Birds of Prey- the nightmare begins!

[indigowulf]

Welcome to Birds of Prey roleplay!
website- http://birdsofprey.freehostia.com

Introduction-
These are mystic birds, who are invisable to most. The native american dream catcher idea expands with these, so that not only do the dreamcatchers trap nightmares before they come to a sleeper, but these birds are an intricate part of the system.

You see, a dream catcher only has so much room, before it gets full of nightmares and cant do its job. One of 2 things happens. Either the dreamcatcher clogs up and no dreams at all get past, even good dreams, and the sleeper loses thier mind- or the weight of bad dreams breaks the web and all dreams get in.

The birds of prey have a symbiotic relationship with the dreamcatchers. They feed on nightmares. This makes full tummys for the birds, and keeps the dreamcatchers from breaking.

Over time, less people know about dreamcatchers and use them. However, more and more are using other methods. Nighttime prayers form a barrier of words, smudging with insence makes a screen of smoke, and many other nighttime rituals keep our nightmares trapped in suspension before they reach us. The birds have learned to relate to all kinds, and still guard our sleeping minds.

Some birds simply hide in the shadows between the waking world and the land of dreams where they came from. They are here to feed, nothing more. Other birds develope a strong personal bond with the person they are spending time with, and become powerful guardian spirits. These guardians live for much more then simply feeding. They are our friends, and will risk themselves to materialize fully in this world, so they might protect us from the real nightmares as well.

Summoning a personal guardian bird requires elements of ritual. Beads, commonly used in prayer as well as dreamcatchers. Insence, commonly used in many forms of meditation, cleansing, and prayer. String, wax, gems, and other various things, also used as some part of the recipe also have thier place. The creation of a proper "nest" of these items, one which is woven loosely to serve as a net as well as having a roost, is required to lure one to you.


Table of contents:
1) intro: you are here
2) rules
3) story setup
4) reserved for later chapter
5) reserved for later chapter

[indigowulf]

1) no god modding! You cannot force someone else to do something or make a statement that changes the environment or story, for example, you cannot decide that it has started to rain, and you cannot say that Fred says, feels, thinks, or does something unless you are the player of Fred. (exceptions, Fred could feel a hand on his shoulder if you touch him)

2) you are your character. Anything you can do, your character can do. for the purpose of this roleplay, your characters name is "I" lol. later, there will be birds introduced that you can own and make characters for.

3) Each time I post an event, I will post in red. Those posts will be story-altering. You may react and respond to those events, and RP with eachother between red posts. You must react to a red post to stay in the RP.

4) At the end of the RP, there will be chicks and a couple ritual items given out as RP prizes.

5) I can edit or add to these rules as the need arizes, this is a "beta" rp so things may need to be adjusted.

Table of contents:
1) intro
2) rules: you are here
3) story setup
4) reserved for later chapter
5) reserved for later chapter

[indigowulf]

The festival had been a huge success. People had eaten themselves silly, danced to local bands, and watched fireworks in the giant park in the center of the city. It was nearly 3 in the morning before people began to leave for thier homes.

A late-performing street magician had drawn a small crowd of late-staying diehards who weren't ready to call it quits just yet. People sat in a circle on the grass around him, watching him juggle balls of light, levitate an audience member, and do other fun tricks.

Just as he turned an egg into a tiny dove, there was a loud bang with a flash of light, followed by a growling sound. Someone on the edge of the small crowd screamed, and disappeared before everyone's eyes in a puff of smoke. Some confused people in the audience clapped, thinking it another trick, until they saw the magician take off running in fear.

Welcome to the nightmare!




Table of contents:
1) intro
2) rules
3) story setup: you are here
4) reserved for later chapter
5) reserved for later chapter

[indigowulf]

Table of contents:
1) intro
2) rules
3) story setup
4) reserved for later chapter: you are here
5) reserved for later chapter

[indigowulf]

Table of contents:
1) intro
2) rules
3) story setup
4) reserved for later chapter
5) reserved for later chapter: you are here

you may post!

[Kadana Sorano]

Standing off to the side, my hand makes circles idly atop the table I leaned against as I watched the magician and his enthralled audience.  Magician *snort* the fool probably practices his little tricks and illusions in front of a mirror.  Wonder if he is one of those that failed at being a real magic user, or if he's one that doesn't even suspect real magic exists.. so sad, either way, pathetic really.

Well, the night was mildly amusing, but otherwise a total waste of time.  The free food and drink was nice, always is of course but it's time to get going now I think.. what the hell?!  Turning towards the scream I narrow my eyes against smoke, just making out the vague outline of a person before they vanish.  Well now, that was no parlor trick!  I'd bet my ring on that.. turning back to the magician with renewed interest  I watch him run off.. fleeing!  Hmm well, not him then.. but I wonder what he knows about it..  Looking back one last time to where the person vanished, I quickly turn around and slip away form the crowd following the magician.  Let's just see where were led.. and maybe ask a few questions even.

[indigowulf]

{if theres no action here by the end of the month, kadana will get a chick, and the rest will fly back to thier own realm. these are intended to be at least mildly RP interactive, but there doesnt seem to be interest}

[Rosewood]

{These are really good Indigo. I can't rp that well as I am a beginer, but I'll try.}

I was here to find some thing, not sure what. As I get bored, wondering why I am really here, I walk over to the wanna be magician entertaining a crowd. His tricks are pretty easy, a child could do them. What is up with all these wanna bes latley? What ever happened to the really thing?

As I study the wanna be magician, thinking, 'I've seen better. He probly doesn't know real magic.' a person a few feet from me is suronded in a sonen burst of smoke. "What the...' When the smoke clears, the person is gone. 'Did he do that?' I think as I turn to the magician, who, to my surprise, is running in fear. 'Maybe not.. but then who?' I study the crowd, but then decide better and take of after the wanna be. 'Maybe he knows who did that. Maybe not.' A shadow in the shape of a bird passes over me, ut I can not locate the bird. I see someone ahead of me, not the magician. Must be following him too.

[Ryuukokoro]

I'd been enjoying the night immensely, and I couldn't keep the grin off my face as I walked around and saw all the sights. A celebration was just what I needed to keep the dark emotions inside me at bay. Trying the good food and watching the performances, I was able to be really happy for the first time in weeks.

As it grew dark, I couldn't bring myself to call it a night. I looked around for something still going on and saw the crowd around the magician starting his show.

Oh! That is so cute! He's really good! I thought to myself. I've always been the kind of person who liked reading books intended for kids and enjoying the simpler things in life. If the magician was a little amaturish, it didn't spoil the performance for me in the least.

The scream that broke the air suddenly made every muscle in my body lock. I jerked around to look at what was going on, noticing a cloud of dust and people in the crowd backing away from it. All at once my good feelings were gone. What was going on!?

"What's happening?" I asked someone in the crowd nervously. But they didn't respond. I saw the person starting to chase the magician who had been performing, and noticed there was at least one other person also heading after him.

Not quite sure what was going on, but wanting to help if I could, I followed after the people chasing the magician.

[Coolduff]

As the magician performs I can't help but reminice about this evening.  "The party was fun this evening, and I'm feelin' really good, so I think I may have found the magician more impressive than he was... who knows."  I watch the last trick and clap loadly and whistle.  I have to admit the flash of light was a nice touch.  As I watch him run off I see multiple other people leave the circle after him.

"Come on!  He wasn't that bad" I mumble to myself as I get up and stumble after them.  Noone beats up a magicain on my watch!

[Ryuukokoro]

((OOC: *giggle!!* You crack me up Coolduff! XD ))

[Conroy]

I'm not good at rping. This is my first try at it.


I was sitting and watching the magician do his magic, when it happened.  A person right next to me disappeared. I had a job as an investigator in other small towns, so i started asking the people in the crowd if they saw what happened. I asked the person on the other side of me if she saw anyone make any strange magic, besides the magician, and I didn't find out anything. I went to inspect the magician's podium to see if anything might be there as evidence, but all i could find was the tiny dove. I thought that might have something to do with it, so i picked it up and went looking for some food for it.

[indigowulf]

((yay people! Ill go ahead and move the story on so you can get into it, newcomers should still be able to join at this point- if you are entering the story after this point, please note a couple things you will need for consistancy: 1) you were in the park already, you did not just arrive. 2) if you want an easy way in, you fell asleep on the soft summer grass while watching the show. even if that's out of character for you, an oddly large number of people are finding themselves waking up in the grass))

As Conroy picks up the small dove, the bird turns its head and looks him in the eye. How strange, a dove with pale blue eyes. Its also noticable from this close up, the dove's flight feathers are not grown in, it still has baby fluff. It seems large enough to be an adult dove, but feathers dont lie.

The magician hears many footsteps joining a chase after him. Looking back over his shoulder in fear, he trips, landing heavily on his side in the grass. Rather then standing to continue his flight, he sits up and begins rocking himself back and forth.

"Not here, not here, it cant happen here. Not here," he begins to mumble to himself like a fearful chant.

[Kadana Sorano]

Seeing the man take a tumble I quickly catch up to him, frowning at his actions.. he appears to be terrified, but it could still be an act.. Slowly I close in on him, and kneel down near him.  Watching him for a brief moment rocking and muttering to himself.. "Hey.. Hey!  What happened back there?  What did you do?!"  Reaching out and waving my hand in front of his face "What can't happen here?  You know what's going on, you need to explain things now" Hearing others getting closer I tense and look up, peering into the darkness to see who else followed, and wondering if they will bring aid, or trouble.

[Conroy]

I asked a random person in the crowd if they knew what kind of food these birds ate and where I could get some. I figured that someone knew what kind it ate,and if they knew where it was. I found out the hard way that noone knew. So I asked someone if there was a petshop in town. I was thinking that it might have been a bird crossbreed between a dove and another kind of bird, and that the pet shop might have known, what it was and what kind of food it ate. I was told that they didn't know and that i would have to ask someone else.

[Ryuukokoro]

I hesitated, my purposeful strides slowing to a halt as I came upon the scene. In the dark of the evening, the magician had taken a fetal position on the ground. One of the people I had been following was already there, kneeling and questioning the magician, who appeared to have gone into some sort of...trance? Or something. He didn't look good, that was for sure.

Not that I'm immediately hostile, but I do usually take offense in a tense situation, and I usually leap to the defense of the person being accused, whether it's there fault or not. (It got me in trouble on more than one occasion, actually, and people liked to use the term 'devil's advocate' around me.) Regardless, I just considered it fair to defend people, especially when they didn't seem able to defend themselves at the moment. So I stepped forward and looked pointedly at the two down on the grass.

"Hey, calm down," I said to the one demanding explanations of the magician. "Yelling in his face isn't going to help anything," I pointed out. "Can't you see he's all shaken up about something?"

[Coolduff]

I stumble into the person at the tail end of the group, (I think that is Ryu) when they stop to take stock of the situation.  "Outa m' 'ay" I say as I look bewilderly at the scene unfolding before me.

[Ryuukokoro]

"Oof!" I took a quick stumble forward as something ran into me from behind. Since weird things had started happening tonight (big magic, magicians in a trance, etc.) my heart immediately leaped into my throat and my pulse started going a million beats a minute. I whirled around, ready to defend myself... and saw an ordinary person had bumped into me.

I blinked several times. "Excuse me," I said pointedly in response to the muttered statement, "but I think it was you who ran into me, yeah? You could say sorry." But not one to hold a grudge, I held out my hand for an introduction. "I'm Ryuu. I guess you and me and them--" I gestured to the others who had followed the magician. "--are trying to see why this guy bolted away in the middle of his show, or something. He seems to be in trouble now."

[Rosewood]

I slow down as I see someone kneeling beside the magician. He is mubling something, but I can't understand what until I get closer. I begin to ask him why he ran, and if he knew something. He looked realy scared like he had no clue what to do now. If he is inisent, I thought, then he shouldn't of ran, but he could know something and be inisent at the same time. Right? As others gather around, I wait to see what happens.

[Ryuukokoro]

((OOC: Bump? Still going?))

[indigowulf]

((People kinda disappeared. I thought there might be more interaction before the next big thing had to happen. ugh. I will give it a bit more time, especially since Stalit is still working on our female, and then hand out prizes for those who showed up))

[Rosewood]

((Why is there no one here? The tread is so...I don't know... bare?))

[Spixy]

I had been participating in the festival - visiting shops and playing games all day. The last beams of light were rapidly vanishing and I was preparing myself to return home, until a large 'bang' echoed across the tents. I quickly ducked behind a larger tent - was it robbers? I peeked out from the large tent just in time to see a crowd of people chasing after a shadow. What on earth? I thought to myself before setting into a run after the crowd.

I caught up in time to see them standing above a mumbling man. A frown settled upon my features as his words swam in my ears; what couldn't happen here? I looked towards the other people standing around him. "Uhm sorry, does anyone know what he's mumbling about? Is he okay?" Concern was evident in my tone, the poor man could be a homeless for all I knew.

[Ryuukokoro]

I looked up at the newcomer who had arrived late on the scene. "Hey, I'm Ryuu," I introduced myself. I had taken it upon myself to explain things to people here (or perhaps to be more honest, I just liked to hear myself talk). "This man was a magician at the festival. During his performance someone in the audience vanished, and he took off at a dead run." My mouth formed a thin line as I realized how suspicious it sounded when I said it out loud. "It seemed like he might have a connection, so a couple of us followed him."

I looked down at the form on the ground. "But he collapsed and won't say much..." I trailed off, not sure what to do at this point. Shake them an until he gave some answers?

[indigowulf]

Due to the difficulty I'm having running this, I'm simply going to award participation chick prizes
They do have adult forms (which means they are all males, because that's the only finished adult i have from Stalit at this time) you wont get to see them grow until certing is decided on.

Conroy-


Coolduff-


Kadana-


Rosewood-


Ryuu-


Spixy-

[Ryuukokoro]

Thanks indigowulf. ^_^ Very nice brown birdy there.

[indigowulf]

You mean Conroys or Coolduffs? Cuz yours is rusty red

[Ryuukokoro]

Looks brown on my monitor lol.

[Kadana Sorano]

lol my monitor is horrid, they all look black except Rosewood and Spixy's.. and the eye bit on mine.  I shall have to steal moms comp again to see them properly when she wakes.  Thank you Indigo!

[Ryuukokoro]

Yours is a Hyacinth macaw mimic I think, Kadana!

[indigowulf]

Just remember, babies are all fluffy down, they can look a lot different all grown up!

[Kadana Sorano]

oh cool!  *snuggles it*

[Rosewood]

Thank you Indigowulf! They are look gorgous.