Welcome to Gaia! ::

Welcome to the Chimera Village, set far east beyond Aekea and north to border the sea. It's a peaceful place, full of laughter and joy usually.

All clan members are welcome to take up a Chimera and roleplay them as they wish. Any character can be picked up or dropped at will, those left unplayed will be shuffled back into the list as NPCs until such a time as another person wishes to play them.

Currently the time setting will be two weeks after the lab incident. Wavedancer is safely home, Zeta is starting to heal and Cloudchaser has begun his training as Shaman, helping Zeta to find forgiveness. Should this trial run prove successful, we shall execute a timeskip to coincide with the clan's visit to the Village, or their leaving the village.

Information about the Chimera can currently be found in this thread, any further information required can be requested from Guyy (I actually have quite a lot of their details thought out already).

To take a character, just PM Guyy or ask in this thread ((OOC)).
When playing a character whose family members are not yet being played, each clan member has the right to RP those characters also until another clan member wishes to take over. Any character being played by a family member will be listed as NPC. These characters are still available for play.

Theta came slowly awake and stretched, feeling the small changes that had begun to take place in her body. She smiled thinking of what the changes implied. Although she was not looking forward to some aspects of pregnancy or to giving birth, she was looking forward to meeting her new cub. She looked at her mate, wondering if he knew yet. He had probably guessed but she wanted to be sure that she wasn’t going to lose the cub before she told him. That worried her, and she decided visit the temple before her husband woke up to say a prayer.

Pausing only to build up the fire and make sure Cloudchaser was still sleeping; she made her way to the temple. She spent a few minutes quietly telling Gaia of her concerns for the new cub and also thanking her for the gift of new life. After a few moments she felt her worry ease, and she began to think about what was going to be necessary for the new cub. For the first few months, the cub would need to sleep in her room, but fairly soon he or she would need her own sleeping niche.

As she left the temple, she began to consider how to go about altering her hut. Where would the best place to put the new niche? How much wood would be needed? Could she do it herself, or would she need to ask others for help in gathering the wood? She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn’t notice Alpha until almost back at her hut. Seeing him she stopped, and greeted him “Good Morning, Alpha.”

“Clouldchaser is still asleep, but I wanted a chance to speak with the mother without him. I don’t want him to take on my worries as well as his own.” Theta returned Alpha’s smile, her tone making the comment light, almost joking, which hid a real concern on her part. Cloudchaser might very well become a shaman one day, but he was still a cub and it was her duty to protect him from all forms of danger, even the less tangible ones.

Theta was startled by Alpha’s next comment for a moment, wondering how he new, but she almost immediately recalled that Eta was soon to give birth. She almost laughed aloud at her self. She had been thinking of what was going to be necessary to alter her own home, but Alpha and Eta’s cub would require a new niche much sooner then her own.

She allowed some of her current good humor to color her tone as she replied to Alpha. “No, it won’t be long at all. I was just considering how much wood would be needed. I think that it may be time to start gathering it. Especially as…” She paused considering what she had been about to say. She felt much surer now then she had before her visit to the Mother, and she decided to finish her statement. “Especially as it looks as though we may need enough for two new rooms.”

"Two...?" he queried. But Eta was the only female current with child... wasn't she? Alpha's large brown eyes blinked, slightly surprised as he took in her appearance. True enough, the hard lines of muscle had softened slightly and his nose could pick up the faint, almost imperceptible scent of pregnancy. Neither would have been noticed unless he had been looking for them, especially the scent. Eta's own hormones had pretty much drowned out anything else he would have picked up on otherwise. It was very soon for Theta, that much he could tell. That must be her reasoning for an early visit to the temple.

"What a joyful announcement! To have two cubs created so close together, it must truly be a good sign for the future." he beamed, waving his long tail in delight. It truly was excellent news for the plagued tribe. "This calls for a celebration! I... ah... unless you feel it is too soon to make an announcement in which case the news shall be kept between my horns only." he gave her a playful wink and tapped his nose conspiratorially. Perhaps it was too early to celebrate, though he was very hopeful that there would be no cause for sadness this time.

Over Theta's shoulder he caught movement. Iota was returning from her fields with a basket loaded with good things to eat. To have harvested so much she must have gotten up before the dawn, or perhaps never gone to bed at all. He knew relations were strained between her and her mate currently and that was no surprise, given what he had allowed himself to fall into. Alpha may have punished him further, but he knew Gamma was easily swayed and had probably never truly realised how much damage Zeta had intended to do to the tribe.

It occurred to him that Iota was the only female who had never birthed a cub of her own. He didn't even know if she had tried, yet she was fond enough of the cubs so he supposed the maternal instinct was there. Perhaps she was simply having the hardest time conceiving. It had taken so long for any of them to produce a child after all. He would have suggested a visit to the temple and to Lambda, but he knew that she would have probably already explored such avenues. Time would tell... though given the disfavour her mate had earned, it might very well be a long time yet.

"Good morning, sister." he greeted, raising his head and giving her a friendly nod in greeting as she slowed her pace, obviously having seen them talking. "I see you are still working hard, as always."

Blue slits scanned her cupboards. She carefully looked over each jar, liquid, powder, root. Her right hand already held a small jar, full will the ingredients that she needed, aside for one. She moved jars and roots to the side it had to be in there. She had been looking now for nearly 10 mins. A low growl left her throat, She bet Epsilon had been looking about. He always had to know new things, in fact he just had to know everything.

Her eye caught a nick of glint behind the Echinacea and a smile again traced her lips. Reaching behind she grabbed the jar and opened it immediately. Cilliea.

She grunted annoyed. She held the glass upside down for her to inspect, empty. How had she been so careless to let the Cilliea milk get so low? She should have checked before today. She shook her head and replaced the cover back on the apparently dry jar. How could she have been so irresponsible. Letting out another aggravated grunt she placed empty jar in a pouch and made her way out of her hut. She was positive that Iota had Cilliea in her gardens. If not, perhaps Zeta would have to wait a day for his medications, she was sure he was running quite low.

She peeked in on Boldhunter, ever since the night she returned with the human treasures, she had been awful jumpy about the where abouts of her daughter. It was indeed true that she had a knack for keeping out of trouble but she couldn't help but worry for her dear child. She smiled as she left leaving Epsilon to care for her.

For the first few padded steps she took from the pair her violet orbs were sealed almost in prayer that she wouldn't be called back, her ears were lazily attentive to the sounds about her although she didn't carry herself proudly, she had a sort of disgruntled look to her. Leaving Alpha and Theta to shrink into the background behind her, the soild pitch chimera was headed to the village food storage hut to collect the largish water canisters made for carrying the water from the clean spring to storage, for all to benefit from for the day.

As she neared the hut her right paw stretched out to draw aside the deer skin curtain that covered the entrance and ducked within the food store, it was easy to locate what she was looking for. A contraption of two barrel like tubs made of polished bone and stretched deer skin hung from opposite ends of a thick branch, the bones made the general shape of the bucket and were sealed together with rawhide to give the 'bucket' it's skeletal shape. This was not only lined with a skin but was covered on the outside as well to keep the rawhide from getting too wet and going soggy and therefore crumbling. Perhaps it would be wise to steal some oversized buckets from the humans one day, but for now these seemed okay. At least they were only for carrying the water.

The storage basin for the precious liquid had been carved deeply into a large boulder of stone that had never needed moving, they had simply built the storage around it and it was always cleaned out by days end for the following morning, this discouraged water grime that made the water distasteful if left too long.

Securing the branch and the double water skin contraption, Iota lifted it to her right shoulder and exited the food storage to make haste to the fresh spring. She liked keeping busy these days, as much as possible, to keep her mind occupied and even now she went at a quick trot disappearing into the thick foliage of the wood. This was the same direction of the chimera's temple, the path Theta had traveled just recently, her scent lingered freshly here.

It was not long before she could hear the fresh water brook babbling away merrily and Iota's lilac jewels caught sight of the Mother's Temple across the wooden bridge. Her footfalls stopped hesitantly before the bridge, why waste a trip? She wouldn't take long. Slow, hesitant step by step, she crossed the bridge and set her waterskin down outside the temple door. Once again her paw stretched out and drew aside the deer skin doorway and the pitch chimera let herself within it's welcoming confines although hesitated there and looking about as if waiting for welcoming or something, her nose scenting the air.

From the shadows a voice lurked calling her sister, mocking her. She had hoped he wouldn't have been here but perhaps the Mother in her uncanny ways had meant for her to meet him. His scent had been masked to match his surroundings but it lingered under the smoke and skins if only just slightly.

Iota grunted with the confrontation as it was, it was totally not her style to fight... she'd rather tend her fields, it was not as if she wasn't trained to fight however. Just a preference. Her brother gave her the creeps. She nearly backed out of the whole ordeal already wanting to retreat, "Sorry... didn't know you were here already.." her gaze couldn't help but follow him as he hobbled forward more for curiosity than anything else.

His one good eye was trained upon her as he came to sit by the Mother's statue, he was in such a state, all hacked up his voice questioned her purpose here before falling silent for her response. She turned on her heel exposing her profile, her paw already resting against the door frame ready to draw aside the deer skin curtain.

"Fetching water for the food store, thought to peek in at the same time, see if Mother's statue still stands." she muttered, she hadn't been to see the Mother since Zeta had nearly taken up residency within the temple, preparing for his journey to the otherside to meet his mate. Iota thought it strange, all he was doing was biding his time, healing, maybe he planned to escape. But she never voiced her suspicisions, she didn't want to look more foul in the tribe's eyes.

"Mother looks fine... good day Zeta." she bid him in farewell although there was time still to call at her and perhaps keep her from leaving entirely, but she had not called him brother... Iota never used her brothers or sisters names in speech and this in itself signaled her burried frustration and anger. She was not the type to just lash out at another either unless she was provoked. Still that simple change in her speech was enough to make it very clear she thought him the source for her troubles.

Her paw had drawn the skin curtain aside and just as she was to step out ended up turning her violet gaze over her dark shoulder his comment inviting her to stay or rather almost demanding she stay. He must be lonely without Cloudchaser. Iota's orchid gaze shifted to the space between her and the door frame in front of her as she considered the notion of leaving anyway, but she ended up turning to face Zeta.

A soft snort left her as he chastised her, trying to dig her for more information on her true purpose for coming to the temple. "Can one not simply say hello to Mother for the sake of saying hello and not coming for reason or cause?" she answered his question with her own inquiry, muttering softly. "Even with knowledge of it's excellent care, one tends to want to see it every now and then."

Falling silent while Zeta non offered his assistance with the water, he also questioned her about her mate, his best friend. She grunted distastefully as she was reminded of her mate and if she hadn't been locking her gaze on Zeta's single crimson orb, her violet's would have rolled sky ward. "He eats, sleeps and heals." she huffed folding her huge arms over her torso and leaning against the door frame.

But his question was enough to have her growl lowly, "Why? Why did you do all that? And before giving blood madness as reason, know it is a pathetic excuse. Can you speak truth at all? Or do you not care to?" she asked about everything in one shot, from attacking Oroborus and his family to plotting against Alpha, Gamma had told her what he knew in bits and pieces when he woke enough while she treated his injuries with Lambda's help. He had even apologized... several times, but it had not helped her feel any better at all.

Gamma was lucky Alpha was forgiving, Iota was not quite as so and she was more confused about things than before having talked with Gamma. At least now she had the perfect opportunity to question Zeta himself without Cloudchaser listening in. Maybe talking with Zeta would ease her frustrations, but she doubted it.