• Significant Positive Acquaintances: Characters

• Characters WAS something significant (positive OR negavitve), but they are now dead/left the pack or board/are otherwise no longer in contact with character.

September - December

Oleander arrives in new lands and begins to explore as much as possible, surveying places, getting into wildling trouble, and learning about the packs. She realizes she needs to establish herself, and so she stakes out a claim in Amherst for her salon, which she calls the Hidden Pearl, and begins taking patrons there. After meeting what seems to be a fellow loner, Osoa (Níndari, disguised), and eventually exploring Salsola's exclusive Market together, Oleander joins Salsola officially.

Threads

1. [M] Fashioning Your Self Escape
   Oleander first finds herself in these strange lands and is greeted by a bewitched but helpful stranger, Dambala (Tattersall Valentine, disguised).
2. If my velocity starts to make you sweat, then just don't let go
   Engaged in tumbling practice, Oleander finds Liam del Morte in meditation, and decides to give his methods a try as well.
3. the enormous absence of form that is sleep
   While the beautiful Ingvildr Knight is napping, Oleander comes upon her, waking her gently, and they exchange pleasantries before they also discuss work and the packs and bands most important to these new lands.
4. [M] where the dirt and water collide
   In her wanderings, Oleander meets a charming cowboy who serenades her with a song.
5. [M] Beautiful Thing, Is it Only Serotonin?
   After enjoying a lakeside respite, Oleander meets and converses with a charming gentleman named Gossamer and his servant, aptly named Obedience.
6. [M] All Style Before Content
   On a scouting trip in Amherst, Oleander is looking for a new place to set up shop where she is found by Osoa (Níndari, disguised), who tells Oleander more about the mysterious pack called Salsola, and they make loose plans to visit its marketplace together.
7. I Listen to the Music, Beautiful Music
   Contemplating her options and next moves, Oleander looks out over Starfall alone.
8. [M] Moonbeams Running in the Sky
   While she's enjoying a bath freshening her fur, and considering what to do with her freedom, Asphodel (Pasha Kozlov, disguised) finds her. He seems very interested in the services she has to offer in future, possibly in exchange for wound care products.
9. Destroying Angel
   Oleander finds the feisty Bloom Bríddn assembling traps as she continues to survey the lands.
10. [M] To Watch the Ghost Inside You Come Awake
    Oleander has an assignation with one of her old patrons from the Court of Pearls and begins to accumulate a bit of wealth with which she might begin to move forward.
11. Earthbound Coming Down
    Still deciding on where she will come to land to begin her new Salon, Oleander is met by the beautiful but timid Felicity (Lexus, disguised).
12. to probe oneself is to recognise that one is incomplete
    Finding herself in Starhaven, Oleander seeks Ingvildr, looking to reconnect and engage the charming huntress again.
13. [M] The grace of an elephant.
    Seeking rambunctious trouble in the dark, Oleander instead stumbles upon a cat who has just given birth, and her intrepid caretaker, Erskine Hanzi.
14. [M] Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice
    Oleander has an assignation with another of her patrons from the Court of Pearls, and is yet again rewarded for her strenuous efforts.
15. the great responsibility of solitude
    At Starhaven, Oleander greets a kind-looking stranger.
16. [M] Collapsing Void
    Hearing a scuffle in the forest, Oleander unthinkingly jumps in to help even the odds, and only after feels concern for the danger her would-be ally may pose to her.
17. old American art
    Oleander is awoken from a forest nap by two confrontational but amusing traders, and Oleander exchanges directions for a a future favor.
18. Pink Roses
    Visiting Starhaven, Oleander runs into an attractive, charming bard, Rohan Heartsong, and finds herself enamored.
19. [M] And My Life is Such a Ball
    As she continues to build her new clientele, Oleander takes an unexpected assignation with Sam (Mogis Meloy, disguised).
20. [M] The Shining of You That Just Breaks Me in Two
    Oleander meets another former patron and receives payment for services.
21. [M] If You're Asking, Well, I've Just Started on My Breakdown
    Having begun to receive consistent business at the Hidden Pearl, as she has taken to calling her Salon, she is confronted by the angry wife of a former patron, and offers some unexpected advise to heal her relationship with her spouse.
22. the sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
    Osoa (Níndari, disguised) once again calls upon Oleander, having heard rumors of her success, and they return to successfully be granted admission to Salsola's market. Here, Níndari reveals herself, and Oleander does as well. Oleander is invited to become part of Salsola.
23. [M] Sometimes I Feel Like a Ghost in Chains
    Oleander takes an assignation with a familiar patron, of whom she is quite fond, and shares some of her own preferences and proclivities with in quiet conversation.
24. twice as bright, half as long
    After their successful visit to the Salsola's market, Oleander is invited to join Salsola, and she pledges herself to the Thistle Kingdom's crown.
25. Hey, baby, won't you look my way?
    While perusing the Thistle Market as a new Salsolan, she strikes up a conversation with Naomi Stryder, a brusque but polite mercenary.
26. [M] We Perform the Ornate
    To make herself useful as a new Associate to Salsola, Oleander labors in the storage, organizing things, and is assessed and appraised herself by the lovely Angora Valentine.
27. You're the Reason I Cannot Forget this Season
    Deciding to practice her tumbling in the arena, Oleander is met by Kamari Kaiser, who has some questions for the new Associate.
28. And Your Heart's Not In Line
    While tidying up the Shrine, Oleander encounters Silas, and the two discuss their similar backgrounds.
29. [M] She Breaks Her Horses with Strange Distant Voices
    As she continues finding ways to help and fit in, Oleander assists Eris with their traps. The two end up discussing her occupation as a courtesan, and Oleander details some options for intimacy coaching with Eris, should they ever be desired, in pursuit of her condivisore job.
30. There's a Hole in the Earth
    After an assignation, Oleander finders her sponsor, Níndari, in her foyer, with some of the goods she had hidden away. Níndari urges Oleander to take more care, and more security measures.
31. [M] How Am I Gonna Know I'm Letting You Down?
    While reading a romance novel in the library, Oleander has a brush-up with Skadi that turns quickly and unexpectedly heated.
32. I'll See You Later in the Moonlight
    Now a Salsolan herself, Oleander meets Tattersall again, but she stokes his ire in knowing his name before his introduction. After a tense moment, he helps her find a space to stay in Millstone Village.

January - March

As Oleander rises in the ranks, she takes on new responsibilities as mercante, scenografa, and condivisore. She also faces new challenges: she is attacked at the Hidden Pearl and is rescued by Tweed, an event that entangles the two closer together, both in their goals and at least in Oleander's heart. Oleander also begins to sow seeds for her future, throwing more of her efforts into mercantile and diplomatic concerns.

Threads

33. [M] Blood on the side of the mountain
    Oleander decides to attend Salsola's Saturnalia Banquet, and is ill-equipped to withstand the prying eyes of her peers as opposed to those of her patrons.
34. [M] Until the Clouds Spin their Silk
    At the Saturnalia banquet, Oleander is feeling tense and uncertain of how to navigate hierarchical peerdom, having always been somewhat outside of it as a courtesan, and finds comfort in Mogis.
35. Blossoms in spring
    To keep their wardrobes fresh and to stay sharp as Merchant Faction hopefuls, Farron Belgrave and Oleander have a clothing swap.
36. Arrows of Emeralds
    Farron and Oleander embark on a caper to retrieve a special item for a wedding gift, employing their cleverest manipulations in pursuit of her mercante job.
37. Lead Our Woes Asunder
    In an effort to illustrate her value, Oleander helps to prepare the feast hall for Saturnalia in pursuit of her scenografa job.
38. [M] You Be the Moon, I'll Be the Earth
    Intending to bathe herself in Lake Ligeia, Oleander hears the distressed sounds of a fellow packmate, Sabriel Kali, and offers to listen to her woes.
39. Beholden to the Dust that Adheres
    Determined to begin ingratiating herself to the local merchants, Oleander seeks out Mirte Haumann, who puts Oleander through her paces, testing her mercantile eye.
40. [M] I Rest Between the Echoing
    While passing through Amherst, Kamari becomes curious about the Hidden Pearl, unaware of what it is. After some gentle subterfuge, Oleander explains to the Emissary what her establishment is and the kinds of services she provides there in pursuit of her condivisore job.
41. [M] Picture this
    Returning to the library, Oleander encounters one of its regular denizens, Sol Valentine, and they engage in banter and friendly flirtation.
42. Under stars and smoke
    Oleander attends Arius and Yuki's wedding.
43. strider
    Oleander incidentally comes upon Tweed Valentine and his companion, Nymeria, as they make plans to go to the War Room; Oleander tags along, and youthful mischief ensues.
44. [M] drunk and silly
    Breaking away from the Saturnalia banquet, Oleander finds herself alone again with Skadi Eternity, who seems agitated by the experience as well, though perhaps for different reasons.
45. a knife in the dark
    Feeling the pull of the moon, Tweed and Oleander encounter one another in secui and lupus forms, respectively, and have a nighttime adventure.
46. flight to the ford
    Tweed and Oleander make plans to head to Starhaven's Carnival, during which she assesses and bests a merchant in a trade in pursuit of her mercante job.
47. Pretty Little Pillows on Floral Couches
    In preparation for winter season, Oleander refreshes the salon's decor in an appropriate theme.
48. Every step forward was a fall to your demise
    While she is harvesting pine in pursuit of her profumiere job, Oleander bumps into Deirdra de le Ulrich and offers her help; Deirdra offers Oleander an important piece of advise in turn.
49. Testing, Tasting
    Merchant Apprentice Lexus de le Thorne puts some of her alcoholic wares out to taste at Saturnalia, and Oleander politely partakes.
50. [M] Cosmopolitan Blood Loss
    Oleander is attacked in her establishment; Tweed is passing by and helps to save her. Shaken but alive, the two return to Salsola.
51. In the Morning Light, Realize My Love is Gone
    In the wake of the attack at the Hidden Pearl, Oleander, feeling more confident in the trajectory her life should take, seeks Lexus to make her intentions known to the Merchant Apprentice.
52. Bring Me Out in the Light
    Tired, confused, and distraught, Oleander is approached by Sol, who brings her something nice to cheer her up.
53. a journey in the dark
    Oleander and Tweed, both wounded and fearful, make their way back to Salsola in the dark, and make a pact to help one another, with him serving as a bodyguard, and her teaching him courtly manners and the finer points of observation and social maneuvering.
54. Always the Same Old Taste, Just New Injury
    Further illustrating her dedication to the Merchant Faction, Oleander once again rearranges the Storage, and is confronted by Eris, who asks Oleander how they can help as well as who injured her.
55. You Choose Heaven Over the Earth and Me
    Her wounds closed and mending, her mind somewhat clearer, Oleander puts her mercantile skills to use, trading for a new cloak for Tweed to replace the one that was ruined when he saved her.
56. I Choose Your Hand to Pull from the Mire I’ve Sank In
    Confused and uncertain, Oleander seeks Mogis's counsel.
57. Heartstrings Recoil, Then Coil Tight
    Oleander checks in about her healing progress with Sanctus Apprentice Anders Holt, who helped tend her wounds initially.
58. the galactic tide
    Oleander first meets Polaris Eternity, Salsola's princess, in the library while Polaris is working on a map; Polaris asks Oleander many questions about her occupation, while Oleander worries over diplomacy, and alludes to her interest in the politics and power of maps.
59. Permanent Radiant
    After the violent incident at the Hidden Pearl, Oleander requests Mirte's help in redesigning it again, not only as her salon, but also as a space to host merchants, facilitate trade, and conduct diplomacy. Soon after, she pledges herself to the Merchant Faction.
60. lothlórien
    Exploring the freshness of spring, Oleander accidentally comes upon Tweed Valentine picking flowers. She shares her secret heart with him, but the horse Pegamento interrupts Tweed's response.
61. Lost in Skies of Powdered Gold
    Oleander seeks Deirdra to see whether she'll be able to get some scented pine products, but instead finds the woman fragile, and strangely beautiful in a way Oleander can't quite put her finger on.
62. stirring dull roots with spring rain
    Bryagh Revlis, Salsola's prince, escapes the rain in Springhill Cemetery's chapel, and Oleander finds herself doing the same.
63. All in a day's work.
    Called by a mysterious force to dance into the Blackwoods, Oleander meets Angora there, and the Sanctus Apprentice shares her mystical wisdom with the courtesan.
64. Gets Me to the Church On Time
    After a long hiatus from taking patrons, and now with Tweed serving as guard, Oleander returns to work at the Hidden Pearl for the first time since she was attacked.
65. Sunday Always Comes Too Late
    As part of her efforts to improve Tweed's courtly graces, Oleander hosts a Merchant Faction event, holding a tea with the help of her friend, Farron, and also invites Merchant Pledge Mirte.