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Best of luck to you and your fiancé! Hope all goes well!

Thank you! We feel pretty hopeful and confident right now. We'll know more soon. (We're mostly glad that they didn't tell us they found nothing, which would leave us right back at square one.)

!@#$ty. My sister just passed away 3 weeks ago due to brain cancer. Hopefully it's not that.

Oh god, I am so sorry. D:> You have my condolences! But no, luckily the radiologist says that he has something called a something-something-something vascular loop (?). It's not dangerous I don't think, except in the capacity that it's caused him to have tinnitus, which makes him want to kill himself. My mom had coil-and-stent surgery for a brain aneurysm when I was 16 and she was in and out in like four hours, so hopefully his surgery will be equally smooth.

This experience has been really scary and eye-opening though. That's one reason I'm writing Solomon as being mentally unstable (maybe Schizophrenic?). Originally I was just going to write him as a sociopath, but I've come to realize that there's plenty of more common, realistic scenarios that would be even scarier to deal with in medieval times, where no one can really tell you what's wrong with you.

*hugs*

Aw thank you! <3 <:D I was not expecting that! ^_^

I am grossly susceptible to bribes...

It's the power of the poptarts. We all have that kryptonite. xD

Also, we finally heard back about my fiance's MRI. He needs brain surgery, which we suspected. Our doctor is looking for a neurosurgeon who will do the operation, but we might have to go to Seattle or out of state. I also don't know what kind of recovery we'll be looking at, so if I have to pause Solomon I'll hopefully be able to let you guys know ahead of time. Don't think it'll come to that, but better to be prepared.

Sorry for lateness, but I was in Aren lands and used the auto-travel to tournament function. I think I remember receiving a message about how my men would wait for me to get back, but that part might just be confusion on my behalf.

[HELL]

I have no idea what's going on, Solomon is injured, East Continent is going in circles, MT has left, RL life is hell -
HELL

On the plus-side, I'm going to get poptarts and do homework and not care. xD
Also, I have a feeling that Obia'Syela and Solomon are going to be my main place and character soon, if not my only one.

I saw that there were some skirmishes in Outer Tilog as people arrived for the tournament.

How many people had issues with their unit attacking Outer Tilog when they arrived for the tournament, or even after they had been there for a while? (My unit attacked the region a full day after I arrived for some reason.)

My character was brand new (Chandra Drake) and I never changed her starting unit's default line settings, so I'm not sure if maybe they were set to aggressive (not sure why their default behavior would be aggressive, but it's possible), and so they attacked because Outer Tilog (realm) was neutral?

I can't be the only one this happened to. I'm trying to discern if it's actually a bug, and if it is, if it's just me or...

Don't know if this is relevant, but the tournament script has been plagued with bugs during the course of everyone's travel. Maybe that has something to do with it?

For some reason my unit attacked the region of the tournament that I was attending a full day after I arrived. (I arrived 3 days, 21 hours ago; the attack happened 2 days 20 hours ago.)

I'm trying to figure out how this happened. My character was brand new and I hadn't changed her starting unit's line settings. I don't see why logically their default behavior would be aggressive, but if that was the case, they may have attacked since the region of the tournament belonged to a realm that mine was neutral with. That still wouldn't explain why they waited an entire day to do so, since even if there wasn't any militia present, people from the hosting realm and their unit's were already there when I arrived.

The only other thing I can think is that it was a glitch, since my unit didn't attack the region until literally a full day after we arrived there.

My realm is Aren, the realm hosting the tournament is Outer Tilog, the region of the tournament (where my men attacked) was also called Outer Tilog. The continent is the Colonies.

Thoughts?

I'll be gone most of today running errands, but later tonight or early tomorrow I can try to track down players who are still around that were present for the invasions and see if any of them can fill in some of the blanks?

It's extra funny for me because I'm a Ravenclaw on an HP roleplay site. xD

Random side note: Solomon only has four hours this turn for some reason. I keep calculating and thinking he should have five, and I can't for the life of me figure out where the extra hour went...? He had 11 hours the previous turn (because they were full, and then the battle in Avengmil only took 1), and travel to Ardmore (after some complications) took 11. So the turn changes and he should've gotten 8 fresh hours (right?). He arrives in Ardmore, where the battle lasts for 2 hours, and then he shared 1 scout report. By my count he should have five hours right now....?

Does being slightly wounded suck up hours during healing?

Also, I agree with Crypt. I went to read the page a few days ago to get the updates story on Beluaterra, but the page hadn't been updated....well, a while. xD

I like Solomon

Yay! <: D Thank you! ^_^

when Jarra joked to Solomon about the need for teal paper when someone wants to write a report and request together in one letter and he took it literally, dutifully replying that he'll look into it

I thought you might like that. xD I made sure it totally went over his head.

But Erheas and Rania forgot about one thing though and Solomon is the only one who knows what I mean hehe

Yes, yes indeed he does!

I understood that the change was coming. It was inevitable, since it doesn't make sense for a small realm that just got its feet under it to have two armies. xD *cough*COMPENSATING*cough*
It was just that it happened so abruptly. There was no discussion or at least forewarning, so I was taken aback.

Boltgan is definitely more experienced in command than me, or at the very least he's more knowledgeable, and so I was actually (don't hate me for saying this, G2!) relieved that I was not promoted to Marshal. But I pushed for split-command duties because of two reasons, one being the in-game atmosphere. The rivalry. What kind of man would Solomon be if he just accepted a place under the armpit of a Templar?! xD

Solomon also deserved a chance to help command because he earned it. He worked his buns off.

And it worked out well! ^_^ Boltgan was totally cool about it (wish I knew the player's name), and split the duties with me so that he commands the day turns and I command the night turns. This also gives me a great opportunity to learn and sharpen my skills. Like I said, I'm definitely not on the same playing field as him yet, but this gives me the chance to get there.

Lastly, I work two jobs in real life and am a full-time college student with a 4.0 GPA that I'm constantly battling to maintain, so I don't have a ton of free time, but the little bit of free time I get I spend on Battlemaster. If I don't have time, I make time, because Obia'Syela (not to get all mushy here) is probably one of the funnest, realest gaming atmospheres I've found in a long time. It is genuinely important to me. I spend more time on Solomon than I do any of my other characters, even though I've had them longer.

Solomon Drake, here. I really like the distinction between the two, not just because it gives players something more to strive for, but also grants the opportunity for a unique realm back story!

Wonderful! Also in retrospect my question came out far whinier than I had intended. xD What I MEANT was, "What method can I use to travel long distances?"
Fatigue, I tell you. Making people grumpy since before coffee was a thing. xD

A lot of the far western regions on Dwilight have such bad roads that they take 22 hours to go back and forth between. An advy can only amass a total of 16 hours in his/her time pool, so how can an adventurer possibly travel anywhere between or to these areas?