Salenea

The Rorie League, a Pokémon Trainer RP (always open for more players)

Sarah nodded as she also heard the Fearow, "Must have been Rapier, he was going after Fearow."

She was glad Regan asked about Stairway Shelter, so they wouldn't have to leave right away.
"No, it's a pretty shallow cave, if one can call it that at all. If you stand in front of it you can somewhat make out the shape of a stairway. I suppose it was more prominent in the past and that erosion played its part. But still, if you stand at the right distance, squint and turn your head sideways you can still see it. Old names of places don't die around here and it can be confusing to people not native to these islands when islanders give direction using landmark names that are hardly recognisable."

She smiled, "I'm very grateful you came along, I would have a serious problem with the flock of Spearow on my own, let alone that Fearow." Sarah opened her backpack and grabbed two small bottles of water and handed one to Regan.
"We saw the Onix, registered as asked. We don't know where it went and it would be looking for a needle in a haystack again, I doubt we'll be lucky enough to stumble across it twice in one day." Her eyes started twinkling amused, "if you didn't scare Onix off with berating it like that."

Sarah drank her water as all the running had made her extremely thirsty. "I'd like to go back, with that cave-in earlier I think it's best to let some of the lab take a look at tunnels first and look for more geological hazards, besides."

Sarah put her backpack on her back again and walked to Gira. "Everything alright here?" Gira nodded.
"We're going back, lead the way Gira and keep an eye on any wild pokemon ahead of us. We're taking the shortest way but we're going to avoid the forest. I really don't want to deal with a group of Spinarak as well."

Revival of the Dragon Riders

Tristan held his daughter and listened to Trevor and Noble trying to take her fright away. The girl looked up to Trevor with big eyes. "Really?" she asked impressed, that a man could fight that big dragon meant he was way stronger than her brothers. When Noble said some were the size of ponies she nearly squealed "Really?!" Tristan sighed and rolled his eyes, she'd be asking for a pony-sized dragon for her next birthday now.

"A mission, right. Of course, Duncan would find himself a mission." Tristan said with a shake of his head.

Duncan sat down at the table and leaned back casually. "Noble over here is only forgetting a small detail, he kind of is the rightful heir to the throne."

Tristan was baffled and looked from Duncan to Noble and back. "He's what?"

"Your future King, Tristan." Duncan specified more clearly. "At least once we kick the current one of the throne of course. And we need the help of Dwarves and Dragons to do that. So that is our quest, we formed three groups, a couple of riders went to their headquarters, another group went to the Dragon Sanctuary.

"There are still Riders?" Tristan asked.

Duncan nodded while Tristan processed what this meant and he turned to the others. "We can trust Tristan, he used to be my squire. He always had my back. In fact, he still has my back by taking care of one of the most important things in the world for me."

The door to the living opened and a woman came in to retrieve the girl, two boys looked curiously at the strangers.
"I can kill a dragon too," said the oldest before his mother could stop him, he walked to the table. "Right father?" He wasn't looking at Tristan.

Duncan turned his head, grinned and went with his hand through the boy's hair. "You bet, with a hand tied behind your back."

Gnol raised his eyebrows before he hummed in his beard. "Well, well. Your squire is worth his weight in gold, your parents must have been thrilled Duncan."

"Enormously," Duncan replied dryly before he greeted Nelly with a kiss on her cheek. "You'll have us for the night, right Nelly?" he asked.

She smiled and nodded. "We don't have many rooms in the house but we can make sure you'll be comfortable in the living room or if you prefer the hayloft you can sleep there too. I'll have to kick you all out of the kitchen to make a meal in a bit though. Tristan, go to the cellar and bring up a small barrel, I'm sure our guests are thirsty."

Before Noble, she curtsied, "Your Highness."

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Alan couldn't do much and kept an eye on his dragon. His dragon, he still couldn't believe it. Yet here he was, running around Ark's paws and chasing his tail. He helped Mikhal collecting some wood for a fire.

He watched Ricki as she crouched down to take off and stopped what he was doing, impressed by her flying. When her wing faltered and she crashed down, he threw down what he was holding and rushed over. "Ricki! Are you alright?" He glanced over her body, to see if there were any obvious injuries. He reached to help her up. "Perhaps you need some of that paste too, you think it would work on your wing too?" he asked.

Terasivas got tired running in circles and went over to Meria as she had said something about welling up water and he sure was thirsty now.

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Crreessa grinned, she liked the energy of this one and she could kick butt so that spoke to her advantage too. she couldn't help wondering what her brother would have thought of her, he must have liked her.

RedClaws bowed his head slightly. "Thank you, Kela, if it wasn't for Crreessa I wouldn't have returned. She is his sister. It's as much her loss as mine. We bonded." RedClaws felt the pain of the loss of his first rider strengthen again. The bond with Crreessa helped but still, a part of him would always be missing.

Crreessa felt RedClaws pain, as well as her own, They both had that missing piece that couldn't be completely filled by their bond but it wasn't as gaping anymore.
She distracted herself by looking at who spoke up. A certain Destiny this time, it sure was a day of happy reunitings.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Thursdays, only thursdays

Revival of the Dragon Riders

Gnol sauntered from the paddock to the back door. It was open and in the kitchen the man sat at the table, a pint in one hand and his other hand lying on his lap, out of sight, a female voice and children voices could be heard from a room closeby.
"Thank you for welcoming us into your house." Gnol said with a small bow. The man returned it with a slight nod.
"I'm Gnol, Those two gentlemen are Trevor and Noble." Gnol introduced them.

"I'm Tristan," he replied curtly. Gnols eyes went towards a closed door when he heard the voices again. "My wife and kids." Tristan said in answer to the unspoken question.
"So what brings you here?" Tristan gestured to the empty chairs. "Take a seat and do tell me." He examined Noble and Trevor. He dismissed Noble as an immediate threat but Trevor could be a problem.

"Well...Duncan..." Gnol started, not sure where to begin and what he could tell. He then heard a familiar whinnying outside. "Speaking of the devil." Gnol said with a wink.

Duncan put his horse in the paddock and walked to the kitchen. "Tristan, good to see you. How are you? How's Nelly?"

Tristan got up and put the dagger he was holding on the cupboard and grabbed Duncan's wrist. "Good thing you at least gave them something to let me know those people are your friends." Duncan chuckled and was about to reply as they heard a scream outside.

"Monsters! Dragons!" a little girl's voice shrieked as she ran inside, throwing herself against Tristan, sobbing. Tristan looked from Duncan to Trevor and Noble, "What have you brought on my doorstep?" he asked almost angry.

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Alan listened to Meria as she located the water. "I wish I could do that," he sighed. "It would have made my life so much easier."
He turned back to Ricki. "Linda will be back so soon, I'm sure."

Terasivas scrambled down and started investigating. Sniffing at leaves, chasing his tail and running circles around Ark.

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When Rachel stated Damien was getting rusty the corners of Crreessa's mouth started twitching again. She had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep herself from laughing again.

"Pleasure to meet you Kela. I'm Crreessa, also not exactly human." Kela seemed like a cool female, she wondered if she also knew her brother and what her brother thought of her.

RedClaws shook his head when Orian smacked Ram, such silliness was beyond him. "Ram'' RedClaws greeted the other dragon.

The Rorie League, a Pokémon Trainer RP (always open for more players)

Sarah's side began to ache and her breath came in short pants. Gira was waiting patiently and watched her trainer reach the shelter.
It took the trainer a bit to catch her breath and she leaned against the wall.
"Welcome in the Stairway Shelter." she managed to squeeze out. "Gira, watch for the Spearow."
Girafarig placed herself more towards the edge and watched the swarm. It looked liked they weren't regrouping to follow. It seemed like without the Fearow to follow they stayed behind.
"We shouldn't stay here too long, if the spearow stay away we could sneak off and head back."

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Gabe stopped as he saw Rapier fly over his head looking, and spotting, the Fearow. "Awesome!" he stopped to watch until Mareep nudged him, urging him to go on. "Right, lets not wait."

MFP#4 - Ox (voting and feedback)

My vote goes to: The Pride of the Ox or Stolen Oxygen or Lament for a Friend

awesome poetry, just amazing.

Revival of the Dragon Riders

Gnol led them to the place Duncan had described, it took a bit longer than he had said because Gnol had to look for the landmarks. When they reached the house of the lumberjack he looked around. "Perhaps Noble and the dragons can stay a bit behind so they aren't in direct sight immediately but not far." he said to Trevor.
The Dwarf examined the house, bigger than he expected for a simple lumberjack. "Good folk!" he shouted when he couldn't see someone immediately. The door opened a little later and a man appeared in the door with one arm hidden behind the door.

"Exactly how good of folks are you?" the man asked, even though his face had a smile that could pass as friendly his watchful eyes inspected the good folks at his place.

Gnol raised his hands to show no harm. "Good enough to put up with Duncan Ferillion," Gnol said casually and the recognition in the man's eyes byu hearing the name was enough for Gnol to know they were at the right place.

"Duncan huh, how can I know you didn't kill him and leave his body somewhere in the forest?" the man asked still in a conversational tone but the slight narrowing of his eyes showed he was still suspicious about the group.

Gnol shrugged, "Duncan is too busy trying to get his horse this way, we went ahead. He couldn't leave the horse alone although he should have. Duncan also said to remind you about a certain cat and a moat"

The man nodded once. "Fair enough, we'll see, behind the house is a paddock, you can lock your horses up there. I'll unlock the back door, you can wait in the kitchen."

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"Sounds like you'll never have a dull moment with Linda by your side." Alan said grinning.

Alan took the hand to get off, although he didn't really need the help. He looked worriedly at Mercury. Terasivas wriggled free and ran to Mercury's head. "Are you ok? Do I need to help you up?" Alan just hoped Linda would return soon. "hope the dragonfruit Linda spoke about isn't far."

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Crreessa watched with mild interest to the fighting in the trees. When Damien fell out of the tree she burst out in laughter. She leaned against RedClaws, "Did you see?" she managed to squeeze out between laughs. "He...fell..out..of...the..treeeee." RedClaws didn't respond to his rider. She wiped some tears from laughing from her eyes but when she looked at Damien she nearly started again.

She cleared her throat to keep the next guffaw down and focussed on the other person, she was sure she would start laughing again when she would look at Damien.
"Nice move," she complimented as she leaned casually against RedClaws, her tail swaying from left to right.

RedClaws looked at Ram silently, he wasn't sure he could trust any reactions so he remained silent.

Beyond the Borders of the Universe (Salenea&SporkoBug)

Jill smiled briefly at Ricki, she appreciated the girl wanting to be there for her. "Thank you Ricki," she said. She didn't make any promises she would see Seb about magic as she wasn't even sure if she was ready to learn more about it. She would have to decide that soon, but not now. She was still too shaken.

She froze when she heard Fer'a, "I guess I have an audience waiting for me." Jillian straightened her shoulders and went back to Fre'a and Ash.
A small hesitation at the door showed her reluctance to meet the strange magic creature thing.
She entered the door. "Yes?" she asked and she felt worry creep up, "Is something wrong with Ash?" "Stay strong, keep it together girl, you can handle it" she reprimanded herself.

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Gnol chuckled, "I'm sure you'll come running after me with a frying pan if I sit here lazily all day."

Alan looked from Gnol to Avia and back. If he didn't know any better he would think some weird flirting might be going back and forward. He discarded the thought but Avia did seem a bit more with her guard let down. He personally couldn't see what was so interesting in Gnol anyway, Avia could do so much better than a grumpy dwarf in his opinion.

"I don't eat that much, mostly, I can wolf down food occasionally." Alan said as he stretched with a yawn. "Come on Gnol, let's test that practice room, so you don't distract Avia from cooking. Let's see if you can hit a moving object old one."

Gnol huffed as he stood up. "I'll have you know that you don't stand a chance against me, boy."

"Oh please, I'll dance around you in circles," Alan said as he jumped up and walked to the door to the practice room.

Gnol looked at Avia and Alice, "ladies, I'll be right back. Going to work up an appetite and show mr. Pointy Ears a thing or two. Alice, perhaps you can go find Treghor and tell him Avia is going to cook a meal and he better not be caught up in whatever he is doing and forget to come eat when it's ready.

Hidden Claws [1x1 Salenea and Sporko]

"I'm sorry Hunter, I feel a bit better now." Marigold said with a shaky but determined voice. "Thank you," she said as she leaned to press a small kiss on his snout. She looked at Echo and Gaia, "I still have a lot to learn I'm afraid, I am not ready for this job yet," she said with a sigh. Perhaps they made a mistake with picking her, after all what could a weak human do compared to them?

She looked at her dress, which wasn't too torn or dirty well... at least not as much as she had feared. "I rather go home Hunter, father expects me home with the ingredients for the meal I need prepare." Marigold jolted up. "Is the one that helped me all right? is the beast not following us?" she asked Gaia worriedly. Not that she really wanted Hunter to charge off to defeat whatever that was but if the threat wouldn't be eliminated how could she go back to the forest and forage when needed?

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Demon blood, Harpy dander and moon water, she repeated it in her mind a few times. "Need a hand?" Hazel asked. She knew some people weren't exactly too eager to cut themselves, even for a good cause. Luckily, Hazel had no problems cutting herself, or others, for a little bit of blood if needed.

"So it could potentially mean that the witch is still alive or is it just a weirdly persistent curse?" there could be few reasons why a curse would linger after death. One would be with the help of a demon, another with an enchanted item hidden somewhere. There were a few more but those came to Hazel's mind.

Revival of the Dragon Riders

Duncan looked over his shoulder and when he noticed the clearly amused Dwarf behind him he shook his head with a suppressed curse. "I'm sure you can find something more useful to do than to follow me," he said to Gnol as he followed the rugged trail his horse had left behind.

"What? And miss this phenomenal quest of finding the knight's horse? Not a chance, I want to sing songs about this epic quest." Gnol said, not even trying to hide his amusement. "How's the knightly bum?" he inquired as seriously as he could.

"Are you mocking me sir Dwarf?" Duncan informed cooly.

"Not at all sir knight Human, I wouldn't dare." Gnol replied as innocently as possible.

"Yeah, right, well I think you can..." he stopped mid sentence as he heard a horse whinnying. "There she is!" Duncan rushed to the sound and found his horse all tangled up in some chest-high bramble bushes.

"It's all right, I'm here," he cooed as he tried to grab the reins.
Gnol got off his horse and started to cut down some of the bush.
It didn't take them long to free the horse but it cost a lot of strength to keep the horse from fleeing again. Wildly the horse reared again but with Duncan and Gnol hanging by the reins the horse tired herself out and stopped.

Duncan checked her for injuries and sighed. He looked at Gnol. "I'm not going to make it to the fortress with my horse."
Gnol nodded, even though there weren't any visible injuries it was clear it could go no further in the companionship of dragons.

Gnol turned to Duncan. "What do you suggest? Walking will take too long."

Duncan nodded pensively. After a short silence he turned around and examined the surroundings. "Are you well known in these woods?" he asked Gnol.

"Well, I wouldn't exactly say well known but I can find my way and I know a couple landmarks." Gnol said as he stroked his beard.

"Excellent, Hawk Rock? Half Tree? You know those?" Duncan asked hopefully.

Gnol nodded slowly. "Yea." the Dwarf replied.

"Good, find the others and follow these directions, I'll meet you there." and he gave Gnol the directions.

Gnol climbed back on his horse and spurred him, back the path they had followed and in pursuit of Noble and Trevor.
When he reached them he made his horse set pace with Trevor's horse. "A slight change of plans gentlemen, Duncan gave me some directions to a safe lumberjack's house and he'll meet us there. He hopes he can switch horses there because he can't use his current one. It's either that or we walk all the way to the fortress at the border."

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"perhaps we can find some herbs as well to make a paste or something? Perhaps make a makeshift bandage or splint or something, if needed?" Alan asked. Not that he was a herbalist or anything of the kind, he only knew of a handful of medicinal herbs. He patted Mercury on his back reassuringly.

The next meadow were the best words he had heard since travelling on dragon's back, he was starting to get sore and the strangest muscles he didn't even know he had were acting up. He shifted a bit to try and sit more comfortably.

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RedClaws followed suit, when he flew through the opening in the canopy he couldn't deny that he felt a jolt of happiness going through his body. Of Course he remembered the bad days but the good memories were also still there. This was home. One of the places he considered home anyway.

Crreessa looked her eyes out, it all looked so majestic to her with the wide canopies, the huge trees and the vast amount of space between the trees. Dragons could fly here, train, practice, play. She could almost feel her brother going down the same path as they were.

RedClaws halted when Damien and Orian stopped. He landed behind Orian, still between the trees.
Crreessa tilted her head. "What's Damien doing now? playing hide and seek in the trees?" she asked although she could hear and smell Damien perfectly fine so she knew where he was.