The molarity of pure water is 55.5 mol/L. Is it just me, or is that number super satisfying?
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8 yrs ago
I find I'm much more productive when I make a list of check marks, then write whatever I end up doing next to them.
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9 yrs ago
I'm a grammar communist. Everyone has a right to grammar in equal amounts.
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9 yrs ago
I always either have lots of inspiration but no motivation, or tons of motivation and no inspiration. I'm not sure which sucks more.
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Bio
Current Favorite Quote:
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
"Wha-?" Onyx's words were cut out by the salty water that had suddenly filled her mouth, eyes, and ears. The creature had pushed her into the Sea! She shut her eyes as she thrashed around for a moment, looking for the surface. She sat up, and found that she was sitting in only about a foot of water. Spitting, hissing, and shaking her head to get the water out of her ears, she did not know how many times she swore at the creature, or even what she was yelling at it at all. She tried to stand, but her wings had soaked up enough water to throw off her balance, causing her to fall into the water again. She cursed some more, although these weren't really directed at anything, as she tried again to stand.
After her second failed attempt, she settled for crawling from the water to the shore. She was sure she looked ridiculous, and decided that she may 'accidentally' drop the creature once or twice along the way as payback. She coughed a few times when she got back on the dry sand, trying hard not to throw herself at the creature and skin it alive, even though those scales would make a pretty offering to her father... if it weren't for the scars...
She beat her wings a few times, shaking most of the water out. It would take a few minutes for them to dry enough for her to fly again, and she'd have to wash the salt out of her fur when she got back to the mountains as well. She was not pleased to see the smile the creature was wearing, it looked as if it thought it had won something.
"Teckn'aiz!" She hissed at the creature as she walked past it, towards her Tribe's nest. "Follow if you will, choose quickly though, I will leave you if you do not keep pace."
"That will not be necessary. As a tactial strategy the leader and those of highest rank live closest to the outer edge of the nest, and those who would need to be protected would live in the inner circle. Most enemies are unable to fly, so this works very well." Onyx paused before she spoke again, gauging the creature's reaction.
"Should it come to violence, I will fight to defend you. This is a promise." She held out her hand for the creature to take, and when it did she pulled it closer, wrapping her arms and wings around it in embrace.
"This is how I show a promise will be kept." She said after she had relased it. "We must go. Now."
"I- I could take you directly to our tribe leader... He is proud and does not keep guards. You could convince him the same way you convinced me." Onyx said before she could change her mind. She looked the creature up and down. It looked like it would be heavy to carry, and so she'd take longer to get back to the mountain camp of her tribe... But she was sure she could do it.
"You're going to have to trust me for a while. I'm going to carry you there."
"You are the last of your tribe..." It is... Alone. The word cut through Onyx to her heart, and she very nearly started to cry.
"My people wouldn't listen to you, as an outsider you have no right to speak to us. I don't even remember why I bothered to try and save you in the first place..." Onyx regreted having to say so. Her people would most likley kill the creature on sight, unless...
Unless she could sneak it in somehow so it could talk directly with her father first.
The scars were, horrible. Worse than anything Onyx had ever seen before. The shock the sight sent through her left her unable to do anything but float slowly down to the ground and stare. She suddenly felt, guilty, guilty for refusing to listen until now, and for reacting like a child. Yes, Onyx was 19 years old, but she has not gone through her tribe's rights of womanhood ceremony, which is held on the first day of the girl's 20th year, making Onyx currently little more than a child.
She was so shocked, she had barely noticed when the creature walked up to her and took its Relic back. All she could think to do is ask, "Are you in pain?"
Part of Onyx heard and understood the warning the creature was giving, the creatures he was referring to were certainly very advanced compared to the types of Relics her tribe had been able to restore. It did remain possible, however, that the creature could be delusional from the long-term affects of dehydration and separation anxiety. The other part of Onyx, the part that still believed that she shouldn't have been talking to the creature in the first place, only heard a challenge in the creature's words.
"You believe that no one may stand up to them and survive? Obviously, you have never met an Elissic before!" She was about to charge at the creature, aiming to push it into the water, when she noticed and remembered the creature's powerful relic, which it was now holding by the barrel at its side. Implementing her new plan, she quickly flew up into the air and out of view. Maneuvering quickly, she managed to get behind the creature and snatch the relic from it before it had realized where she was.
"I hope you can swim, creature!" She said darkly as she pushed it into the dark water, causing a large splash of salt-water that Onyx dodged easily in the air.
Age: Physical age, 19. She's pretty smart though, because of her inquisitive nature. An IQ in the triple digits.
Mageblood type: Natura
Favoured Magic Class: Herbamancy
Previous Magic training: No official training, but she does know she has Mageblood and can use it a little in dire situations. There was a small disaster in her town when she was a kid, and that's when she found out.
Race: Human Yarosmerian
Short Bio: Born in a small town in the desert, she lived there with her grandmother and a few other children who had been orphaned by the war. She and the others were fast friends, especially one boy named El’kan, and they would often go exploring around outside the village. One day they all went to an Oasis that was about an hour’s walk from the village, but when they got there they were ambushed by a small group of weak demons and the Novice Demonmancer that had summoned them. At their master’s command, the demons started messing with the kids, picking some of them up and flying around by the tops of the trees while the other kids threw rocks and sand at the mage. One demon even tried to carry off E'nasha, confusing her with an image of a beautiful meadow and the scent of blooming flowers. She nearly forgot where she was, until a stone hit her inn the head, breaking her from the illusion. She struggled against the demon, causing him to drop her, and the other demons started dropping the other children randomly, them just barely landing in the bushes and ferns around the Oasis. Suddenly, the ferns that the children had fallen into sprung into action, wrapping themselves around the mage to stop his movement, and distracting the demons from the children.
Just as everyone was starting to run back to the village, E’nasha fainted, and the others had to carry her back to the village. When they got back, they told granny what had happened at the Oasis. Granny figured out almost immediately that she had Blood Sickness, and made the others leave them alone for a few days so E’nasha could rest. When she woke, Granny had her tell everything that had happened from her point of view. Granny told her that her anger had probably been what awakened her mageblood and caused the plants to save her and her friends. When E’nasha questioned her, Granny went to get an old book, turning it open to a beautiful picture of a woman who looked much like E’nasha, but was much wiser-looking. Granny told her that that was a picture of herself when she was quite a few years younger, and that E’nasha might have the same powers as herself, Natura mageblood.
The next few days, E’nasha and her grandmother prepare to move north, out of the desert regions, and into the nice, wooded area that Granny had grown up in. Not even three minutes after they had left, did El’kan and E’nasha’s other friends catch up to them. Granny tried to send them back home, saying that it was too dangerous to venture too far out of town, until El’kan started swirling sand around them in a small, slow tornado. It turns out that El’kan’s father uses Geomancy, the other type of Natura mageblood, and had trained El’kan in the use of it, at least until he had enough skill to impress Granny. Because of this Granny let him come with them to live with them in the forest until the two of them were old enough to attend the college.
For the next few years, E’nasha, El’kan, and Granny lived together in the forest north of the desert. Granny was strong enough to protect them all from the minor demons that would somehow stumble by on occasion, and she was able to demonstrate her powers to E’nasha and help E’nasha learn to consciously control a plant enough to give it a quick growth spurt. Granny couldn't help El’kan much, so he focused on testing his limits and helping E’nasha find her’s as well. Basic Herbamancy was not the only thing E'nasha struggled with though. Ever since they had come to the forest, E'nasha would regularly have nightmares, and randomly got Blood Sickness sometimes after one. She would often wonder why, and her thoughts always drifted back to the Oasis, and her struggle with the demon. She eventually developed a great fear of demons because of these nightmares.
One day, El'kan decided to try something stupid. He had Granny off somewhere kind of far from the small house they lived in in the forest, and lured a few demons to where he and E’nasha were foraging berries. One of the demons grabbed E’nasha from behind, making her completely unable to move. In her fear her subconscious mind caused her to use her power to trap the demon in a tree, and chase off the other demons just before she blacked out. She woke up again in her room, her Granny telling her that she had managed to get Blood-Sickness again from her subconscious taking over during the surprise attack. El’kan timidly stepped forward and told Granny what he had done, and because of what Granny said to him then, he began to grow up. Granny told him that no-one was perfect, and we would all make some pretty bad mistakes throughout our lives, but to have the respect and caring for another human being to come out and admit when you’ve screwed up is the mark of a good person.
In the next year, (The last one until they could go off to the college) E’nasha got a pet Raven whom she named Sir Ithslala Ra’vin, or Sir for short. She managed to train Sir to do various tasks, such as fetch small things, distract demons, and write in the dirt with his beak. She, El’kan, and Sir all arrived at the college on a dark, stormy day, after the trip took much longer than they thought it possibly ever could. Their adventures begin now.
Good Attributes: Good at surviving in most situations, and because of her desert heritage survival in hot and harsh conditions (or where water is hard to find) is easier for her. Sir can do errands and write notes over long distances in a fairly short amount of time (She trained Sir, she is good with animals). She is very smart, and makes friends easily.
Bad Attributes: She often has nightmares, and is afraid they may come true because of how realistic they are. (They are prophetic dreams caused by the demon attempting to possess her at the Oasis.) She sometimes gets Blood Sickness from these nightmares. She feels that she has to keep secrets to protect her friends and comrades, although she worries that if they find out about all the secrets it'll upset them and she'll lose all her friends. She also has Genophobia: the fear of romantic or sexual acts (though it's kind of minor unless she feels threatened by the person as well).
Secret Word: Rebirth
Other/World Building:
"I'm Emmika Nash-Williams which is shortened to E'nasha (Williams), and El'kan (Rovis) is really Ellin Ka-Rovis. The compound names are a traditional way of keeping track of lineage in our village, and I have no idea if any other people in Yarosmere or even the rest of Tiien do this or not, but it works fine for us." - E'nasha, speaking to Baulder.
The full name of a person is whatever first name the parents choose, the last name of the mother, and then the last name of the father. The two last names are always hyphenated together. Keeping the father's names as the last name is how the villagers keep track of lineage. Example:
Shortened names work like this: First Middle-Last = Fi'middlet Last
Emmika Nash-Williams = E'nasha Williams Ellin Ka-Rovis = El'kan Rovis
Rewards:
Yellow Ring Name: Illuminating Ring Description:
Type: Non-Combative/Combative Range: Individual to up to five meters Duration: Depends on the mode Other information: This ring, unlike the other two, has three different uses depending on how many taps you give the gem. One tap actives the first mode called Search, two taps active the second called Illumination and three taps actives the final mode called Flash.
Search mode is just as it sounds where the ring casts a soft, nightlight like glow to locate hidden items. The ring will flicker off and on when something is close by that the user is focusing on finding. When hot, the flickers increase rapidly to give a general and foot by foot area it is located within. However, when cold the blinking will cease into a steady, faint light much like a firefly would cast making it useless for a light source.
Illumination creates a light strength much like a campfire, lighting up several meters from the source. It is useful to see in most dark caves not affected by magic or unnatural reasons. Though unlike Electromancers who can increase and alter their light source, the ring is set at one level only at all times making it possible to be seen by others easily.
Flash is a sudden, blinding light that can affect both ally and foe alike if the user isn’t careful. When tapped, it makes a small hum for a warning to the user to protect their eyes then pops, shrouding everything within the scene in bright, white light. This will stun enemies, or allies, for a brief time unless they are knocked out of it prematurely by outside influences.
Green Ring Name: Stealth Ring Description:
Type: Non-Combative Range: Individual only Duration: An hour at max unless detected, than the ring is negated. Other information:
To activate it, the user must whisper the word ‘silentium’ near the ring’s gem. After activated, the magic casts an eerie green glow about the user and creates a vacuum that absorbs all sounds originating from the user. This means the user can move willing and normally, even jump, without a worry about creating a sound to give themselves away. They can even still hear everything with the same degree they did before. However, air disrupting, sight, scent and other means outside of sound can still give them away if the user isn’t careful. So they aren’t immune from detection in other forms.
The effect lasts up to an hour total which can be broken down to about several uses that total up to that hour. Players using that method are expected to use common sense and determine for themselves how much time has been used, keeping in mind that each single post will account for a few minutes each time and drain the overall total time usage. It can be negated though dispelling magic (arcanite based) being casted, someone hits the individual with an attack, or the user willingly deactivates it.
The creature didn't take long to reply, its voice was hard to listen to though. It had a slight hissing quality to it, and Onyx couldn't understand some of the words the creature used. Although, what she did understand sounded a lot like a threat, causing Onyx to explode. She started crouching into a defensive stance as she spoke, her voice thick with anger. "I do not care for your histories or beliefs. You say that your nest has fallen, I'll have you know the Elissics will never fall. No creature can match our speed, or our strength. This group you speak of will not even be able to reach us."
Needless to say, Onyx was surprised when the creature spoke. The water seemed to have energized it, and it was now babbling about an attack and needing to get to a city. She slowly picked up her knife and returned it to its sheath, taking the now-empty water-skin back from the creature. She gathered up the creatures things from behind the rock and placed them next to it as it sat, watching her. It looked thankful, and scared, and some mixture of emotions that she couldn't decipher.
A city... the nearest city was her own, but she couldn't bring it there. Her people would kill it on sight, not to mention that he could probably do much worse to her tribe with that relic of his. The next closest nest was across the desert, and even with her wings on her own it would take three days to get there from here...
She decided to cut off her involvement with it right then. "Not my problem." She said, trying to emulate the power of her father's voice when he gives a command. "I saved you, i owe you nothing." As she said that she stepped up onto the rock, about to take flight, when she decided to wait and see how the creature would respond. She pretended to be watching for something on the horizon while she waited.
[i]Current Favorite Quote:[/i]
[quote=Neil Gaiman]“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><span class="bb-i">Current Favorite Quote:</span><br><br><blockquote class="bb-quote">“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”<footer>Neil Gaiman</footer></blockquote><br><br></div>
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