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, Thomas Shelby
When: Current
Where: Theater where Balthier works
What: Small kids doing painting, followed by lunch.
Rating/Warnings: SPOILERS for series 3 and 4 of Peaky Blinders.
Status: Complete

( I'll sing you one, O, / Green grow the rushes, O. / What is your one, O? / One is one and all alone, O / And evermore shall be, O. )

Who: Noah, Meghan Vael
When: Current
Where: A bakery on the night shift, in Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's showing Meghan his job.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what's left of you. )

Who: Noah, Alec
When: Current
Where: The gatehouse, Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh
What: Noah's invited people over to have tea. It's a comfortable way, in his experience, to talk, and he finds it calming as well.
Rating/Warnings: There's some references to early game spoilers in FFXII.
Status: Complete

( Ye people in charge of justice / too many prelates stand among you. / Ye people in charge of justice / I've had enough debate with you. )

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: Sebastian Vael, Noah Vael
When: Current, probably a few days before Aedan's latest post
Where: Craigcrook castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Sleepy breakfast and tea happens.
Rating/Warnings: None really. Some innuendo on Sebastian's part, cause Sebastian, but it's also mild, cause SEBASTIAN.
Status: Complete

( Oh one was a lady / So neat and so fair / The other was a soldier / And a brave volunteer )

Who: Noah, Sebastian
When: Current
Where: Practice yard, Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Some archery and swordplay is going on.
Rating/Warnings: Mild innuendo about sharing a shower
Status: Complete

( Give me your hand, dove, / So I can climb to your nest; / You’re unlucky to sleep alone: / I’ll come to sleep with you. )

Who: Noah Vael, Sebastian Vael
When: Current, this is the day Ellie tangled with Habit
Where: At an office, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's bringing lunch to his husband.
Rating/Warnings: Flirting
Status: Complete

( Maybe I'll come running / Maybe I will take it slow / Whatever makes me happy / That's what I'll be looking for )

Who: Noah Vael, Sebastian Vael
When: Current
Where: Out and about near Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's still not used to riding horses, but he's trying this best. Conversation flows between various people and some mild flirting.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( We came through a ford / Riding over the moors. / Fine flying sparrow and a fine fine horseman. )

Who: Noah Vael, Aedan Vael, Tony Stark
When: Current
Where: Stables, Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's going down to the horses, and Tony's a little tired. Aedan's reeling from his big "breakup" and they all hang out.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( I heard it said of the swallow on the sea … / That he was making an iron horseshoe … / With golden hammer and silver anvil … / And that's the last of the seven wonders ...  )

Who: Sebastian Vael, Noah Vael, Basch, Finn, Armitage Hux
When: Current
Where: Gatehouse, Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah ends up chatting with Hux, and there's a sudden man in the garden. Hux and Finn meet on the other side of their respective battles and Hux finds out that Finn has a name. Things get awkward.
Rating/Warnings: Spoilers for the new trilogy, and especially Rise Of Skywalker. Space Nazis, etc.
Status: Complete

( A blacksmith courted me / Nine months and better / He fairly won my heart / Wrote me a letter. )

Who: Noah Vael, Sebastian Vael, Aedan Vael, Meghan Vael
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah's coming out of the bath with a freshly home Sebastian. They're discussing dinner. Meghan mentions her bird.
Rating/Warnings: Some very mild flirting and smooching, Meghan refers to having an injury and needing stitches, Medieval casualness about home healthcare (but with experts, more or less.)
Status: Complete

( Go to sleep, little one / Let us rest on this straw mat / Go to sleep while it is yet dark / soon the clouds will disappear / and reveal a great light to light up all the neighborhood - )

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: Basically anyone at the Vael household (it's a tea party, folks are welcome, tag in on a thread)
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh
What: Calum enjoys the steps to setting up things for tea, and it's an excuse to invite people over to have tea and things to nibble. Tony's around, having casually given Aedan a present earlier of a hoodie with a bit of plaid on it and a copy of one of Steve's drawings of the horses around Craigcrook Castle. Meghan's around. Yvette's there, to talk a bit quietly with Bahorel. Ellie's stopping by with Morgan.
Rating/Warnings: Threads will be tagged if they get grim. Yvette might mention some of Bahorel's work with endangered kids. Tony tends to chat about his health / PTSD, so that might come up.
Status: Open

[ Some rain rolled in, but there's still cool options out on the table. Noah's been making a sort of gelatin based cake.

Think something like:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/fruit-jelly/
or
https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/agar-agar-fruit-cake/

There's also tea, coffee, and lemonade options, along with sandwiches and various other things to nibble.]

( Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. )

Who: Noah, Meghan, Officer Pat O'Clery (npc)
When: Current
Where: Police station, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Pat's got a scared woman who pulled a knife on an officer. Noah's trying to calm her down and talk.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( Let us drink and sport today, / Ours is not tomorrow. / Love with youth flies swift away, / Age is naught but sorrow.  )

Who: Noah Vael, Sebastian Vael
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Sebastian comes home aching to find Noah snoozing in a chair, and they move to dinner and cuddling on the couch.
Rating/Warnings: Vague references to Sherr's kidnapping, Sebastian's feeling uncertain
Status: Complete

( And three, he's true to me. )

Who: Noah, Emmet Frye, Liam Greymane
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Noah was planning on sparring, and hoping it wouldn't go badly. Liam, unfortunately, is having a bad day, so they instead talk. Noah then checks in on Emmett, and they have lunch. Emmett's trying to not worry.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Closed

( With daylight rains / you migrated and left one day / We couldn't believe it / Our provinces couldn't be silent and without you )

Who: Noah, Shaun, Ezio
When: Current
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh
What: Noah invites Shaun over to show off his sword skills. While he trusts Shay and Liam enough, he'd still like Shaun's people to see his skills first. He doesn't think they're remarkable, but in the spirit of peace, he'd prefer things to go that way. The talk, naturally enough, turns to Jedi and Ezio gets to meet Noah.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Complete

( No one understands my plight / The life of a musician / Singing for impatient men / A terminal condition. )

Who: Noah, Calum
When: Before the wedding
Where: Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh
What: Noah's wearing his full regalia, mostly, and planning on distracting Sebastian off and on while Sebastian's working. Calum's getting a chance to see a soon to be family member wearing the colors.
Rating/Warnings: none that I noticed!
Status: Complete

( When a flower has gone through summer, it will wither and become soil. / You'll still think of it as a flower, a memory most precious. )

Who: Noah, Sebastian, Calum
When: Current
Where: About Edinburgh, Scotland
What: Sebastian's getting wedding materials picked up, and Noah's got a wedding gift from Balthier and a cake to try. They're just chatting.
Rating/Warnings:
Status: Open

( I heard it said that in Llangollen / That the moon was teaching reading / And an excellent verse he gave there / And that is five of the seven wonders )