Dashti has a sign up. It's written in Mongolian, but with the Mansion's translation abilities your eyes will slide right over the characters like wet ice and instead see a message in perfect English, or French, or Spanish, or whatever you happen to speak.

Songs for Healing, in big big letters. Then, smaller, underneath, I'm Dashti and I'm a mucker ( Read more... )

Have a disheveled redhead of medium height, pushing open the door to the Mansion and dropping several large beribboned bags in the entrance hall. Grinning, he calls out: "I'm back!"

The response to this is less than satisfactory. Let's try that again. "And I've got presents!"

T: Everyone's favouritest trickster-god: same journal, new name, old ( Read more... )

There are glasses of wine in the main hall, arranged upon a table as though prepared for a feast. A large glass bowl stands in the center, full of wine, festive grapevines wound around it ( Read more... )

*recent conversations have had Alyosha thinking, and though it's difficult for him to put his thoughts into writing, he manages this afternoon to make a note and put it up on the bulletin board ( Read more... )

Continued from here.He popped away from the nasty shard, thrown at him with angry skill just on time, and was transported not in his hut, no, but at the Mansion, in the common room, and a dozen hours later in time, mind you ( Read more... )

*he wakes slowly from a couch in the main room, pressing his forehead and grimacing as he straightens. his beard is untrimmed, with stubble grown in unattractive places; he smells slightly of vinegar. upon viewing the unfamiliar hall, he mutters under his breath* This is not Katerina Ivanova's, nor is it Herzenstube's. Where could I have ( Read more... )

He comes in the lushness of midsummer, his music beating in both slave and lord like a second pulse. Miracles follow him on this day; there is a spring running sweet with wine below the twisted apple tree, and another spring issuing forth milk beside it, and beside that a spring of clean, sweet water. The taps in the Mansion all run red with wine ( Read more... )

Things have been downright dull in the Mansion since the plothole left--except for that extremely entertaining escapade with the apples, nothing has even remotely interested the gentleman with the thistle-down hair ( Read more... )

Prompted by his conversation with John, Buzz has put up a sign.

Wanted: Magicians. Or possibly doctors from the future (after 1997). Please see Buzz Hauser. He's right over there. --->

True to his word, Buzz is sitting next to the sign, looking rather nervous.

*some time ago, Alexei began to learn magic from the gentleman with the thistle-down hair; he could coax the trees to blossom in winter, with only the warmth of his hands and of his heart, and keep them blooming. now, he thinks, he will ask the apple trees in the orchard to let their blossoms fall, and bear fruit that he might to give to the hungry ( Read more... )