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Jacelyn Michel: Tales of a Freelance Larcenist
Topic Started: Jun 26 2016, 12:47 PM (4,058 Views)
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Introducing (or re-introducing for those who already know her :) ) Jacelyn the Breton, aspiring thief and reluctant archer. She has a Breton’s affinity for Illusion, Restoration, and Conjuration magicks, but she hasn’t learned many spells. Jacelyn has done many a day’s honest work, but she does not intend to do any more.

If Jace seems familiar it’s because her updates have already been posted on the official forum in the DiD threads, but I thought it would be fun to get her started here. I’ll keep posting in both places as long as she, her game, and that forum still survive.

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Jace: page 1

Jacelyn Michel was born in the attic of a Shornhelm manor house, the daughter of a footman and a chamber maid. She learned scullery work as soon as she could reach the bottom of the sinks from her perch on a stack of apple crates. Jacelyn would still be in Shornhelm scaling fish and polishing tableware, except one day her sweet boyfriend convinced her to steal some of it.

She was caught, of course. Her sweet boyfriend was an idiot and didn’t have a buyer. But Jacelyn thought that her part in the caper was much easier than scrubbing someone else’s stuff. So when her tearful mama bailed her out of jail, Jacelyn kissed her on the cheek and said goodbye.

By the time she crossed Hammerfell Jacelyn had figured out how to pick a lock and how to move quietly. She wasn’t very good at either one, but she was learning. A bored Bosmeri scout showed her how to shoot while they were both stranded by a snowstorm in the Colovian highlands. She was all right as long as her target was large and slow-moving. Preferably stationary.

Eventually she made it to Skyrim. Cold and broke and hungry enough to eat bark, Jacelyn approached a roadside camp.

One man sat eating rabbit meat off the bone. He looked big enough to be a Nord, but not too scary.

“Hey there,” Jacelyn called from the shadows. “I’ve got some wine. Want to party?”

Lokir did want to party. He wasn’t even mad when he found out that Jacelyn didn’t actually have any wine. She agreed to help him steal a horse and ride into Hammerfell, since she knew the way.

Before they could seal the deal, there was a noise. Jacelyn woke in a cart, hands bound and head aching. Her new boyfriend didn’t look any better in daylight.

“Hey, you,” said the fetcher across from her. From his stench Jacelyn guessed he was a Stormcloak. “You’re finally awake.”

Jacelyn ignored the men. Soon she could see stone walls between the trees ahead. Good, she thought, a town. I can’t wait to warm up a little. I wonder if their jail will have a bath?


Screenshot: Jace Under Helgen
Edited by Grits, Jun 30 2016, 08:19 AM.
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Glad to see Jace here...
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Hello again jace. Really like the opening background story! The bath, I'm afraid, may be more of "dust off the ash" or jump in the first stream you come across! ;)
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Oooooo - what a rude awakening is in store.... Hopefully she didn't really fall for Lokir.
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Jun 26 2016, 08:05 PM
Oooooo - what a rude awakening is in store.... Hopefully she didn't really fall for Lokir.
Are we talking about the same Lokir here? :X
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Well.... I guess I just assumed so. But perhaps not? Still, stealing a horse to head for Hammerfell, and he's in the cart too unless I read it wrong....
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I also hope she didn't fall for Lokir. That would suck, considering his fate.
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Yep, the very same Lokir. Jacelyn had few options, low standards, no confidence, and very poor taste at that point. :P Happily she did not have time to fall for him. Thanks for the kind support, folks! :wub:


Jace: page 2

Jacelyn didn’t mind Ralof’s odor after he cut her loose inside Helgen Keep. She privately allowed that she might not smell so great, either, especially once she put on a dead man’s armor. Her new friend’s family took her in, but it wasn’t long before Jacelyn found an opportunity.

“Did I see you talking to Sven?” One lovelorn Bosmer, one ripped-off Imperial shopkeeper, and one Jacelyn planning to profit.

It had poured down rain all day, and tonight was more of the same. Jacelyn cased the local tavern and then sat down to dry herself at Faendal’s fire, a tankard of his Alto wine in hand.

“Say, Faendal,” she started, “I think I know a way for you to really impress Camilla.” Her eyes stayed away from the side table. “But before we go, do you know where I can find a hunting bow?”

Jacelyn wielded Faendal’s spare bow from the shadows as her wolf familiar and Faendal took the heat throughout Bleak Falls Barrow. Things were going so well that Jacelyn pressed on to loot the main burial chamber. Luckily Faendal was not a Nord and had no objections to Jace robbing the dead. And the undead. And cutting the tails off of all the little skeevers.

Back in Riverwood she turned the golden prize in for her reward. It was far more than she guessed it was worth, but she still had plans for the shiny thing. Lucan placed it right out on the counter, so proud and happy to have it back. Some day, Jacelyn promised the claw, some day soon you will be in my hands again. But first I have to find a buyer.

It was dark and Jaclyn was tired, so she and Faendal slept at Camilla and Lucan’s place after drinking up most of their wine. The walk back from the barrow loaded down with iron bandit crap had been exhausting. Jacelyn debated slipping out during the night to pick up a few lighter objects for sale in Whiterun.

Not yet, she told herself. Not until you have a fence.



Screenshot: Jace "borrows" a new dress

Edited by Grits, Jun 30 2016, 08:21 AM.
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*giggling* Oh I love that girl!
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I'm not sure if she's a reincarnation of Elvira or some other sweetly devious icon. I very much liked the transitions from one scene to the next! She is becoming more confident...
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Oh this is great! I've never been able to read all of Jace's story. Loving it, Grits!
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Sere, I’m glad you’re enjoying Jace. She is young and full of bad ideas, but there’s no meanness in her.

Bram, thanks, I think it’s her sweet irreverence that’s kept me interested. Plus she makes a lot of mistakes, which is entertaining. :P

FreeWitch, it’s fun to gather her updates into one place. I don’t even know when I started her game but it was before Christmas, so her history is scattered throughout many threads on the Beth site. I love the freedom that this Haven offers!
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Grits - you've chased all those entries and copied them to file, and saved the file, right? PLEASE tell me you have.....
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I have every update for my characters on my laptop and backed up, no worries. It takes me a long time to get a post ready due to issues, so I really have to do it in a word processor. Then I just stick them in a file with the character's name. I like to visit my retired (and deceased, sniff) characters through remembering their stories from time to time.

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Jun 28 2016, 08:21 PM
I have every update for my characters on my laptop and backed up, no worries. It takes me a long time to get a post ready due to issues, so I really have to do it in a word processor. Then I just stick them in a file with the character's name. I like to visit my retired (and deceased, sniff) characters through remembering their stories from time to time.

Eh sorry for being "mother hen".... I lost a lot of stuff a long time back - stuff I didn't have in file, it was all on paper....
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I have every update for my characters on my laptop and backed up, no worries. It takes me a long time to get a post ready due to issues, so I really have to do it in a word processor. Then I just stick them in a file with the character's name. I like to visit my retired (and deceased, sniff) characters through remembering their stories from time to time.

Eh sorry for being "mother hen".... I lost a lot of stuff a long time back - stuff I didn't have in file, it was all on paper...
Oh not at all, I appreciate the concern and warning! I have seen folks lose things when forums circle the drain and when their own hardware fails, and it is devastating. Reading things after a time has passed not only brings the story back, it reacquaints me in a way with the person I was at the time I wrote it. Or at least brings the time to mind clearly. It’s sad to lose those connections.
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Yeah. I've been writing really since I was around two - I told stories to my mother, and she wrote them down (since at the time while I could read Dick, Jane and Spot, I couldn't make letters really well - um.... eh, my handwriting STILL sucks, good thing I have a computer or so....)

All of that stuff got lost in a flood in San Diego while first husband was off on a ship in Seattle getting said ship refitted. It was everything I'd written from that early stuff transcribed by my mother through the age of 19. Sure I know some of it in bits.... but there's no way to replace it.

Thank the GODDESSES for computers. As long as you make backups!
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Ugh, that's awful. Sorry to hear that all of those early stories were lost.

My handwriting is not great either. Sometimes when I'm writing out the stuff I've jotted down in my tiny notebooks I have no idea what I meant.
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Jun 29 2016, 10:01 AM
Ugh, that's awful. Sorry to hear that all of those early stories were lost.

My handwriting is not great either. Sometimes when I'm writing out the stuff I've jotted down in my tiny notebooks I have no idea what I meant.
You too.... Well, let me just tell you - the older you get, the worse it is.
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Ugh, that's awful. Sorry to hear that all of those early stories were lost.

My handwriting is not great either. Sometimes when I'm writing out the stuff I've jotted down in my tiny notebooks I have no idea what I meant.
You too.... Well, let me just tell you - the older you get, the worse it is.
Mine hasn't gotten much worse, because it was never legible! I learned to type in the late 1950s, on an old Royal, and used typewriters all through school. I still have my massive 1974 IBM Selectric, which still worked perfectly when I last fired it up, about a year ago.

I lost a lot of my old papers,too, to a flooded basement, a few years ago. I had a three-drawer filing cabinet, and the water came up to just the top of the bottom drawer. Luckily, most of my old manuscripts and poetry, which I most value, were in the top drawer.
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