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2023/08/04 Hello loves! While I haven't been writing, I have been working on updating some issues that have been hanging around on the layout! The Character change box is now at the bottom of the page, beside the up/down arrows! Green and Gold dragon flight dates have been shifted to the bottom of the page, where the (useless!) discord widget was located. Where the dragon flights were in the header, is now replaced by a Monthly Event box! This will be updated at the start of each month, with a fun mini-event you can take part in, if you want to! Thistle!
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2022/07/29 Gold Malvayth and Bronze Xyxyth clutch is Hatching! Come and join the shenannigans 743.08.03 | NIGHT STALKERS HATCHING and bring the popcorn!
2022/05/11 Gold Malvayth has Flown, caught by Bronze Xyxyth of A'tay. Their Hatching will be PC, and take place in Telgar in August around the 20-22nd! Update your Candidate Applications and prepare for some fun!
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30/JUN Gold Thallyath of Ista Weyr has laid a clutch! More information here
27/JUN A bluerider, and then a greenrider, are found dead. More information here
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30/MAY After the Touching, many Candidates found themselves preyed upon in the form of their food. More information here
18/MAY Another goldrider - Ameris of Benden - is attacked. More information here
05/MAY Multiple individuals are attacked whilest out of the Weyr! More information here
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03/MAY Goldrider Cazan and her twin brother Cazelarias are attacked. More information here
24/APR Goldrider Ashara of Fort is murdered by two brownriders. More information here
12/APR Searchrider B’jin was attacked at Telgar Weyr, surffering a slash to his throat. While in Benden, bluerider B’dor is found dead in his weyr. More info here
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28/MAR Tragedy has struck again! Across all the Weyrs, multiple people - primarily dragonriders - have fallen ill after eating muffins. There have been multiple deaths, and others are in criticle condition. More information here
24/MAR Weyrwoman Ameris and her son, Rislan, poisoned! More information here
18/MAR Benden’s Weyrleader M’ris and his children have been poisoned! Resulting in sickness and death. More information here
18/MAROn 18.03.742 Bronzerider A’dris of Vyaniorth was found dead in his personal bathing pool. He appears to have drowned after drinking an excess of alcohol. Afterwards it was realized that Machiya of Gold Cameth from Telgar Weyr had disappeared. Having never arrived at her destination, it is suspected she had an accident between.
11/MAR Gold Racoth of Donmaline went between taking Bronze Beruth of T’rel with her shortly after she had been caught, due to T’rel strangling Donmaline. He did not survive. more info
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Welcome to the Month of Lovetm! This month's Monthly Event is all about Romance, whether it is asking someone out on a date, or getting sweaty between the sheets! Anything and everything counts, if it even looks sideways like it could be related to Valentine Day -- including lover's spats, or breaking up, Flights Wins (or Flight Losses!). Honestly, this month has a huge opportunity for interpertation, so go wild!



2023-December
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Ahh, the fresh snow, the crisp air, the naked trees... welcome to Winter! Or, just the Colder Months for those in the more Northern Weyrs, while Ista is just... not as hot. But it is time to enjoy the end of the Turn, so folks should get together, spend some time gossiping, and drinking Hot Chocolate (alcohol and marshmallows opional)... does Pern even have marshmallows????? (they do now!)



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Feel like bitching? Wanna take part in a brawl? Or bet on someone? Take part in Brawls and Bitching this month! Boo-yeah!



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Thistle flunked this month; You can still post until the end of November as a result <3
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The flu is running rampant, colds are clogging noses, and someone might have lost a limb?



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[G] [P] 739.11.15 | Growing Pains
8 AM | V'ler, Verec, Others

V'ra
of Blue Venseth

Date of Birth
05.04.716 AL, 28
Height
4'9
Eyes
Blue
Build
Slim
Hair
Dark Brown

Threads
38
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354

Written By: ThistleProse
#1
Indivara had stopped feeling anything but exhausted hours ago… many hours ago. She’d given in and let the helpers herd her onto the bed – instead of her active pacing around the room – when she’d tripped three times within four steps and only been saved because Val had been pacing with her. She’d stopped yelling, screaming or cursing during contractions many hours ago, too. She’d stopped crying hours ago; now she just tried to not pass out from pain and exhaustion, tried to will the damned baby to come out.

She knew he wasn’t going to.

Quennell had been trying to get the infant to turn since she’d gone into active labour the previous morning. Venseth had had to be drugged at around dinner time, the ex-rider’s conferencing with the Healers about how much of what drugs could be given to the dragon without doing him damage. He’d been semi-unconscious for the past ten hours. Indivara was glad; she could feel him, warm and reassuring presence on the edge of her mind, no longer an emotional mess that, honestly, was on the edge of losing his cool and leaving her behind. Indivara didn’t want to lose her dragon.

The Master Healer had been called in around midnight; Indivara hadn’t noticed, but Val had been nice enough to talk quietly to her even though she wasn’t really able to process much of what he was saying. The sound of his voice was soothing, though. Like Venseth’s presence, it was warm and reassuring and if he was worried (she was sure he must be, because she was worried) she couldn’t hear it on his voice. If it was on his face – or anyones – she couldn’t see it through the haze of exhaustion. It was hard enough to keep her eyes open, never mind focusing on someone.

They spent most of the very early hours trying to turn the baby, issuing commands to her like ‘push now’ as if she had any energy to push. The baby didn’t move though; Indivara could feel him jammed up against her insides at an awkward position that wouldn’t let the little bastard slide out like he was supposed to. One of the healers had given the situation a name, but all Indivara knew was that it was an endless night of pain and exhaustion. If she hadn’t already decided she wasn’t having any more children, this situation would have convinced her.

The winters sun was starting to rise when the Healers – Indivara knew Quennell was there, and Talian, and that Master Healer – moved away from her, all scowling and serious, she glanced up and around for Val, taking a few moments to focus on his face. There were other people in the room, friends, but Indivara focused on her mate, lifting one exhausted hand to tap him lightly on the underside of his chin. She offered a wan, exhausted smile that was barely a twitch of her lips. “Love you,” she whispered, eyes soft and wondering exactly when it was she was actually going to die. She knew she was, honestly. It was just a waiting game. She hoped her body didn’t make her wait too much longer, she was so sick of being in pain. So much pain.

Focusing on Val, Indivara didn’t notice when the Healers came back, or when several Journeymen moved to hold her arms and legs down, leaning heavily on her; she did feel the coolness of numbweed being smoothed over her lower stomach, but it didn’t stop the pain of the next contraction so it didn’t really compute. What she did feel, did notice, and did compute was the sharp drawing of a medical blade across her lower stomach, just above her panty line, and she shrieked in pain, whole body jerking and struggling under the Healers before her eyes rolled and she passed out, flopping with dead weight onto the bed.

A few seconds later, and Quennell stood up tall, holding a screaming, angry baby up. “Girl,” he said firmly, and thrust the infant into the hands of the closest person, content that the child was alive and healthy. Now they had to make sure Indivara stayed that way; the surgical removal of the baby was risky – but as likely as they were to lose her from the surgery, they’d determined they would definitly loose them both if they didn’t.

I'm a meanie, I know.
She'll live. Baby is alive.
She's going to be really pissed at having another scar xD

Quennell called in Verec for an unbiased opinion and assistance, since he's rather fond of Indivara and V'ler and knows that's not a good thing when medical skills are needed.
Indi was in labour since 9am on the 14th, csection happened at 8am 15th. Quennell has done them before, but 5 out of the 7 women all died either directly or indirectly so again - Verec xD
Talian is there for Healer Magic and to help control Venseth (who is on whatever combo of drugs McCaffrey had F'lessen's bronze on in Sky's) but any of Indi and Val's friends are welcome, and Ren and Rhae if they want xD

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V'ler
of Blue Veeth

Date of Birth
21.08.707, 37
Height
5’10
Eyes
Green
Build
Average
Hair
Brown, shaggy

Threads
19
Posts
429

Written By: SunsetWay
#2
V’ler knew without a doubt when nearly a day had passed that they should have ignored Venseth and taken a trip between. He hated doing that jump to begin with thanks to a clutchmate dying during their lesson on the subject and he avoided it whenever possible and took some time to both psyche himself up and calm himself before the trip. But he would have taken Indivara on Veeth without hesitation if they had known how bad this labour would be. And why didn’t they? They knew her body was weak in general from how often she was sick as a child and her first pregnancy had been horrible and next to torture. Just because this one seemed to go a lot smoother should have been a sign that the actual labour was going to be rough and possibly kill Indivara. The fact that she was a month early didn’t seem to make a difference in trying to get the tiny human out of her.

He was exhausted. He’d made it a point to stay awake if Indivara was, knowing she found his presence calming. She probably would have been fine seeing him asleep in the room but V’ler didn’t want to risk upsetting her with so much going wrong as it was. Besides, it seemed to be his voice more than anything that soothed her so he’d taken to singing softly when comforting words failed him. It was eerily similar to singing for Jada when her wounds from Hoth had become infected and she risked losing them or even her life. She had asked him to sing, so he had. He hadn’t done that at Katila until that moment, preferring to be the Harper he had wanted to be with documenting and composing, not preforming for the masses or teaching children. Of course Indivara had heard him sing before when he was working on a song but that seemed different to him. That was going over the same part again and again and working it out; this was purposely singing for her. Also like with Jada, V’ler ignored the Healers and everyone else in the room as he focused on the true member of his audience until Indivara fell asleep or he stopped to get a drink.

Now, as the Healers huddled together, discussing who knew what, V’ler held Indivara’s hand, offering his own small smile in return to hers. Her love confession wasn’t surprising, though they had never exchanged those words before. They had been together far too long, pretending to be mates since the world seemed to think they were before becoming real mates for V’ler not to suspect such a thing. Knowing his own emotions was a bit harder since he was convinced he couldn’t feel such things properly to begin with. But he was genuinely afraid Indivara was going to die and that deeply upset him enough to know she really did mean a lot to him. It was like the night in poor C’hdin’s bed after his Flight when they realised they had something real between them. It was a shock and V’ler rolled with it surprisingly well as they moved into their new relationship.

Honestly, the hardest part of their new step was the sex. V’ler had it so regularly with Veeth’s need to chase every green that he never thought about it in a sober mind frame. Indivara had always been clingy and cuddled up with him so that was something he had long ago adjusted to. But going to bed and being intimate was odd. He wasn’t opposed to it, but he had suspected he was over it after the few times he’d had sex without a Flight’s involvement. But Indivara proved him wrong, something she enjoyed trying to do on a regular basis. She did it again with those two little words as they stirred something inside him as much as her plea to make her feel beautiful that night had shattered the ice inside of him.

He loved her as well and he found he was pulling a R’nd with how heavy the words were on his tongue. He couldn’t say ‘ditto’ or ‘same’ or even a ‘me too’ to something like that, at least not for the first time. He’d seen couples joke with each other, the ones so deeply in love they almost had their own language, and maybe one day he’d be like that with Indivara, if she lived, but that was in the future and he didn’t know if they had another afternoon together. He had to say the actual words, let her know how much she had corrupted him and turned his life upside down and that he was grateful for it.

As the Healers returned and started rubbing numbweed on her belly, V’ler found the courage, not caring that there were witnesses to the deed. They all believed they were mated for turns, so what did it matter anyway? “I love you, too, Vara.” He gave her another smile, holding her eyes for a moment, before Indivara shrieked in pain and passed out. V’ler was on his feet, the chair he had been sitting in gliding noisily across the floor thanks to his quick action as he watched Quennell cut open Indivara. Shock at the deed was stronger than his need to vomit or pass out at the sight, but just barely. He felt the urge just on the outskirts of his mind as he struggled to find his words to express his outrage while also demanding what they were doing.

But then the baby was pulled out, explaining what they were doing, and giving the go ahead for V’ler to give in to his aversion of blood and gore. He sank to his knees, head resting on the side of the bed even as he still continued to hold Indivara’s hand. He knew he had another daughter—well, Rhaedalyn and R’nya did; he was fine with being a visiting uncle-figure—but didn’t know who currently held the child as he shut his eyes and focused on deep breaths. It sounded like they were stitching Indivara back up, which meant it was a good thing he was on the ground and unable to see what was happening. He didn’t end up moving or releasing Indivara’s hand until R’nd dragged him to his feet and made him sit back in the chair before R’vi appeared at his side and gave him a cup of water.

Indivara was still alive, which seemed to be a good sign to the Healers that she should stay that way during the recovery. V’ler nodded as some instructions were given, but he wasn’t listening. He was still worried about his mate and passing out. At least they had friends there and they’d listen and relay the important bits to him later. Both R’nd and R’vi urged him to get some sleep as well but he didn’t want to rest yet, despite their promises they would stay with her. He wanted to watch her for a bit as well, make sure she really was okay, but he said he’d appreciate the company if they wanted to stay. Both men knew him well enough to know that a steady flow of conversation wouldn’t be needed so they’d be good companions. A glance around the room showed many of the other people they knew had cleared out at some point, perhaps for privacy or because they had to get to a task that couldn’t wait any longer. No doubt he’d see a flow of people soon enough once word got out the child was alive and Indivara seemed to be that way as well.

He checked in on Veeth, finding his normally emotional dragon to be rather calm, like he had been during the entire ordeal. Normally he’d be having fits and possibly end up sedated like Venseth was, but V’ler suspected it was seeing Venseth so distraught that made Veeth be the level headed one for a change. He had stayed close to Venseth the entire time and was even now curled up beside the larger dragon as added comfort. V’ler sent him some mental hugs and a promise to visit him in person soon before finding a comfortable way to curl up in the chair to watch Indivara sleep. They were definitely going to make sure regular trips between happened from now on and he suspected Venseth would be on board with this idea now as well.

As he leaned his head back, the room spun and V’ler realised maybe he did need some sleep. At least another little nap and right in that chair would be fine. He didn’t want to go far and have Indivara wake and worry. He let his eyes slide shut and within minutes was asleep.

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