Angel Grove Logs

Who: Balthier, Basch, Noah, Alec Vael
When: (During the mixed up lives thing)
Where: Balthier's house
What: Balthier's baking, and invited people over to eat and chat, since the weather was foul.
Rating/Warnings: Vague discussion of imperfect parents, faint spoilers for Balthier, Noah, and Basch's past in FFXII, faint spoilers for Sebastian Vael's Dragon Age plotline
Status: Complete

( Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth. )

Who: Balthier, Basch
When: Current
Where: Travelling around
What: Balthier can't sleep and calls up Basch.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( And all my mother came into mine eyes. And gave me up to tears. )

Who: Balthier, Alec, Noah, Basch, Iomhar
When: Current
Where: The Bunansa family house
What: Balthier's chatting with a confused Vael.
Rating/Warnings: Vague discussion of a coup, vague discussion of a son who isn't the smartest described by a medieval equivalent man, Spoilers for Dragon Age 2: Exiled Prince DLC
Status: Complete

( with every move he makes another chance he takes )

Who: Basch, Balthier
When: Current
Where: Balthier's house
What: Basch comes home from work at the hospital, and they settle in to talk.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( These irreplaceable bonds, and these lives that believe in each other, / I wish for a land filled with voices of joy. )

Who: The Vaels (Noah + entourage,) Balthier + company, Tony + crew, Yvette, Stephen + company [talk to Marion or Sar if you want in]
When: Recent
Where: The Mountain Sanctuary
What: Time to clean up Stephen's home. There's cleaning, just some "people around while wards are settling in," and some cooking going on.
Rating/Warnings: Threads will be tagged if they get serious.
Status: Ongoing

[OOC: Basically an excuse for people to get together and talk.]

( If I go for a night-visit and for dancing and sport, / To fairs and races and every gathering of that sort, / If I see happy people and if I'm happy with them, / O what is that to anyone else. )

Who: Balthier, Calum, Ellie
When: This was about a week ago, before Ellie had a cast.
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Balthier sits and chats with Ellie.
Rating/Warnings: Discussion of trauma
Status: Complete

( And nothing can we call our own but death / And that small model of the barren earth / Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. / For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings. )

Who: Balthier, Philo
When: Current
Where: Balthier's house, up in the woods
What: Balthier's cooking quiche, a bread pudding, and pasta, as quick meal options with options for harried nights.
Rating/Warnings: Balthier mentions his father wasn't great. Philo refences events in Season 1, Episode 6
Status: Complete

( Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. )

Who: Tadgh, Balthier
When: Current
Where: At Balthier's bungalow
What: Balthier has tea and discusses making a ring for Tadgh.
Rating/Warnings: Nothing too bad.
Status: Complete

( Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing / So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. )

Who: Noah, Aedan, Meghan, Ellie, Balthier
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's got a nick on his hand, so Balthier came over to help with lunch. Aedan comes home from shopping with Meghan and Ellie for school supplies.
Rating/Warnings: Balthier's discussing that he was hurt before he got here, Aedan / Noah's backstories (kids in danger) is vaguely mentioned, Meghan's worried about her safety
Status: Complete

( Je vois aussi trois filles du pere / Que se promenaient au bord du rivage. And I see lovely sisters three / Come walking down all by the sea. )

Who: Balthier, Thea, Aedan
When: Current
Where: At the beach resort
What: Thea and Aedan complain about feeling abandoned and worried about Sherr. Balthier feeds them, chats about Desmond's potential crush, and suggests a nap followed by potential shopping. He can't fix them being worried, or making foolish choices, but he can be there for them.
Rating/Warnings: Vague discussion of Desmond's scars, worries about Sherr
Status: Complete

( Sleep, the main course in life's feast, and the most nourishing. )

Who: Assassins and close allies, part of the night will involve a secret assassin powwow for only the assassins, but friends are allowed in. Ask Sar if you're not sure but you should be fine! Tag yourselves in as needed/wanted!
When: Sunday
Where: The Assassin HQ
What: Ezio's plan for family bonding might have to be put aside a little since Shaun's got some news that no one's going to like.
Rating/Warnings: Will update
Status: Open

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Who: Balthier, Combeferre
When: Recent (after Combeferre's message.)
Where: A phone call. Balthier's at the college.
What: Combeferre's had a bad shock at the hospital, and Balthier offered to call him. They're mostly chatting with the freshmen music lessons going on in the background.
Rating/Warnings: Combeferre's rattled, and discusses his stabbing death by bayonet in some glossed over detail.
Status: Complete

( the number of my love / Even though it's been some time since he made fair to answer / 'Cause he feints and fades from view like a fighter ducks a glove )

Who: Balthier, Shay (feel free to join in, and say hi to Balthier / Shay if you want in on a conversation)
When: Current
Where: A college's culinary department's dining room
What: Balthier's hitting up a cheap lunch at the college's culinary department. It's sleeting outside, but there's some enthusiastic student flower arrangements, and student art on the walls. Menu's supposed to be a mixup of French and Irish cooking, which means Balthier's got no clue what it'll be like.
Rating/Warnings: Threads will be tagged, but nothing shocking planned
Status: Open

( Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more cakes and ale? )

Who: Balthier, Shaun, Desmond
When: Current
Where: Assassin HQ
What: Balthier drifted off to sleep after he had some tea with Shaun, and they end up talking when he wakes back up.
Rating/Warnings: Mild spoilers for Desmond plot related things.
Status: Complete

( Taking your loneliness in your case / The same old sadness from place to place. )

Who: Balthier, Jehan, Bahorel
When: Current
Where: A theater at the college
What: Jehan's fresh from facing down a firing squad, and did not expect to be here and alive. Balthier's trying to help him feel comfortable.
Rating/Warnings: Jehan's got a little blood on him.
Status: Complete

( How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't! )

Who: Balthier, Illya, Shaun + others
When: Current
Where: A local cafe
What: Balthier's suggested that a reading group might be interesting.
Rating/Warnings: Nothing bad.
Status: Open

[OOC: They're flipping through out of copyright vintage stuff, so Tom Corbett / classics / pulp novels / goofy mystery - all sort of stuff is fair game. Balthier's got "Three Girl Chums, and their Life in London Rooms." A PDF copy is available here : http://www.victorianvoices.net/household/homes.shtml

Potential fun things -
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8081 - Tom Corbett (sci-fi, dated)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37938 - young pilot adventure stories, mild racism
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44249 - a blind detective
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30970 - proto feminist, racism
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/50603 - Balthier's favorite extremely snide mysteries
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38131 - Prohibition era secret service stories, mild racism]

( And enlist the momentum of the wind / To help you move forward. )

Who: Balthier, Jacob, Emmett, Courfeyrac
When: Current
Where: Bunansa's house, near a lake
What: Balthier's cooking again, with Jacob. It's pleasant and Jacob wants them to meet again. Balthier's not entire sure what to make of it.
Rating/Warnings: Nothing bad. Emmett averts a seizure with medical marijuana at one point.
Status: Complete
( Your friend is your close brother, you share all your life with him, so give him respect. )

Who: Jacob, Balthier, Arno
When: Current
Where: The bigger theater in town
What: Balthier's in the ballet studio, painting some panels, and Jacob shows up with lunch. Arno's along as well, and they discuss seeing each other again. Balthier's slowly realizing that Jacob's a lot more comfortable with invitations versus Balthier's more familiar open doors and waiting. They discuss things going on lately.
Rating/Warnings: Jacob makes some mention of an unpleasant kiss, and a theater that he wasn't happy to be in.
Status: Complete
( Bring us in no brown bread, for that is made of bran, / Nor bring us in no white bread, for therein is no grain, / But bring us in good ale, good ale, / And bring us in good ale, / For our blessed Lady's sake, bring us in good ale. )

Who: Noah, Balthier, Aedan, Courfeyrac, Emmett, Sebastian
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh
What: Courfeyrac gets some sword practice, but it gets out of hand. Afterwards, they run into Noah and Balthier looking over a potential crown for Noah. Noah's not entirely sure if it's okay to want to make something like it, or if Sebastian will be happy, and they all end up talking.
Rating/Warnings: Mild stuff from the sparring
Status: Complete
( If you can drink of life's bitterness and laugh in the face of adversity / In your soul no bitterness will remain )

Who: Balthier, Steve, Jacob, Illya (Noah, Emmett, Dmitry, a camera crew, Basch in the background)
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Gatehouse, Edinburgh
What: A chicken pot pie is made, with a group of people who mostly can't cook, and a camera crew. It's not too bad, really.
Rating/Warnings: Nothing that bad
Status: Complete
( Ye ken whit why he has tae work, Ye ken the hours he has tae keep, And yet it's making you angry when, Ye see him just come hame tae sleep. )