Blackmoon Celebration

[travelagency]

Who: Misc
What: Blackmoon
When: M6 D14 (July 10th) - M6 D17 (July 13th)
Where: All around the resort and village
Notes & Warnings: Up to players to put in subjects

OOC: This is a log post for the celebration for general mingling during the celebration (log and network posts are also still very welcome). Just tag into a starter and ask questions if anything is unclear.

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[likeaswift]

[In the Circus, they'd call Niko's sort a scalphunter.]

Forgive me—your English is quite good, you know. Ostensible is—a thing that appears to be, but is not—or an idea that has been constructed to define a thing but which is not truly accurate.

[vengeance_driven]

Oh, thank you. I learned when I was a teenager, but I didn't have much reason to use it until I was in the Merchant Navy. I'm better at Russian.

[He considers the word.]

I think that is a good word for most of the world, I think. A lot of it appears to be one thing, a better thing, but is something a lot different. Do you think it's better that way? That it would bother people more if more people knew how bad things could be, how bad people could be, that it would hurt them more than help them? As irritated as I get with people being blind to the state of their lives, the conditions that everyone lives in, not just one life, I also think it would break many of them to know the truth.

[likeaswift]

There is scarcely a man born who does not need an illusion to survive.

[The last illusion of the illusionless man, Karla said of Ann to Haydon. And now Smiley had sacrificed even that, in the service of—what? Another illusion—that if he finally beat Karla, he would find peace?

He's brooding. He's got to stop that. He shakes his head, as if in bemusement, and sips his tea.]

There was a writer called Oscar Wilde—he was Irish, but lived much of his life in England. He's supposed to have said of the liquor absinthe that after the first glass, you see things as you wish they were; after the second, you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

[vengeance_driven]

I have an Irish American friend, and I know of absinthe. Judging both those things? This makes perfect sense.

[It makes him sadly think of Kate, though. He hasn't heard from Packie since his sister's death. But he misses him.]

Not a good man, but a good friend. Sometimes the latter is most important.