to: the free cities

[godshattering]

𝘞𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘨’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩? 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵-𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦, 𝘚𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘹𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.-- 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?

I’m not sure they have a name for the aftermath of a dragon having a bbq, Hilda. But that’s probably close enough. I know the Inn renovations have been keeping a lot of us busy, but the devastation from the aftermath of the monster attacks left a lot of places either completely destroyed or close to it.

The Red Path was important for a lot of reasons to the natives here and if they want to get some vegetation and seedlings replanted there so it’s not a wasteland come spring. That means we’re a little limited on time to get things transferred and planted before winter officially hits. At least what the desert calls winter, anyway...

Anyway indeed and before we get too far into Sylvain’s thoughts on the weather - we’ve come up with an idea on what to do. It involved a little fundraising and some talking here and there, but we’ve found those willing to donate funds to purchase some supplies to make this happen or the supplies themselves from merchants around Cadens. Some of the soil we brought back from the Nether will also be going to good use here in hopes of making sure everything planted does as well as it can, and hopefully it’ll be good as new soon. Or, well, as close to it as we can get, considering.

While we’ll be out there working on this regardless, we wanted to extend the invitation to anyone else who might be willing to join in. It shouldn’t take up too much of your time, and any help would be greatly appreciated to help the Red Path recover a little quicker. Promise there’s also a round of drinks back at the Sarstina for anyone who stops by.

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦!

( ooc: Similar to the repair efforts of Libertas, feel free to use the above as a backdrop for whatever your characters might get up to the rest of the month! )

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[thedreamer]

[ Challenge accepted, Hilda the Magnificent. ]

𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚂𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚞𝚗𝚗. 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎? 𝙹𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝙸 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗. 𝙱𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚜? 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏!

[ Help him... ]

[theidlemaiden]

𝘈 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘫𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘳𝘺 𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯.

𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦? 𝘋𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘫𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘳𝘺? 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳?

[thedreamer]

𝚂𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝.

[ First thing! What does this have to do with jewelry, or more specifically, buttons??? Who knows. Good luck figuring out his brain. ]

𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜. 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜. 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜! 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 - 𝚘𝚑 𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚘.

[ He's lost the plot again, hasn't he... ]

𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚓𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛. [ He's definitely not distractible enough to completely overlook if she is the jewelry-wearing sort. ]

𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚜. 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚜. 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎𝚜. 𝚅𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚜. 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗. 𝚃𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚜! 𝙾𝚑, 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙸'𝚍 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎. 𝙾𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎. 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚏𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚡. 𝙰 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚏 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚜. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚜.

[ Definitely nailed this, right? ]

[theidlemaiden]

[ Somewhere on the other side of the Doctor's scrawled magical handwriting, Hilda is definitely rolling her eyes at the short description before once again...kind of getting lost in his trail of thoughts. But because they seem to have similar energy, she does actually manage to piece it together. There's several seconds where she doesn't write back as she's busy scrawling it all down herself into a little notebook. ]

𝘚𝘰...𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵? 𝘖𝘳 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴?

𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 - 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦? 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳.

[ Or if she doesn't she can ask Wanda or Claire who probably know her. ]

[thedreamer]

𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚜𝚔! 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚝, 𝚘𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎. 𝙴𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛! 𝙸𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛? 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙽𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎? 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍?

[ She'd been so kind — well, all along, she has been, but especially in Featherhive. She hadn't pushed him to talk, but she'd...been there. Steady. ]

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎'𝚜 𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚒𝚊. 𝚂𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚝! 𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛?

[theidlemaiden]

𝘖𝘩, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳! 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘤𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳. 

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳. 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬?

[thedreamer]

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗. 𝙾𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜! 𝚆𝚑𝚘 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜? 𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝙸 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙?

[ — admittedly, he will probably just get in the way. He's made loads of things, sophisticated tech of all sorts, but a necklace or bracelet? Perhaps he's best not left with such things. ]

𝙾𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚗?

[theidlemaiden]

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳? 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳.

𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴.

[thedreamer]

𝙰𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚝! 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝙷𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚊.