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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 26, 2011 12:23:46 GMT -6
The sun has been down for a while when Stebia wakes up in her recuperacoon. She smiles and rolls over in the sopor slime, feeling the gentle vibrations of her lusus digging beneath her. After a few minutes of just waking up gradually, Stebia yawns and stretches herself out of the recuperacoon, arching her back to get the last bit of sleep out of her system. She rolls herself out of the hole in the top and falls with a thump into a pile of overalls, soaking the topmost ones in slime. Suddenly a jolt of adrenaline shoots through her and she sits up wide-awake, remembering that today is the day she will play the game with her friends!
Stebia rushes through the normal monotony of troll hygiene, flattening her wild hair with water from the sink and skipping her fangs altogether. She excitedly bounds into her clothes and snaps her helmet over her horns before skidding around the corner into the hallway. It's really more of a passage in the cave system, but a lot of cool caves branch off of it so it's awesome. Down the hall to the right is her kitchen with breakfast, but there's also the storeroom with all her cool junk and the science room. She calls it that for lack of a better word, because quite frankly she doesn't care about what things are called as long as the classification makes sense to her. She could go outside, or she could look around some more. Or she could go back and see if anyone's online, or she could sit in a crystal cavern and think about stuff. So many cool things to do! Life is great and she can't see how anyone could ever be sad when there's so many great things to do.
What will she do?
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Post by Shipfish on Nov 26, 2011 12:27:23 GMT -6
==> Find a CANDY CRYSTAL cavern and go to town on all those candy crystals.
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==> Get those pesterlogs you already did (in Isaard's and Kyanas's timelines) out of the way
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Post by Radiodragon on Nov 26, 2011 12:37:20 GMT -6
==> We all had to do it, so talk about your friends already.
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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 26, 2011 14:28:57 GMT -6
==> Find a CANDY CRYSTAL cavern and go to town on all those candy crystals. What do you mean? You already did that! It was awesome, and you didn't stop jittering for a week afterwards. Isaard had to endure many late-day trollings consisting of "HEY HEY ISAARD HEY LISTEN" over and over again. Afterwards you fell asleep on a pile of laundry and didn't wake up for three nights. After that your lusus collapsed the tunnel to the candy crystal cave, but some day you will re-excavate it. SOME DAY!!! ==> We all had to do it, so talk about your friends already. This is a subject that you love to talk about, because you love your friends! All of them, even the grouchy ones! Well, especially the grouchiest. You might as well start with him! You met him one day on a forum when this one guy was being really mean and then Isaard joined the conversation to come to your rescue and BLEW THE GUYS COMPUTER UP!!!! It was so cool! And then you PM'd him to say thanks and afterwards you talked to him whenever he was on and now you're best friends!!!!!!! You maybe want to be more than best friends with him, but you don't think that he wants any quadrants filled for some reason, not even pale. He sure is weird!!!! There's also Kyanas, who is really cool too! You wish you were as cool as her! She always seems to know what she's talking about, and she gives a lot of good advice, even if it is usually in proverbs. Besides, she's got a really awesome lusus! Digbeasts are awesome, but they're not too cuddly. Oh, and Aruale! She can be grouchy sometimes, but she's awesome underneath because she always believes in what she's doing and you too! She has a lot of crazy plans, but you think that she's determined enough to pull them off! She has a lot of good ideas, too! Then there's Lerena, who you don't know so well but she seems like a nice lady from what Aruale has told you! She isn't stuck up like a lot of other seadwellers, which is great because you're pretty low on the spectrum. Not like you mind being so low! You're happy with where you are, because orange is a pretty color that doesn't show the dirt too badly. You also have a mystery friend, but he is far too mysterious for you to tell us anything about him! Maybe later, once he has a proper thread and everything. You might as well go back in your room and see if anyone is on yet! ==> Get that pesterlog you already did out of the way What pesterlog? You haven't trolled anyone yet today. You trolled Isaard yesternight, before you went to bed. It went sort of like this: herobound.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pester&action=display&thread=6. But nobody's on yet today oh wait there's Kyanas! You should talk to her! herobound.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pester&action=display&thread=18Awww man mom, do you have to have breakfast made now?!? Oh well, you might as well go eat it. Oooooorrrrr, you could ignore her and do something else! Hmmmm, what to do? |
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Post by Radiodragon on Nov 26, 2011 15:09:10 GMT -6
==> Examine your hive
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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 26, 2011 17:19:20 GMT -6
==> Examine your hive
Okay! It's not really a hive, actually! It's a cave system that you found as a wriggler, and you think it is SUPER COOL. Living in a cave is basically the best thing ever. EVER. It means you have tons of cool places to put your stuff and to explore! And the MINERALS! Sweet Mother Grub, this place is a veritable goldmine of different types of rocks! Pun intended. It stays warm because of sulfur or something, you don't really care. It's absolutely the best place ever and you wouldn't trade it for the world.
Of course, you had to modify it a bit. After you moved in, a kitchen was put in, and an ablution trap and all the amenities. The water's always warm because it comes from an underground spring, which is fortified with lots of iron and other necessary minerals for a growing troll. It certainly helped build up your muscles! According to your mystery friend, you're stronger than most trolls, which is weird to you! You've never really had any other trolls around in person to compare yourself to, so you guess he has to be right. You don't really think anything of lifting huge boulders out of the way, or shouldering through a cave wall in case of tunnel collapse. It's just what you've always done! It's really useful, too, because it means that you can swing your pick through the hardest of minerals! The only trouble is that the pick sometimes breaks. It would be gneiss nice if you had some way to combine the properties of your pickaxe with the strength of a diamond, perhaps through some sort of gaming abstraction. Too bad that could never happen!
Wow, you really got off topic. What should you do now?
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Post by Radiodragon on Nov 26, 2011 20:20:09 GMT -6
==> Speak of this mystery friend, we all on the edge of our seats!
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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 27, 2011 12:26:33 GMT -6
==> Speak of this mystery friend, we are all on the edge of our seats!
Hmmmm. Well, okay, you don't see why not, seeing how he already has his thread up and all.
You met Kratus during one of your many spelunking expeditions through the system you call home. You popped out of a cave wall and there he was! You were both very surprised. He had previously believed that cave wall to be solid rock (it was, you just busted through it), and you had previously believed that you were the only troll living in this system! He told you a little bit about himself, telling you that he was nearly nine sweeps old (OOOOLD!) and that he had been a mother grub attendant before leaving. Then he got all quiet, and you decided not to ask him why he left. You proceeded to fill the silence with chatter about yourself, and somehow in the process the two of you became friends. Since he didn't have a lusus, you started bringing him food and helping him out in general. You even offered one of your spare caverns for him to live in, but he said that he preferred to have a view of the stars.
Later on you invited him to join you and your friends in a game because you were pretty sure that you were the only troll he had talked to since leaving the breeding caverns. He graciously accepted, and after a bit of advice from Lerena he accepted the role of your server player. Whatever that means!
That's about all you know about this guy. He's pretty mysterious, even to you! What should you do now?
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Post by Shipfish on Nov 27, 2011 16:09:54 GMT -6
==> Oh, oh, talk about your ancestor.
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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 27, 2011 16:58:16 GMT -6
==> Oh, oh, talk about your ancestor.
Ancestor? What ancestor? You've never ever found anything about your ancestor, even on your longest spelunking trips. You sure wish you knew what she was like, though! You bet she was really tough and cool and never took no for an answer, and was really important! She probably wasn't, though. Lots of lowbloods never get a chance to leave behind a legacy for their descendants. She was probably just a servant in some blueblood's hive. You're pretty sure you would be best friends forever with anyone who could tell you about her, because you really believe that she was somebody cool, if not important. Oh well, you'll probably never know.
What next?
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Post by Shipfish on Nov 27, 2011 17:46:03 GMT -6
==> Go see about breakfast. On the way, check in on your lusus.
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Post by Quakerlol on Nov 27, 2011 20:40:02 GMT -6
==> Go see about breakfast. On the way, check in on your lusus.
Breakfast sure sounds like a good idea! And since your lusus has likely finished her tunneling for now, you can eat together! She generally is able to get her own food, which is great because you're not too fond of worms and stuff.
You walk down the hallway into the KITCHEN CAVE. Your lusus has already made you breakfast and set it on the counter. She's so thoughtful! She isn't here now, though. You guess she wasn't done tunneling yet after all. Your stores of dried meat seem to be running low, so you should probably get some more after the game. You have enough for a hearty breakfast now, though! It's important that you be well-fed so you can play the game to the best of your ability. Even though the game isn't important in itself, it's still important that you have fun with your friends. And besides, you don't want to be all grouchy from an empty stomach when you meet Isaard!!
You pick up your pre-prepared breakfast, still smiling over the prospect of meeting your friends in person. Mostly one friend, but that doesn't matter. You think some more about what Kyanas said. Hopefully meeting him in person will get him to open up to you a bit more. From what Aruale's said, he talks the most about his feelings with you than with anyone else, but it still isn't very much at all. You're worried about him, and you want him to be okay. All this talk recently of invisible monsters singing to him in his dreams has got you concerned, so this game will be a great way to help him with that. Whether he wants to or not! Suddenly you some to a decision. You will be a SECRET MOIRAIL TO HIM!
Secret moirails are a common thing among trolls. It is where one troll sneakily acts like they are just platonic friends, while they really harbor pale ambitions. Eventually, through many many covert feelings jams, the ambitious troll manipulates the other one into reciprocating their feelings, and moirallegiance is reached. Now that you think about it, it seems sort of sneaky and mean, but you know that it is the best route to take. After all, none of your friends have told Isaard that you harbor pale feelings for him, so he has absolutely no idea. Thank goodness!
Okay, you've gotten far enough off topic for the moment. What should you do now?
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Post by Radiodragon on Dec 3, 2011 10:27:51 GMT -6
==> I hate to ask, but what is your obsession with this Isaard fellow. It's starting to creep the command console out.
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Post by Quakerlol on Dec 3, 2011 11:28:30 GMT -6
==> I hate to ask, but what is your obsession with this Isaard fellow. It's starting to creep the command console out.
The command console can BUTTON ITS SEEDFLAP RIGHT THE HELL UP, because you are NOT OBSESSED with him. You are just completely and utterly off the pale end for him. You have been for a while now. Initially it came from a desire to 'fix' him, and make him more of a social troll like yourself. Aruale says that you have a problem with doing that. You think that she's exaggerating, but she's probably right. You just want everyone to have friends, is that too much to ask?
Anyway, after you talked to him for a while you realized that he could seriously use a moirail, somebody to unload his feelings to while on a metaphorical pile of something. All the best feelings jams occur on piles. Everyone knows that. You also realized that he was really easy and fun to talk to, and quite frankly has a lot more sense that you do. His advice has often helped you in tough situations, and you hope that yours has done the same. You don't know if he really feels the same way, though. He keeps talking about not having to worry about his quadrants, which is one of the many things that he says that confuse the heck out of you. You wish that he would be more open about his emotions, and this game will probably help with that. Even if he doesn't reciprocate your feelings, though, you are happy to just be friends with him because he is one of the coolest people you know.
Okay, enough feelings, command console. YOU'RE NOT MY LUSUS, YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO actually you can but whatever.
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Post by Radiodragon on Dec 3, 2011 14:26:58 GMT -6
==> Geez, calm down kid. Talk to Lerena and get the game program, before bad stuff happens.
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