eulalia | Veridia Round 4: Shep

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If you notice anyone missing freckles or scars this round, that would be because I forgot to put back one of my CC folders before starting the round. 🙃 Anyway, you’re never gonna believe this, but I remembered to do the ROS thing I’ve been meaning to do all along for this hood:

That tracks. This ROS is from

lilleputtu and I quite like it, though I’m working on coming up with more events for ~variety~.

Winter has come to Veridia. It’s a time of settling in, of quiet and rest.

Shep: Ehhhh, cold!

A time of the water in your wash basin being too damn cold.

For individual households, I am trying to remember to use TeaAddictyt’s ROS. I’ve removed or edited a few of the events in this one for my personal use since I think it was written for the Medieval Charter Challenge. And Veridia doesn’t have things like “church” or “a stigma on having children out of wedlock”.

Shep rolled a four, so I guess no mysterious meetings in the woods for her. Sooner or later I gotta get Arturo introduced to the rest of the neighborhood…

Besides, she already knows an annoying werewolf, even if she doesn’t know that she knows.

Random wolf: Ignoring me? Unacceptable! *grr*

Elphin: N–nice... doggy?

Shep: Ugh, shoo! Leave him alone!

Shep doesn’t have a telescope and I don’t feel like buying her one, so she gets to visit community lots instead. I am so good at ROSes. Shep has been listening to tales of the fae from some of Veridia’s older residents at the mead hall. There’s no strange tracks or fairy circles in the outskirts of the woods, though she does find some perfectly normal edible mushrooms.

Fial: You know those are mostly stories grandparents make up to keep us from wandering around unsupervised in the woods, right?

Shep: Sure! But if I met a magical creature that wanted to make me fabulously wealthy, welllll.

Fial: Ha! I think you missed the bit of the tale about not taking bargains from the fae.

Shep: Hey, I’m not using my firstborn child anyway.

Are the fae also super sexy? Discuss.

Derelei was at the mead hall when Shep got too cold and headed over there. The hall is an even more important meeting place during the winter when it’s so cold and snowy out.

Derelei’s sister, Brigid, thinks this fairy-hunting plotline is really dumb. Yeah, well, no one asked for your opinion anyway, Brigid. Go fight another teenager or something.

They still don’t get on. :’( Shep just wants to be your best friend, Norweni, is that so much to ask?

Now that there’s less work to do outside, Derelei comes over almost every day to spend the morning or afternoon with Shep. They’re very cute, but Shep doesn’t seem interested in any more commitment. They’re only going steady because Derelei took the initiative and asked her.

Shep’s REAL one true desire? Bathtub.

These two both love dirty jokes, so no wonder they got along once they discovered that.

Shep finally has some money to spare, so I gave in and let her go down to the smithy to buy a bathtub from her friend Diseta. My screenshot program said ‘NO’ to saving the picture of her actually buying it, alas.

I guess it’s good that Shep lives near the well, since she’s going to have to haul so many buckets to fill that tub. But it must be nice to have a hot bath by the fire when it snows.

When she’s not wandering the village, Shep works on her weaving during the day...

...and usually visits the mead hall at night.

Derelei: *sigh*

Gytha is here to drink away thoughts of her new step-mother.

Gytha: The alcohol content in this cider is nowhere near high enough for that.

Even while dormant in winter, the hives need occasional care. Shep loses one hive to starvation, but the other two pull through the season admirably!

Derelei. Derelei, no.

One intensive bath and laundry session later...

Derelei: So... my sister is married now. I wonder when that’ll happen for me.

Shep: Haha, yeah, I can’t believe it. I guess she and Wulfric are kinda similar. You should hear Gytha complaining about it.

Derelei: Why can’t this woman take a hint?

Near the end of Winter is Yule, a time for eating well and spending time with loved ones. Shep adds her cloak to her usual festival dress—it’s still cold out!

Shep has small gifts for her friends as well, mostly honey and pieces of pottery she made. She loves sharing these things with the people who have welcomed her into Veridia so nicely.

Shep: ...You okay?

Gede: Oh yeah, I’m cool. Very chill.

I need to find some sort of heat source to start putting on outdoor lots or every single townie is going to be blue by the end of the season.

Derelei isn’t at the festival grounds, so she gets her gift later. ~~It’s not an invisible engagement ring, alas.~~

Shep even runs down Elmet to give him a plate. Aw, look at Elmet, being almost sorta popular! He does have to skedaddle before the moon finishes rising, though.

And right at the end of the round, Shep gains her silver pottery badge. In the spring, she’s planning to start selling some of her work, and hopefully also increase her hives. And maybe THIS time we’ll finally conquer those wheat fields?