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Post by charles on Apr 18, 2016 12:09:00 GMT -5
Began my employment on restoration today, and spent some time familiarizing myself with the method of tracking the pieces that Sorra has already set in place. The system is simple and logical, should be quite adequate to the task. I arranged my work space, a place for everything, and everything in its place...thanks granddad for that bit of wisdom, it has served me well. With Rufus ensconced on a stack of ledgers, I set to work on a quite damaged tome, it will likely take better than a week just to properly disassemble it, so that it will dry flat.
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Post by charles on Apr 18, 2016 12:14:41 GMT -5
The deconstruction of the tome is going well, the drying racks added up quickly, makes the place look like a stationers in full production. Started work on the binding today, not sure of the type of leather, but it is thin and very pliable and the water has done it little harm...eel skin perhaps. The structure of the cover has gone completely, will have to make new backers and a new spine, baleen will do nicely to stiffen the spine, with cypress for the backers. This is most absorbing work.
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Post by charles on Apr 18, 2016 12:20:41 GMT -5
I had an interesting encounter last night at Todd's...Caim Elfhiem and his betrothed. On the advice of Raejiisa, I am preparing to take Rufus and myself to the Red House...I am both nervous and eager for the experience...It shall after all be my first time...watch over me Grans... I go into the lioness' den.
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Post by charles on Apr 18, 2016 12:34:23 GMT -5
What can I say about the events of last night...I still have not fully integrated the experience. I feel as if I see the world with new eyes, as if a great weight has been lifted...not from my shoulders, but from my very soul, that I did not realize was present until it was gone. No, it is not love, not in the way that I understand the term...Shalori was beautiful, gentle and patient with my naivete...she allowed me to explore the wonders of a new land at my own admittedly slow pace...only a fool would rush past a garden that lush, and miss the exquisite minutiae of the senses, merely for the admittedly pleasurable striving that followed in due course when both were ready. She allowed me to actually understand, that I am not a monster, no matter what dangers my gift may hold. It is I who determine my fate...who forge my own destiny in the choices I make. I shall go back to the red house, but I shall take Shalori's advice and allow fate or Madame Mae to choose the flower for me...as she did this time.
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Post by charles on Apr 24, 2016 11:39:54 GMT -5
This is a most interesting piece of work...Sorra was stumped by the language used...as was I at first, until I gave it some thought. It is a language that was common to these lands, but it has fallen into disuse over the course of five millenia. It is quite possible she would have recognized the script, had it not been mirrored and the lines written in the broken cadence of a man's disparate thoughts. This is a journal, of that I am relatively certain, written in a very old dialect once used by the Sidhe court for formal agreements. That script is difficult enough to recognise, because of the intricate manner in which it interleaves, when you add a mirrored hand... Had it not been for a mirror, I too would be at a loss...but I am accustomed to the lengths those, who record arcane subjects, will go to protect the content of their journals, given the quite real danger involved. Thus far I have managed to extract the name of the author...or at least the one whose thoughts are recorded...Thyracos Imnaren...not a name I recognize...but given the access that I have to archives that have been sealed away...I may yet discover the answer to this mystery.
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Post by charles on Apr 27, 2016 16:26:01 GMT -5
Something is afoot... There are always those in power that seek to hide that which they feel may shed light on what could be a sordid beginning. Do they think that this knowledge would change the truth that is now, or that if such knowledge were to come to light that it would sunder the bonds that hold this society together. I cannot even begin to surmise the reason, but I am not so blinded by youth, that I cannot recognize censorship when it rears it head. I shall keep up the appearance of ignorance, lest Sorra suspect that she is not nearly as inscrutable as she believes, some illusions are harmless enough in their place. I will make no mention, save among these pages of what I have managed to decipher of the volume that she was so keen to keep hidden.
On a personal note, I met with two quite interesting individuals, both it seems part of the house of knights. The first, a woman of unusual stillness, intelligent, well spoken and strong of will...not to mention rather fetching. Her interest was in the suppression field that covers the city, I aided her in finding the basic data she sought, I believe she will quite likely be looking deeper into the subject at a future date, so I will dig a bit deeper into it myself so that I can be certain of the data that has been compiled. I have been making my own studies of the nature of the field, primarily out of self interest, if I understand its mode of operation, I can better allow for it in my own craft. Perhaps in time I will add a monograph of my own to the collected works.
On a personal note, I have begun to outfit my personal lab space, I found an excellent location, a disused wine cellar beneath the house of the Keepers, a natural cavern it is well isolated from the house's foundations the heavy bedrock will provide excellent shielding against mishaps, along with the thick sealing wall which is of mortared stone, with a heavy oaken door that can be solidly secured. It will take time to complete the project, but there will be little difficulty in obtaining much of the materials, and I am a fair enough hand at rough carpentry to build my own benches and shelves. The old wine racks would be a good place to store scrolls, and will provide ample materials for other projects...the hard one, will be the permanent circle, that will have to be inlaid into the stone, I have not yet decided what metal I shall use for that, or if it shall be a simple, or greater circle...I have no intention of using it for summoning, I am not fond of the denizens of the infernal realms, hey ask far too high a price, for whatever information they might provide. It will be useful however for scrying, and such workings as require considerable energy expenditure.
Note: Best make it a double great circle, there is room enough and it would allow for experiments in transposition.
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