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 Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:23 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:24 am
Table of Contents
1. Table of Contents
2. Recent Events
3. Sarah Description
4. Bast Description
5. Photo Gallery
6. Reputation and Points
7. Family/Friends/Enemies
8-14. Not Yet Shown (Reserved)
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:26 am
Events
July 14, 2010 - Arrived to Central, met Ashlyn
July 13, 2010 - Escaped on a boat into Central. Met Keahi and Padma
August 3, 2009 - Met Faylen
August 1, 2009 - Met Quinn
July 30, 2009 - Woke up from an apparent coma after being trained in Bast/et's realm
January 5, 2008 - Met Bast/et, joined The Game, went on a failed mission to rescue Abbot
December 30, 2007 - Met Writ, pre-Game
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:26 am
About Sarah
Name: Sarah Torrica
Nicknames: "Raymond"
Approximate Age: 9
Date of Birth: August 10th
Prophet of: Bast/et
Rank: Newbie
Occupation: None
Personality: Serious, for the most part. She has become a lot more docile in the past few years, but still contains a little bit of that spitfire personality she was known for. She's also significantly more awkward than before.
Likes:
Dislikes:
Powers:
Perfume- Sarah has a natural odor that tricks the senses of others to believe it's their favorite smell. For example, if one likes the smell of lavender, she will smell like lavender every time they are near her. A different person might smell something else at the same time, however.
Attraction- Sarah can attract many cats to her naturally. These cats are basically brainwashed, so she can use them for defense or she can control them to attack.
Transformation- Sarah can transform into an Abyssinian or a Lioness cub given the right circumstances. She can talk to other felines in this form.
Appearance:
Hair: Her hair is a pale light brown, straight and short and usually tied in a ponytail.
Eyes: Her eyes are wide and bright- silver on the inside, and turning gold on the outside rim of the iris.
Face: Her face is chubby, but her cheekbones are prominent and beginning to show signs of maturity.
Body type: Very young, keeping her childlike qualities of being small and chubby, but having womanlike curves and breasts(Even though they are usually bound) despite her age and gender appearance. Her ears are pointed, looking as if they are starting to form into cat ears. She also has a half body-length lioness tail with a tuft at the end.
Fashion sense: Usually baggy shirts in neutral colors, and a pair of jeans or khaki shorts with belt-loops for her tail. Will wear sandals at almost any given point.
Accessories: A small, lightweight golden-colored club in the shape of an Ankh. Usually either left at home or strapped to her leg.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:47 am
About Bast
In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelled Bastet, Ubasti, and Pasht) is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek), which was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer. As protectress, she was seen as defender of the pharaoh, and consequently of the chief god, Ra, who was a solar deity, gaining her the titles Lady of Flame and Eye of Ra. Bast was originally a goddess of the sun, but later changed by the Greeks to a goddess of the moon. In Greek mythology, Bast is also known as Aelurus.
Later scribes sometimes named her Bastet, a variation on Bast consisting of an additional feminine suffix to the one already present, thought to have been added to emphasise pronunciation. Since Bastet would literally mean (female) of the ointment jar, Bast gradually became thought of as the goddess of perfumes, earning the title perfumed protector. In connection with this, when Anubis became the god of embalming, Bast, as goddess of ointment, came to be regarded as his mother, although this association was broken in later years, when Anubis became Nephthys' son.
This gentler characteristic, of Bast as goddess of perfumes, together with Lower Egypt's loss in the wars between Upper & Lower Egypt, led to a decrease in her ferocity. Thus, by the Middle Kingdom she was generally regarded as a domestic cat rather than a lionness. Occasionally, however, she was depicted holding a lionness mask, which hinted at suppressed ferocity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective toward their offspring, Bast was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children.
Due to the severe disaster to the food supply that could be caused by simple vermin such as mice and rats, and their ability to fight and kill snakes, especially cobras, cats in Egypt were revered heavily, sometimes being given golden jewelry to wear, and being allowed to eat from the same plates as their owners. Consequently, as the main cat (rather than lion) deity, Bast was strongly revered as the patron of cats, and thus it was in the temple at Per-Bast that dead (and mummified) cats were brought for burial. Over 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at Per-Bast was excavated.
As a cat/lion goddess, and protector of the lands, when, during the New Kingdom, the fierce lion god Maahes became part of Egyptian mythology, she was identified, in the Lower Kingdom, as his mother. This paralleled the identification of the fierce lion goddess Sekhmet, as his mother in the Upper Kingdom.
As divine mother, and more especially as protectress, for Lower Egypt, she became strongly associated with Wadjet, the patron goddess of Lower Egypt, eventually becoming Wadjet-Bast, paralleling the similar pair of patron (Nekhbet) and lioness protector (Sekhmet) for Upper Egypt. Eventually, her position as patron and protector of Lower Egypt, lead to her being identified as the more substantial goddess Mut, whose cult had risen to power with that of Amun, and eventually being absorbed into her as Mut-Wadjet-Bast. Shortly after, Mut also absorbed the identities of the Sekhmet-Nekhbet pairing as well.
This merging of identities of similar goddesses has lead to considerable confusion, leading to some associating things such as the title Mistress of the Sistrum (more properly belonging to Hathor, who had become thought of as an aspect of Isis, as had Mut), and the idea of her as a lunar goddess (more properly an attribute of Mut). Indeed, much of this confusion occurred to subsequent generations, as the identities slowly merged, leading to the Greeks, who sometimes named her Ailuros (Greek for cat), thinking of Bast as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess. And thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks, Bast was thought of as the sister of Horus, who they identified as Apollo (Artemis' brother), and consequently the daughter of Isis and Osiris.
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Bast(Bastet, Ubasti) Egyptian cat goddess. A goddess of the home and of the domestic cat, although she sometimes took on the war-like aspect of a lioness. Daughter of the sun god Re, although sometimes regarded As the daughter of Amun.Wife of Ptah and mother of the lion-god Mihos. Her cult was centered on her sanctuary at Bubastis in the delta region, where a necropolis has been found containing mummifiied cats. Bast was also associated with the eye of Re' acting as the instrument of the sun god's vengeance. She was depicted as a cat or in human form with the head of a cat, often holding the sacred rattle known as the sistrum.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:50 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:55 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:58 am
Friends and Foes
Keeya- I didn't really have much time to talk to the girl, but she seemed nice. But I think nice isn't going to do much good for her here...
Writ- I met Writ before I was officially in the Game, so he still thinks I'm Ray and Ray's sister at the same time... But I consider him a friend.
Ciro- Eh, he was a bit of a p***k when I met him, but I can guess why. Having to deal with a failed rescue mission could dampen anyone's day.
Quinn- I met him back at Southern. He said that he was in a bad mood that day, so I tried not to mess with him. Apparently he can hear the cats that follow me in human form.
Faylen- I met him in Harbor South back at Southern. He was really nice, but a little skittish. He also talks in an odd accent. Pretty cool, though.
Keahi- Saw him on the boats to Central. He seems nice, but I didn't really talk to him much.
Padma- Saw her on the boats, as well. Another girl player, finally. She's cool.
Ashlyn- Another girl player, she was here when we got to Central. She looks like she'd start a fight over anything, so she'll probably be a big threat once all the fighting starts up.
Valeriu-
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:59 am
This is taking a lot more time than it used to for some reason.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:02 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:05 am
Well, it's not helping that I stop every three minutes to look up songs.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:06 am
Aaand I really didn't want to pull up my music player and listen to the stuff I do every day. :T
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:11 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:13 am
Holy crap guys. Kiddieland.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:14 am
Now all we need is a chocolate helicopter and we're set.
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