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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:28 am
A selection of very short RP's to lay out a back ground for Pomegrante the Drowga (played by Avy) And Illsaide the Naga Prince (Played the the Shotastic Shobomahbo) [Thats Sho for those of you who dont speak Avyn]
They'll probably be a little intermittant, as sho and I only play out what we need -we are be lazy bummeh's-
But we'll keep this little log here anyway!
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:51 am
~=The Beginning=~ Ten Years Ago.. 15 and 17 He was stretched out, barely clinging to the slippery mud that the river bank was made of. His tail was cumbersome now, long, and stretched out far behind him being tugged on, danced around in the fast current, it was threatening every second to drag him back out into the swirls. He wasnt sure, but he was convinced there were rapids further downstream... if his finger holds failed him now, he was a goner. There was little stregnth left in his still adolescant form to fight with now.
Drawing in a strangled breath his felt his fingers shift in the mud a little more, and the pull of the current grew slightly stronger again. He was cold blooded on top of everything... could this day really get much more unpleasent...?
With a sigh he closed his dark red eyes, his numb fingers still clinging to the silty mud. He was having a rather bad week actually... More to the point... when had anythin really gone right for him...?
His mother was a Drow elf, his father was, rather obviously, a Naga. He didnt like to dwell ont he circumstances of their union, and he had never had the occasion to ask as his mother, after somhow manageing to give birth, rather messilly be had been told, to a large baby that was half snake half humanoid, had predictably died.
It was a promising start.
The Drow elves, obviously disgusted by the creature that had befould one of their women's wombs had tried to hush him up, had locked him away and kept him - barely - fed. This was really a very cinical trian of thouse.. morbid thoughts for morbid times...? Perhapse it worked.
His confinement had gone on unti a few weeks previously when he had realised, to his great amusement at the time, that he was probably now a good foot taller than the average Drow, reacing about seven feet when he really tried to rear up on his tail - it hurt like bloody hell when he did it, but the effect was impressive..- and was probably around twice the weight of most of them. All in all it wasnt so much of an effort for him to use his muscular tail to crack the door open, and turn it into a good imitation of fire wood.
Door down, he had made his escape, it was messy, rather painful - he wouldnt soon forget the blow dart and arrow wounds - but apparently there was somthing in his blood that brought the effect of the posions down.. he only felt mildly queasy.. rather than.. well.. mildly dead...
After that, and a few days to regain his senses... and accustom himself to the light, which burned his sensitive eyes like no ones business...
Eventually, still having to squint for the most part, even at night.. he had slithered his way across country.. scrounging food here and then, when he had the horrible mis-fortune to find out that he really didnt like wolves... horrible snappy brutes... they were the reason he was in this soggy predicament in the first place... the damn wolves and that flimsy tree branch... Bah...
He slipped again, his eyes clenching shut as the current once more yanked at his tail furiously.. he could feel it spiraling in the water.. he had no controll over it just now... This was a really pathetic way to day. He was thoughly convinced that every blasted being on this earth was a complete Git. Even that stupid tree hated him.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:14 am
Illsaide had somehow managed to get away from his nearly constant entourage. Surely one didn't need servants with them every single time they went out, they were so annoying sometimes and he had just wantd to go exploring on his own. He had cunningly been able to slither up a tree with some rather dense foliage and get away. Maybe if he kept still enough they would think he was a very colourful mango and not notice him. No such luck of course and he had soon found himself making a hasty getaway from his crowing handmaidens.
He wasn't overly fond of them as they had been handed down to him by his father and were subsequently a bit old for his liking. Note to self: Hire new handmaidens, and maybe a few male servants as well. He finally found himself right royally trapped as he came to the edge of a rather dangerous looking river. A fully grown naga may have been able swing across, but Illsaide was only fifteen and certainly not the manliest snake in the basket.
A flash of red caught his eye, a fish perhaps? Maybe some sort of carp? But on closer inspection the thing looked a little like one of his own people, or at least the prince thought it did, so without thinking he foolishly jumped in after the strange creature.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:25 am
Pomegranite was laying there on the bank placidly contemplating the thought of his own demise when suddenly a rainbow shot past him in the river.
Unusual.. he thought.. as rainbows tented to be in the sky. He had managed to learn quite a lot after his short bout of freedom you see. And also knew that the chance of one coming down and learning to swim he figured, was rather slim.
Consequently he decided it was probably somthign all together different and he turned slightly, risking his grip on the muddy bank to look over his shoulder.
Maybe he didnt feel so like dying after all...?
What he saw at first sight appeared to be a mass of gaudy rainbow jewellry.. then he realised that actually the beads had a body.. and looked more like scales... oh! And a head.. with.. dear god?! Wha kind of weird hat was it wearing! Regardless... it looked rather small and scrawny... and a little like a naga.. well.. okay.. a lot like a naga but a weird one.. and he decided that he really shouldnt let anotehr naga drown, even if the ones he had met in the past had been complete A-holes. With a tired sigh, thinking that this was probably going to be the death of him - about time really - he let go of the side and tumbled out into the current reachin gout for the end of the rainbow coloured tail
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:39 am
Illsaide soon realised his mistake as he began to feel a little bit wet and cold. Actually he was completely soaked. And moving downstream away from the carp man at an alarming rate. He did a manic little butterfly stroke in order to stay in the same place but unfortunaltely the rinve, being a force of nature, was wining and Illsaide found himself being swept away.
"Don't worry Mr Red! I'll save you!" he spluttered between strokes ".....Somehow." he was having enough trouble staying above water as it was. "Just don't panic."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:46 am
"Idiot.." the red naga muttered as a faster wash of water swept him close enough to the other naga to reach out and grab him, he pulle hdim against him and swiftly wrappe his longer, thicker, more devlloped tail around the finer rainbow coloured one.
"I was happily dieing there until you went and got involved.." he stated,
"Now its going to have to wait isnt it...?" They were rolled under water for a few seconds and Pomegranite felt his thickly scaled tail bump off what he presumed was a rock.. it might have dislodged a ruby scale or two... but it didnt really bother him though... but he had a sneaking suspicion that it would have bloody hurt the little runt he was now clinging onto.. and very much trying not to constrict...
Finally, after a hair rasing ride the water seemed to steady out again.. there was, luckily, no waterfall in this stretch of river, and the water, thought now wider than before was a lost slower moving, and despite how tired he was the bigger naga was able to start struggling towards the shore with the smaller, much more colourful one..
"Great rescue there Rainbow." he sated, his voice dry with sarcasm.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:54 am
Illsaide grinned breathlessly the larger naga. He was still grimy from years of dirt but what the river had washed off looked pretty nice in his opinion.
"Hey, I've never rescues anyone before. So I'd say I did pretty well for a first try. And besides we're both still alive aren't we. I call that a resounding success." he said before coughing up a fair bit of water. "That was a fun ride, can we do it again?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:01 am
Pomegranite stared at the rainbow coloured snake thing he was currently curled around and slowly... every so slowly let one of his eyebrows begin to quirk up..
His hair was still stained a slightly off white colour, but the vivid red streak could be seen. And though he was gaunt from years of hunger he was obviously not too too hard on the eyes... well.. unless he decided to claw yours out.. because then I suppose that would be pretty hard really..
Uncoiling himself as they finally reached the shallows he struggled up the bank again onto dry ground, feelng very heavy now after his sojourn into the water.
Was it really a success..? He supposed the weird fellow was right in all honesty...
"You look like a damn girl." he stated with a small grimace to his voice... he was tired and ill tempered now... hungery snakes were not happy snakes after all..
"You're not meant to damn well like thrill rides..."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:12 am
Illsaide slipped away from the larger Naga as he uncoiled himself.
"I don't know a couple of surf boards and some flame throwers and I think we could have ourselves a brand new extreme sport." he said, still a little light headed from the adrenalin rush.
He glanced over at his rescuer, whon he had quite spectacularly failed to rescue.
"Good Gods man! What happened to you? You're skin and bone." he said catching a glance of the red one's prominent ribcage. "Come back to the palace and have some food. You need to see a doctor."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:17 am
The elder naga eyed the smaller one for a moment, flicking his head a few times to remove some of the strands of light hair from his eyes.
"I dont know what a surfboard is.." he said with a shrug,
"But I think Flame throwers would do nicely.." it was a sarcastic comment of course as he eyed the already dangerous enough -thank-you-very-much set of rapids...
At the sudden explosive question he looked slowly over at the rainbow naga..
"Palace..?" he asked quietly, the eyebrow quirking again as he eyed him, looking him up and down... he did look rather healthy and well fed, if currently bedraggled.. he had to admit...
"You'd feed me...?" He forced himself to move again, slithering closer to the smaller naga and brushing himself up against him, an almost purr like noise slipping past his lips.
"If you feed me... then I suppose we could always fling ourselves wildly into the water again sometime... after food though... being in a drow cage for nigh on a score years has made me a little hungery... and Drow are a little on the scrawny side you see.."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:29 am
Illsaide brightened, now that the other Naga wasn't angry any more, well less angry at any rate, he seemed quite nice.
"Yes, I'm kinda the heir to the Naga throne so it's pretty much guaranteed that you'll get fed if I say you rescued me." he cocked his head to the side curiously. "You're a Drow? I always thought that the Drow had two of those leg doohikies. And why would they put someone as cool looking as you in a cage? Did they like looking at you?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:34 am
Pomegranite shrugged slightly.
"I'm an abomination." He said, as if this was a fact rather than an opinion, it didnt seem to bother him any.
"They didnt seem to know what to call me, so much just spat on me and said 'The Drowga'." he wrinkled his nose, leaning down to pull one of the scales that the rocks had losened free from his tail.. he had been hanging there, just barely, and it had irrittated him.
"My mother was Drow elf, and rather obviously my father was one of your kind.." He slithered around the Naga again.
"She died when I was born and I think they thought I was probably dangerous.. well, I guess they were right in the end, I think I killed about seven of them when I busted myself out.." He pushed himself up on his tail as much as he could, rearing, stretching for a moment to his full height at the moment of seven feet, before relaxing again.. back to five ft nine... He paused, looking thoughtful,
"So I caught a little prince did I..?" He chuckled, a fairly good humoured sound despite his slightly less than pleasent mood..
"Well, A meal sounds good.." he brushed up against the younger naga once mroe.
"I'd rather be a Naga than a Drow anyway..."
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:45 am
Illsaide's eyes widened a little but more with a strange sense of awe as opposed to fear.
"That is so unbelievably awesome!" he cried. "Well obviously not the part about you childhood but the way you escaped was brilliant. Seven Drow? I'd be lucky to slay seven hamsters!" he slithered away in the direction of the palace. "I'm sure they'll love you back home. Well you saved my life, that's enough for my mother to like you. And you don't look too unusual. I think you'll find the people there most accepting."
He lead the way along the river bank. The palace wasn't hard to find, he just had to follow the river upstream until he came to the city. Then it was just a quick walk through the streets and then home. Hopefully they might be able to avoid those pesky handmaidens.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:56 am
~=A Name=~
Ten Years Ago.. 15 and 17 The large red naga, or Drowga as he honestly was was curled out in the gardens enjoying a warm patch of sun that was heating his red scales through wonderfully... It was nice to feel relaxed.
This was the first time he had really been able to enjoy the sun...
His eyes were used to it now, though thankfully he haddnt lost his ability to see in the dark, though now for the transition from one to the other he did need a pause of a minute or so before he could see clearly.
He was well fed.. he had shed his skin once.. and he was left looking far more spectacular... his scales were a vivid ruby red, his skin nearly black, and his har bright white with one strak in it that was almost the same vivid shade as he scales.
He was an interesting specimin, that was for sure, unlike any other.. but his teeth came with venom should he need to defend himself, and his temper could flare rather easilly into the spitful viscios rage that was entirely drow. He had prooved himself useful to the Naga, his eyes were better.. and he was able to move unseen through the darkness.. he had saved their prince and he had also managed to become a friend to him, spending much of their time together in whatever sort of passtime took their fancy. He had had some lessons himself, and he was finding he was able to adjust to the world better than he had thought he would be able to, but his alien looks still made some of the naga nobles wary of him, he couldnt blame them, and he honestly didnt care... with the exception of Illsaide they pretty well all annoyed him.. but it was a good living he had here, and he wasnt stupid enough to vent his htoughts and jepordize it.. well, except to his royal companion.. with a contented sigh he let his human torso tumble off of the coil of tail he had been resting it on and writhed around in the grass for a moment.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:03 am
Illsaide joined him a few minnutes later, not in the writhing, although it did look quite fun but merely joining his company, a basket of fruit under one arm.
"Enjoying ourselves are we?" he called to the other Naga, who was still lacking in any sort of formal name. For now Illsaide just refered to him as mister Red, but it really didn't suit him.
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