Naming Dream She was lost. She felt like she’d been trudging for hours in the dark mist. She peered ahead trying to see a break in the fog. She changed direction whenever she thought she could see a path where the fog might be thinning. No matter which way she went the fog seemed to grow thicker around her.
Finally, she stopped. She was bound on all sides by thick fog. She could no longer see a way to go. Looking behind her, she couldn’t even see the scales on her back. Her head drooped. The fog gathered around her knees hid her mire-covered fetlocks. Did she dare to just keep walking blindly, hoping to find a way out? She closed her eyes. This aloneness frightened her. Her mind searched for answer.
No longer depending on her sight to guide her, she became aware of her other senses. Soothing songs and twitters of birds reached her ears. Familiar smells of moist vegetation and rotting wood filled her nostrils. She could feel Mother’s heartbeat beneath her hooves. The warm moist air grazed her tongue as she whispered the name.
She was not alone. Mother was here to keep her safe. She lowered her exhausted body to the muck. She felt safe in Mother’s softness as the boggy mud oozed up around her. Even the fog, once menacing, now felt comforting as it wrapped its moist blanket around her. This was her journey’s end and now she could sleep. (WIP)
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The Trickster, December 22 to January 20 Your Lucky Number Is: Eight Your Motto: Those With Purpose Prosper. Your Flower: Orange Heather (Pink Snapdragon if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Copal (Thulite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Orange
Common Traits: Practical, Ambitious, Humorous, Careful. Common Talents: Authoritative Positions, Amplified Pioneering Ability.
Fogbound for you! I thought of a ghost immediately <3 April 2013
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:38 am
Tangled Hooves
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The Trickster, December 22 to January 20 Your Lucky Number Is: Eight Your Motto: Those With Purpose Prosper. Your Flower: Orange Heather (Pink Snapdragon if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Copal (Thulite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Orange
Common Traits: Practical, Ambitious, Humorous, Careful. Common Talents: Authoritative Positions, Amplified Pioneering Ability.
Personality: Tangled loves from afar. He's shy and feels unworthy.
Naming Dream:
Parents: n/a Siblings: n/a
Mated With: none yet Children: none yet
Other Relatives:
Obtained: Contest
RPs:
1. Wandering Prompt 05 - "Far From Home" - Completed Link (Task: Explore surroundings - Completed - over 500 words ) - WP05 RP thread
TheMangrove, April 21 to May 21 Your Lucky Number Is: Six Your Motto: Gentle and Bold, The Lover Of All, Marsh's Delight. Your Flower: Mangrove Flower (White Tulip if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Amber (Ammolite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Yellow
Common Traits: Patient, Loving, Secure, Determined. Common Talents: Collectors, Attendants, Amplified Singing Ability.
Legendary Requirements 2/10 roleplays 0/1 story 0/1 naming dream
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:42 am
Lost Petal
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The Firefly, January 21 to February 19 Your Lucky Number Is: Ten Your Motto: Those With Purpose Prosper. Your Flower: Mint (Blue-Green Iris if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Bronze Quartz (Sunstone if Night-Birth) Your Color: Green
Common Traits: Loyal, Original Detached, Serious. Common Talents: Inventors, Researchers, Amplified Intellectual/Memory Ability.
The Hunter, July 23 to August 22 Your Lucky Number Is: One Your Motto: Sun, Not Shadow. Glory, Not Squalor. Your Flower: Marigold (Cattail if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Onyx (Tiger's Eye if Night-Birth) Your Color: Gold
Common Traits: Generous, Creative, Expansive, Faithful. Common Talents: Entertainer/Dancer, Amplified Artistic Craft.
TheMangrove, April 21 to May 21 Your Lucky Number Is: Six Your Motto: Gentle and Bold, The Lover Of All, Marsh's Delight. Your Flower: Mangrove Flower (White Tulip if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Amber (Ammolite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Yellow
TheMangrove, April 21 to May 21 Your Lucky Number Is: Six Your Motto: Gentle and Bold, The Lover Of All, Marsh's Delight. Your Flower: Mangrove Flower (White Tulip if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Amber (Ammolite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Yellow
TheTwins, May 22 to June 21 Your Lucky Number Is: Two Your Motto: My Thoughts Are Winged, My Heart Is Two. Your Flower: Blue Hydrangea (Lily-Of-The-Valley if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Turquoise (Charoite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Purple
TheFamiliar, August 23 to September 23 Your Lucky Number Is: Five Your Motto: I Wish To Give, I Have Much To Tell. Your Flower: Dandelion (Poppy if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Lace Agate (Moss Agate if Night-Birth) Your Color: All Bright Colors
Naming Dream:
The night has a thousand eyes The day but only one The mind has a thousand eyes The heart but only one
That which has held me so long Here no longer will reside Set free to sing another song Carrying on I will abide
A thing of legend, these scars Hidden from the light Ever watchful will be the stars the Eyes of the Night
Personality: Night travels quite a bit. He's been a wanderer since he lost his beloved (she died). He has a creative nature so he gathers flowers, vines, branches, rocksm etc and b,ilds scultpures (basically piles of debris, but they look like art to him). If he finds a tree with a saddle gap in it, he'll build his creation in it. The 'sculptures' are, in a sense, a tribute to his lost Beloved.
He's always a gentleman and polite when he talks.
Parents: n/a Siblings: n/a
Mated With: none yet (no life mates, doesn’t fit his history) Children: none yet
Legendary Requirements 10/10 roleplays 1/1 story The Crocodile Game (Halloween 2013 "Hellish Spirits" contest entry) 1/1 naming dream *
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:48 am
Wayward Wind
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TheFamiliar, August 23 to September 23 Your Lucky Number Is: Five Your Motto: I Wish To Give, I Have Much To Tell. Your Flower: Dandelion (Poppy if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Lace Agate (Moss Agate if Night-Birth) Your Color: All Bright Colors
Naming Dream:
A restless wind to follow Riding wherever it flows Leaving behind all sorrow Along its silvery glows
Inspiring to a better tomorrow Beneath each and every rainbow The one and only I must follow The Wayward Wind does blow
Lost Things tried to ignore the birds chirping. They sounded much too cheerful this early in the morning. She didn’t want to wake up just yet. She was still remembering last night. What a night. First the mushroom games, tossing and catching… and eating. After a while, they ate more than they tossed. She chuckled to herself. She’d been pretty good at catching them which mean she got a bit more to eat than she should have. She also managed to catch the eye of a handsome buck last night too. What was his name… she couldn’t remember. But oh, what a buck. After the mushroom games, they’d wandered off together. Then the fun really began. She closed her eyes and sighed happily.
Several months later, Lost Things deposited her egg sacs among a patch of mushrooms. She thought wistfully of the night that conceived the new beginnings. She thought she would see the buck again, but she never did. She wasn’t sure if her memory was hazy from so many mushrooms that night and she wouldn’t recognize him if she saw him, or if he was gone from the swamp. It was a mystery she would never solve.
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birth sign TheOldMountain, March 21 - April 20 Your Lucky Number Is: Seven Your Motto: Never Defeated, Always Standing, Forever Tall. Your Flower: Red Geranium (Pink Mallow if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Ruby (Amethyst if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Red
Common Traits: Adventurous, Confident, Extrovert, Dynamic. Common Talents: Leader, Medical Healer, Amplified Physical Ability.
Personality:
Moonlight has a preoccupation with her feet. She likes the sound they make when she splashes through water puddles or the rhythmic sound they make on hard ground. You find her most often dancing and making up new rhythms with her hooves when the moon is at its fullest. Due to Moonlight’s nighttime obsession, she is rarely seen during the day.
Twilight has an interest in small things. He likes to watch insects crawl around on leaves and branches. If he can get a butterfly to sit on his nose, he’ll carefully walk around and show it off to everyone.
Preference for the night time, During the daytime, they stay in shaded places
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Parents: Lost Things and Mystery Date Siblings: (twin)
TheMangrove, April 21 to May 21 Your Lucky Number Is: Six Your Motto: Gentle and Bold, The Lover Of All, Marsh's Delight. Your Flower: Mangrove Flower (White Tulip if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Amber (Ammolite if Night-Birth) Your Color: Shades of Yellow
Common Traits: Patient, Loving, Secure, Determined. Common Talents: Collectors, Attendants, Amplified Singing Ability.
Naming Dream:
The wild rose briar is sweet in spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild briar fair?
Personality:
Parents: White Path and Strong Ears. (WhiteEars clutch) Siblings: Oracle, Cant, Floating Away, Farthest Shore
Mated With: none yet
Children: none yet
Other Relatives:
Obtained: gift from Patmos and Corn (Kitty Spright), 27 April 2013
Legendary Requirements 0/10 roleplays 0/1 story 1/1 naming dream
Designed after Pan's Labyrinth, colored by Abbacus
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The Web, October 24 to November 22 Your Lucky Number Is: Nine Your Motto: The Truth Is Light. Your Flower: Fire Lily (Rose if Night-Birth) Your Gem: Garnet (Jet if Night-Birth) Your Color: Black
Common Traits: Determined, Passionate, Magnetic, Compulsive. Common Talents: Hunters/Explorers, Amplified Motivation and Courage.
Obtained: Halloween Horror Movies Event, Oct 2013 Hellish Spirits Story writing contest Nov 4,2013 Contest Winners Page 77 Contest Entry
Spoiler because it's a bit long, but under the 1000 word requirement. smile
Cool water refreshed his throat as he drank at the water’s edge. Unfamiliar voices drifted from further down the bank. Young colts, barely past their gangly foal age, thought Eyes of the Night. Probably up to no good. Night listened without really paying attention to the good-natured joking and laughing until he realized the subject of their jokes.
Night walked along the bank until the two youngsters saw him. The guilty looks on their faces gave Night hope that maybe they weren’t beyond saving. “That sounds like quite the joke you played on your friend,” said Night.
They laughed. “Yea, he’s not really our friend,” replied the older colt.
“Did he get hurt?”
“He got a little scraped up, but he’s okay.”
Night could see that the older of the two was the spokesperson for the pair. The younger one's face began to appear worried.
“When I was your age,” started Night. He paused slightly when the colt who’d spoke, rolled his eyes. He knew what the youngster was thinking, 'here goes another old-timer's story’. “My friends and I would play jokes on others too.“
“There was one colt, a bit small for his age, he wanted so badly to be a part of our group. We made him do the most ghastly things, promising of course that he’d one day be one of us. But you know how that is, right? We never intended that let that happen.”
The younger colt’s face had brightened at the start of the story. Night guessed that he was one to always be around the storytellers at a gathering. The older colt's stance showed impatience.
“One day,“ continued Night, “we challenged him to play chicken with the crocodiles. It’s a game that most young colts have played. Usually on land, and if you’re smart, you pick a croc that has recently eaten.”
“The little colt tried to pick a small croc far from the water, but we forced him to pick a bigger one lying on the bank. He did well, kicking at it, leaping over it, doing all the usual taunts. We encouraged him to keep at it, long after anyone else would have passed the test.”
“He was getting tired, and we could see that he was, but we urged him on, saying that he was almost ready to join us. He stumbled and fell. Standing up, he looked so sad because he thought he’d failed the test. Then we realized he’d twisted his hind leg when he fell. He tried to limp back to us, but the leg caused him a bit of pain when he tried walk on it and he whimpered. And we were right there to laugh at him for being such a weak egg sac.“
Night paused. It was a story that he didn’t tell very often. It was painful to remember.
“The next instant, the river bank exploded like a wave crashing on the beach. A croc lying in the shallows had been watching the whole spectacle. When the little colt whimpered, the croc knew his prey was ready for the taking. He leapt out of the water, grabbed the hurt colt by his haunch and dragged him back into the water.“
“The small colt screamed to us for help, desperately trying to dig his front hooves into the dirt to keep from being dragged into the water. His eyes pleaded with us to save him. Once in the water, the croc pulled him under. The water churned while he thrashed for air. Then everything was still. The only thing left was a trail of blood leading to the water’s edge.”
“It all happened in a mere moment, but it seemed like an eternity that he stared back at us pleading for help. We were stunned and stood there doing nothing. There was nothing we could have done of course, it all happened so fast. But, if we hadn’t taunted him to play at the water’s edge, if we hadn’t taunted him to keep at it when we knew he was tired, he wouldn’t have died. Those pleading eyes are something that your mind will never stop seeing.”
The faces of his audience showed Night that the story had hit its mark. He hoped it was a lasting impression and that it would sway them in the long run to be kinder to the smaller and weaker ones that crossed their path in the future.
Without another word, Night walked past the two colts and followed the water’s edge. Behind him, the ghost of a young colt, not much bigger than a foal, trailed after him.
1. Wandering Prompt 05 - "Far From Home" - Completed Link (Task: Explore surroundings - Completed - over 500 words ) - WP05 RP thread
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Legendary Requirements 1/10 roleplays 0/1 story 0/1 naming dream **
