JANUARY 2017 The winter season brings a slowdown to pack life, and, when not training, Teagan focuses her attentions on strengthing her relationship with her falcon, Agrona, and horse, Apollo.
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- Follow the stars to our destiny (01 Jan)
Casa di Cavalieri borders, with Lorenzo Knight. Teagan goes on a patrol with her great uncle Lorenzo.
- A Brighter Future (03 Jan)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Casa di Cavalieri. A Mentor Ceremony is held for Arlen, Myra, Remus, Aldora, Rohan, and Sian.
- people talk to me, and all the voices just burn holes (09 Jan)
Fort Kingsbury, with Lyris Stryder. Teagan explains to her mother how she has been training Agrona.
- Aviaria co-rank challenge
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- Oh, it's you again (Jan)
Dampwoods, with Bayani Grimm (Blue). A thief visits Teagan's campsite while she's hunting, and is accosted by Agrona. Teagan returns back in time to stop the fighting, and discovers the would-be thief to be Blue.
- [M] Hold me as I fall apart (11 Jan)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Indi Knight. Indi turns to drinking in an attempt to rid herself of the memories of Teagan's near death experience.
- Sleep with one eye open (27 Jan)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Indi Knight, Arlen Stryder, Myra Garcia, Remus Knight. Indi plays a prank on Teagan with the help of their younger siblings.
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APRIL 2017 Things take a depressing turn when Teagans’ great uncle, Lorenzo Knight, passes away in February. Teagan carries on with a stiff upper lip, however, she also closes herself off to others while doing so. When the pack is hit by a strange illness in the warm and wet spring months, Teagan tries to bury herself in solo training and pack duties to distract herself.
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- Sorrows and Woes (13 Apr)
Fort Kingsbury (Family home), with Myra Garcia. When Myra falls ill, her kitten companion fetches Teagan.
- most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs (21 Apr)
Fort Kingsbury (Family home), with Casa di Cavalieri. Labor Head Lyris calls the pack to announce that their Lune has fallen ill and warns the pack of a potential outbreak.
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- Paying a Visit (25 Apr)
Cour des Miracles borders, with Arlen Stryder, Acacia. Wanting to check up on their closest neighbor, Cour des Miracles, is fairing, Teagan accompanies her brother, Arlen, to their borders.
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MAY 2017 Teagan is demoted to Second Cadet as a result of her largely distancing herself (emotionally and physically) from her packmates since her great uncle’s death. A wake-up call and a hit to her pride, Teagan does her best to socialize more with her packmates again.
- Kicking a habit I love even harder (17 May)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Arlen Stryder. During a spar, Teagan helps Arlen discover that he's left-handed.
- Sword training - teaching
- Let's see your footwork (18 May)
Fort Kingsbury, with Asuilaak. Teagan teaches Asuilaak how to properly use a sword and shield.
- Sword training - teaching
- Come Fly With Me (21 May)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Luca Knight. Teagan accompanies her father on an evening patrol with his personal falcon, Murdock.
- Aviaria co-rank challenge
- A New Sun Rises (30 May)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Casa di Cavalieri. Lyris Stryder, Labor Head and Teagan’s mother, is promoted to Sola, and stands as the pack’s new co-leader to the Lune.
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JUNE 2017 Teagan is promoted to First Cadet once again for her increased presence around the pack.
- Great wide somewhere (15 Jun)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Everett Moreau. Teagan takes a new Recruit on a patrol with her.
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JULY 2017 Teagan is promoted to Second Officer. Dangerous activity in the form of foreign scents, trespassing, and trap setting, is noticed on the pack’s borders. Patrols are increased, and Teagan finds herself face-to-face with an old enemy of Casa di Cavalieri: Syndicate. She defends her home, engaging in two notable border skirmishes before the enemy Loners makes a bold attack deep into pack territory.
- Sneaking around the forest (01 Jul)
Dampwoods, with Inca. An Anatheman tries to sneak up on Teagan in an attempt to steal from her, however, she detects him before he can carry out his plan. They share a tense and bitter back and forth before Teagan opens Inca’s eyes that his pack’s leadership is not as flawless as he might have thought.
- The horses are coming so you better run! (04 Jul)
Fort Kingsbury (Stables), with Iorek. Teagan meets Recruit Iorek, who is a very feral male and has never seen a horse before.
- [M] Somewhere another pretty vein just died (05 Jul)
Casa di Cavalieri borders, with Jace Wolfe. While on a patrol, Teagan and Jace encounter a pair of Loners setting up traps meant to hurt and capture a Cavalier. They chase them off after interrogating them for their actions.
- [M] I'm just dreaming of tearing you apart (06 Jul)
Casa di Cavalieri borders, with Iorek. Teagan and Iorek encounter more intruders on Casa di Cavalieri’s borders. When fighting breaks out, Teagan finds herself trying to protect the Recruit while trying to not get hurt herself when Iorek freezes. Something snaps in him though, and he goes berserk, killing one of the Loners before mistakenly turning his assault on Teagan herself.
- With all the force of a great typhoon (07 Jul)
Areas, with Myra Garcia. Teagan wakes Myra up for sword lessons that the younger sister forgot about.
- Sword training - teaching
- The pressure is on (10 Jul)
Fort Kingsbury, with Casa di Cavalieri. The pack is called together to vote on how they plan to move forward in the wake of some of their members being held hostage by Syndicate. Teagan votes for a stealth mission.
- hangover's got nothing on this (July)
Fort Kingsbury (Family home), with Arlen Stryder. Teagan checks up on her brother, Arlen, a day after he was discovered severely injured. The two share a heart to heart with one another.
- Make it Even (24 Jul)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Casa di Cavalieri. Syndicate makes an aggressive assault in the heart of Casa di Cavalieri territory, and the Cavaliers rise to defend their home. Teagan and Indi manage to kill one of the attacking Syndicate members.
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AUGUST 2017 In the aftermath of the thwarted, ambush assault, the Cavaliers are able to take a breath when their enemy suddenly falls silent. Teagan continues to do her part in patrolling the territory and borders, however, she does not see a major conflict again until a Syndicate defector, Leoris Steinmeister, appears at Casa di Cavalieri’s borders. The pack gathers, and the man warns Lune Luca of the approaching Syndicate, however, is too late for the Cavaliers to properly prepare for their enemy’s arrival. Syndicate leader, Laurent, demand that the Cavaliers surrender and leave their lands, however, the Lune refuses. His refusal is answered with an arrow to his shoulder, causing Teagan to raise her sword in defense of her father. The rest of the Cavaliers dive into battle, successfully slaughtering the enemy at their doorstep.
- [M] It Ends Today (21 Aug)
Casa di Cavalieri borders, with Casa di Cavalieri. Syndicate makes one final stand, their leader, Laurent, attempt to make the knights yield to him. When one of their archers shoots Lune Luca though, Teagan is the first to raise her sword of the Cavaliers, and the final fight begins. She and Arlen kill one of the Syndicate fighters.
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SEPTEMBER 2017 Teagan is promoted to First Officer for her efforts against Syndicate. The weight of the conflict against Syndicate continues to be at the forefront of her mind, however, and, eventually, Teagan decides to make a trip to Portland, where she hopes to find a new sword, as well as to confirm any and all Syndicate ties are severed. She meets Makoto “Mako” Ridley, a blacksmith apprentice, and his mentor, Halt Bradley, who have been reluctantly helping a group of dangerous mercenaries and bandits known as the Ragdogs. She helps liberate the blacksmiths and the farmers that the Ragdogs were harassing, however, Halt is killed in the process.
- Down Time (02 Sep)
Fort Kingsbury (Stables), with Veri Secanti. Teagan helps Veri with her horse, Seeker, who was injured during the final battle with Syndicate.
- Another day, and you've had your fill of sinking (04 Sep)
Fort Kingsbury, with Iorek. Teagan attempts to teach Iorek how to properly use a knife.
- Knife training – teaching
- Hooves and Steel (06 Sep)
Fort Kingsbury, with Luca Knight. Teagan and her father practice fighting from horseback.
- Grey clouds roll over the hills (07 Sep)
Fort Kingsbury, with Arlen Stryder. After learning of her siblings’ and cousins’ brash decision to take on a bear in celebration of their First Blood, Teagan decides to force her brother to participate in an impromptu training session.
- (RO) Life is a trip down the road that leads you (14 Sep)
Fort Kingsbury, with pNPC Howland Reeves. Wanting a new sword and to confirm that Syndicate has, once and for all, been dissolved, Teagan leaves the pack for a trip to Portland.
- (LASKY) [M] Promise me no promises (19 Sep – 12 Oct)
Portland, with Makoto Ridley. Teagan arrives in Portland for what was supposed to be a quick and simple venture for a sword and to confirm Syndicate’s demise. She didn’t expect that a chance encounter with a wolfdog male would change of all that.
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OCTOBER 2017 With nowhere else to go and lost without his mentor, Mako decides to take Teagan up on her suggestion that he join her pack, Casa di Cavalieri. The two travel back to Teagan’s home, where Teagan is surprised with being given her first apprentice, Minerva Griffith, a plan by her father, the Lune, to help make Teagan softer and to help make Minerva stronger. With their drastically different personalities, the two slowly feel each other out. Meanwhile, when not playing Mentor, Teagan does her best to indoctrinate Mako, and, come the end of the month, Teagan follows in her ancestor’s footsteps and takes her Vigil.
- Welcome home (12 Oct)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Indi Knight. Teagan and Indi reunite after Teagan left for Portland without telling her sister.
- A Celebratory Distraction (12 Oct)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. A Mentor Ceremony is held only a few hours after Teagan arrives back in the Fort, and she is surprised to learn that her father has chosen her to mentor a new addition to the pack, Minerva Griffith.
- Lesson Number One (13 Oct)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse - Armory), with Minerva Griffith. First order of business as a new apprentice: choosing one’s weapon.
- There is something, everywhere (21 Oct)
Fort Kingsbury, with Myra Garcia. Teagan goes in search of her sister for training purposes, only to notice something off about Myra.
- Ain't gonna play nice, watch out, you might just go under (24 Oct)
Ethereal Eclipse, with Galilee Haskel, cNPC Makoto Ridley. While out sparring with each other, a curious Courtier finds them, and Mako tags out to let the women spar hand-to-hand.
- [M] A sudden difference of opinion (26 Oct)
Dampwoods, with Inca. Teagan meets with a trader, only to find out the one-on-one meeting is a four-on-one meeting, and when Teagan calls off the trade due to poor quality goods, the traders turn hostile. Teagan is helped by unlikely, familiar face, whom she is forced to save as she flees the scene on horseback.
- (RO) Some turn to dust or to gold, but you will remember me (31 Oct)
Casa di Cavalieri. As is customary of one’s ascent into the Brotherhood, Teagan takes a night of silent vigil and reflection at the Steam Baths.
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NOVEMBER 2017 Teagan is initiated into the Brotherhood, holding the rank of a Sworn member. As a newly fledged member of the Brotherhood, Teagan immediately seeks to secure ties with a neutral pack, Krokar, that has had good relations with Teagan’s mother in the past, as well as having treated Teagan herself well. Upon her return though, she is distraught to find her pregnant mother still ailing. Sola Lyris’ eventual death breaks Teagan and the rest of the pack.
- The canary soars (01 Nov)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse), with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. The first Cavalier to do so since her mother before her in 2015, Teagan joins the Brotherhood as the Master of Bladed Weapons.
- Look all around at all the mountains you haven’t climbed (02 Nov)
Fiskebyn, with Lucille. Inspired by her previous visits to Krokar, Teagan formally asks one of its Captains, Lucille, to accept Teagan as Casa di Cavalieri’s ambassador for their pack.
- Ambassador co-rank challenge
- Go see the world ‘cause it’s all so brand new (03 Nov)
Krokar, with Iroquois. Her request for ambassadorship accepted, Teagan is given a tour of Krokar’s lands by a friendly Krokaran.
- Ambassador co-rank challenge
- We all fall down (12 Nov)
Casa di Cavalieri (Silent Meadow), with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. After weeks of illness, Sola Lyris Stryder passes away after giving birth to Teagan’s youngest siblings, and the pack gathers for her funeral.
- (RO) My head's spinning around, I can't see clear no more (12 Nov)
Casa di Cavalieri (The Crying Tears), with Makoto Ridley. Teagan hides away deep in Cavalieri territory so that she can mourn the loss of her mother without anyone seeing her at her weakest point. Mako finds her.
- [M] We all fall down, like Toy Soldiers (After 12 Nov)
Casa di Cavalieri (Wolfe wetus), with Jace Wolfe. Shortly after the death of her mother, Teagan decides to bring food and speak with Jace, who was a long-time friend of Lyris’, and agreed to be the milk mother of Teagan’s new siblings.
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DECEMBER 2017 In the wake of her mother’s death, Teagan does what she has always done with something that’s hurt her emotionally; bury it deep within her heart. She dives headlong into her duties to help her bounce back; mentoring Minerva, getting Mako assimilated, all along with her regular chores, trainings, and tasks. When news of Raine Nightshade’s terrible deeds against Casa di Cavalieri’s youth comes to light, Teagan joins the pack in bringing the man to justice, and is one of two voices that condemn the man to death for his crimes.
- You've got the light to fight shadows, stop hiding it away (10 Dec)
Fort Kingsbury, with Iorek. Wanting to test her feral fighting skills, Teagan spars with Iorek, however, when he becomes cocky with an advantage she gave him, Teagan calls the spar, furious with his misplaced arrogance.
- Dead dog running (December)
Casa di Cavalieri, with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. When Myra’s blood is found accompanied by Raine Nightshade’s scent, and Night reveals startling information, Lune Luca orders a pack-wide manhunt for the Cavalier.
- [M] Do You Hear the People Sing? (December)
Fort Kingsbury (Courthouse – Courtroom), with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. The pack gathers for Raine Nightshade’s trial. Brotherhood members Teagan and Grynn condemn Raine to death by hanging. Raine’s sister, Brita, is voted to be banished from the pack.
- [M] Are you, are you, coming to the tree? (December)
Casa di Cavalieri (Courthouse – Courtroom), with Casa di Cavalieri, cNPC Makoto Ridley. Raine Nightshade is hanged for his crimes against Casa di Cavalieri’s youth, from assault to rape to attempted kidnapping.
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