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 Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:17 pm
Anya post 2 ((OOC: responding in general to the various things being shouted out!))
Anya rolled her eyes at the loud arguments of the adults. And these are people I am supposed to listen to and respect? She thought with scorn.
"Oh come on! You're acting just as bad as the extremists with all their hate for non alkidikes! Didn't one of our own go on a quest to find something to heal the mystic while she was still a blossom? Does that not prove Aisha wanted her to live?"
Such disgusting bile being voiced! A lot of hate. My elders are really close minded, she thought to herself. Maybe they should leave and go on journeys through the world and expand their small minds.
"And the Suatians are having their firebird festival.. I be that's why the youngest alkidike left." She agreed with another's voice opinion. "Since it is the firebird's power that saved her.. that'd make it like her.. second mother or something right? Maybe she's just there to... say hi."
If there was one thing Anya knew, it was gossip, stories, and legends. She was always reading and always talking to people who knew what happened elsewhere.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:18 pm
Dyakida (Post 1) Had a quiet festival been too much to hope for? Apparently yes. Apparently, the simmering tensions were coming to a head, right here and right now. Fortunately, she had gone to the festival to enjoy herself and pay her respects to her mother, not to sell her weapons, so she was free to wander as she chose.
She heard voices raised and directed herself to those she knew were reasonable. ”Kadriye... Briella...” she greeted, moving to stand approximately near them, listening to the discussion, ”You both make valid points” she said, very quietly, trying to only let herself be heard by them and them alone ”But, I fear, if you press these Sisters with anger, they will respond with greater resolve...” Yitzah (Post 1)
Yitzah stayed firmly on the edges of the crowd with Reillan's Janarim, glowering at all of her sisters. The moment the brothers had learned of the annual Alkidike festival, and that she was supposed to go to it every year, they had been very pushy. Yitzah hadn't wanted to go, but they had basically dragged her to it and left her there.
You'll get to see your family, Yi!
You've got a festival all to yourself!
You haven't been back in a while, surely someone misses you?
We'll be back for you in a little while, so you should go have fun!
Yeah. Right. Fun. Yitzah hadn't wanted to come back at all, and she didn't want to do all the festival stuff. She wanted to train – to train and train and train until she could kill bug monsters. That was all she really wanted. Not... This crap.
”Nah.” she grumbled at some random Alkidike in the crowd. Aisha, wanting the Alkidike to kill everyone? Yitzah didn't care either way, but it didn't really seem like a thing. ”Apparently Aisha wants us to kill ourselves coming back for this stupid festival every damn year...”
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:08 pm
Kiunyki (Post 1), Kaalnia (Post 1)
”Mom, she's right, you know.” Kiki turned to look up – still very far up – at her mother. ”Tendaji should be ours, right? Well, we have to start somewhere...””
She stood with her mother in the midst of the festival crowd, gazing longingly at the heated gathering nearby.
Kaalnia gave her a frustrated look. ”Yeah,” she said, noncommittally, ”That's what some think, but I like it here just fine. I wouldn't want to own any of those other places... too hot. Too dry. Too cold. The isles are just right for me.”
”Mom, it's not just about you! It's about our birthright! We're entitled to this land. The Earthlings are invaders, and we have to push them off or make them serve us!”
”What... slavery, Kiki?” Kaalnia shook her head sadly. She had no idea where he daughter was picking this stuff up from, or why she was turning out this way. She hoped that it was just a teenage thing, and that Kiki would come to her senses. Soon. ”Are you serious, girl? No. Look, if they attack us, I'm happy to defend the tribe, but you have no idea what war is like. I hope you never find out. Seriously, though, Sauti?! Of all places?! Nobody wants that place, it's rocky and dry and miserable. What sort of idiots would want to go there, of all places?”
Kiki frowned at her mother. ”The new mystic would! She speaks for Aisha, so... so that means that we should go there!”
”Oh. Yeah. That explains it... Well, Mother Aisha isn't stupid, so clearly this is all this Mystic's idea.” Kaalnia laughed, ”Come on, girl, lets go get some tasty treats...”
”You don't understand, Mom...” Kiki wrenched her hand from her mothers and looked up at her plaintively, ”I can't believe you don't understand...” She broke into a run, heading for the action. She'd put her own voice to this. She'd be a part of something. Mom couldn't stop her from doing that.
And eventually she would thank her.
Kaalnia sighed. She hoped she would never understand Extremist propaganda – that would be a sign that she had hit her head a few times too often, or maybe eaten the wrong root. She started off after her daughter at a walk. Aisha's roots, how had her little girl grown up into this?!
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:15 pm
Jerarda Post 1The older sister was clutching the hand of her daughter quite tightly, and perhaps a bit too tightly. The only reason she had brought Shima with her was because the little one insisted on visiting Aisha and refused to take no for an answer. Looking down to her, Jera fretted as she had feared the celebration of their mother was being tainted with talks of war instead of Aisha herself. Growling deep in her throat she tugged Shima closer to herself trying to spot out faces in the crowd she knew spotting quite quickly Vollerei and her curvacious form. Dragging her daughter and herself towards her she noted Niabi was with her as well. It had been awhile since she had seen the timid sister but she knew that both those sisters wouldn't be following the extremists ways.
Shima Post 1Shima had been ecstatic about going on this journey, to meet Aisha and to have basically one big party. She hadn't really understood why ma wouldn't take her originally, but with much persistance here she was. Now...the excitement was starting to fade. There wasn't really a party going on, just people shouting at each other and Jera's rather stiff attitude wasn't helping. Stumbling along with her mother she looked up at her as more people began shouting at each other. She wished ma would pick her up but she was being ignored at the moment and instead dragged towards two people she had never met before.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:27 pm
Elsheba: Post 2 Initially, Lumikani's expression of impatience made her elder sister bristle in frustration, but her own patience won out - long enough to see Lumi pause and reconsider - if only a bit. The older sister paused, then nodded and turned her gaze away from Lumi to look around instead, listening to the assorted opinions being chattered about. "I don't know, Lumi." She admitted, pursing her lips in thought.
Then, out loud, she mused, "But Mystic or not, she can't take Sauti by herself - and even if Aisha spoke to her and DID urge her to do so, going ahead of the rest of us only opens her up to being captured, or tipping other races off to what Aisha might have planned. If the other Mystics say our mother wants us to go, I'll be first among them, but until then, I can't agree with launching an attack based on someone whose intentions we don't know."
Her words said, Elsheba looked out of the corner of her eye at her 'aunt', Tahigwa, whose words were inciting quite a bit of controversy - and yet who Elsheba worried would misunderstand the younger Blade's intentions. Hopefully, Kadriye's intervention had Tahigwa distracted.
Elsheba didn't want to purge other races from Tendaji - especially not Samoset's people, the Leaf earthlings. In honesty, the Alkidike had been in eastern Jauhar as long as Elsheba had lived -a nd while many spoke of expanding, it had never truly been feasible. Elsheba had simply... not thought about it. And now? Now she realized just what it might mean. Would Aisha want the earthlings pushed from the conquered lands? Elsheba had never met an earthling before, but Samoset cared about his family in Tale - and, for his sake, Elsheba felt a flare of concern and uncertainty.
Which, thankfully, was distracted by a familiar voice (Anya!, Elly thought with relief) - who was spouting out rumors and words that Elsheba hadn't even been aware of. Blinking, the older woman wondered how she'd learned such things - but, then again, she had always been much more learned than Elsheba had ever been, as far as lore in other nations went. "True, Anya!" She called - just as much to vocally try and turn the tide towards this possibility, as it was to let her sister know, by voice, where she was.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:34 pm
Jerarda Post2
As she dragged Shima towards the pair of sisters she knew she was trying to think of what to say to them. They would probably inquire about Shima as she looked like an alkidike but her hair and eyes were all wrong..not to mention the crystals. Bringing a hybrid here was probably the stupidest thing she could of done, but Shima had been insistent.
"Greetings sisters.." Jerarda spoke as she finally got close enough to both Niabi and Voll to have a conversation without yelling at them.
"Don't tell me this nonsense has been going on since the start of the festival.." She hissed looking irritated that Aisha's celebration was being ruined by all this talk of taking back 'their lands'.
Shima Post 2
"Ma...why is everyone shouting?" Shima asked trying to get her own voice above the crowds but it seemed that she wasn't being loud enough. Her own ma couldn't hear her as she was dragged towards a pair of other alkidikes she didn't recognize. Not that she had met a lot of pure bloods to begin with, but that one lady had huge hips! You could easily hide behind her and no one would know! She stared up in awe at both the women before glancing at her ma.
"Ma.." She tugged at her mothers hand trying to free her own from its iron grip. "it hurts.." she mewled trying again to twist her small fingers out of her mothers grasp.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:48 pm
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The elders watched as the crowd grew from a faint whisper to something not too far from a riot. There were those in the crowd that were heated, some overly so. Eshe heard words of hate from a Sister, scorning Aselia and claiming she had no right to live. She shook her head and sighed. Kadriye had stepped forward in defense of the young mystic. That was good. She had taught the young one well. Aisha did not purposely cast off those she felt unworthy from her bosom. It didn't bode well with Eshe the talk going around. She turned her face to Yansa, though she could see the anger building under the surface.
Yansa clenched her spear with white knuckles, listening to the infuriating talk from both sides. The extremists seemed to spew whatever nonsense came to the top of their heads, while those opposed attacked one of their own like she was a devil in disguise.
Yansa stepped forward, closer to the crowd. "Enough!" Her voice carried through the forest around them. "I will not tolerate talk of who was or wasn't worthy of being born. Aisha gives life, and it is up to us to decide how to live it. Do you attempt to scold Eshe for helping develop a struggling infant? Are you that senseless?"
Eshe put a hand to Yansa's shoulder. "No one can tell for what reason Aselia has left, but it would be foolish to start a war just because she has gone."
Eshe had barely finished the words when a handful more Alkidike appeared from the shore. The leaders would hope that they were just late in their arrival, but it was a short lived idea. It took only moments for them to understand the topic of conversation. "It's time Sisters!" The seeming leader of the group joined those who had been calling for war. "The earthlings are weak and we have rights to all of Tendaji!" She called out.
The younger Alkidike who had spoken up first smirked from behind the newcomers.
More seemed to have joined the extremists' views...
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:06 pm
NIABI POST 3
A familiar face joined them and Niabi couldn't have been more relieved. Though she had to note that not only did she have a little one with her... but she wasn't a full Sister. "Hello Sister." She hesitated just a second. "Just most of the festival. It started peaceful enough I'm afraid." She felt her antennae twitch.
"So who is this with you? She looks lovely." She smiled to the young one. Niabi was sure it was on everyone's mind, but no one was willing to say anything about the little youngling Jerarda - who was such a respected Sister - was toting around being a hybrid.
More Sisters joined the discussion and it had Niabi's head hurting. "Maybe we should just let them do as they please? Maybe they can just... fail on their own?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:18 pm
Bhima- post 2
Bhima's voice rose up against the sudden shouts from supporters of the extremists.
"Don't you see?! You cry for dominance and you mimic the Obans who we fought not long ago! Are we no better than arrogant invaders?!"
Jauhar might have been the Alkidikes' once, fine, but it was no longer. The world changed. Situations morphed. New people arrived. Was that enough reason to rise up and demand everything stay exactly the same? Oh, why had she come?! All she could think of was her dear Hijil. Was she safe back at home, likely preparing for the arrival of children that now may never come? Anxiety pulled at her chest. What was going to happen? She would certainly not fight for the extremists, regardless of the outcome of this debate!
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:28 pm
Lumikani Post 3
Lumikani pursed her lips as she heard Anya's voice from the crowd, agreeing as well with how many double standards were going on. It seemed unfair all the hate that was being spewed from the people that were against the extremists. They all were quite extreme in their own way, and yet she was the one being berated by her elder sister like a youngling.
Another huff left her mouth as she looked at Elsheba.
"At least you agree with me that something is going on here, something strange...there is a reason our mystic is gone from these shores!"
Again and again she argued in circles, resisting her bigger arguments because she knew Elsheba would not hesitate to shut them down. If her sister wasn't here, she would be back with the others, fighting her way to the front and having her say with what was going on. Someone had to defend the Mystic from the hate.
All at once, her ears perked up as the two elders finally stood tall and spoke, and her eyes swung forward to look at Yansa who's voice spread across the forest. She felt her heart skip a beat, and her head bow a moment before she caught herself and lift once more. She nodded with the woman, agreeing wholeheartedly with the defense of both Aisha and Eshe for saving the other mystic. And she did find that she liked the argument that Eshe had - she wanted answers.
Just as she was about to voice that, he spun around to see the newest sisters come to shore, and her mouth broke into a grin at their words. She didn't move this time to join them, but she couldn't help the thrill of the promise for battle. Lumikani was quick to hide it, knowing it was a lost cause to step forward now with both Elsheba and Anya nearby to scold her in front of her sisters.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:34 pm
Ariya Post 3Her mother was among the extremists that cried out for conflict. Niesh wanted to take back lands from the earthlings and would even follow Aselia to do so. Ariya did her best to sink away into the crowd. In doing so she caught sight of a very beautiful woman that she'd seen before. For a moment she thought about calling out to Maya, but when she noticed that the other Alkidike was keeping out of the arguments she kept quiet. Since it was her mother that was one of those louder voices she didn't think anyone would want to speak with her. When Yansa demanded the attention o the crowd she paused where she was and turned her head to listen. ------------------------- V'demhe Post 3 A hiss came from her once again. What Tahigwa suggested was that Aisha had tried to murder one of her own. Surely not even Aselia's worst enemy could think such a thing! V'demhe narrowed her eyes at the woman but said nothing else. She didn't need to. Yansa did it for her. However, Dem did turn and grab her mother's arm so that she could steer the elderly woman away from the center of the hate. When the extremists started to shout her eyes went to the crowd instantly. "Maya!?" She wanted to find the mother of her friend and see about getting word out to the shifters and Teiluj. If they could manage before the extremists caught on.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:09 pm
Anya post 3
Anya perked up when she heard Elishiba call out; there her sisters were! Well, two of them at least. She skittered through the thread to their sides, glad to find someone in the crowd she could hide behind if things went bad.
Anya sighed in exasperation at the newcomers and thier whole "we can tottaly go to war just cause we think we own the world' attitude.
"Why are people so stupid?" She asked Elishiba, a scowl on her face. "I don't recall any Mystic saying we own the world... so why does everyone say we have that right?"
She did spot a look of glee on Lum's face though... one that made her upset. "What are you so happy about Lumi? Glad to go out and kill people? You want to be one of those idiots who think killing our nephew is a good thing?"
She was upset by this and taking it out on her triplet; unfair but she didn't know who else she could snap out at without worrying about being hit. It was all so pointless! Here they were supposed to be at a festival for Aisha and instead people were arguing and getting into fights and .... trying to take land away from other familys. Don't they know Earthlings have family's too? Don't they know that going to war means people die?
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:18 pm
Vollerei post 3
Vollerei was disappointed in the small girl she had once met. Tahi had been so cute then.. to think she can spew such things now! It was equally disturbing to see that extremists were already making a move.. on thier day. On the day the were here to honor their Mother! Not follow some stupid wet behind the ears mystic with a twisted mind off into the far north!
She looked over at her friend Jerarda.
"How did things come to this Jer?" She asked as she shook her head. She smiled down at the girl holding Jerarda's hand. "I see you were successful in your request to Aisha. Congrats. Pity your lil tyke came here to only see us being so... horrid and showing off our bad side." She turned to answer Niabi's question; "If we let them go.. then they wn't stop. And then all of us will be treated as extremists and become unwelcome int he other lands." She shrugged; "And what they want is wrong. It's greedy and too much. Too much hate and too much death will come out of them succeeding." Or even attempting it. She knew her own reactions to the Obans.. were the extremists not acting just like them? High handly calling the land was theirs and others should leave?
"Aisha never gave any of us the right to slaughter random people and take their land and homes! Why are you all acting like bandits or those Obans? What next? You going to try and enslave them too or just slaughter everyone else on Tendjai?" She yelled at the group who ran into the scene, declaring it was the time to go to war.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:48 pm
Elsheba: Post 3
Lumikani had hit the nail on the head with that one - it DID mean something. Either Aselia was a young girl, not unlike others her age, Elsheba included, who wanted to prove themselves and had gone to invade without thinking things through - or she truly was ignorant in what chaos she'd strewn, although considering the rumors Elsheba had heard about her, the Blade wondered if the mystic would find such a revelation abhorrent or pleasing. Elsheba settled for simply nodding at Lumi's words, grunting softly in agreement.
With two sisters by her side, Elsheba briefly cast her eyes around for the third, or their mothers. No doubt the girls' parents were settling in with the older crowd, watching their mystic, but tempted by the appearance of these newcomers. They, like Elsheba, would defer to Eshe's judgement, but Elsheba knew where Lumikani got her excitement from - their Mother, who hunted, often wished to take more of Tendaji for Mother Aisha, so they could spread their families out further.
Shaking the thought aside, Elsheba simply was pleased that Anya had come over so eagerly. She pat Anya on the shoulder, then averted her gaze from the elders (who spoke wisely, in Elsheba's views), looking at the newcomers.
Were the earthlings weak? Elsheba had never left the lands the Alkidike called home - and she wasn't familiar in the slightest with the actual people from outside their borders, except hybrids like her son and future mate - and they were, truly, Alkidike in her eyes, and their other blood accounted for nothing (a skewed view, but she didn't realize the ignorance in this concept).
It was shameful, rallying for war when they should be celebrating their mother... but it wasn't the sort of topic that could wait, either.
And the reminder of the sort of sentiment many of these extremists held towards mixed breeds. Bristling at the implications, Elsheba watched the new group warily. She had sent Nimueh away for a reason, to hide in Tale with Samoset - and the realization that they could be heading that way anyway to go back to war terrified her. Her hands gripped tightly into fists, and she took a shuddering breath, shaking her head.
"Foolish or not, Anya, it remains that if a group that size leaves Andile to invade Sauti, then it's our responsibility to fight them back. If we don't then our inaction won't win us any favors with the other tribes." She inhaled deeply, then forced herself to relax. So that was it, then - even if Eshe won the majority, there would still be those who left of their own accord, and there would need to be at least a few Alkidike fighting against them as a sign of good faith. And that was assuming the Elders, besides Eshe and Yansa, didn't find this turn of events favorable to a new war.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:30 pm
Zahra Post 3
Zahra was fine in just listening and watching, praying to Aisha that things would just... look up. It would appear as though such things weren't going to happen though. Instead someone, the leader of those group of idiots, were here and trying to drum up support for their foolish cause? It wasn't that Zahra was ashamed of her people, she wasn't, she loved her sister and she loved Aisha, but it was people like that who were giving them a bad name. It wouldn't be long before everyone hated them because of the views of a few who had obviously been up their own butts for too long. What was wrong with them? Why were they so cold and why were they talking about trampling over the Earthlings and having rights to 'all' of Tendaji?
With her antennae twitching out of sync she found herself holding onto Joweese a bit more tightly, "It's not time for any of that! Our sisters are right, I'd rather we were not all seen as sharing your backward views, views that caused more then half my family to have to leave Jauhar! You have people you're all going to come after them like feral animals and slaughter their babies!" Did they understand that? Did they even care? A part of her feared that they didn't care about what people were starting to think about them. What if they thought so little of the Earthlings that they didn't care in turn what was being said about them as a whole?
Why didn't they understand that going after the Earthling, as well as showing so much hate for those of mixed blood, was just wrong? Shaking her head rapidly Zahra continued, "It's not going to be long before they all think us monsters and hate us because of you! You might be fine with all that but I'm not, in Aisha's name I would rather be with our Uncle Yaholo and his family then here if being here means listening to suggestions that we go to war. It's really not as amazing as you people seem to think it is." Turning to Joweese she muttered, "This is stupid, I thought this was supposed to be a festival. Can we just go now? I'll even race you to where ever in the world Uncle Yaholo and everyone are at."
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