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Family Barlord (chronicals of an imaginary family on a text-based Roleplay game - Dragonsfire MOO -- based on Anne McCaffery's Pern books) - Mostly, this is Thaddeus' story...

The Barlord Trader Clan has been little more than a tight-knit family - Mother Tessas, Father Tanav, and their six children: brothers Toncho, Trinculo, Thaddeus, Tejano, and little sisters Tahira and Taini. Traveling across Pern for Turns, they have valued their strong friendships, an honesty and integrity for which they became known, and an astounding ability for survival in the sometimes lawless or barren places between Hold and Hall. After years of success, the parents have retired to a small Holding near FarmCraft Hall. Eldest Toncho - once having small claim to fame at his prowess in martial gambling sports - inherited the caravans which he runs with his youngest brother Tejano's help. Trinculo went missing some Turns ago and is feared dead. The younger sisters stay most often with their parents, when wanderlust does not inspire them to travel to Craft or Hold.

Thaddeus, having struck out on his own, did alright... Until Southern Boll. There, his life changed for both the better, and the worse. Thaddeus met Madri, traded her for a firelizard egg, and got a lover in the bargain -- this was the Better. Thaddeus also managed to lose his own racing runner in a rigged contest, got talked into participating in a back-alley sport-fight, and killed Victor of the SeaCraft Hold which is beholden to Southern Boll. This was the Worse, complicated by the fact that Kethlor, Victor's little brother, attacked and badly cut Thaddeus after the fight. The Trader's name was then launched into absolute notoriety. The big man was taken by Liette and Madri to Fort Weyr to recover from his wounds, but he didn't return into the public eye until months later, when Southern Boll again had Thaddeus in custody. His trial was a major event (log 1 of 4 at: http://community.livejournal.com/dfmoo/3659.html, resulting in both conviction and Madri's green Elsveth's Searching Thaddeus at the conclusion. After some few days, Lady Auryn determined an appeal was in order and released Thaddeus to Fort Weyr.

Thaddeus became Th'deus, bond to bronze Xanth, at the Hatching, and an overlong Weyrlinghood, marked with strife and strain, and another stint in Boll's jails, remanded Th'deus finally to Riderhood.

When Nomi's gold Sidijith rose to take the Senior position at the Weyr, it was Th'deus' Xanth who caught, catapulting the man into nearly seven turns as Weyrleader, during which time he loved more than a few women, fought pirates that attacked Boll and, faced with the unheard of prospect of Thread's early return, piloted a program involving timing, to shore up the numbers of Fort's decimated Weyr.
Th'deus is now a retired wingrider, still Weyrmated to Nomi, and, as rumor has it, a frequent visitor of the now retired Lady Boll, and, maybe as well, the underworld character, Veronika.

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