The Weyrbrat Years  Nannying Hell  Searched at Last  Nanny and Bitter  Impression  Weyrlings  Motherhood

    The quotes on these pages were taken from my log collection, although it's not all here, being ridiculously huge by now. On this page, I've stuck to putting up the ones that are either key-ish moments in Pyrene's life, or are just generally amusing. They're in chronological order, new ones at the bottom, and divided by more of those quotes, that hopefully indicate Pyrene's role in life at the time. If you're curious about any others that I might have, try this page which proves that I truly do not know how to make the best use of my time. In time, I may have Pyrene's entire log collection online, but for general browsing purposes, you won't want to pay attention to more than just this page. 

Once a brat, always a brat
    -Official brat motto (coined by Neola? Jesha?)

• "If this is right then that means we're..."  Flarra and I did this TP when we were still fairly new to the game as an IC excuse for us to visit each other. We planned it out very carefully, of course, and then Raina was unable to show up. My RP isn't great and the whole TP idea was hardly original but there's nostalgia there for me, at least. And it was fun doing the planning!

• women are notoriously angry most of the time  This was a spur of the moment session to test out the logging feature that my brother had finally added to my client. It also set up my IC excuse for Pyrene's disappearance when I first went to Italy.
• Wal? Manners? He's plotting something...  This was another spontaneous TP that Flarra and I just did for a laugh. At the time, Flarra hadn't impressed any fire lizards and she had fun playing mine for a couple of days and confusing people with her apparent acquisition of two blues at once.
• Crawling under the table should be an option  Half the Weyr in action and a great night for RP. As well as Flarra and Kabes springing a surprise for me, this log also contains the infamous candidate dinner, prepared by those standing for Rhyath's clutch, which was due to hatch the next day (OOCly speaking).
• "how are you feeling now that you've impressed a... a... thing-- dragon."  General festivities after the hatching of the 2nd PC clutch at High Reaches. Cute log I think, although I'm biased since so many of my friends Impressed.
• "I always wanted to be a dragon when I was younger,"  Pyrene being evil to Annalee down by the lake. Not that Annalee was totally defenceless, mind you. A change from the normal medium and setting for Pyrene's trouble-stirring and very funny to RP.

"You abandoned your dignity, dear, when you took the nanny job."
    -Pia

• "I couldn't believe it when I heard you were a nanny"  My first RP as a nanny, I couldn't resist running Pyrene ragged. The other people who were in the living cavern at the time responded wonderfully to the influx of NPC weyrbrats (credits to Rade and Phaedra for their names). Great fun.
• "And what do you know, anyway, little miss teach-the-weyrbrats-to-throw-mud-at-dragons?"  Is it better to be a weyrling or a nanny? Is the klah in the weyrling barracks ever warm? Just what do they say about men who ride big dragons? These pressing questions and others are discussed (at times rather heatedly) in this log. Some of them are even answered.
• Pyrene 's record remains tarnished.  I have a go at hatching an egg that Flarra gifted to me. Typically, my incompetence prevails. Fortunately, Kyren and Areiah were on hand to provide moral support and advice. Unlike the other logs, I've left all the relevant OOC comments and channelchat in this one, so you can see what was going on behind the comparatively smooth RP.
• "i want to hear your versaion of the events."  After Pyrene failed to prevent an accident involving the Weyrleader's daughter, she gets chewed out by S'phen, bespoken by a dragon for the first time (not a pleasant experience) and then Ethree comes on the scene. 
• See...her mind wasnt in the gutter...  R'sli is being worked on by a gossip-seeking Pyrene until Adora rescues him by providing a not entirely unwanted distraction. 

"Why, do you want to be a Candidate too?"
    -D'renn

• They're bringing his favorite toy?  Two hours, three Searches... that has to be some kind of record. So here's the log of the snow, blue hides and rapidly multiplying candidates.
• "Did the sweetsticks make it?"  Sometimes a candidate's gotta do what a candidate's gotta do. And when a jar of sweetsticks has been abandoned in a former nanny's room at the mercy of the brats... well, then they need rescuing, don't they? 
• "Brown? No, blue's better for you. Much better."  A group of brats, riders, candidates and visiting harpers gather in the living cavern to discuss the future, embroidery, nicknames for D'renn and other Deep, Meaningful topics.
• "Must be good for frustration..."  It's amazing the amount of traffic that can pass through the bowl while a few candidates (complete with broom-handles) are beating rugs on the first day of spring. 
• Someone's handing out full-sized candy bars!  And of course, a candidate has to Stand. Note: this is long, containing all the galleries and candidate barracks spam as well as what went on on the sands during the hatching of Chayath and Tyrodinth's clutch.

"You bitter little nanny."
    -Lis

• "Do you really want to call me 'Connie,' Pyrene?"  A late night after a trying day, and C'lan and Pyrene bump into each other again. This time she teaches him how to plait his hair... and he teaches her something else....
• "I will /not/ take anything like that from you, hear me?"  It's a stressful life being a nanny, and sometimes it shows. It's also a stressful life being a wingleader, and sometimes that shows too. Of course, every now and then, the two stresses clash: throw in a few old grudges and you've got yourself a catfight.

• "Half the weyr eats creampuffs, and they're not all pregnant,"  Surprises for all and sundry as insults, tempers and knots fly. Lis finally gets her revenge, and Pyrene's four turn reign of terror over the nurseries at long last comes to an end. 

"She can't make you a nanny, she's a weyrling now, dear.....she'll never have nanny duty again...."
    -Kh'et

• "You did it! You're a--" Uh oh.  Another Search means another Hatching which means another couple of hours worrying about blue hatchlings... and other colours. Again, this is a big log.
• "I'm staying. Forever." Gleam.  As if Weyrlinghood wasn't enough to cope with, Pyrene's past comes back to haunt her. 
• Cadgwith is high on life, in that giddy, giddy manner.  I go for a little practice flight with my new pd. Just a cute rider-dragon quality time log.

• Dang it, she never looked that good in that dress.  It being weyrlinghood, there's a gradutation at the end of it. And it being High Reaches, we decided that it should be cross-dressing themed. Check out the @wearings if nothing else.

Weyrwoman! Pyrene! For a moment Thesy looks utterly terrified.
    -Thesy

• Now to search her many pockets for something other than cookies.  Fortunately, it being Nuff and not D'renn, Pyrene didn't have to delve in the pocket herself to get her Jr Weyrwoman knot.

• Alymath and Lis aren't quite the rule, no?  Since Areiah's Ysbryth had the first PC clutch after Cadgwith was hatched, I held off on Cadge's flight with a view towards having an NPC clutch at Christmas. ICly, this meant that she had to be a terribly late bloomer, much to Pyrene's concern. Here, she goes to Thesy for advice.

• It's Lis, in a Pyrene suit.  Still fretting over Cadgwith's failure to rise, Pyrene tries out some different tactics, in an attempt to get Cadge 'in the mood'.

• "I'm here for Pyrene. And the cookies. Not necessarily in that order" Fortunately, it turns out Cadgwith hadn't taken a vow of celibacy after all, and nature eventually took its course. The flight log is long, but if you want to skip straight to the 'morning after' RP, peek here.

• "And they're getting better. Maybe she just needed more practice?"  The shards of Ysbryth's clutch are barely off the Sands before Cadgwith clutches, and the bets are on.

• Enter Pern's shexsayest bluerider/poet/visionary/artiste.  Pyrene turns 23, gets depressed, gets drunk, and does something she'll be regretting for many turns.

• "So, Pyrene, we've done good, haven't we?"  Cadgwith and Simpsonth's clutch Hatch, and B'art makes an eleventh hour bid to stay with Pyrene.

"Pyrene... you /aren't/, are you? You /can't/ be." It hasn't snowed in Igen yet. 
    -Lis

• << I guess it's gotta come out somehow >>  A very pregnant Pyrene has her waters burst in the living cavern according to tradition and then has a less than traditional birth. My own choice to indulge in some angst: thanks to Kariel and Lis for planning and playing it so beautifully. 

• You'd think they were a class of young weyrbrats.  A meeting is called after Telgar makes a request. The first part of our cheesy TP to transfer one of our goldriders.

• "We do what we must to protect our own hides."  As the weyr wagers on which gold will go, tensions run high. Slander being a weapon of choice, a chance meeting between Shaela and Pyrene goes about as well as can be expected.

• "How can you 'not exactly' choose?"  After an IC month of debate, we finally lose a weyrwoman. Please note, this was deliberately soppy... we wanted melodrama to make daytime TV weep!

• "An' you'll be my Weyrwoman, cause Cadgwith's gold."  A bizarre little not-exactly-love triangle meet in the meadows. And Pyrene sees an option to go down a Path of Evil.

• << No, it is not good for him to be lonely. >>  G'deon, High Reaches Weyrleader, is perhaps the most lusted after guy in the Weyr. Unfortunately, he's also very much attached to the delightful Ilare. So just how evil is Pyrene?

The Weyrbrat Years  Nannying Hell  Searched at Last  Nanny and Bitter  Weyrlings  Motherhood

Please note! The image of the lizard that I used in the title is copyright Kelly Matten, and was taken from her Pyrene and fire lizards picture.