Ticanee Newsletter 73 - 10/13/04
From FiranMUX
Dear Journal,
Its been a long time since i've written I know, really sorry i've been neglecting you lately. Things have gotten real busy. There's been alot going on these past weeks, some of it good, some of it not so good. I guess i'll get right to it though, since there's so much to go over.
First off, we've had some new babies in our clan recently. Derik and Lutika Swiftpaw had a baby a while back, a very strong healthy baby by the tell of it. They named in Timor. That family just seems to get bigger and bigger every week. Its kinda neat, I mean the Ticanee clan sure does need the population boost right?
Tansel and Jeronika Cottonmouth had thier first baby as well, another little boy who they named Asher. Lets all hope that the baby is more like Jeronika and less like Tansel, I think most of us can agree that one Tansel in the clan is quite enough.
Oh and of course we must get the gossip, apparently Dame Mother Urtenia and Lupos Ravenseye have been getting rather close these days too. According to Little Rasmus as well as Lupos' grandchildren it seems that the pair had a chat one night over several ales in Lupos' workshop, a very late chat if rumors are true. There weren't any tents or anything, but Urtenia was still there in the morning. Well all I can say is it wouldn't be the first time someone's stayed over night at Lupos' place, heck even me and my mom have done it. I'm sure it was completely innocent, I mean what else could it be at thier age? Also, word is that Lupos was seen gifting a few people around the district with some very nice gifts, namely my mom Lady Kerasha and Dame Mother Urtenia. They're two lucky women, Lupos always gives the best gifts!
Another pair who I've noticed spending alot of time together are Sir Ixion and that centurion Ramisa. Word is that they're nearly inseperable and our Sharinir has even managed to coax a smile from the Mes every now and again.
And of course the GREAT BIG HUGE NEWS, in other words the final chapter with the Dragon the Lion and the Goat, or the creature formerly known as the Chimera. Well, the parts were all brought back in the form of a great big dragon, a great big lion and a really big and rather clumbsy but endearing goat. Thats right, these creatures all landed squarely in Anarinuell and of course then after that chaos promtly insued. Seems the Dragon had a real liking for horses and that Chimera proxy Lady Yasha saw it fit to promise him everyone's horses. Hrmph I say. I was always taught that you dont give away what isn't yours, but thats neither here nor there. Anyway, horses were given, or taken in some cases and sent to the dragon for supper. I hope he got indigestion myself or at the very least choked on a few hooves. Somehow word got back to the Oshta that the Ticanee weren't giving as much as they should and a judgement was made that 20 horses must be given by the Ticanee or else. And anyone who's got a brain in the Ticanee clan knows that you never want to see one of the Oshtas 'or elses'. Well it turns out that it was all a big mixup, or something. The Ticanee had been giving horses and actually gave quite a few. So many in fact that there at last count are only nine horses left in all of the Ticanee clan. Course my numbers may be off some.
Anyway, it finally all ended with a big game of chest..oh wait, no chess. Yeah that's it, chess. Anyway it was a game with this huge board big enough for folks to stand on and be the pieces of the game. Several of our own ticanee clan played pieces in the game, including myself, Kendra and Dame Mother Urtenia. For a while there I was a little worried that the losing team might get eaten, but we didn't thank goodness. Prince Viceroy Sadin won the game, and apparently also won a bet with the dragon that led to him allowing himself to rejoin with the other parts of the Chimera, well after a bit of help from Lady Proxy Yasha in the way of a kiss. Its a relief that the Chimera is back together again but I just hope them Firans learn from this. Namely I hope they learn what happens when you let great big fire breathing creatures take up house in the city. Who knows though if they will though, Firans sure seem to learn slowly.
I think the saddest part about all of this is that many of the horses that are now gone were the ones bred by Terpsika Mink. Lord General Uncle Primo has been asking around for anyone who's got horses that might have been bred by Terpsika, please send him a message if they've got one. With the horse shortage Uncle Primo has been trying to round up horses that can be bred so that Terpsika's line doesn't die out. She did breed the best horses around after all.
Uncle Primo also held a great story telling event, members of the clan both old and young showed up to listen to our fellow clan members tell stories. Okatik Swiftpaw, Feathyr Wolfhawke and our own Dame Mother Urtenia told some wonderful stories and managed to hold the whole crowd enthralled as they did so. We even had lots of firans show up to listen, one man, Danel Mondarik, even got into the spirit of things and told a story of his very own. This may very well be something that our clan holds regularly from now on, or at least I hope so. It was alot of fun and Uncle Primo did a great job of organizing it.
Aunt Xenobia is beginning to put on some weight again, go figure that one. She's also been getting sick alot again. I've seen it often enough. Could be that we'll have another little Dawn bundle in the house soon enough. In the meantime she's been spending lots of time with her head over a basin getting sick, I try and avoid seeing or hearing that myself. Yuck!
Zaynee Mink had her Rites of Passage this past week, the ceremony was lead by our own Shaman in training Okatik Swiftpaw. As usual he did a great job on the ceremony and Zaynee is all adultized now. She chose a good strong totem, the wolf. I cant believe how fast time has passed, seems like just yesterday we were all running around in short tunics wrestling in the grass, now almost all of the kids I grew up with are adults. Yeesh, makes a person feel old!
I spose thats about it for now, boy this was a long entry! Its a good thing i'm done, I think I'm almost out of ink. Anyway, i'll make sure to get more so I can make a nice new entry next week. See you next time Dear Journal!
