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[Dawby]

Dawby scoots away from Aylura as politely and casually as possible. "Where's Silvanon and all her random bunnies when you need 'em?"

Reaching down to tie one of her perpetually loose shoe strings, she adds reflectively, "Yeah, it's nice not to worry about being anything but yourself all the time. It must be interesting being a human sometimes and a mountain lion the rest of the time - I mean, I'm assuming you're a human out in the real world."

[Aylura]

"Good question," Aylura agrees in all honesty. A playful smirk curves at the corner of her mouth at the thought.

The cat shifts her gaze to the distant trees. Was that just a unicorn? "Human most all of the time," she nods as her attention returns to Dawby. "Average, run of the mill college student with a too-active imagination. This," she glances down at her paws, "Is just a product of my imagination. Or so I'll keep telling myself."

[Thalron]

Alot of people were over, as usual and I was trying to block out all the noise that they made while talking to eachother, I wasn't interested in being sociable... But of course they had me blaring christmas music from my computer ugh... Oh well, it was time to do the normal Forum run and check for updates and such... Silvanon.com was one of the first rather surprisingly last one I would check that day.

Boom! Everything was suddenly loud and swirling, strange lights and things were moving around everywhere... Then it all stopped and settled back down to normal, what was weird though was I seemed to be rather high up and looking down at a field... ... Augh! Then Bam on the ground! Eugh... I still felt high up even though I was sprawled out on the ground... That was weird now, uh... Wait where am I? This was a rather weird and realistic seeming dream... And I was Thal, well that wasn't very unusual, I was often him in my dreams but... I don't remember going to sleep or anything... And I was never afraid of heights like this in my dreams... Maybe I'd try standing up again in a moment...

What other people would see if they had looked, was that The large blue dragon wasn't infact up high at all, unless you count the fact that his eye level was probably about 48ft up there when he was sitting... And after he noticed that he immediatly just flung himself on to the ground.

[Dawby]

Dawby's eyes round. "Dragon!" she rasps, though she isn't sure why the appearance of a dragon here should surprise her, considering that she'd just been having a conversation with a panther.

[Jaguara Katial]

Jag crossed her arms and looked more menecing than before, but Nuala was still pleasent. "No we don't live here, we are just visi..."

"You talk too much Nuala..." I knew that my eyes were narrowed and my brow was furrowed and no matter how much I didn't want to look so angery and unpleasent I couldn't help it I could hear my own thoughts but my actions were not my own. After the words had passed though my lips I turned and walked to a nearby tree and climbed to one of the lower branches and just rested there with my back against the trunk and my arms crossed over my topless cheast. My tail still flicked about in a casual and unfreindly tone.

"Please excuse her, she seems to be in one of her moods." Nuala looked embarassed and rubbed her head as I just rolled my eyes and looked around.

[Stormelle]

Spotting a human I sifted back into my "normal" unisus fourm and flew over, " Heyo!....Hmm....Dawby?" I asked looked at her. Then I look at Aylura, " Lura!" I clapped my hooves together in excitment and looked around. Then I saw the big blue dragon, " Thal?" I asked trotting over.
I glanced back at Pega, she seemed to have gone into a trance and wasn't really paying attention, I srughed and poked the big blue dragon with one of my soft, small and fuzzy wings. " Heyo Thal!" I said brightly as I blew my bangs out of my face again. They seemed to like my face.

[Dawby]

Dawby's hazel eyes lit up. "Stormie!! Hiya!!"

[Thalron]

Ok, sitting back up again... It was always hard to really imagine how big Thal was when he wasn't shrunk abit or something, Something that I desperately wished I knew how to do >.>; "Uh... Stormelle?" I said glancing around, before looking down at the source of the voice, Oh... there were more people here and most of them seemed almost as confused as I did.

"What's going on here?" The voice was rather rough, and growl like... Not at all like it was when the 'real' Thal was in control, Because this was a rather weird experience and well, I'm nowhere near as good at changing my voice... And didn't know that I had to in order to sound like a semi-normal person until talking.

Then there were the wings and tail, They were not something that I had had before and didn't seem to be all that much under my control occasional the wings would twitch, but the tail seemed intent on wagging, and well, I just hoped no one was standing near it <.<;.

I also didn't recognize anyone else right off...

[LadyL]

I decided I had to get myself into the swing of things... Except that the arrival of the dragon was quite a chock, of course. Í felt rather bold walking up to the crowd and standing between the dragon's front paws next to Dawby, Aylura and Stormelle -Wow, she really was pretty in her unicorn form - I wish I had been That creative! (But that strange, tingling sensation still persisted)

The truth was I felt rather shy, this was "Quite" different from just exhanging a chat or a rp on the board. "Hi..." I said to all those I didn't recognize, "I'm Linda... or Lady L, i guess... How on earth did this happen?"

[Stormelle]

I grinned at Dawby but said nothing as Lady L spoke, " Heyo!" I said brightly to hertroting back over to Dawby's side and plopping down on my hide quarters. " Not sure really. I logged in and Wooosh! I was here! Then Pega was but." I glanced at my older sister. " Umm...I think she's just out of it right now.."

[LadyL]

"Yes" I confirmed. "That's exactly what happened to me too..." Glancing around, a new possibillity hit me. "Do you think that we have all those powers that we made up too? I mean, all you guys Do look like you should be able to do some true magic."

[Aaand Pega]

This was all /way/ too weird. I mean... the Orchard?! Real? The strangeness of my surroundings and my new, awkward body, whirled around in my head for quite a long time... until suddenly I realized I was ignoring the sound of my own name. Odd. I mean... Pega's name. It reminded me of the time I visited Q-town and everyone kept trying to call me that. I still was /not/ used to it.

I glanced in the direction of the voices and saw quite an odd assortment of creatures. I recognized only three of them: Aylura, Stormelle, and... a big blue dragon. Hmmn... Thalron. And so, figuring the rest were friends, too, I trotted over with careful steps, concentrating on lifting and dropping all those feet in tandem with each other so they didn't trip on each other.

When finally I reached the group, I was so involved in the placement of my own feet that I ran smack into one of the group members. "Oof!" ...and I felt myself grin quite sheepishly. "Sorry?!"

[Dawby]

Dragon=Thalron slowly connects somewhere in Dawby's brain. "Oooh, Thalron. Wow. Hi, it's Dawby. I think we may have talked at some point... maybe."

She scrambles backwards suddenly as the tip of the dragon's blue tail swishes a little too close for comfort. "Darnit, Thalron. Did your persona really have to be so big?"

She definitely moved quicker on her feet than on her butt and, deciding things were safer on her feet, stands up quickly, dusting dirt and grass off her backside.

She takes everyone in carefully. Aylura=cougar. Check. Thalron=Very Large Very Blue Dragon. Check. Pega=white unicorn. Another check and another persona she recognizes from an avatar. The three three spotted feline anthros she isn't quite sure about, though she is willing to bet one of them hasto be Jaguara. Stormie is fairly obvious, no matter what shape she takes. No one else is quite so bouncy. Definitely a check. The last mystery person had just identified herself as LadyL, so that made one last check.

Addressing LadyL's question, she responds, "Hard to say. I mean, I can channel magical energy sometimes when I'm - um, home - in Caron, but I don't have any magic of my own. I'm not really willing to test whether or not I have any powers here by having someone lob some magic fireball at me. Especially since it doesn't always work even when I'm cybering it."

[Thalron]

Something bumped into my arm, oh, it was uh... Pega? it was hard to not and try and pet some of the individuals but alot easier when I thought about how it would have been very easy to accidentally squish one of them. "Umm... It's ok." Again the voice was very strange to be heard from the first person perspective.

"Huh, Oh Dawby? yeah I think we met once or twice... Not like this mind you." Heh it was kind of amusing, but then again it was also very, very weird... In response to the question of whether he really had to be this big eheh... "Well, umm... He used to be smaller but grew... And most of the time he had himself shifted into a younger version of himself... Something I have absolutely no idea how to do." There was a sudden sense of vertigo from the gestures I idly made with one hand while talking, And The realization that I had left large claw marks in the ground where my hand had been...

Cool.

[Saturnalia]

Not far from where Dawby had been mysteriously sucked away, in a college apartment, I was lounging on a couch under a slew of illegally-placed Christmas lights. I idly watch the huge screen of the tv a few feet away, on which two incredibly bendy video game characters are beating the muffins out of each other. "Alright, you two have fun," I finally say to the engrossed boys on the other couch, and hoist myself up, then cross into my own apartment. The screensaver of the computer in the corner beckons me closer.

I grab the mouse, and scroll down Firefox's dropdown address bar, and select the Orchard. Wonder if anyone else has written in the Pony Island thread... I think idly.

My thoughts are cut short by the whoosh of air and an extremely disconcerting feeling. Lights flicker at an incredible pace, colors flashing. The original disconcerting feeling disappears, but only momentarily as I realize that I'm falling out of the sky. Panic sets in, and the flashing colors speed up. I vaguely feel my body changing shapes... a different one each moment. Horse, dragon anthro, winged jaguar... but when I finally hits the ground, more softly than anticipated, my form is an odd mix of dragon and horse; a slender body ending in hooves, with draconic wings and a diamond-tipped tail. In color, I'm a rather eye-burning mix of bright reds and pinks.

I land on my side, skidding a few feet before stopping. After a few motionless moments, I lifts my horned equine head, and cautiously gets to my feet... then realize that I have four of them. And they're hooves. And I'm not human. Not human?! The thought whizzes through my head, and I turn to look at the rest of my body. The glaring red of my hairless, snake-like skin turns to a dark purple, as I realize that I've become the creature I always wished to become. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice something else; a small, floating ringed planet hovering near me. Violet streaks across my body as I grow more excited, but I barely even notice that I'm a walking mood ring. Because I've just noticed my wings.

GLEE! The mental shout startles even me; I hadn't remembered about the telepathy part of the deal. Slowly, I wonder if anyone else was around to hear my outbust, and see my not-so-graceful landing, and I turn around... to find myself facing an array of creatures and people. I make a less mind-splitting attempt at telepathy this time around, with a simple, Erm, hey... as I blink.


((ooo, couldn't resist joining... while I should be paging )))