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Post by Tantri Ardele on Feb 25, 2013 22:33:35 GMT -6
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==> Curiously look at Nereid.
You do so, but not in an unkind way. You simply wonder how she will react. You think your hive is completely normal, there is nothing other than this hive that you would ever expect to live in. Though you know that not all Trolls could possibly have hives this large, the land above the wave is too small for the land dweller population to have palace-hives like this.
Nereid doesn't seem to care much about your hive, from what her facial expressions are saying. Perhaps your hive wasn't as nice as she was expecting? You have no idea, she is a very hard character to read as of yet. You hope that fact changes and you can get to know her better.
==> Contemplate how stalker-ish that sounder
You do not do this, possibly because you are not sure why that qualifies as being a stalker. But mainly because if you were a stalker then your relationship with Nereid would be doomed to have a creepy end. No. You are simply a decent gentletroll trying to make friends with the ladytroll. No stalkers here. Nope. None at all. Ever.
==> Talk to Nereid.
Tantri: They do? Really?
Tantri: I do not think I could ever imagine living in anything that small.
Tantri: Perhaps smaller than this by... half? I'm not sure I know half of my hive, so that sounds about right... but certainly not one block. That is so small...
Tantri: Oh! Heh, you are a clever one Nereid.
You say the last line in response to her comment and the mock curtsy she was giving you. You think it is kind of silly for anyone to curtsy at you. Nor were you really ever expecting it to ever happen. Hell, you would have said it was probable that you would never see another troll for another few sweeps had you not stepped out of the geyser circle.
==> Show her in already!
Though you do not like the tone of the narrator, you decide to do as it says.
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Tantri: Oh I did not mean to be a tease!
Tantri: Come on in! And do not be afraid if my lusus comes poking around, he should be harmless as long as you are with me.
You swim up to the front entrance, big tall double doors studded with pearls and who knows what else. Normally you would go through the side entrance since the door is easier to open, but you figure Nereid deserves a proper welcome you your house. As you enter the two of you come into the second largest room in the house. You have little use for it, and only fancy furniture fills the room. Honestly, you are only in it when trying to get around the hive. Your favorite rooms are the gallery, the ball room, the kitchens, and your own room. Your time is spent evenly among those places. [/color]
Tantri: This is the entrance room.
Tantri: It is not very interesting, just kind of big and empty.
Tantri: I can try to show you around if you like? We may just end up wandering aimlessly though.
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Post by NEREID POMANO on Feb 26, 2013 22:15:00 GMT -6
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true]==> Contemplate Tantri's custodian.You haven't seen anything monstrously huge around the hive. Well anything living that is. You wonder what kind of lusus he was gifted with. Probably something able to maintain itself. Probably something cunning and strong. Probably perfect. No doubt a cut above the wriggler like lusus you have. You feel as though your ego has been stepping down from it's throne ever since you met this little troll. By now you assume it's been kicked in the shins, had it's shame globes ripped off and then been unceremoniously dumped into a load gaper. You are beginning to think you have too much time to think. It's kind of ironic actually. ==> His custodian's probably mad crazy.That is a shitty command. A shitty command from a shitty narrator. Now with twice the amount of redundancy. How can something be crazy crazy? That's crazy. ==> Go on and join that brother all up in that fancy ass underwater castle for some chill bubbles.... SighYou reluctantly join Tantri in the entry block of his hive, wishing you could instead beat your curiosity and spite the narrator. You are starting to hate that thing... In a completely PLATONIC way of course. You can't hate something you've never met right? Or- Mirthful fuck just do the next command already. ==> Examine surroundings.You almost don't want to do that because your ego can only take so much, but at the same time you aren't going to pass this up. Looking around brings you equal amounts of pain and joy, but doesn't satisfy the itch of your curiosity. You pretty much decide right then and there you will map out this place and search everywhere. ==> Acknowledge Tantri.You look back to your comrade, your significantly more luxurious and fancy comrade with the really good custodian you have yet to meet... You fight back a brief wave of depression and somehow manage to call upon some hidden strength and smile. It really comes out looking like a cross between a grin and a grimace. You are probably scaring the poor thing. [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 6a006a; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]NEREID: Please do~ |
[/spoiler] ==> Whoa that came out strangely.NEREID: Aimless wandering seems more than a suitable enough option
NEREID: Give me the random royyal tour ;]
NEREID: I'll be sure to extend the same to yyou if we ever happen upon myy hive.
NEREID: Though I'm veryy disinclined to consider leaving here.
NEREID: Oh,
NEREID: yyou must show me yyour lusus as well. I'm rather curious. That's probably true. You don't have anything against him you want his blood color, but you tend to be a rather territorial troll. It is why you placed your hive out of reach and sight for most trolls. Though you still are wishing you built a pretty castle in middle of a cluster of hives. You would've been praised a lot you figure.[/center][/style][/td][/tr][/table][/center] |
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Post by Tantri Ardele on Feb 28, 2013 21:04:08 GMT -6
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==> Agree with Nereid.
You have nothing against doing so. Nereid is being quite pleasant and you wouldn't mind wandering around with her.
Tantri: If you really do not mind then! Off we go!
Tantri: I suppose I will show you my respite block first, if that is all right
Tantri: I am sure my custodian will be floundering around there
You are quite positive your custodian will be outside your room in fact, waiting for you to return. You hope he is not too angry that you disappeared... or perhaps he didn't notice you were gone and you will get off scott free?
==> facepalm at your naivety.
No! You will not facepalm at your naivety! It is still not the time to do that, you will get around to facepalming when you do not have guests around! Right now you are far too busy showing Nereid through a bunch of halls and corridors to your respite block. You move the room that you call your respite block around quite a bit. You think you might have had 20 blocks as your own in your short 6 sweeps of life. You are not quite sure about the number though.
You round a final corner to a corridor that dead ends. The door is painted a color similar to your own blood color, which helps you remember what room is yours. All of the rest of the doors are a pearly luminescent color like the outside of your palace-hive. Each time you switch rooms you change the color of the door.
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Tantri: Finally, this one is my respite block
Tantri: (good thing I did not forget where it was this time)
==>Go to open your door. Well that sounds simple enough. You go to open your door, swimming closer to the polished knob. You are about to open the door when your lusus comes out of said door to meet you. ==> Calmly talk with your lusus You have a hurried chat with your lusus, both sides being able to understand the other, however only you are speaking proper troll language. Your side of the conversation goes a little something like this. [/color]
Tantri: I was out, dad.
Tantri: Yes, I went past the geysers.
Tantri: I just wanted to look around! Look! I even met a new friend. *motions at Nereid*
Tantri: Fine, I promise I will tell you next time.
Tantri: Oh? Her name? It is Nereid Pomano.
Tantri: Well, of course.
Tantri: You do not have to worry about us dad! I am sure both of us will be fine.
Tantri: (love you too, I will see you later)
==> Be totally embarrassed You are utterly and completely embarrassed. No doubt Nereid must think you are even more weird than you were before. You wonder if she will simply leave and not talk to you.... though you doubt anyone would be that mean. ==> Finally enter respite block. You show Nereid inside the door into your respite block.
Tantri: Sorry about that, family, you know~
Tantri: Anyway, this is my respite block.
Tantri: There are fancier blocks, but I like this one a lot.
[/color] Inside is a room plated with gold and purple, even your totally not girly recooperacoon. The walls however are covered with book shelves. You have read most of these terrible romance novels 3 times, but you still like to keep them around. You actually haven't got an a new one in a while so you are making your way through the old ones yet again.... you are somewhere in the middle of the Ns right now. [/font][/color] [/td][/tr][/table] |
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Post by NEREID POMANO on Feb 28, 2013 22:22:44 GMT -6
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true]==> Follow Tantri.You rather enjoy his silly enthusiasm even if it's completely foreign and unpractical to your auditory stubs. It's still a bit, charming, to steal an expression from your faulty narrator. Thoughts aside you do take up trail behind the fellow seadwealler. You find yourself hard pressed to say much, far too taken by your surroundings to be a coherent party to a discussion. It's only when you both stumble upon a fuchsia hued door that the silence is finally broken. ==> Shocking development.You are rather shocked at this development. The last thing you had expected to be behind that door was Tantri's custodian; it's small enough to fit through a door! Your cumbersome beast can only enter the entryblock and it's own cancerous block. You marvel at this but listen on the side of the conversation you can. You give a little wave at the mention of your name and find yourself hard pressed to get rid of the smirk across your face. Especially at the attempt at veiled affection. You heard it clear as night. ==> Enter respiteblock.You do so with a barely muffled snicker, giving him a short little nod to his comment. [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 6a006a; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]NEREID: No need to pacifyy me.
NEREID: I know all about the drearyy things those custodians make us do. |
[/spoiler] ==> Be drawn to books.You are rather an avid reader yourself, merely for the intellectual aspect of it though. You grab a book at random and read over the title. NEREID: "A tale about a lowblooded troll who disguises his blood color in an attempt to win the Matesprit quadrant of an indigo blooded troll that ends with both trolls alive and in a secured quadrant. Features six different plot twists; one of which has the lowblood forciblyy revealed for what he is, one in which the indigo blooded troll is actuallyy a brown blood himself, a love triangle, and three deaths of secondaryy characters with varyying blood colors. Also includes three quadrant vacillations, a faultyy Moirallegiance, eight different instances of culling, mockeryy of the Hemospectrum, and twentyy two counts of praise to the Empress."
NEREID: A romance novel? How veryy interesting. You do so a couple more times, reading over the titles lazily. They all seem to be romance books. You chuckle a bit at that, returning the books to proper places before turning on your companion and quirking an eyebrow. NEREID: Theyy all are romance books?
NEREID: What a curious case yyou are.
NEREID: I don't suppose if I take a glance at yyour husktop I'll find a dozens of films to match yyour interest? You are of course teasing him about all this, but you do find it a little shameful to have all of these books pertaining to that subject. Of course you can't very well judge your future emperor... Out loud at least. You wonder if he's as squishy as he seems. Part of you is holding out hope it is all a guise and you will eventually stumble upon a bloodthirsty tyrant, but this is all seeming much too tame. You figure he will definitely need a hand in the real world to survive at this rate. Otherwise trolls might take advantage of him. You grin a bit at that.[/center][/style][/td][/tr][/table][/center] |
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Post by Tantri Ardele on Mar 1, 2013 18:38:13 GMT -6
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==> Shift your feet nervously.
You aren't sure why, but you shift your weight slightly as Nereid goes through your books. Something about her reading the titles in that tone of voice makes you think she is judging you.
Well she obviously is so suck it up and deal with it!! So what if you read a bunch of silly novels, and so what if they have no meaning except those romantic feeling - or whatever that word was (quadrants are confusing, despite you yourself having read about nearly every possibility of quadrant combination and flips that there is).... Not that you would ever admit that. It seems pretty pathetic when you think of it. Especially compared to your new fierce-fishy-friend.
==> Be embarrassed about your lack of cultural knowledge.
You are not very embarrassed, there is nothing wrong with being a sheltered troll! It just means you do not know everything. You can't say you have ever seen a film in your life, or really know what a husk top is. The word sounds very dumb, and you have never read about them before.
You however ARE NOT so bad as to not know what a film is. You simply haven't seen any before. You do know however that their titles are ridiculously long like your novels and tend to have similar plots. You have always wanted to see a film. Moving trolls sound a lot better than trying to imagine a scene in a book.
==> Express your lack of culture.
Tantri: Most of them are novels, but I have a shelf of ridiculously old history books over there...
Tantri: Uh, I actually do not watch films.
Tantri: Ever actually, I have never seen one.
Tantri: Umm... and I can not say I know what a husktop is.
You feel very awkward after saying that. Perhaps you wish you knew more about the outside world, that would be very useful. After all you could become very important to said world when you get older... or perhaps some tragedy would take that away from you and you would never get that experience ever. That is a very unlikely possibility though, no doubt you will grow to be very old in this alternian world.
==> Try to explain yourself further.
Though you do not like the tone of the narrator, you decide to do as it says.
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Tantri: I really have not left my hive before today,
Tantri: and I cant say that my custodian really cares about all that jazz.
Tantri: I suppose I sound very pathetic, do I not? *half hearted-chuckle*
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Post by NEREID POMANO on Mar 3, 2013 23:01:37 GMT -6
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true]==> Look for books of yonder days.You didn't really need a prompt for that. You do have a bit of a weak spot for history, but only for reasons of ancestry. Plus you kind of do enjoy reading about your Empress in all of her violent glory. You go to grab a book but Tantri says something that make you have to consciously tighten your grip. The book surely would have fallen had you not. ==> Pause so you can digest this information.You briefly consider you have heard wrong, really wrong; horribly wrong. You can briefly consider the possibility of a troll never coming across films or more modern visuals, but the concept of not having a husktop - let alone not knowing what one is - is just grossly foreign. You even know of a troll who lives under a rock through your husktop. You don't know how this troll has survived this long without basic needs being met. Yes you consider a husktop part of a troll's basic needs. ==> Drop the book anyway.You honestly didn't think things could get worse but your little companion went and dropped another verbal bomb. You don't know how a troll goes about living for sweeps and never leave their hive, and without a husktop, but you are sure you just found the Troll Bigfoot. You for some reason can't find it in your collapsing and expanding bladder based aquatic vascular system to completely shoot him down for being an ignorant wriggler. You wince at that, wondering if this is you being weak or submissive. ==> Retrieve book.You pick the book up and offer a subdued chuckle at his expense. After all there was no way you couldn't find that funny. [style=width: 350px; background: #eeeeee; border: 1px dashed #808080; color: 6a006a; font-weight: bold; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 15px;]NEREID: I wouldn't go so far as to sayy pathetic, though yyou are getting up there future Emperor.
NEREID: I would sayy it's a bit more like yyour romance novels and the one involving the troll stuck in that tower. ;] |
[/spoiler] ==> Return book.You place the book you picked out without even glancing at it's title. You have a bit more important things to work with now; i.e. the future of only everything ever. Though it seems you may be in for a heavy workload, one that only seems to increase exponentially the longer you talk to him. You aren't even quite sure where to start with all this. ==> Address Prince.You turn back to your host and approach him, a bit of a smirk still on your face. You circle him once, twice, and eye him down. NEREID: yyou are aware this won't do?
NEREID: I couldn't even consider leaving yyou in such an oppressive and medieval state.
NEREID: First things first though, You start guiding him out of his room by his shoulders. Your memory helps in finding your way back on the path you just came on, but you are going to label it skill. ==> Give him the low down.You proceed to do just that. NEREID: We're going to have a tinyy change in plans.
NEREID: And it wounds me to suggest it because it involves leaving yyour lovelyy hive.
NEREID: It is remarkable from what I've seen; and I would enjoyy getting the rest of the tour,
NEREID: However we must journeyy to myy hive immediatelyy so I can get yyou set up with modern technology.
NEREID: I.E a husktop.
NEREID: It's a wonder yyou're alive, but I'll mark that down as good genes. You aren't sure why exactly you have switched on mentor role but it's pretty much now a mission. Whether it is for your ego, to prove you can be above a Fuchsia blood, or because this ignorance offends you has yet to be seen. But you are going to fix this problem. ==> Turn and face him.You continue to drag him out through his entryblock, not allowing any resistance. NEREID: yyou should consider yyourself veryy luckyy.
NEREID: yyou are the first living soul to see myy hive.
NEREID: It is for a just cause though,
NEREID: Helping the to be Emperor get his things together.
NEREID: I'll no doubt be herald as a Queen myyself for all the work I'll put into you. Trolls will be quite thankful for me.
NEREID: Do correct me if I'm wrong, yyour Majestyy
NEREID: But I believe this is the start of quite a cancerous form of the disease friendship. You prepare for your new operation. It is your best yet you are sure.[/center][/style][/td][/tr][/table][/center] |
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