:unfollow #pi:hiatus #pi:activity

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captainofthefallen · 3 years

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Is it normal to be insanely proud of your D&D character for managing to randomly blurt out 'I love you' in the middle of a normal ass conversation with the man she has feelings for, thus prompting your DM to fall out of his chair?

Because I am. I really really am

#Aurelia Vesta #korelia #they're even more adorable dorks than I thought #I can't handle it #claire says things

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captainofthefallen · 3 years

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🖊+ Corda?

Yay! She’s currently in the tomb of annihilation and has been for several weeks so she welcomes the break.

I think I’ll do Corda as a parent for this one, since it’s been on my mind some lately. She has two sons. Jonas, a warforged who she adopted and then trained after he tried to assassinate her, is the older of the two--he’s been around for almost 40 years at this point. Trajan is the biological son of her and her wife, and he was a bit of a gift from the current ruler of hell who owed them a boatload of favors (and still does) for his actions before he took up his current role. The upshot of that is a) that Trajan was created magically and so neither Corda nor Ghazril had to endure pregnancy, and b) that Trajan is the reincarnation of a specific soul who was... significant to them in his previous life--Zul’han, the necromancer who originally created them. (Corda in particular reached an understanding with Zul’han, and though her feelings toward him were complicated, his death was a blow.)

So anyway. Mom Corda.

Her parenting style very much depends on which son. Because Jonas was kind of a special case in that he was in many ways an adult when they met so he's somewhere between a son and an apprentice, but he was her apprentice first and the parental relationship slowly developed over time.

For that reason, there is sometimes a need for... shall we say professional distance, with Jonas. Or at least there was during his training. He was pretty much her direct apprentice, much to the consternation of some of her other students, but she saw a lot of people she loves in him, and he needed her a lot more than any of them did. But she's very hands off in a lot of ways with him? She's big on letting him find his own path and she trusts him to do what he has to.

God help anyone who tries to suggest he's worth less because he's a warforged though. There are very few hard lines that Corda has, but that is one of them, and also one of the things that could make her raise her voice. And if it got bad enough, might even make her angry.

So she's very protective of him in that sense, and that's the only way in which she's directly interfered with his choices--when he wanted to give up on himself because he saw himself as less worthy for not being properly alive, she wouldn't let him. That was also when she told him that she used to be undead, and the whole deal with that, how the Jensai (the life force she guards within her monastery) revitalized her body but she was alive long before she looked like it.

I think she's very chill as a parent in terms of rules. Like she doesn't really set rules, at least outside the norm for everyone living in the monastery--as long as she’s in the loop about what’s going on with them, she's pretty much okay with that, and she gives them space to approach her on their own. But also it’s very difficult to get anything past her, so even though she may not say anything, she’ll probably be aware if something’s going on.

But with Jonas I think, especially after he went off on his mission to the Dominion and fucking vanished for like a decade, there's also a sense of... partnership there. She knows he's come into his own and he doesn't really need her anymore, though obviously he's her son and he loves her and all that but at this point she’s aware that he has plenty to bring to the table on his own and she can learn a fair bit from him too.

With Trajan I think she's kinda flying by the seat of her pants. Because she's raising this child who has the soul of a mind flayer lich, can read minds among other things, and there's no textbook on this kind of thing. But with him I think she focuses more on teaching him kindness and how to discern right and wrong and that sort of thing. Because she's way out of her depth with the powers, so I suppose the idea is that if she can teach him to respect other people and to read situations and treat people with dignity, he'll figure out how to use the powers on his own. And I'm sure she'd enlist her friends’ help with some of the magic stuff, but her focus is on making sure he's a better person than she is by the end of all this.

I think Ghazril is far more of the embarrassing mom, between the two of them. She's proud as fuck of both of them, and I bet you if she talked to someone who wanted to talk about how wonderful her kids are she could go on and on. Like I'm sure she wants to hear all about Jonas’ adventures with Aurelia, and then she can tell the story of the first time he won a sparring match and how proud she was, and how he always used to ask questions about everything and in the earlier years when he was first learning about the night sky he would draw constellations and she’d hang them on whatever refrigerator-equivalent she’s got.

Corda's a lot more hands-on with Trajan, I guess is the upshot. It's a little harder to get into details with him since I don't know all that much about his personality aside from the brief interaction he had with Aurelia in which he accidentally read her mind and then gave her a stuffed animal (Aurelia was like this child is a sweetheart and also he's floating like six inches off the ground I have no idea what to do with this).

But yeah, with Jonas she's kind of a paradoxical mixture of letting him make his own life choices and getting extremely protective if anyone looks at him wrong. But let's put it this way: she won't be an embarrassing mom unprompted. If prompted, however, I think she probably has her own fair share of stories.

#ask thing #corda evanwood #aurelia vesta #i hope this makes sense lol #I just sorta went full stream of consciousness #but i love corda and her boys very much

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