Michael: Bring Emuna in here! She almost beat me!

Svensteel: *Under his breath* not a hard thing to do...

Michael: Well I ought'a!

Me: Remember the task at hand people!

Me: *shrugs* *poofs Emuna in*

Emuna: *raises eyebrow* If I recall correctly... I did beat you.

Me: Emuna, don't be so prideful.

Emuna: *gets caught up on what's going on* They did what to Zaelinia??? *jumps on Levi's Klard* Go.

Levi: I can't go! I don't know how to make it go!

Emuna: Have you tried kicking it?

Levi: That doesn't seem wi-

Emuna: *kicks the Klard*

Me: It's caffeinated without the S.

Tynx: [Tail twitches]

Aelynn: Aye, I'm coming. Seymour... already left.

Corelle: He'll get lost.

Aelynn: [Smiles] He knows his way around. We may not have as sharp hearing as Elves, but we give them a run for their money sometimes.

Me: Where on earth did you pick up that phrase?

Tesmir: The lady hath become too worldly- [Gets a dictionary to the face] Ow! What is wrong with you?!

Chayn: [Sniffs Svensteel's shoulder] I am coming.

Michael: I completely drugged your dragon and you were falling to the earth to your doom! I then; was kinda feeling like I was being mean and sent in a walrus brigade to stop you from falling! I didn't want you to die!



*The Klard lays down, closes its eyes, and camouflages itself to be alike to the surroundings*
(DEVELOPMENT!!! I didn't know they could do that?!?! )




Svensteel: May I ask why you are sniffing my shoulder?

Emuna: *glares at Michael* Humph. Spare the mercy next time and just-

Levi: Can we save this for another day, when an innocent girl and young man are not in dire danger?!

Emuna: *kicks Klard again* Stupid beast. *kicks Klard repeatedly* Go!

Levi: I don't know if you should do that...really.

Emuna: Do you want to save her?!

Levi: Yes! But I can't save her if I'm eaten by a Klard!

Emuna: *pauses* Fine... *gets off Klard and whistles softly*

Levi: *waits* All...right... This girl is officially insane.

Avneet: *swoops down and carefully picks up Levi and Emuna in her mouth, then places them on her back* Where to?

Levi: It's...a...a...a...a.... What is it?!

Avneet: A taninim dragon, thank you kindly, boy. No need to fear, though...I'm not in the mood to eat anybody today.

Avneet: *slowly follows Svensteel* *sighs* You humans are so slow... *spreads wings and rushes past everyone in the direction Seymour ran in*

*falls into Character Introductions*
*ducks the duelists, avoids the games, coughs on the dust, looks over the chaos and prepares a speech*

Me: *talking really fast* Hello, everyone. I fell out of this thread a while ago and it grew really fast from there and I haven't kept up with it and it got long and scarier but I missed you all and so--

*breaks off abruptly as a pile of characters fall on top of me. a moment of disorganization proceeds as we all disentangle ourselves*

Jaidon: Where is this?

Me: You're a bit early. Stand out of the way and let me finish.

Celeste: Rolf?

Rolf: *muffled* Over here.

Me: Quiet for just a moment?

*characters are quiet*

Me: I don't know who's still here from before or what in the world you're doing so you'll have to pardon us as we try to catch back up to the breakneck pace of this thread.

So, onto the introductions! These are the main characters from my new WIP The Gatekeeper's Secret. I first wrote the book for Nanowrimo 2009, and it's in need of horrible editing, which I am now doing. *nods to Rolf*

Rolf: *untangles himself from the rest of the characters* Hello, everybody, I"m Rolf, I'm from the valley of Cordez, I'm sixteen and I'm fire-born. Don't ask me to explain, it's complicated, and you probably know what it means anyway.

Jaidon: My name is Jaidon, but for the first half of the book I keep my name a secret. I'm fourteen, and Rolf is my best friend. I betrayed him in the beginning because I was afraid, but eventually I hear about Twydion and stop being afraid of everything.

Mya: I'm Mya, I'm fifteen, and I'm Jaidon's sister. I'm from the village Avar in the northern mountains.

Alvera: I'm Alvera, I'm Jaidon and Mya's Mother.

Vorga: I'm Vorga, and I'm one of Twydion's People. We live in a large city underground called Dylann. Long ago our people were entrusted with keeping the Gates of Dylann safe but we were betrayed and the Darkness came through, destroying everything. I am a doctor by trade, but I am one of the few who remember how to read and I am dedicated to restoring the Dylann empire for the glory of Twydion.

Darva: I'm Darva, I'm Vorga's apprentice. In earth years you would say I am thirteen. I'm not a POV character so my author might kick me out despite the fact that I'm very instrumental in saving Jaidon's life.

Jaidon: you save my life?

Me: Next!

Celeste: I'm Celeste, the daughter of the Sadinese Ambassador to Dylann. I was there when the gates were opened and the Dark came through, but I was caught in the trees and locked in some kind of stasis. When Rolf found me it had been hundreds of years since I fell asleep.

Vorga: Three hundred and fifty, to be precise.

Celeste: So I'm three hundred and sixty five years old.

Me: *whispers to other authors* She's Rolf's girlfriend, eventually.

Morganus: I'm Morganus, the King of Lannah. When Mya mysteriously appeared in my cellar she convinced me to come with her to see for myself the wonder of the underground cavern. Eventually we will escape from the powers of darkness and I will make her my queen. I'm also not a POV character, so the author might not have time to keep up with me in this thread.

Celeste: I'm not a P-p-whatever you call it. Does that mean I'll have to go?

Rolf: Oh, don't worry about it. We'll have so much fun she won't notice we're here.

Me: that does not sound good...

Rolf: *smirks*

Me: Now then, to clear up something, Darva and Vorga are not your typical people. They're part of a race that's lived underground for a thousand years. They're short (about 4') and dark skinned. They also have six fingers. (on each hand.) They live in a really cool steampunk city.

Svensteel: Welcome Rolf! You seem like an agreeable soul! But pray? What are you doing out of your cave?

Me: What is he talking about?

Svensteel: I read her story! It's really good! Anyway... I'll catch you up guys;
A infamous slave trader has captured two characters, Ark (Leandra's I think) And Zaely (Bethy's character). We are going into the enchanted forest of Felsdale to find the gateway into my world where Kehme (the bad guy) took them! Bethy's characters got on a dragon, and we are one 6-footed horses who can camoflouge themselves named Klard! Ya'll ready to go?

Chayn: Habit, I suppose.

Seymour: [Slows to a stop to wait for the others] Hurry, everyone!

Aelynn: [Follows everyone]

Corelle: [Nods in greeting to Vanya's characters] Welcome.

Mordir: [Glances their way, but says nothing]

Me: Don't mind him. He's just been regenerated after a failed rebellion. I wanna read Vanya's story!

Tynx: [Tail twitches again]

Me: Oh, he's gonna be a handful.

Tesmir: He was a handful since day one.

Seymour: [Pats the creature's shoulder good-naturedly] I'll run alongside. But thank you.

Aelynn: [Comes up behind Svensteel] Prince-

Seymour: I'll be fine. One less rider will mean one less source of noise.

Chayn: [Flying overhead] If you two legged ones would keep quiet, noise wouldn't be an issue.

Me: And, what are you doing?

Chayn: Talking, but my voice can be heard without having to yell. It's like Sapphira's, but not in people's minds.

Mordir: You're all crazy.

Me: You're just grumpy. Go talk to Vanya's peoples.

Mordir: I'd just pass along the grumpy-ness.

Tynx: [Explodes into life. Starts running around in frenzied circles and back and forth rows (or whatever)] I feel great!!!!

Tounon: Take cover, everyone.

Zurik: And I thought Cassie was annoying.

Cassie: Hey! I heard that!

Mordir: [Smiles. But scowls when pushed toward the others]

Me: Go socialize.

Mordir: My occupation doesn't normally call for socializing.

Me: Well it's always good to start a new trend.

Dri: Gladly! *jumps off the Klard and beckons everyone to the forest.* Keep up with me if you can! *Chants a spell able to make him run faster than a Klard and zooms off.*

Me: He's too rambunctious.

Aelynn: [With the help of Seymour, dismounts from the Klard]

Seymour: Stay close to me. Don't go running off.

Aelyn: Now what makes you think I'd do a thing like that?

Chayn: [Circles overhead] Where is the fortress, Sven?

Levi: * jumps off Avneet * Which direction are we headed?

Emuna: * stays on Avneet * I'll hang back....

Me: Yeah, three character limit. * vanishes Emuna and Avneet who were entirely out of character anyways *

Svensteel: Quiet! You will awaken the forest being so loud!



Svensteel: The path to the fortress is inside a cave, the cave is inside a forest, we should be inside that forest right now! So lets hustle!

Michael: Hey! Svensteel! You are taking up all of the words and creativity of my author! I want to be developed too!


Svensteel: Well I guess I'm just more important!

Michael:


*Gilead walks in*

Gilead: Can I be developed?

Michael: *turns around* No! You are late for this quest! Your writer should have started writing your story sooner!

Me: Sorry Gilead!

Gilead: *walks away slowly*

Dri: *Zooms quietly back* Whoops! I should have known. I hate to think of what could be happening to them.

Chayn: [Manages to land near everyone else, furling her wings slowly, so as to not hit anyone] Will I be able to fit?

Seymour: What now? Is it heavily guarded in there?

Tesmir: Mordir should so totally go. He could-

Mordir: Stay right and not get involved. I doubt they'd want me, anyways.

Tynx: [Is running around in crazy circles, shouting out random nonsense, which sometimes isn't even understandable]

Me: Sheesh, if one bottle does that to him, what would one of those barrels do?

Tounon: Kill him, most likely.

Tesmir: That's a pleasant thought, Tou. Thank you.

Michael: I believe it would be pretty well-guarded, but first we have to find the cave in this forest!

Svensteel: Yep! And author decided to spice things up and make it an enchanted forest! Didn't you author!

Me: Yes I did Svensteel!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Dri: Let's go and find it now! The captives we're trying to save are probably tired of waiting for us already.

Svensteel: Indeed Dri! Into the forest!



Me: What is that?

Dri: I don't know, but we have manpower enough to hold it off if needs be. Let's go. *Beckons for the party to follow him.* I promise I'll be quieter this time.

*everyone walks into the dangerous forest* *they feel claustrophobic; seeing of all of the large trees and plants; it's almost like a prison.
*they hear the angry growls of creatures all around them*

*they feel the stinging intimidation of two large red eyes staring at them through the forest wall... something was watching them; something big.*

Levi: Fear is not in my vocabulary.... Can we move along faster and save Zaely...and Ark?

Me: * thwacks Levi * Shhh! This is fun to read!

Levi

Me: We would move faster if the next post was someone talking to that giant beasty in front of you and your company!

Svensteel: Aye, it doesn't seem to have good intentions...

It's from a play I did a long time ago. Great fun.

*Svensteel hushes the group, and points to Michael*

*Michael grabs three throwing daggers, and dips them in a poison*

*He looks into the eyes of the beast, and throws*

*The two red lights went dark, and then... a rumbling*

*The group looks up to see a great dragon, the size of a house; pushing aside the tree between them as if it was made of papyrus... it stood angrily there, looking down; then he started to attack*

Chayn: [Takes to the air as the group heads into the forest] I'd make more noise in there than all of you.

Aelynn: [Hesitates, but follows close close behind Seymour]

Seymour: [Silently passes Aelynn a dagger]

[My characters freeze when the dragon appears.]

Seymour: How in Allare can the brute fit in this forest?

Chayn: [Slams down into the dragon from the sky, snarling]

Me: This is so intense!

Me: The forest is pretty big!

*Svensteel runs up a nearby tree and unsheathes rapiers*

*He jumps down onto the head of the dragon; peircing it's scull*

*the dragon gets up and shakes Chayn and Svensteel off of his back*

Chayn: [Snarls and snaps at the dragon's neck, crouching low]

Seymour: [Rushes up to the dragon and jumps, swiping his bladed staff at its snout]

Aelynn: [Hangs back nervously]

Levi: * shakes head * Maybe it's hungry! We should give it food...

Me: Do you know nothing about dragons?!

Levi: No...we don't have them in my world, remember?

Me: Oh, right.

Dragon: *bends one of its many legs to its head and kicks off the smaller dragon*



Dragon: *breathes fire; burning up the bladed staff*

Me: Ooh that's a shame!




Michael: It's ok! You get used to it all after a while; the adrenaline, the fear... come on now! *picks up Aelynn and puts her right next to the dragon*
Ok... legs apart, slight bend. Extend your weapon arm, bring it back.... and throw!

Chayn: [Backs up, snarling, spews a stream of poison at the dragon]

Seymour: [Face pales slightly as he retreats and few paces]

Me: It'll be back with the others, Sey, don't worry.

Aelynn: [Quivers slightly] What am I doing?

Seymour: [Looks at Michael firmly] I trust you know what you're doing. If anything happens to her. I will hurt you.

Chayn: Can someone tell me how we can get rid of this thing? [Looks at Levi] Most likely it's just angry at a certain thief here who attacked it.

Dragon: *howls and tries to wipe off the burning poison from it's skin*


Michael: You; my small freind... are slaying a dragon.
*pulls her hand back and swings it forwards, the dagger comes from her hands and flies into the dragon's left eye*

*the dragon turns around; and starts spewing fire at the two*

Michael: Not good! Not good!

*a great ball of flame bellows torwards Aelynn*

*Michael jumps in front of the fire-ball; keeping it from Aelynn, then falls to the ground- screaming in agony*





Michael: Now now, I am showing her how to wield a dagger, you could have done as much...

Me: Michael be nice or you are going off the thread!

Michael: Yes sir... *he mumbled*





Michael: I didn't attack it first!

Chayn: The more skin it touches, the more it burns.

Aelynn: I am?! [Lets Michael take her through the steps. Eyes widen in horror as the dagger hits]

Seymour: Aelynn! Michael!

Aelynn: [Kneels down by Michael] Try to relax, my friend.

Seymour: Svensteel, we need a plan. Chayn, get Michael to a healer.

Chayn: And leave you two-legged slowpokes to the dragon? I don't think so.

Seymour: Now, Chayn!

Fallen: *edges slowly away from Tynx*



Me: Sven, did I need to post with Ark again? Or do we just want to not have anything be happening at the fortress while the rescue is going on?

Me: *Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasp!!!!!!!!!!* *hyperventilates* Mental note, don't leave on a two week vacation and plan to stay up with Character Intros. I may drop out for good. This is tooooooooo big.

Me: Nah. He's ok sitting in his jail cell! Which one of your characters came along? *peers at the company*



Me: Maybe after we rescue those two people you might could come back? Or I could fill you in on what happened?

Me: Y'know, I think I might have forgotten to send any... *grabs Alaric and Dai and dumps them with the rescuers* There. Two swordsmen with no special powers to help in the rescue.

Svensteel: Michael should like that! Hmm... Michael? Oh yeah, where did Michael go?

Me: Lady Aris's character has him.

Svensteel: Ok then! *waits for Lillylight's post*

Elanhil? I thought you had worked something out with one of the other moderators so that they could fill you in while you were gone so you didn't have to keep up. Or are you just talking about keeping up in general? 'twould still work though. Rather than read through it nab someone who isn't behind via PM and get them to give a short overview.

I'll help Caleb!

Aelyn: Chayn, take Michael back to the others.

Chayn: [Hesitates] ...Fine. But I'm coming right back when he's settled. Is the dragon dead?

Seymour: [Gently puts Michael on Chayn, in front of Shawn] Fly carefully.

Chayn: You be careful. We're lucky that dragon didn't roast more of us. [Flies off]

Seymour: What's the plan now, Sven?

Tynx: [Comes to a halt, staring at Fallen] Pretty....

Tounon: I think I liked it better when the dragons were loaded with the stuff...

Fallen: *warily* What's pretty?

Dri: I don't know. Who needs help? I know some healing magic.

Me: Just so y'all know... I'm still reading... Levi is just going along quietly because...he's just the kind of guy that would do that in this situation.