Quest 210

( Private || Hackable by Friends )

My, what an odd few days we've had lately! First it was that silly day where no one could write much more than a sentence or two on the Network at a time, and everything appeared backwards, and then yesterday it seemed as though half the City was sparkling like diamonds! Still, I agree with Todd; I'd much rather have a ridiculous curse than a terrible one, no matter how silly it might turn out to be. It's tedious to have to think on how to make a message fit a certain number of words, or to have to wear those dark glasses in the sun to keep from being dazzled by the sparkling that people were doing, but there's no real harm in it, and that's always something to be grateful for.

And it seems that August isn't turning out to be quite as bad as I've been expecting! There certainly seem to be a lot of nice things happening lately, too. Old friends are turning up again, and it seems there are some secret admirers going around, too, delivering special gifts to lucky people when they least expect it. Like that lovely little crane I found in the mailbox the other day--I know quite a few people have been getting those. And I know Penny got a lovely jacket recently, too, which is beautiful and well-deserved, I'm sure.

Oh, and speaking of which--Penny, thank you again for the beautiful portrait. It's absolutely lovely and you're wonderfully talented, and I had a marvelous time sitting for it. If it's all right with you, I'd like to have it framed and put it up on my wall. I think it'd look just lovely next to the one of my family that Sam got me for Christmas this past year.

Duo, have you recovered from the war we waged against the cupcakes in the kitchen the other day? I thought I ought to warn you that I've made another batch or two, so it seems reinforcements have arrived. We may be forced to engage them again soon. Perhaps after we work a bit on that project I mentioned to you the other day?

In any case, I hope things stay quiet and occasionally ridiculous like this for a while. We could all use the respite, I think, no matter how odd of a respite it may be.


[OOC: Whew! Rosella's been keeping busy lately, between a ghostly visitor last night, having Arkady attempt a break-in of the Warehouse, getting paper cranes in the mail, and all the usual August worries. But such is life in the City!

Also, the lovely art Rosella linked to is IC, viewable to all, and definitely not drawn by me--credit for that goes to Penny and Veda, who are amazing and worthy of praise.]