Opens: Now! Closes: October 14th @ 11:59 PM EST! Reminder: If you won a Familiar the month of September you will not be eligible to win this pet.
Dancing beneath the glimmer of light that teased upon the surface, two octopodes linked tentacles together, colors shifting minutely as they took note of trembling within the greater ocean. The crash of waves upon the shore could not compare to this. Whatever caused these ripples was... quite deep down. Something... something that dwarfed them considerably. Something long rumored, but never before confirmed, save in the terrified whispers of travelers driven mad with fear. There was something afoot in the Kawani lands, something... sinister. Something that had begun with northern wolves, and finished here. But what? Legends told of many things, each more fearsome than the last. Perhaps it was an earthquake. Perhaps it was nothing at all.
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:19 pm
Prompt: It is well known that we each possess an innate ability to sense danger before it approaches, although not everyone is in tune with such a skill. Describe a situation in which you were in peril, and how you got out of it. Or perhaps how you rescued another. Maybe in fact you did not escape, and find yourself either scarred by the event, or still in the clutches of that other.
Magic has run rampant in the Kawani Lands for months now. Lately, the denizens of the deep have become frightened, although the source of their terror is unnamed and as of yet unknowable. Could it be that each individual event has been leading up to something greater still? Winter's cold bite did not destroy the Kawani Lands, try though it might, and each storm has been met with determination to press onward. Still, it is quite natural to fear for what may yet come.
**Please note: If your prompt response meets the word count requirement for stats you can also link your post in the monthly stat thread and count it as RP for your pony.**
Prizes
Not lost, but frightened, these octopodes are undoubtedly in need of a friend.
To enter: please post a current pre-existing RP (since July 2017) that is related to danger, escapes, rescues, or imprisonment! Each entrant will get at least one ticket -- non-staffers get two tickets by default. If you do not have a RP, please post a response to the above prompt.You may enter as many times as you wish, but each entry must be with a different character and with a separate RP. RPs must be at least five posts long to be counted. RP prompt responses may be as short as two sentences or two words! Cherie will even accept a single word, if emphatically stated. We're not asking for a novel. Once again, you cannot use the same RP for multiple Soquili!
Note: This will count for your September familiar freebie.
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[size=11][b]Username:[/b] Your name, of course. [b]Who are you entering with?[/b] Ideally a Soquili or familiar. If you have neither, please enter with a Kawani villager, etc. [b]Link to the RP you're using:[/b] [url=]Text[/url], please give a brief description. [b]Prompt response:[/b] If you do not have and do not wish to create a RP on this topic, please post a roleplay response here. [/size]
Riddles in the Dark
Username: Your name, of course. Who are you entering with? Ideally a Soquili or familiar. If you have neither, please enter with a Kawani villager, etc. Link to the RP you're using:Text, please give a brief description. Prompt response: If you do not have and do not wish to create a RP on this topic, please post a roleplay response here.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:16 pm
Riddles in the Dark
Username: Ebonrune Who are you entering with?Soini Link to the RP you're using: N/A Prompt response: Soini stood with his head down, shaking out on the waves his kirin heritage allowed him to stand upon even as his Kelpi half urged him to dive. It had just been a shadow in the forest along the beach, but he could have sworn he'd seen the eyes of the walker who had once held him in his clutches, who had tortured and experimented on him. Taken his voice. He still wished he could remember how he had escaped, but all he could remember was running. Running and running until his legs literally collapsed under him and he could run no more no matter how he'd tried to rise.
He felt a nudge and jumped before looking up at his half-brother Tait who had stepped out onto the waves after him. Tait didn't speak, but once he'd made Soini aware of him, stepped sideways to press against his side, telling his sibling without words that he was safe. Slowly, with Tait's urging, Soini returned to shore. Tait was strong where Soini was weak. He would keep him safe so he would never be found and hurt again. Soini believed that, and it allowed him to relax again at least a little.
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:35 pm
Riddles in the Dark
Username: Wasteland Wyvern Who are you entering with?Leilani Link to the RP you're using: N/A Prompt response: Leilani sighed as she milled about the darkened forest. Unable to sleep the tiny alicorn had decided a walk was in order and so she walked, deep into the woods thinking about her children and how badly they'd turned out. Though considering their father it wasn't exactly unexpected... How unfair it was for her to have been captured by the walker Tsaheylu but worst of all was that she'd come out from the encounter pregnant and badly wounded bodily as well as mentally... Quickly she shook her head trying to dispel the memories... Ah how she'd love to be able forget her entire life much like Blight's son Skaalbjorn. If only such things were so easy. As she walked she looked to the sky and the stars, pondering at literally nothing, just idle musings to quiet her troubled mind when she first heard the sounds. Initially she mistook the soft noises for the wind whispering through the trees but when she turned her ears to truly listen she heard it fully, the sound of a whisper soft voice that somehow set all her feathers bristling. Something in the voice rang back to her as irrevocably evil. Now her fur stood on end as well as her feathers bristling. The voice sounded as silky sweet and yet horribly wrong as Tsaheylu's had. She stepped forward carefully and came across an awful sight. The body of a stallion lay on his side his breathing ragged and obviously pained and over him stood a monster. A walker like and unlike Tsaheylu. Her light and dark brown coloring was very cat like with its spots but her paws gave her away as more. 'A purewalker...' She thought. She watched the flame eyed mare as she whispered cruel things to the horribly wounded stallion and then the purewalker turned and fled into the night leaving her victim behind. Leilani waited for a full ten minutes, listening to the pained moaning of the wounded stallion and still the walker did not return. She waited a few minutes more before she gently trod out and looked at the victim. A stallion of greys with a tail like a cat lay before her, badly wounded, one eye closed and bloodied. Taking charge, now that she was mostly sure the danger was gone she gathered up a large bough of a pine branch and biting onto the stallion's ankle she drug him as gently as she could upon it, then biting onto the branch started moving him out of the clearing. He left a small pool of blood behind him and she couldn't help but wince. If she didn't act soon he'd be dead. Finally she reached her cavern and pulled him inside, he winced and moaned and tried to open his ruined eye to find who was moving him, but his good eye rolled up into his head and he fell unconscious. She hummed in worry pulling him into her bedroom, onto the rushes she slept on and started to work on his shallower wounds, using a foul smelling but powerful poultice she smeared it onto his wounds, the pressed a large leaf to it to seal the poultice to the wound, hoping it would be enough. She could use her Unicorn magic, as weak as it was through her mixed blood, to stop the flow, but the eye couldn't be saved. The walker's claws had bitten deep. So stop the blood flow she did, and seal his wounds with her concoctions, then she watched him day and night, making him eat and drink as much as he could stomach. Eventually he started to rouse and asked her a few questions, like where he was, and who was she. Gently she answered, "My name is Leilani and you are safe for now..." He asked where they were and she answered, "My home. Do not worry so you will be fine. Sadly I couldn't save your eye but the rest should heal with minimal scarring." He looked at her with sad eyes and said, "I don't remember any of this..." She knew he wouldn't. While she was working on him his breath smelled foul, of human spirits. She didn't call him on it though. Everyone had their demons and everyone did what they had to when silencing them. "Please rest now. You can ask more later, but first some food and water." Carefully she fed him and gave him water and then he slept. Through the days she and the stallion who came to be known as Ser Regulus became fast friends, and one day he departed as healed as he could be but with the promise to return and visit soon. And with that Leilani sighed and mourned his absence already. For caring for him was the only thing that kept her own demons at bay...
Username: belloblossom Who are you entering with? Primrose Link to the RP you're using:Familiar Faces, in which Primrose recalls upon past imprisonment within the Carousel and finds a friend whom she thought she lost upon her escape. Prompt response: n/a
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 3:13 pm
Riddles in the Dark
Username: tefla Who are you entering with? Zar'roc Link to the RP you're using:n/a (rp too old) but summarising it. Prompt response: The wolf purewalker could remember with surprising clarity the first time he had brought danger to one of his kind. He had caught onto the fact that he was being tailed one afternoon after a successful hunt. Instincts clamoured at the stallion to swiftly end the life of the one who would dare to intrude but instead he set out to teach his "stalker" a little lesson. Instead of taking care to hide his kill he set out to poison the carcass and leave it in full view, knowing full well that whatever was tailing him would be tempted to sup at the leftovers.
After hiding himself in nearby foliage his follower did indeed dine on his kill. Perhaps being a young cub the symptoms overtook the youngster fairly quickly, incapacitating her rather quickly. From somewhere deep in his depraved mind he revealed himself at this time and began his lesson in why it was not wise to tail a predator.
Username: tefla Who are you entering with? Umeko Link to the RP you're using:n/a (rp too old) but summarising it. Prompt response: Umeko always felt uneasy around ice-covered surfaces. She would never forget the time she was out with Daenarys and she had foolishly gone out on an ice-covered surface only to discover the hard way that not all ice can hold the weight of a fully grown mare. Even one as light as she had been back then. The ice had cracked and she had gone under. If it weren't for a passing "nice" kalona she would have died in the frozen waters.
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 6:19 pm
Riddles in the Dark
Username: Pandora Talie Who are you entering with? Zak Link to the RP you're using: n/a Prompt response:
The air is warm and sky is clear and blue. It is a typical day, for Zak. Wings buzzing, the green flutter flies low, zipping over craggy rocks and between mossy gnarled trees. He’s always enjoyed tempting fate, slipping through tight spots and barely skimming the surface.
Just the day before, he heard the most interesting story. It was a tale of magical treasure. Hidden deep underground, it was said to have belonged to a rat pirate king. Many have tried to find it, but those that occasionally survive to tell the tale always return empty handed.
Zak arrives at the burned woods. A significant forest fire tore through this place years ago. Bleached and charred sticks protrude, awkwardly, from the ground. The stallion stops at a large weathered stump to get his bearings. He shift his small brown messenger bag down and produces a rolled scrap of yellowed parchment. “Hmm…” He scratches his head. It’s a good thing that the map is light on words. Despite his bravado, he has several weaknesses that he refuses to acknowledge. Paramount of them today is his inability to read anything.
In any event, he studies the graphics and symbols for a moment before stowing the map away. Zak takes to the sky, once more. He finds the landmarks without much effort: a shoe shaped pond here, wierd hill that kind of looks like an arrowhead there. Flying is kind of cheating when you’re playing this game.
The flutter lands at a pair of crossed trees. A cracked rock behind bears a distinct resemblance to a two-leg’s skull. And there it was, a smallish hole, a big enough to be a cave if you were a rat he figures. Zak shrugs. He shrinks down to the size of a rat and steps inside. Its cool and slightly damp, in the hole. Overall, it’s not that bad, he thinks.
Contrary to normal, the now tiny stallion plods along through the tunnel. His eyes are slow to adjust to the low light conditions and the further he goes the less he can see. It’s all black now. Zak stumbles ahead for another couple minutes. “Ow!” After tripping over another root, he’s ready to throw in the towel when... he sees something ahead.
A dim light flickers in the distance. Slowly, cautiously, one might say, he approaches. If you asked he’d probably claim to be just warming up, or something. The narrow tunnel opens to a larger chamber lit by a small fire. The flutter’s heart skips a beat. Before him sleeps a monster of a snake. In Zak’s shrunken state, the creature towers over him, its coiled body fills the whole room. The flutter’s jaw drops and he almost makes a noise when he hears another. “Shhhhh…” Suspended in a small cage is a little cream colored mouse. She beckons him to come closer. By whatever turn of fate, the furry little critter seems to have found itself in a bit of a bind. She gestures at her cage door. It’s latched from the outside, just out of reach of her dexterous little hands. No problem, Zak nods with a grin. He zips up and springs her.
The old snake stirs in his slumber, but the commotion doesn’t wake him. He merely rolls and yawn, returning to sleep. They waste no time making their way back out of the tunnel.
Once clear, Zak tells the mouse, “Going to have to come back later to look for that treasure, I suppose.” He smirks.
Username: LydaLynn Who are you entering with?Latcho Churi Link to the RP you're using:Rescue and rescued, a crisp winter day stained with blood and hunger; a winter thin wolf and a wounded mare. But who really needed to be rescued? Prompt response: Latcho sighs, "She'd tell you I rescued her. Did you know that? She'd say I saved her. But she's wrong. I'm a monster, not a hero. But . . . she rescued me. Saved me. And nothing I can ever do will be worth what she did for me."
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:49 am
Riddles in the Dark
Username: tefla Who are you entering with? Kayleena Link to the RP you're using:n/a (rp too old) but summarising it. Prompt response: Having been tricked by the stallion Daimhin and following him to the herd of the Mahapadma this small usdia was stuck in a precarious situation. Kayleena could not escape as her captor had found an ingenious way of keeping her in one place by taking away her sight via a blindfold. Life seemed okay until Samsara, creator of Mahapadma, caught wind of her presence. It was then that she attacked Kayleena before Daimhin intervened. Kayleena attempted to escape but another herd member stopped her before she got too far.
Samsara gave her the chance to leave but Kayleena did not act on the chance. Instead she chose to stay.
Username: tefla Who are you entering with? Tsaheylu Link to the RP you're using: Prompt response: It wasn't often that the flutter turned catwalker spent time wondering just how his little pet project was dealing with the aftermath of her imprisonment. It had been a while since he'd last caught more than a fleeting glimpse of the mare Leilani. At times the urge to reacquaint himself with the mare flickered brightly and at other times he could not believe how low he'd stooped in order to draw Leilani in. But the results of his ploy had been all too sweet: physically grounding a flying breed was no easy feat and yet he'd managed to do so. Keeping Leilani as a prisoner for the length of time that he had was icing on the cake. If only her little bonded friend hadn't shown up ... who knows how long he would have enjoyed keeping Leilani at his side.
As it was he knew that someone else out there had captured the mare's heart ... perhaps soon he'd have to pay a visit to the "happy couple" if only just to sow more misery. Leilani might have escaped him physically but mentally he knew who still haunted her thoughts...him.
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:24 pm
Riddles in the Dark
Username: tefla Who are you entering with? Gaston Link to the RP you're using: n/a Prompt response: At times Gaston could almost swear that meeting Kumiho had all been but a dream. However fervently he willed this to be true though reality always settled around him like the permanent cloak of darkness that greeted him every time he woke. Blindness, complete and incurable. That had been Kumiho's gift to him on that foolish day he had shed caution to the wind to follow the beauteous mare to a place that had apparently contained gemstones. He had been enamored with the mare's beauty and wondered if a specimen such as himself even had a shot with someone of her caliber. What Gaston did not realize that he was walking into a trap from a purewalker. It was hastily executed and though he survived he had been stripped of one of his most important senses.
At times he'd wake up in a cold sweat but if there was one good thing to be taken away from that horrible day it was that he had reconnected with a childhood friend who'd been concerned enough to search for him. They had found each other by chance and now he was going to let B'Elanna know just how much she meant to him day after day after day.
Even though he'd found danger, he had also found love. He could deal with one if he also had the other.
