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The dice Game

Of course, with one post during this month you will be aloud to roll a dice with it. Depending on the outcome of the roll, depends upon what prizes you win. There's everything in the prizes piles from Christmas hats, to sweets (for IC) to art.

The outcome of any certain dice roll will be made available on the 4th, which should only affect Foe (Sorry about this!). Good luck with your rolling!

FAQ:
1. How do I roll a dice?
- Good question! When you post, make sure you do a 'Post Action'. This should extend to a small blue tab just above your post. From there, when you select a dice, make it a TWENTY sided dice and have ONE dice only. Then just post, and your roll should be entered with your post.

2. How long should my post be, and what should it contain?
-A basic Role play post can be as long (or as short) as you like. However, a few suggestions to include may be your Aerandir's reaction to the Calendar, whether she/he has noticed it before, perhaps the reaction to previous flaps open and of course opening his/her own flap (then you may wish to include a reaction to this). However, as I said, it's up to you what you post.

3. How will I know what date I need to post on, and can I still sign up?
- No worries, as long as a day hasn't passed and you haven't already done a day with that particular Aerandir, then you're free to change/swap or sign-up at any point in December. However, the dates open are still first come first serve.
If you want a certain date, I'd rather you took it sooner or later. If you do decide to change/swap dates/sign-up then please could you post this change in the main winter thread.

4. Who made your calendar?
- Aly! So much luff and thanks to him for the amazing calendar. ^^

Reserved.

Let the fun begin.

Happy Christmas!

Oleo had woken early today, Air had asked him to go to the lodge and see if he could find some lettuce in the fridge for todays meal. Keen was, still sleepy, taking a ride on Oleo's shoulder. The wind seemed a bit cold, even tough it was a bright sunny day already. He walked slowly through the village between the small woden houses towards the lodge, trying to figure out why it seemed nicer than usual today.

Upon arrival at the lodge, however, he noticed something he had not seen before. There seemed to be a calendar hanging from the door, however not like most calendars he had seen. It was beautifully decorated with shiny white things... whatever they might be.

Keen noticing the sudden stop also raised her head from his shoulder to take a look at the thing. She chirped loudly to get Oleo's attention back to what they had come to do.

"Oh, wight! We 'ave to get the lettuce" He said looking at her and then at the calendar. "This will just take a minute". he said noticing that number one was missing from it, he raised his arm slowly to touch number two beside it. However just as his fingers touched it the number fell down as well. "What? I didn't do it!" he said looking around, only to realize, Keen was the only one there. "Dunt say anyfing 'bout this, ok?"

Keen simply shaked her head ruffling her feathers, which he interpreted as an ok, as they walked into the lodge, to get the lettuce quickly and go back home.

Nehanda slowly wound her way toward the Cetalu Centre. She wanted another look at the odd board, discovered the other day when she had been angrily searching for her little sister.

It was a pretty day, and she reached a hand out to brush the familiar leaves and blooms of the foliage around her. She really loved this place. By now, the Herbalist probably knew every single plant on the island by heart, but there was still so much to learn! She really hoped that Foenix would give her those new gardening books as a Solstice gift. Nehanda had been dropping some pretty strong hints . . .

And that thought led to others. What was she going to give her various friends for holiday gifts? The one downside of these islands was that they were located so far away from the Gaian mainland. Dealing with mailorders from catalogs was so boring . . .

Nehanda shrugged. There were still a few weeks left. She'd figure something out!

And with that, she realized that her thoughts had led her right up to the Centre's notice board. Tilting her head, the swan maiden studied the brightly painted board. What was it, exactly? She'd have to ask Foenix. She traced a finger lightly over the various panels, stopping briefly to press the one labeled "4." Well, today was the 4th of December. Perhaps it was some sort of weird calendar?

She'd really have to ask Foenix.

Osusuki made his way down the path to the village centre , energetically bouncing with each step. He'd been around the house for most of the day, and wanted to take a trip elsewhere. It was boring just being in one place for too long! Yasu knew where he was going anyway, and it wasn't like it was far away. Maybe there'd be some of the other Aerandir there too that he could play with.

Reaching the doorway, the spellweaver paused. That was odd. He hadn't seen that here before.. Stepping back, Osu studied the large calendar for a moment. It looked awesome! It was all bright and shiny and it had pictures and numbers on it. Whatever it was, it was really cool!

Moving up to the calendar again, the young Aerandir reached up, wondering if there was anything else that was special about it. Seeing the pictures more clearly now, he stopped again. There were pictures of gyphons in the open doors. Yasu said that he'd been like that when he was young. And some of the images on the calendar looked familiar somehow.. like he recognised them from somewhere else. He'd need to tell Yasu about this. Maybe he'd know what it was.

Osu reached over to one of the open doors, his furred fingers tracing lightly over the image of the black and white Aerandir. Reaching up, he then prodded one of the numbered doors - number 5. As soon as he had touched it, the door began to swing open. Osu jumped back, watching the large calendar with undisguised curiousity. It moved all by itself too! Underneath the door was another of the gryphon pictures. Wow... this was so cool! He had to tell Yasu and Sasha! Spinning around on one foot, the young spellweaver took off back the path, running back to the house to tell the others what he had found.

(( *forgot to roll the dice as well D: * sorry! ;-; ))

(( Apologies for the slight lateness of this post sad ))
Osero made his way towards the village centre, his long spear balanced over one shoulder. A brace of freshly caught fish swung from his woven belt, their scales glittering silver in the sunlight. The tall Aerandir covered the ground quickly, his strides long. He was used to travelling fairly long distances over the course of a day. Just now, he planned on dropping the fish into the centre before heading back to his cabin to fix that net he'd had lying about for far too long.

Just as the hunter made his way down the path, the brightly coloured board caught his eye. What was that there? Heading towards it, Osero paused in front of it. Something in his memory jogged. He had seem something like this before...

Of course. He suddenly remembered, and a smile crossed his face. His old guardian, Brian had had something like this long ago, when Osero had been much, much younger. His had been much smaller, and made of flimsy card, but it had the little doors and brightly coloured images. What was it called again..?

After a few moments, the hunter shook his head to himself. He couldn't remember what Brian had called it. He did, however, remember being able to open the doors - one for each day of the month. It was the.. 7th today, was it not? From what he could see, the door for today had not yet been opened. Almost instinctively, the tall Aerandir shifted his spear to the ground, reaching forward to open the door marked with a '7'. Stepping back again, a slight smile crossed his face. Brian's one had pictures of odd things - of humans in red suits and lumpy white shapes, but this one had Aerandir on it. Osero wondered to himself who had made it. Maybe Acia or Rahujo would know. He would need to ask one of them when he next saw them. Shouldering his spear again, Osero headed on into the centre to deliver the fish to the kitchen.