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August


It's easy to fool people when they're already fooling themselves.


Campaign & Party

Played by
Merganen
Thu 21st Sep 2023 03:09

Dear Eversong.

by August

Dear Eversong…
 
This is very weird. For the first time in… a long time, I feel like I’m actually about to fix something I broke. Something that I, Bertrand, broke, and something that me, August, has been trying to fix for years. Something that, somehow, you saw in me all those months ago when the group met you and Tear.
 
That reading you gave me, the cards you drew… I am not someone who believes in fate; I believe that we all have the capacity to change our fates if we give enough of ourselves to the cause.
 
But somehow you saw something in me that I’d tried to keep buried and hidden from the world because it was easier to bury it and think it dead…
 
This life hasn’t been easy for me. Bertrand lived a hard life without anyone beside him, living in a world so dark and cold, relying on tricks and illusions to get him by. And when a sun finally came into his life and illuminated his world for a few years, it was snatched away and the cold overwhelmed him.
 
Then August was born and he lied and thieved and stole his way across the continent to a tiny village and met a group in the eastern realms that, for all intents and purposes, neither Bertrand nor August would’ve given a second thought.
 
But somehow… Somehow they got through to me. The me who would always say “it’s easy to trick the world when it’s fooling itself” when none of the "me"-s could believe the things he was seeing. Neither Bertrand nor August, Beck, Draken, Moralyre - none of us, none of me, could have believed that this group of people genuinely cared for me.
 
I don’t know how you did it, and whether it was accidental or not, but even though I don’t believe in the fates… This group of ours is helping me in ways that I couldn’t have done by myself. And I see that now, and I see that you and the cards saw it back then too, so.
 
Thank you, Eversong. I hope you and Tear are well. I hope we all get the chance to sit down one day again once this is all over.
 
And hopefully after this I can pull off one more trick.
 
 
Betrand Crevier

August's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

  1. Interesting Day.
    21 May 2021 02:15:29
  2. How much?
    28 May 2021 03:51:23
  3. These People.
    04 Jun 2021 05:41:05
  4. Rough Start.
    12 Jun 2021 12:26:13
  5. A Slogan™.
    03 Jul 2021 05:43:34
  6. Hollow Mirror.
    13 Jul 2021 03:33:02
  7. Impossible Thoughts.
    20 Jul 2021 03:55:29
  8. The Dream.
    30 Jul 2021 11:06:35
  9. Your Pride.
    30 Jul 2021 11:10:31
  10. How Unfortunate.
    31 Jul 2021 01:05:53
  11. A Dream?
    06 Aug 2021 05:41:19
  12. Lone Relative.
    24 Aug 2021 05:32:13
  13. Above All.
    25 Sep 2021 05:18:16
  14. Pondering Moment.
    06 Nov 2021 07:15:53
  15. Unforgettable Meal.
    01 Jan 2022 12:26:18
  16. Endless Cycle.
    01 Jan 2022 12:31:18
  17. Window Side.
    01 Jan 2022 12:32:13
  18. New Intentions.
    27 Jan 2022 01:44:14
  19. Faded Girl.
    08 Feb 2022 02:46:23
  20. Fall Off.
    26 Feb 2022 02:40:57
  21. Forever Regret.
    11 Mar 2022 08:58:39
  22. Like me.
    26 Mar 2022 12:56:41
  23. Time Given.
    02 Apr 2022 02:11:30
  24. Trust One.
    30 Apr 2022 12:13:17
  25. Gods-Sent.
    03 Jun 2022 03:32:20
  26. Question Time.
    03 Jun 2022 08:55:58
  27. Dangerous Game.
    22 Oct 2022 12:00:10
  28. But Not.
    03 Nov 2022 05:46:12
  29. Cold Stop.
    05 Nov 2022 12:51:16
  30. What Home?
    11 Feb 2023 01:46:40
  31. One Word.
    15 Jul 2023 12:34:57
  32. Dear Eversong.
    21 Sep 2023 03:09:09

The major events and journals in August's history, from the beginning to today.

Interesting Day

What an interesting, interesting day. Despite this being quite a small town, by their own admission, Quickwater has already graced me with two things I genuinely hadn’t ever thought I would experience, and I honestly could not tell you, between a nak...

02:14 pm - 21.05.2021

How much.

“How much is a performance worth?” I asked this to a group of fire-lit caravan travelers staying on the side of the road underneath their canopy for the rain. As it was pouring down much harder than I had expected and I was looking to keep warm for...

03:50 pm - 28.05.2021

These People.

Ahh.... What to make of these folks, hmm? They're interesting, to be sure. Best to organize my thoughts about them somewhere; ensure I can keep a steady head about this whole thing we appear to have going right now. Adria; powerful, impressive, and str...

05:41 pm - 04.06.2021

Rough Start.

Well… Barring some glaring mistakes, I suppose I cannot call this mission anything but a success, even if it could have gone a lot smoother. Considering how much noise and fuss we made, it was only a matter of time before the guards came, and we surely ...

03:39 pm - 11.06.2021

Hollow Mirror

Another day of travelling, another day full of what most would see with eyes of joy; from children running after one another in the street playing a new game unknown to adults, to a tavern filled with voices and songs, enjoying the company after a long da...

04:22 am - 23.06.2021

A Slogan™.

"The change you need. The voice you deserve."...

05:43 am - 03.07.2021

Impossible Thoughts.

The perfect date… I suppose just this once I can indulge myself in thinking of impossibilities. A thought experiment, perhaps. Firstly, wherever we are, I suppose we would try and find the first local area where artists of many varieties might ...

03:55 am - 20.07.2021

The Dream

(Prompt from one-shot :D) A different time. A setting sun. Clouds rushing past, the excitement of falling in control, power underneath my feet. Laughter just barely audible over the rushing wind. A steep incline, gravity fighting back. Stre...

03:56 am - 20.07.2021

Your Pride.

[spoilers]...

11:10 pm - 30.07.2021

How Unfortunate.

Unfortunate. That is categorically the only word to describe what happened today. I truly wish that our decisions as a group had been more… Prompt. When I went into the Brew’s home I was annoyed by the fact that the control was out of our hands;...

01:05 am - 31.07.2021

A Dream?

Quickwater, day of the election. All of this is familiar. A memory. But why? Large crowds of people move through the markets. Celebrations are being had as town criers are drowned out by the sounds of laughter and life. Food and drink is being passe...

05:41 pm - 06.08.2021

Lone Relative.

The room would always smell of oils and metals when my father was in the throes of his work. Appraisals kept him busy, and when his health allowed him to get out of his cot he would fall into the job. You could tell that for all that it had done to him...

05:32 pm - 24.08.2021

Above All.

Again I find myself here, on the roads of an empire that confines and bounds. For all the endless creativity that lies in the depths of minds of the goodfolk I’ve met so far, this empire restricts and binds its peoples to an unusual set of traditions an...

05:18 am - 25.09.2021

Window Side

[spoilers :)]...

01:24 am - 08.10.2021

Pondering Moment.

Finally a moment’s rest after a crazy couple... Hours? Days? Weeks? I suppose it doesn’t really matter - a moment’s rest is none-the-less a time to quiet the thoughts, and this run of events definitely has given me much to ponder. Findi...

07:15 pm - 06.11.2021

Unforgettable Meal.

Thinking about what I would consider my "favourite meal", I suppose that could be interpreted in two ways. If supposed to prompt a memory of the best meal I’ve ever had, I can think of none other than the one I had at the Champ de Ciel - the first time ...

12:26 am - 01.01.2022

Endless Cycle.

Magic unleashed, “friends” around. Education in colours abound. Learned folks in stained-glass towers, Laboured duties left to ours. Manicured streets they walk, in hurry; Living on high, with those deemed worthy. Paltry thoughts for the lesse...

12:31 am - 01.01.2022

New Intentions.

Well. It appears that when they say “you reap what you sow”, that is not limited to only negative outcomes. Who knew? In exploring the city today, on the lookout information, we came across an arena where combative ventures take place. The firs...

01:44 am - 27.01.2022

Faded Girl.

That book. That one book that I was enchanted with as a kid. The stories it used to have inside of the world beyond. The story of the mantis and her knight; the wild preacher howling to the moon. The story of the cookies that would come alive. The s...

02:46 am - 08.02.2022

Fall Off.

A dash across the street, two turns to the right and then left; I did everything right and still that old man followed me. How was I to know that the cloak was covering someone? Few other people sleep out here at night, given the sheer number of derelict ...

02:40 am - 26.02.2022

Forever Regret.

[spoilers :)]...

08:58 pm - 11.03.2022

Like me.

Romance has never really been something at the forefront of my mind. Sure, I suppose if I were to think about it, I’ve definitely been through what a young mind might have considered a heartbreak, and in many ways that deeply affected me and continues t...

12:56 am - 26.03.2022

Time Given.

It is hard, growing up with nothing, to be the one who gives; almost all pennies earned go towards just making rent, and any leftovers for food. You shirk off any friends you’re lucky to have for a few months when they invite you to eat out because you ...

02:11 am - 02.04.2022

Trust One.

Xerrakir. A thankful beacon of trustworthiness in this group, which is surprising considering he hails from a place of pure chaos by his own admission. Beneath the surface of it all, his motives do seem genuine, even if some of his opinions are misguid...

12:13 am - 30.04.2022

Gods-Sent.

Oh, Rin. This one is going to be trouble, I can already tell after just a few hours with him. I’m not sure if it’s the suspiciously honest answers he gives to the questions we’ve been asking of him or what, but the man is definitely going to ...

03:32 am - 03.06.2022

Question Time.

(Prompt: What do we, the player, want to ask about/to a character?) So I guess this is from the player’s perspective this time? Idk man LMAO It's hard to limit but here we go. For Issac, What is it about the fates that makes a man of science ...

08:55 pm - 03.06.2022

Dangerous Game.

Damn. DAMN. I should have known that forming relationships with any other form would prove to be a thorn in my side. Why did I decide, after such [i]careful[/i] planning, to do something like that? I... ... Well. It's happened now. Some of it's o...

12:00 am - 22.10.2022

But Not.

Love. What even is that? How do you… Define it? Is it the feeling of watching someone beautiful walk down the street at a picturesque moment? Of a wink; a flirt; a night gone? Surely not… That sounds like lust, more like. Definitely, actually...

05:46 pm - 03.11.2022

Cold Stop.

Three moons in the sky. Rain… Maybe? It’s cold on my skin. Rushing wind. Clouds below me; water above me. I’m… Falling? I’m falling as fast as the rain. But the ocean hasn’t moved? I feel the fall, but everything’s s...

12:51 am - 05.11.2022

What Home?

Home… Hah. Home? An empty wooden room of broken floorboards, a stale pillow, dusty alchemic instruments… Home? A small house of love and light, full of laughter, a fireplace; small but protected from the world. Home? … Someone....

01:45 am - 11.02.2023

The list of amazing people following the adventures of August.

Played by
Merganen