Five cartels? *eyeshift*

Uhhh... mine goes up to eleven.

As it was suppose to be here...How do you even make money to support that many cartels? In order to submit designs for all my cartels each year, I beg and borrow from everyone I know! And then get awesome gifts of money.

I whore myself out.

Wait. People pay you?

For some of the kinky stuff, they better.

Seriously people, I don't bash and I don't buy credits, where can the gold for my two cartels come from?

Magic.

I gave you 30 credits for things that have nothing to do with whores!!

Then you better not sleep.

Actually looks like I'll be doing 14 designs this time, but as for how to cover the 11 cartels, I certainly don't use all the slots every year or anything silly like that. More than half the cartels were passed on to me; I only own four personally.

Ah. I try and design for all the cartels. I feel bad when someone gives me trademaster of a cartel, its like, gotta fill the cartel, to show my gratitude at being given trademasterness!

Rave to Hallifax and Lusternia in general. Some days I have this indecisive, pessimistic feeling about logging in, and I really want to thank you all for making those feelings incorrect so often. It's always a nice pleasant surprise.

...I mean, you guys are okay, I like you sort of.

I did that for a while. But it's a good way to start feeling burned out. Anything that's an obligation may, after enough time and when put alongside enough other things, become unfun. And that's the bane of creativity.

Just want to say thanks to a few people:

Raeri, for unenemying me to Serenwilde when I accidentally killed that prospector, thinking I needed to for a quest. (promise, I am probing everything!)
Velsi, you're hyper and a lot of fun!
Ryboi, for fetching my corpse to resurrect and saving me from doing that prayer thing (it's nearly 15 minutes long...)
and Azula. for organising a stomping on the person who randomly killed me outside Celest. That was very upsetting since I hadn't said one word to the person, nor did I have any idea what was going on. One minute you're trying to pick up pilgrims/roleplay and the next you are like, 'wtf was that for!' Sorry for all the trouble it caused, though. The message you sent me makes me feel better - glad to know that if I want to go outside of Celest I won't be getting ganked at every opportunity. maybe. I hope so, at least! and if I do, at least someone will try to defend me and/or make me feel better by killing them back.
Next, whoever wrote the descriptions for some of Celest's ships: you are really amazing.
and lastly, whoever designs and writes the descriptions and quests... you are also really amazing, because some of these quests are just awesome.

Those prospectors used to get the odd sociopathic-but-loyal Seren killed on our guards back in the day. It's kinda weird that they're out there like that.

In Serenwilde, "sociopathic-but-loyal" is far from odd.

Officially less than 10% away from demigod. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Squeeeee our horribly slow aetherhunting helped you!

And then you get to grind EVEN MORE for essence!

Plus you'll proabably get griefed down to titan at least once while you're doing that.