Genkai

Surviving the Struggle

Lookin' forward to it.

Surviving the Struggle

@Aphelion If you don't think it would be fixed in the next few days, we could skip you this round. But if you think life plus the technical difficulties would make posting every 6-10 days (it looks like our pace here won't be speedy) would be hard for you, then I'd suggest that @Arcanaut could take the slot as the Ivory Warden, if it suits them and their idea.

Surviving the Struggle

Alright, with any luck the others can keep things moving in the mean time. If you want to just post the CS or even PM it to me, I can take a look while you figure out an appearance.

Cherry Blossoms Under the Silver Sky

Yep, good good post. KakaSaku is so fucking innocent, go figure huh? XP

[+url=Directlinkhere]a word[/url+] Just remove the +'s and you should be cool.

Yeah but they'll be super badasses. Everyone will look out. Water guns being fired everywhere man!

Cherry Blossoms Under the Silver Sky

Kyaaaa~ Such a cute post~! :3

Nah the woman doesn't need to see, it's Sakura's and no one else's now hahaha! She's def gonna feel some feelings I think. It's almost as complicated as Arya and Joffrey. And you need to link an image in your post. If you do need to code, let me know. I just wanna be able to click it easily for ref (for science, I mean drooling...I mean science).

I am eager for them to slowly separate the student/teacher labels they have for each other. It'll happen. Soooooon. Ish.

I'll get us through a cute dessert and then I'll have them linger in the resturant and if you wanna take them back to the hotel, we could spend a post or two getting them ready for bed and laughing about how funny dinner was with lingering curiosity~

A Dragon's Roar: Beyond the Blood, Beyond the Blight

Kingdom of Ferelden: Camp, somewhere in the south...

Since Julien hadn't protested to her proposal and left, Wystellia was content to carry on with her own personal quest to find actual sustenance that didn't leave a raw sourness in her mouth. When Julien had vanished into the woodwork, she went off in the other direction, now wishing she had her bow and arrows which would have made hunting much easier. The mage pushed some branches out of her way as she kept moving east, making notes of the landmarks in the area so she didn't lose track of where she was, as well as where she was coming from. After five minutes, she noticed the footprints of a small animal. It was likely a squirrel or a fox, possibly a rabbit.

Her eyes went upwards into the trees surrounding her.

Nothing up there...

Wystellia looked around and heard something in the distance. She ran ahead, staff raised and ready to fire. She saw the ass of a white rabbit scamper off. Unlike most, she didn't hesitate. She didn't see the middle ground to second guess herself. In the moment, she needed to eat, she needed to survive and in order to keep going, the rabbit needed to die. It wasn't cute or a pet, no, it was sustenance. She fired an icy beam at it but missed. "Damn." She kept jogging, feeling her breath shorten already. Wystellia fired again and slipped on the ground, landing on her face. Her first thought was, 'Well at least Julien isn't here to witness this.' as she raised her head to see the thing duck into a small hole.

Her chin scraped against the ground and she pushed herself up and saw her skinned knees and dirty legs. "What a mess." She sighed and got up, not bothering to heal herself until she was victorious. The woman quickly hurried over to the hole at the base of a tree and pointed her staff at the opening. "Come on out or I'll roast you all, not that it's necessary..." She backed up and looked to see other holes in the ground and realized they were small underground tunnels for the creatures to travel safely. She envied them and began to climb the tree, hoping that the higher vantage point would give her a good place to shoot down anything that emerged from the holes.

Five minutes later, a fox poked its head out and she fired at it. She killed it with several small arcane bursts and jumped down from where she was. That was how life worked, it seemed. You got lucky and other times, you didn't. Surprised worked out but sometimes it was just down to chance. Wystellia picked up the limp creature and began to head back toward the campsite, wondering if Julie would have returned by now or not. She was ready to get some shut eye and the sun hadn't even set yet. When she got back, she set the dead fox by the fire pit where she had put her previous collection of brush for the fire's fuel. 'I won't worry yet.' She told herself and went back out.

Now her eyes were on the look out for berries and herbs.

After traveling a bit more north, she found a bush filled with raspberries and collected as much as she could carry in her bag and then headed back. When she returned the second time, she saw Julien had made his way back but it appeared as though he had come across a fight of some sort. Her eyes looked over him. "Guess I missed the fun." She said as she went over and started the fire with her staff and nudged the fox with her foot until it laid on the fire so its fur could burn off during the cooking process. "I harvested some berries for tomorrow's breakfast." She told him as she turned her attention back toward him.

"Do you need to be healed?" She asked him, now wishing she had found some kind of nest with eggs or some water source for them. For now, they were in better shape than she thought they'd be. Wystellia stepped away from the smoke of the fire. It didn't feel like anyone was watching them but they needed to be careful, Julien's return was evidence of that. At least they had food and could make more progress tomorrow. The girl was already planning on sleeping in a bed tomorrow night and being able to wash the dirt off of her. Though she was also aware that they may need to do some jobs around the next area and try to make some coin or else they'd have to find things to barter with.

Being a Grey Warden hardly meant getting things for free.

A Dragon's Roar: Beyond the Blood, Beyond the Blight

Kingdom of Ferelden: Somewhere in the south...

The man was right, when they did end up making camp for the night, the needed traps and materials could come after the assessment had been made. Wystellia was hoping he had a better handle on that but she assumed he might, considering his specialty. She finally moved over to her fish where it was waiting for her. Unlike Julien, she didn't wish to eat something raw or even half-cooked, she wanted to be sure any pests had been killed during the cooking process. Things could pop out and kill her at any moment, the last thing she wanted to do was to give her body some kind of enemy it had to deal with.

Tearing open her fish, she let the steam rise before she picked at it.

Using her fingers to pick out meat the remove bones, she listened as Julien considered her plan and then wondered if they could find any other kind of Darkspawn. From a scholarly standpoint, it was an interesting idea to consider other types of Dawkspawn that have yet to be discovered and documented. The man continued to say they could show it around and even dress it up, considering they had trained it prior. She grinned and shook her head. She wondered if there was ever a time far back in history when those tables were perhaps turned on them, with the Darkspawn being to rampant and being in awe of humans and dwarves and elves.

"Another mouth to feed? It better make us a lot of money." She just told him.

Of course the act of enslaving something or someone didn't sit well with her. Even if she wasn't an elf, she didn't think she'd be alright with forcing someone around against their will, even if it was a Darkspawn. Wystellia had enough of her fish, which wasn't much but considering she felt disgusted by what she had eaten, and stood up, ready to leave the remains to any hungry wolves. Using her tongue to try to remove some fish between her teeth, Julien asked if they were ready to move again. "You bet." She told him and finally managed to suck the bit out and swallow it with a grimace.

"I just gotta get that vile taste out of mouth." She grumbled and dug out the two apples. "You can carry yours." She tossed him one as she kept the other and took a small bite out of it. The sweet crispness was a relief and did nothing to cause her guilt. Saving them was pointless, they needed extra strength for their task ahead: survival. Once they retraced where they had originally come from, they continued to follow the path until a new one was located that was going in the direction they favored.

As they walked, they encountered three more instances of needing to fight, either from Darkspawn or animals without care. By the time the sun was on its way down, Wystellia was pretty tired and trying to keep an eye out for a good place to stop for the night since it was clear they wouldn't be running into a town or village within the next hour or two. "The more north we go, the less dense the woods are becoming, that's a promising sign." She mentioned as they continued on. Up ahead and to the right, she saw a small clearing where others had clearly camped, based on the fire pit and indentations in the ground where tents and blankets once stood.

"That looks good to me." She smiled and ran up ahead, as if worried a pack of travelers were about to claim it for themselves.

Once she reached it, she spun around, inspecting the area. "This means we're on the right track." She told Julien as she hurried to get some branches and twigs for the fire so it could burn on its own throughout the night. "Why don't you go deal with traps and I'll see if I can catch us something for dinner. You know, something with four legs and no scales?" She smirked. If only she had her pouches of seasoning and bag of rice, then she would have been able to make a great hearty stew for their first night on their own.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

A little sluggish.

Surviving the Struggle

I'd really push for an anime picture yes, to go with the aesthetic of everything else. If you are struggling, I could try to help you find more appropriate pictures, I know it's not easy for someone who is more adult/middle aged.

A Symphony of Elements

I'm hoping at this point with everything kind of on the line, both Lin and Pema would try to behave and know that personal feelings aside, there is a bigger picture. Pema gave Tenzin a family and made him happy, while Lin looks after them, kind of works?

Asami would be happy with whatever they do, she's not a picky gal.

Bolin and Korra should have been a couple in season one. It's not our fault the writers blew the chance they had. It'll take some time but I'm hoping they'll be super good.