Entries are by date, starting at the earliest.

Damascus, version 1.3
I considered for quite a while before doing anything in lieu of creating someone brand-spanking (or brand-kissing, or, well, anything to do with Brand...) new. It strikes me as some perverse level of courtesy: if you're creating a game for...

Damascus: Templar [prequel 1]
Prince Gerard His Majesty's Ship: Balladeer Port Daisuki One Year before GAME START Daddy, The usual place, the usual letter. I'm skipping out of town, leaving a few purses lighter, and a few noses broken. No, I'm not in trouble...

Damascus: Image
This is a little more towards her "dressing up" towards the feminine side: she tends towards the masculine, and her gender is often confused by others. She likes it that way. She is an expert in the art of disguise,...

Ana - Prequel 10
Via Ranger Courier To: Damascus duGerard (Delivered by hand) Cousin: I am indeed intrigued by your offer to further my scholarly studies. I have been frustrated by the lack of source material I have so far been able to find....

Ana - Prequel 10-A (Damascus' Reply)
Via Ranger Courier To: Ana d’Drasil Forest Arden (Delivered by hand) Dearest Ana, Do not be alarmed by my sudden disappearance: I will be leaving in haste after the King's Council. My mother, Short Shiva, meets with my Uncle Mandor...

Lalage: Prequel Four
Y 2120 Random Via Royal Courier To: High-Inquisitor Damascus High Church of the Unicorn, Amber City Dear Damascus, You asked me some time ago to send you word of any odd matters or signs regarding the Unicorn religion that I...

Seda to Damascus
Damascus ~ When are you coming back? Don't you know how boring the people can get here? And they don't want to tell me a thing... and then they get upset when I attempt to figure it out for myself....

Ana - Prequel 10-B
Via Standard Courier To Damascus duGerard c/o the Razor Rose The FlameKeep Cousin! The materials you gave me have proven to be in impeccable condition. I could not have asked for better. They have given me new insight in my...

Ana - Prequel 12
Via Stormfalcon To: Damascus duGerard Oh my Cousin: I have hit a snag we did not think of. Mother's Father has claimed me as his bloodkin, and is preparing my wedding to some ancient snot-nosed lord even as I write...

Random's Memoirs (II)
Wherein King Random suggests that a more traditional rescue besides paying the dowry for Ana d'Drasil would have been more appropriate for Damascus.

The Window: Damascus and Seda
Wherein Damascus' trip to Chaska's (daughter of Fiona) birthday party provides Seda with a means to escape.

Ana - Prequel 14
Via Forest Courier To: Damascus duGerard c/o Amber Palace My Dear Cousin, Well. You did try and warn me. But when I received an invitation from my maternal Grandfather, I thought I was being Honored, not Abducted. Such a clever...

Damascus: Inquisitor [prequel 2]
Wherein 9 of about a dozen accused at the Council of Flamekeep are tried and found guilty, and Damascus breaks the news about Ana becoming Gerard's daughter-in-law gently. Really.

(prequel 10) Married?
You got married without asking me to be there?

Damascus: Heresy [prequel 3]
Wherein Damascus is still missing, but at least a letter comes to Ana from the priests.

Damascus: Confessions [prequel 4]
Wherein a mysterious message said to be from Llewella, appears on an trinket left in the black cobwebs of Lusus' old home. It is unknown whether or not Damascus ever received it.

The Hermit Crab Emerges
22 months before game start Via Ana's Forest Courier Damascus ~ I had fun at the party. It was good to get away for a few days, but I did start to get homesick rather quick. I know everyone thinks...

My Hero
10 months before game start Via Ana's Forest Courier Damascus ~ Thanks for saving my sister. Oh, and congratulations. My friends and I have a huge bridal shower planned for the both of you next time you're in the wood!...

Ana - Prequel 18
4/25/02: modified this slightly in the light of morning - removed specific references. Letter left with Shamila at The Razor Rose To: D Cat: You do not answer my E-trump messages. I am listening, listening… to the wind, to the...

Mommy...
One month before game start Mum ~ I asked Ana not to tell you about this, and now here I am doing it. I'm sad to discover I'm quite heartbroken and regretful and wishing I could turn back time. I...

Damascus: Hierophant [prequel 5]
Wherein Damascus returns, bruised, bloody, cold, but with news of Merlin's death, and the identities of some behind the coup in Chaos. She suggests convening the Council for War, but the request is denied.

Ana - prequel 23
Letter found on the bedstand in Damascus' room after the Council Meeting, one month prior to game start Cat: The Horned One Calls me. In the full of the Moon, the Dance is beginning, the May to be entered. I...

Ana - prequel 24
My Kitah: Don't be angry. I know much more now. I know who I am.

Damascus: Under the Rose [prequel 6]
27 Days before Game Start "Short Shiva" Black Seeker Courier Mom, I've put off telling you about this for a while, and not just because I know Daddy will have mentioned it, but because we promised each other a...

Damascus: Communion [prequel 7]
27 Days before Game Start Ana d'Drasil Left with the Duchess Oisen's InterCastle Messenger Corps Ana, I know better than to think you would ever be a victim of your nature. You are, instead, given responsibilities by your people...

Damascus Communion (Pre 7 - Ana's Reply)
Ana gives a special hawk to Damascus

The View from the Tower
I'm not sleeping tonight. I haven't had a spread in weeks that didn't include the Tower and the Ten of Swords.

Ana - prequel 26
Do you think I call you my Kitah lightly? ‘Beloved' is the closest this language can come. Kitah.

Lalage: Love Will Tear Us Apart (1)
delivered by a page into Damascus' hand approximately twenty-four hours after Random's death Damascus, I thought I was cried out, but I was wrong. I'm committing this to paper because I need to order my thoughts a little, and...

Damascus: Ascetics [prequel 8]
Twenty-Five Days before Game Start via Black Seeker Courier Prince Ector of Sierra, I've kept you updated as I can. I'm sure Tomas has told you some of what's happening, but I need Aurian to come home, and since...

Damascus: Saints [prequel 9]
Twenty Days before Game Start via Ana's Gift Ana, The City of Five Spires is a beautiful place. I think you would love it here as much as I do. Around each spire is a flowering vine, and there...

Ana - Time for a Tie-In
The eBand mystery continues. "Found this in a corner at Dashingways. I am certain it is yours."

Ana - rescue report
We found him.

Higher Initiations
Day Three left in Fiona's rooms in Flamekeep Hall Fi -- With bitterness do we regard our mad brother's memory. We often do not recognize how much he was a catalyst for positive change. "You were mad and evil,...

Damascus: Hierarchy
Day Two Prince Gerard, sent by Messenger Daddy, I spent last night with Ana and Lalage, and we sat for a while at the harbor, looking into the strange depths of Rebma, and out at the darkness, and up...

Damascus: Pagan
Day Four via Black Seeker Courier To Her Grace, Genevieve Chanicut Genevieve, Memories of you still inflame my senses. I remember the scent you wear, and how it was mixed with our sweat and the furs on your bed....

Damascus: Crusade
Day Eight via Ana's Gift Anankestrel, That Lusus is alive is so much happiness that I can almost overlook that he is not well. That he is not well only gives me great concern. I have only this advice:...

Damascus: Journeys (Journal 1)
Day Ten (UNDELIVERED MESSAGE: JOURNAL) Dear Aurian, I do not know if this journal will ever make it to you, but as I pried the maps out of your cold, sleeping hands, I figured I owed you some knowledge...

Ana - Cryptic
All has been arranged.

Ana - A Plea for Words
I find I need someone to confide in, and you seem the likeliest to understand. I cannot tell you how glad I am we have finally met. Your acceptance means much to me.

Gerard's Reply
Gerard says, "When your course intercepts Damascus, raise the red flag. She has to be broadsided."

Damascus: Laude
Day Twelve Delivered by Black Seeker Courier To Her Imperial Majesty, Queen Neoma, The gentleman who delivers this message (Sir Ysaac of Wilshire) is an off-side cousin of mine through my mother's side. He will be taking a permanent position...

The Unkindness
They were all around me, perched everywhere in my study, all looking at me. As if they are there even when I am awake, and but await my sleep that they can see me. For several moments, they watched me as I watched them. Then one made a noise. Not a noise as you'd expect from a bird. Not a real sound. Not one I can describe well in real terms. It was...a declaration of war, I think.

Damascus: Cant
Day Fourteen by Ana's Gift Dearest Ana, I don't know what to say. I have to talk to somebody...so I find myself writing you where I really shouldn't. Don't be worried. I'm safe. I'm sound. I'm sane. You're writing...

Ayes and Vision
You will be pleased to hear that Ninevel is working out quite nicely. It has been just over a week here, and I have been able to sleep several times, with no sign of the birds. Oh, and there's been a takeover.

Damascus: the Stake
Day Twenty Letter from Hendrake Hunting Zone Cabin #34. Ana, There are a lot of spiders here. I wonder if they're trying to tell me something. I see them twisting, building webs, but not the kinds of webs that...

Damascus: Altars
Day Twenty Five Message sent by Black Seeker, not received Chaska, "Answers come in dreams and portents," you said. I have never believed, but I also have never forgotten. I remembered the name Baron Eidolos. He was indicted as...

Damascus: Disciples
Day Twenty-Six (:: Tynan :: TRANSMIT $CODECHANGE) Your father says, "Not Guilty." He changed my broken eBand. He says it works on a different frequency, and that when I send my message, like a virus, it will change yours,...

Ana - A Meeting With The Regent
Ana delivers the box from Damascus to Neoma.

Ana - Eband Anomaly, Notifying Tynan
It bore a rather disturbing message, which at the time I thought was yet another volley in the prank wars that Damasus and Lusus love to wage.

Damascus: Gallows
I'm not strong enough to look around the Pit. I will wait and gather my strength and if I cannot, I am going to Flamekeep and resting there. Dyan thinks I've been marked by something that makes Chaos uncomfortable for me. That some other power has plans for me. Of course it does. I think I understand now.

Ana - News
Via Ana?s Gift Day Twenty-eight Damscus. I felt the fire. I felt it. The forests burning. I cannot speak to the trees. I fear what news they may carry. You have probably not heard of what is occurring here....

Ana - Can't Go Home Again
Via Forest Courier Day Twenty-eight Seda ? I fear I cannot come home. Damascus has contacted me. The forests are burning, where she is. She seems threatened, surrounded. I can not go to her. She forbade me. Seda ?...

Ana - You Might Want to Know
Yer lil' sweetheart found some kind of trouble here. She wound up in the drink with a nasty burn down her backside. I picked her up and I'm takin her to Julian.

Ana - Heart of Fire
I thought I was going to try the Tir, that night. I know it is forbidden, but I thought to try a fly-over. This month, while I still can. I never got as far as the stair.

Ana - Flights of Dream
Kitah, I am heavy with these, your memories, they keep me company in the dark hours. I will not be flying again soon. I am grounded.

Playpen Pals
Perhaps it will make sense to Ana, and she can explain it when we find her.

Ana - Foaming
There are things in your memory that you don't understand.
How being and not-being intertwine.
How negation is a positive force.
I did not know you were such a philosopher.

Damascus: Collar
Where is Lalage? There are things with horns seeking her. Things with horns and things with sharp teeth.

Barking Mad
Mysterious Messages and mumblety pegs?

Damascus: Pleas
Damascus' Knight eludes to attempts on the Queen's life, as well as what his own contacts have been saying.

Thrones of Darkness
King of the Darkness, Behind the Flame. Is he asking for help or for someone to blame?

Damascus: Pauvres Chevaliers
To Ana from Damascus: The difference between the skittering of feathers and the solid intent of wings?

Damascus: Excommunicate
I cannot give you redemption, Luke. I cannot even save myself.

It's Dark In Here
To... Anyone Day 368 --left on the ledge of a prison window and picked up by a bird There is a thin shaft of sunlight that peeks from the bars of this cage. I keep telling myself they cannot keep...