Hey guys. I made a thing. (Well, more accurately, I summoned a thing and now it's eating my dragons. And I did it on purpose. But we'll ignore that.)
My previous clan, now decimated, may have summoned an eldritch abomination. They did it accidentally on purpose, and now they've reaped the rewards...
The ending throes of my previous clan can be read about in
this thread on the RP forum, where my other friends with lore addictions attacked me on the eve of the final ritual for the summoning, and I fought them to a draw. They evacuated. The summoning can be read on the last page of the thread if you wish. (Warning for disturbing imagery.)
Several months have passed now, though, and with my previous clan's mysterious withdrawing from their home, the land has recovered and is, mostly, normal shadow land again. A couple of stray wanderers have found their way there, and blissly ignorant of the blood spilled in the past and the alien malevolence that still dwells deep in the woods nearby, they begin to build themselves a home there...
A Note on Rules
My rules are really variant from the original Nuzlocke rules for FR. There are a couple of reasons for this: I want to write lore, and the Nuzlockes to date aren't very conducive to my methods of writing lore; my clan's situation is unusual and the current rules couldn't account for it; and I really like writing rules. I'm a nerd.
I have decided not to post them on this thread because the google doc I've been writing them on is now 10 pages long. It would be the longest post I've ever made. However! If y'all want to see them really badly, they are in
this thread. I make no apologies.
Hey guys. I made a thing. (Well, more accurately, I summoned a thing and now it's eating my dragons. And I did it on purpose. But we'll ignore that.)
My previous clan, now decimated, may have summoned an eldritch abomination. They did it accidentally on purpose, and now they've reaped the rewards...
The ending throes of my previous clan can be read about in
this thread on the RP forum, where my other friends with lore addictions attacked me on the eve of the final ritual for the summoning, and I fought them to a draw. They evacuated. The summoning can be read on the last page of the thread if you wish. (Warning for disturbing imagery.)
Several months have passed now, though, and with my previous clan's mysterious withdrawing from their home, the land has recovered and is, mostly, normal shadow land again. A couple of stray wanderers have found their way there, and blissly ignorant of the blood spilled in the past and the alien malevolence that still dwells deep in the woods nearby, they begin to build themselves a home there...
A Note on Rules
My rules are really variant from the original Nuzlocke rules for FR. There are a couple of reasons for this: I want to write lore, and the Nuzlockes to date aren't very conducive to my methods of writing lore; my clan's situation is unusual and the current rules couldn't account for it; and I really like writing rules. I'm a nerd.
I have decided not to post them on this thread because the google doc I've been writing them on is now 10 pages long. It would be the longest post I've ever made. However! If y'all want to see them really badly, they are in
this thread. I make no apologies.
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[size=5][font=book antiqua][b] Table of Contents [/b] [/size] [/center]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/1#11871441] 1 - The Founders [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/1#11921610] 2 - Clan Growth [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/2#12007984] 3 - Thorn Growth [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/2#12040011] 4 - Glitches [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/4#12088173] 5 - Newcomers [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/5#12455788] 6 - Market [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/7#12938133] 7 - Nestling Attack [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/8#13294058] 8 - Aftermath [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/9#13451345] 9 - Accumulation [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/10#13481991] 10 - Maus [/url] (Guest chapter by [b]Orru[/b])
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/11#14395124] 11 - The Scholar [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/12#14439010] 12 - Mor [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/15#15085603] 13 - Homecoming [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/16#15279716] 14 - Muddle [/url]
[url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1480715/17#16380835] 15 - Adjustments [/url]
[center] [size=4] [font=century gothic] [b] 2015 June 22 [/b] [/center]
[size=4] [font=book antiqua] Introducing the cast of characters.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] Sakul, the last remnant of the previous clan. Adopted as a hatchling, ey slipped away from eir minders during the chaos of the final summoning and hid in a thicket. Eir memories of that time are fuzzy and fragmented by now, and ey has lived alone for most of eir life. Ey is not familiar with other dragons or how to be social. [/i]
Ey doesn't know much about eir past. Ey remembers darkness, and a lot of screaming voices, and eir name -- 'Sakul'. That was as a hatchling. Sakul remembers having dreams about terrifying darkness, but ey isn't sure they were ever real. Ey's familiar with the darkness of the Tangled Woods, and hasn't ever really found it terrifying. The glow of the mushrooms is light enough, and all he really knows. (What is 'sun'?)
Sakul has been alone forever, but ey wakes one night in eir den of thorns to crackling noises and footsteps on the moss outside. There is someone here.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] Tilion, a wanderer. [/i]
Tilion gracefully removed himself from an over-crowded lair without letting the others know. Being alone for the first time in his life did wonders for him -- and now he has found himself a lovely, empty expanse of deserted forest.
He thinks he'll settle down for a while here.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] Moreka, a refugee of sorts. A starving clan and father, a distant and uncaring mother, and a dead sister all combined to drive her away from her home clan. [/i]
Moreka, still considered a bit young to be striking out on her own, left anyway. Her father lay in his den and did not come out, a victim of the rampant starvation in her home clan. Her mother, more well-fed than either Moreka's father or her surviving daughter, was too absorbed in her 'work' to really notice her departure. Moreka doesn't mind. She saw her father off, at the least. She doubts she'll ever see them again, and that works for her.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] Legessa, another refugee, but from a different, less obvious evil. [/i]
Legessa was a daughter prized for her colors and her parentage, but growing up in a lair so focused on designer hatchlings, she's had more than enough of her fill of color theory and gene scroll applications and matches made for the sake of the appearance of the children. Not to mention herself, growing to adulthood without finding a 'proper' adoptive family. The way people had begun to look at her made her uneasy. So did the whispers about 'the market'.
The Tangled Woods of the shadow realms seems far enough from fire territory, and her old clan, to keep her safe.
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[center] [size=4] [font=century gothic] [b] 2015 June 23 [/b] [/center]
[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] Legessa and Moreka meet and form a tentative bond. They happen across Tilion sleeping in a clearing full of old, half-ruined thorn dens, and inertia begins to take hold as they chat. Sakul watches from one of his bolt-holes. [/i]
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] There are three dragons. Sakul has never seen this many other dragons before -- and never this close to em. They make long, winding noises at one another and seem to get along because of them. Sakul wonders if they are telling each other their names.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] The ridgeback and spiral pair that happens upon Tilion's new nest one morning comes as a bit of a surprise, but the two female dragons are fine companions, he supposes. There is still plenty of space here for three dragons, even as large as the twitchy Moreka is. Tilion rather admires Legessa's colors, but hasn't quite worked up the nerve to tell her yet.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] Moreka comes across Legessa on her way back from the nearest pond, belly mostly, gloriously full of fish. The pale spiral's shiny scales are not well made for hiding in the shadows of the Tangled Wood. Even without their shininess the pale color would seem to glow in the darkness, and with their iridescence they catch evey faint glimmer of mushroom, whirling patterns of reflected bluish scales patterning across the dark trees with the spiral's movement. She seems confused about where to go to find food. Moreka can understand the sentiment, and she is a shadow dragon born and raised. She can easily teach the spiral.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] Safe, the Woods are, but hard to eat from. Legessa is grateful that her apparently 'beautiful' colors catch and amplify what little light the mushrooms provide -- it makes it so much easier to see. But she can't seem to find any food, only an occasional stray insect coasting on the air. Not nearly enough to fill her belly.
The spiral is starting to wonder if perhaps she should try to go to Earth instead -- but that would mean traveling through all the Shadow land, and what would she eat? -- when a shadow ridgeback named Moreka comes upon her. Legessa almost flees from the larger dragon, but Moreka seems to recognize her plight and offers to teach her how to hunt. Legessa nearly jumps for joy.
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] [i] After four expeditions by Moreka and Legessa, the spiral has gotten much better at hunting for food in the darkness. Everyone is fed for today, and they have some new items. [/i]
"How does this work?" Moreka asks, holding up a pair of the baubles she cut from the two ember mouse corpses they were able to capture. Legessa insisted the antennae be cut off and kept intact -- Moreka doesn't really understand it.
Tilion wobbles his head confusedly, mouth full of mouse. He seems to have as little clue as Moreka. Fortunately, Legessa prances over before they can get much more confused.
"They're firestarters!" the pale spiral exclaims. "Give me, give me." She swipes the two antennae from Moreka's claws, and brings them down hard upon a pile of dried thorns and brambles that she gathered earlier. Sparks spring from the antennae as she hits them against the plants, and soon enough a small flame has sprung up on the dry wood. Legessa purrs happily, curling her long body around the fire. It glints off her scales and sends pale yellow reflections dancing through the darkness.
Moreka and Tilion look upon the scene with ill-disguised confusion. "Why do we need that?" Tilion finally questions.
"For the light, obviously!"
Moreka and Tilion look at one another, then back at the fire. The idea of needing to start fires just for [i]light[/i] is foreign to them, used to the darkness as they are. Surely the mushrooms are enough?
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[size=4] [font=book antiqua] In eir hiding place, Sakul recoils from the flames and darts away, rubbing eir sensitive eyes with a paw. Ey doesn't like the pale spiral as much as the other two.
2015 June 22
Introducing the cast of characters.
Sakul, the last remnant of the previous clan. Adopted as a hatchling, ey slipped away from eir minders during the chaos of the final summoning and hid in a thicket. Eir memories of that time are fuzzy and fragmented by now, and ey has lived alone for most of eir life. Ey is not familiar with other dragons or how to be social.
Ey doesn't know much about eir past. Ey remembers darkness, and a lot of screaming voices, and eir name -- 'Sakul'. That was as a hatchling. Sakul remembers having dreams about terrifying darkness, but ey isn't sure they were ever real. Ey's familiar with the darkness of the Tangled Woods, and hasn't ever really found it terrifying. The glow of the mushrooms is light enough, and all he really knows. (What is 'sun'?)
Sakul has been alone forever, but ey wakes one night in eir den of thorns to crackling noises and footsteps on the moss outside. There is someone here.
Tilion, a wanderer.
Tilion gracefully removed himself from an over-crowded lair without letting the others know. Being alone for the first time in his life did wonders for him -- and now he has found himself a lovely, empty expanse of deserted forest.
He thinks he'll settle down for a while here.
Moreka, a refugee of sorts. A starving clan and father, a distant and uncaring mother, and a dead sister all combined to drive her away from her home clan.
Moreka, still considered a bit young to be striking out on her own, left anyway. Her father lay in his den and did not come out, a victim of the rampant starvation in her home clan. Her mother, more well-fed than either Moreka's father or her surviving daughter, was too absorbed in her 'work' to really notice her departure. Moreka doesn't mind. She saw her father off, at the least. She doubts she'll ever see them again, and that works for her.
Legessa, another refugee, but from a different, less obvious evil.
Legessa was a daughter prized for her colors and her parentage, but growing up in a lair so focused on designer hatchlings, she's had more than enough of her fill of color theory and gene scroll applications and matches made for the sake of the appearance of the children. Not to mention herself, growing to adulthood without finding a 'proper' adoptive family. The way people had begun to look at her made her uneasy. So did the whispers about 'the market'.
The Tangled Woods of the shadow realms seems far enough from fire territory, and her old clan, to keep her safe.
2015 June 23
Legessa and Moreka meet and form a tentative bond. They happen across Tilion sleeping in a clearing full of old, half-ruined thorn dens, and inertia begins to take hold as they chat. Sakul watches from one of his bolt-holes.
There are three dragons. Sakul has never seen this many other dragons before -- and never this close to em. They make long, winding noises at one another and seem to get along because of them. Sakul wonders if they are telling each other their names.
The ridgeback and spiral pair that happens upon Tilion's new nest one morning comes as a bit of a surprise, but the two female dragons are fine companions, he supposes. There is still plenty of space here for three dragons, even as large as the twitchy Moreka is. Tilion rather admires Legessa's colors, but hasn't quite worked up the nerve to tell her yet.
Moreka comes across Legessa on her way back from the nearest pond, belly mostly, gloriously full of fish. The pale spiral's shiny scales are not well made for hiding in the shadows of the Tangled Wood. Even without their shininess the pale color would seem to glow in the darkness, and with their iridescence they catch evey faint glimmer of mushroom, whirling patterns of reflected bluish scales patterning across the dark trees with the spiral's movement. She seems confused about where to go to find food. Moreka can understand the sentiment, and she is a shadow dragon born and raised. She can easily teach the spiral.
Safe, the Woods are, but hard to eat from. Legessa is grateful that her apparently 'beautiful' colors catch and amplify what little light the mushrooms provide -- it makes it so much easier to see. But she can't seem to find any food, only an occasional stray insect coasting on the air. Not nearly enough to fill her belly.
The spiral is starting to wonder if perhaps she should try to go to Earth instead -- but that would mean traveling through all the Shadow land, and what would she eat? -- when a shadow ridgeback named Moreka comes upon her. Legessa almost flees from the larger dragon, but Moreka seems to recognize her plight and offers to teach her how to hunt. Legessa nearly jumps for joy.
After four expeditions by Moreka and Legessa, the spiral has gotten much better at hunting for food in the darkness. Everyone is fed for today, and they have some new items.
"How does this work?" Moreka asks, holding up a pair of the baubles she cut from the two ember mouse corpses they were able to capture. Legessa insisted the antennae be cut off and kept intact -- Moreka doesn't really understand it.
Tilion wobbles his head confusedly, mouth full of mouse. He seems to have as little clue as Moreka. Fortunately, Legessa prances over before they can get much more confused.
"They're firestarters!" the pale spiral exclaims. "Give me, give me." She swipes the two antennae from Moreka's claws, and brings them down hard upon a pile of dried thorns and brambles that she gathered earlier. Sparks spring from the antennae as she hits them against the plants, and soon enough a small flame has sprung up on the dry wood. Legessa purrs happily, curling her long body around the fire. It glints off her scales and sends pale yellow reflections dancing through the darkness.
Moreka and Tilion look upon the scene with ill-disguised confusion. "Why do we need that?" Tilion finally questions.
"For the light, obviously!"
Moreka and Tilion look at one another, then back at the fire. The idea of needing to start fires just for light is foreign to them, used to the darkness as they are. Surely the mushrooms are enough?
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In eir hiding place, Sakul recoils from the flames and darts away, rubbing eir sensitive eyes with a paw. Ey doesn't like the pale spiral as much as the other two.
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Pasafatu
Ping list please! I love the eerie setting, excited to see what is going to happen! :D
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Pasafatu
Ping list please! I love the eerie setting, excited to see what is going to happen! :D
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Neige Consider yourself pinged! ^u^
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Neige Consider yourself pinged! ^u^
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Pasafatu
I also would like to be on the ping list. This is gonna get gnarly.
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Pasafatu
I also would like to be on the ping list. This is gonna get gnarly.
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Pasafatu
Definitely ping me! If only we were allowed more than one account; I'd definitely try this Nuzlocke out!
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Pasafatu
Definitely ping me! If only we were allowed more than one account; I'd definitely try this Nuzlocke out!
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Pasafatu Add me to the list please! Setting is amazingly eerie!
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Pasafatu Add me to the list please! Setting is amazingly eerie!
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Pasafatu
I'd like to be added to the pinglist, please!
Already can't wait to see how things start to unfold.
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Pasafatu
I'd like to be added to the pinglist, please!
Already can't wait to see how things start to unfold.
