Let’s Play Quill: Love Letters

Let’s play Quill: Love Letters in this post.  If you are unfamiliar with Quill, it is a solo letter writing game by Scott Malthouse and published by Trollish Delver Games.  You can get it for pay-what-you-want here.

Here’s are some ground rules I set for this series of letters.  Characters. skills, ink pot words, and scenarios will be chosen at random.  Each scenario will be played only once and the same character cannot be used in the following scenario.  All words must attempt to be flourished as well to good or ill.

Let’s Start

The first scenario we will play is called “A Cruel Distance”.  We are writing a letter to Aubrey Cornish, a bookmaker that we met abroad and fell in love with.  Now we must pour our heart out to convince Aubrey to come live with us.

A scholar by the name of Tomas Edgars is the one smitten by the bookmaker.  Scholars have average penmanship, good language, and poor Heart but luckily Tomas has the skill of Augmentation which allows him to add 1 die to a single heart test in the letter. Plus, since Aubrey is a bookmaker, Tomas will use the very best ink available, giving him an extra die to penmanship.

Here are Tomas Edgars’ stats:
Language – 3 dice
Penmanship – 3 dice
Heart – 1 die

And here are the randomized ink pot words we can use in our letter:
Tick you off/ Offend you
Want/ Desire
Cold/ Freezing
Marry/ Be wed
Miss you/Dying to be with you

I will bold the scoring/non-scoring words and after each paragraph I will denote the score of the paragraph in parenthesis. The total score will relay the art dealer’s reaction to our letter.

A Heart Yearns…

Dear Aubrey,

It has been 2 weeks since I said goodbye and had to return home.  It has been 2 weeks of being unable to focus on my studies because my thoughts are always directed back to the month we spent together in Rome.  I will get to the point.  I am dying to be with you again.  (1 point for superior word)

You were like the sun, radiating warmth around you on those beautiful days in Italy.  Without you, I feel like I am freezing to death here in Ireland.  But this is not about the weather.  I need your light, I yearn for your warmth. (1 point for superior word, 1 point for penmanship)

I beg of you to join me here at home.  I promise to always love and care for you.  The thought of doing anything otherwise is foreign to me.  I finish my schooling and will begin my apprenticeship next summer with hopes that you will be there so that we can happily be wed.  (-1 point for flourished inferior word, 1 point for penmanship)

Forgive me if I presume too much.  But you cannot deny the feelings we had for each other.  Do you share the aching desire to be with me as I do for you?  To tell the truth, I fear that your answer will be ‘no’, but hold the hope that you feel the same. (2 points for flourished superior word, 1 point for penmanship)

If you do not share these feelings for me, I am sorry.  My intent was not to utterly offend you.  I had to pen this letter to release my feelings for if I kept them inside, my heart would have surely burst.  Just the thought of you reading this fills me with joy.  If you feel I am wrong, please write back and tell me so.  At least then I will know for sure. (2 points for flourished superior word).

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Tomas

So how did we do?

Tomas scored 8 points with this letter which means Aubrey writes a beautiful letter showing she shares the same feelings as Tomas.  She will be moving to Ireland next month to be with him.  Way to go Tomas!

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