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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:27 pm
Pale Grasspink and Taneko Nickname: Ari Likes: People she knows, animals (as long as they don't try to eat her), drawing, getting/giving presents. Dislikes: Getting scared, people who laugh at her, people who talk bad about the people she likes. Personality: Pale Grasspink is pretty shy, but she's very loyal. She is fiercely devoted to her friends and will go through a lot of trouble to help them. On the other hand, she can be a bit cruel at times when she blatanly doesn't care about something. Pale Grasspink talks in violet To grow to Child: Total: 150 points or more XP: >50 points CP: >50 points Total: 155XP: 9010 - meeting
10 - post-contest RP
10 - appointment
60 - Ebil-spider-spawn winner!CP: 655 - file
25 - journal
10 - finding playmates
25 - 5 journal entries
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:53 am
"Welcome to my journal!"
*gets a mean stare from Calypso*
"Ahem, Welcome to our journal! Feel free to look around, and follow along in the life of my plant and plant-sprite!""You forgot beautiful, stunning, intelligent, beautiful..."
"You said beautiful twice..."
"Well... I'm just THAT beautiful!"
"Ha ha... well... now you've met Pale Grasspink, or 'Calypso', feel free to look around!"
"Just be carefull not to mess up anything... I hate messy people!"
"Ha ha... don't take her too seriously! We're really not that mean! You should come join us one day in the North Greenhouse!"
1. Songjewel's post
2. Navigation/Rules/Intro <-- You are here ^_^
3. About Calyspo
4. About Taneko
5. Pale Grasspink File (Not Done!)
6. Care Instructions
7. The Other Sprites
8. Photo album
9. Milestones
10. Family/Friends
11. Gifts/Possessions
12. Guardians
13. Taneko's House
14. Mental Notes
15. Credits/Outro
 1. Don't write in this journal under ANY circumstances. 2. The only people that rule DOESN'T count for would be Songjewel and any other staff of GVGS. 3. If you're delivering a gift of some sort, I believe you should deliver it in North Abour Greenhouse and Grounds, as that is where Calypso is anchored. 4. More to come as I see fit ^_^
 Entering the greenhouse, you had looked around. It was a very nice place, and the plants were really charming. You noticed a single table that was not filled with plants, the only thing there was a thick brown book. Getting curious, you walked over to the book, only to notice that it was a journal of some sort. On the cover, in curly writing, it was written: "Taneko and Pale Grasspink's Journal". You looked around to see if anybody could see you. Satisfied with seeing nobody, you opened the book to the first page...
Latest Updates 20th April 2007Calypso changed her name to... well.. Calypso xD Calypso's child stage finally came! Calypso and Taneko have taken off on an adventure around the park.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:57 am
The first page was filled with information on some sort of person. But what was this? The picture was of a... pink... thing... peculiar! Very peculiar indeed! Fascinated, you continue reading
Name: Pale Grasspink.
Full name: Calopogon pallidus.
Nickname(s): Calypso
Age: Actually younger, but seems to be 10-12 years.
Discovered: November 23 2006 (Kitten was her care-taker before that)
Gender: Female.
Height: About half a human head tall.
Weight: VERY light.
Eyes: Blue/violet.
Hair: Bright pink, quite short.
Skin color: Very light pink.
Personality: Calypso is quiet and calm in situations that she isn't used to. Overall, she is a nice and friendly sprite and she enjoys talking with other sprites. She has heard stories about how some sprites fight with each other, and she wishes that they could all just get along. Although this would normally classify her as charming and sweet, she will still get snippy, sarcastic and annoying if she doesn't get her way.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:58 am
Well, that was certainly... interesting. Although you really didn't get why there was a picture of some little pink... thing. The next page, however, is much easier to comprehend. Obviously, the owner of this book has written a profile on herself.
 Name: Taneko
Race: Elfin
Age: 582 (But she looks like she�s 17)
Gender: Female
Height: 5'10" (or 179 cm)
Weight: 137 lbs. (62 kg)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black. The �magic� in her blood makes it grow extremely fast, so she can be seen with long hair, but she usually cuts it short once or twice a month. Then it�s sort of short spiky ish.
Skin: Slightly tanned.
Class: Archer/Magic
Favourites:
Flower: Orchids and Spring Snowflakes (Leucojum vernum)
Color: Black and Green
Food: She was originally a vegitarian, but as she left the elfin kingdom, and therefor had her main food source cut off, she started eating meat to survive. She is especially fond of blueberry pie and churros.
Music: The sound of rain.
Smell: The smell of freshness right after it has rained.
Place in the world: Her garden.
Element: Earth
Background Story:
To be enclosed...
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:59 am
Flipping the page, you finally seem to find some useful information. These few pages had obviously been filled with all sorts of information on the Pale Grasspink Orchid. Facinated, you continue reading the rest of the written information.
 Basic Info
Common Name: Pale Grasspink Orchid
Scientific Name: Calopogon pallidus
Origin of Name:The generic name is from Greek and means "beautiful beard", referring to the cluster of hairs adorning the labellum.
Habitat: Terrestrial in moist, open, acidic bogs, prairies, pine woods, and roadsides
Blooming: March-July
General: compared to its cousin (Calopogon tuberosus), this species bears smaller and slenderer flowers (typically one inch/2.5 cm tall) on a slender, wiry spike. While most typically a pale pink, pure white and deep pink forms are seen occasionally. Unlike its larger cousin, these flowers are often lightly fragrant. The plant consists of a small, whitish subterranean corm giving rise to a single plicate, grass-like leaf (sometimes more than one leaf in var. simpsonii) which clasps basally the flowering stem, capped with one to three flowers. The flowers use a unique mechanism to achieve pollination. Mid-way up the lip, they bear a tuft of orange-yellow hairs that resembles the pistils and stamens of typical bogland flowers, while the base of the lip is jointed. The pollinators, deceived by this ruse, land on this tuft, their weight triggering the lip to flex downward along its joint and to drop them onto the column arching below.
The Built
The basic orchid flower is composed of three sepals in the outer whorl, and three petals in the inner whorl. The medial petal is usually modified and enlarged (then called the labellum or lip), forming a platform for pollinators near the center of the corolla. Together, except the lip, they are called tepals.
Labellum (or Lip): A part of an orchid that serves to attract insects that will pollinate the flower, and acts as a landing platform for those insects. The labellum is a modified petal and can be distinguished from the other petals and from the sepals by its large size and its often irregular shape. It is not unusual for the other two petals of an orchid flower to look like the sepals, so that the labellum stands out as distinct.
Sepal: an individual unit of the calyx of a flower. In a "typical" flower the sepals are green and lie under the more conspicuous petals. When the flower is in bud, the sepals enclose and protect the more delicate floral parts within.
Petal: Regarded as a highly modified leaf, is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. The corolla is the name for all of the petals of a flower.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae ~ Plants
.Subkingdom: Tracheobionta ~ Vascular plants
..Superdivision: Spermatophyta ~ Seed plants
...Division: Magnoliophyta ~ Flowering plants
....Class: Liliopsida ~ Monocotyledons
.....Subclass: Liliidae
......Order: Orchidales
.......Family: Orchidaceae ~ Orchid family
........Genus: Calopogon R. Br. ex Ait. f. ~ Grasspink
.........Species: Calopogon pallidus Chapman ~ Pale Grasspink  Tips on buying a healthy orchid
1. Check and see how firm the plant is in the pot, if it is shaky and not firm then chances are it is either been recently repotted or it has a bad root system. If it has been recently repotted check the mix, you may want to replace it for something more suitable for orchids, even thou the plant is in bloom. Sphagnum moss is often used to pot the orchids in for shipping and if it it packed to tightly in the pot it can cause problems. Some times the mix can rot your roots very quickly since it does not dry out.
2. The pseudobulbs should be fat and plump. Beware of the shriveled pseudobulbs.
3. The leaves should be firm. Leaves that are limp or crinkled like an according are indications that the plant may have been exposed to excessively cold temperatures or lack of water due to no root system or just not being watered correctly. Are the leaves brown or have spots? This is an indication of exposure to excessive sunlight or high temperatures. On many of the orchids make sure the center leaf is still growing and there is not damage to the crown of the orchid. This damage can result in crown rot and the orchid will die.
4. Is the foliage damaged? Look under the paper wrapper if it is covering any part of the plant.
5. Are the plants water logged or swimming in water inside of the paper wrapper? The pretty paper does not have drainage holes. REMOVE this immediately after you get your orchid home.
6. Is there a sticky substance on the leaves? THE PLANT HAS BUGS! Avoid bug-infested plants.
7. Are the flowers limp or the buds turning yellow? Are there buds missing? The plant has been stressed too much and will most likely drop all its flowers and buds within a few days no matter what you do for the plant.
8. Does the plant have a correct label? The label should
say more than just "ORCHID PLANT."
9. Ask how long the plants have been at the store?
10. Does the sales person know anything about the orchids and can they give you some information about caring for it?
Refference:
Premdesign
Usda
Beautiful Orchids
Wikipedia
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:00 am
Flipping the page again, now much more informed on the Pale Grasspink and feeling more intelligent, you study the current page. It has information on how to care for this infamous Pale Grasspink Orchid.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:01 am
Well... now you know how to care for an Orchid. Not that you think you'll ever need it. You flip the page and see a page filled with little pictures and a describtion. This seemes VERY un-interesting, but just before you turn the page again, one of the pictures catch your eyes. Wait, this isn't normal people, these are those so-called "sprites" again. Interesting!
Ari met this purple/pink sprite for a very short time.
She seemed nice enough, and Ari definately is looking
foward to spending more time with her!
Ari met this green sprite very breifly
while everybody was looking for Kitten. She seemed nice,
but Ari didn't get a real impression of this sprite yet.
 Ari has talked to this sprite for quite some time at the
South Bottom, when both their parents were out looking
for spider spawn. She really likes her. She is her first
actual friend, and she is looking very much forward to
any occasion where they can hang out and just talk
or play together
Ari hasn't met this sprite, but is
looking foward to meeting her.
Ari hasn't met this sprite, but is
looking foward to meeting him.
Ari hasn't met this sprite, but is
looking foward to meeting him.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:02 am
Snapshot Polaroids that Taneko has taken of Ari (Click the photo to see the full picture)
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:03 am
Milestones January 27 2007---> Cook-out started. Taneko and Ari brought burgers. They met Krys and Julie. January 18 2007--->Taneko came to the greenhouse and first took care of the plant, and then presented Ari with some clothes. January 03 2007--->The spider hunt FINALLY ended! Taneko and Ari caught the most spiders! May 01 2006--->Due to stress, Taneko and the group she had met up with during the spider hunt started a major argument. February 25 2006--->Taneko and Ari caught their second spider. Their bond grew stronger. They met Sherrinda (sp?), Lily and Toxic January 31 2006--->Taneko and Ari caught the first Ebil Spider Spawn! November 23 2005 --->Taneko became caretaker for Pink (or Ari as she is called now) November 09 2005 --->Taneko joined the search for the injured Kitten.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:04 am
It seems like a "My First..." baby book! Milestones...? Come on! Does anybody, besides the doting parent and maybe the child itself, actually care about all those things? Oh well, flipping the page, you see another page filled with little pictures and discriptions. Maybe you'll learn more about those so-called sprites?
 MistyMisty
Misty is Taneko's best friend. She has before been dupped "aunt" of Taneko's other family members, although it's not certain if Misty actually agrees to this. Although fun to be around, Misty can be quite isolated, and it takes some time to get to know her.
 Alanti�
Alanti� is Taneko's newest addition to the family. Not much is known about her yet, but her name Alanti� (meaning "Fallen") is supposedly a foreshadowing to who she really is.
 Arianna
Arianna is a tiny elfin that is very dear to Taneko. One of her first family members, she resembles Taneko quite much, almost more like a sister than a daughter. She is happy and optimistic, and is faster than even Taneko to climb tree's.
((This breedables shop does not exist anymore!))
 Lemon
Sunshine is cynical and sarcastic. Very much sour like a lemon. Easy to anger and eyes that could kill. Taneko loves this "baby" very much too, and enjoys - to Sunshine's dismay - to annoy the senses out of Sunshine, just for the fun of it. Her best friends are the birds that fly high above her head, reminding her of what her own greatest wish is.
((This breedables shop does not exist anymore!))
Needed to add; Llew, Adder, Kiona, Gladys and Phoenix.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:05 am
Gifts/Possessions ClothesDress from Taneko (infant stage) 
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:06 am
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:07 am
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:08 am
Mental notes and other random things I just feel like putting down. Most of it is OOC.
EBIL-SPIDER-SPAWN TALLY!
Caught: 3
Missed: 0
Total Spider Count: 3
Big: 1
Small: 2
Status:Event OVER
Things to do
Write background story for Taneko so it makes sense.
Get more info on Ari (both as a "person" and as a plant).
Write care instructions.
Make buttons for the new sprites.
MEET NEW PEOPLE!!! whee
Sort out the guardians.
Update family.
whee = Working on it
Striked = Done
RP Posts
1 post in the journal = 10 RP posts (in the RP)
RP posts in journal= 2 going on 3
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:09 am
GVGS (c) Songjewel
Story (c) Songjewel
Pale Grasspink Art (c) Songjewel
Pale Grasspink Base Concept (c) Songjewel
Ari (c) Taneko
Header art (including the little pixel orchid) (c) Taneko
Feel free to use any of the header art etc that I made. Please just make sure to ask for my permission first.
Parents at GVGS do not need to ask for permission if they use my buttons for the sprites.
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