Adventures of Caelereth

I'm planing to leave tomorrow to stay with my parents  till Wednesday. Will come back with that map of Strata, hopefully. (no internet there)

You have good time! I hope they are doing well :)

Hope your Mother is doing better and they both are doing well Talia.  Will be a shame to not have you around, but we shall anticipate your return greatly. :D

Good-bye, lady Talia! We'll look forward to having you back with us. With best wishes for your journey, and for your parents.

We'll be good to Lori while you're gone. (On second thought: I'm not sure I want to vouch for Grallen ...)

Hope everything's alright Talia

Have a good time  :)

Thanks all! :)

I dearly hope she will be getting better soon. She should not be in pain anymore with this surgery, but with her bad osteoporosis, one never knows. On Wednesday her rehabilitation program starts and there she has at least some doctors around, though probably not those she would need. My father is with her, helping her, but he is not well either and he worries so much and the whole things just is too much for him, that I worry more for him than for my mother *sigh*

I send my hopes to you as well Talia and to your parents.

Heyho! I'll be gone from Monday until the following Saturday or Sunday. Hope you'll still be in the Herald when I come back, lest a lonesome bandit and her bird get left behind at the edge of the desert. Looking forward to what will happen in this story next,

Lili

We look forward to your return, Lili.  We should still be here, though it might be morning, and you might have to be a last minute addition, but that just adds depth to the story.
 :D

All right! Big plans for this week, then! Feel free to do some gentle puppeting if you need to get Lili and Kassandra to bed, and to PM me if there's an idea how Lili could catch up with the group, if necessary.

I'll be in Switzerland, actually. Not quite close enough to Talia to wave from the plane, but not far off either. I shall be thinking of the Beauty of the South while I'm gone.  :)

Hey guys, I'm a bit behind in homework and exams are coming up soon so I won't be around much in the next few weeks. I'm preparing my story posts, but that's about it.

Too distracted :grin:

Okay, I'll be back soon.

This usually happens right about this time; Exams! I am glad I do not have to do them anymore!  :grin:

Good luck on then Airyn...

Yup, good luck on them Airyn.  Let me know how much you will be able to post, and when.

Thankyou, and my fingers are crossed. Tightly. :D

Altario, I'm working on both of my posts now but you probably won't hear from me for a little while after that.

All the best from me as well, Airyn. :)

How much are we allowed to puppet you? Can Ana'Mirl take you on the cart and bring you to Strata, so that you are there as well? I doubt that we will progress there so fast, that we are back in the Herald until you have more time on your hands again.

Well, I'm halwfay through Airyn's post at the moment. I'm going to have Airyn ask Altario about his trip, and then ask Ana about travelling.

Feel free to puppet Airyn as much as you need, and this probably wouldn't be the best time to play an NPC either, so if anyone wants to puppet Pagran for the moment, that's fine with me.

I will be away as well. What I know for sure is:

4-6 April  (weekend till Monday)

Possibly: 7 - 10 April, depends on how long my parents stay in this rehability center, if my mother's stay is prolonged, then I will be here.

I will be very busy for the next time generally, up to an absence in June, from 6.6 - 14.6 , where I will be in France!

But after that hopefully all my stress will end!

Hi all!

I thought I'd better post a repeat of my little announcement in Jovloff's Gold (one reason, by the way, why I knew I had no chance of keeping the Fu-Lili connection secret for long):

I'll be away from 15-25 April (first a bit of work, then a bit of holiday). Until then, I'll be writing a rather lengthy and demanding job application, and after my return I may have to prepare for the job interview (if I'm lucky). And as other non-Santharian duties give no indication of releasing their grip on me, my posts may be shorter and my responses less speedy than hitherto until the end of May or so.

But I'll do my best to learn a few naughty songs from Lori on the way to Strata, and in general take part in whatever developments lie in store!  :)

Dear friends, I must away. I'll be back in two weeks. Meanwhile, I'll be looking forward to catching up on this story when I return.

I've given Lili a reason to be more taciturn than usual. I hope this makes it easier to just drag her along on the trek.

You shall be missed, Lili.  We look forward to your return.

Thanks, Altario. Have a good time, everyone!

I'll going to be staying with Mira from Friday 24th until Sunday 26th. In the unlikely event that you need Tharoc to actually do something other than annoy people, please fell free to yank his string  :P

tempting.... :evil:
that said, i was intending to steal maybe your watch captain for a bit. would that be ok?

Captain Thadeus Illogical......Star Trek fan extraordinaire.....why certainly!

I believe he keeps a small flask of Runorian Brandy hidden about his person somewhere. Just to keep the chill off on those cold nights, you understand?

I got the dates for the second half of my exams today. I don't know why we don't do them all in one shot, doesn't make sense to me. Anywho, they'll be in four weeks. So, around the start of June I don't think I'll be on at all.

The last ones were the easy subjects. I actually have to focus for these ones :grin:

I am not sure where you are from Airyn, but in the States, we have our exams all at the same time period; usually within a week or two at the most.  Anyway, I wish you all the best and you will be missed in June. BTW how long will your exams last?

About a week or so.

Yeah, I have no idea what happened. They chose to have one set of exams the last week of term and the other in the seventh week of this one. I think its got something t do with the times that years eleven and twelve have theirs, but I honestly don't know.

Good luck with those exams, Airyn!

Though my heart is bleeding, I have to give advance notice of another absence, as well: I'll be away from 24 May through 3 June.

As promised, I have the dates for the rest of the exams. It's all of next week, from the first to the fifth. I'm all nervous now!

Well, if your writing is any indication, you are obviously a very bright girl.  I'm sure you will have no trouble.  However,  I will wish you Good Luck. :D

yeah, good luck Airyn!
on a related note, my exams start next Thursday, so this is kinda an advanced warning that if I'm on here frequenntly from then till about three weeks later, please just chase me away, urgh, its painful to say this. :cry:

i have no self control, though, so seriously.

Yeah, good luck Airyn. Although I'm sure you'll breeze it.

@Grallen, Noooooooo! Come back. Don't leave me alone with all these orc-haters!

I'm not "leaving" until the last possible moment, so don't worry just yet. Even then Iwill in all probability find time to sneak on from time to time. >hands Tharoc a little ragdoll with green skin and hair made of black string. it  has appearntly been doused in beer at some point, and not washed in a considerable time.

there. to remind you of me. :grin:

Good luck with your exams Airyn and Grallen.

 :rolling:@ Thinking about Tharoc playing with a doll.

Probably not the best time to announce this, but most should know already.

I'll be gone from June 13th until September 15th for a graduation backpackin' trip through Europe. At least I land back in the United States on the 15th, it will probably be a couple days more before I get home, and then I won't know what the situation will be cause my dad is movin' while I'm gone.

I'll be on Santh to check up and when postin' updates, but won't be postin' in stories.

Garret

Have a great vacation in Europe Garrett. take lots of pics.

I'm giving an advance notice of a lengthy absence: I shall disappear at some time during the second half of August, and won't reappear before mid- or end of September. I'll be on travels for the three weeks from 30 August - 18 September, but will have periods of intense work just before and after, so that my absence from Santharia may be 4-5 weeks altogether. *sniff*

I shall let you all know before I vanish, of course. But I thought the moderators should be able to plan Lili's absence in advance, if they want to.

As that date gets closer, we shall talk more, in PMs and try to come up with a plan.  Other than that, we shall miss your absence, and hope that you are enjoying the time away. :D

I will be gone for a week or two starting this weekend.  You kids play safe. :D

I have good news and bad news. The bad news, for me at least, is that terran pursuits will demand my full attention from next week, and shall not cease to do so for some time. All in all, I shall be gone from 10 August through 25 September (although I may be back a few days earlier).

The good news is that Talia the Indefatigably Wonderful has kindly agreed to play Lili and Kassandra in my absence. She'll take over from me on Monday. I'll have at least one more post for Destiny before then.

Sad to see you go, but glad that Talia has stepped up in the interim.  Hopefully you will come back sooner than later. :D

Will miss you Lili, and come back soon.

Thanks, Damien!

So long, my friends - and see you all at the end of September.

Talia, over to you!  :heart:

Hey guys guess what? I am in the hospital again... Not sure how long this time, but hopefully it will not be for long...they say perhaps a week, maybe a bit more than that.  I have my laptop with me, however since they say once the procedure begins I will not be able to nor probably willing to write or do probably anything else for awhile, that this will be my last post.

I will write up a quick post for Damien, then if needs be Alt or someone else can puppet my character.

@Grallen, Gres is fascinated by you. He has never seen an orc, especially a female one, his advances are whatever you take them as.

Get well soon my friend. :cry:

What we weill probably do is wrap up the evening so we can get going on the next day.  Then if/when we introduce a new character, it will be somewhat of a fresh start.  So, if that is how we do it, you being away for a bit won't interfere too much.  We'll just assume Damien is sleeping it off.

EDIT:  Ok, read the post after reading this post.  Same deal applies however.  We will just assume Damien is resting and being tended by his personal nurse. (Can't remember her name but will look it up before we post)
Again, you take care of yourself so that we can get you back as soon as possible. :)

We'll miss you Damien! Get well soon, please!

I should probably take this opportunity to say that I'm heading to uni in... gods, two weeks, or thereabouts. Free internet and a shiny new laptop should mean i'm not kept away from here for long, but i've absolutely no idea how long it'll take to get settled in, and until then i doubt i'll have much spare time. I'll try and keep up to date, but i might be a little more unreliable than usual  :rolleyes:, so bear with me, please.

A little advance warning: I'll be away from 16-24 November. First on a short work trip, then for a visit to my sister & nephew in Sweden, to which I've been looking forward for a long time.  :D

I am very much enjoying the "dark alley" scene with Tyrr & gang, Grallen and Lili. Depending on how that advances until the 16th, it might be good to make arrangements for puppeting during the time I'm away. Talia, just in case: would you have time and inclination to take over Lili once again?

Time and inclination is not the question, Lili, more skill. ;)

Do not put yourself down Talia. We will miss you Lili, but I think that the alley scene should be done before you leave. Have a great time in Sweden...think pictures...lots and lots of pictures.

Which takes me to my own problem. I will probably be gone from the boards for a few days beginning today, I am on the way out now, hopefully I will be back before the16th but who knows. I am going into the hospital for some tests. This time they are not MS related, but I fell some days back and now I am bleeding blood when I urinate.  Doc did an ultra scan and saw something he did not like, sent me a surgeon who looked at the scan then did a CT scan and set me up with these tests. Hopefully, I am fine and will not have to undergo any type of surgery. If I do have to have surgery I will have Allan make a quick post to tell you all.

In the meantime if I or anyone of my npc's need puppeting do so, I trust you all.  Bye for now.

Damien, I'm so sorry to hear you're not well. I hope everything turns out to be fine, and you can avoid the surgery!  :heart:

Talia, the size of my achievements on this site is like a gigglepebble; the size of yours is like a krrroa'haxpattl. Anyway, let's see how this back-alley scene goes, and I might PM you with indications for a Lili post!

I second that Damien.  Get well soon and I hope surgery is not required.

Damien, get well soon!   :heart:

Lili, I think now you surprised some people! A pity, Damien is not here! Let's see, what grallen says lol

Yeah, take care Damien!
(wow Lili, this is gonna take some consideration... )

So long, see you in ten days!

I'm gone for a few days also. From tomorrow till Sunday night. Maybe I squeeze a short Lori post in tomorrow morning.

I'll be gone from now until 19 December, unfortunately.

And I will be very busy the coming week and away from 24.12 to 28.12 , and then again even busier with my guests. But from 2nd of January on all will be better :)

I'll attach for you one of my visitors :)  But only for a short time!

Probably should have mentioned it sooner but didnt think of it. Lack internet at this time. Back to my home soon though. Garrets not really in the way.

I'm not sure if I can post in the next seven days. Tomorrow, a good friend from Germany will arrive and stay for a week, and I might not be able to be online much. I don't imagine it'll be a problem, though, as both Lili and Kassandra have just had their turn. But I thought I'd let you know, in case Destiny continues to move so fast as it has done recently.

Have fun, all!

Lili

Dear fellow Seekers of Destiny,

I am sad to announce a forthcoming long absence.

As some of you know, I am currently writing a PhD thesis. I have devoted considerable chunks of the last three and a half years of my life to it. Now the date of submission is drawing close. For the next two months or so, almost all of my time from morning to night will be occupied with my frantic endeavours to keep the deadline.

Roleplaying is too engrossing, too interesting, too exciting. Once it starts dancing with my imagination, it suffers no rivals. That’s very pleasant to experience, but it’s not conducive to finishing a PhD thesis. Therefore, I will not be able to play from the end of February until mid-April at least.

Fortunately, Talia has agreed to puppet Lili and Kassandra in my absence, as she has done so beautifully before. Thank you, Talia.

I wish you all success in your endeavours to rescue a certain cutthroat from captivity, and I am already looking forward to my return, when I shall enjoy reading about the many twists in which destiny tends to entangle us, its playthings.

I shall miss being here,

Lili

PS: I’ll be around occasionally until the end of February, and hope to finish playing Lili’s fight with Quar before I leave. I’ve posted this announcement now, rather than later, so as not to suddenly disappear from one day to the next.

 :cry:

We shall miss you, but RL has to come first.  I'm glad that Talia has agreed to puppet Lili and Kassandra.  Thank you Talia, and thank you Lili for making that decision to allow this rather than forcing us mods to fill a gaping hole.  Lili has become a big part of the story right now. :D

Good luck on your thesis.  What is your thesis on?

May good fortune grace your every endeavour, Lili, until your return.

You will be sorely missed.

Hmmm, me I'm going away 2morrow for a week. Only short-term.  :grin:

Well, Ylaya, I hope you have a goiod time... but... you do know this is for the players and creators of the Destiny storyline? :buck:  Unless you are part of our story under a different name.

Take care Lili, and may present the best thesis there ever was. When you come back, we can all call you "Doctor" But you will be sorely missed :cry:

Thanks so much, everyone!  :heart:

I'll report back on 18 April the latest.

So long!

Lili

My computer's decided to go kaput on me (I think it is the power supply fan. Until I get it back, I won't be able to post here. I'm sure that the Admin will be aware of this message. :D

right, hopefully this isn't an absence message as such...
easter holidays have started, so i'm heading back to stay with the family - only apparently their internet connection is less than reliable. if this means i can't get on as often as i should then i'm sorry - and this is an advance (alright, not very) warning if that;s the case. i'll try to get a post up this morning, but dasd said he'd pick me up mid-morning-ish, and i've not finished packing, so if that's not possible then sorry.
all of you hae a great easter,
Grallen :heart:

Have a good time grallen!! You make me wish I was going away now but I got to wait another week yet.  :P

Have a great Easter holiday Grallen.

I'm off for a few days at the coast with friends. Shouldn't be more than 3 or 4 days, but wanted to let you all know.

Orly

Enjoy yourself Orly.  Sounds like a good time.

Yeah Orly, bring back pics!

Yeah! Pics!

Alt, Dru, if you go on like this I get a heart attack sooner or later! It is a long time since my body was upset when I read a book!

Edit: Wrong thread, but well, if it happens, then it is the right one!

Sorry Talia!  :buck:

I'll be gone until Monday or Tuesday. A little weekend trip to Liverpool ...

So long!

Lili

term's finished, so i'm trying to move all my stuff to the next house, and then going all the way back cross country for the summer. this is likely to take away my time and energy, so just a head's up. :)

Ah, moving house is a brilliant opportunity to re-discover half-forgotten drawings, story notes, evocative postcards, and the like - in the backs of drawers, behind the kitchen cupboard, and under the jam jars.

Good luck for the move, Grallen!

Great posts, all!

I'm sorry to say that I underestimated how busy I'd be this month. I am unable to find time and concentration for posting at the moment, and I fear it's going to be that way for another two or three weeks.

I've got several deadlines at work to meet, an examination coming up ('defence of the thesis'), I'm proofreading a friend's thesis, and my mother is going to come to visit me in London soon. My short evenings leave me painfully little time for Santharia. I hope to be able to pop in every once in a while, though, and hope to be back in proper action from 8 July or so.

Fortunately, Lili is unconscious anyway, and Kassandra has completed her mission, as it were - so I think I'm not holding things up. If I'm needed, let me know by PM, and we can make arrangements for puppeting, or I can maybe write a short post.

Have fun, all!

Lili

I'll be gone for three weeks with hardly any internet, so I'll try to post once more tomorrow. After that I give my permission to puppet Toama, though I'd appreciate it if she does not lose any more limbs :P

I'll be on holiday from 30 July through 14 August - canoeing through the Swedish wilderness. Plenty of mosquitoes there, but no internet! Yet Lili won't be out of action: Grallen has kindly agreed to play her while I'm away.

Depending on whether others post in the next few days, I might get a post in before I go.

i'm moving back to Wales this weekend (yay!), and the broadband won't start until i think a couple days after we arrive, on Sunday. i'll try and post tomorrow for me and Lili before we go, just so everything's up to speed. i shouldn't be offline for more than, say, five days - if it is more than that and you need to move things along, then i don't mind Grallen being puppeted, and i guess Lili as well seeing as i'm supposed to be looking after her.
 :grin:

I am sorry for not telling you sooner but I will be unavailable until after the 25th of August.  On my 25th wedding anniversary which was on the 16th.

Congrats. :)

Thanks.

*Sigh* I'll be away again.   :angry:

Just nine days this time, though, from 31 August through 8 September. Like last time, I'm grateful to Grallen, who has once again agreed to play Lili in my absence.

I'm around for the next four days, though (until Monday), and will have time to post if there's an opportunity.

You just got back! Oh well, have a safe trip and come back to us soon. We will miss you, but thank God for Grallen, who has done wonderfully for your character(s) so far.

I apologize, but I have just started school, and now have no time to get on until the weekend. I don't even have time to write a quick post, because I have so much homework. I'll get one up tomorrow though. Man I hate school.  :undecided:

Don't worry, Lyth - that happens. It's good that you're letting us know that you're short on time.

I hope you'll find something to enjoy and value in school, even if it's not all fun.

What I would give if I could go back to school with the knowledge I now have; if you have no education, then you can expect to go nowhere in life, unless you are very rich and if you are female(in that case contact Altario :evil:) if male, then you have no problems or you are extremely talented in some area of the arts, still you need education if you wish to go far in any area of life.  In my humble opinion.

right. Nanowrimo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node) starts tomorrow, i don't know if i mentioned that i've signed up this year for the first time. with deadlines and reading on top of that i highly doubt i'll be able to get on here, or write anything coherent if i do. (though i doubt that's much difference from usual) ;)
with that in mind i've asked Lili to puppet Grallen for me, which she very kindly agreed to do. (thans again!)
see you all in december. :grin:

You will be missed Grallen. I hope you succeed in whatever you do.

I'll be away until 24 November - a little trip to Madrid to see the paintings by Bosch, Goya and Picasso they've got there.

I hope Destiny will wake up from its slumber soon.  :undecided:

My dearest friends I will not be coming back to Caelereth for some time. I wish you all the best.

In deepest regards;

Capher.

I hope it is nothing serious, my friend.   :cry:

We shall all miss you deeply.  Not only for your writing and characters, but mostly for being a friend.

Come back as soon as you can.

thanks for a great deal of excellent rping, Capher, we'll miss you and always be pleased to see you back here. :heart: :heart: :heart:

Hmm.
This is not exactly a 'leave of absence,' but a 'mostly unavailable' notification. For the next three weeks,  in addition to holidays, I will be taking an intensive government course at college, and so will not be able to devote much time to my work(s) here.
Thank you for your patience.

I'll miss you too, Capher. Sunlight on your road, my friend.

Mallayn, good luck for your course, and thanks for letting everyone know. However, this thread is specifically for players in Destiny. But don't worry, you're not the first non-Destinarian to post here.

To avoid future misunderstandings, maybe we should rename this thread, say to: "Away, what a pity ... (The Destiny Absence Notification Thread)"?

Done.

And Capher... good luck with things. Hope you come back to us eventually.

My dear friends I am dropping by just to tell you all that I am alive and slowly but surely recovering from my problem which I do not wish to discuss in this forum. If you want to know please write to me at wrighter608@gmail.com   Thanks.

I'm afraid I'll have to be away for two weeks, hoping to be back after 12 April. I've got a work trip (boring) and a hiking trip to Cornwall (yay!) coming up.

Altario, I'm sorry to be letting the conversation hang in mid-air - but then, posting is not exactly frantic right now...

Good luck to all!

Lili

Take care Lili.  Come back soon, and have fun on your hike.

 I will be gone from the the 27th of July till after the tenth of August. I am going to California to sing in Allan, my son, and his bride to be, Becky's wedding. He believes he found the right person and so does she. They both waited upon God for their life-long mates and God answered both of their prayers. Praise God for His faithfulness and theirs 

Then we will have a mini vacation before heading back home.

have fun Capher!

I'll be away in Switzerland until 24 July. I shall have internet access, and probably won't be able to resist checking whether Destiny will wake up in my absence (;)), but as my journey is a busy work trip, it's not likely that I'll be able to post.

Have a good summer, all!

(Except those for whom it's currently winter.)

I'll be away on holiday until 24 August, with little or no internet connection. I'll be in Iceland, actually, and hope to get the chance to sit in a natural hot spring again. I'll be watching out for those monh-rums (http://www.santharia.com/bestiary/monh-rum_amphibians.htm) I learned about recently.

Please puppet Lili as necessary. Have a great August, everyone!

I am back!!! To answer some of your questions; yes, the wedding was beautiful, I sang, but started crying, yet still finished the song, San Diego, California was interesting place to visit. My son and his bride are still on their honeymoon. I have to unpack and do laundry...will post as soon as possible.

I'll be away 15-22 February, visiting my sister in Sweden. There'll be internet, but no time to post, as I will be busy ducking the snowballs my nephew intends to pelt me with.

I've hit a busy spell and probably won't be able to post before 2 June or so. Looking forward to reading, when I return, what the arsonist has to say ...

Summer started in London at precisely 10.45 this morning. The temperature was 14 Celsius until 10.44, then jumped to 25 Celsius. Really true.

Have a nice (pre-)summer, everyone!

I'll be away until 20 July or so. The plan is to visit a lava desert in Iceland's highland. I'll be thinking of Destiny when the sandstorms come.