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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:46 pm


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Date: June 19th, 2006 15 : 58 (24 hour time)
Subject: The Darkwood Park
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Shuura scowled slightly and rolled her eyes at her slowpoke charge, who was taking her sweet time reclining in the shade of a nearby tree. "Hurry uuuuuuup, Vyn!" She called back. "We don't have all night, y'know."

She had thought that taking care of the floaty thing would be a peice of cake, hey, it didn't eat normal food, it didn't talk so it can't complain or anything, but nooooo here she was in the middle of the night, her hair was a mess, she had bags under her eyes, she was wearing only her PJs and she and taking this thing out like---like---well, like walking a dog that just had to get out or else it would---well. Y'know.

She'd woken up in the middle of the night to see Vyn hovering right next to her, and two freakishly glow-in-the-dark yellow eyes staring out at you is NOT something that would send you back to sleep in a hurry. Vyn had stared at her meaningfully, then turned to stare outside, so Shuu was forced to put two and two together and take Vyn out. Appearantly, Vyn needed energy, for she was now standing in almost all the shadowy areas of the nearby park Shuura had elected to go to.

I dunno, what, is she tired of the shadows in the room or something? Heck, do shadows even TASTE different? Shuu didn't know. Hell, she wasn't the one who ate shadows for a living.

Vyn followed along somewhat obediently, although taking longer than what her guardian would have liked. Her dislike of movement had eventually been combated by her growing dislike of being continually cooped up in that....room, especially since Shuura wasn't even around that much. It felt....she didn't know the word for it. Not-right.

The cool night air made her feel more vibrant. And there were shadows everywhere! This suited Vyn. She drifted a little closer to the enclosure of trees and bushes at her guardian's insistence....


-*-


Woken up by Vyn in the middle of the night, an extremely annoyed Shuura takes the Shadow Frei out to the nearby park, only to run into Jules and yet another stranger with a Raevan...





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Mood: Irritable
Music: Zombie - The Cranberries

[Special thanks to Aphismet and Julian Sweet for allowing me to join their RP. ]
PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:45 am


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Date: June 21st, 2006 13:29 (24 hour time)
Subject: Move-in Day
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:46 am


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Date: June 22nd, 2006 15:29 (24 hour time)
Subject: Musical Flower Care?
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-FLUSH-

The two stared down at the rapidly disappearing blob of red as it vanished down into Durem's underground sewer system.

Making a show of crossing herself in a sarcastic mimicry of the exorbitantly religious action, Shuura saluted the toilet where she had just flushed down the corpse of Red the goldfish, who had lived an amazing lifespan of two weeks and five-and-a-half-days.

Vyn was...clearly rather dejected, floating so close to the ground her tattered black spirals were dragging across the white tiles of the bathroom. The frei's leathery wings were droopy and listless, barely flapping, her tapered ears pointed towards the ground, and her delicate features contorted into a confused frown, as if still puzzled over why the brilliantly red goldfish had all of a sudden stopped moving and began floating upside down this morning.

"Vyn....ugh, don't do that," Shuura started. "...Vyn. You really don't want to be hugging the toilet."

The Shadow Frei had floated down to the floor and was now resting her rosy head on the rim of the toilet bowl, small delicate hands draped lightly around the porcelain sides. Her glowing rune and golden-black eyes were dimmed of its usual luster, and her gaze was focused on the softly rippling water inside the white porcelain bowl. It was rather ironic, actually, how the Frei could still look elegant and poised even when plopped against a toilet.

The snappy teen arched an eyebrow at her moping charge. Who knew the thing would have such an attachment to one lame fish? She snorted. "Gather germs and earn yourself a viral infection if that's what you want." she said finally. "Just don't say I didn't warn you!" With a kick, the bathroom door slammed shut, leaving Vyn pooled on the floor inside.

While the cantankerous schoolgirl wasn't exactly a complete cold-hearted b*****d...sympathetic she most definitely was not. If Vyn was going to waste her time moping in spite of Shuura's advice, then that was the Frei's problem, not hers.

Flipping on the computer monitor and starting up her music playlist, she began browsing G-Bay to see how well the products she put on sale were selling, figuring that Vyn would come out from the bathroom of her own volition, sooner or later. Besides, the bathroom was usually flooded with light during the day and offered very little shadow to hide in -- While Vyn now seemed to be able to tolerate sunlight better, the Frei still preferred the stay in the shadows, and yet, she didn't seem to like the cold. It was an odd combination.

Sure enough, the bathroom door soon opened with a soft click and Vyn poked out her rosy head to peer at what Shuura was doing. Appearantly, the Frei had gotten tired of sitting next to the toilet. Little splotches of grey rimmed the edges of Vyn's heavily-lined eyes, and the shadow Raevan's skin seemed to be a little darker than usual.

Eyeing the rather drained Frei, Shuura suddenly remembered reading somewhere that letting flowers listen to music allowed them to grow better. "Huh." Well...it was worth a try. Jacking up the volume, the speakers began blasting out Linkin Park's One Step Closer.

Vyn flinched visibly.

Shuura gave a shrug of her shoulders. Guess not. "Maybe classical music?" She mused aloud. Pachelbel's Canon in D began tinkling out of the speakers.

No reaction from Vyn. She tried again. This time, Qing Tian "Sunny Day" by Jay Chou began to play.

Vyn looked...well, if anything, the Frei looked bored.

Sighing audibly, Shuura was about to give up when the auto-shuffle kicked in and a stream of familiar lyrics began pouring out--


ねえ 本当は誰も  
ねえ 愛せないと言われて...
恐がりの君と出会い... やっと
その意味に気付いた

傷付くため 今二人...出会ったなら 
悲しすぎるよ

心から... 君に伝えたい
きっと ただ本当の 君の姿を
もとめて...

まだ ぶきように笑うね
まだ 悲しみが似合うから
君 と出会うためだけに そう
生まれたなら 変えられるかな?

心から~ 君に伝えたい
傷付き過ぎたけど
まだ 間に合うよ
心から~ 君を愛してる

君に降る痛みを ふってあげたい 全て...

I for You

心から 君に伝えたい 
君の笑顔いつも 見つめられたら
心から 君を愛してる

君に降る光を 集めてあげたい 全て...

I for You...


As the music continued to play, Vyn leaned in closer, her slender fingers reaching forward to rest on one of the speakers. Her sultry eyes were wide and bright, and to Shuura's surprise, the glowing rune half-hidden under Vyn's black swirls began to pulse softly in rhythm to the music.

There was no doubt about it.




....Vyn liked J-rock.



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Mood: I For You
Music: Luna Sea

[ A translation of the song is available here. ]
PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:16 pm


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Date: August 5th, 2006 20:29 (24 hour time)
Subject: In Which General Chaos and Madness ensues
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<Raevan Sleepover and Owner's Party. RP ended on an incomplete note.>



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[ Both RPs were conducted in the Biotic Interactions subforum of the guild. ]

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:17 pm


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Date: August 16th, 2006 00:29 (24 hour time)
Subject: Glowing Addictions
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Drenched completely and chilled to the core, Shuura stumbled into Julian's apartment complex, leaving a trail of wet and muddy footprints all across the impeccably clean lobby floor. Well, impeccably clean they might have been, but no longer. The pontytailed girl gave a sneeze, then cursed loudly as an echoing sneeze resounded from the muffled depths of her coat pocket.

Reaching into her coat, she plucked out a small, half-sawed off green bottle. The form of a little green child popped up its head immediately from the liquid inside, quivering both from the cold and from excitement. "H-hey! W-where are we?" it chattered excitedly.

It had started to downpour not too shortly after she left the flea market, and the loaves of bread she had ganked from there were now soggy and unfit for eating. Shuura tossed them in the lobby's trash can before heading up the stairs to her own apartment, coolly ignoring the string of questions the cup-kid in her hand was bleating out.

"Whoaa this place is huuuGe!! Where's this? --SNNNRK!-- Where're we going? Why's the ceiling so high? Do you --ACHOO!-- live here? Are we--AHCHEW!--there yet?"

Squirt continued his cheerful bombardment of questions between fits of sneezing as Shuura walked up the stairs, fingers itching to drop the loquacious cup into the trash can as well. "Quiet, " she ordered, following up with a threat. "If you wake up WonderNerd landlord the first thing I'm going to do is toss you out the nearest window." She was wet, she was tired, and dealing with the particularly acrid young scientist at this particular time was not one of her top priorities at the moment.

Miraculously, Squirt managed to keep silent until they reached the door to Shuura's apartment. Swiftly entering and slamming the door shut behind her, the tired girl scanned her apartment for the whereabouts of a particular ebony and crimson Raevan.

Vyn was in the exact same place where Shuura had left her that morning, floating in the shadow cast by Shuura's bed in the corner of the room, next to the window. The windowsill once held a flowerpot whose inhabitant had died a while ago due to the increasingly severe irregularity between waterings. Before the unfortunate demise of the plant, there used to sit a glass bowl of water that had housed the Matsuri goldfish once known as Red. The bottom rim of flowerpot and the bowl combined had left a waterstain in the shape of a circle on the windowsill, and it was at this spot that the quiet Shadow Frei stared at.

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Shuura plopped Squirt's cup smack down in the center of Vyn's vision, causing the liquid to splosh around wildly and Squirt to squeak rather loudly. Glaring at both of them until she caught their attention, she gave a curt nod to the older Raevan and spoke. "Vyn. I brought you a new pet--"

"It's SQUIRT," the animated cup interrupted loudly. "I meen I TOLD youu my name a million-double-million times ya know? Are you STOO~PID? What'sa guy hafta do to get some respect around here huh?" Sticking a small green tongue out at Shuura, Squirt began bouncing up and down rather heatedly, nearly spilling out of his cup. "Huh huh huh? --oh." The little guy gave a little exclamation of surprise and suddenly went quiet when Vyn picked up his cup, bringing the little drink kid closer to eye level.

Black and amber eyes curiously regarded small green ones as Vyn picked Squirt up gently, her rosy hair glossy and bright after a night of drawing energy from the shadows. "Hey-y. You're um, really pretty," Squirt piped up, a hint of shyness tinging his squeaky little voice, earning a ghost of a smile from the Rose Raevan.

Too tired to even respond to the insult from the pipsqueak, Shuura unceremoniously deposited herself on her black and red-draped bed, covering her head with an embroidered black pillow. "I. don't. care," she muffled out from under the pillow. "Vyn, go play with him in the kitchen or something, I'm going to sleep."

-*-

Vyn left the room wordlessly, having no desire to associate with her guardian when said guardian was in another foul mood.

On the other hand, after getting over his initial shyness, Squirt was now pelting a string of questions at the pretty floaty figure that had picked him up and brought him out to the living room. "Whats your name? Do you have a name? I picked my own name, I like it cuz it's Squirt!! It's like...." the little drinkable scrunched his freckled green nose in thought. "Like water gushing, right? And whatsa pet by the way? Why'm I a pet? Can I have a pet too? What's that?" Squirt added distractedly, pointing at the TV.

Vyn regarded this feisty little creature with mixed feelings, not sure how to respond to his inquisitive barrage. "I....am Vyn," she said softly, answering one of his questions at least. Her gaze following Squirt's pointed finger, she moved them both closer to TV, complying when Squirt's little hands stretched eagerly to push at the buttons below the screen.

With a Beep and a slight fizzing sound, the TV screen blinked to life.


"IT'S LATE AT NIGHT, YOU'RE TIRED AFTER WORK AND YET YOUR KIDS ARE STILL UP AND KICKING? HAVE NO FEAR...THE CHILD EDUCATION NETWORK IS HERE! NOW RE-PLAYING DAILY STAR-CHILD CLASSROOM SHOWS EVERY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT!"

Squirt giggled in an eruption of fizzy bubbles. "That man looks funny," he said, pointing at the fat, balding man on the screen proclaiming the wonders of the child education network. "Look, Vinn!" But when Vyn turned to look, the man got replaced by a horde of blue muffins screaming out the letters of the alphabet.


"A IS FOR ALLIGATOR!! B IS FOR BABOON!! ....E IS FOR ELEPHANT AND Z IS FOR ZABIMARU!! ALL TOGETHER AND YOU'LL HAVE A ZOO! A ZOOO!! WHOO-HOO!! WHOO-HOO!!"

The hyperactive muffins re-screeched the whole alphabet again.

"Augh-augh-eghh-ele-funts!" Squirt tried imitate the pronounciations after prompts to repeat were issued energetically by the blue muffins on screen. "C'mon Vinn...!" Squirt twisted around in him cup a little to wave at the larger figure. "Why don't you try too? See....Kang-a-ROO!"

Vyn eyed the talking cup uncertainly, yet at the same time, the little thing's enthusiasm was undeniably a bit catching. Black ribbon-strands twisting and curling softly, the rosy-haired Frei continued to watch the antics of the small green boy cupped in her hands.

"F-Faal-con!" Squirt shouted eagerly, punching a little fist in the air for emphasis.

"D-....Dar-gon!" the small boy continued cheerfully, completely unaware that he was pronouncing it pronouncedly different from the actual word.

"Lep-pard!"

"Sser-pent!"

"Haw-kuh!!"

"...hawk." Vyn echoed softly.

"Squirrll!" Squirt turned a bright smile to the Raevan.

"...squirrel," Vyn confirmed.

"Rabbitt!"

"Rabbit..."

-*-


"Mmphgh," Shuura muttered incoherently from under the pillow. Tossing and turning, dark hair fanning across the crimson sheets, the tired girl slept on, oblivious to the happenings outside the room.




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Mood: Kleptomanic
Music: One Step Closer - Linkin Park

[ Squirt is a breedables kid from the Drinkables! Shop by lil_nekochan and Raife.
To learn more about Squirt, visit his journal. ]
PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:04 am


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Date: September 6th, 2006 23:57 (24 hour time)
Subject: The Brat Pack
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:44 am


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Date: August 31st, 2006 16:01 (24 hour time)
Subject: A Trip to Durem
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< Natsuki invites Shuura to drop by for a visit at Cafe Jubilee, while Shuura accepts the invitation with a job proposition in mind.
Both sides end up with more than what they originally bargained for. Please visit here to read the RP between Nats & Shuu.
The following journal entry takes place
after the events that transpired in this RP. >

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Muffled cackling resounded loudly from behind the closed door to Shuura's room, and Vyn glanced in that direction briefly, a small frown flitting across shadowed features. Her guardian seemed pleased about something...however, the sounds she was emitting did not seem very reassuring.

Vyn gathered up the some of the tattered flowing strands of ebony ribbons billowing out a little too far from her as if gathering in the folds of a full floor-length skirt, before floating gently towards the kitchen counter where a softly-fizzing plastic green cup was sitting on.
Squirt's eyes were wide and bright as he regarded her, his little mouth parted to ask yet another question--

Vyn put a finger to her crimson lips, and the little drinkable immediately quietened. Despite being easily excitable and a bit too raucous and unruly, the soft-spoken Shadow Frei approved of his small noisy prescence, particularly after discovering that the little green boy would do whatever she asked.

Picking up Squirt's cup gently to cradle it within the palm of her hand, Vyn drifted them across the room to stop just outside of the door to Shuura's room. Tilting their heads gently against the door, the two listened intently to the string of low muttering coming from inside the room.


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"--f*^&#xin;g unbelieveable." Shuura was trying incredibly hard not to burst out in outrageous laughter. "Goddamn but I am *$%#ing good." She'd offered herself up on a silver platter, but to think that Natsuki not only declined it but rather made her an assistant manager and effectively doubling her pay instead...were people really that nice? I love nice people, the teen thought giddily to herself. They're so easy to take advantage of.

She wasn't stupid or altruistic by any means, hell no. Of course if she had made such a degrading offer to begin with it was only because she had ascertained that she could make quite a profit out of it regardless. One of the previous girls who worked there--a vivacious purple-haired one by the name of Berry-- had let slip of just quite how much tips they could get, and Shuura was quite certain that if she was working the floor, of course she could do even better...so whatever the hourly wage was would pale in comparison.

Shift manager? Sharp red eyes glinted under the dim fluorescent lighting. Things were going quite beyond her expectations. Health insurance? Paid vacation? She laughed it off. The only form of health insurance she believed in was her own, which was simple enough -- don't get sick and don't get hurt. So far, it hasn't failed her. A rather evil chortle escaped from her lips before finally settling down in the form of a wry smirk. She got up suddenly, throwing open the door and nearly crushing Vyn and Squirt.

She barely gave them a cursory glance before grabbing her coat off the armchair and stalking out. "C'mon guys," she called back, a tinge of generosity softening her usually curt tone. "Let's go out tonight."


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:08 am


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Date: September 15th, 2006 8:00 (24 hour time)
Subject: Management 1-0-What?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:21 pm


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Date: December 28th, 2006 10:34 (24 hour time)
Subject: Fuyu no yoru (A Winter Night)
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Rushing outside in only a black T-shirt and shorts that barely covered what they should be covering, Shuura turned the dial on the mailbox as fast as she could, hissing sharply at the cold. Of all the mornings it had to snow....

Muttering curses as she grabbed the daily newspaper, some Christmas greeting cards and a rather bulky parcel from her mailbox, she quickly rushed back into the warmth of her own apartment, her slippers slapping loudly against the pavement.

Scanning the newspaper headlines while she tore at the tape binding the package, the raven-haired girl snorted at what she read.

SINGING WHALE WREAKS HAVOC IN RESTAURANT!
---Manager claims over $2000 in damages .......................................................................


"Vyn!!" She yelled. "Bring me a pair of scissors, will you?"

The Shadow Frei came out a while later, holding a pair of chopsticks in one hand, and Squirt's bubbling cup in the other. The green boy had just woke up, and was yawning widely as Vyn set him down gently on the kitchen counter.

Shuura sighed as Vyn held out the chopsticks to her. "No, scissors are the ones you---nevermind," she muttered, and promptly grabbed one of her kitchen knives and hacked the box open instead.

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Shuura stared at the thing that floated out with one eyebrow raised. Bloody hell. Now what am I going to do with-- her gaze fell on an open cookbook propped against the cluttered kitchen table. The current recipe was an assorted cold platter that called for--

Hmm...braised jellyfish.

"What's that?" Squirt asked. Appearantly, his drowsiness was gone, and the little thing was now squirming around in his half-bottle to get a better look at the curiously transparent and tentacled life form.

Quick as a flash, Shuura knocked the floating bubbly sea creature out with a rolling pin and tossed it into the frying pan.

Sizzling sounds soon filled the kitchen.

Turning back to her two charges, Shuura gave them an unsettling smile. "That?....was breakfast." she responded succinctly.


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Mood: Fiesty
Music: Les Poissons - from the Little Mermaid Soundtrack
PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:31 pm


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Date: Feburary 14 , 2007 10 : 13 (24 hour time)
Subject: Partie D'Amour
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Shuura
...Partie D'Amour? A pair of stormy gray eyes quickly scanned over the invitational flyer, unimpressed.

Any other time Shuura would most likely have jumped at the opportunity to party and otherwise socialize, get suitably intoxicated, and pick up information and opportunities she could use to her advantage later, but from what she could see from this...."party", if it could honestly be called one...it wasn't really happening. As a matter of fact, it seemed a lot more like the festival she helped organize a while back, and after that particular involuntary experience she had really developed a strong distaste of similar events.

Unable to resist a small, unlady-like snort, the raven-haired girl turned slightly to the ebony and crimson Frei floating gracefully alongside her. "Well Vyn, you're the one that showed me the flyer." She arched an eyebrow at her shadowy charge, her next words laced with delicate strains of sarcasm. "...Go knock yourself out."

With that, the teen quickly removed herself from the crowd, leaving the young Frei to fend for herself. Work was paying double the normal wage today because most people had asked for the day off, and with today being Valentine's, she was sure she could earn some pretty outrageous tips....

Vyn watched her guardian disappear back into the crowd, feeling mixed emotions conflict within her. The Shadow Raevan wasn't sure if she felt annoyed at being abandoned or glad that she was left alone to do as she pleased. It wasn't the first time Shuura had simply left her in a strange place without much forewarning, and Vyn supposed she was getting used to it.

The difference this time was that Vyn had actually requested to come to this event on her own accord, for Shuura had never noticed the glossy invitational flyer stuck in the very back of the mailbox until Vyn had pulled it out. Shuura had already been reluctant enough to take Vyn to the event, so the frei wasn't overly surprised at this result.

Tilting her rosy head softly, Vyn floated delicately in a patch of shade near the refreshment booths. A confusing mix of smells assaulted her senses, causing her to float backwards involuntarily--for some reason, the smell of food has been making her feel sick lately. However, she caught the scent of something fresh among all the dizzying smells, and after scanning the booths carefully, found the source nestled between cookies and ice creams--

--flowers...


< Entirety of the RP can be found under the Biotic Interactions subforum of the guild. Click the subject title to visit the original RP. >


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Mood: Overtime
Music: Merry Go Round - Mai Hoshimura

[ This was a group event-RP managed by Chloe Star for the occasion of Valentine's day.
Click the subject title to visit the original RP. ]

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 10:37 am


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Date: August 15st, 2007 10:03 (24 hour time)
Subject: Summer Festival - 2nd Anniversary and Fundraising
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:12 pm


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Date: Oct 31st, 2007 17:22 (24 hour time)
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