#elbythe

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Cause what’s the point of a fantasy land without a swarthy pirate

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I didn’t get to play much as predicted, thanks brain for making me download and reorganize a bunch of cc, but anyway, I did switch back over to Elbythe for a bit. I am thinking I am gonna loosen up the rules and just play some DND medieval fantasy instead of MCC here. I get REALLY excited about rules in theory, but I’m terrible at making them work in practice.

I’ve started a wizard’s tower (WIP), a many day’s journey from the Elbythe settlement. I’m starting to think of other settlements I want inhabited on this map. Thanks to this vampire hunter mod, I have a whole new idea for starting a faction war between vampire/holy factions.

Beyond that I also had an idea for a beach area settlement of traders/pirates -- it was my first build plan today after finding delonariel’s 3t2 houseboat pieces -- but of course I loaded them into Easthollow’s downloads and not Elbythe’s. 

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@mortia‘s dragon over Elbythe lookin fierce 

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I want to post something substantial here, but life’s been kind of crazy in recent weeks. besides that, I’ve had a tough time figuring out some of the tweaks I want for my (fantasy)MCC hood to make it actually integrated in a fun way, so right now my screenshots are kind of all over the place. Now that I’ve said that, I might just post ‘em anyway.

Enjoy @mortia‘s dragon again, this time in some springtime flurries.

A useless update follows below the cut.

Lately, I get kind of overwhelmed thinking of trying to load up Quarry Ridge again after having this diversion into FMCC land. Its ~15 minute load time (and too much cc ugh), and so many families and half-started neighborhoods just like... stress me out to think about. Not to mention it was created before I understood the clean hood process, and has had a few minor VBTs in its time, so I’ve always assumed its living on borrowed time. 

Which is not to say I’ve abandoned it -- I’ve been playing it for... wow 3ish years at this point. Actually its third birthday will be coming very soon. Anyway. But I have this nagging thought that I might grab some characters and have a “great move” some day to a clean (smaller) hood. So, don’t be surprised if that happens.

/useless update

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Baudin & Brinn Marnet

Baudin, the younger of the Marnet sons, two boys born to a mining family just outside the Elbythe settlement. The Marnet men before them had laid claim to the craggy mountainside when the area was first settled, and they’d always been able to make a decent living off of the meager coal veins.

As was the way of their people, the family home and mines went to his older brother Ryland at the year of his turning, and so as the brother with no inheritance, Baudin was expected to court a young woman in town and start up his own branch of the family. Instead, he chose to travel a bit, packing what little he owned (and truthfully, a bit of what his brother owned) and walking the paths along the Desya river until he could find a fishing boat that could take him farther than anyone in his family had been. 

He landed in the far port city of Iyesgarth, and being a wily sort, was quick to charm the youngest daughter of a noble family. To say her parents disapproved of the match would be a grand understatement -- he, a penniless interloper. 

But nothing was quite as enticing to Brinn as a man with her father’s disapproval. So, with his devilish grin and promises of grand romance and a lovely enough place to call home, their own bit of land, she agreed to run away with him. 

She brought no dowry, a fact he’d not entirely considered before embarking on their adventure, but he loved her and that seemed to be enough. They’d traveled back to Elbythe, where his brother dutifully helped him get settled with his new bride.

To Brinn, the home wasn’t exactly what she imagined; it was not quite as he’d described. But, she thought, with Baudin by her side she would endure it.

It wasn’t too long after their arrival back in Elbythe that Brinn found herself with child. Baudin was pleased at the prospect of an heir, particularly a son.

As her time in Elbythe wore on, honeymoon bliss fading into the malaise and nausea of pregnancy, Brinn worried about the future. She hadn’t realized how much she would miss her family, miss the sea breeze and the way the stars laid out from Iyesgarth. 

Too, Baudin was not always the great provider that he’d advertised himself to be. Truth be told, he seemed fond of gossip and leisure, and his ambitions far outweighed the effort he was willing to put into them.

Her pregnancy was arduous and took much of her energy, and so she was glad finally to be done with it. 

Thedra Woode assisted with the birth as the local midwife, taking her payment in foraged goods and a sapling for her land. 

Farum Marnet

He seemed in appearances to be a chip off his father’s block, and Baudin couldn’t be more pleased.

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a strange sight indeed

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The Captain of the Hunt, Sibilio, and his right hand man Arawn (finally remembered his name), paid a visit to the Rundel residence in town. The Rundels invited the men for a meal, hoping that friendship and kindness might earn a bit of a discount on meat in the future. 

Sibilio apparently was impressed by Enrik’s eldest son, Finnvik, and spent some time regaling him with tales of the hunters bravery in hopes that his interest in the career path might be piqued.