- Play for free
- Guide
-
Quick Nav
- Learn to Play
- Contractors
- Create Contractor
- Graveyard
- Gifts
- Create Gift
- Stock Gifts
- Community
-
Discord Server
- Looking for Game
- Find a Playgroup
- Hall of Fame
- Website
-
Get Early Access
- Buy Merchandise
- News and Updates
Emma Augustine Sauveterre's Journal
il mio diario
-----
The cover appears plain white, with a printed text in cursive that reads: "My Diary" in Lombezian. It has shown signs of decay with dirt turning some parts of the white into light-brown, stains, and some signs of it having been folded and crumpled in a few spots.
Underneath the beautiful cursive, is another beautiful imprint "this book belongs to:", followed by a seemingly crossed out name of someone: "Grant M. Wyndham", then a coarse handwriting next to it that reads: '"EMMA".
This book has 200 empty pages and is all entirely written in Riftian apart from text written by this 'Grant'.
-----
You know these days now that the civil war is here, all this pent-up stress is starting to get to me. So I have decided to vent and record my ventures in this notebook... heh, nowadays it feels like you can get pissed at anything, always nervous and jittery. Most of the time I'm always on edge when there's a lot of people, maybe seeing those Republicans shooting shit up in Causterford finally pushed me over the edge.
But what's a woman got to do in this situation. I'll see to it that the truth prevails and future folks don't have to experience this satanic cycle any longer. Though I don't think I'd be doing that anytime soon seeing as they don't want me as a propagandist and threw me into the Republican Militias. Maybe I can also use this thing to get an insight how Maria felt back then.
The Cerda Siege
Here Lies Emma Augustine Sauveterre
Emma Augustine Sauveterre suffered of a life of hardships. When she was young, her only adult friend in the factory she worked in was sent to New Hope in the place of her father. Her mother would die soon after, a victim of the strange wave of plagues that hit the Springlands in the early Alcalá era. Her husband perished underground as he was forced to toil until his demise as a political prisoner in the mines of Darkstone. Sooner than later she was left alone in a hostile world, that sooner than latter taught her the monsters that lurked in its darkness.
All of this, in a way, foreshadowed her death, as she found her dire end underground, just like her husband, in the middle of another war, like her friend, surrounded by darkness and monsters, caused by a plague frozen in time, part of the wave that took her mother.
Emma Augustine took part in many important events, however, she always remained a background character, the kind of face that can be dismissed in the old pictures of more important people. This is why, she would not be remembered as anything other than the casualty number 11,984 of the Miglian Civil War.
Charlatans
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
― Criss Jami
Nowadays you can't go a day without some phony prophet trying to peddle their wares to you.
Driven by the increased interest in the supernatural, charlatans from palm readers to televangelists are everywhere. And while the vast majority of witches, psychics, magicians, hypnotists, cures, potions, faith healers, and clairvoyants are complete fakes, they do make a living.
As the saying goes, "it's easier for an actor to make it in alternative medicine than Hollywood."
Most people scoff at these clearly-phony supernatural services, yet those same people often buy into at least one scam.
The most dangerous charlatans are the self-styled monster hunters who carry a mall-ninja arsenal and guns with silver bullets. Most have never encountered anything supernatural and do absolutely nothing besides burn some sage and patrol the area for a night or two. Even so, those who are superstitious, fearful, or desperate enough will hire them to solve the problems they simply don't understand. In some cases with disastrous results.
For Contractors, charlatans are red herrings and obstacles. Clumsy fakes that conjure a smokescreen of misinformation and escalate the situations they're in.