[sticky entry] Sticky: Veridia: Introductions

Apr. 8th, 2025 09:31 am
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(I am slowly beginning to crosspost this from my tumblr to here as a backup/alternative reading option.)

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Veridia is a historical neighborhood vaguely inspired by Iron Age Britain, with quite a lot of post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Generic Medieval Fantasy influences thrown in. Mostly Generic Medieval Fantasy. Magic and spirits are a part of every day life, strange things walk in the woods, and sheep are the backbone of the economy.

Come meet Veridia's playable residents.

household introductions below! )

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Now it's a shortish round!

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In case I didn't telegraph it hard enough in the other posts: Gytha and Angus (and Daisy) have moved into Angus's childhood house. Look, it's cute and I don't want to build anything new right now.

Angus: Are you sure this is okay? The house you grew up in was a lot, um, nicer.

Gytha: This is cozy! I'd much rather be here than living in that house.
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It's a longish one this time!


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Things are quiet here, aside from my game crashing forty-five thousand times. The wolves are calm and everyone is asleep aside from Elmet and Arturo, who entertain themselves by exchanging dirty jokes.
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent-- )
Things about Veridia/the wider kingdom of Abona that I wrote down so it's not just floating around in my head.

Lawspeakers:

This borrows from Germanic and Scandinavian tradition. A lawspeaker is someone who can recite the country's legal code from memory; it is an oral practice. They are obliged by oath to render judgement or advice when requested or if they witness a situation they feel calls for it.

Lawspeakers do not have jurisdictions and it's not uncommon for some of them to travel around Abona. People may request a non-local lawspeaker to come hear a dispute if they believe a local one would be prejudiced. If someone thinks a lawspeaker is corrupt or behaving poorly in their duties, they may take the matter to Abona's king and his assembly.

Lawspeakers are taught by other lawspeakers in a sort of apprenticeship situation. It's a bit unusual that a small settlement like Veridia has more than one.
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It's a pretty quiet round this time.
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Round seven! Let's give it up for round sevennnnn! I lost the hood ROS picture somehow, but nothing happened anyway.

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Shep and her anachronistic checkbook start out the round by sending a nice chunk of her hard-earned change to Fial in exchange for a parcel of land to extend Shep's lot.
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Diseta: Well, Lu, did you think we'd be back living here again?

Lu: Mew?

Diseta: Yeah, I know.

Surprise return of the Blacksmith household, due to, well... *gestures at the last two rounds*
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Diseta: I divorce you; our bond is severed. You no longer have any obligation to me, and I none to you.

Norweni: ...


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Norweni: That's fair.

Diseta: I would go cut the fucking ribbon from the tree if it hadn't weathered away by now.

Norweni: You've made your point, Diseta.
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The garden is growing, Kinet and Aífe's next baby is cooking, and there will be absolutely no fires, murders, or other such drama on Seax Farm. Fial does NOT allow any unsanctioned fires or murder to occur in her household, thank you very much. Her will alone is probably why their ROS this season is 'nothing much happens'.
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None of the households are going to be played in order this round and I'm just accepting that at this point.

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Anyway. River has moved out on their own. I probably should've left them with Orla and Maddan, but that house is small and also they probably wouldn't have gotten any focus this round with the drama that those two have going on. And wouldn't you know it, I forgot to roll a ROS for them until after I finished playing. 🙃
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May. 9th, 2025 04:46 pm
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I think 'help[ing] Maccus seize his seat' may actually have consisted mainly of talking him out of dumbass plans. Possibly solely consisted of that. He has strong act first, think later vibes. Eisu hated this man, btw.
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Guys, this is just a guess, but I think Glamaer and Enna want to get married?
Enna and Glamaer have both come of age, and Enna has joined the Salter household ahead of their wedding.

Anyway, let's see what the ROS cooked up for this household today!
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I did NOT forget to do the hood ROS at the start of the round. I forgot to post it. :)



Was it vermin, or was it Orla's goat? Regardless, everyone loses 20% of food resources not stored in their refrigerators larders.

This might have more of an effect if it'd happened next round, but no one has a lot of food in their inventory right after spring, since the main harvests are in summer and autumn. Also, I kinda aggressively sell off/store whatever sims gather right away.

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Bits and bobs about supernatural inheritance in Veridia that I mostly wrote for my own reference, but I know I like reading about how people handle these sort of things in their game, so I’m just gonna slap it up here:
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I switched things up and started with Helenet's household, not because she's accidentally become the main character but because I wanted to minimize the amount of time Gytha and Angus spend split up due to aging into adults. 👍

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Arturo has finally been coaxed to join the household. He brought a sapling from the grove and has planted it just outside the gate.


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Helenet: Arturo, do you ever properly walk anywhere?

Arturo: Not if I can help it.
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  “Creature!
  You think you’ve broken my hold on you?
  That freedom is yours to claim?
  I tell you this: I do not look kindly on having my possessions taken away.
  Your crime is not yet paid
  And a curse, once laid,
  Is not so easily undone.”


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I have the world's shortest round from Arturo, because for once nothing is happening to him. He’s not suffering from a curse or getting amnesia, he’s not in any relationship drama, he’s just chilling with his spirit cat and his boyfriend/girlfriend. He even rolled a ‘nothing much happens’ entry on the ROS. Love that for him.

Also, I’m experimenting with resizing my screenshots differently, to 800px wide instead of 1280px, so if they look different that’s why.

(I’ll probably go back to a bigger size... solely because the pop-ups look too big when I paste them in now, lmao.)


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So it turns out not passing out all the time is pretty great. Should Arturo have accepted Helenet’s help earlier? Probably, but what’s done is done, and also she will never let him live it down if he admits that to her.


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Arturo is also a huge fan of lycanthropy. At night he can run faster, hear better, smell all sorts of things that he couldn’t before. It’s a wonderfully novel cacophony of sensations.

(He does file away a mental note that, according to Helenet, most people don’t like when you comment that you can smell their hormonal changes or what they ate for lunch.)
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