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Doing some of the old prompts that I didn't do at the time. Using the old Kalmari characters until I finish messing around with them.
Spring is in the air, and it's time for travel, excursions, school breaks, and mini-adventures! What do you take when you go on holiday? Sunscreen, hiking boots, faerie repellent, a semi-automatic? This week, show us your packing list for an upcoming excursion.
The group decided to do the list together, these are the codes for whose item is whose:
M- Martin
Do- Donnelly
Ka- Katalin
Ma- Maku
Am- Amber
Ri- Richard
Cr- Crystal
1. Food (Ma)
2. Tour guide if it’s somewhere new (Am)
3. Binoculars (Ri)
4. DS and games (Do)
5. Map (M)
6. Clothes? They’re kinda useful you know. (Cr)
7. Bag to pack it all in (Ka)
**
Tell us about a time you were early, and a time you were late
Well, according to everyone else I am late for just about everything, I say that I get there when I plan to get there, kind of like wizards, only not, because I really do do it on purpose. But I suppose one could say that I am occasionally late for things that I didn’t plan to be late for.
Part of me would say that I was late getting to Oysten the day he killed himself. I should have gone straight to his room and checked that he was ok instead of arguing with Donnelly.
When was I last early? Hm… good question. I don’t like being early because being early to things can give people the wrong impression about you: eager, enthusiastic, hard worker, and all of that. That’s not me. I’ve got a feeling I was born a little early, and that probably really was the last time.
**
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-Ambrose Bierce
My day:
Wake up around noon, unless of course I have to get up in order to avoid people I don’t want to talk to, such as Kalmari warriors sent to take me ‘home’.
Lounge around in the house or go to the arcade and play games with Donnelly until we get bored/ run out of change.
Go to the SandWish and meet up with everyone, get something to eat and talk with people
Go home, have dinner with everyone.
Watch films until we all start feeling sleepy.
Send everyone home and go to bed.
Repeat ad nauseum.
This is how I spend my days, I personally do not think of it being misspent; I am conserving the energy I will need when I finally face my father himself.
**
Take a look at yourself from ten years ago, and then how you are today. Tell us two things that are different.
Martin
Ten years ago I would have been… 11.
I had just left the Kalmari estate, I was… I want to say that I was quieter and shy and stuff, but I wasn’t, and I know I wasn’t. I think I was more secretive. Don only found out about me because the Kalmari arrived and he overheard the conversation.
I was determined, to never go back that is, and I was secretly scared. I didn’t understand a lot about how life was outside the estates. It wasn’t like I was completely inept at it or anything, but things were still taking me by surprise.
These days I’m a lot more confident about things; I know how things work and I know what I’m allowed (and not allowed) to do, I know what I can get away with. I’m a lot less likely to get into a fight randomly with people I’ve never even met on the basis that they are picking on someone smaller than them. See, Don. You were lucky to meet me when you did.
Maku
Wow, ten years ago, that was before I met Martin and everyone, before I even knew they existed really.
I would have been running SandWish from the Green and by then I would have known Donnelly by sight, but not by name. He was a semi-regular back then. Now I’ve got my own building rather than a unit in a shopping centre. Heee.
I was engaged to Nate and waiting for him to come home and I certainly believed that I was truly in love with him then, but I guess I was having some doubts about the future- babies and being a good wife and things. Now I am engaged to Richard, am a mother (and a very proud one) and I KNOW that I love them both very, very much.
I think I would say that I was quite a bit crazier then. I don’t seem to get set off by little things as much as I used to. I have grown as a person ^_^
Katalin
Ten years ago I had a lot of anger, but I didn’t know what at, I was restless and antsy, I followed orders to the letter regardless of what they were. I would have killed myself if I had been ordered to do so.
I knew OF Martin, I didn’t really know him, despite us being siblings by adoption, and I certainly thought that his father was right to want to get Martin back when he left.
A lot of things were simpler back then because I just did what I was told and followed a routine that I knew and understood, now things change and I argue with instructions and I cause problems.
It’s more fun now. :)
Richard
I know that I have changed a lot over the last ten years. I have become more able to express myself, though I still have problems sometimes. I hadn’t met Maku then, and so there were no humans that I engaged with other than my father.
I didn’t want to have other people in my life then, and I didn’t understand why it was so important for other people. I understood nature; plants, animals, the weather and things like that, not people. I think that I understand people better now, though I know that there are always those who confuse me.
The members of the Main Family- Martin, Kathelina- were known to me by name and a little by sight. I did not know them personally, though Kathelina and I had fought against each other many times in practice. We did not like each other. Now I think there is a little respect.
(Amber and Crystal have politely asked that they not have to do this prompt as ten years ago they were both living very different lives in the South of France. Amber was 98 and Crystal was 72, and a man- at least in appearance)
**
Today, we encourage you to drabble about weapons.
The blacksmith pulled the metal out of the fire and looked at it, his forehead furrowed in confusion. His apprentice gave a curious glance and made a surprised noise “What is that?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never seen the metal do that before.” The blacksmith laid the metal against the anvil and started to hammer it while the apprentice kept the forge nice and hot.
With each strike of the hammer blue and silver sparks came off of the metal.
Heating, cooling, striking, shaping, sharpening; the sword slowly took shape; a long blade with a blue sheen going through it.
(This is about the creation of the Kalmari Water Blades, the favoured weapon of the clan Richard, Martin and Katalin are from. The method, that was originally an accident, to create the blue colour in the metal was passed down from master to apprentice and is still used amongst the Kalmari today)
Spring is in the air, and it's time for travel, excursions, school breaks, and mini-adventures! What do you take when you go on holiday? Sunscreen, hiking boots, faerie repellent, a semi-automatic? This week, show us your packing list for an upcoming excursion.
The group decided to do the list together, these are the codes for whose item is whose:
M- Martin
Do- Donnelly
Ka- Katalin
Ma- Maku
Am- Amber
Ri- Richard
Cr- Crystal
1. Food (Ma)
2. Tour guide if it’s somewhere new (Am)
3. Binoculars (Ri)
4. DS and games (Do)
5. Map (M)
6. Clothes? They’re kinda useful you know. (Cr)
7. Bag to pack it all in (Ka)
**
Tell us about a time you were early, and a time you were late
Well, according to everyone else I am late for just about everything, I say that I get there when I plan to get there, kind of like wizards, only not, because I really do do it on purpose. But I suppose one could say that I am occasionally late for things that I didn’t plan to be late for.
Part of me would say that I was late getting to Oysten the day he killed himself. I should have gone straight to his room and checked that he was ok instead of arguing with Donnelly.
When was I last early? Hm… good question. I don’t like being early because being early to things can give people the wrong impression about you: eager, enthusiastic, hard worker, and all of that. That’s not me. I’ve got a feeling I was born a little early, and that probably really was the last time.
**
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
-Ambrose Bierce
My day:
Wake up around noon, unless of course I have to get up in order to avoid people I don’t want to talk to, such as Kalmari warriors sent to take me ‘home’.
Lounge around in the house or go to the arcade and play games with Donnelly until we get bored/ run out of change.
Go to the SandWish and meet up with everyone, get something to eat and talk with people
Go home, have dinner with everyone.
Watch films until we all start feeling sleepy.
Send everyone home and go to bed.
Repeat ad nauseum.
This is how I spend my days, I personally do not think of it being misspent; I am conserving the energy I will need when I finally face my father himself.
**
Take a look at yourself from ten years ago, and then how you are today. Tell us two things that are different.
Martin
Ten years ago I would have been… 11.
I had just left the Kalmari estate, I was… I want to say that I was quieter and shy and stuff, but I wasn’t, and I know I wasn’t. I think I was more secretive. Don only found out about me because the Kalmari arrived and he overheard the conversation.
I was determined, to never go back that is, and I was secretly scared. I didn’t understand a lot about how life was outside the estates. It wasn’t like I was completely inept at it or anything, but things were still taking me by surprise.
These days I’m a lot more confident about things; I know how things work and I know what I’m allowed (and not allowed) to do, I know what I can get away with. I’m a lot less likely to get into a fight randomly with people I’ve never even met on the basis that they are picking on someone smaller than them. See, Don. You were lucky to meet me when you did.
Maku
Wow, ten years ago, that was before I met Martin and everyone, before I even knew they existed really.
I would have been running SandWish from the Green and by then I would have known Donnelly by sight, but not by name. He was a semi-regular back then. Now I’ve got my own building rather than a unit in a shopping centre. Heee.
I was engaged to Nate and waiting for him to come home and I certainly believed that I was truly in love with him then, but I guess I was having some doubts about the future- babies and being a good wife and things. Now I am engaged to Richard, am a mother (and a very proud one) and I KNOW that I love them both very, very much.
I think I would say that I was quite a bit crazier then. I don’t seem to get set off by little things as much as I used to. I have grown as a person ^_^
Katalin
Ten years ago I had a lot of anger, but I didn’t know what at, I was restless and antsy, I followed orders to the letter regardless of what they were. I would have killed myself if I had been ordered to do so.
I knew OF Martin, I didn’t really know him, despite us being siblings by adoption, and I certainly thought that his father was right to want to get Martin back when he left.
A lot of things were simpler back then because I just did what I was told and followed a routine that I knew and understood, now things change and I argue with instructions and I cause problems.
It’s more fun now. :)
Richard
I know that I have changed a lot over the last ten years. I have become more able to express myself, though I still have problems sometimes. I hadn’t met Maku then, and so there were no humans that I engaged with other than my father.
I didn’t want to have other people in my life then, and I didn’t understand why it was so important for other people. I understood nature; plants, animals, the weather and things like that, not people. I think that I understand people better now, though I know that there are always those who confuse me.
The members of the Main Family- Martin, Kathelina- were known to me by name and a little by sight. I did not know them personally, though Kathelina and I had fought against each other many times in practice. We did not like each other. Now I think there is a little respect.
(Amber and Crystal have politely asked that they not have to do this prompt as ten years ago they were both living very different lives in the South of France. Amber was 98 and Crystal was 72, and a man- at least in appearance)
**
Today, we encourage you to drabble about weapons.
The blacksmith pulled the metal out of the fire and looked at it, his forehead furrowed in confusion. His apprentice gave a curious glance and made a surprised noise “What is that?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never seen the metal do that before.” The blacksmith laid the metal against the anvil and started to hammer it while the apprentice kept the forge nice and hot.
With each strike of the hammer blue and silver sparks came off of the metal.
Heating, cooling, striking, shaping, sharpening; the sword slowly took shape; a long blade with a blue sheen going through it.
(This is about the creation of the Kalmari Water Blades, the favoured weapon of the clan Richard, Martin and Katalin are from. The method, that was originally an accident, to create the blue colour in the metal was passed down from master to apprentice and is still used amongst the Kalmari today)