Monday, 8 February 2010
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
The story of the afareet, continued.
Revived on “Out with the Old…”
Original group-writing experiment on “Round-Robin ‘Riting”
Date: January 18, 2006
Categories: Fiction, poetry, and fanfiction
‘Ello, all.
yaaay! first post!
All right: We don’t have to make them meet at a sleepover. We don’t have to make them meet at all until they are taken to the lab, except for maybe Leah and Veronica or whatever thier names were.
GAPA, if you make any more threads, i shall filibuster them.
*sings*
I’m just a GAPA who can’t say no,
I’m in a terrible fix.
I always say come on, let’s go,
Just when I ought to say nix.
mmm… ithink i might go post on rrr ff.
I know that song…what’s that from???
Oklahoma!
Why not start a new story?
there is a new story, in a thread called “RRR FF”
what’s the link to that blog, Dark Waters? i forgot it. speaking of which please go to my blog at [GAPA snipped here]
pwease do not zap that link. if you do just zap the link not the comment…
Enough random chitchat. If people are getting back on the other RRR threads, I might have to go visit. But anyway(s)…
ADELA
Powers: Her main strength lies in healing, but since her birthday falls on a auspicious date, she has recently gained abilities in its flip side, destruction. She can focus her power through her finger or through her new wings opened up by Athanath’s spell. The wings also allow her to fly short distances and hover.
Weaknesses: Her power is new, unpredictable, and hard to control. Athanath can hazard some guesses at what she can do, but no one really knows. She has to figure it out as she goes along, which can cause nasty mishaps at crucial moments. Her wings can only be opened up by slashing her back with an athame (magical knife)
Virtues: She’s very smart and good at figuring problems and puzzles out. She can be brave when called on to.
Faults: She tends to worry. Because she thinks so far ahead, simple solutions often aren’t obvious to her. She also isn’t good at hurting people when she has to. All those years with only healing magic.
Background: She is part afreet, but not fully. Her powers come more from her birthday than her heritage. Darkish hair, hazel eyes. She has a merlin tattooed on her back, which can change into wings.
So….if I was interested in this RRR deal, what would I have to do to get in on the action, hmm?
Oh. Nice character. The knife bit is a tad unrealistic, but it’s good material, so hey! xD
So how’s this:
We start the story with her leaving her home town to travel to- I dunno, a rouge castle of some sort; rebels. Tyrannic king, much? Yes I did have to say that.
At that point, we can take it wherrever it goes.
Oh, coool…
Anyway the main conflict is between the Powers, and MUUAP(Magic Users United Against the Powers) a small organization of afareet, makers(Athanath), and sorcerors(i.e. Issy,Stella,Zelda,and Hazel.) MUUAP is suffering heavy casualties, and the line of sand afareet that are not loyal to the Powers is allmost gone, Achmet and Ruby are the only survivers.
Ok, Character Profile
Powers: He has vocal powers similar to Rubies. He also can control sand, and sandstorms. He can go for long periods without water
Weaknesses: He is not particularily strong for and afareet. Virtues:Feircly loyal to his few friends(such as Zelda)
Faults:He is very arrogant and sometimes overeager to prove himself. This comes from the fact that he is very young for an afareet(500 years or so). He is also jealous of the girls, which is why he was so mean to Adella in when he was supposed to watch over her in his time as Alfred. He tends to get out of control when his older brother is around.
Backround: Full sand afareet. His animal form is a giant lynx-like cat with sandy fur and amber eyes. His human form is a tan skined boy with sandy hair and amber eyes. His older brother, Apepihotep, joined the powers soon before they killed his parents. And of course the powers told Apepihotep that it was Achmet. So they both hate each other. He is Ruby’s uncle, in case you haven’t noticed.
Oh yeah, I forgot her history, for Zara and others who weren’t here for RRR.
History of Ruby:
she is half Chaos afreet and half nature spirit. Her father, Apepihotep, joined the powers after her mother died in childbirth from having Ruby.
Afreet shape: a small red and black dragon. She can’t breathe fire yet because she has to eat silicon, diamond, or platinum and she hates the taste of the stuff, which she had once. Grew up in an orphanage.
Okay, now we have Ruby, Adela, and Achmet.
Yeah….so lost. Uh, can anyone explaint this whole afreet-y thing?
Anyone care to explain what an afareet is to a newbie? Phoenix, what is Ruby’s human form?
probably an afrit or an ifrit or whatever.
Adela’s cousin’s name is Andrew. Her parents were killed by the Force (servants of the Powers.) They meant to kill Adela(because of that whole birthday thingie), but Athanath shielded her and sent Achmet to watch over her as her “cousin”, Andrew. An aging deer afreet took care of them. Adela was told that her parents died in a mass shooting. Why did Athanath let Adela’s parents die? We shall check out her handy-dandy character profile for that.
ATHANATH
Background: She is the last of the Great Makers, the rulers of Aebvoraena, the magical world of afreet. All of the other Great Makers died in battle with the Powers. There are a few Lesser Makers still out there, but they are basically very old, ageless, afreet without animal forms. (Most afreet age, just veeery slooowly.)
An important note on Athanath: She is not human. She doesn’t really feel empathy or sorrow. Athanath won’t kill needlessly, but she will let people die.
Powers: She has immense power as one of the Makers. She can domost things in the realm of magic, but augmenting the magic of others and shielding people are her specialties. However, she refuses to use her power for most purposes other than helping young mages and fighting the Powers.
Weaknesses: Her magical abilities are diminished when iron touches her body.
Virtues: Wisdom.
Faults: See “Important Note” in background.
Okay. For Zallie:
An Afreet (in this story) is an elemental creature that has 2 powers:
a) second shape. This trait is usually inherited, but not always. To gain this power and be accepted as an Afreet you have to have a special ceremony where the shape of your second form is tatooed on your back with special ink. You can then assume the shape– and only ONE shape. It is a larger form of the real creature, and can even be magical.
b) powers. True Afreet have elemental powers, like sand (Achmet) or darkness (Akkavish). You can control this element and has certain granted powers.
The Afreet are fighting the Powers, a group of rebel Makers. There are 3 true Makers on the side of the Powers, and one on the side of the Afreet. however, the Powers’ soldiers are mainly slaves and will take any chance to escape. They have an elite guard, of which Ruby’s father is a member. These guards are fiercely loyal.
Okay. The kids, even Ruby, started out as an idea in the mind of a star. The star is trying to save mankind and, though she cannot directly intervene, shows up from time to time to give advice. She is their surrogate mother.
Ruby has long, streaked, dark red hair, and her eyes are so dark you can’t tell the pupil from the iris without looking hard. She is of average hieght but is rather too skinny.
Can you please cut Adela’s wings? It sounds kinda random. Make her have an Afreet shape, but please not random wings.
Oh yeah, and Andrew would be a good charecter to replace, I dunno, Lana.
hmmmm. I think I’ll profile some more afareet.(Please can we spell it that way?)
By the way, Afareets’ elements are usually passed down through genelogy. i.e. Achmet’s and Apepihotep’s parents were both chaos afareet, but the brother’s mother’s father was a sand afareet, thus Achmet is a sand afareet. Elements sometimes skip generations.
AKKAVEESH
Powers:She can control darkness, actually making it solid. She can also meld with shadow(this is how she choked Ruby) She has the power to become invisible at night, though this is limited during the day. She can take the pain away from wounds, though she cannot heal.
Weaknesses:Her powers diminish between 12 noon and 1 in the afternoon.
Virtues: She is very wise and carrying; she is close friends with Celentra. She is good at keeping a cool head in tough situations.
Faults:She tends to get overly-worried and stressed, especially about other people.
Backround: Akkaveesh is one of the oldest and most powerful afareet. Her exact age is uncertain, but she is more than four thousand. She was born in Judea. Her animal form is a spider. Her human form is a tall tan-skinned woman with violet eyes and black hair. She has a spiderweb tatooed on her back.
Maybe, since the girls power is given by Celentra, they should discover their animal forms early.
Sorceror-also called gifted. “Humans”(more or less) with afareet blood. They usually don’t discover their animal form till their 1,000 or so.
In case anyone was wondering, Akkavish (I assume) was born in Judea because ‘akkavish’ is the Hebrew word for spider.
sure, I’ll spell it like that, ChinTsu, no problemo.
You assume correctly Phoenix. In case anybodies wondering, here’s how I came up with their names
Akkavish is Hebrew for spider, as Phoenix mentioned.
Kitsune is Japanese for fox.
Mokala come from Mo’o Ka’ala, which is Hawaiian for Gecko.
Nestea is Cherokee for eagle.
Achmet just sounded cool and Arabic.
KITSUNE
Powers:He can control fire, and is impervious to flame.
Weakness: His power is greatly diminished if you get him wet, and he is almost powerless if you drop him in water.
Virtues: Kitsune is quick and clever, and good at figuring things out.
Faults:He has an insufferable sense of humor, and he enjoys playing practical jokes on everybody. He is also very impatient.
Backround:Not much is known about Kitsune. His human form is a red haired boy with pale skin, and his animal form is a red fox with a gold tail tip and paws. He was born in Japan.
Can I just comment? Is that all right with you guys if I make sarcastic sides and quote sources that sort of make sense?
Cool. Afreets are OK, but SOOO not me.
mrm.. I might stick one of my characters in here, because i’m too lazy to make up a new one. as an afreet, but not a horribly powerful one. is that okay?
Fire away Em. We do need backround characters.
Mmm. Someone needs to explain exactly what an afreet is. I missed the last RRR.
you mean as an afreet, or as a random person? because i can oust the magical powers.
Actually, Axa, now that you bring it up, I couldn’t define an afreet either.
We need a title for this story.
Since Adela, at least, isn’t full afareet, she can’t transform fully into a merlin. Therefore, the wings. But we can cut them if they don’t fit.
-wants definition of an afareet-
Issy, Zelda, Stella, Hazel
Powers- sorcerers, can control things with their minds, telepathy, other unknown powers.. oh, and controlof all elements! Issy is the most powerful, then Stella, then Zelda and Hazel. Issy has a lot more powers than her sisters, and is prophecized to save the land of her people one day. also she can sort of borrow other peoples powers if she wants to… actually they all can do that…
Weaknesses- dead animal fur for all of them. Issy, if she gets mad she can’t control herself or her powers at all. not a good person to pick a fight with. she has accidentally hurt innocent people by getting angry… Hazel, Zelda, and Stella’s weaknesses include dead animal fur and the leaves of the pinappa tree
Virtues- great friends to have by your side. very loyal to their people and the afareets, and the girls. will stand by your side in battle and save you even if it means death.
Faults- Issy gets angry easily and can’t control herself, and her sisters are impatient and sometimes make unwise decisions (that’s why they have Issy with them)
Background- they come from Consket the city of gold and silver, are used to living in luxury and going to war. Issy is about 550 years old around Achmet’s age, Zelda is around 590 or so, and Stella and Hazel are around 570. Issy is the smallest, youngest, and probably the most powerful. Issy has pale milky white skin, violet eyes, and long creamy white hair. Zelda has jet black hair, pale skin, and red eyes. Stella has cresent moon eyes, milky white hair, and pale creamy skin. Hazel has light brown skin, hazel nut hair and hazel eyes.
Is it just me, or would crescent moon eyes look creepy as heck?
Anyway, if I wanted to be part of this RRR thingy, what should I do?
I’ll be happy to write a minor character (or a guy, as I notice we’ve nearly all girls) until I get the hang of it.
Okay, you ppl are SCARING ME!!
it’s just that i’m reeeaaalllyyy CONFUZZLED!!
Please explain what an “afreet” is so that I can perhaps join in on this thread-thing-ma-bobber
Okay, another question:
Where did you ppl come up with afreet?
you all seem to understand it together
is this a continuation of a book?
#37- yes it is… someone show her the thread!!!
and ok ok milky white moon eyes for Stella. and of course they’re supposed to look creepy…
BL (36 and 37),
I’m not sure they’re talking about exactly the same thing, but there’s an article about afreets in Wikipedia.
These characters started out in a now-closed thread called Round-Robin ‘Riting.
Hey, Zallie, you are a great writer (I know this from the HP site). How ’bout ya make a boy major charecter, 3 main charecters sound great.
I am good at powers, by the by. If you need help deciding them, I can help 
*Phoenix is arrested by the ego police*
To us, Afareet are nature spirits. In D&D, Afareet are a subspecies of Djinn who are nearly indistinguishable from humans (but still pretty high level).
hey can we start the story now? you peoples can add your characters in as you like but the limit should be 5 characters at all times.. anyone agree?
Aye!
No character limit, prease. (Unless it’s on main characters. Five sounds good for that.) How can you write a decent story if you’re worrying about number of characters? Just don’t try and cram in a billion characters, cuz that gets confuzzlidating.
Characters with immense powers and wisdom should probably not be major because they will turn Sueish. (This means people like Athanath, Issy, Stella, Zelda, and Hazel. Our main characters should probably stick to kids who are just learning how to use their powers and about how they need to help Aebvoraena (I like complicated names.) Only one main character per person, sort of like an RPG, except we can all control the characters based on the guidelines the creator has set down.
Character list:
MAJOR
Adela (RRF/TPN)
Ruby (Phoenix)
Probably somebody else I forgot, but I’m just looking at character profiles we wrote. Add your own, but only until it gets confusing. Supporting characters are fun too, and you can always write stuff for other people’s characters. Five main characters sound good to you?
MINOR
Athanath (RRF/TPN)
Achmet (ChinTsu) (also known as Andrew, RRF/TPN)
Kitsune (ChinTsu)
Akkavish (ChinTsu)
Issy (Kricket)
Stella (Kricket)
Zelda (Kricket)
Hazel (Kricket)
Anybody I forgot? Add your own, but only until it gets cunfuzzlidating… I’ve said the rest.
Aye!! I’m agreeing with myself for utterly no reason so there!
Spiffy. I shall call him Ehmer, I think.
Er, what shall he be a afareet-thing of? Can someone list all the powers and whatnot of the other afareets, so I can pick one that hasn’t been done yet?
can i bring ummmm…. what’s her name… oh i remember!!! can i bring Archell into the picture as a character? if anyone remembers she is about 12 1/2 years old, and her powers are the control of the weather. can she be a major character? here’s her character profile…
Archell
Powers- control of weather (rain snowstorms etc…) and telepathy, master of languages (let’s let all of them have like the power of using different languages without knowing it)
Weaknesses- ummmmm…… she is allergic to some of the potions used in battle as weapons so they hurt her badly
Virtues- great friend, very smart, good at math… very loyal, and will help out with practically anything
Faults- she is a bit of a show off, and she is like a trouble magnet
Background- comes from modern day Earth, used her powers too much so she gets in trouble a little, and lived in modern day Michigan.
Afareets can have basically any powers you can come up with. Or you ask Phoenix to come up with, as she has so kindly volunteered to do.
I know that they can have any powers, I just want to know which powers have already been used…
Ehmer (EH-merr)
Powers- I’ll come back to this one. Atm, I’m thinking of metal/fire, but we’ll see.
Weaknesses- sort of dependant on the powers…
Personality – Ehmer doesn’t like beating around the bush. He comes right out and says things that he often shouldn’t, but can usually convince people he doesn’t mean them. The other afareets would know that he has a dark sense of humor and can be a bit crude sometimes.
Virtues- Ehmer is very clever. Maybe he’ll run into a situation without thinking sometimes, but he’s very good at thinking on his feet.
Faults- Perhaps it’s because he’s one of the few boys, but Ehmer feels like he’s responsible for just about everything. Anything that goes wrong is his fault, according to him. He’s quick to anger and even quicker to stay angry, but can be incredibly protective and understanding as well.
Background – Ehmer just kind of showed up one day. He tells anyone who asks that his past life wasn’t very interesting at all and that he doesn’t want to talk about it, which is very true.
Firstly, what I meant by weaknesses was drawbacks that come with your power, as below:
hehe. Okies, basic power ideas:
pyrokinetic–you can create and manipulate fire, and withstand enourmous tempretures.
Weaknesses: very sensitive to cold; very low temperatures can kill you.
telepathy/telempathy–you can feel others’ emotions, or hear thier thoughts.
Weaknesses–if you lose control of your powers, you can go insane. If you stay in one person’s or animal’s head (i.e.enter thier awareness) for too long, you can be trapped there. Also, if the mind you enter is too strong it can kill you–all in all a very dangerous power to have.
illusionist–as the name, you can make people see, hear, or even feel or smell things that aren’t there. You can create light and invoke darkness and the like. Also, it is possible to ease–and invoke pain–without making wounds, but this is not very nice, eh?
weaknesses–you can be defeated. All this is not really there so it can be overcome. Also, illusionists as a whole tend to be physically weak.
Modern world:
Satirist-Pokes fun at everything. Witty, cynical, sarcastic, and unmerciful.
Weaknesses-Tends to have to escape mobs and assassins too often for comfort. Doesn’t cooperate with strong governments. Economic prosperity tends to be rare. All in all, not a particularly desirable power.
Editor-Catches mistakes in everything.
Weaknesses-Not particularly employable, these tend to have an encyclopedic knowledge of classical literature, grammar, and human nature. However, they are often booksmart and naive. They can also make non-writing friends easily.
heh.
Okay, we need to divide the afareets into different catagories. Here it goes.
Dark Afareets(i.e. Akkavish)
General Powers:Invisibility at night, manuplation of darkness.
Weaknesses: Depending on their power levels, they become weak at certain times of day and when they are exposed to bright light.
Fire Afareet(i.e. Kitsune)
General Powers: Manuplation of fire, resistence to heat
Weaknesses:Weakend when exposed to water or cold temperatures
Sand Afareet(i.e. Achmet)
General Powers:Manuplation of sand, vocal powers.
Weaknesses: In very cold and wet weather, their powers greatly weaken, and they will possibly die. This is why they hang around deserts all the time.
Chaos Afareet(i.e. Apepihotep)
General Powers:Many and varied. It usually depends on who their parents are.
Weaknesses:Since chaos Afareet tend to be dragons, they will be killed if they are hit in the stomach without magical protection.
Light Afareet(i.e. Nigel)
General Powers:They can create blinding flashes of light, and teleport themselves over short distances.
Weaknesses:Their powers diminish at night, especially if there is a new moon
Ice Afareet(i.e.Nestea)
General Powers:Control over rain, snow, sleet, hail, and other things that happen in cold weather.
Weaknesses: Warm weather weakens their powers.
Water Afareet(i.e.Mokala)
General Powers:Manuplation of water, limited shapshifting.
Weaknesses: Power diminishment in exposure to intense heat and dryness.
It may not matter for purposes of this story, but in Arabic, afreet is singular and afareet is plural. So it would be one afreet, but two afareet (or afreets).
Okay. As everyone ALREADY knows, I play D&D. Obsessed D&Drs tend to know these things, like:
the previously discussed word (in singular) can be:
Ifrit
Efriti
Afreet
Efrit
Afrit
etc.
you get the picture.
Those D&D variations of the word are understandable: different Arab dialects pronounce their vowels differently, just as different regional dialects in the United States do, and “i” and “ee” are different ways of transliterating the same long (stressed) vowel from the Arabic alphabet. In pronouncing the word, you’ll be fine as long as you put the accent on the second syllable: uh-FREET.
“Efriti” is just wrong, though. In Arabic, the “i” on the end means “my”: my afreet. Makes no sense.
By the way, Arabs will sometimes call one another afreets (”ya afreet!”) the way we might affectionately say “you devil!”–meaning “you’re bad, but I like you.”
See you later, ya afareet.
–Robert, the obsessive editor and Q&A guy
Isn’t Arabic written like common Hebrew–without vowels? I mean, Hebrew has vowels but in Israel they just kinda assume you recognize the words and don’t add them. Also in my Ivrit textbook, which can be torture because they love puns and all that rot, so you have to be REALLY canny to catch all those anoying subtle (coughandhorriblecough) jokes. Generally, however, Hebrew is much easier than English in all departments. But not when you have my Hebrew teacher, who is the most evil being on earth and out to get me.
My my, do I win the Random Award for today?
Phoenix,
Arabic has two kinds of vowels: long and short. The “ea” sound in the English word “eat” is considered the long form of the “i” sound in “it.” The “oo” sound in “moo” is the long form of the “u” sound in “push.” The “a” sound in “mad” is, approximately, the long form of the “u” sound in “mud.” The first two long vowels do double duty as the consonants y and w.
Arabs write the long vowels but usually not the short vowels in normal writing. They can write short vowels when they need to, though, using special diacritical marks.
trabuuR–
can we just start the story!!!!!! NOW……
Ahhh! says this: Whoa, I think this thing is really cool. Now answer me this question. Is RRR similar to roleplaying? If so, how is it different? Also, I’m slightly confused as to the Water Arareet powers. Does limited shape-shifting mean that they cannot shape-shift as consistantly as the other afreet or…?
I would like to join in once I get these questions straightened out.
i dont know what u are all saying…mbe i should read the first posts… &heart; wonder if itll work…
oh, it must be w/an s… ♥
yay!!!
When I said ‘limited shapeshifting’ I meant they can turn into non-living things, as well as their animal form. As to ur other question, RRR is NOT an RPG. On person writes the first section of a story, and someone else writes another, and so on.
oh that’s how you do a heart!!! ♥
START THE STUPID STORY ALREADY!!!!!!!!
Gak! My beautiful character description of Feng was deleted! Noooo! We start the story on Monday. After that, we can still add characters and stuff. Any objections?
I’d do Feng now, but I’m too lazy.
For the third time, we ought to have a languages thread. That’d be awesome.
Anyway, I think Ehmer may be an illusionist-type person. I’ll probably much around with it some, but that’s pretty much the backbone.
*muck around with it some.
Y is my stuff not posting? Your comment is awaiting moderation. 
Things don’t get posted automatically; Rosanne or I have to look at them first. You’d be surprised how many stupid ads we have to weed out now that the spammers have discovered us. This is a blog, not a chatroom, so you’ll just have to be patient.
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Like that?
I have a pure, innocent mind? Really? I’m infamous for making all the jokes everyone thinks but doesn’t say. For example:
Anaheeta (receiving rose from boyfriend): Oh, I’m melting!
Me: Guess I don’t need this bucket of water then.
See what I mean? If you don’t get it (no one there at the time did) think Wizard of Oz.
Ebeth (72),
Exactly like that. You could have a brilliant career in spamming. But, of course, we’d have to banish you from the blog.
QJ (73),
“All my beautiful wickedness! Oh, what a world, what a world!”
I met her once–Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West. She was in Washington playing in a touring company of “Pippin.” A sweet little old lady she was, and very funny. She was doing a lot of coffee commercials on TV at the time and said, “I’ve sold my soul to Maxwell House.”
Is anyone ever going to do any actual RRR on this thread?
Ah no! Speak it not! The Horror! The Nightmare of my Life! Being…being…ba…ba…ban..banish….BANISHED!! *sob* No! No! I’ll never put up an ad again! I swear! *breaks down crying* 
yay for wizard of oz…
GAPA, why would people want to do RRR on this thread? What a funny idea! Haha! That’s laughable!
AAAH! *is pied by angry RRRers* JK! JK! DON’T KILL ME!! I WANT TO LIIIIIVE!!!!!!!
We love you, Ebeth. Just don’t spam us.
Em, you said on the “Happy Birthday A~C” thread that it would be fun to base a character off me. Then Lusifer said “Why would you base a character off Queen J when you already have Queen J?” I laughed so hard I cried. Seriously.
I like Ms. Hamilton. I think I’ve seen her in a few other movies besides W of O. I’ve only just forgotten what they are…
AHEEEM. Just one more type of afareet, prease?
Wind afareet (i.e. Feng, who I shall write a full bio for later)
Rarest type of afareet, due to their intense persecution by the Powers about 500 years ago and that the “gene” that controls wind afareet powers appears to be recessive. In other words, you need two wind afareet parents to be a wind afareet. Very few are still alive, and most of them are closely related. This makes it likely that the wind afareets will die out soon if some sort of solution is not found.
General powers- Manipulation of wind and air. Usually shift into bird form when animals.
Weaknesses- Most are claustrophobic, and their powers are greatly diminished if in an enclosed space.
Wind afareet sound cool. Their can be different kinds of afareet added; I just listed the types that I knew.
NESTEA
Powers:Manuplation of cold weather and precipatation.
Weaknesses: She is weakened conciderably when she is exposed to heat.(This is why Kitsune and her don’t get along so well, besides the fact that they have conflicting personalities.)
Virtues:Nestea never stops to worry about a situation, she just does what she can to fix it.
Faults:She acts a little too cold and aloof from everybody, and has almost no sense of humor.
Backround:Nestea is an ice afareet. As a human, she is a tall, pale skinned young woman with milk white hair tinged with blue, and ice blue eyes. (I know they were gold in the original story, but at first I thought she was going to be a light afareet. Things change.) She is originally from North America
No, I didn’t mean RPG, I meant like “literate” roleplaying. It is sort of similar, with roleplaying being writing chapters about your character you made up and having other players respond.
Oh yes, other things I would like to have cleared up, do you make up your own character or do you use “premades”?
Oh, and do we need a general plot? I mean, would you want someone to write about Barney conquering the world of afreet?
Sorry for all the questions I’m hurling at you guys. Really. I’m just a very inquisitive person. -luff-
okay that’s it i’m starting the story since some of you are too lazy to do it yourself!!!!!
hem hem…
Archell sighed as she walked down the hall to the principal’s office. She was in trouble again. Archell opened up her palm and saw the symbol etched into her hand that she had found on her hand this morning. Again she recalled the incident…
Her alarm clock had gone off as usual but she had been slow to wake up. She had been up very late the night before and was tired. A few minutes later her mom had come in and woke her up rather forcefully. A gust of air had emitted from her and shook the bed. Her mom had left the room by the time she had finally stuck her head out from the comfort of her bed. She had sleepily stretched and turned off her alarm. Gazing around she had noticed her window was open. she went to pull it shut when she had noticed her palm was sort of glowing… She had turned it over and there it was. It was in the sign of a thunder cloud with a mini sun poking up above it. Archell had always been aware that she was special because she had the power to change the weather as she liked. Archell had already caused the school some unexpected snowstorms in early March. The sign on her hand was enough to prove that something strange was going on around Kalamazoo Michigan, maybe even the whole world…
Archell shook her head to rid herself of the memory. However, as much as she wanted it not to be, the sign was still on her hand and it wasn’t going to fade anytime soon….
“Archell!” called a voice.
Archell turned around with the speed of lightning to find Ruby running towards her quickly, without a care in the world as to who saw her.
“Hey Ruby, what’s…” Archell began.
“Quick come with me to the bathroom. There’s something I want to show you.”
“Okay…”
The girls ran to the bathroom and hid until the bell rang for lunch.
“What’s the matter Ruby?” Archell asked.
“This is the matter!” Ruby said flipping over her palm to reveal a strange glowing symbol in the shape of the music note. “It just appeared. I…”
“…can’t get it off! Look I have one too!!!! Do you think it has something to do with our…. ya know… powers?” asked Archell in a whisper.
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there the beginning of the story. if you peoples don’t like it then that’s too bad!!!!!!!! let’s just say that they all go to the same school all know each other in some roundabout sort of way as friends or enemies whichever…. okay?
I liked Leah. May I bring back Leah as a minor character/annoyance?
Leah
Powers: Something to do with fire and dancing. No one’s really sure how those two combined, and probably never will. Virtues: She’s headstrong, has common sense, and can not panic in most situations. Good dancer.
Faults: She has a problem with accidently burning things up, which is a bit annoying. She’s snappish and takes pleasure in annoying people, doesn’t like being helpful, has an easily ignited temper and is rather antisocial. Hooray for angst.
Background: Ran away from her normal family because they didn’t like her. That or because they were fed up with her burning the soup and lighting things on fire.
Phys. Appearance: shoulder length darkish red hair with a mind of it’s own, pale skin, short and thin.
Ehmer (EH-merr)
Powers- The easiest way to put it is that Ehmer is acutely aware of his surroundings and the people in them. He can hear voices from far away, and can see quite a bit farther than a normal human. Lately, he’s been discovering that he can make other people feel/see/hear things, none of which are very pleasant. He’ hasn’t told anyone about this, because he’s a bit afraid he’ll end up using his powers for evil.
Weaknesses – Ehmer is determined, but also easily swayed. He’s afraid that someone will convince him to join another side and that he won’t see the trickery in it. His trust comes and goes like the wind and he goes through spells where he wants to distance himself from the girls, because he doesn’t want them guessing how vulnerable he really is.
Personality – Ehmer doesn’t like beating around the bush. He comes right out and says things that he often shouldn’t, but can usually convince people he doesn’t mean them. The other afareets would know that he has a dark sense of humor and can be a bit crude sometimes.
Virtues- Ehmer is very clever. Maybe he’ll run into a situation without thinking sometimes, but he’s very good at thinking on his feet.
Faults- Perhaps it’s because he’s one of the few boys, but Ehmer feels like he’s responsible for just about everything. Anything that goes wrong is his fault, according to him. He’s quick to anger and even quicker to stay angry, but can be incredibly protective and understanding as well.
Background – Ehmer just kind of showed up one day. He tells anyone who asks that his past life wasn’t very interesting at all and that he doesn’t want to talk about it, which is very true.
Lovely! They all go to the same school, then?
Just one thing thing: Ruby’s symbol is a five-pointed star enclosed in a circle, not a musical note. It’s the Chaos symbol,she wears the likeness of one as a pendant, which she got from her father.
In fact, Kricket, d’you mind not putting Ruby in the first chapter like that? She would never go to ANYONE for help, and it’s a trifle out of charecter. Great writing, though!
I’ll post when it starts out more finally.
What was that “auspicious date” that PN was talking about. Maybe their symbols our glowing because of that that. The same school thing is good though, but I don’t think they should be very close friends.
Here’s some symbol suggestions.
Wind:three horizontal lines
Water:a rain drop
Fire:a single flame
Light:a sun
Darkness:a dark circle(new moon)
Ice/snow:a snowflake
Wait… Who’re the villians? Can’t have a story without ‘em. Can there be jinn in the story? I think that’d be cool.
P.S.: If anyone wants to answer my questions (and they very much need answering), they are numbers 79, 80, and 87. Thank you very much. I have written a few fanfics on other forums, mostly for Nancy Drew, so I suppose you will enjoy my company here.
Just note: At times I am eloquent because I simply feel a need to express myself. Other times I… Am me… Yeah. At those times, my writing style will be slightly degraded and very different. (And at those times, I might not write at all).
So, once we get my questions cleared up and all the characters and their traits are straightened out and everything else hunky-dory, I should like to start.
The villains are called the Powers.
D’oh! I knew that. Well, thank you for answering that.
I am just going to sit back and read all your fabulous writing, and maybe point out some things and do some bookkeeping for people. I am not, however, going to write. I invariably mess these things up, and where am I then? I’ll tell you-messing up!
The auspicious date is October 13 on the night of a new moon. It was something like that originally, anyway, and now that’s what it is. If your thirteenth birthday happens to fall on that day, like Adela’s, whatever powers you had are greatly increased. In her case, she can now destroy as well as heal (see the original thread for an example,) as well as wings/shapeshifting, whichever we decide on.
The AHHH- We’re probably going to sort of follow the general plotline of the original story, unless anybody objects.
I don’t know what literate roleplaying is, but what we’re doing here is creating characters and writing a story about them. When you create your character, you set out a personality he/she/it has, and then the other writers can write about him/her/it, following the guidelines you set down. If somebody makes him/her/it do something out of character, you tell them, just like Phoenix did in post 85. That’s what we do, whether you want to give it a fancy name or not.
Why not jinn? All you need to do is tell us how they’re different from afareet and some of their general powers and weaknesses and I don’t see why we couldn’t have them.
The villains are the Powers, like ChinTsu said, and their army is the Force. The Powers are a group of rebel Makers out to control the world (cliched, I know, but we can come up with a cool reason later,) and the Force is composed of a bunch of afareet, jinn, humans, little bits of string, whatever, that believe the Powers are correct or are just angry at the Makers. Ruby’s father, Apepihotep, is a member of the Force, but not a Power.
Hey that’s the day after my b-day!!!
It’s also pb&j’s b-day i think right?
*gasp* Pb&j do you have magical powers that will be greatly enhanced on your b-day???
Where is he anyway?
i’ll probably stay out of this one just because i feel lazy now from the break of constant writing but in a few days lamuth will probably pile it on again and i won’t have any time. *sigh* The horrors i face to get an education… lol 
Can I start the story? It’s Monday.
Adela looked across the algebra classroom at Archell, who was whispering to the girl in front of her. Adela could just make out the words, “In five minutes, it’s going to start snowing.”
Archell always seemed to be so confident about this stuff, much more so than any weatherman on TV. Most of the school asked her if they wanted to know whether to bring their umbrellas to school tomorrow or if it would be warm enough to go to the beach. She was rarely wrong.
“Adela?” asked Ms. Carman. “Can you show us on the board how you did number seven?”
Adela looked at her notes and found an incomprehensible mess of quadratics. This had all made so much sense last night. Now it looked like a bunch of spaghetti, which was what Adela’s mind felt like. Why do I have to do quadratics anyway? wondered Adela. Stiff-legged, she walked up to the chalkboard. She picked up her notebook and copied the problem out, hoping she wouldn’t have to explain it.
“Adela, would you please tell us how–” Ms. Carman was cut off by someone’s shout of “Snow!” from the back of the classroom.
Sure enough, it was snowing. Even though it was only October, something bordering on a blizzard was raging outside. Archell wore a smirk, and the girl in front of her an awed expression. Adela took the opportunity to sneak back into her seat.
But Archell’s display had set Adela to wondering. Blizzards just didn’t happen in October, even in Michigan. Perhaps Archell had caused it? It seemed possible. At this school, there were a few people who Adela thought were a little…different. Powerful, even.
There was Leah, the one who had accidentally set the dance room on fire and then put it out without any water. The whole school knew about that one, even if they didn’t see it in the same light that Adela did. There was Ruby, the loner in Adela’s homeroom whose necklace sometimes glowed through her shirt. And there was Adela herself, and maybe Archell.
Adela wondered why nobody else seemed to pick up on the little signs that nearly screamed, “Magic!”
Because Adela was pretty sure that’s what it was. Magic.
What about Veronica and Lana? We should include them too.
((I’ll just sneak in here… Thanks for the Character development, Phantom Knorker. Burning up the dance room. That sounds like something Leah would do. I’m cool with jinns as long as we spell ‘em djinns.))
“Show off,” sniffed someone behind Adela. She turned. It was Leah. She was glowering and twisting a strand of unpredictable reddish hair around her finger. Her math paper was covered with untidy scribbles that slightly resembled numbers in varying shapes and sizes, entertwined with random pencilly sketches. One of them was a surprisingly accurate drawing of the long, straight haired back of her head. Adela smiled slightly. Leah always seemed to have a very short attention span.
Ms. Carman appeared to have heard Leah say something, because she looked up. “Leah,” she said, “Perhaps you would like to explain the concept of problem ten to us.” As Leah launched off into a long, surprisingly accurate considering the shape of her paper, explanation of the math problem, Adela glanced around the classroom at the other students.
((Good opportunity to introduce characters, people.
GAPA, I am sooooo jealous! Maggie Hamilton is the awesomest person every and I adore her! But now she’s dead! Wahhhhhhh!))
K, we can add Veronica and Lana if someone writes profiles for them, or if we think we know them well enough. But there are a few people who weren’t here for the last RRR, and it seems cruel to make them slog through the whole mess that was the old thread. So who wants to characterise Lana and Veronica?
I’ll throw in Ehmer later, because he totally doesn’t fit in this school environment.
Shaping up well so far. Leah looks all “brilliant artist”. But why only girls being described? Ehmer doesn’t fit. (Poor man.)
I’m pretty darn positive Ehmer is the only guy except Andrew…
Great job.
erm…is it Ok if I add a boy to the story, here’s his description. If you’d like to get rid of him *whimper whimper* (please don’t) that’s alright. And, um, see here, I don’t think wizards and sorceressess show off their magic like that. If its okay, can we just, um, sort of start over? *hee hee hee* (smiles innocently, then turns around with evil eyes). Really, I just thought the beginning plot was iffy. I like to start off my stories with a little surpressed action. Shall we take vote? Then I’ll give my description. (and plus just a week ago I won a contest for my writing so I’m going to Washington D.C. to tell it to senators. Just a little somthing. *harr harr*)
Yes, that really did happen.
A) start off the story differently
B) keep it the way it is.
All musebloggers, please DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST
Now, hem hem (may mee mi mo moo.)
Rex–boy/ Rexian–girl
Powers-Illusionist to the core.
Bound to the master Ballamorth, or the Keeper of Spells.
Can Illusionize most thingz, is fifteen, older than the girls, is smart and self-dependent, is very proud and cruel at times.
Is it okay?
Can make his illustions come alive.
Why doesn’t Ehmer fit?
I’m reserving judgement until you give me more description of your character, KitKat.
Mmm, Ehmer’s just too old for the school setting. It’d be like trying to fit a whale into a fish tank, you know?
Ehmer and Rex will have similar powers, also, which will lead to A LOT of conflict, just because they’re so similar and the only two boys.
What do you mean? Achmet and Kitsune are boys as well? Maybe MG should do the Veronica profiles, since she was the one who invented them.
We need more boys. Don’t get rid of Rex.
Right now, we’ve started the story two different ways. Which one are you suggesting we either keep or trash?
I would Leah a boy, but it doesn’t really fit, y’know? Leo, maybe? Naw.
Oh, well, there are four boys, then. Still Ehmer and Rex are similar beyond belief.
We’re keeping the second one if any of them, I think. Phoenix said that the first didn’t really fit.
Fine, for Zallie’s sake:
Powers–Rex is a illusionists. His power is to make things seem to be a certain way, although most of the things do not exist. He can make his illusions become real, and he is much older than the girls. He was originally from a mysterious land called Lionheath, where the great SpellKeeper lies, keeping spells and spell makers at bay. He is also the creature summoner, able to summon creatures from around the globe for his use. He is very proud and stubborn at times, but is a quick thinker and can be nice. He does not know anything on the subject of weather control, and he is not distorted by love life if that is something u peoples were wondering about. Now, you peoples need to listen to the next message.
DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST
a) start over
b) don’t start over
Let’s no exclude charachters. Ehmer is OKAY.
Similar?
Let’s put it this way.
Ehmer—a pretty cool guy more wary and stuff.
Rex—–Mysterious person.
It’s kinda like Draco vs. HP
I want to keep it like it is–I like it! I don’t however, like Veronica and Leah, I thought they were rather pointless and annoying. Rex is cool, though.
Ruby just sat…and watched. Her desk at the back of the classroom was absolutely bare, devoid of any apparent school supplies or adornments, carved into the soft wood or otherwise, except for a single sheet of paper which bore the partially-finished homework from the night before. Ruby only did as much homework as she needed to understand the subject, and all her teachers knew it. Some accepted it, knowing that the system worked for her; some fought outwardly against her refusal to follow the accepted rules of the school, and some simply ignored her, dismissing Ruby as an oddball. She didn’t care. She did well in classes anyway, and in subjects she needed extra practice in she voluntarily did more work than assigned.
Aside from the paper, the upper left corner of her desk bore a mark. It wasn’t carved or penciled in, or, in fact, put there in any recognizable way. It seemed to just have…melted into the surface. Even the false manufactured grain of the wood followed it, swirling around the symbol. A five-pointed star surrounded by a circle. The same one as was stenciled on every one of her few possesions. As her eyes scanned the mark her hand went involuntarily to her throat, then moved down to press at something under her shirt. Her father’s pendant, her mother’s chain. It was all she had left, and she treasured it more that anything.
Ruby looked away from the board and to the person standing in front of it, demonstrating a problem, as she felt eyes on her. It was that girl, what was her name, Adela. Seeing that Ruby had detected her gaze, the slightly-built, brown haired girl gave her a quick, sweet tempered smile and gestured out the window at the softly falling snow, which was distracting everyone, including the teacher. It was light, but the flakes were small and sticking to the panes of glass where they touched them, a sure sign of a long, deep fall every Michigan dweller knew, even those as naturally inept as Ruby. It was perfect for a snow day. And blatently out of season. A thought took hold of Ruby, suddenly. Did Adela do that? but she dismissed the idea. Adela just wasn’t the type to delibrately cause trouble.
The notion that something possibly kinetic was going on didn’t bother Ruby in the slightest. Magic was just the word for what people didn’t understand. Light bulbs were magic to people who didn’t have electricity.
She looked back at Adela and gave her a thin, neutral smile in return. Ruby was reclusive, it was well known, but she didn’t mind making contact with other people. And no matter how differant thier personalities, Ruby liked Adela. There were several people in this room, in fact, that Ruby liked or at least accepted, including Adela’s rather touchy friend Leah, the brash Archell, and even Ehmer, who sat two seats to the left and three ahead of Ruby. She felt sort of connected with them, somehow, but still seperate.
Suddenly, an announcement blared in on the loudspeaker, heavy with static. A power line was probably down somewhere, Ruby reflected. Already the snow was deep enough to reach half way up her calves, and her height was pretty average for a ninth grader. She tuned back in and listened.
“We apologize for the interruption,” the voice of the vice principle said fuzzily, “But we have recived several calls from parents asking that school be ended early due to road conditions. Unfortuanately, some parents are unable to reach the school due to the snow. All students who live more than ten miles away from the school please come to the main office. All other students will report to the multi-purpose room to wait for thier parents. Thank you.”
The loudspeaker fuzzed off. Immediately an excited babble broke out amoung the class, who all jumped up as one, ignoring the teacher’s desperate attempts to assign homework, and milled around in confusion, packing their books inside thier desks and grabbing their coats and scarves. Ruby got up too, but didn’t take her coat, merely opened her desk and put her homework paper inside it. The orphanage where she lived was too far away to come and get her; she would be staying at the school that night along with the other students who were long distance commuters. She saw Lana and Adela doing the same, and Ehmer muttered a curse before unwinding himself from his seat, bumping his shin against the connected desk. Two other students, Jason Berk and Emily Gozlan, also prepared for a long night stay at the school, which was a familar event for all kids who lived more than ten miles away. The principle kept sleeping bags and pillows in a closet in his office; the cafeteria would supply leftovers and the kids would sleep in thier (hopefully clean) gym clothes in the dance hall, which was big and carpeted.
Ruby got up from her chair and wove carefully through the crowd of eager, chattering students, who ignored her as she slid past, touching nothing. She was very good with crowds. Reaching the front of the classroom in a suprisingly short time considering the chaos and her position in the back of the room, Ruby fell into step a little ways behind Ehmer, who was muttering and rubbing his leg, and Leah, who was, as usual, walking with Adela. Archell was several paces down the hallway already, but through the open door Ruby could see that she looked very pleased with herself for some reason. Suspicion surfaced, but she pushed it out of her head. She had enough to worry about. She followed the group of fellow school-stayers out the door towards the office, where they would doubtless be doled supplies, but she was still careful not to be obvious in her interest in these students. Call it intuition, but she had a feeling about them. Even so, her Ruby instincts told her to stay away…but watchful all the same.
how was that? I think something is going to happen with the main charecters during the night.
okay ilike that approach better. sry about Ruby but i couldn’t think of any other way to start the story…. anyways…..
Archell walked purposely to the office just ahead of Adela, Ehmer, Leah, and that one girl, Ruby. The principal calmly informed the students that they would be staying at the school for the night and that they should not panic, and blah blah blah blah blah. Archell really didn’t care. Dutily she followed the line of students to the autitorium and was immediately swarmed with a bunch of people asking her how she knew that it was going to snow and if it would keep up until tommorrow. She brushed them off and went to go get in line for the sleeping bags and supplies. Stumbling over a boy’s foot she tripped and fell, right into Adela.
“Oh my gosh I am so sorry!!!!!” Archell apologized loudly.
“Oh no it’s okay.” Adela replied a little embarressed.
“Here let me help you up.” Archell grasped Adela’s hand and pulled her up just as she noticed Ruby watching suspiciously.
What’s up with her? Archell thought. Something was different about Ruby and she was going to find out.
Ehmer wrinkled his nose distastefully at the collection of sleeping bags and pillows in the closet. Living far from school had it’s advantages, but not many of them. He stooped down and picked up a sleeping bag and a pillow in one motion, nearly knocking someone over in the process. He didn’t, of course, say sorry.
Bloody hell, he thought irritably, stepping away from the crowd of students. He was a good half a foot taller than the tallest of the rest of the students and at least three years older. Why couldn’t someone his own age live far away? It hadn’t been a good day, and he was in no mood to spend an evening with kids half his age.
That wasn’t quite fair, he admitted to himself, smirking slightly as Archell fell into Adela. Some of them were two thirds his age.
“Hem, hem,” the principal’s secretary said, clearing her throat. “The library will be open to you until it is time for dinner. Please, leave your things in the Hall and do not run in the hallways.
Ehmer bolted for the door. First one to the library meant the best seat.
((No more Leah? Aw. Ok. I’ll fiddle around with other people’s characters. ))
Again, Ruby watched. Completely disregarding the secretary’s instructions not to run, Ehmer dashed out the door in the direction of the library, and Ruby smiled, mentally comparing his actions to her own contempt for the ‘rules’. She, however, saw no reason to flaunt this, and slipped out after him before the door had time to shut properly. All the others would no doubt follow, so she could keep an eye on them; she feel the energy radiating from them, like no other kind she could name. Something was going to happen that night, she knew it, and she wanted to be there.
As soon as she was out, she rose to her toes and followed Ehmer. She was just far enough behind him to keep him in view, and she followed, as far as she knew, without detection to the library. However, as he neared the door she broke course and doubled around to the other door, where she knew her enterance would be concealed by a bookcase. It never paid to be obvious.
She swung the door open, and let it close behind her. Through a gap in the books– Anne of Green Gables and the last book of The Foundation Trilogy–she could see Ehmer already spread out full length on one of the long couches. She pulled over a box of stored magazines and settled down to wait for…whatever would happen. It was fated that she wouldn’t wait long.
okay, next the others come in, something happens, Ruby is mysterious and annoying, blah blah blah…
No one said no more Leah. Phoenix just thinks that she’s annoying. Personally, I think most of the characters are annoying, because we’ve had so litttle time to fiddle around with them.
Ehmer stretched like on the window seat and pulled a battered old blue book from his pocket, the picture of an unaware reader. He turned his head to face his book. Unless someone coudl see his eyes, it would look like he was doing just that, reading. Instead, he tuned out the noise of the cars outside and only listened to the noises in the library.
Yes, someone followed him. He’d heard noises in the corridor, but now he was sure. Someone, probably a girl, was sitting behind a shelf a few rows a way.
Casually, Ehmer yawned and began to read for read. He doubted she was a threat, so there was no need to show that he’d heard or noticed her.
Maybe its better if we just write the story, and edit it later. But we should discuss things before we make write an important section.
Adela stepped into the library, inhaling the smell of old books and Windex. Leah was already off somewhere, no doubt hoping not to burn anything as she read. Adela looked around for Archell to ask whether it would still be snowing on her thirteenth birthday, which was tomorrow. It wasn’t that she minded, exactly. Adela loved snow and the howling, whirling wind that came with all the best blizzards. It was just that she didn’t want to be stuck with a bunch of people she barely knew, on her birthday.
119 – Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me.
Archell waltzed into the library after being shouted at for running, slipping, and knocking over the principal (by accident of course). Finally having freed herself of her adoring “fans”, she had run to the safety of the library. Looking around she made sure no one was around her, took her stuff and witha puff of air jumped onto a shelf. There, she sat down to read. Opening her book she settled herself comfortably against the wall, and started to read. Suddenly she could have sworn that she saw a long white cobra with purple/violet eyes ((guess who!)). Then it was gone. Shrugging, she returned to her book.
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Issy quickly fled out of sight of Archell as she looked up from her book. Issy was here on a misson. She was actually was enjoying sneaking around the library in cobra form. Silently, Issy wished she could have used her butterfly form, but no, Hazel got to use that form. Hissing slightly, she raised her jeweled head as she saw Achmet dropping from a shelf to join Zelda on the other side of the library. Zelda and Achmet were in small cat forms so they could hide in the shelves by the prophosized ones. Just a little longer… she thought quickly slithering into a cubby hole. As she saw the students leaving for the cafeteria for dinner she decided, Time for another form…. Quickly she changed into a young teen and followed quietly and inconspiciously to the cafeteria.
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Archell spotted Adela hurrying towards her witha look of question on her face. As she slowed her pace to the cafe. Adela hurried up and asked her, “Will it continue snowing tommorrow? Because it’s my birthday and I was just wondering…” Adela asked.
Smiling Archell said, “Why yes, Adela, I believe it will.” Her thunder gray eyes sparkled with a little light, and in a few minutes the principal came over the intercom. “Students, the snow has seemed to increase in it’s incredible blizzard, your parents might have to pick you up on the 14th instead of tommorrow. Classes and School will be canceled tommorrow…” Adela looked amazed.
“Well, I guess it will!” Archell grinned. Then looking extremely pleased at herself for a reason known only to herself. Then stopping, she turned back around and said, “Hey Adela!!”
Adela turned around.
“Have a nice Birthday tommorrow!” Archell grinned again and walked off to the Cafeteria unaware that she and all the prophecized ones were being watched.
((does that sound good?))
Uh, I’ll be completely honest and say that I really do not like the turning-into-animals-in-school-thing. Aside from that, yeah, it’s alright.
Awesome!
Ruby sat on her box. She watched as Archell and Adela came into the library, and then left, presumably for food. She was getting to be a bit nervous, she admitted it. But mixed in with that nervousness was excitement, quite a bit of excitement, and anticipation.
On a whim, she reached inside her shirt and pulled out her circled pentagram on its chain, letting it show for once.
Feeling a bit exposed, Ruby looked down at the pendant–and realized it was glowing. Her head darted up and her eyes narrowed, and for a moment she thought she saw a…a cat. It seemed out of place somehow, but suddenly Ruby’s mind felt clouded and she couldn’t put her finger on why. And then the cat, a small tawney brown, winked at her, and dissapeared.
The fog in her mind vanished with the cat. For a moment she hesitated, and then decided to do something completely out of charecter. Stepping out from behind the shelf, Ruby walked out to the center of the library and just…stood there. Struggling with an urge to slip along the walls in the shadows, she walked over to Ehmer, who still appeared to be oblivious as he read a book, but his eyes were not moving. Before she lost the initiative she said softly, “Do not look now, but we are being watched. Tell the others, it has something to do with… this.” she gestured toward the glowing necklace.
oh yeah, if we decide not to so the animals, I will cut that last part.
Ehmer turned his head to look at the younger girl. “Huh?” he said rather stupidly, looking her up and down. His sharp eyes focused on the necklace almost at once, but he tried not to let his gaze linger. “What?” he added for good measure.
The others? Mentally, he frowned. What was she going on about? She couldn’t know could she? He shook his head ever so slightly. No, she couldn’t. She was just being queer.
“Uh, it’s very pretty,” he put in after a moment of uncomfortable silence.
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Ehh, we can just leave the animals in there. I think they’re twinky and annoying, but I’m not writing all of this and it’d be silly to go back now.
NO!!!!!!!!! I like the animals part…. plus Issy can do that in my other book too so…..
Archell and Adela walked animatively down the hallway to the library with full stomachs and a few snacks for later. Suddenly, they were intercepted by Ehmer.
“Follow me!!” he said panting. Then he ran off towards the library, still motioning for them to follow. Archell looked at Adela at the same time she looked at Archell, and then they took off running after Ehmer ignoring the shouts of fellow students and teachers. They followed him through a maze of library shelves and books to find him waiting with Leah and Ruby at the back of the library.
“Okay what’s up?” Archell asked boldly. For there was an odd sort of feeling in the air and she wanted to know what.
Ruby pulled out her pendant necklace that was still glowing, and simply said, “This.”
“What the…” Adela started.
“I know it’s wierd but still I swear I saw a twny brown cat ‘wink’ at me!!! And then I pulled this out and it was glowing!!!!” Ruby said in a rush. The others could tell that this was something she didn’t do everyday so they kept quiet. Unfortunately Ehmer had no such qualms.
“You saw a cat, wink at you? But that’s strictly impossible according to the laws of….” Ehmer said.
“EHMER!!!!” whispered Archell and Leah. ((they were in a library ya know))
“fine fine…” Ehmer grunted.
“What are we going to do?”
“Well….”
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((now to check in with Issy and Hazel))
Silently Issy walked as a teen over to where Hazel was watching in her teen form.
what were you thinking!!! ((they were using telepathy)) Issy asked.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Hazel thought coolly.
You nearly blew our cover!!!
Oh… well i couldn’t help it!! After all Archell did see you.
Well at least i didn’t wink!!!
So?
Oh, never mind…. Let’s just finish this job okay?
Okie dokie Issy whatever you say!!!!
Tell Stella to get her little snake hiney over here!
someone’s in a bad mood today…
You’re right I just need to calm down a little…
Ah! There you are Stella!
Ready Stella?
As ready as I’ll ever be
Let’s go…
Issy and Stella quickly walked over (in human modern teen forms) to the group of the prophecized ones over in the back corner of the library.
((Well I’ll let someone else have a shot at the meeting.. I can’t take all the credit ya know!!!!!))
oops i didn’t see that last part (#126) sry!!!! let’s just assume that Ruby was able to convince Ehmer that she wasn’t insane and stuff like that….
…but Ehmer wasn’t going to admit that there was anything wrong in the first place. He honestly doesn’t want to be a part of this whole magic thing, even though the signs are infront of his little nose.
Also, Ehmer doesn’t know nothing about laws of anything, aside from the ones that give him freedom of speech.
Am I the only one who things this would function better as an RP-sort of thing?
THE JINN
A small group of whatever is left of the ancient tribe of spectural, spiritual people. They are immortal and appear solid, but they are not. Being employed by the Makers to help push destiny along, their sightings are the signals of either good luck or bad. There are few remaining because though they are immortal, the Jinn can be captured and stuffed into oil lamps. Though they cannot give their masters exactly what they want, as mentioned in legends, they can alter destiny and fate. Capturing one and maintaining it’s life is hard, because Jinn lose their power in captivity. The only “Jinn-in-a-lamp” alive is Hroth, and he, unfortunately, is in the posession of the Powers.
HROTH
Race: Jinn
Powers: Can alter destiny
About: He has lost some of his power, but recently he drank a “spirit potion” to maintain the remnants of his power. He is still strong enough to influence others–though not so strongly–into joining the Force.
-continued later, gotta go-
I was going to write more, but my comp lab teacher was coming and I accidentally pressed submit. So…
And let’s just go with the animals. They have to watch, and the MC’s school is so infested with mice, rats, snakes, moths, and a stray cat or two that it would be kind of hard to notice.
I’m adding weak magic detection to the ever-growing list of powers the girls, Ehmer, and Rex have, just because it’s not too big and important and powerful but still useul. If anyone objects, just ignore the parts of the story with magic detection in them. (My take is that it’s “weak” because they can’t detect when a spell is being cast or what it is, only when something is enchanted and isn’t moving around too much, like Archell’s blizzard.)
Adela couldn’t believe it. What was it with Archell? She could swear that the girl was controlling the weather or something and had done this just to spite her. Or did Archell know something she didn’t? But then, that wasn’t hard. Adela didn’t know what was going on with the blizzard or the possible magic or the funny little flickers she kept seeing out of the corner of her eye or pretty much anything.
All Adela wanted were answers and to be with her family, tiny and strange as it was, on her thirteenth birthday. It didn’t look like she’d be getting either any time soon.
But she was distracted from her thoughts by a little hazel-coloured butterfly darting behind the water fountain. While it was plain and blended in with the bricks, Adela could detect a faint sort of…glimmering about it in her mind. She couldn’t see the glimmer, but she was sure it was there. Magic?
Great. Another mystery, probably another one that would never be answered. Adela hated all this. Groaning, she headed toward the cafeteria.
Most of the other junior high and high school students who weren’t going home seemed to be packed into the cafeteria. She spotted Archell, who was surrounded by a crowd of kids. Ruby and Ehmer were sitting in a dark corner, heads put together. Ruby’s hand was covering something on her chest, where Adela though that there might be another glitter, though it was hard to tell from this distance. Every so often, someone would whistle at them, which neither seemed to notice.
Did Ruby know about the glitters, if she had one? There was one way to find out. Adela grabbed a tray with mashed potatoes, peas, and tomato soup and headed over toward the corner. She hoped Ruby and Ehmer wouldn’t chew her head off for being curious.
When she got there, they both turned around to glare at her. “Bugger off,” grumbled Ehmer, but no one thought he really meant it. Adela slid into a seat.
“I have questions. You might have answers,” she said, trying to ignore the sense of apprehension she felt. Ruby and Ehmer might not be dangerous, but they weren’t that easy to be around, either.
“Questions,” said Ruby ruminatively. “Like what?”
“Like, what are you covering up with your hand? It’s got some sort of glitter to it.”
Ruby gripped the thing tightly, glaring at Adela. She could see it glowing now, making Ruby’s hand reddish and lit-up.
Ruby was saved from answering by Leah, who was coming over. “There you are, Adela. I came to say happy birthday.”
“My birthday’s tomorrow,” said Adela, glad for an excuse to look away from Ruby.
“In a few minutes, it will be tomorrow,” said Leah, sitting down with a can of soda. Adela, Ruby, and Ehmer all glanced at the clock, wondering how time could pass so quickly. But sure enough, it read 11:58.
When the bells of a nearby church bagan to chime midnight, everyone jumped. They all seemed to be surprised that it was so late.
“Happy birthday now,” said Leah, but she wasn’t so sure that it was so happy. After all, Adela had just screamed and landed face-first i her mashed potatoes.
Gak. Wrote mine after kricket’s, but it could still fit, I guess.
it’s okay. after all they’re all from different points of view.
Issy and Stella walked silently over to the chosen ones and appeared suddenly at Adela’s side. Of course, Adela screamed and landed face first in her mashed potatos but then in a second they were gone. As if by magic.
“Hello,” Issy said simply as if appearing out of nowhere was something you see everyday.
“What the… Who…” Archell started.
sry g2g my parents think… PARENT ALERT!!!!
Whee! Leah’s back! *dancey dance*
Adela, scowling in an almost Leah – ish fashion, extracted her face from the mashed potatoes and quickly wiped it off her nose. Leah resisted the urge to giggle – barely. It was only too obvious, after all, thought Ehmer distainfully. This was very strange. First Adela, the unlucky brithday girl, than Ruby, serious and quiet, who had a glowing necklace, and than Leah. He had heard of Leah, of course, she had practically burned down the dance room, or so he was told. Though not unpleasantly so, the air around her seemed to smell a little bit like smoke. Suddenly, panic gripped him. Did they know what he could do? Deep in thought, he didn’t notice that he was staring directly at Leah for several minutes straight.
Leah, now finished snorting at Adela, turned back to her green beans. A minute later, she sensed someone watching her and looked up. Ehmer was staring her, utterly, or so it seemed, transfixed. Oh no. Had she done something abnormal again? Panicking, she glanced around, than realised her finger was growing warm. Now the heat spread to her hand, than intensified. Trying to look normal, she quickly hid her hand behind her her back and took a big drink of water.
Ruby had been staring, transfixed, at the passing events. In the corner of her eye she saw…something…flit past the window, as dark as night itself.
Suddenly she shook her head as if to clear her thoughts. She had decided on something. She stood up abruptly, another thing she did not usually do. Ruby was a lone wolf, so to speak, but she was entirely and uncomfortably aware that she knew something none of the other did. And she also knew that if she didn’t work with them, none of them would be safe.
“Listen.” she spoke quietly, lowering her voice so it wouldn’t echo around the empty cafeteria. “I have to tell you guys something…and here isn’t safe. We need to go to the dance room…now.”
She got up from her seat, but looked back down at the incredulous and slightly suspicious faces. None of them could recall Ruby ever stringing more than three words together, or standing openly in such bright light. Her pentagram, glowing slightly reddish and hanging painfully obviously over her shirt, twinkled slightly, a bit threateningly under the atmosphere of sudden doubtfulness. Ruby said quietly, “Just trust me.” She turned on her heel and hurried down the hall to the dance room, keeping once more to the shadows.
“Oh, for God’s sake,” Ehmer started loudly, finishing with a string of curses that would certainly not be appropriate for the Museblog. He frowned, half-considering not going, but something about Ruby’s tone made him a little bit curious. Just a little bit. He turned to face the group. “Go,” he said forcefully. That was all it took, they all set off after Ruby, some of the younger ones looking a bit scared. Ehmer’s mouth twisted in a wry smile and he followed along after them, feeling oddly protective.
The dance room was located in the top floor of the room, overlooking the parking lot and the front path. When they arrived, Ruby had already drawn the blinds and lit the small lamps on either side of the room.
Everyone stood in a group around the door. Leah’s feet tapped out a dance step on the floor and Adela stared worriedly at the floor. No one spoke. Ehmer shut the door and turned to face Ruby.
“What’s all this?” he asked a little bit coldly. “If this is your idea of some sort of joke, it’s not funny. We’ve followed you, so tell us what the hell is going on.” Some of the littler kids’ eyes widened as Ehmer spoke.
Wow. Phoenix is an amazing writer. Did I notice that before? All hail the mighty Phoenix! *bows*
Slightly astounded by Ruby, the others followed her in silence. Something big was happening, and presumably Ruby knew more about it than they did.
Archell couldn’t help grinning, despite the fact that she was walking in the school hallways at midnight with a bunch of people she barely knew. She felt powerful, like a catalyst. After all, if it hadn’t been for her snowstorm, they would all be sitting happily at home. Or unhappily, as it may have been. It struck Archell that she really didn’t know that much about any of the others, including what their home lives were like. If she was going to work with these people, as she was beginning to get the sense that she’d have to, she’d have to know them. She’d have to trust them.
***
When Leah stepped therough the doors of the dance room, she was reminded unpleasantly of the fire. That had been too close. Even the dimmest of students could tell that something was up when she set the hall on fire and then put it out. Luckily, something had happened to distract their attention. Something always did. That was the way school worked.
She could almost smell the smoke, hear the screams of the dancers. Leah had only done what she had to. Just because it required using power she had tried to hide didn’t mean she should let innocent people die. Did it?
Who are you calling little? How old are they, anyway? Adela’s just turned thirteen a few minutes ago, but what about the rest of them?
Ehmer closed his eyes briefly as he waited for Ruby to answer. All the things he’d been able to do, everything he’d seen, it seemed like she knew. But how could she? He’d been careful to hide his steps along the way. Books from the library put back exactly where they’d been, questions asked in exactly the right way. He didn’t want to believe he’d been careless, but there didn’t seem to be any otehr alternative. He sighed, casting a calculating glance around the room. And what of the others? There was something strange about Leah, to be sure, and Ruby, herself, had always been clear. There was that girl who always knew the weather, but from what he knew, the others were fairly normal. Then again, he didn’t know very much about most of the others. He didn’t make a habit of associating with the younger students.
He crossed his arms, only later realizing what an agressive gesture that must have been. “Well?” he asked, arching an eyebrow at Ruby.
Ruby looked up, her eyes very alive and alert. “I’m not lying,” she stated. “Maybe you think I’m making this up, but I’m not and I want you to understand that and believe me. If I were lying–.”
“Cut the prologue and get to the point.” Impatience and the strange nervous energy in the air made Ehmer sharp-tempered. It wasn’t that he disliked Ruby, but more that he found himself aching for the knowledge she’d lured them with. The knowledge that she wasn’t giving them.
Ruby fixed Ehmer with her gaze, before sighing and looking at the rest of them in turn. “Alright,” she said, her voice gaining confidence.
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Ehmer’s an old 16, so, yeah, he thinks of the rest of them as tykes. 
**other
***Ruby, herself, had always been queer.
They can’t just take any form they want, remember. Issy, Stella, Zelda, and Hazel are sorcerers, not afareet. So here’s and explanation. Certain afareet can cast spells than allow sorcerers to take an animal form for several hours.
Can I bring Nestea in? Please? This sounds like her environment.
Suddenly, the loudspeaker boomed on before Ruby could speak.
“Students”, said the pricipal’s loud nasal voice,”Students, I would like you to welcome Shanise Smith. We have been having some trouble with the utilities, and she is here to assist our janitors. Please try to make her feel welcome and do not bother her while she is doing her job.”
Ehmer lifted his eybrows. “You were saying?”he gestured toward Ruby. But they were interupted again. The door opened and a woman stepped out.
Ehmer blinked. She didn’t look much older than him. And she was a janitor?
If she was surprised, she gave no sign of it. She simply said, “What are you doing here?”
Oops I need to go to bed. by.
Yay! no one has put my idea off in some crazy direction. thanx peoples.
“We could ask the same of you”, Ehmer retaliated, hoping the women would be too intimidated by the fact that he was about a foot taller to ask more questions.
Her stone-faced expression didn’t even change. “Didn’t you here the anouncement? I came here to help fix the pipes and electricity. I thought I’d go here first, since their was a fire in here a few months ago. It could have weakened the electrical circuts.”
Shanis picked up her toolbox and headed for the hall that lead from the dance room to the backstage of the auditorium, then stopped, turned around, and looked at the five students. “And you can carry on your little discusion. Don’t worry, I won’t listen.”
Ehmer and the girls stood in uncomfortable silence. Finally, Leah turned and looked at Ruby. “Well?” she asked.
Ruby shook her head. The message was clear. They couldn’t risk letting this women overhear what she was going to tell them.
Leah began to figit impatiently, while Ehmer paced back and forth along one of the many taped lines on the floor.
Something was nagging at the back of Archell’s mind. There was something distinctly out of place about the Shanis Smith. Some thing besides her extremely pale skin, ice blue eyes, and long, silver hair, which was held up in a ponytail by a tie with a white feather.
After what seemed like hours, she finally returned.
“Um..How were the circuts?” Adela asked lamely
Shanis shrugged. “They should hold out. And I have a feeling that this blizzard will stop soon. Very soon.” she finished, glaring at Archel.
And that’s when Archel noticed. Shanis had said that she had just come here, but she was wearing a rib tank, khaki shorts, and sandals.
While Archell gaped at the strange Shanis Smith, Adela was trying to place what was wrong with the woman. She looked like ice made human, sure, but there was something else wrong.
She didn’t get to continue her thoughts, though, because the loudspeaker blared on again. “Adela Nelson, ther’s a call for you at the front office,” it crackled. Everyone looked at Adela. She shrugged. Adela didn’t know who would be calling her after midnight, especially since Gran and Andrew were highly untrusting of phones.
But the phone was Gran, her voice distorted. “Adela. Are you alone?” The girl glanced around the office. The principal was elsewhere, and the secretary was at home. She was alone.
“Yeah. Why are you calling? You hate the phone.”
“I know,” said Gran. “I was going to tell you when you got home, but then there was that snowstorm, and this is important. I don’t have much longer. She expects me back.”
“What?” said Adela, confused as ever.
“I’m not your grandmother, and Andrew isn’t your cousin. We were sent to watch over you after your parents were killed by the Force. She realised you were in danger because of your birthday.”
“Who is ’she’? What’s going on? What does my birthday have to do with any of this stuff?”
“A lot. It’s a full moon tonight, right? You have magic, Adela. And because of your birthday, you’re getting even more,” Gran’s voice was becoming less steady. “Now, when I leave, you have to find the others. You need to, or else you won’t stand a chance. She will send someone to meet you, escort you. Good luck, Adela. Good-bye.”
“Gran? Gran?” But the line was dead. Adela groaned. What Gran had just said sounded like some kind of a prophecy. This was crazy. Adela put her head in her hands and walked back to the dance room. At least she understood the part about ‘others.’ She’d found them.
And she faced them. “Do any of you have any clue what the Powers are? Or how important today is? Or something?”
-joins Queenie with assorted snacks- I always miss out on these. Too late to start, so I’ll just watch. ^^
-eats another little Japanese salted crab-This is getting exciting. You guys can WRITE. *envious look*
“No clue,” said Leah with a nonchalant shrug, although it aroused something in her memory. She felt sure it would sound rather stupid saying “Yeah, sure, I just don’t know what,” though, so she kept her mouth shut and focused instead on the janitor lady, Shanisa, or whatever. There was something about her Leah felt extremely uncomfortable with, though she couldn’t name just what. ((Ice-y person, fire-y person, hint hint?))
Ruby glanced at the janitor person; it was clear that she was not going to leave any time soon. She said quietly to the others, “I do.”
They looked at her in surprise, and Ehmer slightly suspiciously, but she went on almost angrily, “It was what I’ve been trying to tell you about! Before my Ma died I–” she stopped. Ruby Laan had had a hard night, and this reminder of her mother was not helping. She wasn’t used to showing her feeling to anyone. After a moment, however, she sighed, and said, “Well, I guess I’ll just have to tell it from the beginning. Get comfortable, this could take a while.”
She rather purposefully (for Ruby) moved to the end of the room farthest away from Shanis, and the rest followed after a moments hesitation. She sat down and they followed, all except for Ehmer, who scowled and remained standing, casting covert glances at the janitor. Ruby started to speak, softly.
“The only things I know about the Powers is that they are some kind of lunatic elitist cult, and they think they are somehow chosen to rule the world. I think they might be a little religious, because, from what my mother told me, they have some sort of, well, some sort of a prophecy. It says that they can’t take over untill they gain some sort of a power; well, actuallty I’m not sure what the prophecy says. But I think…”
She stopped, looking resigned. “I guess I’ll just have to show you, then.” Ruby took a deep, nervous breath, and said the following in a chanting, almost singsong tome:
“‘Before Order might reign free, the Adversaries must be vanquished. They shall come from sand, and be born of Fire, Air, Vision, Life, and Doom. Guard well thine gates, lords of Cosmos, for from below and from above shall they come to claim dominion and shatter Law. And stone shall burn, and thunder will be heard in clear sky, and those who would be healed shall be wounded, and seen shall be the unexisting. When Chaos-child vanquishes Chaos-lord, then shall the Cosmos be torn asunder.’”
Ruby stopped. She felt suddenly weary. “Don’t ask me what it means,” she said, “I just heard it from my mother. She made me memorize it, and believe me it took a while. All I know is that, whatever it really is, the Powers–well, I have reason to belive the Powers think the ones mentioned in the Prophecy, you know, destroying the Cosmos and all that, are, well, us.”
And once more, Ruby is only about a year or so younger than Ehmer, and she dosn’t like people bossing her around. Charecter development:
Ehmer and Ruby fight a lot, especially when he tries to pull age or gender on her. Secretly, though, they repect the each other, if they don’t exactly love the idea of the anyone being above them.
I’d say they fight, but only distantly so. More like disagree, ’cause it’s not like they’d hang out during regular school. Probably more like fighting in the corridors than anything else. Also, I doubt Ehmer would pull gender on anyone. He does it with age, for sure, but he’d understand that it’d really offend Ruby so he’d stay away from that.
Yeah, so by you.
But didn’t you say Ehmer feels responsible for the group ’cause he is the only boy, other than Rex who hasn’t come in yet?
How are we going to put Rex in, anyway?
Aha, so Ruby’s mom knew her daughter was a special-type person. Possible co-plot? Rex is a little behind, I’m afraid. Throw him in sometimes soon, or else it’ll be very forced and random.
Archell frowned. She always felt rather proud of the fact that she had some strange control over weather, and undoubtedly it had earned her several clique-ish type followers, but she didn’t like to think it meant anymore – like she had some strange responsibility to the world, something she had to live up to.
I’m not in charge of Rex. Whoever made him up should put him in, and soon, or else, as Phoebe said, it will be forced and unrealistic.
As Adela listened to Ruby’s prophecy, she grew more and more alarmed. Gran had told her something like that in bedtime stories, stories about evil lords and noble shapeshifting afareet who tried to vanquish them. Her favorite had always been the one about the kids who finally defeated evil for good and lived happily ever after. She could still hear Gran’s soothing voice telling it, the tale about how a few teenagers were transported to another world, one with magic that they had to learn to use. Adela still loved that story, or at least she had when she was twelve.
Now, she wasn’t so sure. It was one thing to listen to a legend, safe in your grandmother’s lap. It was quite another to be alone and part of the story.
Rex is ChinTsu’s, isn’t he? But he doesn’t have to come in really soon. Maybe he’s from a different part of the world and was transported to Aebvoraena separate from the rest of the MC’s or something.
Shanis is Nestea, by the way. And the storm will stop because although Archell is more powerful, Nestea is more experienced.
So Adela’s Gran is that “Aging deer Afreet” that PN talked about?
I was mixed up. I assumed that we were going to start with all of them knowing what was going on. Once they figure stuff out, you bet Ehmer will get protective as all heck.
What? Rex is KitKat’s. My characters are Achmet, Nestea, Kitsune, Akkaveesh, and Mokala.
Sorry, ChinTsu.
Yes, that’s Gran, the aging deer afreet.
Rex! We need you in, pronto.
I think we need a post from Ehmer’s POV now.
“Us?” Ehmer raised an eyebrow, still playing the fool. “Whaddya mean by that? We’re a group of kids in a school overnight. There’s nothing important ’bout that. It’s not like–.”
“There is.”
Ehmer spun around, looking for who spoke. It was Adela, who was suddenly wide-eyed as if she’d just become enlightened. “It’s my birthday,” she announced.
If it weren’t for the fact that everything was so serious, Ehmer would have laughed outloud. First, Ruby mentioned a religious cult and a prophecy and now Adela wanted them to celebrate her birthday. It was all too ridiculous. “That’s nice,” he said briskly, ignoring the shorter girl, “but as I was saying,”
“It’s the full moon tonight,” Adela stated as if this were some sort of breaking news.
Ehmer turned to glance out the window. Adela was right. In the middle of the almost black sky, a perfect sphere hung suspended, almost right outside the window.
Was it possible that this was actually important? Ehmer frowned, that would complicate things. Deciding against agreeing, he gave a cruel sort of snort. “Lovely,” he drawled, his act back in place, “are you a were-wolf or something?”
“She’s right,” Ruby said from her corner. “The moon will help.”
The room fell silent for a moment. Outside, the wind rattled the shutters, which banged ominously against the glass. A strange whistling could be heard from the trees just outside the window. “That’s it,” Ehmer said, shooting Shanis a very suspicious look. “We’re getting the heck out of here. Once we’re somewhere else, you and you,” he pointed to Ruby and Adela, “are explaining exactly what you mean by all this nonsense.”
“I don’t know if that’s the best idea,” Shanis said softly, stepping towards the students. “You might be better off staying here.”
Ehmer brushed her off. “No,” he said coldly, “I don’t think we are.” Something about the girl put him on guard, but he didn’t want to stay to find out what it was. He pulled the door open sharply, half expecting it to be locked, and stuck his head out into the corridor outside. “Right, go on,” he said to Ruby. “You lead the way.”
“Uh.” Ruby looked between Ehmer and Shanis for a moment, before nodding decidedly and leading the rest of the students down the hall. Ehmer regarded Shanis for a moment, before following Ruby and the crowd.
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DUN DUN DUN.
My turn! It might take a while, so don’t post untill you see my part, please.
Ruby wasn’t going anywhere in particular as she hurried down the hall, still keeping to the shadows. Most of the students and faculty were in bed already, but she wanted to be cautious anyway if what she suspected proved correct. It wasn’t that she minded leading, after all she was at least a year older than everyone but Ehmer. She just wasn’t used to being anywhere but the background. As she walked, she kept talking softly.
“Even if that prophecy is wrong, which it probably is whatever it means, I am almost positive that the Powers, the ‘cosmos’ mentioned, thinks us five are the enemies they have to defeat. I think I know how to tell, but first we have to get somewhere safe. If they are looking for us, I don’t really want to stay and find out what they plan to do to keep us from doing whatever it is we are supposed to do.”
She poked her head around a corner and, seeing it was empty, continiued.
“One thing I do know is that none of us–and I mean none of us–is normal by the general meaning of the word. Firstly,” she said, slowing and turning to face them, “This,” she held up the necklace, which was still glowing with a faint red colour, “Detects energy. I just noticed in the library, when I was spying of Ehmer.”
“Oh, so it was you,” said Ehmer. “I should have known.”
Ruby glared at him and he shut up, but she strongly suspected his obedience had more to do with curiosity than respect.
“So,” she continiued, “When any energy is out of balance, like around an erupting volcano, a sudden fire–” she gave Leah a glance and the other girl took a step back. “How did you…” she stuttered, then realized what she was saying.
“As I said, I knew then because of my pentagram, although I didn’t make the connection, and I know now because, well, I can sort of feel it, if you know what I mean.”
The others looked blank, so she sighed and went on. “Also, I have been getting these feelings, these senses of disorder, all day, and I think it has to do with the full moon. Think about it, will you? Archell–yes, I know you did it as well–made a blizzard that sucsessfully buried the school in snow in the middle of October. When Adela walked past the nurse’s office on the way to the dance room all the kids in there left, I saw them, claiming to be feeling much better and, in case you haven’t all noticed, Ehmer keeps turning transparent. I take it he didn’t want me to tell you that,” she said sardonically as Ehmer gasped and shuddered. She ignored him and said finally, although quite a bit more quietly, “And every time one of you does something, well, odd, I can feel it. Listen, before today I would sometimes be able to tell if some kid was picking on another one because I could sense the energy he was using to hit him–If I was lucky. Right after Adela pitched into her potatoes I knew that a large wave just hit a fishiing boat off the coast. Don’t you see? We can do stuff that everyone else would either kill to be able to do or kill us. We can do magic, don’t you understand? And we are most likely being chased by people who do want to kill us!” With that, she turned around and slid down the hall, only her long habit of staying hidden keeping her out of sight from anyone who might be looking. Or perhaps, there was something else, because as she passed, would-be viewers would feel the sting of icy wind and then forget about her entirely. Only Ehmer, Adela, and Leah appeared to notice her pentagram, which was glowing silver and coated with frost.
Huh, I guess turning transparent gets added to Ehmer’s list of powers.
Hem, hem…
Sorry yuse guys… I was studying for… Tests. Yay.
Anywho, if any of you guys want to make up a Jinn, feal free… Yeah.
I’m sort of changing Hroth just a little bit…
Just a little tidbit on the Jinn… You know how in Aladdin, if he did not find the genie guy, he wouldn’t have been a sultan? The Jinn do similar things, they guide people to treasure or their deaths or writing on stone walls or whatnot. And those lead to whatever happens next… Blahblah…
HROTH
Power: Can alter fate… He is corrupted by the Powers and is under their control…
Pros: He can convince people to follow the Powers
Cons: Since being captured, his powers have dminished significantly. He can still enter people’s thoughts, but he can’t iinfluence them as strongly as he used to. (They can fight him off)\
About: Hroth has sort of a double-personality. Sometimes he is mischevious and sometimes he is dark and malevolent. The Powers do have some kind of control over him, but often-times he does things out of spite.
The end. Yay.
Comments? Questions? Concerns? Don’t like Hroth at all? Talk to me.
suddnely, a giant patato came crashing down to earth. on it were surfing dinasours. it crashed right off the coast. it started a tsunami that killed all but the smallest of mammals. then the dinasours surfed to the shore and dominated the earth.
moral #1- dinasours are aliens
moraL #2-patatos com from outer space
moral #3- always invite lucifer to your barbeques
Zyviva, GET SOME SPELLING LESSONS!!!
how do you surf on a potato?
Oooh, Lucifer.
Nestea isn’t evil, okay.
“I’d be careful if I were you.”
The five companions froze and spun around, trying to locate the source of the voice.
“What do you wan’t”, asked Ruby cooly, looking at Shanis, who had just rounded the corner out of nowhere.
Shanis sighed. Adela noticed she looked drained, and her cheeks were slightly flushed. The was a long, ugly gash running down her cheek.
“I was just warning you to be careful. Some of the students here -and teachers for that matter, are not what they seem. And a snow storm in October draws the Force here like flies to a carcass, if you’ll forgive the similie.”
Adela blinked. The Force? Wasn’t that what Gran had been talking about.
(To elaborate on that. Shanis((Nestea)) was previously attacked by a group of less-powerful ice afareet in the shape of snowy owls. She was able to distract them((by using ice to encase their talons to the wall and ceiling, but not before one managed to land a talon on her cheek. She was forced to use elemental power, which Ruby’s pentagram felt.)
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What?
Lucifer laughed.
Heh, but Ehmer thinks she is.
Ooh, Lusifer, Ink. spelled something with a “c” for an “s” sound!
Good point.
What about Adela’s POV now?
Sheesh, you guys can write. It’s enough to give a girl an inferiority complex.
The outpatients are out in full force tonight, I see.
*shoots Queenie J. with self-esteem rays*
you can write EXTREMELY well. Trust me, I couldn’t write like that 2 years ago.
Adela? Your wish is my command. Although, you know, I don’t have to write Adela just because she’s my character. It’s fine for anyone else to write from her POV, as long as I can savage every little OOC blip you’ve got. 
Happy birthday to me, thought Adela, if only to anchor her spinning mind to some sort of reality. Even though magic, a blizzard, and some sort of prophecy were all swirling around the school, it was still Adela’s birthday. Something was the same.
But then again, she was older now. More powerful, too, if Gran was to be believed. And Gran never lied.
Did that mean she had more healing power? She had always been able to help with pain and bleeding from little cuts. Could she erase them completely now?
Adela tapped a broken fingernail on her palm. There was a sort of sign there, a Chinese charcter that Adela couldn’t read. It appeared burned into her skin, although it certainly hadn’t been there yesterday. This probably had something else to do with the whole magic thing. Adela was getting utterly sick of the whole magic thing. It was exciting, though. And terrifying.
Her nail snagged, and a bit of blood welled up inside the mark. Excellent. Now I can see if I can heal wounds completely.
Adela pushed a tiny fraction of magic into the cut with a little puff of mental wind. It filled her vein, bubbling up wiht the blood.
Suddenly, the whole character split open. Along every brush-like line, more blood than Adela thought could fill her body poured out. The lines themselves glittered slightly, like Ruby’s pentagram.
No one seemed to notice, because Adela hadn’t cried out. Oddly enough, the cuts didn’t hurt at all. She just stared at them with a sort of sick fascination before her head began to spin and her stomach to heave.
“There’s..so much,” she murmured to herself, but Leah turned around at the sound of her voice. Seeing the crimson gore that was Adela’s hand, she gasped.
Adela’s knees buckled. Shanis Smith said, “What in the name of the Makers did you do?” That was the last thing Adela heard before she pitched forward for the second time.
oy! i hadn’t noticed that you’d started writing!
At Shanis’ exclamation Ruby whirled around, saw Adela on the ground, and said a very, very bad word. Without thinking she jumped toward the prone figure, shoved a frozen Leah out of the way, and knelt down beside the much younger girl. Ruby slowly reache dout her hand and pressed it, palm down, on her forehead.
Suddenly, she was in excruciating pain. It felt like Adela’s self was seeping into Ruby, filling her up, and it was enourmous, more than she could hold even after the enhancement they all had gone through. And she knew that if she tried, both she and Adela would die.
With a tremendous effort of will, Ruby wrenched her hand away from Adela and touched her bleeding wounds with her other palm. The one she had used to absorb the power went on her necklace, which began to glow a bright, clear sky blue. Immediately the pain stopped, but Adela’s complexion was slowly beginning to turn ashy gray.
Ruby gritted her teeth again and forced the healing power out through her other hand. It wasn’t really coming from her hand, of course, but it was easier to focus on a confined physical object than not to, and anyway she had apparently reached her limit–if she didn’t use the power it would dissipate and be lost, which would not be good for Adela. Instead, she focused on knitting her skin together, evening the blood flow…regulating the heartbeat. With part of Adela in her, she could sense every minute action of the body, and she felt momentary exilaration.
And then the power was gone. Adela moaned, lifted up her palm so she could see it. There was something strange there, a black mark, but no bleeding cuts, and the last thing Ruby thought was, Oh darn, I scarred her before she fainted. The glowing pendant suddenly went dead.
“Again?” asked Ehmer, trying to keep the worry from his voice and not succeeding too well. “Do all of you magic people faint this much, or is it just a coincidence?” Shanis’s icy glare shut him up.
The woman bent down over Ruby, checking her pulse, forehead, and strangely enough, her pendant. “I can’t heal this kind of drainage. Adela at her peak and in full control of her powers might be able to, but she’s not either. That means we have to call someone all the way from China, and he can’t teleport, so it could take a while. While we’re waiting, keep her warm. If Leah could heat something up, it would be useful.”
“I have a coat in my locker,” said Archell. “I’ll go get it.”
Shanis pulled something that looked like a piece of ice out of one of her pockets. “Get me Feng,” she said. “Tell him this is Nestea, and it’s no good avoiding me, because we need him now. Now might also be a good time to mention the prophecy.”
The ice, which had turned a sparkling black, called out, “It will be done.”
Shanis–Nestea–ignored the look Ehmer was giving her. Instead, she bent over and examined Adela’s hand. “It’s fine,” said Adela. “It doesn’t really hurt much.”
“No, that’s not it,” said Nestea. “Feng just never told me he had relatives.”
I think it’s time to write that Feng bio that I’ve been procrastinating on.
FENG
Powers: Wind afreet. Manipulates air and wind. Because he’s of the Chinese wind afareet line, he has healing powers as well. He transforms into a giant black bird of prey.
Weaknesses: Does not have control over weather like many other wind afareet. Most Chinese wind afareet have healing power but no weather power. No one is exactly sure why this is. Does not use powers unless it’s absolutely necessary. Can’t use much magic in enclosed spaces.
Virtues: Smart and capable. Like Adela, he can be brave when he needs to.
Faults: Tends not to associate with other afareet, although no one except Feng really knws why. He’s also pessimistic, always doubting himself and his skills. And, to top all that, he’s claustrophobic.
Background and Appearance: Feng, as you may have surmised, is Adela’s closest living relative. Hundreds of years ago, he married a mortal woman. His descendants moved into Europe (or Turkey, at least) on the Silk Road, and eventually Spain and America. (Yes, Adela is a Spanish name.) All of them with a certain amount of power have the Chinese character for wind on their bodies, which is how Nestea knew that Adela was related to Feng.
As a human, he appears as a tall Asian man with a Chinese character tattooed on his neck. His hair and clothes always appear sort of windblown.
Feng is the Chinese (Mandarin) word for wind.
Oh yeah, and if you people don’t get it, Ruby fainted because she couldn’t stop pouring power into Adela and she started to give her her own essance, which luckily made her faint and cut off the flow or she’d be dead. She had power, but NO training.
Ok, just don’t make Nestea too emotional. Remember, she doesn’t panic easily.
Nestea’s not being emotional or panicking, she’s calling for help because she knows that this kind of healing is beyond her skill. Sorry if she came off like that.
I mentioned this in the Skool thread, but I’d be willing to co-mod (with at least one other person) an afareet-type messageboard RPG, if enough people are interested. I like the thing we’ve got going here, but the lack of edit buttons is getting to me and I think it’d function a lot better on a message board.
So….any takers?
Nestea can’t heal anyway. She can clot blood(to some extent) and numb the pain(ice pack), but she can’t heal psycological wounds.
I’m a taker! Ooh, oh, I’m a taker!
This is just like X-Men, when Wolverine accidently stabs what’s-her-name and she has to suck out all his energy!
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Leah lurked in the back in the back of the group. This was for two reasons – firstly, that horrible Shanis person she barely knew was back, and second, Ruby knew, and now so did all the rest of them. With Archell among them, her secret would be out within minutes the next day, and than, well, as far as she could see, so would the rest of life as she knew it. What had she ever done to Ruby to deserve this? What had Ehmer done to Ruby, for that matter? She had seen the look on his face when she announced he turned partly transparent. She was in the back brooding when Ruby collapsed. Ehmer stepped forward and said something, she didn’t know what, and she didn’t care. Thoughts were rushing through her mind, and each of them pointed the same direction – that Shanis woman. She knew there was something about the woman that she just didn’t trust – a sort of invisible aura that felt icy and uncomfortable. Should she do something? Well, it came back to the question she had asked herself a few hours ago. She could remember it still. [i]Leah had only done what she had to. Just because it required using power she had tried to hide didn’t mean she should let innocent people die. Did it?[/i] No, she decided, it didn’t. Ignoring the light leaking out of the hand Ruby was holding her necklace with, she pressed her self up against the wall so as to concentrate better.
“Feng? Who’s – ” “Never mind,” Shanis/Nestea cut off the girl. “You’ll see in a minute.” She bent down over Ruby, who had sommething clutched in her hand. Never mind that. She carefully felt her pulse. The girl would be fine for now. Her eyes fell on the chain going around Ruby’s neck and realised what she had in her hand was a pendant or a locket of some sort. She carefully pried Ruby’s fingers off the necklace, and Shanis’s eyes widened as she saw the pentagram. “Where did you get that?” she muttered, delicately picking up the pendant ((Note PotC reference)), but was interrupted when someone behind her said, “Don’t move!” she quickly turned around to see Leah, holding something tightly in her hand. “What do you want, girl?” asked Shanis, annoyed. “I want you to explain to me exactly who you are and what business you have here, and why I should trust you.” Leah threateningly revealed the contents of her hand, which was a crackling, dancing flame that didn’t appear to be hurting Leah at all.
Zallie, I am SO a taker!!!
and Pheebs, that post was terrific!
Ruby revealed the powers of the kids because she knows the Powers are trying to kill them and she wants to explain why. She thinks they have to work WAY together.
Hmm. I wonder whether it would be possible to install a message board on the Fan Page. I’ll look into it, if it wouldn’t mean tons more work for Rosanne and me.
Shanis sighed. “We don’t have time to discuss-”
Her reply cut short by and earthshaking roar.
“-this.”, she finished smoothly. “Would you rather trust me, or a two thousand pound polar bear thirsting for your blood? And“, she added as an afterthought, looking at the flame in Leah’s hand “could blow that out like it was a candle.”
Mentaly, she sent a message to Issy. We have a problem. They only let polar bears into the elite guard.
(For some more detail, the powers only let polar bears into the elite guard because they are powerful, and might cause problems among the rank unless they are fanaticly loyal.)
Was that sarcastic? About liking it?
Right. Leah’s a little touchy right now because Shanis is creeping her out and Ruby revealed her secret.
Well, I’m pretty sure it would be possible to open up something like the HP board…
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“I’m serious,” said Leah desperately, trying to hide the fact she was shaking like mad. Polar bears?! “I don’t follow strangers and I’ve got no reason to trust you any more than a ravenous polar bear.” She tried to keep the flame in her hand under control, but her emotion was making it harder. Once, she only bearly managed to keep it from trying to obscure everything within an eight foot radius. “Go on! Give me an answer!”
Nestea and Issy aren’t part of the Powers. They’re trying to fight the Powers with Athanath.
What’s taking him this long? wondered Nestea. Is it so hard for him to manipulate a little wind that will bring him here? Or is he just being stubborn and staying away from me? Feng can be so annoyingsometimes.
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A black wind, thought Feng. Someone’s calling. It swirled around him, and he heard Nestea’s voice, still as sharp and cold as ever. Nestea hadn’t changed at all since he’d last seen her, three hundred years ago.
Hmph. She was somehere in America, and the fierceness of the wind told him the north. The rest…well, he could sense Nestea’s aura, and a magically conjured blizzard like the one he felt in the wind would stand out like a fish in the air.
Feng would go see what Nestea wanted. It had been a while since he’d talked to anyone from before. And while he was there, he might be able to catch up on news. Three hundred years away from the rest of his people would detach him a bit.
Feng wrapped a gust of air around him and shaped it into a wind that would take him to Nestea and whoever was with her. That blizzard wasn’t hers. It was too bold, too showy for Nestea.
Maybe it would be good to get back in the world again.
about the board, if GAPA can set it up as an extention of the Blog that would be cool. It could take place in the sandstone fortress.
And I would LOVE to co-mod, or something.
I’d like to look at some other boards like the one you have in mind. Could you give me some names?
WHY DOES THIS THING KEEP SAYING IT HAS MORE POSTS THAN IT DOES? It’s really bugging me.
What is the sandstone fortress? Am I hopelessly in the dark?
the sandstone fortress is mentioned in the first version of the RRR.
GAPA, how about InvisionFree?
I’ll look at it later. It’s getting on toward my bedtime tonight.
The sandstone fortress is one of the last great strongholds of the Afareet(A.K.A. One of the ones that the Powers haven’t found yet.) The sandstone one was created by the sand Afareet.(Big surprise.) It teleported to several different locations.
Yeah, InvisionFree and ProBoards are the two I know of. D’you mean actual links to boards on those sites?
Some of the invisionfree boards have to be censored, I think.
H’mm. Mayhaps there was an Afareet stronghold for ever Afareet species? Like a stronghold of water, of fire, of air…
How would you make a stronghold of chaos? I don’t think chaos afareets COULD have a set place to live, seems to me they would go wherever. But I guess they could have one… Must be big, though, Chaos afareets are usually dragons. Well, they WERE usually dragons before Ruby’s father gave away the location of their fortress (if they had one) and they were all killed. Hehe, only Ruby and her loving pop is a chaos afareet now.
How about the only standing strongholds are those of sand, air, and fire? With resident afareet from the destroyed strongholds, like water and darkness.
What would the air and fire ones look like?
No clue.
The invision boards are much better, actually, because it’s easy to set the boards with higher privacy settings, if that’s an issue. Also, they tend to look classier and I’ve heard they’re easier to work with.
Any luck on your end, Robert?
I’ve been busy with other things tonight, Z. It’s sort of hard to explain, but–check out the “Meet the Muses” thread.
For air, a cliff would be good. Don’t know about fire though.
There was a low growling sound coming from the opposite end of the corridor, maybe a few bends away. Leah was sweating. She was going to follow Shanis if she had too, but in the meantime, she had a chance to figure out what was going on and didn’t want to miss it. She continued to stare piercingly at the woman, who looked as if she was contemplating doing something she didn’t want to. Finally, Shanis looked up, a sympathetic line on her brow. “Ah yes, Miss Leah. You’re the force of ember and flame, than?” “What?” “I feared as much. Of course, it was correct. I’m really dreadfully sorry about this, but I’m sure you’d prefer this to being gobbled up by a hungry, rabid polar bear.” With a pitiful type of smile, she raised a hand and made a strange motion towards Leah.
As Shanis’s hand dropped, Leah felt something cold wash over her. Her flame withered, but didn’t die. There was a strange feeling like someone had whacked her over the head with a rather large frying pan, only it didn’t hurt. Though she fought to keep them open, her eyes shut and her legs gave away. The only thought that stayed in her head was “What was she talking about?” and than, quite abruptly, she was asleep. Shanis sighed regretfully. “What did you do?” demanded Ehmer. “Nothing permanent,” answered Shanis, quickly extinguishing Leah’s flame before it caught fire to the wall and quickly grabbed Leah and Ruby by the wrist and up against the wall, and motioned for the others to do the same with themselves.
About wind afareet:
The Wind fortress (destroyed now) was one of the earliest to be destroyed by the Powers, as wind afareet are very rare. If afreet-ness was controlled by genetics (which it isn’t, I don’t think) the wind afreet gene would be recessive. Basically: You have to have two wind afreet parents to be a wind afreet. If you have one human parent (like Feng’s children) you may have some scattered amounts of wind magic, but if your parents are both afareet and only one is wind, you’re probably not going to have wind powers.
Blah blah blah… The only full wind afareet currently alive are Feng and Zephyr, who’s soemthing like his third cousin once removed, lives as a hermit in Greece, and won’t enter the story unless you really want her to.
Anybody like Tamora Pierce’s Protecter Of The Small serise?
I ABSOLUTLY LOVE her books!
I just finished Squire.
She is SO good!
Wait….The wind afareet fortress is one of the ones that still hasn’t been destroyed. And a wind afareet doesn’t have to have two full wind afareet parents, they could both be hybrids.
Hey princess heather! I just finished that series! They are good! Way better than a lot of that kind of fantasy girl power stuff you see.
heh. but the latter is fun to write anyway, Ebeth.
And also we have Ehmer and Achmet.
Like, what’s the last book in that series?
I’m not for sure.
i think it’s lady knight
i should reread those books
There was a heavy, growly breathing coming from the opposite end of the corridor. Ehmer shut his eyes tight and pressed himself against the wall. Someone was clinging to his wrist and was just about to cut of his circulation, but he was to scared to shake her off. Given the bracelets that were digging into his forearm, it was Archell. He smirked to himself. Scaredy cat. He wasn’t to fond of the girl, himself.
Now there was loud, lumbering footsteps coming up the hallway. Ehmer felt a wave of sickness come over him at the combined smell of rotting flesh and skunk waft through the air, and Archell’s hand gripped his wrist harder, if that was possible. He sensed a great, shaggy body passing him on all fours. There was something inhuman about it – even for a bear, for that was what it was. He noticed, that now his eyes were getting used to the dark and he could see the bear’s eyes were bloodshot and strangley fogged over. He shivered and scrunched himself into the wall.
NANOOK
Powers:Nanook can call up incredibly strong ice storms. He used to be able to freeze his opponents solid.
Weaknesses:As all ice Afreet, he weakens when he is exposed to heat. However, he has been steadily weakening for the past few decades. Why? See his backround story.
Virtues: He loved his family very much.
Faults: He hates humans.
Backround: Nanook swore to never take human form again, and joined the powers after hunters killed his family. However, not taking human form has consequences for afareet. It causes steadily weakening of powers an sences because the afareet’s sole is slowly rotting. Also, this causes periods of madness. If prolonged, it can eventually kill.
Arrrgh! Ruby isn’t up yet, so I can’t write! Uh…why are they against the wall?
Yes, you could have two hybrid parents. And the wind afareet fortress was destroyed. Look on the listie (#202.) Meh.
I’m assuming the bear is Nanook.
Feng felt the blizzard dancing furiously, swirling. The wind was different, terrified now. It was howling frantically, with some sort of urgency that hadn’t been there before. Inside the human building, Feng felt Nestea’s aura, and those of some part-afareet he didn’t know. There was another aura in there too, but he hoped he was mistaken about that. If Nanook were here, Feng’s job would be much more difficult.
Get in, heal, get out. Maybe talk to Nestea a bit, catch up on old times. That was what he was supposed to be doing. This was why Feng had left the world of afareet and Powers. It tended to complicate itself unnecessarily.
He shaped a gust of wind to open the door, and it swung inward, blowing a tiny drift of snow in along with it. Feng looked for Nestea and Nanook’s magic in the stale, stagnant air of the building. He flet himself going light-headed, even though the doors weren’t closed yet. Couldn’t Nestea had moved the drained person outside?
To save energy, Feng stopped the wind and walked. The nausea that came from being in a closed space was overpowering him now, but he could see Nestea’s icy hair.
“I’m here,” he gasped, causing everyone to turn around, even the polar bear.
Yes, that is Nanook. Feng muttered a curse in Chinese as he fought for verticality.
Ehmer was almost sure they were going to get away, when a small whisper on his other side said, “Oh god, what have they done to you?” It was Adela. She had stepped away from the wall and was looking with unabashed horror and pity at the bear, which turned and reared up on al four legs, revealing bloodstains from his mouth to stomach. He roared, sending flecks of bloody spit all over the room. “Are you crazy, girl?” snarled Shanis, seizing Adela’s forearm and letting Ruby and Leah drop to the floor, but Adela wouldn’t move. “You poor, poor thing…” the bear fell on all fours, than, to everyone’s disbelief, crumpled to the ground. Adela sank to her knees and placed her hand on the bear’s bristly mane. It was almost like hair, and the rest of the bear seemed so oddly human… although she was sure he was – yes, it was deifinitely a boy – quite bearlike when she had first seen him. He seemed even more human by the second. His paws were like hands and feet, and his arms were loosing their hair. Adela, frowning, flopped the bear over onto his back. His eyes – they were human. She sprang to her feet. Something completely incomprehendable was going on here. And sure enough, a moment later, there was a man lying on the floor. “Dear god,” muttered a half-concious Leah, getting weakly to her feet. The bear – no the man – let out a great shuddering sob, and Shanis cried, “Nanook?!” “Yeah, that’s him.” Everyone turned and stared. There was a lean Asian man standing on the doorway. Despite his long and lanky appearance, he walked with a certain grace. “Feng!” cried Shanis. “Here – I think there’s someone here you’d like to meet. She stepped out of the way to revealing the kneeling Adela, and Feng’s jaw dropped.
So how did Adela make Nanook change back?
nice job but actually add Issy, Stella, Zelda, and Hazel in there too. g2g time for skool!!
She healed him. At that point being in his alternate form was an affliction, so she could change him back. Or else she merely reverted his flesh to its other form, like what she does to seal a wound.
Um…we need to get them out of the school. Surely the teachers heard a GIANT POLAR BEAR snarling in the halls?
Maybe the teachers died? Just kidding, but you know…
…I’ll look into the possibility of message boards for this sometiems in the next few days, if people are still interested.
The teachers didn’t have to die, they’re already so oblivious to everything. How else can there be, like, sixteen kids in the back of the room chewing giant globs of gum and passing notes and gossiping so loudly that those up front (like me) trying desperately to finish chapter twenty-two of their Hitchikers books before the bell rings can’t concentrate and have to resort to actually listening to what the teacher is saying?
Whew, that was a long sentence! But it’s true.
I write stories sometimes. They normally turn out extreemly long and unfinishable. The one i turned into the Young Authors contest at my school reall only seemed the first chapter or two. Maybe i should post it…
Don’t post it Jadestone, I beg of you! Please don’t bore these nice people with your “extreemly long and unfinishable” story.
Trust me, nice people, you really don’t want to read it. I have. Worst six minutes of my life.
No offense, Jadestone. Really.
There’s a writing thread u can post it on…somewhere…
oh yeah sure… anyways can we please move it along here peoples?
my turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and just so you know Issy and Stella are disguised as kids right now around age 13…
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As Feng was about to speak out in wonder 2 young girls came rushing in the roo, innocent looks on their faces.
“What happened?” cried one with unnaturally white skin and violet eyes.
“Wait, i thought…” the other one started. The other girl had equally white/pale skin and unnaturally whitish moon eyes that creeped everyone in the room out.
“Shut up you idjit!!!” the first girl said.
Shanis rolled her eyes at the ceiling and said, “Issy, Stella, you do know that these kids have already been exposed to magic already, so get rid of those disguises.”
Grinning the girls said, “Well, if you really want us to… You know that this will freak them out a bit…”
“Especially if we do it before the spell wears off… Well at least for me because Issy is already part shape-shifter…” the second girl grinned happily.
“Just do it,” Shanis sighed.
Then the girls’ outlines began to waver as their clothes transformed into long swishy pants and wavy blouses meant for swift riding or even could be worn in battle. The girls grew taller ((just by an inch)) and their bodies crackled with purple and blue light. Finally the transformation was complete. The two girls were now young adults with long white hair and glittering eyes. ((actually they were like 500 or so but that’s young for them))
Ehmer jumped in surprise and Leah’s eyes widened. A thunderstorm began over there heads and then ended with Archell looking a little embarressed.
Feng nodded in acknowledgment and turned back to Adela.
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okay i’m going to stop there because i have no idea what is going on between Adela and Feng. and i just had to add Issy and Stella in there somewhere. and also, Stella is not that good with disguises as you probably can tell. if you people don’t like it then scrap it for all i care. actually don’t do that…
Really, violetfire? Be careful or ill post your storys. I know what file you keep them in. Haha!
You do that and I’ll put all your embarasing stuff on the blog! Beware!
“This is just creepy,” said Leah. Her voice cracked and she slid down the wall and buried her face in her knees. “Why won’t anyone tell me what’s going on? First there’s a random guy who shows up and it turns out he’s half polar bear, than I get drained for lack of patience, and now people are turning into other people! It’s so frusterating! Why won’t anyone tell me what the hell is going on?” She would have liked to storm down the hallway in the opposite direction, run to the library and find a book to loose herself in. But she knew she couldn’t, so she curled up in a ball and sobbed silently to herself.
“Adela?” gasped Feng. “I – I – but – they killed you.” “No,” said Adela, confused. “No, I’m definitely alive.” “I’m confusing you,” Feng decided. “I’m your mother’s brother’s on – your cousin.” There was an awkward silence. Than an expression of sudden realisation dawned upon Adela’s face. “Feng! she gasped, and threw herself into his arms.
Adela’s head spun. She felt trapped, and the mark on her hand ached. She grabbed onto the wall for support. What’s-his-name–
Feng– leaned on the doorframe, looking as queasy as Adela felt.
“How did you do that? Honestly, please.” asked Shanis, her calm expression betraying some sort of interest.
Honestly, Adela had no clue. She’d just felt sorry for the poor bear, and suddenly this…stuff had come flowing out of her hands. And now she was sick, tired, and completely terrified. What had she been thinking? Standing in front of a giant polar bear, and turning it into a man?
“How, exactly?” asked one of the newly transformed girls. “We’d like to know. Today, preferably.”
“But I don’t know,” said Adela, sitting down. This hall was so thin, the walls so high, enclosing. Why had she never noticed how awful it was before?
“If I could see your hand, I might be able to help,” gasped Feng, sounding ill. Adela showed him her aching palm reluctantly. She didn’t exactly like the prospect of him doing anything to it.
“While the two of you indoors may be hilarious,” said one of the girls, “neither is going to be much use if someone attacks us again.”
“Adela was,” said Leah quietly.
“That was before she performed a major work of magic,” said the other girl, the one with the violet eyes. “She’s drained, for one, and for another, she’s now really kicked in her afreet blood.”
“What’s afreet?” asked Archell.
“We’re afareet,” said Shanis, gesturing towards Feng and the man lying on the floor. “Although perhaps they aren’t the best examples.”
“Could we continue this discussion outside?” groaned Feng from the ground.
Leah looked out the window. “Do we have to?”
“All right. Everybody line up. We are getting some answers. Real answers. Now.”
Everyone turned to look at Ehmer. He stopped, stared, and then began agian, quieter. “You first, Feng, or whatever your name is. Why exactly do you have that same marking on your neck that Adela does on her hand? And what does it have to do with anything?”
Wrote before Phoebe’s was posted. I s’pose they could be compatible, if Phoebe’s comes after or something.
Uh, Pheobe? Adela doesn’t know Feng.
And i dont know anything any more. Goodbye, im leaving until a summery is posted.
yeah, i think (no offense here) Pentatonikk’s version would probably be more realistic. no offense.
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Feng glanced at Stella. Stella stepped forward and pulled down the collar of her shirt (just the collar mind you) to reveal a cresent moon shaped marking in the exact same spot as Feng’s and Shanis’s.
“What you see here is the marking of the afareet, although why i have it no one is sure. probably from being a sorcerer but that’s not the point here. The point is, that most of you girls here are part afareet. You might not know it but right now even as we speak a dangerous and dreadful battle is being fought. All you need to do is ask Issy or Zelda and they’ll… well, let’s not get into that. The battle is against the Powers and the… Force. This battle is centered around the afareet but most of all it is being fought because of a prophecy that was made before time was existence. The prophecy concerns a few young adults that will put an end to the evil Force that ruled in our dimension. This prophecy gave the afareets hope and they began to rebel. The Powers came later from a distant dimension called Consket. Siding with the Force they slaughtered innocent people in their rise to power. Once they controlled the land the afareet population had dwindled and there was only a small number left. Now normally you would think that the Powers and the Force would be content with their rule and leave the other dimensions in peace. But the Powers and the Force wanted more. Their greedy hearts made them seek new dimensions for rule and wealth. Their reign lasted for quite a while but then it was demolished by a traitor. No one knew who it was because the traitor killed himself shortly after. A few peaceful years passed in which Issy and the rest of us were born. But then tragedy struck. A Power was outraged at the defeat and decided to rebuild the empire that they had controlled before. My parents got slaughtered at the age of 100000 trying to protect me and my sister, Issy. That when we, the afareets and us, decided to find the young adults of the prophecy and well, here you are.” Stella finished.
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there you go, the history of the battles and afareet revolution. i’m done for now…
Alright. I have a messageboard from a while ago that I never did anything with. The name’s a bit funny, but I can alter everything but the address itself to fit the afareet thing, if more people are interested.
GAPA – I’m hoping it’s alright for me to post this… — Removed by moderator —
Zallie, we don’t post MuseBloggers’ personal Web addresses. At least not usually.
Also, I’m not in the know about how messageboards work. Whenever I go to one I just get confused! Would you enlighten me? And also explain how the afareet fit into it?
A bunch of us were talking about setting up an afareet messageboard RPG, because using the MuseBlog for something like that is pretty limiting. The message board has the ‘edit’ feature for your posts and you don’t have to worry about three people posting at once.
The one that I posted the link to is very straight-forward. It works almost like the Blog here, but there are more options for organizing the topics.
Phoebe’s HP RPG is a good example of that. The link’s on the board here somewhere, so you can see how things are set up.
At the moment, the board is rigged so that everyone can post without registering, so they don’t have to provide any contact information whatsoever. If this thing does go forward, which I hope it does, we can change the privacy settings so only registered members can see the board or so that all members have to be approved befoer they can post.
Does that clear it up?
All righty. See, I thought that Adela’s mom woulda told her about Feng being her cousin type thing. Plus it adds drama. But let’s use Pentatonikk’s.
Arrgh! Ruby is just lying there, unconsious, on the floor. You’d figure that, in return for healing his cousin, Feng would GET HER CONSIOUS AGAIN??!!? Thank you!
hehe. 
Phoebes, Adela wasn’t raised by her mom. Her parents were killed by the powers soon after she was born, and her “grandmother” didn’t know she was related to Feng.
And Shanis doesn’t have a marking. Adela’s is on her hand, and Feng’s is on his neck.
The war summary thing is pretty good, but I don’t like the ‘mark of the afareet’ thing. All afareets have a tatoo of their second shape somewhere on their bodies, and some have exess symbols to indicate rank or nationality. (i.e. Akkaveesh has a spider tatooed on her sholder, but a spiders web, which indicates that she is a commander, is on her back.)
Oh, and by the way, Afareet fight for the powers as well, like Apepihotep and the elite guard.
Awright, awright, keep your kilt on…
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“A story for another time,” said Feng with a grimace. ((Basically, I dunno.)) “Nestea, what did you want?” “Well – it’s her. Ruby. I think Adela panicked and drained her. Way beyond what I did to Leah, there.” She gestured to Leah, who was now looking agitated and had slumped down against to stop her shaking knees. “And I’m pretty sure she drained it back into him.” She pointed at the man who used to be a polar bear, and kneeled down beside Ruby. Feng did the same, relieved to have a chance to rest his legs, which felt a bit like jelly. Once he was there, Shanis put her head close to his. “Look,” she whispered furtively, and held up the necklace. Feng’s jaw dropped again. “Whoaaaa…” “That’s not all,” Shanis/Nestea said. “That polar bear? Nanook. He nearly bit all our heads off, and he’s been eating something. Something human. There’s human blood all over him.” “Nanook? But why? He didn’t side with the powers, he vowed-” “I know,” hissed Nestea. “There’s something even more abnormal than I thought happening here.” Feng rubbed his eyes. “Aye… I shouldn’t leave this long anymore.” He tapped Ruby on the forehead. Yes, it was clear she needed energy, he thought, qiockly withdrawing his finger. But who had extra? “Nestea, I need energy.’ Nestea frowned and looked around. Not any of the children, Nanook could loose control in his current emotional state… Feng needed his, so as not to spew. Issy and Stella would downright refuse, if it meant they’d have to be a little less stunning. She sighed. Nothing for it. “Use mine,” she said, holsing out a palm to Feng. “Right,” he said, placing a hand on her palm. He stretched out one and lightly placed it on Ruby’s forhead, than swiftly withdrew all his energy to the back of his body as a stream of Nestea’s swept through his outstretched arms, and into Ruby. Nestea twitched in discomfort. “I can’t do this by myself,” she told him firmly. “Can’t you spare a little of your own?” He sighed and let a little of his silky white energy mingle with the stream of electric blue coming from Nestea into Ruby. A moment later, he let go of Nestea and Ruby and the flow was cut off. “That should do it,” said Nestea, rubbing her forearm and frowning as Ruby lifted herself up onto her elbows.
well gosh Anata!!!!!!!!! if you don’t like then why don’t you write the story yourself!!!! sheesh… oh and guys? Issy and Stella are NOT conceited. they’d do anything to help other people. just to get that clear.
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((this is in a distant dimension))
Hazel and Zelda sat in the middle of the desert. Their informant was late. Again. Of course, werecats are never on time… Always on their own little schedule… thought Hazel grumpily as she checked her solarium once again. Zelda was grumpily pacing the area checking her solarium every 5 minutes.
Suddenly a figure appeared in the sand. Walking towards them with a dignified air, the werecat surveyed its surroundings with little intrest. Zelda stormed up to the werecat and said, “Where have you been?!”
Well, where do you think I have been? the werecat grinned showing sharp fangs.
“Never mind… Let’s just get on with it… ” Hazel said before Zelda could argue it out.
If you insist… Where are the girls anyways? How am I to track them if I don’t know where they are?
Zelda smiled wickedly. “Oh, you’ll know. Trust me. It’s the only school that is in the middle of a snowstorm in October.”
Oh, Archell’s doing I guess?
“Of course”
Very well then. I shall be going. With that the werecat walked off into the desert sand and disappeared.
“We should get going.” Hazel said checking her solarium.
“Well, let’s go!” And with that they disappeared.
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and fine that symbol doesn’t have to be the mark of the afareet and Stella does not have to have one. happy?
Thankee koindly, marm.
Ruby was flying in a world of black and red. Light and darkness swirled around her, touching and joining and seperating and suddenly shattering into a million infinitesimal peices, which shimmered and melted into nothingness. She soared past bright stars and planets and moons of all sorts, some glowing with gold and green and yet others were dark and barren and lifeless. She was sure she once saw what looked like a cd disk perched on the back of four elephants swim past on the back of a turtle, but she wasn’t sure. She was moving too quickly to examine any of the objects closely.
And then, red and black gave way in an explosion of force and silent sound. From a gap in the fabric of the sky came a burst of color, and pale blue tendrils reached for her, fouling her scarlet wings and wrapping around her scaled body, dragging out of her flight. Ruby arched her prehensile neck back and let out a half-roar, half-shriek like some great predatory bird, struggling to escape from the clinging threads, sending a great burst of dark fire from her great maw at the stuff. It faltered, shimmered–
and was suddenly joined by more power, colored white and that seemed to flow, like silk. A great black hawk and a giant golden eagle stooped from the sky.
Two spirit-birds fought the spirit-dragon, who screamed defiance even as it rapidly lost ground. It infuriated Ruby that she could not shake them off; they were only birds! She longed to snap the little pests out of the sky, the power to do so was there, but still out of her reach. in desperation, she spat more of the dark, seemingly heatless flame over her shoulder, but they had driven her too far. She saw the tear in the sky too late—
Ruby jerked awake. Then she wished she hadn’t. A terrible headache threatened to split her skull in two, but she could make out through the fog of pain the figures of Nestea and an Asian man whom she didn’t know hovering over her. She flexed her wings and discovered that they were arms. Oh, bother.
Slowly, she sat up. Nestea gave her an amused glare but said simply, “About time. You certainly were reluctant to wake, Ruby.”
The Asian man smiled. “Nice to see you in the material world again, my dear. Thank you for helping my young cousin.” He gestured at Adela, who was on her feet again and biting her lip nervously over the form of a man lying on the floor. “Good quick thinking. However, your magic, while it is substantial and could even be described as unusually powerful for your age, is too untrained to safely do what you did. It was truly fortunate that Nestea was able to call me to heal you.”
Ruby’s head slowly stopped spinning. “Don’t tell me this will happen every time I do…uh…whatever, Mr. Black Hawk Man.”
Feng looked startled. “Mr. Black Hawk Man?”
Confused, Ruby said, “I think you were the black hawk. Were you the golden eagle? I just assumed that was Nestea.” When she saw that he still looked baffled she explained, “In my dream, a black hawk and a golden eagle chased me and made me wake up. I didn’t exactly want you to.”
Being Ruby, she neglected to tell the man about how she had tried to seriously hurt the two birds.
The Asian man looked interested. “You saw birds, you say? Tell me, what did you see yourself as?”
“Uh, I think some sort of dragon thing.”
“Ah.” Feng did not elaborate. “Well, anyway, my name is Feng, not Mr. Black Hawk Man. And as an answer to your question, the more you excercise your power the greater it will become, and the easier to use. But,” he said, with a hint of a smile, “I suggest you start smaller than healing a magically-induced wound, inflicted by a power that is just as strong as yours if not more so.”
Nestea broke in. “We do not need to discuss this now. We need to get to the Sandstone Fortress before he she nudged the man whom Adela was bent over, wakes up, or any more of his kind are summoned. Let’s hope the heat keeps him neutralized. At least you will be happy there.” She gestured to Leah, who was looking very sullen for some reason. Leah glowered at her.
Nestea opened a hall window, and climbed out into the snow.
Oh, and by the way, Ruby has no “Afareet symbol”. When they get to the sandstone fortress she gets a red-and-black dragon tatooed on her back, but her Chaos symbol is on the necklace, so she doesn’t need it marked on her.
The dimensions of the dragon, as will later be described in the book, are the following:
Okay, it’s in red and black ink as mentioned before. The dragon is rearing and facing toward anyone looking at her back for whatever reason, with the tipe of its spread wings just extending past each shoulder blade. The eyes are gold and black and look at you, and the tail runs down her spine. It isn’t rampant, but head-on, and the fore and hind legs are spread out on either side of the body with the claws unsheathed. All in all the spitting miniature of Ruby’s dragon form, although she doesn’t always face you forward–she is more likely to strike from behind and very, very quickly.
Oh, and I’m sure you’ve all noticed how she is willing to talk more than she was before and she isn’t being so infuriatingly mysterious. I am doing that on purpose to give her more depth.
Oooh yeah… oops…. and oops to Kricket, too. I didn’t mean thm to be concited, but they seemed to really big on the long silky hair and the big, moony eyes and such… nay so much concieted as slighlty vain, and Shanis/Nestea, who seemed more practical, doesn’t think to highly of them.
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As Adela gaped at the place where Feng had been standing few minutes ago, Leah looked disturbed, and Ehmer muttered under his breath, Archell cautiously approached the polar bear man. He was wearing fur boots, silk briches tucked into them, a bit like a pirate. In addition to this, he had a baggy, long sleeved tunic tied with a silk sash. They were all in a blinding white, which contrasted brightly with his dark skin and glossy black, hair, which was pulled back into a loose ponytail at the base of his neck, just far enough to reveal a large gold hoop on high left ear. It was all very nice looking, aside from the dribbling bloodstain down his front. He pulled himself half upright as Archell neared him. “What happened?” he asked. Even in his ill state, one could distinguish a deep, majestic voice. “You were a polar bear, and you reared up at us, and than when Adela went up to you, you just sort fo fell over and turned into yourself… whoever that is,” answered Archell meekly. There was something about the man that demanded respect. “I knew it,” said the man bitterly, spitting out a mouthful of blood, making Archell recoil slightly. “Shouldn’t of stayed a bear for so long.. not that I had a choice. I should have run away earlier, by the time I panicked I was out of time. Went mad,” he finished, glancing at Archell, who was looking very inquisitive. “I stayed in polar bear form for too long… tried to last, but by the time I felt my sanity slipping, it was to late. I wasn’t myself. Using your powers so much is dangerous business.” He coughed up another glob of congealed blood. “You can end up killing someone… Like I did, obviously.” He winced. Archell just stared. It had never occured to her that there was a downside to her powers. After a moment, she finally shook it off. “Maybe it was just a squirrel,” she said bracingly. “No, it was human,” answered the man. He lifted a bloodstained hand. “I can tell. And seeing as we’re in a school, I can only imagine who it was I killed… an innocent child, probably.” “Can’t you tell who it was?” “Nope,” said the man, getting to his feet. “I’ve gto absolutely no idea. All there is is a big blank period… I’ve got a couple of those in my history.” “Why didn’t you transform?” “I couldn’t – I’d be killed in the situation I was in. Greedy of me, really, killing others so I wouldn’t die.” Archell sat there in horrified silence for a minute, than realised the man was proffering a hand. “Nanook.” “Archell.”
((Ok, I just sorted posted after Phoenix, but the two parts fit together, so shall we leave it?))
The Powers weren’t from a different dimension, unless the Makers were too. The Powers are a group of rebel Makers out for control.
I’m assuming the use of “crap” is okay in this instance, since it’s a character saying it. I’d have her say worse, but that might really annoy some people. So I won’t.
“Sandstone fortress…” said Ehmer vaguely. “Where is the sandstone fortress? What is the sandstone fortress?”
“It’s a fortress, presumably,” said Archell, which was not a great deal of help. “Made of sandstone.”
“Excellent guess,” muttered Issy. “You have a sharp mind.” She laughed, showing white teeth.
Stella rolled her eyes at her sister. “The sandstone fortress is one of the few remaining afreet strongholds. It’s where Akkavish and Athanath are. We’re supposed to be bringing you to them.”
“Bringing us…” said Ruby, letting her sentence trail off. “Whose side are they on? Whose side are you on?”
“Oh, yours,” said Issy. “Definitely yours. If we weren’t, you’d know by now.”
Adela rubbed her head. All that magic, and then the tiny hallway, just made her want to lie down in bed, preferably outside. “So, who are Athanath and Akkavish?”
“Our leaders, much as you cousin-uncle-grandfather-whatever might hate to admit it,” said Stella. “Speaking of them, we should probably get going, if Feng and Nestea have already left. And we’ll have to take him, too. Athanath will definitely wnat to know about him.” She gestured toward Nanook with her slim hand.
Frowning, Issy waved her hand. “Surely Feng could have stayed to transport us all by wind. Athanath hates it when people teleport into the fortress.”
“What was that about me?” asked Feng, leaning on the windowsill. “I just needed a breather. Working up a big enough wind to transport ten people, even with Archell’s help, requires me to be at full strength.” Seeing Archell’s look, he added, “You can make wind, can’t you? You just did.”
“Yeah…”
“Then come on.”
The two of them stood at opposite ends of a circle, calling and shaping the wind. It curled through everyone’s hair, blowing it all into a mass of writhing colour streaming into the snow.
And then they started to move. The powerful currents of air carried the group higher and higher into the sky, until common laws of reasoning said they should be suffocating, but they still climbed.
Suddenly, the wind dropped them. Arms wrapped around Adela’s back, but she couldn’t tell whose. Everything was blurred, they were falling so fast.
The ground was reaching up to grab them. Predictably, Adela thought, Oh crap. I’m going to die. Also predictably, if you read enough books, they stopped a foot above the ground and slowly drifted downward.
A sandy-haired young man greeted them. “Welcome back. Athanath’s waiting.”
Issy and Stella can’t help how they look, it’s just… well, natural I guess… I need to go get my glasses… hang on… i’m back!! okay now for the story!!!
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The werecat looked slyly at the whirl wind that swirled around them and sighed knowing exactly where they were going. Instead of climbing on the whirl wind for a ride, the werecat teleported into the sandstone fortress and walked up to greet the young people he was tracking… and Nestea of course.
Greetings the werecat said yawning openly to show off his fangs.
“Well, well, well, look who we have here.” Issy said grinning.
Well?
“Yes yes, you’re free to roam about the fortress just remember to go to the meeting first.” Stella answered.
Oh, I’ll remember…
The werecat walked off and slowly disappeared from sight.
Then Hazel and Zelda appeared next to the sandy-haired young man.
“Have you seen that werecat?” Zelda asked briskly. “Why when I find him, I’ll…”
“Sheesh, take it easy, Zelda!!!! You know that we were here to bring a message, not to find the werecat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Hazel said. “Oh, Stella, you’re needed to prepare the weapons for… well, you know what!!!! The scout said that she swore that she saw a servant of the Powers about 200 miles away!!! And you know how fast they move!!! And Issy, you’re to accompany the girls and Ehmer to the meeting then, interrogate our prisoner that we over took trying to spy on Athanath.”
The girls nodded. Stella then took off running towards the fortress at breakneck speed. ((faster than a car!!!)) Issy and the sandy-haired young man motioned for the girls and Ehmer to follow.
“What about us?” Nestea asked.
“You’ll accompany the girls and Ehmer to the meeting also. Now Zelda, we can go find that werecat!”
Nodding to the group Hazel and Zelda disappeared in a huff.
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Well, how’s that?
Leah swiftly stuffed herhand over her mouth to prevent herself screaming as she fell downwards. The thoughts going through her mind were almost precisely that of Adela’s only more foulmouthed. She landed flat on her back with a whump and looked up in time to see the man say, “Welcome, Athanath’s waiting.” “Who’s Athanath?” she asked, but everyone else was already halfway along the roofless stone hallway. Cursing, she scrambled to her feet and ran after them. “Oh no!” gasped Issy. “Where’s Nanook?” Her sister shrugged. Archell spun around. “I’m here,” said a voice halfway along the hall. They all looked. Indeed, there was a path of bloody footprints leading up to where Nanook was standing. “Don’t run off like that,” Stella told him.” “I wasn’t running off,” snapped Nanook irritably. “Feng and Nestea say to hurry up.”
In the meantime, while the GAPAs are deciding if the messageboard is okay for the blog, I can PM the link to anyone on Phoebe’s HP site if they want it. Any takers?
what’s PM mean?
Personal Message. I just posted the link on Phoebe’s board anyway, so you won’t need to be registered/whatever.
my turn!!!!
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“Well, sheesh, we’re coming already!!” Stella said while Issy scowled briefly. They quickened their pace and soon caught up with the rest of the group. Issy walked by Adela while Stella used her magic to hover along behind them.
“Umm…” Adela started.
“Yes Adela?” Issy smiled.
“You’re Issy right?” Adela asked.
“Yup that’s me.”
“I was wondering… Why don’t you ever get mad? It’s just not really normal…” Adela said shyly hoping that she didn’t anger Issy.
Issy grimanced and said, “Well, you see, I can’t control my powers when I’m angry so if I was to get angry all the time then, a lot of people would not be alive today…” Issy smiled a little embarressed.
“Oh…”
The group reached the room just as Stella spotted a servant trying to sneak off with a crystal. Swooping down from above them ((she was in the air)) , she chased the servant ((who by now was truely terrified)) down the hall and cornered him.
“Oh, boy, this is NOT going to be pretty… Let’s get in the room. You are not ready to see what happens…” Issy said ushering the group into the room just as the servant exploded into oblivion. Only Ehmer saw what had happened.
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No one could be trusted especially if they were stealing. They had to be destroyed. Simple as that. Stella actually just zapped him to an alternate dimension to await his doom. But it still looked like he had exploded into oblivion.
I’d like to be part of this “afreet” story/RPG. Just thought I’d tell you, even if I’m not really a Museblog member. Yeah. Seeya.
And also, I’ve looked about and so I get the idea and stuff. No explanations necessary, I presume.
What’s the Werecat?
Achmet, who I assume is the sandy haired man, is also Alfred, so Adela should recognize him soon.
Have I been a bit bossy? sry. 
If youve got the idea then can you explain it to me? Please? Oh, and Welcome! Why not be a museblog member? Its fun.
hey if you post on here you’re a mamber!!! since when did we have memberships anyways? oh and for your ignition… KOKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PIE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ((you are a girl right?))
Dina- *gets pied*
All right you now are finally a member!!!!!!! congradulations!!!!! Dina if you want to be a part of this story go ahead!!!!! just make up a character and profile it!!!! or you could just use other characters but you probably should create your own… try to make it a minor character because we have our main characters allready…
Anata- you haven’t been that bossy…
i meant member
Me too!! Why didnt Koko pie me? And maybe Kokopelli 13’s luky number is 13.
fine Koko can pie you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was already pied in October… and thank you for finding my spelling error….
the werecat is a cat that is sort of magical/mystical and is always involved. the werecat is the only one of his kind left. also he is Hazel and Zelda’s informant and tracker. uhhhh… did Jadestone post as Violetfire by accident?
Andrew is Adela’s “cousin.” Adela doesn’t recognise him at the moment because he’s dressed more Arabian-y (kill Queenie J’s liver! Diiiiie!) and because he’s adopted a slightly different human form.
Nestea opened the door. “Welcome, all of you. Even the ones that should have been here three centuries ago.” She cast a glance at Feng. He shrugged.
Archell, meanwhile, peered around the doorway. What she saw made her gasp so loudly that it echoed around the huge hall. It also made the rest of the group crane their necks to look around her.
“You can go in,” remarked Feng dryly. “Athanath doesn’t bite. Not usually, anyway. Not dignified enough.”
They all sort of fell through the door, which was odd. You’d think a door that size would fit four or five people easily. Only Adela hung back. “It’s…inside. I don’t like inside anymore.”
“Open to the sky. For people like us,” said Feng, and threw himself in. He crashed to the hard slate floor, then got up. “It’s much nicer inside. Really.”
Adela pinched her lips together. She stepped through the doorway.
Suddenly, she was inside her body. It was like one of those cheesy videos you watched all the time in school, but this one was different. She couldn’t see anything. All she knew was that she was in a tight space, and oddly enough, she wasn’t terrified. It was quiet. She could feel a deep green pool right ahead of her. Walking on along her ribs, Adela inched closer.
She reached out to where she knew the pool was, pulling at draping, liquid threads of green. Trusting in her instincts, Adela wrapped them around the body that was walking inside her body. They settled over her, green and cool, becoming a living, iridescent skin that encased her. Adela took her new and toward the pool, grabbing more green to cloak her…
And then she hit the floor. She looked around, desperate to find any sign of strangeness. All she saw was a huge hall, with sandstone walls rising up to meet an open ceiling. Most of the others were stnading around her by now, and as she watched, Nestea tumbled through the door. As her back foot passed through, there was a brief moment of total oblivion through the portal, and then the normal scene again. Issy and Stella were coming slowly, carrying Nanook along with them.
At the front of the giant room, immeasurably far away, a woman sat with her eyes shut. She had wild white hair and olive skin. Batlike wings lay folded on her back. Her slim hands encircled a glowing orb of blue light, and even from this distance Adela could tell that her fingers had three joints. Strangely, the woman wasn’t creepy, just…different.
And then a low voice reverberated through even the stone of the walls, echoing in Adela’s blood and bones. “Come here. All of you.”
The woman opened her eyes. They were dark black, so deep that they made Adela’s black sweatshirt look grey. And even that didn’t bother Adela.
“I am Athanath. Welcome to Aebvoraena.”
This is getting interesting. Very interesting. Everyone’s fingers have three joints. Look at them. Knuckle, the next smallest one, and the little one at the end almost next to your fingernail. Savvy?
In Ruby’s mind, something clicked. Athanath. She had heard that somewhere before. But is wasn’t the one…
Once more overcoming her Ruby instincts (she did that a lot nowadays, it seemed), she said softly to the woman, “Athanath…are you the Outcast?”
She immediately regretted it.
Sorry, peoples, I gots to go. Just for future reference: The Outcast is the name for Athanath when she is referred to by the Powers, which is probably where Ruby picked it up. Don’t have her get too angry, okay? I would like my charecter in one piece.
Three joints, as in finger joints. Knuckle doesn’t count, at least not the way I’ve usually heard it put. Four joints, then, if it makes more sense to everyone else.
“Yes.” said Athanath. “Some people do call me that. I would prefer, however, that you were not among them.”
“Sorry,” muttered Ruby. She would have stood up, been a little more stubborn, but her Ruby instincts told her that Athanath was not a good person to mess with. This time she listened.
“So, they have come.”, said a voice from the doorway.
Everyone turned to see a woman walk through the doorway with no apparent discomfort. She had on a strange sort of black, collared top that modestly covered most of her front, but left her back exposed. Her pants were also black, and she had a tatoo of a ebony spider with purple knees on her right shoulder. Her skin was tanned, and her eyes were an eerie dark violet. Her dark black hair tumbled down her back like a river.
Athanath nodded. “Akkavish.”
good job guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hazel and Zelda walked thorugh the doorway, still bickering with the werecat who was walking right beside them. Issy walked over to them and told them something that made them shut up. Then nodding her head at them, Issy turned and walked back over to Stella.
Athanath, “Well, then, are we ready to begin?”
The werecat purred. Yes, I believe we are.
Athanath, “Then let’s begin.”
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there. I’d write more but i don’t feel like it.
hey come on peoples post!!! i do not feel like typing right now so…
Mmmkay, I’m giving up on the RPG thing, because I haven’t gotten any sort of feedback whatsoever, aside from that bit from Phoebe, which is muchly appreciated.
That’s ’cause the URL was deleted. Come on, GAPA, it’s just the like the HP site, if not SAFER.
Ok, delete this if you still dinna like it;
The Afareet Message Board Is At:
http://katreh.proboards78.com/index.cgi
And because someone asked, the HP message board is at;
http://hmstrdumbledore.proboards57.com/index.cgi
I checked it out. Just so you should know most of it is kind of inconpatable w/ the story. The afareet’s land is called Aebvoreana, not Katreh.
I saw it, too. Trying to get permission to go on…pleasepleaseplease…
If Robert or Rosanne were mods, my parents would almost certainly let me on. GAPA, please?
If it helps, you can tell them that any contact information you give is only viewable to the admins and we have the option of making the board 100% inaccessable to unregistered users.
Cool. I will, just we need to get ready for Shabbat right now. Who is the Omnipotent?
Thankyouthankyouthankyou admins! *Does thank you admins dance*
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“Wait a minute, before we start anything,” said a voice from the ground. Being drained by Nestea didn’t exactly work wonders on your knees. It was Leah. “I don’t want to be started on until someone explains to me what that hell is going on and why I should trust you.” Athanath glanced at Nestea. “Nestea, I assumed I had told you to explain it to them.” “Oh,” said Nestea, flushing slightly. “Well, Nanook was out of control – ” Nanook responded to his name by coughing into his hand and distastefully wiping the bloody residue onto his white briches – “And Leah there refused to move until I told her what was going on… I had to drain her. I don’t think she heard me ex-” “I did,” answered Leah flatly. “I just think it sounded like a load of bunk.”
#269: You want a pie? I’ll give you a frag grenade pie!!! SPLAT!!! BOOM!!!!!
#270: Actually, my lucky number is 82. Don’t know why, but it just sticks in my head.
GAPA: Why did you delete my story?? I posted it earlier today?? Everyone else seemed to kill off everyone in their stories!!! Why me??
Here’s my original version: There were three people, Jeb, Jo, and Dagger. Dagger killed Jo, Jeb killed Dagger, then fell off of Victoria Falls and landed on sharp rocks at the bottom, but before he even hit the ground, he died of a heart attack. Scaryyyy……. 
Here’s my revised edition:
There were three people, Jeb, Jo, and Dagger. None of them died or killed anyone. Not scaryyyy……
Please publish both versions GAPA!!!! (gets down and grovels at GAPA’s feet) (whatever grovel means) (I think it has something to do with begging for mercy) (anyways) (grovels more) (etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc)
kokopelli #13- if you want to post a story other than the one we’re writing then go to the WRITING thread and DO NOT post it on this thread or else it WILL BE DELETED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sry if this is harsh but no one wants to read your story ON THIS THREAD if we’re busy trying to write a group story. sry again if it’s harsh but you got to post things on the threads that they’re supposed to be posted on!!! sheesh…
Oh drat. THis thread is about to go off the opening page. Bleh.
Ohhhh, GAPA, will you please move this thread up a few spaces on the front page? We don’t want it do diiiiie!
pwease? i agree with zallie
Any luck on the parental front, Phoenix?
can we continue the story? pwease?
fine i’ll continue.
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Issy and Stella rolled their eyes at the ceiling, and the werecat hissed annoyed.
This is getting rather annoying, don’t you think Zelda? the werecat thought to Zelda.
Gee, ya think? came the reply.
Should we do something? the werecat asked lashing his tail.
What do you propose we do? Zelda thought looking at the defiant Leah while thinking.
Hmmm… Offensive approaches usually work…
We can’t do that! You know what will happen
Well, we could always get my sister in here to sort things out. the werecat replied.
You have a sister? Zelda looked at the werecat in astonishment.
Of course. Shall I get her?
Sure, I guess. the werecat concentrated on sending a message to his sister while everyone else was trying to explain everything to Leah. Leah however, wasn’t cooperating.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning flashed and a silhouette framed the doorway. Salimila walked in the door, her fur standing straight up with lightning crackling through it.
Ah, hello Salimila. Would you care to join us?
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Can’t now, I’ve had a writer’s block for a week now, as evidenced by my recent decline in L.A. grades. See monthly thread for details.
Having an Ehmer P.O.V. would be good, Zallie. And still trying to persuade them. I have the most paranoid parents on the face of the earth. But I guess that is a good thing, sometimes.
I feel to lazy to continue the story right now, but I will do a character profile.
MO’KALA
Powers:Mo’kala has some very unique powers for a water afreet. He can cast spells that allow magic users that aren’t afareet to take a second shape for a brief period. He can also create amulets that allow sorcerers to take their true second shape as long as they are worn. (This isn’t done very often because this severly drains his energy, and the amulets could be dangerous if they got in the hands of the powers.)
Weaknesses:Unlike most water afareet, Mo’kala cannot control weather and the sea, although he can sense storms and such. He isn’t much of a fighter.
Virtues:Mo’kala is extremely inteligent and good at figuring out problems.
Faults:He is somewhat squeamish, a bit of a coward.
Backround:Mo’kala originally came from Polenesia, but journeyed to Hawaii with its first colinizers. His human form is a thin, dark skinned young man with black hair and blue-green eyes. His animal form is a saphire gecko.
Who is Samila? A thunder afareet?
Suddenly, Samila hissed, and Feng yelled, “Duck!”
Everbody did, exept for Leah, who unfortunately was right in the path of the large crimson-furred projectile that careened into her, knocking her over.
The projectile, which no longer appeared to be furry at all, got up and revealed himself to be a young man of about nineteen or twenty. Dispite the fact he looked Asian, his hair was a bright red. His eyes were black, exept for the centers, in which dance firey sparks. He offered Leah a hand, grinning from ear to ear.
Leah flushed, and got up on her own.
Nestea looked extremely annoyed. “Your late, Kitsune. Again.”
I’ll post Ehmer’s POV once/if I finish my homework.
Ruby is badly needed on the message board, though. Who can I ship with Ehmer, if there is no Ruby?!
Yay! Shipping – MUSEBLOG SYLE!
Sorta off subject, but I totally ship Lupin/Sirius. TOTALLY. And I ship Dobby/Winky. And Kreacher/Giant Squid. And Ehmer/Ruby. And Emerson/Melissa, even if you only get that if you like Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron.
Just what I need, thought Leah. No one seems to remember I got drained, too. It’s all Ruby this, Ruby that… She scowled, and tried not to fall over again.
Ehmer folded his arms, looking extremely unimpressed by the whole affair. Of course, that was only on the outside. On the inside, he was marveling that there had been people all along just like him. But that was soppy girl-nonsense, and he certainly wasn’t thinking about it. No, not at all. Before anyone–and he wouldn’t have put it past any of the newcomers to be able to do that–could read his mind, he put up a block and spoke up: “Am I going to get my damn explanation or what?”
Shipping! YAAY! Feng/Nestea all the way. And Ehmer/Ruby is cool too.
Salimila is a thunder afareet. Also she is related to the werecat in a various way. (half sister twice removed… something like that) and her name is spelled S-A-L-I-M-I-L-A.
Athanath sighed quietly. “Yes, Ehmer, you will get your ‘damn explanation.’ I think we’re all here now.”
Our little afareet message board is up and running, for anyone who cares! In order to see the actual storyline going on, you must register, but you can check out the profiles and blurbs without being a member.
Mokala isn’t, but then he’s tired. Weeving spells is hard work.
Zallie, i’m already a member so cool it! jk
This thread is getting too long for some people to load, so I’m making it read-only. The exciting story continues on RRR v. 2006.1, Part 2.
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