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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 18:08:50 GMT -6
He'll never admit to having full mobility with this wooden limb. Habit and the fear of falling over in public or not in public made Flare still carry his staff-cane. Shabh's adult self might be able to help him get up again if he were trained for it. Should he even do so? Eventually the cane-staff could be outgrown and he'd walk on his own again. For the first time in his life. The follow the leader game, not really even a game started with alpha and dragon hound wlaking forward, then taking a sudden turn. Could be left, could be right, or even right around. But every now and then Flare piped up with {Follow close Shabh.} Happily, the rakai would follow him. Every now and then he'd get a head rub and praise, or even a treat. Finally, they both had to stop for a breath. His left leg flared painfully from walking so quickly. Shabh panted heavily beside him. {Good Follow Shabh.} They found a little trickle of water outside and drank from that. It was a little way up to the road, out in the bushes so he'd have to follow back. Follow 4 April 4 11.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 18:14:46 GMT -6
Don't think the dragon hound didn't miss the uneven breathing of his alpha, of the limp of his hind leg. He paused, then leaned his weight on the wrong side of his master. The alpha, taken by surprise, wumphed into the grass. If dogs could look smug when he looked up, Shabh standing over his wooden limb with a wagging tail and his ears perked looked pretty dang smug. He nosed the aching leg, and whined. Hurt alpha? Alpha should sit. Lie down. {I'm fine. Give me a few minutes.} Yep, he overdid that particular turn. The dragon hound snorts, and lays down on his wooden limb. He didn't feel a thing through that leg. He woudn't let the alpha up until he laid down for a while. Five minutes, ten minutes, he let the sun crack over a tick before ushering Shabh to move by easing his wooden limb into an angled position. It took an attempt or two for him to fully get up again. {I'm better. now. Follow close Shabh.} Again with the crazy ant thing. But this time Shabh kept a very close eye on his alpha for painful walks. His paws weren't ouching yet. Even as they retraced their pawprints many times. {Very good follow Shabh.} he got nice pats for that. Follow 5 April 5 12.20 28/36 Shabh
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 18:25:55 GMT -6
The mansion's gate, mostly ignored for now had a few balloons, simple air filled objects that seemed to delight children of all sorts, tied to the rungs of the wrought iron. As if inviting passerbys inside. His inner magical sense, no longer tied to the horns that had grown from his skull, pinged at the look of the gates. Something here. Something not right. Without a weapon, he only had Shabh and his tail. Sands dry up and blow away that he had to rely on this extra limb growing out of his spine. Deep breath in, look determined adn brave. Shabh sniffed at the gates with interest, takign his rope harness length to nearly its max. As Flare stepped through the gate though, the balloons BURST with a loud exploding sound. Both alpha and dragon hound jumped. It took a moment for Flare to regain his footing as the rakai had sped himself right beneath where he was standing. Ears flat to his head and whining piteously. Scary noise, scary look of scary everything. Accept noise 1 Accept Scary Sights 1 April 6 13.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 18:42:12 GMT -6
Loud to him, even louder to the hound. He whines from where Flare worked to keep his footing, pawing at his pained ears. It hurt... it hurt. So loud! Flare heard something giggle from out of sight and reach... the remains of the burst balloon drifting in the wind as it beckoned them inside. Come inside to our wonderland, a mad and honest to goodness wonderland. A ripple of energy sprang forth from the two spooked individuals of very differing variety. Whatever was there, giggling from its funny popping wasn't there now. It wasn't stupid enough to stick around for THAT. The earth before them... cracked. Something small, about the size and perchance, make of a pachee of thorns crawls out of the fissure. Looking about, and seeing the glowing-eyed figure, who was rigid with fear. But their attention is fully on the animal beside him. Who is looking right at it. What is this? What are you?! You are scary! Flare unknowingly casts Summon Thornling, uses 2 Earth MP Shabh unknowingly uses Verdant Whisper Accept Noise 2 Accept Scary Sights 2 Apri 7 14.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 18:48:52 GMT -6
Scrary? The thornling looks confused at the dog-thing with bones poking out of its back. Curling over each side like a bony shield. You summon me? Not scrary. Helpful. Shabh's muscles tighten and his ears go flat to the skull. His jowls pull back into a white toothed growl. Go away! My alpha! Who promptly loses his balance and falls on his butt. The glowy feeling is gone and Flare's seeing what looks like a miniature pachee before him, only made of thorns and vines and like some sort of... monster. His inner magic sensor pings at it. Magic made. Shabh is standing beside him, growling. And ON FIRE. The fire spooks him briefly as he scoots stupidly away from him. From the base of his skull to the tip of his tail, dancing whispy flames extend from the long line of spiny scales. He points at the creature... {What you... what are you.} It looks at him, looks at his looks, and flares itself, making a rattling scary angry loud noise. Shabh's growl increases as he barks loudly. GO AWAY. Accept noise 3 Accept Scary Sights 3 April 8 15.20
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Post by Renathan on Apr 10, 2020 19:02:51 GMT -6
You hear a strange cackling noise, dark and hollow, ringing throughout the air. After a moment, you can suddenly hear hoofbeats, and snarling hounds. Only whisps can be seen once you catch sight of them- vague dark forms in the shape of cave vulticus or perhaps tainted equillion run in your direction faster than one can react!
The creatures race through you and your pet(s), not harming you but making a horrible buzzing sound, in addition to being given a shock- like shuffling across a carpet and touching a doorknob. The prank wasn't all that funny, and your poor pet was TERRIFIED.
[Pets under 15 loyalty spook and run away! Creatures with 'Iron Will' or that have been trained [Accept Noise] are unaffected.]
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 19:10:56 GMT -6
Am summoned. Thornling I am. You get caught by keeper of gate. Play loud trick. Much scared. Did you cast when scared? Bad wizard lizardman. It doesn't speak but the rattling is clear as day to the elemental. Sort of like hearing the dryad of the grove. Child of sand adn of earth. We hear of you. '{Thornling... I summoned a thornling? I did magic?}' color him surprised. reaching up and patting Shabh once on the shoulder. {No Shabh. Not bad.} Grrrrrr.... his scaled hackles are raised, growling audibly at the creature who doesn't seem phased at all at the flames licking his spinal column. {What do you do then, since I made you?} No no. No make. Summon. Thornlings not maked. We fight. for our caster. Keep safe. Bad house. No good this month. Not faelot. No kidding, no good. He looked about the area. The trees, the ground, everything appeared to vary in elevation. Or even being warped. Another balloon popped beside them, much smaller, as it hit by a pin. The animal and the humanish both jumped, their hearts in their throats. Accept Noise 4 Accept Scary Sights 4 April 9 16.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 19:16:34 GMT -6
However it doesn't stop there. There's a cantering noise... of hooves? ! Snarls, pawfalls. From his sitting position, Flare can see the door ahead open up and something large and dark charges out. Its roiling in shadow, snarling and furious. But just as he tries to toss up his staff against it, to try and avoid it, it just runs right through the pair of them. Shabh, already spooked, is RIGID with fear. He feels the shadows, hears the buzzing, the roars, the snarls. Its loud, its scary... and these things are bigger then him. Smaller then if he was a puppy still but oh my god... He can't hold it any longer and wets the ground in fear. The flames on his back go out, and he tries to bolt. Tries to, but two things are restricting him. The rope around him, and that his alpha is in as much danger and scared as he is. A lunge, he tries to pull Flare along with him. He wants out of this insane place! Accept Noise 5 Accept Scary Sights 5 April 10 17.20 29/37 Shabh
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Post by Renathan on Apr 10, 2020 19:33:55 GMT -6
A strange rubber snake is coiled around a vial of some kind.
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 19:39:01 GMT -6
The thornling isn't impressed by the feinting gall of this flesh and blood animal that is desperately tryign to leave the mansion. Wasn't it supposed to be the child of sand and earth's protector? Golemlike things know two things; protect and attack. The animal, the dog thing is doing neither, but trying to race away, to leave in panicked fear. But he can't. He's tied down. If that rope was around his neck, he'd be choking himself out to leave. STEEL YOURSELF, DOG. the thornling thunders at him. The whisper that had come from the dog seems to let him hear the thornling, abeit minutely. Slamming its thorny tail down loudly. IF THAT SCARES YOU, YOU WON'T LAST INSIDE THE HOUSE. Inside?! There's an inside?! {Shabh. Stay. I'm right here.} Flare mutters, his hand not leaving the rakai's shoulder as he struggles to stand up. Its a little off putting, as whatever or however he had cast magic gave him a lightheaded feeling that warped his inner balance. The dragon hound is still trying to pull away, fighting with his flight response to stay by his alpha. Accept Noise 6 Accept Scary noise 6 April 11 18.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 10, 2020 22:28:34 GMT -6
{I'm right here Shabh. Just stay. Its all right. Shhh...} He pulls the dragon hound's form closer as he shifted into no longer sitting but crouching on one wooden knee. {Thornling is right. That is not scary.} he uses more of the hugging motion against himself to try and give the rakai a potential ease of terror. The dragon hound's body is trembling but pauses from the attempt to run. Why is the alpha so calm? Ok, not calm. Against his own hammering, he can feel the humanish's thin figure pounding through his scales. Its a different sort of sound, against the thrumming he could hear inside himself. Still trembling the rakai tried to pull away, to pull him up and away... another buzzing noise as something made the illusion of manic carnivores trample past makes him freeze up again. {Shhh shh shh. Not real.} He reaches out his third foot- no don't! - and passes right through it?! Accept Noise 7 Accept Scary Sights 7 April 12 19.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 11, 2020 19:54:31 GMT -6
Confused and scared wars inside Shabh’s head as he watches the alpha’s third foot kick and swat at the manic carnivores now...parading? Through them. Disturbing the imagry to elongate a snout or split a head in two. Even the thornling is lashing out now at the creatures. Standing up on two legs and swiping out thorned vines at and through the imagery. Aren’t they afraid of the noise? The scary sights? The ghostly teeth and hooves and loudness?! No understanding. But should fight. Shoudl protect, right? What should he do? {Shabh, this is not the time to be scared.} Flare tells him. {Stay. Fight with me.} He is getting to his feet now, and there seems to be a hissing growling sense to him. Like listening to an angry snake. He found a snake once. A little snake. It got angry and hissed at him. Or was it scared like he was? Accept noise 8 Accept scary sights 8 april 13 20.20 lv 70? Flare
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Post by Flare on Apr 11, 2020 22:25:16 GMT -6
No claws. No sharp teeth, and he wasn't nearly as strong as being a ssashirk. But that hadn't stopped Flare from wanting to join the core. Cadets received basic offensive and defensive training, and depending on the core subsect you went into the training became specialized. But one thing Flare still had from that... time was his tail. He tried to twist around, and swung his tail forth. The rakai heard the noise, and had to move aside to avoid the tail. It was long and brightly colored, unlike his own black and brown tail. And his bright orange marks. But the tail broke through the images, and he outright made a harsh snarl noise that didn't turn into something scary at all. OR to be scary for the images? They weren't as numerous. The rakai paused in his watching, as the images seemed to slow... and stop around them? What is this?! The buzzing was hardly audible anymore. Accept noise 9 Accept scary sights 9 April 14 1.20
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Post by Flare on Apr 11, 2020 22:54:12 GMT -6
The standoff to any other living or unliving being in the vacinity of the mansion appeared to be like the stilling image of a motion picture. Of the now silent, still but slightly flickering spectral images of carnivore horse and wolf standing against the tailed tumaian and his dragon hound. The hound stood there, still kind of rigid in his stance. Totally unused to the experience of trying to shield. But the tumaian wasn't backing off. {Go away} he tells the creature spectrum. {We are no harm here} The thornling hissed as it scurried close to him. Shabh doesn't understand his alpha's growls, but Something inside him is telling him that as long as he and his alpha are together... that they won't be in danger. Not with these things. His stance strengthens some, and the dragon hound growls audibly, his wings arching and fire spreading across his spine again. His courage seemed to spark, just a little bit. Would this help him get over the sounds and the looks? Slowly. Accept Noise 10 Accept Scary Sights 10 April 15 2.20 30/38 Shabh
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Post by Renathan on Apr 11, 2020 22:58:43 GMT -6
Something sounds loud, almost like a bunch of party poppers, but it is far off. For now, you seem to be relatively safe from at least whatever made that noise!
[Nothing Happens]
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