Opposition

STARLIGHT [1980s Coming of Age Sci-Fi]

I will likely add a bit to the relations section once @Xeron puts up their character. He is going to be playing Felix mentioned in part of my sheet.

STARLIGHT [1980s Coming of Age Sci-Fi]

Eliza

Eliza, 14

”Well I think magic is real. It’s just that you have to look at things differently to find it.”

❱❱❱❱ FULL NAME

Elizabeth Angelika Andrascik

❱❱❱❱ NICKNAME(S)

Eliza or Eliza are the most common. She prefers either of these to her full first name.

❱❱❱❱ DATE OF BIRTH

September 1st, 1974

❱❱❱❱ GENDER

Female

❱❱❱❱ APPEARANCE

Eliza is a rather small and young looking lass, even for her youthful age. Standing just above five feet tall, Eliza appears very skinny despite the short stature she already stands at. This causes her to have a very lean and frail appearance. Eliza’s skin is a fair color with a hint of soft pale complexion. With her overall build and stature, Eliza appears very feminine and girly. Some might even go as far to say that she seems weak and frail. Eliza seems rather frightened of her surroundings most of the time and is rarely going to not be cowering in the face of danger.

Upon first glance, one would immediately be greeted with a strikingly bright blonde head of hair that falls and curls ever so slightly around Eliza’s shoulders. Always seeming to get in her way, Eliza’s golden locks are always kept in a very pristine and styled manner. The bangs of her hair, usually styled to either side often droop into her pure cerulean blue eyes after a long day of play with her friends. Eliza meticulously likes to perfect her appearance, always keeping her hair styled with a slight natural curl and accessories like bows and headbands. Along with the beautifying she does to her hair and face, clothing is an important factor in her fashion as well. Preferring dainty and girly clothing, Eliza finds herself wearing an assortment of sundresses or plain t-shirts with flowing skirts. Enjoying longer socks and shoes, Eliza most commonly wears a pair of boots of various colors with socks reaching up to her knees or thighs.

When she speaks, the ears of listeners are graced with a soft and elegantly articulated voice that sounds airy and almost whispery. Often soft spoken and reserved while around any others, it is easy to overlook or disregard the quiet voice of Eliza. To describe Eliza’s mannerisms, the words whimsical and timid would come to mind. She shies away from any sort of conflict, and finds herself frightened and intrigued of many things that many believe to be constructs of her imagination. It is not uncommon that Eliza is seen with an almost blank expression upon her face. It is as if she doesn’t seem to understand what is going on around her, and appears out of it. Her bright and rapturous smile always seems to radiate an air of happiness, as if infectious to those around her.

❱❱❱❱ PERSONALITY

Eliza has always had two truly distinct moods that every scenario she finds herself in often fit into. Those moods are most easily characterized by either a radiant smile or a flow of tears. This happens because little Eliza is one of the most fragile beings in town, but she can also be very ecstatic and overjoyed with happiness. It is very uncommon to see Eliza in a neutral mood for she always comes up with something to be happy over. This abnormally happy personality is what some believe to be a coping mechanism of Eliza’s. With her parents separated, and Eliza in between households and parents, most would think there would be very little to be happy about. So Eliza decided to be happy about everything.

With a father living in the northern and richer sides of St. Stephens and a mother in the poorer conditions of the southern side of St. Stephens, Eliza finds herself moving around the small town quite a bit. This causes Eliza to be randomly absent on certain days when she would usually play with her friends. This awkward scenario was caused by a recent divorce in the Andrascik family. Eliza was never truly told the reason for the event, but she can only assume that monetary disputes are what caused this complete shattering of her family. With her brother, who she adored and put on quite the pedestal, leaving three years before this divorce, Eliza has found all her solace in her friends. One friend in particular, she has always seemed to go to and rely on for help in any times of need: Felix.

Felix, also known as Felicity has quite the history with Eliza. Having known each other as acquaintances for quite a long time it was not until five years ago that the pair truly became close. One particular event sparked their friendship and it all occurred at a simple and run down convenience store near the south side of St. Stephens. Seeing each other within the store by random chance, Eliza didn’t approach Felix at first. It wasn’t until she saw him attempting to pocket some of the store’s snacks that she attempted to intervene, making her best, albeit completely incoherent argument as to why he shouldn’t do that. After Eliza finished her idiotic monologue, it was then that Felix took her to what he claimed to be a sufficient reason to explain his thievery. Along the way, Felix explained he had found a box of kittens that looked hungry and he was unable to procure food in any other way. Eliza goes through another long winded rhetoric about how stealing was wrong in hopes her lackluster way with words gets through to her acquaintance. When the two arrive back at the box’s location, the box had vanished. Feli throws a fit at the sight, becoming enraged. After a long bit of cowering, Eliza attempted to calm Felix down, starting the blossoming of a great friendship. Felix has now become a sort of protector to Eliza, and she in turn has become a voice of peace in his life.

One of Eliza’s most defining traits would likely be her whimsical outlook on the world around her. Completely convinced that things like magic and monsters exist, Eliza is quite the proprietor of false stories and tales of a vast variety that detail her encounters with such subjects. Whenever something can’t be explained or Eliza for one reason or another cannot understand, she will jump straight into a new and completely incoherent magical explanation. It has become a mixture of novelty and annoyance to her friends, because Eliza can be very stubborn when it comes to this belief and the storytelling can get quite repetitive with the consistency and bulk of her imagination.

❱❱❱❱ FAMILY

Lukas Andrascik, 47 – Lukas is the father of Eliza. Living on the richer side of St. Stephens, Lukas is rather well off. Though, whenever someone asks about what he does, the only reply Eliza seems to formulate is that he ‘works with technology’. Lukas is no doubt the most laid back member of the Andrascik family. He has always cared greatly for his children and pampered them to a certain extent. Eliza always appears to be in a good mood around her father. This is often because of how much he puts up with her constant blathering and overactive imagination. Lukas is definitely the more supporting parent and he is the parent that currently takes care of Eliza full time. Lukas appears rather lean and slightly young for his age. He sports a full set of black hair and it appears the only feature Eliza took from him was his fragile build.

Sophia Antalovich, 45 – Sophia is the mother of Eliza. She lives in a small, two bedroom apartment on the south side of St. Stephens. Quite contrastingly from Eliza’s father, Sophia struggles for money and finds herself working long and stressful hours. This leaves her in a very tired and often stressed out manner when she finds time off of work. As an accountant for a local business in St Stephens, her wages are low. Sophia’s affection for her children is often an off and on thing that depends greatly on how her mood and her day are. Rarely do they fight, but sometimes it appears that Sophia is too tired to worry about Eliza. This greatly depresses Eliza, who wishes her mother would be more happy all the time like her. Eliza tries to help her mother out as often as she can, but it always seems that Sophia wishes to appear self sufficient and strong, so she often denies Eliza’s help.

Jakob Andrascik, 24 – Jakob is Eliza’s brother and the original giver of her nicknames. He was always rather playful around his sister which led to the two developing a very close relationship. Eliza learned to rely on Jakob, but when he left on a full ride to a prestigious college, Eliza was left alone. Jakob was always a realist in comparison to Eliza. He worked hard throughout the end of his high school years and has been what some would call a genius ever since. He also has a much more solemn side that Eliza seems to be missing.

❱❱❱❱ RELATIONS

To Be Determined

❱❱❱❱ TALENTS

♆ Poetry

Eliza is seen writing constantly in her free time. Numerous notebooks have been filled with scrawlings and writings of a vastly varying quality. Over the time she has spent honing and training her words, Eliza has become a talented writer, articulated and eloquent in her choice of words. She focuses mainly on poetry, but Eliza has tried her hand at fiction writing. Due to her vast imagination, she tends to make quite interesting stories and with her talented way with words, writing is a number one talent of hers.

♆ Astrology

With such an overactive imagination and skewed visions of reality, Eliza hasn’t left everything to her mind. Sometimes she grows curious enough to do her research, and thus she found the world of astrology. It wasn’t long before Eliza became infatuated with the ideas and theories based around celestial bodies and their meanings. It is not uncommon that Eliza will bring up her knowledge of the stars as if to give insight on a current situation, whether those around her care to hear it or not. Signs of planets, stars, constellations, and all of their meanings have been meticulously memorized so Eliza can know exactly what does and does not pertain to the current situation. Astrology is often one of her main sources of guidance.

♆ Observation

She is such a quiet young lass, Eliza is. Despite her often blank expression and dazed state of daydreaming though, her mind is constantly at work taking in everything around it and analyzing it, albeit it is analyzed in a very illogical way. Incorporating all her senses, Eliza has great perception in any environment. This assists her in spotting things before others or recalling things that the average person might forget. Small features she can pick out while speaking with others have often assisted her in conversations as well.

♆ Adaptation

Eliza is very comfortable around others much more so than she is when she is alone. This leads her to flock to others to avoid being exiled in a way. This mentality has granted her the uncanny ability to blend in with a group. In attempts to maintain order or stay on people’s good side, Eliza is extraordinarily empathetic. This assists her in understanding and maintaining relationships with those she chooses to be around as well as assisting in helping Eliza go unnoticed in larger venues with many crowds. She may not like to be out of place, but to help cope, she has learned to find a place or at least pretend to do so if it comes to that.

♆ Mentalism

The daintiness and airheadedness of Eliza only extend so far. When it comes to street smarts or book smarts, she may be lacking, but inside her head, Eliza is always analyzing, contemplating, and discovering. She has a knack for understanding how things work, and in particular, Eliza understands how people work. This talent of hers likely developed due to Eliza’s subconscious need to fit in and be around others. She has grown capable of subtly influencing conversation and interaction with small tricks and she also tends to be able to pick out small details that others wouldn’t see giving her insights into how her conversational partner thinks and acts.

First posted in the characters tab by accident! Sorry about that! I fixed it and if this gets accepted I will just edit the character sheet onto the mess up post.

STARLIGHT [1980s Coming of Age Sci-Fi]

Eliza

Eliza, 14

”Well I think magic is real. It’s just that you have to look at things differently to find it.”

❱❱❱❱ FULL NAME

Elizabeth Angelika Andrascik

❱❱❱❱ NICKNAME(S)

Ellie or Eliza are the most common. She prefers either of these to her full first name.

❱❱❱❱ DATE OF BIRTH

September 1st, 1971

❱❱❱❱ GENDER

Female

❱❱❱❱ APPEARANCE

Eliza is a rather small and young looking lass, even for her youthful age. Standing just above five feet tall, Eliza appears very skinny despite the short stature she already stands at. This causes her to have a very lean and frail appearance. Eliza’s skin is a fair color with a hint of soft pale complexion. With her overall build and stature, Eliza appears very feminine and girly. Some might even go as far to say that she seems weak and frail. Eliza seems rather frightened of her surroundings most of the time and is rarely going to not be cowering in the face of danger.

Upon first glance, one would immediately be greeted with a strikingly bright blonde head of hair that falls and curls ever so slightly around Eliza’s shoulders. Always seeming to get in her way, Eliza’s golden locks are always kept in a very pristine and styled manner. The bangs of her hair, usually styled to either side often droop into her pure cerulean blue eyes after a long day of play with her friends. Eliza meticulously likes to perfect her appearance, always keeping her hair styled with a slight natural curl and accessories like bows and headbands. Along with the beautifying she does to her hair and face, clothing is an important factor in her fashion as well. Preferring dainty and girly clothing, Eliza finds herself wearing an assortment of sundresses or plain t-shirts with flowing skirts. Enjoying longer socks and shoes, Eliza most commonly wears a pair of boots of various colors with socks reaching up to her knees or thighs.

When she speaks, the ears of listeners are graced with a soft and elegantly articulated voice that sounds airy and almost whispery. Often soft spoken and reserved while around any others, it is easy to overlook or disregard the quiet voice of Eliza. To describe Eliza’s mannerisms, the words whimsical and timid would come to mind. She shies away from any sort of conflict, and finds herself frightened and intrigued of many things that many believe to be constructs of her imagination. It is not uncommon that Eliza is seen with an almost blank expression upon her face. It is as if she doesn’t seem to understand what is going on around her, and appears out of it. Her bright and rapturous smile always seems to radiate an air of happiness, as if infectious to those around her.

❱❱❱❱ PERSONALITY

Eliza has always had two truly distinct moods that every scenario she finds herself in often fit into. Those moods are most easily characterized by either a radiant smile or a flow of tears. This happens because little Eliza is one of the most fragile beings in town, but she can also be very ecstatic and overjoyed with happiness. It is very uncommon to see Eliza in a neutral mood for she always comes up with something to be happy over. This abnormally happy personality is what some believe to be a coping mechanism of Eliza’s. With her parents separated, and Eliza in between households and parents, most would think there would be very little to be happy about. So Eliza decided to be happy about everything.

With a father living in the northern and richer sides of St. Stephens and a mother in the poorer conditions of the southern side of St. Stephens, Eliza finds herself moving around the small town quite a bit. This causes Eliza to be randomly absent on certain days when she would usually play with her friends. This awkward scenario was caused by a recent divorce in the Andrascik family. Eliza was never truly told the reason for the event, but she can only assume that monetary disputes are what caused this complete shattering of her family. With her brother, who she adored and put on quite the pedestal, leaving three years before this divorce, Eliza has found all her solace in her friends. One friend in particular, she has always seemed to go to and rely on for help in any times of need: Felix.

Felix, also known as Felicity has quite the history with Eliza. Having known each other as acquaintances for quite a long time it was not until five years ago that the pair truly became close. One particular event sparked their friendship and it all occurred at a simple and run down convenience store near the south side of St. Stephens. Seeing each other within the store by random chance, Eliza didn’t approach Felix at first. It wasn’t until she saw him attempting to pocket some of the store’s snacks that she attempted to intervene, making her best, albeit completely incoherent argument as to why he shouldn’t do that. After Eliza finished her idiotic monologue, it was then that Felix took her to what he claimed to be a sufficient reason to explain his thievery. Along the way, Felix explained he had found a box of kittens that looked hungry and he was unable to procure food in any other way. Eliza goes through another long winded rhetoric about how stealing was wrong in hopes her lackluster way with words gets through to her acquaintance. When the two arrive back at the box’s location, the box had vanished. Feli throws a fit at the sight, becoming enraged. After a long bit of cowering, Eliza attempted to calm Felix down, starting the blossoming of a great friendship. Felix has now become a sort of protector to Eliza, and she in turn has become a voice of peace in his life.

One of Eliza’s most defining traits would likely be her whimsical outlook on the world around her. Completely convinced that things like magic and monsters exist, Eliza is quite the proprietor of false stories and tales of a vast variety that detail her encounters with such subjects. Whenever something can’t be explained or Eliza for one reason or another cannot understand, she will jump straight into a new and completely incoherent magical explanation. It has become a mixture of novelty and annoyance to her friends, because Eliza can be very stubborn when it comes to this belief and the storytelling can get quite repetitive with the consistency and bulk of her imagination.

❱❱❱❱ FAMILY

Lukas Andrascik, 47 – Lukas is the father of Eliza. Living on the richer side of St. Stephens, Lukas is rather well off. Though, whenever someone asks about what he does, the only reply Eliza seems to formulate is that he ‘works with technology’. Lukas is no doubt the most laid back member of the Andrascik family. He has always cared greatly for his children and pampered them to a certain extent. Eliza always appears to be in a good mood around her father. This is often because of how much he puts up with her constant blathering and overactive imagination. Lukas is definitely the more supporting parent and he is the parent that currently takes care of Eliza full time. Lukas appears rather lean and slightly young for his age. He sports a full set of black hair and it appears the only feature Eliza took from him was his fragile build.

Sophia Antalovich, 45 – Sophia is the mother of Eliza. She lives in a small, two bedroom apartment on the south side of St. Stephens. Quite contrastingly from Eliza’s father, Sophia struggles for money and finds herself working long and stressful hours. This leaves her in a very tired and often stressed out manner when she finds time off of work. As an accountant for a local business in St Stephens, her wages are low. Sophia’s affection for her children is often an off and on thing that depends greatly on how her mood and her day are. Rarely do they fight, but sometimes it appears that Sophia is too tired to worry about Eliza. This greatly depresses Eliza, who wishes her mother would be more happy all the time like her. Eliza tries to help her mother out as often as she can, but it always seems that Sophia wishes to appear self sufficient and strong, so she often denies Eliza’s help.

Jakob Andrascik, 24 – Jakob is Eliza’s brother and the original giver of her nicknames. He was always rather playful around his sister which led to the two developing a very close relationship. Eliza learned to rely on Jakob, but when he left on a full ride to a prestigious college, Eliza was left alone. Jakob was always a realist in comparison to Eliza. He worked hard throughout the end of his high school years and has been what some would call a genius ever since. He also has a much more solemn side that Eliza seems to be missing.

❱❱❱❱ RELATIONS

To Be Determined

❱❱❱❱ TALENTS

♆ Poetry

Eliza is seen writing constantly in her free time. Numerous notebooks have been filled with scrawlings and writings of a vastly varying quality. Over the time she has spent honing and training her words, Eliza has become a talented writer, articulated and eloquent in her choice of words. She focuses mainly on poetry, but Eliza has tried her hand at fiction writing. Due to her vast imagination, she tends to make quite interesting stories and with her talented way with words, writing is a number one talent of hers.

♆ Astrology

With such an overactive imagination and skewed visions of reality, Eliza hasn’t left everything to her mind. Sometimes she grows curious enough to do her research, and thus she found the world of astrology. It wasn’t long before Eliza became infatuated with the ideas and theories based around celestial bodies and their meanings. It is not uncommon that Eliza will bring up her knowledge of the stars as if to give insight on a current situation, whether those around her care to hear it or not. Signs of planets, stars, constellations, and all of their meanings have been meticulously memorized so Eliza can know exactly what does and does not pertain to the current situation. Astrology is often one of her main sources of guidance.

♆ Observation

She is such a quiet young lass, Eliza is. Despite her often blank expression and dazed state of daydreaming though, her mind is constantly at work taking in everything around it and analyzing it, albeit it is analyzed in a very illogical way. Incorporating all her senses, Eliza has great perception in any environment. This assists her in spotting things before others or recalling things that the average person might forget. Small features she can pick out while speaking with others have often assisted her in conversations as well.

♆ Adaptation

Eliza is very comfortable around others much more so than she is when she is alone. This leads her to flock to others to avoid being exiled in a way. This mentality has granted her the uncanny ability to blend in with a group. In attempts to maintain order or stay on people’s good side, Eliza is extraordinarily empathetic. This assists her in understanding and maintaining relationships with those she chooses to be around as well as assisting in helping Eliza go unnoticed in larger venues with many crowds. She may not like to be out of place, but to help cope, she has learned to find a place or at least pretend to do so if it comes to that.

♆ Mentalism

The daintiness and airheadedness of Eliza only extend so far. When it comes to street smarts or book smarts, she may be lacking, but inside her head, Eliza is always analyzing, contemplating, and discovering. She has a knack for understanding how things work, and in particular, Eliza understands how people work. This talent of hers likely developed due to Eliza’s subconscious need to fit in and be around others. She has grown capable of subtly influencing conversation and interaction with small tricks and she also tends to be able to pick out small details that others wouldn’t see giving her insights into how her conversational partner thinks and acts.

STARLIGHT [1980s Coming of Age Sci-Fi]

I am really into the weird sci-fi genre sort of thing, and the friendly and easy-going jump into the roleplay only further interests me. I would love to join in.

Tales of Amarist: Young Heroes

So is this RP dead, then?

Tales of Amarist: Young Heroes

Any updates?

A God's Gamble

Post is up. Feel free to welcome yourself to Charybdis and tell us what happened in your nation's past.

A God's Gamble

Charybdis

Millennia had passed… Wars had gone by, technologies have advanced, nations have risen, nations have fallen. Deities and Pious Kings rise and fall still today just as they have before, but today things were different. Things were going to change. Today was the day the kings and queens of this world would meet in a lavish and beautiful kingdom that now stood in ruin. It was a scar on the land, reminding the Deities of the previous wars of which the took part in. Charybdis was crumbling, but as the sun broke over the skies and the centuries long war ended. It would be rebuilt, reconstructed, and re-beautified, for it was today that each Deity would reclaim their hall and reshape it in a new image- one capable of resembling them in this new age.

Though, with the war ending, making the collective home of gods was far down on the list of tasks that needed doing. It was today that the greatest of deific figures would meet amongst the halls of Charybdis and decide which of those among them would take the head of the table and become the King of Gods and his advisors. A powerful role it was to hold such a title, and one of the remaining Deities after the wars would fill that role and choose those that rule beside them. There were two advisors that needed chosen, and each would be given a unique ability for their particular aspect, those aspects being War and Peace.

These two advisors, after being chosen by their king as the Gods of War and Peace are each given a unique ability. Those abilities being the power to pacify battlefields for days at a time, or the power to give a hero near demigod-like powers. Of course, both of these powers pale in comparison to the strength of the King of Gods. Every god controls their own hall in Charybdis, but it is only the King of Gods that can bend its very essence at his whim. Voting a Deity into this position was a tough task for many of the remaining Deities after the grief of war’s passed, but alas, it was time for the Deities that remained in power to convene. There was only a handful of them, but the world was on their backs.

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Adiel

It wouldn’t be long before every single one of those that Adiel once feared as conquerors would return to the hall that the lot of them once sat in as creators of this world. Oh how things had changed since then. Adiel was never one to partake in the constant savagery of the warring nations. Perhaps that was why Mandisa was prospering today. Mandisa was very isolated in those dark times even despite their mercantilist nature, for they had nowhere near enough troops to go on any sort of advance. Adiel only wished for those dark days to be buried.

A small cloud of sand swirled into a small twister in the middle of Charybdis. It wasn’t long before this sand began to lose its speed, gently settling on the floor, and as the veil of sand was lifted, Adiel’s usual figure came into view. She was just down in Mandisa working with a set of advisors to plan the erection of more obelisks along Mandisa’s most travelled roads, but it had likely been days since that occurred. Time flowed very strangely in Charybdis. It was often hard to place when exactly you were after spending extended periods of time in the halls of gods.

Before her was a long table with far too many chairs for those that would heed the summons of their fellow deities today. On one end sat a large throne-esque chair fit for their King. It was an elegant and ornate meeting room where diplomacy was originally to be conducted between the descendants, but instead it remained in slight ruin, and due to Adiel being the first to arrive, there was an eerie silence to the entire hall. Today marked a change in its emptiness, though. With a new king to lead, Charybdis would no doubt become lively with Deities, old and new alike, mingling and achieving great things. The disrepair of this room, however, had Adiel worried about what her personal hall looked like. No doubt it was completely tattered and ruined.

She began to slowly make her way through the great halls of Charybdis in search of her personal hall. As the first there, she would have time to at least take a look in the old place and see what had become of it. A rather pristine arch of sandstone carved into the side of a walkway marked the entrance to her old paradise. The contents of this huge room, however, were not as wondrous. Adiel’s obelisks bore out of the floors, walls, and ceilings alike. They were strewn about in the dusty room as if they infected it like stalagmites and stalactites. All the water from the river-like fountain that surrounded the room had been dried, leaving her hall- just as the rest of Charybdis- eerily silent. Adiel let out a long and wispy sigh as she peered towards the large chair that she once sat atop happily. She had hoped the room would soon be return to its former glory, but for now she merely turned back towards the meeting hall and ambled along the echoey Charybdian palace.

Casually and observantly, Adiel took a few paces around the table. It had been ages since a group like this had met, and many times when they had met before for diplomatic meetings during wartimes, Adiel simply didn’t attend. In a world of chaos and war, Adiel wanted no part. She felt the political aspect of the battling was silly, and would often deny any sort of assistance to others aside from perhaps a monetary gift or tribute to keep the fighting away from her beloved Mandisa. Perhaps that it why Mandisa is the flourishing paradise, albeit a bone dry paradise that it is today. Adiel didn’t seat herself- not yet. Instead she merely leaned against a pillar by the edge of the room, peering out at the open sides of the room that showed the clouds on which the palace sat and the wondrous setting sun. Her old friends would arrive shortly.

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The Holy Deserts of Mandisa

The bustling business of Mandisans in the desert capital of Heliopolis had not halted in their daily tasks and work even with their knowledge of Adiel’s meeting. Merchants chattered through the city, peddling wares throughout the streets to travellers and Mandisans alike; masons toiled away in their great constructive feats, producing new wondrous structures whether they be housing, obelisk, or statue; and the businessmen of Mandisa found themselves circled around a table within Adiel’s great palace in attempts to discuss future trade routes that would be recreated after being cut off for so long.

Even outside the mighty Sun City that was Heliopolis, Adiel’s deserts were alive and rampant with the caravans of traders, travellers, and desert bestiary. Adiel’s beloved Scarab Beetles skittered along the same paths in the sand that were taken by camels that were packed high with numerous bags of goods. Jackals scavenged along the sides of paths, scavenging and hunting for a meal in the hot and dry air. Occasionally a traveller would spot a cat or a fox scurrying across the sands on the hunt as well. The people of Adiel’s nation were very close to the animals it harbored. So sharing the desert with its inhabitants was very important and kept in high regards by Mandisa’s pharaoh and goddess. It wasn’t like the wasteland that was Mandisa’s deserts didn’t have enough space for all its inhabitants and more, so Adiel wished to coexist.

Though, not all was well in Mandisa, just as in almost every nation. Even the wide deserts had their problems. The myths and legends of the Nekropolis, or city of the dead were ever present and growing in popularity. It was an old legend of a place that was lost in time. Only visible if you were to venture into the right sandstorm at the right time somewhere in the vast deserts, a gate would appear. Inside this gate, one would find the dead and the living dead in a festering city of decay. Any of those who managed to supposedly find the gates of Nekropolis and enter them were never heard from alive again. While many think it is simply travellers succumbing to the ever present and relentless desert heat, many Mandisans believe in the legends that explain the bodies mysteriously discovered in the deserts have much more sinister and supernatural explanations.

A God's Gamble

@wxps350 Not a problem. Feel free to come back if you have time in the future.

It looks like we will be starting today. I will make a starting post relatively soon with all the background for what we are doing.

Tales of Amarist: Young Heroes

Alyn suppressed a groan just barely as she was hit once more. Of course, it was likely her fault as the girl opposite her was now knocked to the ground. This student was… The opposite of Alyn in terms of visible appearance. Her golden hair flowed obviously and elegantly while she showed off her uniform seemingly proudly, while Alyn herself was rather dark and unnoticeable in appearance. There was no doubt in Alyn’s mind that this girl must have been some sort of Evocation Mage, firing off dangerous spells all willy-nilly. Opposites. We are nothing alike.

The smaller girl brought a hand to her mouth, biting lightly on the knuckle of her thumb. Alyn didn’t intend to give any response to the other girl’s apology and instead would have simply continued walking with no words of greeting, parting, or apologizing, but just as Alyn was to start moving away, the rather excited girl placed a hand atop Alyn’s head. Drat! Now she couldn’t escape! Honestly, Alyn was rather frightened at the girl’s appearance and attitude. This lass was too smiley for the Divina girl. Alyn’s thoughts immediately began to wander in search of some sort of reason for this student’s attitude. Just as she was going to finally formulate a response, her ‘new friend’ withdrew money from her bag. What is she thinking I am going to do?! Alyn’s thoughts swamped her once more, but before any of them managed to reach any sort of cohesive semblance, she was grabbed and the girl she had run into started to walk, dragging Alyn with her. Breakfast? What?

“What?- Why?” Was all she could manage before she was cut off as the pair started walking off. She wasn’t as flustered as she might have seemed at first, but at this point, Alyn was lost. Once the pair started moving, Alyn’s accompanying crow friend took off into the trees. It appears she wasn’t the only one slightly worried about the scenario. Where was this girl taking her? Whatever the answer, it seemed Alyn had little control over the situation anyways. She was merely pulled along with little resistance. It may have even seemed like she wasn’t resisting! Despite that, it wasn’t long before the girl lead Alyn to a rather large outdoor court, likely where students were to eat their meals from the nearby cafeteria. There were a great many people around which did nothing to ease Alyn’s nerves. This outdoor area was where Alyn’s captor finally stopped, which relieved her nerves in slight. Alyn was always one to come to the most grim conclusions in scenarios such as these, though even if this girl wasn’t intending to kidnap Alyn, little would have changed Alyn’s silent demeanor.

Alyn finally managed to force a rather weak tug against her captor's grip. She didn't wish to go anywhere with this girl she knew nothing about. Well... She knew enough to know the two of them wouldn't get along. Alyn just wanted to go on her typical walk. Perhaps the life of a bustling student wasn't right for a Divina. "What are you- Where are we going?"