Fort Weyr

Rumor has it sweeps dragons have spotted the tithe train leaving Southern Boll. Marks have already exchanged hands, for those who were betting there wouldn’t be a tithe train at all. Still, it remains to be seen whether the tithe under Lord Jivrain will be as generous as his father’s in previous Turns. All hands – candidates, residents, and riders alike – will be expected to help unload for the arrival of the tithe train on Sunday, 29th January at 5pm EST.

Day 16, Month 11:

With Candidates slowly being herded into the barracks for Isyath’s future clutch, there is one recent addition that might stand out amongst the crowd for a day or two. A young man by the name of Norov was supposedly found just outside Fort Hold during a visit by Junior Weyrwoman Ali and Weyrleader N’muir.

Some sources say it was Ali who Searched the lad and certainly every eye witness insists they saw Isyath carrying Norov to the Weyr. Fortians are bound to welcome him warmly if for no other reason than to get the /real/ story.

A notice posted in the commons repeats the message those still attending the weekly archery sessions will be hearing in-person from Avaryk as of the 16th day of month 11:

All further sessions will be suspended until spring. The reason given being simply the increasingly chillier temperatures and the expected worsening of the weather over winter. The small section of the southern bowl that’s been used as a range up until now will be left in place for use. If anyone still desires to practice with the bows provided by the Weyr, a sign-out system has been created and such interested individuals need only to pop in to stores to collect a suitable bow and practice arrows.

With IC Search open, we’d like to invite the Weyr’s playerbase to provide constructive comments about our Candidates! As stated in our Search information, we use this system rather than a formal Search Co. The list of candidates can be accessed through ‘ftw .who/candidates’ and +comments left using the following command:

+comment=(name of candidate)=(comment)

Also available is +object. Please review the criteria for objections on the Fort Weyr website (http://fort-weyr.net/searches/searchco) carefully, as +object should not be used lightly. All +objections will be reviewed by the admin team prior to action being taken with a candidate.

It’s been a little less than a month since Isyath rose in her maiden flight, but already riders have been given the okay to go forth and look for potential Candidates for the junior queen’s clutch. The question is, will Lord Jivrain of Boll permit riders to visit the Hold in Search? Will anyone from Southern Boll and its territory actually /want/ to go to the Weyr, given the damage that has gone without mending despite meetings of Weyrleader and Lord, with interactions between Weyr and Hold proving to be chilly at best?

OOC: IC Search is now open! OOC Search remains open until midnight US Pacific time on 22nd January 2012. We are accepting applications for all dragon colours, with more information about Search available here.

Day 17, Month 10, Hematite returned from morning sweeps as usual — and that is about where all normalcy ceased to continue. The wing (and as many friends as could be convinced) got drunk in the Glass Fountain over lunchtime – by N’muir’s order. Rumour says the Weyrleader (who is better known for his /ban/ of alcohol early in his tenure) was buying rounds, singing songs, and generally being jolly and fun. Others claim he passed out snuggled on a bench with brownrider E’dre, who very publicly and recently broke his hand on N’muir’s face. But that part might be made up.

It seems that now other wingleaders are being encouraged to organize regular ‘Wing Events’ involving fun or relaxing activities for dragonriders and their friends. Some wonder what has brought on such a sudden change of attitude, but everyone appears to be taking advantage of it.

On the afternoon of day 8, month 10, turn 27, bets (and debts) were finally paid: Ali’s gold Isyath finally rose in her maiden flight. The flight included not one, but /two/ Weyrleaders, with the Reaches’ K’del desperate enough to avoid his Weyrwoman’s ire at participating that he had to threaten to harm himself to force his dragon from the skies. In the skies above, the Fortian dragons Bidjeth and Wroth, as well as the Reachians Cadejoth, Visigoth and Riuscyth jostled, while their riders took to fighting amongst themselves below. In the end, though, it was V’teri’s bronze Riuscyth that managed to claim Isyath.

For turns now, Fort has had feeding restrictions in place as a result of the plague that affected the herds in the region. Dragons have had to hunt wild despite the Weyr’s efforts to increase its herdbeast numbers, but, finally, in early month 10 of turn 27, the feeding restrictions have been lifted. The Beastcrafters claim that the herd has recovered sufficiently and its numbers are holding, yet some are wondering that, if the restrictions have ensured this, is it wise to lift them? Will this set everything back to square one?

Gossip never takes long to find its way through the population of Fort – particularly when the act worth gossiping about occurred in the Bowl in the middle of the afternoon. Day 2, Month 10, Hematite returned from sweeps at noon, and not long after that Weyrleader N’muir and his wingmate, brownrider E’dre, got themselves into a very heated argument that ended up with them both in the infirmary. As for their injuries, some say E’dre beat the snot out of the bronzerider, and some others say E’dre’s dead.

It was mid-morning on the 27th day of month 9 when a routine examination in the infirmary turned into something far different and quite unexpected. Lygar, one of the Weyr’s groundskeepers, became angry and violent, actually striking the Healer tending him, Gwenell, and then attacking brownrider E’dre when he stepped in to help the apprentice. E’dre subdued him and notified Hattie of the capture, Lygar eventually being carted unconscious from the infirmary to be incarcerated in the very same room where Bea was once kept. While no one’s entirely sure just what his deal is, during the altercation it was revealed before several witness that he was the one responsible for alerting Boll to Avaryk’s presence at the masquerade. Some are saying that it was part of a larger, if confused, plan to seek revenge against everyone connected with Bea’s death.

The men among the residents who know Lygar know him as a usually quiet drunken malcontent who is often shirking his duties, opinionated but unconfrontational, making his blow-up in the infirmary quite puzzling. Some of the women tell a quite different story of his temper and tendency toward violence, however.

The questions now being: just how closely involved with Boll was he, and has he been involved in anything else harmful toward the Weyr that has yet to come to light?