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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 180515" data-attributes="member: 1025">Ok, we're back. Spent the week scrambling to catch up, but we're getting there. More posts from Bandeeto soon, but I asked him to pause long enough to let me comment on the last post--I've been so busy with my own thread (see link below) I haven't had time to check in here!Anyway, five things:1. Cadrienne loved to cast "speak with animals" and Piratecat hated roleplaying them. He did everything possible to keep from encouraging me to try to speak with stupid things.  The War Bulls were about the last time I tried it. As I recall, they had strikingly one track minds: "Wanna rut."Since I am, of course, completely incorrigible, this only served to encourage me to go to great efforts to speak with more intelligent things, like monsters, villians . . . Piratecat might have had an easier life if he'd been more interested in roleplaying sheep and cows, eh?2. The dress was magnificent. The really beautiful thing about it was that I drew a lovely picture of Cadrienne staring in awe at herself in a mirror, as if to say "Is that me?" and filed it away and more or less forgot about it. Years later, when Tao had a similar need for a dress and Cadrienne loaned it to her, Tao got the exact same look on her face when she tried it on. Us tough chicks who spend a lot of time covered in the blood of our enemies don't get a lot of opportunities to do the Cinderella routine. It was nice.3. Cadrienne was using Nolin to get up Arcade's nose. Make no mistake about it. She wanted Arcade to be jealous, and that's a fact. Oddly enough, she knew Nolin was a safe date at this point, despite all the warnings to the contrary. Nolin knew she was still carrying a torch for Arcade, and while he may not have minded deliberately provoking Arcade, he certainly wasn't going to try to put the moves on somebody that he knew wasn't genuinely attracted to him. Nolin did have some scruples.Even if they did revolve around his vanity more than his good manners. And Cadrienne was always pretty good at intuiting what makes people tick. Except Arcade, of course.4. I'm pretty sure the flirtation with Nolin did have some effect. I think it was at this point that the Big Blow Up occurred, which resulted in Nolin giving Arcade a major clue about Cadrienne, which resulted in Arcade at last proposing to Cadrienne.Yes, indeed, he really did. If it wasn't here, it was right around here, and of course, there's no mention of it in his journal whatsoever.He managed to phrase the proposal so badly, she had to refuse him.I can't remember how he put it, but the general jist was that he felt honor bound to propose to her since he had allowed her feelings to arrive at this state, and that he really could use someone to stay home and wash the labware for him.Things cooled off considerably between them at this point, as you can imagine.  And I began looking around for something else interesting for Cadrienne to be ambitious about. Woe.Much grief and woe before she finally got there. Hang in there kids, we'll get to it.5. It was probably the distant memory of how Arcade had finally gotten Cadrienne off his back that prompted me to think that Dylrath ought to propose to Tao (much, much later, and I relaly do hope we get as far as that story someday). Dylrath, of course, hadn't entered the party yet so there's no way he could have known about all this backstory and it was his own decision. No one advised him to do it. But Arcade was amazingly unsupportive when Tao accepted, and spent quite a while berating Dyrlath for trying this foolish stunt, which is kind of ironic, don'tcha think?Sadly, Dylrath was apparently unconvincing when he tried to make Tao think he was only proposing out of a sense of duty to her honor . . . or perhaps that didn't matter to her?</blockquote>

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