Toujours OOC journal

Hello, all, tis Poppy again.

I thought I should inform you all in advance that I shall be going on a semi-hiatus from August 23rd to 31st. This weekend, my parents decided to switch our Paris vacation to a Florida vacation, and now, rather than being able to have my Sidekick with me, my internet capabilities will drop significantly. However, as I said, it's only a semi-hiatus. The villa will have Wi-Fi and my mother has a laptop, so I'll be able to use that once she goes to bed in the evenings (this is evening, EST!).

Just for clarification, the characters affected by this will be Tessa du Labarre, Vivian Thorpe, Olga Fedorova, Marie Hardwick, Patrick Byrne, and soon, Diana Fairchild and Lalla Stephen.

I'll put up another quick post saying goodbye just before we go, so you're not expected to actually remember this. I just thought I'd inform you all now, and now I'm going to go back to finishing the apps for those TWO NEW CHARACTERS. And I just had Paddy, too. Blame Roz. It's all Roz's fault. And perhaps Nicole Kidman's.

Roz again because it’s the summer and I have no job and what’s a girl to do but play all day? This is Meredith Fairchild, he’s twenty-four and the forth son of a wealthy upper-merchant-class family who own a factory that makes rifles for the British Army.
Due to a falling out with his older brother Meredith left the family home and is now working as a tutor for a prestigious London family. He sends most of his pay check home for his mother to spend on medical care for his ailing father.

I’m looking for friends for him – he used to be at Cambridge studying History so would he have known any one there?
And his family, his mother will be joining him in game soon but he has three older brothers and a younger sister who I would love to see:
Gordon (32) who has taken over the factory from their father.
Benjamin who brought a commission in the army and is now a major,
James, a wastrel who is into gambling, women (or boys) and only comes back to the family home when he needs more money
And Joanna, a smart young woman with ideas on how to improve the family business who is ignored due to her sex.

I look forward to playing with you all in game and the pb is the most lovely Simon Woods who I am now a massive fan of because just yummy.

Yes. Another post. I'm sorry. For your sakes, I'm going to put this under a cut.

( Meet Lalla. )

This is Thaddeus Henry Chadwick, Mayor of London and father of three adorable, mischievous children.

He studied law and rhetoric at Oxford University in his youth, and soon after graduating he became engaged to the socialite Sarah Ernest-Jones before travelling around Europe. He returned, married, and became involved with politics, the family business.

His first son, Isaac, was born when Thaddeus was 36. A year later, William was born, just as his father left for his post in Tuscany, acting as ambassador to the Duke. Sarah moved too, with the children, but the move was too much for William, who died before his first birthday. Sarah moved back to England, with Isaac, and two years later, once his term was over, Thaddeus moved back too. Now 40 and with a position in the shadow cabinet, and another child, Bianca, Thaddeus moved his family to a large country estate. He was shadow grain minister in the Tory government, a popular man, and rich. His family, although living some way from court and high society, did not go without luxury. But while on a business trip to London, Thaddeus fell ill, and once more the family moved to join him, coming to London to be together.

Sarah, not sure if her husband was going to live or die, and frankly bored of her life; exiled, as she saw it, to the country, she fell in with a handsome foreign young man, a play-boy con-artist. She gave him money, property, and was even seen attending parties with the man while her husband lay in his sick bed.

Thaddeus recovered, however, and soon after Sarah gave birth to Oscar, her youngest son. Rumour suggested that he was not Thaddeus’ child at all, and gossip only became worse when Sarah left one evening, travelling to Europe with her playboy.

Even so, he was given the position of London Mayor, and juggles looking after his children with his duties and political responsibilities, and coping with his wife’s betrayal. He's been told to divorce her, but hasn't begun proceedings yet, perhaps in the hope she'll return.

In the meantime, however, he needs friends, advisors, perhaps some sort of young lady interested in his money or in his children, and maybe someone who likes to spread gossip?

PB: Jeremy Irons