Fort Weyr

Day 16, Month 1, Turn 22 of the 10th Interval
It’s official: After a period of mourning and ‘getting’ by with the Steward of Fort standing in for his older brother in day-to-day matters for the past month, along with Lady Astrella, the conclave has confirmed Esraval as Lord Warder for his nephew Astivan until the boy reaches his majority and can take on the mantel of Lord Holder of Fort. For most this probably represents maintaining something of a status quo, others might view this switch with dismay or approval as Esraval ’steps up’ in the world.

Turnover is Friday, February 19th. While we won’t be holding a
formal event for Turnover, the Weyr has a big party planned that includes
not only the traditional bonfires out of doors, but a mixed drinks
extravaganza being served out of the Glass Fountain. There’s a competition
for the best drink recipe submitted by a resident or rider and the food
that the Weyr is laying out for the party is rumored to be top notch,
maybe even giving Fort Hold a run for its money. The theme of the bash is
“Fire and Ice” and apparently many of the drinks will be following this
scheme while the decor is set for all blue, silver and white. Dancing will
of course be going on until all hours, both out of doors and within as
well as down at the Hold.

Day 8, month 13, turn 21 of the 10th Interval
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Just when things were starting to look up with more and more raiders getting rounded up, raids on the decline due to both Fortian efforts and the increasingly cold and snowy winter conditions in the northern part of Fort’s coverage area, tragedy strikes again. After a brief bout of stomach flu, Lord Savilan seems to have developed appendicitis and the surgery to remove his appendix in time failed. All of Fort Hold is in mourning for the reserved, but capable Lord. Amidst such sorrow however, questions swirl: who will take up the mantle of leadership at Fort Hold? Her Lady? Her Steward? Or will Astivan step up with a Warder to help and guide him?

The game is back up and can be reached at the usual address – norcon.genesismuds.com 4210

The game will be down a little bit longer for copying. Check room #237 at too.logrus.com 6660 for updates!

NorConMUSH will be down due to server maintenance at our hosting site from 4pm PT on February 6 to 4pm PT on February 7, 2010.

Please join us on TooMUSH in the interim, NC’s refugee room is located at #237 and Fort has three RP rooms built out. FTW1 is a mini-grid of Fort rooms, if you’d like to link up a private room, the living cavern and the bowl on the mini-grid are both link_ok. FTW2 is set for Fort Hold and FTW3 has our tp room code on it. If you see header and footer error messages in the tp room, pay no mind, those are holdover references from NC and don’t affect the function of the multi-descer.

On day 25 of month 11, turn 21, a full three weeks after she was taken by raiders, Vanissa was rescued by a party from the Weyr that included M’try and several other riders. Just how she was found is being chalked up to luck and excellent help with the local terrain by Dashaya and other Peyton area holders. Known only to the Weyrleaders and a handful of other riders, is B’kaiv’s role in the rescue as the greenrider continues to remain undercover with the raiders. B’kaiv’s placement with the raiders continues to be a secret held by a select few at the Weyr – public information locates him at Monaco Weyr still, doing an exchange.

The kidnapped weyrling seems to be physically healthy, but suffering from some knd of shock. The Weyrleader was seen carrying his sister out of the infirmary after her return and has been keeping a close watch over her since as well as bringing their mother in from Nerat temporarily.

This post was submitted by Fort.

While the Weyrleaders haven’t been saying much about actual plans to deal with Vanissa’s abduction, reassurances have been tendered that the matter is being handled, including the demands from the ransom letter received at the Weyr just a few days after the weyrling went missing.

Search parties continue to go out on a regular basis every day, combing the areas on the maps highlighted by Dashaya and other Peyton allies. Recently, all searchers have been instructed to focus on one area in particular and to look for movement in any clearings within those hills.

One thing that the Weyrleaders have made clear is that there will be no negotiating with raiders and with the deadline for meeting the demands in the note passing, many might be wondering what will happen to the missing weyrling or even how the Weyrleader, her own brother, could let her hang out to dry like that.

* * * NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE * * *
On day 13 of month 11, B’kaiv, undercover, finally managed to actually locate where Vanissa is being kept by the raiders.

The catch? Chielyth can’t give anyone a clear reference to where she is to jump dragons in and it’s tough for Kai to pass out a map.

It does help to narrow the radius down though and rumor has it that plans are underway to try to extract the weyrling before the raiders’ ransom deadline is up.

Logs:
Kai finds Niss: http://thumpykai.livejournal.com/57971.html
Hattie and T’rev discuss ransom: http://mecaith.livejournal.com/271527.html

This post was submitted by Fort.

The evening of day 4 of month 11, turn 21 of the 10th interval seemed fairly normal, the weather pleasant, the conversation in the living cavern merry enough, in spite of ongoing undercurrents of tension. All of that changed when dragons started trumpeting out in the Bowl in response to the alarm raised by Liath, Orisoth and Jheilinth.

Much confusion reigned until one thing came clear from all the hubbub: Vanissa was kidnapped, presumably by raiders near a waystation in the Peyton area.

Once the immediate furor died down, the following facts were determined: 1) Several of the weyrlings were involved, including Dashaya and Jiella, 2) The group of weyrlings had taken it upon themselves, under the guise of Between training, to try to spy out information about the raiders, 3) Vanissa seems to have vanished without a trace and Liath cannot get a fix on her position, though she reports that her rider is alive and is not hurt.

Search parties have been organized of course and the Weyrleader is understandably, very motivated to find his sister. In the meantime, Jiella and Dashaya have both been assigned watchrider duty as a temporary disciplinary measure until Jantha makes a final determination about their status. Given her knowledge of the Peyton area, however, Dashaya has also been asked to coordinate with Peyton Hold and assist with rescue efforts.

OOC note: If you’d like to be involved in the attempts to recover Vanissa, please feel to RP about searching for her in the general area of Peyton. Also, drop a +mail to ftwadmin if you’d like some hooks towards actually finding her.

Log: http://mecaith.livejournal.com/270083.html