Dear Everybody Who Reads My Blog:

 This may be shocking to some (and to others not so much) but I will be taking a two-month vacation quite soon, starting from May 3rd and going on until...several days into July.  Where am I going?  Well, I shall be spending my two months in the remote Bastion of California, which is currently off the map.  Naturally, it has not been charted yet; however, I've spent quite a few summers there, enjoying time off from the stresses of a Dame and remembering the idylic days of my childhood, when all I ever had to do was help my father on his boat and tend to the garden.

I shall not be in contact during these two months.  The Bastion of California can only be reached by trawling through uncharted waters, or from obtaining charts from certain knowledgeable seamen.  Therefore, if you seek help, I suggest that you contact our friendly Player Helpers while I am gone, as they have recieved wings for this very purpose.  If your message is very, very urgent (such as an alert that Brucey has taken over Jhal-Abur or that Garg has gone mad), you can ask my husband Nasrudin to send it to me, as he is in possesion of a special talking Nasrudin doll which he has agreed to loan to me for the summer.  I shall be using it to keep in touch with him; however, there is only one doll of its kind and I cannot extend this service to anyone else.  Unless, of course, you have a special doll of yourself which you would like to loan to me.  

There is no post-by-email feature for my blog, unfortunately, so I will not be able to update it no matter how hard I try.  However, rest assured that my absence will not be in vain.  In my spare time, I have plans to continue working on dialogs and stories for Jhal-Abur, in addition to a small recollection of my travel memories to share with you.

This post, therefore, shall be my last for quite a while.  I wish all of my fellow NEaBians good luck.  Perhaps some of you could also consider going somewhere for a vacation (I know that many of you have worked hard during the year) and if you do, I would love to hear about your travels once you get back (and once I re-enter civilization, of course).  

Kind regards,

Dame TaliaSolo