Jaina Jade ([info]jainajade) wrote in [info]moonburntlounge,
@ 2006-02-17 16:09:00
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Entry tags:artemisia, green, jaina jade, open roleplay

The Vacant Lands (all characters welcome)
SETTING: A mysteriously featureless, colorless plain with some sickly plant life and no other remarkable traits.
TIMELINE: Cross-time, so variable for each character. Pick the time in your character's existence that fits best and use that.
CHARACTERS: To date (22 Aug 2006): Jaina Jade, Artemisia, Green, and anyone else who wants in.
LIMITED TO: No limits. All characters are welcome in this story.

A point of light formed above an empty, monochrome landscape. The flickering dot expanded into a mid-air circle a few feet across. It wavered, paused, shook again. Then it abruptly spat a swearing redhead onto the open ground before fading away.

Jaina had landed the wrong way on her foot and was not the least bit happy about it. "Where the hell is this, then?" she asked no-one, as no-one was present to reply.

There were tufts of grey grass, a darkly overcast and colourless sky, a few stark trees that looked half-dead.

The woman summoned her inner Keanu and solemnly appraised her situation: "Whoa."


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Artemisia
[info]gelth
2006-05-18 01:09 am UTC (link)
A tiny green thing peeked out of the grass and giggled loud and shrilly, "Didn't think I was that wasted!" One of her left wings was damp and floppy, and her hair had come loose in clumps, which hung over her face. In short, the pixie was disheveled and quite sodden.

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[info]jainajade
2006-06-06 05:22 am UTC (link)
"What're you?" Jaina asked the only other spot of colour on the landscape. She did this by calling in the general direction of her feet, instead of crouching, for some reason.

"You wasted? I think maybe I'm wasted. Or high. This is what I get for buying organic fruit that once; you never know what's in there."

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Artemisia
[info]gelth
2006-06-12 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Missy giggled louder. "You are high -- high as a house! Oh. I should fix that." She vigorously shrugged her shoulders and wings, flapping them mostly dry. In a blink, the tiny green thing was gone. In her place stood a shapely green woman half a head shorter than Jaina, listing sideways toward the redhead's right.

"There now, that's better." Missy's wings were busily fluttering behind her, blowing her hair over her shoulders.

"Wait. Did you just call me naturally fruity?"

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[info]greenscalesfell
2006-06-18 04:32 pm UTC (link)
A large green dragon walked up behind her, head weaving from side to side as it tried to work out if the wings were safe to touch.

It had caught the last few sentences. "Fruity," it said in an even tone with no preamble.

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[info]jainajade
2006-06-24 09:24 am UTC (link)
Jaina blinked. Twice. She rubbed her eyes and peeked through her fingers, hoping to reveal a less weird world that way.

No dice. It figured. Jaina took a deep breath and prepared to stick her foot further in her mouth. Goddess willing, that would only be a metaphor.
"Hello, dragon," the redhead said in what she hoped was a friendly tone, and not a "what in green hell has happened to me and why, God, why?!" tone. "Er.... yes, fruity. I guess I said that. I didn't mean it like that, though!" she insisted, mostly for the green pixie's benefit.

Now that her attention was focused on Missy, the human realised that the otherwise still air was blowing stiffly over the pixie's shoulders. Jaina had to ask. "What -- what is that? Do you have a fan back there or something?"

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[info]greenscalesfell
2006-07-30 10:10 pm UTC (link)
"Hi!" said the dragon, then looked quizzically behind her, wondering what a fan was. It might mean a tail.

Maybe she'd come into the middle of a game and she should wait until they finished doing guessing. She sat, abruptly. Then tucked her forelegs beneath her so that she was almost nestling.

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Artemisia
[info]gelth
2006-08-08 01:11 pm UTC (link)
"Oh, that's my wings." Missy spoke nonchalantly, as though winged people were as common as toasters or shoes. The mentioned appendages continued their constant motion behind her.

Missy smiled at the dragon's greeting, then dodged awkwardly when the big creature sat down. The pixie only looked human-size. She was really as tiny as ever, and acutely aware that bigger folk could accidentally squish her without ever noticing. She took a moment to regain her composure before returning the greeting. "Hello, fellow green one! Welcome to.. wherever this is."

Jaina cut in with a disappointed, "You mean you don't know?"

"Nope," Missy shrugged. "Sure is bland, except for us. We're the only colour around."

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[info]greenscalesfell
2006-08-08 11:18 pm UTC (link)
"And the picture in the air, too," the dragon added, matter-of-fact.

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[info]jainajade
2006-08-19 09:02 am UTC (link)
Jaina was busy pondering that she was the only red stuff around when Green piped up. Startled, Jaina whirled around in search of the picture. "I don't see anything," she said slowly, "but that's probably because I have a faceful of hair."

She pulled a rubber band out of her jeans pocket and began to braid her hair back. Once the cloud of red locks was held in check, she would better appraise their surroundings.

((Did you have something in mind for the picture, or shall I just run with it?))

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[info]greenscalesfell
2006-08-19 10:24 am UTC (link)
"If you can't see me," the dragon said, taking care in choosing its words, "don't be scared when you do. I'm quite big and people sometimes scream." An ear flicked in remembered pain.

((I had a description in mind. It's a little way back in the direction Greenie came from, hanging a foot or two off the ground and about twice the dimensions of a piece of letter-size paper, landscape. There's nondescript scenery through it. Make up your own explanation, *g* I was thinking it was probably one of the routes into and out of here -- but obviously not the one G used.))

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