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 Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:51 pm
Celestia sleepily watched as Rei and Hisana bound over to where Wolfie was. It seems like Rei was asking what the human was doing. And by the looks of Hisana's shocked face, maybe a bit rudely or bluntly. "Gotta remind that one of manners..." she giggled.
Hoshi shifted slightly and snuggled closer to Celestia's warmth as she slumbered on. She completely rolled onto her back and yawned, showing her pearly but sharp fangs. Echoing the yawn, Celestia drifted off to sleep.
As something landed on Celestia's head, she twitched a little but continued to sleep. A black duo-bird tilted it's heads this way and that as if to wonder what to do with such a lazy two-legger. It crept a little closer towards the forehead to peer at the face. The heads looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
At the sudden twin stabs of pain centered on her forehead, Celestia quickly sat up, jostling Hoshi a bit. The infant just rolled over, sighed and continued to sleep. Waving her arms around to ward off any other attacks, Celestia heard a flutter of wings. Looking around, she saw the duobird gently land on a nearby boulder.
Celestia nervously shifted her eyes away from the reproachful glares from bird. "Eh heh heh heh... Oops?" With another withering look, the duo bird took flight and circled around Celestia as if to say, "Follow me!" The bird glided towards the shack and suddenly arced up to land on the roof. Chasing the bird, Celestia said drily, "You know, you remember a lot of this guy I used to know." Another look of disdain. This one read, "As if a TWO-LEGGER can be like ME." 'Yep. Definately like Sakuya,'Celestia's mind quipped.
Celestia tried to jump up and down to look at the roof but she was still too short. "Hey, is there anything up there?" she asked the bird (who she mentally dubbed Sakuya) 'You know, I wouldn't really be surprised if that one just takes an item and lob it at my head...'
"Hey, Tal! Is there a ladder or something around here?"
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:02 am
Following Wolfie's lead, Pixie started brushing away the dirt around another slate and prised at it with her fingers. Finding that more effort was needed, she dug away at the soil a bit more, finally loosening the edge of the slate which came up quite easily after the initial difficulty.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:38 pm
Thoughtfully, Tal got down on her hands and knees and began to plod slowly in this manner along the edge of the shack. From here, she could see the little building had a short concrete foundation. Could the riddle mean literally to be an animal on all fours?
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:42 am
Wolfie watched Tal and scrambled over to her in the same manner since she was already pretty much on the ground. The soil near the shack was much softer than that of the pathway of slate. It squished beneath her and the moisture soaked through the knees of her jeans. Ick!
"Tal, do you think we should just give up? We have been here a long while and Im sure the moonlits and the rest of the crew would like a moment to eat something. Im sure we packed treats away?" Wolfie rocked back on her haunches and managed to give it too much momentum. She toppled over on her back, proping herself up with her elbows.
"So graceful," Wolfie mocked herself sarcastically. Blowing a whisp of her blue-silver hair out of her eyes, she noticed that the foundation at her left elbow was slightly worn away from the weather. It had eroded it away, showing the conglomerate that had created it. It was not indeed pure cement like many modern foundations, but a much stronger mixture made of stones and sand and a cement-like substance. Her uncle had always known what would weather out the storm. Wolfie supposed it was the seaman in him.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:00 pm
Wolfie rubbed the mud off her hand onto the foundation, its surface dragging the dry-wet mush onto its corrogated surface. With a pause, she wiped it away again, noticing some deep grooves. A lightbulb went off.
Shuffling quickly though her pockets she began to babble. "Tal, Tal!" She pulled out a notepad and whipped through pages. "OMG, I have seen these runes before. And look!" She pointed insistantly at those grooves in the foundation. "Look! No, dont give me that look," Wolfie started at Tal as a cautious glance was passed. "I mean it."
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:57 pm
((is sick, so won't be long post))
Pixie heard the commotion and deciding she was not getting anywhere in a hurry with the paving stones, she scrambled up, hesitating only to scoop up Aura. Racing over to where Wolfie was, Pixie hoped that the excitement meant that more runes had been found and not just that someone had broken a nail.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:06 pm
After hearing Wolfie, Blade looked towards her, then at the ground and foundations she was near. Stopping with the shingles, he stepped over by her.
It seemed that the foundations were crumbling away to some extent. So after giving it a light kick to make sure it wasn't really wasting away, he thought about the riddle once more.
Be a beast...
Glancing over at the various Moonlits in the area, it sort of clicked in his mind.
So as he crouched down by the foundations, he moved away some of the soil near it. After he dug away at it for a little while, he looked at the others.
"Can one of the Moonlits dig right here? They'd probably do a better job of it than I."
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:13 am
Severus had been following the group, trailing a ways behind them. He would never admit it, but he was curious as to what the others were doing. His tail swished back and forth behind him slowly as he looked around. What was going on, anyway?
Not wanting to ask, because, let's face it, Severus wasn't a very social anthro moonlit, he huffed and lowered his eyes, watching the ground as he walked. He kicked lightly at the dirt, muttering to himself. He should've stayed in bed...
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:02 am
Blue watched as Blade began to dig. She looked down as Scruffy bumped into her. The first thing she noticed was that he had grown. The second was he was watching Blade dig and was whining. "Wow, took you long enough to grow. What do you want to go play or something?" Blue asked Scruffy. Scruffy looked at Blue then at Blade and whined again. Blue gave Scruffy a confused look as she tried to figure out what he wanted. Hana walked over and made digging motion. Then it clicked. "Oh. You want to go dig where Blade's digging." Scruffy let out a happy little bark at this. "Okay you can go but listen to what they say." Blue told Scruffy. Scruffy walked over to Blade and looked at him as if to make sure it was okay. When he was sure, he began to dig in the spot Blade had started.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:29 pm
Wolfie thumbed through the notepad in her pocket. Why were these scribblings on the foundation so familiar?! It occured to her about the day at the waterfall. Someone was leaving clues! They were the same markings! She wondered what meaning they had. The next glyph her fingers traced over looked more like a cave painting than a rune stone.
"Tal, I think this looks like a duo-bird... dont you?" Wolfie noted the double beaks popping out of the carving. "I wonder if this is a clue about what we are hunting after?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:33 am
She nodded her head with enthusiasm. "Tal, I think this is what we have been looking for. This seems to be a history of sorts to the duos!" She jumped to her feet and began looking for the map. Forgetting that dear Talencia had possession of it, she scrambled from person to person, looking at the contents in their hands. Excitment fueled her and logic, for a change, was not.
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Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:31 pm
Blade's diggings resulted in uprooting a rather odd looking spiky plant. It wasn't prickly, but it's oddly shaped blooms tipped each stem in deep red. Yes, it seemed another plant that HPM might be interested in!
Nearby, when Blue's Hana motioned digging, her paw slapped a tall stalk of flowers over, snappting the stem. Still, the stem of flowers looked interesting. Perhaps it was worth keeping to show HPM as well?
Wolfie, meanwhile, had pawed at her section of the foundation and had unknowingly loosened something that had been inset among the duo-bird carvings. It fell out almost without a sound and lay amid the tumbled dirt. It somehow had managed to fall rune-side up, it's elegant marking drawing attention to it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:23 pm
Seeing Wolfie looking all over for it, Tal tapped her on her shoulder and pulled it out of the pack. "Here it is, are we ready to move on?" Together they peered at it. "I think this must be the shack," Tal commented, pointing. "So there is our next riddle."
"Laughter you will hear/ Look not far, for it is near/ Take a breath, hold back your fear." Tal read it thoughtfully. So if the riddle is here... and it says it is near....," she raised her head to look around.
"Does anyone hear anything?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:59 pm
"Hold my breath?" Wolfie looked baffled momentarily. "I dont know quiet what to hold my breath for."
She scraped up the rune at her feet and tucked it quickly into her pocket. It seemed like it would prove useful sooner or later in some aspect of this hunt. So far, half the riddles had been solved. They had a good feeling it had something to do with the duo-birds, now it was just a matter of what.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:17 am
Blinking at the spiny plant, Blade picked it up carefully then placed it into his pocket where the little flower was. Then glancing over to the side to see what Wolfie had found the third rune, he grinned slightly before standing up and stretching a little.
Listening to the next riddle, he tilted his head to the side as he listened for anything. He heard Jade and some birds chirp and some leaves rustling around, but that was about it.
"Not really, just some chirping and some leaves... Is there something like an aviary nearby?"
He really doubted that there'd be an aviary in the middle of the forest though.
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