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chirpingShadow [CS] opened memo. CS: can we not? pleassse? Mousesprite: squeak squeak

The treehouse was small, nestled in the crook of one of the smaller oaks, with a quiet stream carving a winding track below it. The walls were worn and faded, perhaps painted once but they now merely blurred into the upper branches, and a single roughly square window was the only visible access in and out. Inside another window was visible facing the tree trunk and almost pressed against it. Carefully insulated cables snaked down through that window and along the side to a small computer resting on the floor against one solid wall. Opposite the computer and against the other wall was a pile of thick straw and old tattered cloth where the resident currently rested. He was small for a troll, tiny almost, and curled into a tight ball with his lusus nestled in his black hair. The wind outside rattled against the branches, stirring the power cables that traced the tree up to the solar cells at the very top, and the computer moniter flickered to life. The troll blinked, his one visible eye glowing yellow as he focused on what had disturbed his nap. Well now that you're awake why not introduce yourself? Your name is DARNEL AIOLOS and as previously mentioned you are a TROLL, whatever that means. Your lusus LIZBRO rarely explains anything which only makes your SOCIAL AWKWARDNESS worse. That seems mostly irrelevant though since you haven't actually been around another person in YEARS, not since you RAN AWAY and made this nice little hive BY YOURSELF. You have few real interests beyond SURVIVAL and you must HUNT DAILY to keep food for yourself and your lusus. Due to the nightly danger posed by OTHER PREDATORS you do most of your hunting NEAR SUNSET when it's just cool enough to venture from your hive. Once food is taken care of you spend most of the night ONLINE with your MAYBE PALS or EXPLORING in the TREETOPS. You are also an EXCELLENT CLIMBER and have a bad habit of DISAPPEARING when things seem risky.

Darnel's earliest memories were with the 'gang', which was little more than a collection of street kids that stayed together for safety in the back alleys of Wrightsboro. The one he found himself with was the largest and at times violent and unpredictable, but they were something akin to family. Lizbro disapproved of them but he only ever shared that they were 'wrong'. Darnel's early sweeps with the humans were mostly quiet, while he didn't always like the things they did he never really had cause to argue. That is until one day something just 'snapped', what set him off is unclear but one minute he was standing in his quiet corner with a growing dread that that 'wrong' was getting worse and the next he found himself standing over the gang's leader with bloody claws flexed. That was the first time he had a brush with the 'darkness' that haunted him in his sleep and he fled from the city a few days later. He found the forest more comforting and deep in its heart he decided to settle down. Building his treehouse took several days and all the supplies he had managed to bring with him but it was worth it in the end. It was years later, after he settled into a simple routine of hunting and living, that he first started poking around the internet. At first nothing interested him but eventually he made a connection, maybe a real friend, and he started chatting with his new buddy somewhat regularly. He tended to ignore messages from other people but he was content and his new friend never questioned his strange tendencies or random disappearances. Life was simple and for a time he could ignore the nightmares that kept him up during the day and that other world he'd sometimes catch glimpses of the few times he could sleep.

Name: Alastor Species: Shadow Creature/Void Beast Gender: Male Powers: Dark Green Flames, Increased Strength & Speed, Shapeshifting, Teleporting Theme Song: The World Belongs to Me by My Darkest Days

Name: Zarola Aiolos Species: Troll Gender: Female Age: 7 sweeps Session: Alt. Kappa

8-12 Player Session Species: Trolls & Humans World: Baris

Derse or Prospit?: Derse Fetch Modus: Playlist (Items are assigned a song upon storing) Strife Specibus: Bookkind Weapon: Tome of Secrets Title: Witch of Void Blood Color: Olive (#808000) Symbol: Chamaeleon Lusus: LizMom Trolltag: spiritedChaos (SC) Quirk: Drops anything that would slow her down and extends s's and o's, can also get very hyper and refuse to let anyone else get a word in edgewise. Matesprit: TBD Kismesis: Andy Moirail: Sameer Auspistice: TBD Are they more aggressive, assertive, or passive?: Assertive Are they emotional or stoic?: Stoic Which do they trust more, their head or their heart?: Heart Are they an introvert or extrovert?: Extrovert Theme Song: I'll Keep Your Secrets by Trans-Siberian Orchestra