Solphin Acaran/Scampish Happenings

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Contents 1 503 A.G. 2 504 A.G. 3 505 A.G. 4 506 A.G. 5 507 A.G.

503 A.G.

• March 5, 503 A.G. Solphin Arrives on Gateway and procures a job first working at the Dockside Tavern, then at the more reputable Isle of Ale tavern as a barwench. In her off time, she wins the enrollment scavenger hunt and a years worth of free tuition at the University. She opts for Astronomy I, II and III under the Baroness Foxfire Cradle, Nysra Kallikrates*. She also meets an Imperial Knight on the beach, Sir Gerard Versailles, who will eventually become the First Knight. A quick friendship forms between the 'Great Bear' and 'Tin Kitten'.

• April 17, 503, Solphin takes on the role of Chamberlain to Baroness Destine, Isolde Lieberman. Solphin stands faithfully by Isolde when she was presumed dead in late 503 after Vox's kidnapping and staged murder of the Baroness. She was also the last person to see the Baroness' twins, Demetrius and Persephone when the two went missing shortly afterward.

• June 503, Rumors start circulating after Isolde seemingly announces Solphin's betrothal to Lord Elixir Vitae, Memnoch Crowley at a party in the Isle of Ale. The smug Lord says nothing, although Solphin loudly denies all congratulations on the subject.

• August 503, After the Earthquake, she assists in the rebuilding of various places around the city, most notably the Drawbridge which results in a broken arm and first meeting with Ambassador Snorri of Norgard. A friendship based around drinking and boasting develops between the "Little Girl" and "Big Man".

• November 503, Due to complications with her broken arm, Solphin is hospitalized again for a re-breaking and setting of the arm. Due to being forbidden from entering the Infirmary, she takes up residence in the Chief Imperial Healer's Office. It is during this time she wins the nickname of "Lady of Whiskey and Raucous, Intoxicated Recitations" as she drunkenly starts reading out loud from the Imperial Healer Lord Iorwerth Crestwood's library, effectively driving his receptionist Marie quite mad.

504 A.G.

• April 16, 504, seemingly to even her confusion, Solphin is named Lady Moria of Destine, Draught by Baroness Destine, in place of the heinously murdered Lady Jessaphine Peirce *.

Nobility of Draught
Preceded by Jessaphine Peirce *	Lady Moria 16 April 504 – Present	Incumbent

• September 11, 504, During the Candle Light Vigil in Keeper North, Cultists invade the festivities and attempt to assassinate the Keeper and newly named Duchess Guardian. Solphin haphazardly tackles the cultist Lautus who fires a bolt at the Duchess, taking the assassin to the ground. During the ensuing wrestling match and beat down, she manages to stab the cultist to keep her down as the Emperor directs the Currents to tear her apart. Solphin is injured in the match and wins a scar across her face as well as an amusing stay in the infirmary for a few days. During the stay, she is visited by the peculiar Windermere brothers, Malachi and Joachim and befriends the pair.

505 A.G.

• January 16th, 505, Much to her /extreme/ confusion, dismay and downright bafflement, the existence of one Ranis Solphin Isteph is brought to her attention. She had met him previously and did not exactly have a clean background with the boy she promptly dubbed "Asshole".

Immediately traveling to Draught, there was a rumor that spread across the boarder of Moria and Tinker's Bench. Nonetheless, upon returning to the isle, she slowly, slowly started coming to grips with the idea of having a possible half brother, thanks to her mother. It was also rumored that Master Astronomer Fenton Acaran was seen walking the village some days later with two black eyes and an even fouler attitude than usual.

It seems that not only is Fenton a complete jerk, but he's also a liar. Having fed his daughter the story about her mother's death when instead she died giving birth to a son. Another Covenant Agreement with a Master Tinkerer Isteph across the boarder in Miller's Isle. Only after that boy traveled to Gateway and annoyed Solphin, in a chance happening heard her full name, told her of the similarity, and she confirmed it, did she ever even know of his relation.

Needless to say, Ranis and her are not precisely on what you'd call 'friendly' terms. Regardless of the time and time again attempts to assist and understand the boy--even going as far as saving him from an attack from The Naix and remaining by his side at the infirmary in the summer of 505 A.G.-- the two continue to have a lukewarm relationship at best. You can't pick your family, and this is a perfect example.

• January 31, 505, Phoenix Forester approaches Solphin with the remains of her predecessor, Lady Jessaphine. A week later, the pair leave for Moria to bury the Lady properly, Phoenix as an honored guest. The two are seen riding off into gypsy territory and reappear separately again a few days later in Gateway, not a word said about what they were up to.

• March 505, Rumors, fliers and announcements start circulating around Gateway /and/ Draught that Baroness Isolde is taking suitors for Solphin's hand in marriage. Land Holding Nobles are asked to not apply and Citizens will be given priority. The Lady herself is reportedly not involved in the choosing. Predictably, no suitor is reported and rumors start that nobody even bothered to apply for the Lady Scamp's hand. Solphin is unsurprised, even joyful.

• July 12, 505, Finishing out the tail end of the Green Fields 100th day celebration, Solphin and others come into contact with a cadre of undead skeletons summoned by Master Maldis Voltaire. She's awarded another stay in the infirmary.

• August 13, 505, After being caught unaware lounging in the Coffee and Tea Shop's backyard, Solphin encounters the Leuvian Prince and Grand Artiste Juste Chevalier. The man stumbles upon the Lady long enough to draw a sketch of her. The sketch soon makes an appearance in the Art Museum as a full fledged painting, titled "Caress of the Summer's Muse".

• October 31, 505, A day before Solphin's 25th Birthday, she hires a few familiar faces from the Docks and begins the long, arduous task of moving things from her room in the Brownstone Dorms to the Castle Court Quarters. It's noticed by some that the shoddy little room in the square is hardly cleaned out by the time the move is over.

• November 1, 505, Far into the evening of her birthday, Solphin is seen walking quickly out of the city only to almost run flat into a man standing outside the gate, debating on whether or not to enter. After /she/ dodged /him/ (!!!) Solphin learned he was one of the wandering gypsies, away from home and following the constellation Canis, debating on whether or not to enter the Imperial's City. Acting as a host of sorts, Solphin and Andre become very fast friends, nearly inseparable and 'adopting' one another as brother and sister.

• November 6, 505, Solphin receives a letter from Master Matthew Wyndham. An apparent proposal to court the "Alluring and Charming", and very unwed Lady, citing the portrait by Grand Artiste Juste Chevalier as 'inspiration'. She finds out later that the note is a forgery by Matthew's cousin Tobias Branridge. She reportedly sent Matthew a fruit basket and a note which simply read "THANK PROVIDENCE!!!" And began writing letters to the guilty kinsman.

506 A.G.

• February 14, 506, After a long and trying evening, Solphin encounters a number of souls at the Coffee and Tea shop, including the previously mentioned guilty kinsman, Tobias Branridge. After something of a verbal sparring match, a dare is made on the arrangement of marriage between the two. Messages fly between towers but nothing seems to come of it.

• March 19, 506, No rest for the weary, Solphin spends a long evening once again patching Ranis' arm up after the young man was mugged and beaten. After which, the woman is seen storming from Brownstone only to encounter Sawyer Locksley bum rushing a cloaked figure who was shooting darts at people. Sritara Shaw, knocked unconscious from the dart, is carried by the Lady's guard, Zorn, to the infirmary. Solphin all but vanishes that evening after being seen around the village in one of the most foulest moods any have seen her in.

• April 18, 506, Solphin is notified by letter that she is to take part in the Spring Festival of that year. Not only had Isolde signed her up for the Tournament, but also notified that she would be reading fortunes that first night, regardless of the fact that she has little to no background in that field. Further, much to her own humor, Brother Andre is volunteered by the good Baroness for the drinking contest, fee payed and all.

• April 28, 506, The first round of the Spring Tournament begins for Solphin in a fight against the former squire, now Baroness Linette Barca, sister to her Liege's former Baron Consort and aunt to the Twins. Solphin rises to the challenge and defeats the Baroness, 3 to 2 with her two brothers, Andre and Ranis in attendance to cheer her on. Some might call it the most entertaining of rounds as people dressed and powdered in white are sent from Baroness Destine to assault the stands with signs, shouts and trying to powder the opposing red team. Besides that, the fight degenerates into fists and a roll in the dirt between the women after Solphin wins, 3 to 1, Linette scoring the last point on a good punch to Solphin's cheek, laying the Lady out in fits of laughter. The two seem to part ways on friendly terms and a promise of dinner, on the Baron Consort, Leon Maritus.
  • This is also the first time publicly that she is seen to be rather close to Professor Tobias Branridge, giving some weight to the rumors. The bet with Leon made between he and Tobias looking more like a double date, nearly.

• May 01, 506, Along with Brother Andre, the pair do a night of fortune telling for the Spring Festival. The Lady using Tarot Cards and Runes while her counterpart offers Tea Readings. A third woman comes in to recite futures in rhyme with her dwarf counterpart. All donations raised by the pair going to the Community Center and Orphanage.

• May 05, 506 There is an official announcement sent out from Baroness Destine announcing Solphin's betrothal to Tobias Branridge. People are split between confusion and suspicion.
  • Solphin is announced as one of the final four in the Spring Festival Tournament after besting Baron Joseph Starling in a very close 3 to 2, the Lady Scamp swiping the last point to break the close match.

• May 14, 506 Rumor goes up that Solphin's in the infirmary again. This time not as a patient but carrying the unconscious body of young Chandler Marsters. The whispers are purposefully quiet as 'someone' seemed to have beaten the boy and dropped him on Solphin's table as she and Andre were at the Dockside passing around a bottle of fine whiskey previously won by the gypsy man that day. Carina March was one of the first ones following Solphin in, and sent the boy's father word, as well as stayed with him overnight. The Lady Scamp, highly distressed by this, vanished without word to a single soul for four days.

• May 20, 506 In one of what might arguably be the most amusing round since her square off with Linette, Solphin defeats famed explorer Niamh Cavanagh in an amusing match. Something about an offer to strip for booze from the Lord from Brewer's Crossing Raynn Fabira, which sent the match on a pause called by the adventurer. Long story short, not mentioning someone falling over the stands and some words shouted back and forth, Niamh called a forfeit and ended up personally escorting Lord Raynn out of the coliseum.
  • In the stands was a familiar-unfamiliar face. The dark and cynical appearance of Master Fenton Acaran, the Lady's father, was noted. Apparently here to give someone a piece of his mind at his daughter's betrothal only to find her 'beating women with sticks' in the coliseum.

• May 23, 506 The long awaited final round of the Spring Festival Tournament has Solphin facing off against Cain Sothen, a merc who defeated her brother, Ranis in his second round fight. The fight draws a crowd and does not lack in theatrics as a Blue Man Group of Glittery Doom starts powdering people in the stands. Though, on the field, there is a lack of overly jovial happenings as Solphin defeats Cain, 5 to 2, becoming the victor of the first Spring Festival Tournament, much to the surprised of at least a few. A Draughtian victor. A prize of 30 gold was split up to various charities and such, a horse from the Empress' stable and out of the two prizes, choosing the Ring of Sustenance.
  • In the stands, another sort of battle was going on. Resulting in her brother, Ranis, being tackled to the ground by her betrothed and sent to the infirmary. Apparently having clawed open his own chest to 'paint himself red' in support of Cain and presumed to be deranged somehow.

• June 15, 506 A pleasant day on the beach turns chaotic as Solphin, Andre, Bella Forester, Pyrphoros Sendai, Timothy Crestwood and Elspeth Toet are drawn into a futile battle with a demon-fish in the process of sinking a ship. Afterward, the missing healer Aithne Corbaine's body was discovered. Solphin was observed to be acting strangely and actually broke the Sheriff Lyolf Godfrey's finger when he offered to assist. She escaped the Infirmary, this time. The others were not so fortunate.

• July 05, 506 Solphin is seen skirting the very outskirts of the Purist Prayer Meeting in Ainsley Woods, going further into the woods. After being followed for a moment by a casual acquaintance, Lord Pyrphoros Sendai, the Lord returns to the prayer meeting without her. The Scamp seems to vanish altogether after that night.

• August 02, 506 Almost a month after her initial disappearance, Solphin was carried into the infirmary by Phineas Ashlan, pale from severe blood loss and a few inches from death with injuries that could be described as 'inventively horrific'. The only explanation offered by the Duke being 'I think she was tortured' before he went to inform the authorities. Attended by healer Imani Paggion and others, she shared the infirmary with the victims of the 506 Gateway Hunt. Her boss, Liege and friend, Isolde was among them.

• December, 506 People begin to notice that the wedding of Tobias and Solphin is a month overdue. No word of marriage yet, and the two are rarely seen publicly together. Did things end? Did Tobias wisen up? Did Solphin escape again? Did they really marry in secret? He's still living in her room. He returned to Mists. She lives in the gypsy camp. She sneaks off to see him at night. They're not seeing each other. They rendezvous at the Grinning Guardian. He couldn't handle a gypsy. She couldn't handle a mage. His cousin, the Baron Crescent Coast sent him away. Baroness Destine decided to end the betrothal. The Baroness is sleeping with Tobias. No one knows the story, but the scuttlebutt is all over the place.

• December 17, 506 Clearing of Solphin's cousin Sage's shop, Coibran Chandlery, is completed and they begin digging the foundation for the new building. They hope to have the new building built and grand opening ready for Spring.

• December 18, 506 The peace of the castle is broken as Solphin is found by a page in the South Court Hall, on the floor, exchanging blows with her brother, Ranis. Apparently the lad became distressed over the stuffed goldfish, Sam, that the Lord Consort gave her as a 'symbol of his love'. Who gives a dead fish as a symbol of their love is almost as wondrous as why Ranis would react so violently to it. They're both lead out of the castle. The boy is not jailed but instead, turned over to his fighting instructor, the Lady's Gypsy Brother, Andre.

• December 30, 506 Announcements go out that in some very quiet, very curious ceremony, Solphin was married to her betrothed, Tobias Branridge, now known as Lord Moria, Tobias Acaran. Oddly enough, the next morning Solphin was seen strolling into town early in the morning. Upon reaching her room in the castle, she was taken up by a pair of Destine guards and escorted quickly to the Destine Suites, where, apparently, her newly minted Lord was already waiting.

507 A.G.

• January 14, 507 Imperial Proclamation declares that after a fortnight of marriage, Solphin has been stripped of her claim to Moria as Lady. Leaving some to wonder just /why/, what will become of her marriage to Tobias, and of course /who/ won that insane pool on how long the scamp would last!? The scamp is now just a scamp once more.
• April 8, 507 Tobias Acaran dies on a mission on Mists. What became of Solphin is unknown as the scamp has skipped town, though rumors fly at her possible involvement in his death, none holding a shred of proof. The scamp is now a widow.