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 Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:34 pm
Here lies the special pard egg entrusted to Sosiqui. Post not, for it is a place meant only for her touch.
Name: Yggdrasil
Gender: Male
Stage: 3
Personality: Joyous
Magic: Mage (Creation)
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:28 pm
Murphy's Law
Sosiqui staggered down the street, carrying a very large... thing in her hands. White, with wires and blinking lights... some egg thing. They'd said it would hatch into some cat-thing, or something. Personally, she was dubious. Some battery-powered kitch this thing was. She'd mostly bought it as a gag gift for some unsuspecting soul. You could never have a large enough stock of those!
She stumbled a bit as the sidewalk tilted upwards to go over a road, with a steep embankment running down one side. It was covered with ivy mixed with nettles, and lead down to a deep forest. The roots had grown under the sidewalk, making it uneven.
So with the large egg obscuring her vision and such circumstances, it really wasn't a surprise to anybody but Sosiqui when she tripped and the egg went flying. It landed in the ivy with a crash and rolled ponderously down the hill until it was lost from view.
"Ooops."
Sosiqui thought about going in there, but the nettles made her step back. No sense in getting all rashed-up for a cheap gag, was there?
No, of course not.
Warrior snorted, then woke up in alarm as something crashed into their peaceful thicket. The Verlashi stood up, nudging his brother Pard with one paw. "Wake up! Waaaake up."
Pard sat up with a jerk, his false wings rustling on his back. "Whowha?" His ears swivelled forward as he stared at the egg. "Where'd that come from?"
"Fell out of the sky, I don't know." Warrior paced warily towards it, then sniffed it. "Smells like... metalthings." His nose wrinkled. "Whatcha want to do with it?"
Pard joined his brother in sniffing at the egg, although his mask interfered with it. "Smells like... smells like... like... wait. Like PARD!" His tail lashed back and forth in excitement. "Finally, one of my kin has come to me! Surely I have been entrusted with an egg from the Pardly Gods, that I might raise it in the ways of Pardkind."
"... noooo," Warrior groaned.
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:36 pm
The Logkeeper
I am Enkai, son of the noted Prophet, Notirai... keeping a logbook over one of the most special of pardly kin. So few bear magic gifts, and even fewer the gift of shapeshifting. The eggs are treasured, and rare.
So how one ended up in the hands of a monumentally clumsy human, I do not know. To my misfortune, I know EXACTLY how said egg ended up, a few moments later, in the paws of a rather delusional Verlashi.
I admit, I had been studying the pair. Such delusion as the subject 'Pard' expresses is a harmless but fascinating thing. However, now that they have an egg - and not just any egg - under their care... well, some intervention is called for.
Here I will monitor the activities of the egg and of my subject. Hopefully the egg will not be irreperably damaged... and if it isn't, this should be an interesting case study indeed.
- Enkai
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:37 pm
Subjects of Study
Egg, Pard, Warrior & Enkai!
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:37 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:40 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:50 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 8:50 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:55 pm
Enkai Over the past weeks, I have been observing the egg - Target 1 - with great care. Targets 2 and 3, the Verlashi known as "Delusion's Pard" (Pard) and "Forest Warrior" (Warrior) have been caring for it as best they can.
Really. This egg was supposed to end up in competent human hands. (That was the first mistake - the human hands were clearly incompetent, or at the very least, ridiculously clumsy.) That such a thing is being cared for by Verlashi is... well, at first I had thought it disasterous, but on reflection, it's quite an interesting experiment.
And I do believe nobody knows about it but me.
Targets 2 and 3 do not know I am here; I have been a silent, hidden watcher as they corral the egg around their little thicket. However, I fear I will have to reveal myself shortly... if only so that the egg can get proper care. I believe the initial casing will deactivate shortly, and then what? At the very least it needs better shelter. Fortunately, I've a rather nice bolthole nearby...
Pity. It will stink of Verlashi forever after, no doubt. A terrible fate.
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Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:10 pm
Pard grumbled to himself as he pulled the egg out of the thicket home where they hid it before going off to hunt. The formerly pearl-white casing was now speckled with dirt, mud and twigs - and many pawprint-shaped marks. Still, the casing remained firmly sealed and the lights blinked in sequence as they had from the beginning, never wavering once.
"Why won't it do anything? Shouldn't it come out?" Pard fretted, twitching his tail back and forth. He shrugged his shoulders in the odd rippling motion that made his 'wings' twitch.
"Maybe it's a dud," Warrior suggested through a yawn. Really, the blinky things were only interesting for so long.
Pard's ears folded back. "I don't want it to be a dud," he muttered. "If it is, though...?"
"Leave it," Warrior said. "It's probably just some toy a pard left behind."
"Oh?" a new voice said, making both Verlashi turn around, hackles rising reflectively. Branches rustled and a large blue shape slid out from behind the leaves high above, wings flaring as it glided to the ground.
"A pard!" Pard breathed, backing up a few steps so that the creature could land.
"How observant of you," the pard snorted. "My name is Enkai."
"Enkai. I am Forest Warrior, called Warrior," the broken-horned Verlashi said, inclining his head - Warrior was nothing if not diplomatic. With a brother like Pard, diplomacy was often a much-needed skill.
"I'm a pard too! How exciting!" Pard's tail wriggled eagerly - a distinctly un-pardly movement, but Enkai hardly felt like pointing it out.
"How nice," Enkai said smoothly. "I heard you talking about your egg, there."
"Yes. Our egg," Pard said, posessively, flicking his tail over it.
"Oh, I wouldn't dream of removing it from your care," Enkai reassured the Verlashi. "Do you know what you have there, though?"
"Our egg," Pard repeated.
Enkai barely held back the urge to roll his eyes. "Yes. But what do you know about it?"
"It has blinky lights!" Pard declared proudly.
"... yes," Enkai said, weakly. "But. Besides that." He fluffed his wings and sat up more regally. "That egg, my friends, contains perhaps the most rare type of pard there is... a Shifter."
"Shifter?" Warrior asked, his ears indicating his suddenly wary mood.
"Ye-esss," Enkai replied, his eyes narrowing as he smiled. "It will require special care. Very special. Fortunately, a den of mine is not far. It will do the little one good to live in a proper pard home."
"And me! It'll do me good to see how I should live! Finally!" Pard crowed. "Let's go, Warrior, let's go!"
Warrior turned his wary gaze to Enkai. The pard shrugged and smiled smoothly again, then padded over to Pard and began talking to him about how the egg should be moved, and to where.
"I don't trust him," Warrior muttered under his breath, but nobody heard.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:42 pm
Event! Your Egg has been removed from the incubator.
With a noticable air of worry- or perhaps, unease- Zaxzi steps into the room you have currently occupied and folds his wings. There is no time to question how he entered the room, your home, this secure location- he is simply there, and he begins to speak. "The eggs have begun to emerge from the incubators. This is the second stage your egg will reach- it is still impressionable and easy to damage, but the shell is harder and the cub has gained the ability to take care of itself, somewhat. It no longer requires the artificial heat of the incubator, but it is also no longer protected by it- be very careful what you subject it to. Strong magic of any kind should be avoided at this stage...and may your God help you if I find you've mistreated it."With that...optomistic message, the Seer turns and leaves your presence.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:15 pm
"Who the blazes was that?" Pard's leaves were looking a little crispy around the edges as his 'wings' rustled. He eyed the egg protectively, carefully pushing the already-crumbling techno-shell away from it. "It's good it came out, but... it's an egg. In an egg."
"The ways of pards are mysterious," Enkai said smoothly, but he was inwardly seething. Zaxzi! How had he found them? And how dare he... oh, well, he was who he was, but still. Unmitigated gall and all that.
And, Enkai had to admit, it was startling to realize that even he, the watcher, was being watched... by how many? Or was it only Zaxzi? He had heard of the Seer at the Pool, but...
Warrior came back from the den entrance. "He's gone," he reported.
Pard hrumphed and coiled around the egg. Even if it had come out of an egg - which was just SILLY - it was warm to the touch and he could feel the life in it. That was much more like how things should be, none of this blinky light and crunchy tube business.
"He didn't take it away," Pard said at last. "We must be doing something right." He beamed.
Enkai muttered something under his breath.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:07 pm
Event! Your pard egg has hatched!!
Gender: Male
Personality: Joyous
P.S.: Be sure to PM a name to Brit so she can get them certed!
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 7:54 pm
Yggdrasil, as Enkai had finally named the pard cub (after vetoing suggestions from Pard such as 'Blackie', 'Coal' and 'Domino') was currently rolling around the cozy den with his tail in his mouth. "Mrrrrrr," he informed Enkai, ending up at the other pard's feet upside-down.
Enkai sighed and patted the little one on the head, quickly, as though he might catch something from him. He wasn't sure what to make of the cub, but he did know there was no way in hell he was going to leave him under Pard's sole guardianship. Even with Warrior around to temper his behavior, the Verlashi was simply too unstable.
"Speak of the devil," he mutted under his breath as the brush covering the doorway was pushed aside and Pard came in, carrying a rabbit in his mouth. He spat it onto the mossy interior and beamed as 'Drasil bounced over, stumbling clumsily as the cub tripped over his own large paws.
"Hey there, Yggy," the Verlashi said, giving the cub a paternal lick.
Enkai's ears flattened. "'Yggy'?" he protested. "That is the most godawful-"
"SHHH! Not in front of the baby!" Pard interrupted.
"... the most terrible, no-good, awful nickname I have EVER heard of," Enkai finished, glaring at the Verlashi. 'Yggy'. For heaven's sake. Yggdrasil is a perfectly good name, full of distinction and history... 'Drasil is a good derivation, if one must be said, but 'Yggy'?"
'Drasil dug his teeth into the rabbit. "Mrrrr."
Enkai sighed. "Get that skinned before he chokes on it."
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