Yup, I'm still alive.
My new work is fun, overwhelming amounts of information, but I am getting the hang of it and enjoying myself.
Walking to work along the waterfront has been very agreeable. Working in town is dangerous to my credit card. Today I had pan fried pork dumplings for lunch.
Last night my Tuesday gamer group did character creation for Spirit of the Century. Here's what I've got for my new character....
Valerie D'Acourt and the King's Ransom. A Spirit of the Century novel.
Following a rather unusual liaison at a grand society ball, nine months later Ex-pat French nobleman Jean-Luc D'Acourt finds a baby girl on the doorstep of his country manor.
Jean-Luc didn't know what to do with this bewitching girl, so he educated her as he had been; in the Classics, fencing, unarmed combat and hunting. One month a year Valerie was sent to spend time with her mother in Faerie. There she was schooled in mysterious magics.
A Maiden Aunt eventually insisted Valerie be sent to finishing school, so from the age of 12 she attended a Lady's Academy in London, where she learned the womanly arts, and fine manners.
(Aspects: "Fae born" and "Raised as a Gentleman")
During the Great War; Valerie's school is bombed during a blackout, at the moment of the bomb's impact Valerie evacuates her classmates and school mistresses to the unpredictable realm of Faerie, where the threats may be even greater. Valerie is forced to save her classmates yet again.
(Aspects: "Caught between two worlds" and "They always have to be rescued")
Astrid Hubble and the Sword of Legend
Valerie lends Astrid Hubble, tomb raiding Egyptologist, a hand with some troublesome cultists, who may know a little too much about Valerie's unique situation. Valerie and Astrid become fast friends.
(Aspects: "Helps out friends in need" and "There's no time, I'll explain later.")
Valerie D'Acourt and the King's Ransom
The Fairy King demands demands a ransom from human kind for the return of the English Monarch, good King Edward. Valerie is caught between two worlds as reluctant ambassador. Valerie's best galpal Astrid is assigned as Valerie's bodyguard, but will she be able to resist taking some Fae souveniers?
The Conjurer has been tasked with creating a doppelganger of King Eddie, but no mere illusion will trick the magical Fairy King. Can the Conjurer outdo his best illusions? When he becomes victim to the wrath of the Fae Monarch Valerie will have to use all her talents to obtain a happy ever after.
(Aspects "Well connected to 'the right people'" and "enemy = fairy king")
Count Bakarov and the Ruckus in Russia
Upon reaching England safely, Count Bakarov is again in dire need of allies as his secret is threatened by cultists from Egypt. Allying himself with the enchanting Lady D'Acourt also threatened by the same menace and a partnership is formed that may be deeper than mere allies.
(Aspects "Enamoured with Count Bakarov")
Posted by jenni at May 16, 2007 08:29 PM