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Owner's Name: Nisshou H
Participating Soquili: Devmani
Link to Teepee: xXx
Moving into the heart of summer it seems that everything is stirring. What creature is it that frightens you the most and why?: Devmani stood picking through a pile of apples as he pondered over the question. What creature frightened him? Well there were a lot of those, unsure of the best answer he took to muttering to himself, "Well worms are always a problem...don't want to bite into one of those...bees...beavers get pretty mean when you try to stand on their dams...crows get right nasty...then there are kalona...or walkers..." He paused and looked down, there was something tickling his foot. It was a beetle. "Ah! That's it! Fleas! Fleas scare me the most. They bother my dear Aditi so that she never gets a moments rest. It is a very scary thought."

If you are scared of something that you can’t physically force away, how do you make yourself feel more courageous?: "Can't force away physically? You mean something in my head? Well that's easy! I can feel more courageous by pretending that it doesn't exist!"

How can you help others to feel braver against their own fears?: "Well I distract them of course! You can't feel afraid if you don't remember what you were scared of in the first place!"

Owner's Name: AislingJuno
Participating Soquili: Regin
Link to Teepee: x
Moving into the heart of summer it seems that everything is stirring. What creature is it that frightens you the most and why?: “ Flying flesh eaters,” Regin shuttered at the thought. Those like crazed winged kalona, owl walkers, Baba Yaga and others. To be hunted by both land and air quite scares me for you have the ability to escape a groundbound flesh eater but to be hunted from either angle makes your chances so very slim.

If you are scared of something that you can’t physically force away, how do you make yourself feel more courageous?: “ I make up jokes or how to get even with my enemies in the most hilarious way possible. I can conquer my fear if I make what scares me funny and amusing. To have the power of laughter takes away power that evil holds over you.”

How can you help others to feel braver against their own fears?: I make them laugh and smile at them. Few soq can resist smiling if others around them are smiling.

Owner's Name: ladyfirefox89
Participating Soquili: Roarian
Link to Teepee: Here
Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?: Roary smiled, maybe a little devilishly. "If a smile can, I suppose luck can too. Both being a state of mind."

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?: Roarian responded instantly "Of course not!" He paused then "Well, I guess if they didn't believe in luck, they wouldn't really miss it much...."

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?: Roarian scuffed a hoof in the dirt as he thought. "I can picture instances of doing so. If I had offspring for one...." He hid a little in his hair at the mention of kids and becoming so close with another being that offspring would happen. "If I ever got to that phase that is..."

Owner's Name: Nymphalidae
Participating Soquili: Gabrielle
Link to Teepee: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=11690509
Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?:
"I'm not sure... but I would certainly like to think so. Think of how many soquili could be helped if we were able to share our good luck with others?"

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?:
"Good Heavens, no. It should be a choice. I'd never wish bad luck on another! Unless -- I suppose, I would like to take the good luck from skinwalkers. Such vile creatures don't deserve it."

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?:
"For my mate and... one day, our foals -- yes, I absolutely would."

xD This is going to be fun. /mute soq

Owner's Name: Roman Foi
Participating Soquili: Damir
Link to Teepee: Here
Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?:
Damir stared at the strange creature, sort of confused why it would be musing such weird things allowed. It took him a few moments to realize that it expected an answer. He raised his eyebrows, and shrugged before giving it much thought... Well, if you're around a lucky person, good things can happen to you in the halo effect... but other wise, no, not really. What a weird thing to wonder.

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?:
He pursed his lips to the side and looked up as he thought. He didn't have much to give. And he thought of Duff. Well... what's a little less luck? He nodded, not hesitant in the least.

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?:
Well... its about the same thing, he supposed. He shrugged with a small nod. Why not?

Owner's Name: LydaLynn
Participating Soquili: Akos
Link to Teepee: Teepee
Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?: Akos ponders the question for a moment. "No. No, I don't think so. If luck could be transferred, it wouldn't be luck. Luck is . . . random chance. I don't think I believe in good or bad luck, just chance that seems to follow a pattern."

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?: "You mean . . . somehow ensure that random chance always fell in my favor in exchange for it never falling in someone else's favor? That . . . that's just cruel. No. I wouldn't do that." Akos is sure of that answer. To force someone else to have bad things happen to them all the time was not right and he wasn't about to contemplate doing that. No matter what it got him.

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?: A look of puzzlement crosses Akos' face. "No. Some things are sure. The sun will rise, water is wet. Some things are not sure, the clouds will hide the sun, the river will run dry. Part of growing, being stronger, is dealing with things that aren't always going in your favor. If you make everything easy for someone, you stunt their ability to grow. Sure, maybe you take away some pain. But pain is a great teacher. To take away all the options for bad to happen to someone . . . isn't really much nicer than taking away all the good."

Owner's Name: Novablu
Participating Soquili: Cyanide Stardust
Link to Teepee: Link

Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?:
The dark mare, her pelt streaked by rainbow skeletal patterns, flicked her ears back at the winds that whispered this question; the steamy August breeze flitting through her hair like dampened fingers. Glowing eyes zeroed in on a single cloud, a cloud she could see herself talking to, and she offered a smile. “Luck, well that all depends. For all I know, the bone necklace that I wear—even though I don’t know where it came from—is lucky. But…let’s say luck is hereditary, for the record. So maybe my future puplets will have my good luck, eh?”

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?:

She stilled as the wind stilled, her wagging tail lowering to rest between her thighs; were they asking her if she would rip someone’s luck away from them, like taking candy from a baby? Just reach in with a gaping maw of fangs and…shred it from that person’s soul? A shiver ran down her spine. “No,” she nearly growled. Though, somewhere in the back of her mind…she had the feeling that a little piece of her might do it, just to one-up someone…but whom, she couldn’t recall…

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?: Cyanide snorted, the clouds forming in the sky turning dark with rain and the electricity through the air sent the feeling of spikes down her spine. “I’d rather not. I’m already unlucky enough to have lost…everything.” More than she could imagine—literally. She had no memories. “But for the right person? Maybe.”

Owner's Name: FallenThroughMidnight
Participating Soquili: Dathúil
Link to Teepee: Teepee
Do you believe that luck can be passed from one person to another?: Why ever would it not be? Haven't you ever heard someone wishing another luck? Where else would you expect it to come from?

If you could force such a transfer of good luck would you do it even if it left the other with no good luck at all?: Oh no, never. That would be a truly terrible thing to do. Luck comes and goes, and sometimes it turns up when you need it most. Imagine if taking it left the other person unlucky when they needed it, and you didn't need it so badly as they did. Luck makes its own way. Respect it.

Would you take someone’s bad luck upon yourself if you could?: Good and bad, luck has its own way of doing things. If their luck is bad enough I wouldn't mind lending them a hoof or wing, but life is full of ups and downs. That is the point. If there were no downs, where would the ups go? If there was no bad luck, where would the good luck go? No, good or bad, a soquili's luck belongs only to themselves.