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Upon acceptance into the game you will need to leave a comment with your character's name and canon in the subject field.

AC for The Ton is a little different than what you might normally expect. While we want to make this game casual and not go all out with a full blown activity check, in order to keep things a little more engaged and fun, once a month characters must submit an in-character journal entry. There is no lower or upper limit as to the length of this journal entry, it simply needs to cover the character's thoughts and feelings about what has taken place for them over the course of the month. Feel free to make them as flavorful as you'd like! These entries may also serve as information for Lady Pheme's scandal sheet - unless you have specified that a certain topic is off-limits in her opt-out page.

This must be done over the last seven days of the month with the deadline being 12.01 EST on the very last day of that month. Failure to do so will result in your character being swept from the game. You must check-in with your individual characters.

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21st June
The Grand Crescent

with regards fromSteve Rogers

Dear Lady Pheme,

I am not sure how I had achieved accolades, but thank you for your recognition.

The gala this month was enjoyable, though I wonder if the nymphs will be invited to all the galas going forward? I'm glad to hear no one was seriously hurt by the animals that were let loose.

I do still plan on opening the art studio with my business license, and I am putting together the paperwork. Maybe you might like to sit for a portrait?

Cordially,
Captain Steven Rogers

Dear Pheme,

I am unable to account for a concerning period of time beginning roughly with an untoward curiosity to know the taste of a varietal of grape growing over the wall. Am I right in assuming you or one of your kind had something to do with this?

Sincerely,

Lord Felwinter

Pheme,

Jesus Christ, what the fuck was that? Judging by what I can remember, I don't think one trip into the confessional is going to cut it. If I so much as smell wine again... fuck. And for that matter, the hell are you thinking, bringing Krauser into this? Do you have any idea what you've done?

What's the point of writing this, I end up with more questions and no answers. Let's start with this one: Where the hell is Ashley? Did you send her back? If this your way of saying I need to step it up, fine, I'll try playing your game. Your way.

Leon

To the Goddess Pheme,

More dreams. This time while waking. I didn't enjoy this one. We've been separated before for missions, but I've always been able to return to her side. I miss her so much. I know she is fine without me, but I don't know how well I'll do without her. I've found people though, that won't let me be alone here. I think this is a good thing.

Or maybe there's just been too much wine lately and it has put me in a melancholy mood.

Eadwulf Grieve

P.s.
A few of the ladies here think I would look handsome in a beard. I would like to see if it's true. So I apologize in advance for the scruffiness of my appearance for a few weeks. Beards just don't grow overnight and I'm sure you know there's always some very unfortunate middle phases to getting a nice proper one.

Dear Pheme,

I don't know whether or not to thank you for bringing Sebastian here. On the one hand, this experience is so bizarre and sometimes horrifying that I wouldn't wish it on anybody. On the other hand, I really missed him. And it's been a long time since I've seen him look so carefree.

Maybe a little too carefree though. And that goes for me too. That party was... not something I wish to remember in too clear of detail. Which is why it's good that I can't.

Anyway I guess that's what you'd expect when Dionysus comes to town. Preferable to a flood in any case but really... can we maybe have a nice, calm god show up next?

- Detective J. Oda

Dear Pheme,

(The following note has been proofread and edited by Lt. Col. Hana-chan, as the original was TOO SCANDALOUS for Lady Pheme!!! ╮(￣ω￣;)╭ )

I am so happy to be here in Andovale! What a beautiful city you've built here for us to enjoy! I particularly love the greenhouse, and had such a wonderful time at the garden party! I'm so happy to see my old friend again! I made some new friends too and it was so much fun!

Thank you also for inviting Dionysus to come join us! The party was very fun! I had so much fun I couldn't move for two days, and it was so overwhelming I had to go on a long walk! I'm still not back yet but don't worry! I'm sure I'll be out of this cave and back to my usual enthusiastic self in no time!

My dearest regards to Lady Pheme and the horse she rode in on!

- Major Jack Krauser

Dear Pheme,

Thanks for letting me get drunk. I haven’t been able to do that since the 1940s and it was nice to just be blacked out to oblivion for a little while. However, next time you decide to spike all the drinks to make it so even I get a buzz, you can do something about the hangover, yeah? I haven’t had one of those since the 1940s either.

Thanks for letting me see my best friend again. He’s dead, back home, and getting to see him alive and well is a real treat. I guess it makes up for the hangover - a little - but I need to know you’re not gonna rip him away from me. I don’t trust people like you. Actually, I don’t trust anyone, but I especially don’t trust people who can make others appear and disappear at will. Met a guy like that once and he made me dust for five years. I wasn’t a fan.

We’re gonna have to come to a compromise on the clothes. The cravats stifle me.

Respectfully,

James B. Barnes.

Dear Pheme,

How are you? That party was pretty crazy, wasn't it? I hope your head didn't ache as badly as mine did by the end! I didn’t know the candlestick maker’s wife could dance like that!

Zack’s never been drunk before, I don’t know if he knew what to do with himself after, besides lay down and eat bacon.

…

I think Zack knows what happened to him.

I can’t ask, not directly. Maybe it’s cowardly of me - that I didn’t tell him the truth about what happened when we saw each other at your ball, or selfish. Maybe I’m just being a quitter like always and I’m afraid to see it through. But how do you tell somebody that? Especially someone you love. I don’t want him to die. I want him to have this - all the mornings, afternoons, and nights he wouldn’t have had at home. I want him to ride his horse, eat ice cream, and laugh.

It does hurt to think about going home and mourning again. If I’m honest with you Pheme, this place and so many of the people in it make it hard not to think about all the things I love, and can’t keep. You put a lot of beauty in this world.

Don’t get me wrong! Andovale is a pretty crazy place, but I’m grateful anyway, for time.

It must be enough to say that I saw them happy. That I can say I made them smile, for however long we had together. I have to be satisfied with that, with Zack and Tifa, with Sanji, with all the friends I've made here.

Anyway, that’s all for now!
Aerith

Lady Pheme,

That wine guy friend of yours or whatever? Dieohkneesus? Whatever.

Yeah. Never invite him back to town. I never want to be drunk again in my life. I mean, that was also the first time? Not a great impression. The hangover made me think I was going to die.

Which I probably AM LOL, but we're not talking about that, remember?

At least Aerith had a good time out in the forest and that makes me happy despite everything because she deserves the world. Yep.

Zack

PS: Tight pants still gotta go, I'm going to be a nuisance forever about it and no one can stop me.

To the Most Illustrious Lady of the City,

As impromptu an arrival as was granted me, I have nevertheless found the fair shores of your extravagant realm quite striking. I would be remiss were I to withhold my wonder at the creature comforts provided by the townhouse, the resilience and determination of the retainer you appointed me, or the beguiling value of the quaint collection of knowledge housed in your resplendent libraries. No doubt the others are similarly enamored of the amenities.

Certainly, if not the comforts of the day to day, such extravagance as was displayed at the greenhouse must surely have garnered you all manner of praise. I cannot quite say I have seen either flora or fauna so exotic as those outside of the Underworld.

That business with the wine, on the other hand, I shall not repeat lest I profane a lady's delicate ear. Suffice to say, should Dionysus elect to extend another invitation to his festivities, I must respectfully decline, if for no other reason than my own continued good health.

One wonders if these invitations can truly be called as such, given the invited's inability to decline.

Yours for the moment,
V.

To the Lady Pheme, Goddess of the Realm —

It is a rather quaint creation you have here. Unique, to be certain, but not one of a kind. This isn't the first realm of another divinity that I've had the pleasure to visit nor do I expect it to be the last.

I do wonder, why the unsuspecting? And mostly mortal at that. Has time passed enough in the outer universe that you find yourself longing for the days when humanity worshiped you and the others of the Greek pantheon? Or is it that you are so dissatisfied with the native worship you have that you decided to take it upon yourself to tamper with other realms and timelines and draw people here to your pet project? Some of the others that you have brought here no doubt think it benevolent, what you've done, and I don't doubt that your actions may have delayed them from terrible fates.

But let us be honest, divinity to divinity. You haven't done this out of benevolence.

Nor do I expect that little visit from Dionysus had anything to do with benevolence either. Curious that, how much power another god was able to exert over your realm. Did you invite him, I wonder? Or was that all on his own? Dionysus does rather hold a higher status, if memory serves correctly.

If he was an uninvited guest then it would seem that perhaps the boundaries of your realm could use some strengthening. Something I could potentially assist you with, if that would suit your interests. Think it over. I understand how it feels to have an unwelcome god tramp all over your creation.

Respectfully,
Queen Mara Sov

Dear Pheme,

We're breaking the fourth wall here, but my player decided to hiatus due to health issues. Be gentle with her.

-Vex'ahlia

Edited 2023-06-25 05:11 (UTC)

Dearest Lady Pheme,

The greenhouse was wonderful, thank you. It's just a shame that we cannot enjoy the plants within it outside of it. But no matter, I can still continue to visit it, can I not?

The humidity is also excellent for my skin and scales, what a wonderful place.

Yours as always,
Shalem

Edited 2023-06-25 06:09 (UTC)

Dear ~~Pheme~~ Hinowa,

Why am I writing this crap again? Why can't I stop myself?

I have a question that I would ask Hinowa if she were here.

In fact, that's it. I'm going to cross out your name and put Hinowa's. I'll pretend that you don't exist and that this is for her. She's the only person I could ever talk to about this. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to her.

Is it possible to have feelings for two people, at the same time? I thought that I did before, in the last place I was trapped, but now both of them are here in this place and it's confusing.

I know what you would say, I think. This isn't like one of those threeway arrangements in Yoshiwara. This is different, because with the both of them I think that I lo

Forget that. I can't even remember every single detail that happened with Gintoki. I can't do something like talk to him about it. What kind of stupid idea is that?

Forget I said anything about this. ~~I miss you and Seita more than I can say.~~ I'll see you and Seita again, I'll make damn sure of it.

~~I also kissed a girl and I liked it.~~

- Tsukuyo

Edited 2023-06-25 07:24 (UTC)

Dear Pheme-san,

As always, I am forever privileged to serve you however best I can! ♡ Though I wonder if my letter last month has you upset with me. Things these past few weeks have been ... troubling. At least in making more of my own feelings conflicted. I think it's something in the air.

Never mind that! I would never seek to trouble you, my lady! But, as before, could you send out the letter attached to my dear friends on the Thousand Sunny?

Your humble servant,
Sanji

P.S. Could you look in after Aerith-chan? I thought she'd been taken for good and it nearly broke my heart. Not that I'm asking for her to be kept around for me, just that while she's here, if she could be treated kindly. Do you have power over the weather? Make sure it remains good for her garden, if you could.

[ attached letter: ]

Dear Nami-san and Robin-chan,

How have you both been? Are the others treating you well? Make sure Luffy isn't eating more than he's supposed to. I wonder if you've all reunited back in Wano. I'm sorry I'm not there to help out.

They want me to get married here. It's not quite like last time, it's more that everyone in this town is expected to. But I already told the sweet Lady Pheme that I wouldn't if it compromised my return to the crew, so don't worry!

Except can you believe the idiot Marimo proposed to me!? Who the hell does he think he is!? As if I'd ever marry a man, much less that stinky slob of a sweaty asshole! Can you imagine me getting married to that brainless swordsman!?

...

I might have said yes. Honestly, I was too drunk to think about it reasonably and if I'm lucky, he won't remember any of it.

He's my nakama. Even if it's that idiot, of course I'd want to stay with him. If it was Usopp or Franky, I would have said the same thing! Anyway, it's not like I'm really marrying him!

But it's been different around him. I think I've been different. Better, even. Lately, when I'm with him, I feel

[ — no, no, no, no! what the hell is he doing!? none of this is right. what the hell is he saying!? crumbling that page all too hastily, he replaces it with the following: ]

Dear Nami-san and Robin-chan,

I hope life has been sweet and lovely to you both! ♡ I'll return as soon as I can to treat you to the loveliest meals again. A special tangerine dessert for my lovely Nami-san and specially prepared sandwiches with coffee for my tender Robin-chan!

It's been dreadful here without you and I miss you dearly!!! ♡ ♡ ♡

Your dashing gentleman cook,
Sanji

Dear Pheme,

Admittedly I was not so sure what to make of this place at first. I'm certainly glad that I am not alone here. Genya is a dear friend, and I would be remiss not to thank you for your judgement in selecting her among all of the others from my home that you might have picked. I hope she feels similarly, even if I am constantly pestering her by asking for input on which dress to wear. I never got to practice that, and she has such an eye for it.

I do have to ask, is such, er, enthusiastic partying a normal event here? I wasn't so sure about the wooded venue, but I did end up enjoying myself even if it took a few days to recover. It was a nice way to ring in the summer, but I am not sure I can handle doing it again.

Yours,
Alina Starkov

Dear Pheme,

I know it wasn't the intent of the god who came to us, but his coming brought me some clarity. No matter how things were before. No matter what I see in Nai. I can't run from him. I have to run at him. He's trying to decide the fate of countless.

Because of past sins. How is that fair? That's writing the future for many. That isn't up to us. No matter who or how powerful. I want to keep this understanding. This answer. Maybe I can reach him with it. I want to stay here longer and learn more perspectives. Understand more people.

While lost in that fog of fear, Leon reminded me of something important. Life is confusing. We're all trying to figure things out. It made me realize my brother is trying to figure things out too. But he isn't listening to anything but the echoes of the past. And fear.

I met a man who thinks he is just a sword. He doesn't know how to claim it and make it his own. That's okay. That's his journey. This is mine. One day I want to hold out my hand and have my brother realize...it's okay to be afraid. It's okay. We can build something better but we all have to work together. Pain to answer pain isn't the answer.

- Vash the Stampede.

Dear Pheme,

Well this month was filled with wine. Like, to the brim, and then spilling over. I never say no to a drink, I love it believe me, but don't you think this was a BIT too much? We barely even passed the exams to get such a "generous" treatment.

That being said, stop fucking with my head, that wasn't appreciated. I don't know how you did it, but just -don't-. Things are shit even without it.

Mollymauk

P.S. Make sure Magic Man is home safe because if he isn't, I'm not above and beyond hunting down a God. Hunting is my specialty, after all.

Edited 2023-06-27 09:33 (UTC)

Dear Pheme,

Here we are again.

If I didn't know better, I'd start to think you're just another player in the game, painting targets on the backs of your pawns that others with power can't resist. So many moving pieces to keep track of, I don't know how you do it.

At least this one drinks his Respecting Women juice. I had a good time. From what I remember. That may change if I remember too much more.

Never was much of a nature girl. But it might be growing on me after all. Not that I ever did laundry.

Regards,
Ada Wong

Dear Pheme,

This month was better than that charm school, but lady, there's something to be said for having free-flowing wine that fucks up your head. Didn't like that one bit.

It's easier here, especially now that I'm not in the school. Getting settled in. Got a room of my own, even if it's the basic, barebones place, it's better than anything I slept in back home. Not sure what that says 'bout me, or my home, or this place, but it's the honest truth. I went around telling people I was a priest. It never did much, got some laughs out of people before I killed

Well now. You don't want to be reading about that. What do you want to read about in these things? What we've been doing, probably. Little check-ins on your chosen people to ensure they're still doing their jobs and keeping up with the gossip, huh? I've met some interesting people here. Some seem to be in similar situations as me, makes me wonder about shit. Not sure I can explain it, but hey, misery loves company, right?

- Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Dear Pheme,

I cannot say I have anything much of importance to report. I will say I was not expecting you to bring my father here as well. If I may make a request of you...please do not bring my mother here. Not that I think it is even possible, as she has passed but...even so.

Also, do please provide another source of drinking water the next time it is compromised.

Yours truly,
Erichthonios

From the Journal of Sebastian Castellanos
End of June, XXXX
~~Apparently~~
Andovale

Not sure what's more messed up about this: that magic is real or that I believe it.

Sometimes I'm still not sure I'm out of STEM. Joseph seems real, but he always has. And even if he's not... he seems happy here. Happier than I've seen him in a long time, maybe ever. I'm happy for him. ~~Happy happy happy.~~ God knows he's been better off without me for what he says has been two months before I got here. He seems glad to see me. It's almost like old times. Almost.

It's easier to pretend everything's fine if I don't think too hard about it.

~~I don't remember much about the time in the woods~~

~~Has he always been—~~

I should just throw this ring in the ocean for all it means.

Forgive me.

Pheme!!!!

Babe- you should really take some notes on how to throw a party from whichever of your little friends took over. But maybe figure out how to do that without the hangover?? And I can guarantee you that people would totally worship the ground you walk on.

You know, if we ever saw you.

Shit, that was so much more fun than Charm School was.

Thank him for me~

-Maureen

Dear Pheme,

That was quite the experience. I can't help but notice that you've been quiet since Dionysus's revelries, and I hope it's not too out of place for me to ask if you're well.

It was nice to relax, even though it was more forced upon us than simply offered. But I can't remember the last time I felt so light and carefree; it was a gift to experience... so perhaps you could extend my thanks to him should you run across him after receiving this.

I'm curious, however- I've noticed that some of your Chosen are no longer here. How do you choose who returns home and who stays? Or have they returned home at all? I know it's unlikely you'll answer me, but a girl can hope.

Warm regards.
Sersi

Dear Lady Pheme,

Is there any way you can assure me that I am safe here? I feel as though I'm going mad with worry, and the visions earlier this month didn't help. If nothing else, they've only made my fears worse. I can now see him clearly in my mind in the shadows I pass and corners I turn.

I only truly felt free of him when I was in the forest with the other women of the ton. I know that I enjoyed quite a bit of the wine offered, so I can't remember everything while there... but I do remember feeling lighter than I have in months. I hope that I can find that sort of calm again in the future, perhaps without the help of strong wine.

Sincerely yours,
Christine Daaé

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