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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:24 pm
 IntroductionWelcome to the weyr of Wingleader Lyveana and Green Ruinnth
Updates
July 15th, 2009: End Hiatus. First draft of ORP Drill actions posted in OOC Wing thread.
July 6th, 2009: Start Hiatus. ORP for Wing Drills will be set up at the end of July. If you need me in the meantime, I am available via PM and AIM @ ShadowDreams3331
June 20th, 2009: Thread Creation. Won Lyv and Rui in June Customs. Still in shock.
Quote of the Day! "I think we're all going to find out that being a dragonrider is not just sitting on its neck and going wherever we want to." -Debera, rider of green Morath, in Red Star Rising/Dragonseye, chapter 5, page 133
| OOC Wing Thread | Jevasi and Meridoth | Important Link | Important Link |
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:25 pm
Weyr Layout
(Table of Contents)
Index **Page One** 01- Introduction 02- Weyr Layout 03- Lyveana's Statistics 04- Ruinnth's Statistics 05- Role Play Logs 06- Wing Statistics 07- Lyv and Rui's Musings 08- Maps and Thread Charts 09- Photo Gallery 10- Growing Up Green 11- Lyveana's Library 12- On Belching 13- Lyv's Checklists 14- Credits **Page Two** 15- Reserved 16- Hatching Story 17- The Promotion 18- Dealing with the Aftermath
Primary Location:
The weyr Lyveana has is located next to the weyr she sharesd with Jevasi, and while it predates the expansion to the outer 'forest weyrs' it is nonetheless of newer... harsher... design. The stone is rough cut along the walls, but the large dragon wallow is nonetheless smooth and comfy from years of use. The rider accommodations are surprisingly luxurious, though that is mostly through sheer creativity on the part of the occupant, and likely a needed luxury given the inconvenient location.
Lyveana rarely has guests, but she maintains several additional chairs near her desk, and sometimes doubles her work table as a dining table on those rare in-weyr social occasions. While she welcomes to privacy and lack of Jevasi-objects, she freely admits that she misses her greasemonkey roommate, and usually visits the 'cave next door' frequently.
Interior View:
Exterior View:
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:26 pm
I remembered blackened skies; the lightning all around me
I remembered each flash, as time began to blur...
Like a startling sign, that fate had finally found me...
And your voice was all I heard.
Name: Lyveana
Current Age: 28
Weyrmate: None, not looking.
Alignment: Lawful Good
Rank: Wingleader
Age at creation: 27
Sex: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Eyes: Bright emerald green
Hair: Short, light golden brown. Cut just below her chin, held back from face with a dark brown headband.
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 172 lbs
Muse Theme: She Wolf - Shakira New Divide - Linkin Park
Physical Description:
Tall and toned, Lyveana is a walking advertisement for the benefits of eating healthy, and living an active lifestyle. While she keeps herself from becoming overly muscled by virtue of genetics, this is a woman who can clearly pull her weight, and likely yours as well. Beneath her riding jacket; her shoulders, torso, and abdomen are lean and firm, and she has been well endowed from her maternal side with a pair of well shaped breasts and an ample behind.
All told, she would be any man's dream woman... until they got a look at her eyes.
Bright and snapping, Lyveana's eyes follow the adage of 'eyes are the window to the soul' quite well. They speak volumes of her character, and lend particularly strong credit to her reputation as a stern, sometimes overly militaristic, woman. With age, she'll develop a fine network of frown wrinkles around her eyes and mouth to match the dominating intensity of her eyes, but for now she has only a few premature gray hairs laced through her light brown hair and a set of dark sleep circles under her eyes to show her current state of perpetual exhaustion. Without those circles as a sign of stress, Lyveana could be described as a handsome woman, rather then beautiful. Her personality and body language are too forceful for the kind of elegant beauty that is the model for the women of Pern. She wouldn't know how to behave in a setting where she would be expected to prime herself with make-up and fancy dresses... and boy does it show!
Her fashion sense is fairly utilitarian. She wears what is comfortable, preferring loose baggy things when not in her riding gear, and tight, form fitting gear for when she is drilling with her Wing. Her chosen colors are usually muted pastels and earth tones, and while she does have a good eye for design on other women, barring her living quarters, Lyveana does not choose to cloth herself in anything that could be considered 'fashionable.' Timeless would be a better way to describe her wardrobe, since it would fit in just about any time period, but stand out in none.
Personality:
A born leader and the keeper of a fierce will to survive, Lyveana enjoys challenges and is rarely caught without a response to a critical situation. She is dependable and loyal to her superiors and colleagues, and is always more then willing to shoulder the burdens of others for the common good, as well as for the people who can no longer carry on. She wants... no.. needs, to be helping someone or she feels inattentive and lazy. But she has a lonely side, mostly brought about by her own pride and a series of troubling events in her past that she rarely shares.. even with those who are closest to her. As much as people need her, she needs people, and it is this give and take that keeps her going now that she has found herself back among society.
Her independent streak stems from may long hours in the saddle, on her own, out in the high country far from help or any form of human contact. She's become almost completely self reliant, and even her dragon can have trouble reaching her when she's withdrawn into the icy shell maturity has yet to shatter.
As a leader, Lyveana is forceful and to the point. She firmly believes that Thread will fall again, and will not tolerate beating around the bush from those around her on the topic. "Over prepared and over cautious means under Scored and under control." Is her favorite motto when lecturing delinquent young riders, stressing as often as she can that as terrifying as everyone may think Thread is, she is convinced it is far worse then their worst nightmares. She often comes across as militant and overbearing at first, but her decisions are carefully thought out and have only the health and well being of her Wing at the heart of them. She'd sooner see herself Scored then have even a speck of Threadash singe any of her comrades or their dragons.
History:
One of five middle children, her oldest brother is ten years older then she, while her youngest sister is six years her junior. As such, Lyveana was raised with a calm efficiency and sent off to earn her keep as soon as she was old enough to handle her own pony. Her job was a simple one at first, just watch the milch herds and run for help, but as she grew older she was trusted with her brothers to head out with the ranging stock into the high hills. By the time she was sixteen, she was in charge of tending her own band of meat stock and was sent off on her own... often for sevendays at a time. She grew into womanhood alone, and learned a great deal of uncanny tricks to keep herself and her stock alive despite rough weather, brigands, and wild predators.
As with most things in life, the highest point in her life was heralded by the lowest. It was high summer, and while the pasture lands were heavy and ripe for harvesting, she was still sent off into the country to forage with her herd. She'd had an unsettling feeling about the decision from the moment her father and oldest brother mentioned it, but with nothing to go on but a gut feeling, she was forced to do as she was told. She was still a woman to them, despite sharing all of the same hill county experiences they had, and was thus unlikely to have a 'real' gut feeling like a man would.
Sadly, she never would get the chance to speak to them again, since both were killed in a sweeping raid from Holdless brigands the same sevenday she found herself cut off from her home hold via those same brigands. Without provocation, they had decided to take over her family's homestead and likely set themselves up as if they had always been there. In retrospect, she suspects that some of the hired hands and a few family members escaped, but she honestly hasn't found it in her heart to really look. At the time, the shock of it numbed her to the gravity of her own situation, up until a group of holdless outriders spotted her and gave chase.
Forced to abandon her herd and the herding canine that always followed her, she pushed her horse until he foundered, nearly killing both of them in her desperation. Five riders had initially given chase, but only two managed to catch up, and in the melee that resulted, she managed to kill both of them using her long hunting knife and her bow. Barely nineteen, she had the blood of men on her hands, and nowhere to go except the main hold where she thought (through barely remembered harper lessons) that she had a right to tell her story. She had no idea that her own illiteracy would be her undoing once she did reach Keroon Hold, and were it not for the support of a passing brownrider from Ista Weyr, she might have been thrown into the prisons of Keroon based on her appearance alone. That rider not only vouched to witness for her in the traditional manner of dagonriders, but he even went as far as to offer himself and his dragon as transport for the Hold's junior Harper to take an accurate record of events at the cothold. Despite her misgivings, Lyveana found that once again she had little choice in the matter, and relinquished control of the situation into the hands of the dragonrider and the Hold authorities.
The eventual ruling was in her favor, technically, though she was not qualified to take hold of the property herself. Added to that, the responsibility of ousting the brigands would be up to her and her remaining family. All of this was carefully explained to her by the dragonrider and the harper, both of whom had taken an almost paternal interest in the case given her age. Crushed physically and mentally by the ordeal, Lyveana wasn't sure which way to turn, until the same brownrider offered to take her to the Weyr. He promised that she could at least find work, if nothing else, and take whatever time she needed to figure out where she was going to go from there. He'd be more then willing to return her to Keroon, or any other Hold or Craft she wanted to go to.
Now having some semblance of control over her life, Lyv took the opportunity granted her, and went with the rider to Ista. Her later Impression came as something of a surprise, especially since she wasn't supposed to be there and had never been technically Searched. She'd been in the Stands, sitting with a few older women she'd become somewhat friendly with (and who had begun teaching her how to read and write properly) when the long limbed Ruinnth made her entrance and her intentions clear. She wanted Lyveana, and with that want... Lyv found a piece of herself fall into place. She was Needed. She had a Cause and a Reason for all of the things that had happened. She couldn't excuse herself for her actions, but she could at least begin to forgive herself... and become the kind of woman she knew she could be.
Pets: None
Other/Talents: She has a FIERCE dislike of wild wherries and a hatred of the holdless. Very woods savvy and self reliant.
Picture:
 Art by Celeanor. <3
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:28 pm
Name: Ruinnth
Color: Dark dark dark dappled green
Muse Song: On Ne Change Pas - Celine Dion
Physical Description:
Ruinnth embodies what some would call the essence of a deep dark wood. Her hide is obviously green, with darker irregular barrings on her lower legs, but with only a few lighter dapples and a faint shimmer of iridescent green health, she can can be tough to see at night. Large for a green, her wingspan is a lot longer then even a blues', so she has a tremendous amount of gliding ability and staying power, though in turn she has lost some of the quick maneuverability her color is prized for among wingleaders. Her overall conformation and facial features lend extra strength to her lean and elegant appearance, marking her as one of the most graceful dragons of Ista Weyr.
Personality:
As a young green, the elegant Ruinnth distanced herself almost immediately from her clutchmates with her manners, and her way of speaking. A born aristocrat, she views those around her with a distant benevolence that some could take as being 'uppity' but everyone else views as a healthy bit of pride. For a green dragon, she is remarkably self aware and free thinking, showing herself to be quite innovative when the situation calls for it. Other dragons, particularly the larger males, often have a hard time dealing with her because she is unusually forceful when it comes to getting what she needs, and will continually lay on the pressure until she either gets her way, or receives a satisfactory 'why not.' That is not saying that she is not respectful towards other dragons, in fact, she considers it a point of pride to be able to turn a situation around with the least bit of effort on her part, using nothing more then her demure tone and careful word choice.
It may come as a surprise to some to learn that such dragon would 'lower' her standards and Impress to a young woman scarcely out of the hills, but Lyveana and Ruinnth are remarkably well matched. For all of Ruinnth's self-proclaimed worldliness, they both know which of the two has the firmer grip on reality. Likewise, Ruinnth relies heavily on her rider when she encounters situations which have no precedent, trusting that Lyveana will have the courage and the audacity to do what needs to be done when the time comes. And yet, Ruinnth never fails to appear to be in complete control of the situation. She is every bit as innovative and creative as her rider, often lending her rider unusual insights and thought provoking advice when the human least suspects it. This green never fails to surprise those around her, and some suspect that despite her outward serenity, she enjoys turning negative situations around to suit herself and her rider.
Other: None
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:30 pm
 Role Play LogsPast, Present, and Private.
Current:
Quote: [ x ] 09.22.09 PRP - In Living Color [ x ] 09.22.09 PRP - Wingleader? Really? How Quaint! [ x ] 09.16.09 PRP - Follow Your Own Way [ x ] 09.16.09 PRP - A Little Star Shine [ x ] 09.14.09 ORP - Why? [ x ] 08.05.09 PRP - The Price of Prosperity [ x ] 07.27.09 PRP - The Finer Points of Leatherwork. [ x ] 06.28.09 SOL - Share with me your Dreams. [ x ] 06.28.09 PRP - Beachcombers
Archived:
Quote: [ x ] 08.27.09 PRP - Leaving so soon?... [ x ] 07.27.09 PRP - Draw the Line... [ x ] 07.26.09 ORP - Forward Vee Drill [ x ] 07.13.09 PRP - With Sincerest Apologies... [ x ] 07.09.09 PRP - Fighting Spirit [ x ] 06.30.09 PRP - Good news, Greenrider. [ x ] 06.22.09 ORP - Soak up the Sun. (Dragons only) [ x ] 06.20.09 ORP - Our New Assignment.
Journal Entries
Quote: [ x ] Truth and Lies - Favan's Weyr... [ x ] Some Things Change - Rainy day blues... [ x ] The Blame Game - Thoughts and feelings after the Horse clutch Hatching. [ x ] The New Divide - Thoughts on the state of things. [ x ] The Power of Positive Thinking - After the first informal wing meeting. [ x ] Believe in the Impossible - The Promotion [ x ] Extenuating Circumstances - A Hatching Story
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:31 pm
Hurricane Wing Statistics
(Wing Motto)
Riders and their Dragons Wingleader:[ x ] Lyveana and green Ruinnth (Celeanor)
Wingsecond:[ x ] None
Wingriders:[ x ] A’dan and bronze Sigranth (Petite Kitsune) [ x ] T'loa and bronze Niyath (Uta) [ x ] Mella and blue Cresth (Holy Blasphemy) [ x ] None [ x ] P’ree and blue Iawanth (Tisiphone) [ x ] N’ron and blue Erevuth (Bloody Anubis) [ x ] None [ x ] V'eema and green Futarith (endejester) [ x ] I’ver and green Hallianth (Aimee Rankin) [ x ] R’lus and green Briarianth (Nessariah)
Drill Logs 1 - Formations (forward V) [ x ] 2 - Formations (backward V ) 3 - Wind Counters 4 - Ropes Drill 5 - Weather Prediction 6 - Sweep Patterns 7 - Faux Thread 'Burrows' Sweeps 8 - Ropes and Stones Drill 9 - Firestone Tossing
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:34 pm
Lyv and Rui's Musings
(AKA, what they are too nice to say to your face.)
Friends Jevasi-L: My roommate and friend, even if we don't always see eye too eye when it comes down to scrubbing the pots. -R: Meridoth's rider, she is a fascinating person to watch with shiny metal parts. Meridoth-L: Jevasi's dragon, Ruinnth appears to get along with her just fine. -R: Meridoth and I spend a lot of time together, she is a good friend. Allende-L: An interesting youngster with slightly childish (if refreshing) ideas. I look forward to watching her grow into herself. -R: Lyveana has taken a liking to this very tall young human, I think she wishes she had a younger sister like her.
Acquaintances Rinfala-L: A decent girl! I hope she does well with that Queen of hers! -R: Generally neutral opinion Arioth-L: IP -R: IP Wing Riders-L: I haven't known them long enough to have formed an opinion. -R: We will fly well together! Helirra-L: The senior Weyrwoman, one could say she is on my side... but.. that one might be wrong. I wish I knew what was really going on. -R: Vasanth's rider, she makes my rider uneasy. Vasanth-L: Ruinnth is particularly diplomatic with this Queen. -R: Vasanth is a good Queen dragon, I wish to emulate her confidence.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:35 pm
Maps and Charts
(Caution: may contain errors!)
Ista Weyr Detailed Map
[here]
Ista Island Map
[here]
Ista Weyr's Territory Map
[here]
Territory Map with Threadfall Chart Overlay
[here]
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:36 pm
Photo Gallery
(Credits to respective artists)
 Lyv's new pocket-book with interchangable filler paper. Purchased to help organize her thoughts. Cost just under 6 marks! Gah!
Lyveana, chibified! Image made using this DA chibi-maker
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:37 pm
Growing Up Green
A Weyrling Story
Insert Story here
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:39 pm
Lyv's Library
(Some Helpful DRoP Links)
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:41 pm
On Belching
An essay on the finer points of firestone usage.
Insert Story here
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:43 pm
Lyv's Checklists
(For prior, during, and after Fall)
Quote: Wingleaders are, in many ways, the Weyrleader's wing-representatives. Their job is to oversee and coordinate the riders placed in his or her wing. Wingleaders must oversee drills and keep a firm eye on his riders and dragons to make sure they are fit for their duties. Often, brown or bronze riders serve as Wingleaders, because it is beneficial to the wing for their Wingleader to be available throughout the whole fall. Wingleaders also have the job of selecting and training riders from the weyrling ranks in order to add them to their Wing. It is expected that Wingleaders will maintain a high level of discipline in their wings, on both personal and military levels. Reports on Sweeps, and other Wing related matters, are discussed with the Weyrleader in regular meetings. This includes hide work sent to the Weyrleader every sevenday to report on the health and readiness of the wing.
Prior to a Fall or Drill
(For all riders.)
Quote: 1. Inquire into your dragon's health. Any aches today? 2. Double check ALL safety equipment. 3. Triple check your flying straps! 4. Check the Weather! 5. Review flight pattern for the day 6. Prior to going between, double check your visuals with your dragon 7. If drill, check your first aid kit! (Just in case!) 8. If threadfall, triple check your first aid kit! (This is a dangerous profession!)
During a Fall or Drill
(For all riders.)
Quote: 1. Be aware of your surrounding space! 2. Be sensitive to time and the endurance of your dragon. 3. Suspect any injury or faulty equipment, no matter how minor! 4. Be wary of sudden wind changes 5. Stick to the flight plan unless otherwise directed 6. Prior to going between, double check your visuals with your dragon 7. If drill, be wary of residual flame! 8. If threadfall, triple check your surroundings when giving your dragon firestone and diving for clumps.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:45 pm
Credits
May they go where they are due~!
Ruinnth and Lyveana's characters are intellectual property of me, Cele.
Ruinnth coloring by Cihiru! <3
AtWoP Shop belongs to Leikkun and x_Nata_x
The Dragonriders of Pern (c) Anne McCaffrey
Pixel anime headshot generator found here.
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