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 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:02 pm
Aloha and Welcome to the journal of Kainalu Palau, probably better known as Kai. This journal is to record Kainalu's adventures on the island, and her progression through her change into Mer-dom. Other information will be logged here as well, and will be located in the next few posts.
Please do not post here without my (Kainalu/Casiopium) expression permission. The only one allowed to post in here without asking is The Wave of Change.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:32 pm
//Tabel of Contents 1 --- Kainalu & Aloha
2 --- ToC
3 --- Rules of the Wild
4 --- The Lost: Kainalu Palau
5 --- The Beast: Mosasaur
6 --- Flotsam and Jetsam
7 --- Cast of Castaways
8 --- Message in a Bottle
9 --- Memoirs
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:51 pm
//Rules of the Wild - Thou shalt not post, least you are The Wave of Change or you have IM'd me and asked. I might want to save a post or two before you do whatever it is your going to do.
- Thou shalt be In Character. For it is polite, especially if you're dropping off a gift.
- Thou shalt use manners. For you shall do unto me as you wish me to do unto you.
- Thou shalt not steal, for if you do, you shall have to face a very pissed off person. //RP Rules - Thou shalt keep IC and OOC seperate. For it is stupid to do otherwise. Just because my -characters- may do something rude or mean or downright evil to you or yours does not mean that I really feel that way about you. Quite the opposite, I'm a very sociable person and enjoy the company of others. All in all - Do not take what happens while we're roleplaying out of character.
- Thou shalt not Meta Game. For it can ruin good RP plot and storyarcs. To Meta Game is to take information that you might know OOC and use it IC. Example: I say that Kainalu cut herself OOCly in the main thread and then someone purposly lifts her sleeve up to see the cuts or talks as though they know she's done it ICly before they could have even found out.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:01 pm
//The Lost: Kainalu Palau Name: Kainalu Palau 
Nickname: Kai
Gender: Female
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Light blond
Skin Tone: Sun-kissed tan
Height: 5'6''
Weight: 143 lbs
Age: 24
Race: Human
Nationality: Hawaiian
Posts in: Dark Golden Rod
Likes: The ocean, swimming, spearfishing, collecting shells, surfing, avacados.
Dislikes: Cold, coconut milk, tourists, inactivity, sharks, feeling dumb.
Sexuality: "Uhm... *blush*"
Possessions: Tattered green canvas backpack, orange tank top, black and pink skirt, belt, rainbow bikini top and bottom
Personality: Kai prefers to stay positive. There's always something good in the bad, and she's determined to find it. She's got a cheerful personality and enjoys the simple things in life the most. She is not the annoying type of cheerful, more of the quiet, warm and constant sunshine. She doesn't waist too many words trying to cheer someone up or find something good in a bad situation. Kai is more likely to find a small piece of sea glass and hand it to someone who is feeling sad as a means to cheer them up than give them motivational words.
No one can always be happy, and Kai is no exception. She is far more prone to seek alone time when she's feeling moody and sad. She completely turns in on herself, and can sometimes lash out towards anyone trying to cheer her up.
Where Kai lacks in school-learning, she more than makes up for in her knowledge of sea-creatures and aquatic life.
Abilities: Amazing swimmer, ability to hold breath for long periods of time, spearfishing
History: Kai's family is a long line of professional spear fishers and abalone hunters. She started helping her mother and father at a young age, going from just sitting on the boat while they dove to taking the catches to finally actually diving with them. Her first time spearfishing was when she was only seven.
She dropped out of High School at sixteen to help her family with the business.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:03 pm
//The Beast: Mosasaur  Mosasaurs were serpentine marine reptiles. These ferocious marine predators are considered by some experts to be closely related to snakes, due to extreme similarities in jaw and skull anatomies. Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs but lepidosaurs, reptiles with overlapping scales. These predators evolved from semi-aquatic squamates known as the aigialosaurs, close relatives of modern-day monitor lizards, in the Early Cretaceous Period. During the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous Period (Turonian-Maastrichtian), with the extinction of the last ichthyosaurs and the decline of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became the dominant marine predators.
Mosasaurs breathed air and were powerful swimmers that were well-adapted to living in the warm, shallow epicontinental seas prevalent during the Late Cretaceous Period. Mosasaurs were so well adapted to this environment that they gave birth to live young, rather than return to the shore to lay eggs, as sea turtles do.
Mosasaurs had a body shape similar to that of modern-day monitor lizards (varanids), but were more elongated and streamlined for swimming. Their limb bones were reduced in length and their paddles were formed by webbing between their elongated digit-bones. Their tails were broad and supplied the locomotive power. This method of locomotion may have been similar to that used by the conger eel or sea snakes today. The animal may have lurked and pounced rapidly and powerfully on passing prey, rather than hunting for it. Mosasaurs had a double-hinged jaw and flexible skull (much like that of a snake), which enabled them to gulp down their prey almost whole.
Larger mosasaurs were more typical: mosasaurs ranged in size up to 17 m (roughly 55feet).
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:04 pm
//Flotsam and Jetsam  Kainalu Palau, age 24 - This is me!
[ x ] |
Celest |
Stage Two - Manifestation (A little fishy)
Stage Three - Development (Still mostly human)
Stage Four - Transformation (Not so human)
Stage Five - Finality (WTF I'm a fish)
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:05 pm
//Cast of Castaways Alcine Winter (Laticauda colubrina) - I haven't met this person yet.
Aiden Marlow (Phoca vitulina) - He seems to enjoy the way he is... I like him, he's very nice and he did give me nearly all the fish he'd caught even though he might have been hungry. I feel indebt and greatful to him, and I hope to visit him again and talk more with him.
Haily Santoro (Holacanthus ciliaris) - (Met, but hasn't realized it yet)
Jack Aubrey (Chimera) - He's so young... I'll keep my eye out for him. The first thing I want to do when I see him again is make sure he's had something good to eat. Despite his youthful cheerfulness I think he must be quite scared. He lives alone along the beach, it makes me worry.
Jessie Fitzpatrick (Octopus vulgaris) - I haven't met this person yet.
Kainalu Palau (Mosasaur) - Huh...? Well, I like myself, of course. I swim everyday so I'm not fat, and I think I'm a nice person...
Kara Dy (Dugong dugon) - She's nice... at least she doesn't look as bad as everyone else seems to. | My god... I watched her change right in front of my eyes. But... no matter what she's still human, poor thing.
Kate Madigan (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens - I haven't met this person yet.
Leonard Flynn (Lysmata amboinensis) - I haven't met this person yet.
Paul Shear (Megaptera novaeangliae) - I haven't met this person yet.
Shelly Geirson (Pterygotus) - I haven't met this person yet.
Skye Montgomery (Alopias vulpinus) - I haven't met this person yet.
Takumi Yuudai (Cyprinus carpio) - I haven't met this person yet.
Torian Grey (Hippocampus) - I haven't met this person yet.
Wesley Robert (Electrophorus electricus) - He's... I don't know what he is. But he is smart, there's no way he could be a monster even though he looks like one...
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:08 pm
//Message in a Bottle Links out to shops I enjoy and, of course...
The Lagoon 
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:10 pm
//Memoirs Original Kainalu Palau art (c) Nikorasu-Kun
Shop concept (c) Nikorasu-Kun
Misc. Arts (c) their respective artists
Kainalu Palau character design and concept (c) Casiopium
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:16 pm
//Aloha means Hello and Goodbye Kainalu loved the ocean. It was deep and cool and would never bring harm to her, so long as she treated it with the respect that her ancestors had been for ages past. She had left her house that morning to spend the day in the water, relaxing... perhaps surfing a little if she felt like going to the Shore Shack and renting a board.
She'd brought her spear with her mostly to practice to keep up her skill - she'd give anything she caught to the tourists who were always eager for an 'authentic' meal. With her backpack floating above her in a wooden tub connected by a bunji cord to her ankle she was completely set. Anything she caught or found would join her bag.
The hawaiian native dove into the water near the coral, wearing nothing but her bikini and goggles. She felt sleek and swift in the water, she always did. Moving on land was always something somewhat clumsy. She swam along the coral slowly, scanning the water for any good eating quality fish.
Later she would think back and realize how stupid she'd been. All the signs had been showing, she'd just been so intent on getting into the water and swimming that she hadn't paid attention. At least not until she realized that the rip current had her as she moved upward toward the surface and air. Panic lanced through her, and a few bubbles escaped from her throat.
Her mind flashed through dozens of different possibilities, different ways to save herself. Don't struggle, was the first thing, but that was something so hard to do, her lungs were already starting to burn from lack of air.
Swim parallel to the shore, but where was that? She'd already been pulled out unsuspectingly from the coral and out of sight of the sandbar.
She couldn't think of anything else to do but to swim with the flow of the current, she was positive that she'd be able to make it back to shore no matter how far out she went. For once, if the wooden tub stayed intact she'd have that to float on, and for two, she was an amazing swimmer (if she did say so herself). Kainalu began swimming along with the current, all the while feeling her limbs begin to grow heavier, her vision fuzzing around the edges as she became more and more desperate for air. Just as soon as she thought it'd never let her go she felt the tug of the current loosen and immediately shot upward toward the surface.
She broke through the water, half sucking in a lungful of water in her desperation for air. She hacked and coughed until she thought she'd be sick, reaching for the safety of her flotation device. Her vision flared red hot as she sucked air, heaving herself as far onto the wobbly wooden tub as she could before she lost conscience...
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Kainalu slipped back into the waking world to find herself cold and grimy feeling. She opened her eyes, slipping off the tub and back into the water. It was no use, she felt possibly even colder now than she had before and the waves... she undulated up and down up and down as the rolled over her.
She looked up, feeling dismay sink into her stomach.
There was no shore.
And a glance beneath her revealed that she was in very deep water indeed. Panic rocketed from within her and burst outward in a desperate scream. "HELP!" She held onto the tub and began kicking in the direction she -thought- the shore had been, her voice pitching upward to a throbbing shriek as the fear ate through her quickly. "HELP! HELP!" It was the only word she could think to say.
Kainalu repeated it until her voice was hoarse. She dared not drink the ocean water, she knew how deadly that was.
Time moved by painfully, full of desperation and fear. She cried, she screamed for help she prayed. Most of all she begged. She begged the ocean to return her safely, to watch over her.
She slipped in and out of sleep, clutching desperately to her shoddy flotation device.
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It was while she was in a state of sleep that the ocean answered her pleas. Perhaps it was the sea, perhaps it was luck, but something guided her toward a small island, her body floating gently into the lagoon and eventually pushed onto the white beach by the gentle lapping of waves.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:44 pm
// [PRP] Welcome to the jungle Kainalu washes ashore and finds herself weak and dehydrated. Is someone really there to help or is Kai still dreaming?
Involved : Hailey
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:19 am
// [3RP] We've got fun and games After running away from her first encounter with an inhabitant of the island, Kainalu collapses from exhaustion.
Kara and Wesley come along and help her to some water, Kara brings her back to the base camp.
Kai isn't sure what to think of 'these people'. The urge to treat them kindly due to their intelligence and obviouse sentience and humanity wars with her desire to reject the thought and possibility of a fish-person.
Involved : Kara and Wesley
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:30 am
// [PRP] Avacados are awesome After sleeping for nearly two days straight Kainalu wakes up hungry. She wanders in search of food, and her path takes her toward the abandoned airbase where she meets Aiden.
Involved : Aiden
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:05 am
// [PRP] Put a smile on Kainalu can't sleep and so goes to the ocean to dive deep and relax. She hears sounds at the shore and investigates, meeting Jack - the first completely human castaway she's seen so far.
He's so young, though...
Involved : Jack
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:34 pm
// [PRP] New meaning to the word "Jiggly Butt" (TF) Kainalu witnesses the horrors of a transformation. She's torn between running in terror and staying to comfort the woman who helped and watched over her as she slept for days.
Involved : Kara
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