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The Turnover Ice-Capades
Date: December 6, 1997
Places: Telgar Weyr's Living Cavern, Southern Bowl, Center Bowl, and
Smooth Patch of Ice
Game: PernMUSH
Copyright Info: The World of Pern is copyright(c) to Anne McCaffrey
l967. The Dragonriders of Pern(r) is a registered copyright.
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Kassi's Note: It was a dark and stormy night... hrm, haven't I started
a log introduction this way before? Anyway, late one night in the
Living Cavern, some riders, Weyrlings, and weyrfolk decided to celebrate
the Turnover's Eve in a rather unusual fashion. This particular event
was a real blast, and I'd like to thank all the participants for
making it such a hoot. :) Special thanks go to A'lex, for providing
the comic relief; you'll see why when you read further in the log. ;)
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The Log:
R'val glances at A'lex, "What's everyone else got planned, do you know?"
Silen waves to everyone as he heads in to bed.
A'lex shrugs, "Nothin yet.."
Sandar notices Ro's expression as she greets Mehlani, and raises an
eyebrow.
Ro's adoration might be obvious in general, but it does not seem to be to
Mehlani herself. The girl slips out of the kitchen with a mug of cold
juice, and finds a wall to lean against as she gulps the stuff down. On
her shoulder, Holl nuzzles gently at her ear for a moment, then peers over
at Ro and croons brightly at her.
R'val hrms," Yet..."
A'lex smiles and nods, "Yet..."
Kassima waves belatedly to Mehlani, before readjusting the flower behind
her ear and drumming her fingers again. "Scones would be good... I still
sort of favor the idea of ice-skating, though. I suppose it might be too
cold for that, eh?"
Sandar shrugs, having never been ice skating.
A'lex says "I'm not sure... someone else always checked that for me
before..."
Mehlani blinkblinks, as Holl gently nudges her, then peers a trifle
blankly at Ro and simply bobs her head to the younger girl as well.
Apparently oblivious as well to the discussion at hand, the girl with the
bronze on her shoulder steadily drinks down the rest of her juice, then
moves back towards the kitchen to deposit her mug.
Ro offers the little bronze a choice bite of meatroll.
"Holl... wha..." Mehlani jumps a bit as Holl chirps happily, taking wing
to flit over to Ro and alight near her, crooning.
Silen heads off towards the inner cavern.
A'lex snickers a bit at Mehlani's surprised expression.
Mehlani crinkles her nose and follows her fire lizard to Ro's immediate
vicinity, murmuring lowly at the little creature, "Holl, it is very
naughty to beg." Holl gives her a noise that might be the fire lizard
equivalent of sticking one's tongue out, and croons again to Ro.
Ro looks very startled, only her hand with the meatroll moving within
Holl's reach, the rest of the her body held tensely still. It might be
apparent to some that she has never actually carried a firelizard before.
"If'n you fell in all of that snow, at least 'twould be a soft landing,"
Kassi muses, "while hitting the ice with one's rump wouldn't be any colder
than it usually is. I'truth, I'm nay certain whether or nay conditions
would be ideal."
Melina walks in from the bowl.
A'lex says "Is the lake actually frozen over?"
Holl keeps his claws extremely gentle, and with much grace, daintily
nibbles the tidbit out of Ro's fingers. Sheepishly, Mehlani murmurs to the
other girl, "I am sorry.... he is usually a bit less, um, abrupt..."
Melina walks into the cavern, stroking one of her fleet. She smiles and
waves to her friends as she gets a mug of klah and sits.
Sandar nods to Kassima knowledgeably, for though he's never skated before
he does know the difference between diving into snow and landing on one's
rump on the hard ice. He gives Melina a smile as she enters.
A'lex says "M'lina! Happy Turnover Eve!"
Melina grins, "The same to you, A'lex" A brow querks curiously, "M'lina?"
Mehlani blinks, then, and looks in A'lex's direction, startled.
Mehlani blurts, "Turnover?"
A'lex what's? So I slurred a little bit... sounds the same.... "Yes,
Melina? What?"
Ro nods and says in almost a squeak of a voice "S'okay." as she tries to
untense herself one part of her body at a time.
Melina shakes her head, "No worries, A'lex." She takes a sip of klah,
"So.. turnover already?"
Kassima nods a confirmation to Mehlani. "'Tis day thirty and one of the
twelfth month of this twentieth Turn of the Pass; Turnover's Eve indeed!
'Lex, how could it be so cold *without* the Lake freezing over? I'd nay
recommend the *dragons* skating on it, but... oh, heya, Melina."
Holl croons a final time, then gently nuzzles the tip of his snout against
Ro's hand before launching himself up out of her grasp, and winging around
gracefully back to Mehlani's shoulder. Mehlani, looking somewhat as if
someone had just bapped her with a small board, mumbles, "I'd
forgotten..."
A'lex says "I think I'd enjoy seeing Nraith skidding on his big Bronze
butt across the ice though..."
R'val waves amiably over at Melina, and kicks his heels up on the nearest
chair. He blinks at Kassima, "Dragons on ice. What an idea."
Silanda grins at A'lex.
Melina smiles and waves her mug, being preoccupied with a demanding green
'lizard with the other hand, "Hi Kassi." The mug also waves R'val-ward as
she asks, "Do you think the ice would hold them?"
Alwyn lets out a lilting laugh at that and shuts his mouth, trying not to
get _that_ much attention anyways,
A'lex says "He hates the fact that I have no respect for his Bronze
ego..."
A'lex turns to grin at Alwyn again, "Quite a picture, eh?"
Ro lets out her breath in a whoosh, and seems happy enough to watch the
little creature and it's pet.
Beginning to look a trifle unsettled, Mehlani mutters, "Turnover." From
the look of her, she might have just been informed that she'll be eating
raw tubers for her dinner for the next three sevendays. She bobs her head
distractedly once more to Ro, before turning to surreptitiously flee.
"Lyss, Pref, Jul, and Nicoth all skated, as hatchlings," Kassima explains,
"but they were small then--enough so nay t'be breaking the ice. Now,
there's nay even a hope."
A'lex says "What if we took a big space in the center of the bowl and had
them flame down the snow so there was a sheet of ice over the ground??"
Silanda blinks at A'lex. "It's an idea..."
Alwyn grins back at A'lex, chuckling softly, nodding as well.
The thought comes to Sandar that the perfect treat to eat at turnover
would, in fact, be redfruit turnovers. Since he doesn't know how to make
these, he runs off to find a baker that does.
Mehlani walks towards the inner cavern.
Melina hums and chuckles, "It /would/ be worth it to see Rhonneth sliding
around..I wonder if there's enough wind to push them on the ice if they
open their wings.."
Melina peeks into the basket and Emmy chitters anxiously.
R'val grins at Melina, "Evening you. How's Rhonneth?" He laughs, "I don't
think, by the way, that any ice could stand a dragon's weight. Especially
Nraith..."
A'lex guffaws, "Oh, THAT would be priceless..."
A'lex says "Even on the ground R'val?"
Kassima blinks at A'lex, and looks quite intrigued by the notion. "Think
that it could freeze over quickly enough? If'n 'twould nay support them,
mayhaps 'twould at least support us--and there'd be nay danger of falling
into the Lake if'n the ice cracks, that way."
Melina smiles over at R'val, "We're both doing quite well, thanks" She
hums, "I think ice on the ground would support them."
R'val nods slowly, thoughtfully, "On the ground, perhaps. But would
dragons even want to skate..."
A'lex says "'Twould be safer for all of us, really... wether or not the
Dragons played with us."
Silanda offers, "It wouldn't have anywhere to break _into_."
Melina says "I think it's worth a shot. Rhonneth's game"
A'lex says "Nraith will help..."
Kassima grins. "Lysseth's willing," she volunteers. "Though I don't know
that she's too keen on the idea of skating *herself.*"
Sandar grins.
A'lex says "So..."
Melina sips down the last of her klah and nods, 'Let's do it"
A'lex says "All right!"
A'lex stands and moves to the coat pegs.
Melina picks up her jacket from the back of her chair and follows A'lex.
Kassima stands, grabbing up her basket of fruit. "To the firestone sacks!"
she declares, striking a grand pose as she points the way towards the
Bowl.
A'lex walks down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.
Melina walks down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.
You walk down the short tunnel and out into the bowl.
R'val comes out of the short tunnel from the living cavern.
Rhonneth warbles to the bronze then to the people coming outside.
A'lex says "To the central bowl??"
Melina shrugs and nods, "Sure"
Kassima walks over to where her dragon lies, blue eyes shining through the
clear night air. "Sounds like a plan t'me," she readily agrees.
A'lex grins. "I'll grab a sack of firestone and meet you there."
A'lex bolts into the Weyrling barracks.
Smiling, Melina walks over to Rhonneth and gives him a good friendly
thump, "C'mon, let's go, dearest"
Melina walks north.
Rhonneth lumbers north.
R'val chortles as he follows the others.
R'val walks north.
Kassima nudges Lysseth in the side. "C'mon, y'great lazy green lump of
dragon-shaped clay. Haul yourself out of the snow so we can get a move
on." Grumbling, the green shakes off her white coat and complies.
You walk north.
Lysseth lumbers here from the south.
A'lex walks here from the south.
Nraith lumbers here from the south.
A'lex holds the bag of firestone open for all, "Help yourselves!"
Skylyn walks slowly over to Nraith and looks up at him expectantly.
"Did you bring the 'stone?" Kassi hails A'lex with, standing beside
Lysseth on the edge of the Bowl's very center. "Oh, good! How big a space
are we going t'be melting, anyway?" she asks as she walks over to fish out
a few small to medium-sized chunks for her large (for a green) green.
A'lex says "We should do that whole flat area I think..."
Melina peers into the bag and pulls out a good sized chunk of 'stone. She
hums and nods before choosing a few more.
R'val takes three or four chunks, considering each, and wanders Vidarth-
wards with 'em, "No, we're not fighting Thread, Vidarth. I'll explain as
we go along..."
A'lex feeds Nraith some firestone. "Careful Skylyn, he's gonna be flaming
soon.
Nraith chews loudly.
Rhonneth crunches a stone offered to him by Melina, rumbling excitedly as
he does so.
Kassima tosses one of her selected stones into Lysseth's mouth, careful to
keep an eye on the fruit-basket that she's set off to the side at all
times. Wouldn't do to have a dragon flame *that.* Listening to the crunch
of dragon teeth on rock, she nods agreement. "We'll need a wide span, if'n
the dragons are getting involved."
A'lex rubs his gloved hands together between stones. "Tis bitter cold
enough out here, should re-freeze pretty fast!"
Skylyn steps back after reaching up a far as she can and patting him.
"Isnt it alitl dangerous, What am I saying, of corse it is not, I sorry
A'lex, but I am a little worried."
A'lex grins at Skylyn, "Just don't get infront of any of them..."
R'val nods to A'lex, rubbing his hands together before he slips into his
gloves, "Aye...'
Nraith waddles towards the far edge of the flat area, from his mouth
erupts a huge jet of gold-orange flame.
A'lex says "That's it! Back and forth, just melt it a little!"
Rhonneth lumbers to his own area of the flat ground and belches a good
tongue of bright flame at the ground.
"Tell me about it," Kassima agrees drolly, watching Lysseth step aside to
begin expertly flaming the white stuff with a blaze of brilliant green-
tinged golden fire. Slinging her fruit basket back over her arm, she seems
to be enjoying the fiery spectacle.
A'lex says "Hey, Nraith, while you're over there, get the snow off a
couple of those big rocks so people can sit down."
Skylyn steps back and then mutters something to A'lex.
Melina glances at the area speculatively, "I hope it'll all freeze fast
enough. Rhonneth, move back closer to here. We don't need /that/ much
room."
A'lex says "I dunno, once people hear what we're doing they may come out
to play with us!"
R'val glances at the others, watching Rhonneth flame.
Silanda walks here from the south.
Silen heads here from the south.
Alwyn walks here from the south.
A'lex wanders over to where Nraith started his work. "The light flaming
over it is refreezing it pretty fast, and REALLY smooth..."
Alwyn blinks at all the riders and their assorted dragons. Still unused to
the large size of them all.
Silanda walks up to the riders, figuring that ought to be a safe spot.
Nraith moves about the flat area, flaming the snow smooth...
Lysseth turns the snow to water with a nearly-steady wash of flame, just
barely touching it with the fire; she's not out to evaporate the stuff,
after all. Rearing up on her haunches, she extends her neck to cover the
area just beyond her little section.
Silanda shakes her head, grinning. "This is crazy, you know," she yells
conversationally over all the noise.
A'lex says "Aye, and this is Telgar... your point, Silanda?"
A'lex steps onto the freshly frozen area, and proceed so slip and fall on
his butt.
Alwyn grins at A'lex and nods, he finds a place where he can watch the
goings on.
Silanda chuckles. "Well, things never _used_ to be this interesting...
that's for sure."
A'lex says "Well the, guess THAT's pretty frozen..."
Melina laughs and shakes her head, "Slippery?"
Silen watches with eyes wide. "All right. I don't mind being woken up
_now_..."
A'lex pulls himself up, and carefully slides back to solid ground. "Very
smooth..."
Silen pads over to the frozen area. "Are they all done flaming, sir?"
Nraith finishes flaming, and removes himself from the area to watch the
otheres.
R'val blinks, "Vidarth hasn't flamed. Do you need him as well...?"
Rhonneth finishes his own flaming with a satisfied burp of fire.
Kassima eyes the slippery surface, and grins. "I think that'll do
marvelously!" she enthuses, even as Lysseth turns off the fireworks. "Now
all we need are skates, eh?"
Skylyn grins and takes a blanket she had been holding brushes off a rock
near the riders and and sits on it.
A'lex says "Well don't just let him sit there with firestone in his
stomach... Hey! Have him flame a smooth side down that hill there... make
a slide!!"
Silen ducks back to his mother's side as it looks like it won't be safe
out there for a while yet.
A'lex dropped Smooth Ice Patch.
Jayna walks here from the south.
Alwyn gapes as he looks at Rhonneth he lets out a simple, astonished
'Wow'..
R'val hrms at A'lex, "That could be useful." He silently communicates with
Vidarth, who points his blue nose at the hill nearby and flames lightly,
turning the snow into slugy water that melts and seeps.
Jayna , curious, approaches to see what's going on.
Melina grins at Alwyn and nods. She glances back at the brown to watch him
make a tenative step onto the slippry stuff,
Alwyn blinks and looks to Melina and then Rhonneth again, still amazed,
"He's your lifemate?" he shakes his head in disbelief,
Kassima waves over to V'dan, who's been lurking on the edge of this crowd,
with a sort of 'Are you all out of your mind?' expression on his face. She
murmurs to him for a moment, pitching her voice low so as not to be heard.
Whatever she says must be a request, for he groans... and then runs in the
direction of the storeroom. When he returns, he has plenty of skates
hanging from his hands by their ties. "Good!" the greenrider says,
approving. "There should be some for just about everyone who wants t'try,
I hope. If'n nay, V'dan can get more." V'dan shoots her a dirty look, but
doesn't comment.
Jayna smiles at the antics and settles down on a nearby rock, pulling her
jacket in close.
Melina smiles and nods, "Aye. His name is Rhonneth. I'm Melina, m'self."
Rhonneth snorts at the slippery stuff as he finds his talons don't quite
hold into the ice.
A'lex says "It looks to be freezing over pretty well..."
Silen hurries over to try on skates, quickly finding a pair that fits.
Alwyn lets out a soft laugh at Rhonneth, and bows his head slightly, "Well
met...I'm Alwyn.." he smiles.
Melina grins and nods at A'lex, "I don't think Rhonneth even knows what to
think of it" She turns her attention to Alwyn, "It's nice to meet you
too."
Kassima snares a pair of skates for herself that look like they'll fit,
lashing them to the bottoms of her riding boots. "Hope I remember how t'do
this. I'truth, it's been awhile since I tried." Which might be why she's
hesitating at the edge of the ice, not *quite* bringing herself to take
that first step that'll send her crashing on her rear end.
A'lex says "I'll just take a spin around WITHOUT the skates... see if it's
frozen and all..."
R'val leans against Vidarth, who watches curiously over his shoulder as he
straps the skates onto his feet, grunting, "I wish Tinya was here. She'll
be very sorry she missed this."
A'lex steps out onto the ice.
Silanda takes a tentative step onto the ice, but then shakes her head. "I
think I'm a bit old for this sort of game," she says.
Jayna grins shyly at Kassi. "Do you need an anchor on land? I'll
volunteer."
From the Ice, A'lex says "looks good..."
Nraith warbles curiously.
Rhonneth steps out onto the ice.
Alwyn seems to have come out of his shell for a time anyways. He looks to
Rhonneth again and then the skates. He pads over as quick as Silen one
might add and finds a pair of skates just perfect for him. He quickly puts
them on and tippy toes near the ice. He looks to Melina and smiles again,
watching A'lex test the ice then glances back to Rhonneth, seemingly
amazed with him.
From the Ice, A'lex carefully wanders around...
Jayna smiles at Silanda. "C'mon. . . the ground's pretty close. I'm
willing if you are."
From the Ice, Rhonneth slides across the ice, finding he doesn't have any
kind of footing. He bugles with mild frustration, not knowing what to do.
Silen grins at Alwyn. "Ready?"
From the Ice, A'lex says "Hey, Alywn, bring me out a pair of skates?"
Silanda shakes her head firmly. "Nope. My rump's not up to this at my age.
Go, shoo, have fun." She grins.
Alwyn follows suit and grins, nodding to Silen. He blinks and nods to
A'lex. He looks around and finds a pair that he thinks anyways will fit
A'lex's feet.
Nraith steps out onto the ice.
Melina grins at Alwyn, "I think I should go out there and help him" She
sits down and lashes a pair of skates to her boots.
Alwyn looks around, "You want me to skate out to you and give them to you
or will you come to me?"
From the Ice, Nraith warbles with surprise as he slides slowly across the
frozen space.
Silanda smiles at Skylyn. "There room on that blanket for another
spectator?"
From the Ice, A'lex wanders towards the edge and takes the skates from
Alwyn, "Thank you."
Jayna grabs a pair of skates and hastily ties them on. She's grinning
broadly.
Melina steps out onto the ice.
Silen grins, and sprints clumsily over the snow towards the ice.
Kassima grins ruefully at Jayna. "Actually, that might be a good idea...
just until I get the knack back, mind. Are y'certain you're willing to?"
She glances at Lysseth, but the dragon evidently has *no* interest in
going out on the ice. No way. Nuh-uh. She likes snow, but she's no
masochist.
Silen steps out onto the ice.
From the Ice, Rhonneth looses complete footing and all four legs slide out
from under him. He lands with a humph on his stomach.
Skylyn grins, actually, I was just going to go out there, I usd to do that
at home, so please enjoy the blanket."
From the Ice, Silen hits the ice at a fair speed, feet and skates going
right out from under him; he slides a good long distance on his rump,
yelling happily the whole way.
From the Ice, A'lex slips over to the now stationary Nraith, and sits on
his foreleg while he puts the skates on.
Jayna stands up, one skate on, and offers her shoulder to Kassima. "I'm
definitely willing!" she grins. "These shoes feel kind of funny."
Skylyn steps out onto the ice.
Alwyn nods to A'lex and smiles, "Welcome....It's been so long since I've
skated." he grins wide. What has happened here? Alwyn? grinning, talking
normally? What a sight. He finally skates out.
Alwyn steps out onto the ice.
Silanda chuckles. "Braver than I am, then. I'll watch your blanket for
you," and does so, wrapping herself in a corner but leaving space for
other sensible folks.
From the Ice, A'lex stands tentatively and carefully glides in a circle on
Nraith, who has planted his butt on the cold surface to keep from
slipping.
From the Ice, Melina slides over to Rhonneth and chuckles, "Poor thing..
c'mon. Slowly get up, love" The big brown snorts and just wraps his tail
around his body, slowly curling up in a ball.
R'val steps out onto the ice.
Dragon> Nraith bespoke Benden dragons with << I don't know if I like
this. >>
Ro walks here from the south.
K'tyn walks here from the south.
Kassima summons a grin, and nods firmly. "All right, then. After all,
what's the worst that could happen? Falling on one's rump bruises nothing
but dignity."
Dragon> Lorieth bespoke Benden dragons with << What's that, young one? >>
Dragon> Benden dragons sense that Rhonneth snorts in frustration <<There
is no way to wallk on this stuff>>
K'tyn wanders over, trailing after Ro; he pauses near the edge of the
commotion, and watches for the nonce.
From the Ice, R'val steps onto the ice and flails about, "AIGH!" He cries
out, and falls flat on his rump immediately, "OUCH!"
Dragon> Nraith bespoke Benden dragons with << This hard, frozen snow I'm
sitting on. >>
Jayna laughs. "And the rump!" she responds to Kassi.
From the Ice, Alwyn enters the 'arena' and grins, skating out quickly.
Alwyn's obviously a good skater. He quickly gathers up speed and skates
the perimeter of the arena. Happy, Alwyn continues to gather speed around
the perimeter.
From the Ice, Silen heaves himself to his feet and yells over to Alwyn,
"Hey! You're good at that."
From the Ice, A'lex tries not to laugh at R'val.
From the Ice, Melina blinks at R'val and cautiously slides toward him,
trying not to giggle. She clears her throat, "Do you.. need help?"
Silanda chuckles. "Not being able to sit for a sevenday is certainly a
risk, by the looks of things..."
From the Ice, A'lex eyes Alwyn and mutters, "Showoff..."
"One's rump *is* one's dignity," Kassi retorts wryly before saluting Kiat.
It's a rather wobbly salute, because she's rather wobbly about standing on
these skates. "G'deve, sir, and a merry Turnover Eve t'you!"
From the Ice, R'val holds his hand up to Melina, wrinkling his nose,
"Uh-huh, if ya pleasae..."
From the Ice, A'lex salutes K'tyn.
From the Ice, A'lex says "Evening, Weyrleader, sir."
Silanda waves to K'tyn, looking rather bemused.
From the Ice, Melina grins and takes R'val's hand, hauling him up the best
she can, "Just don't pull me down with you"
Jayna tries to bob a curtsey to the Weyrleader, but, once skate on and one
off, it looks more like a lopsided lurch.
From the Ice, Alwyn grins and shouts over the din, "I've had practice.."
he grins at A'lex and shakes his head, "Nope. I'm just good." he grins
even wider at A'lex.
From the Ice, Silen tries again, more slowly; he gets the hang of 'fast'
pretty quickly but 'turn' seems to be taking longer.
K'tyn surrepticiously sinks to his knees--ostensibly to adjust a bootlace.
A moment later he rises, and with a wide grin, lofts two soft snow balls
toward those on the ice.
K'tyn grins at Silanda. "Evening, Indeed."
From the Ice, Rhonneth raises his head in suprise and tries to get up
again. His feet slip out from under him again and he's back flat on his
snout.
Kassima blinks, turning to follow the trajectory of the snowballs. "Sir!"
she exclaims, laughing. "You're evil!"
From the Ice, A'lex carefully starts moving forward, gliding on the
fresh-frozen surface carefully. He laughs at Alwyn's comment, "Aye, that
you are, lad." What's this, A'lex calling someone 'lad'? Oy, Wingleader
ship sure has changed him...
From the Ice, R'val manages to stand, although he leans into Melina as he
does in order to balance himself, "Oof!" He grins at Melina ruefully,
"Thanks, Melina. I guess I need practice. It's been a long time..."
Ro breaks out laughing, but moves away from the weyrleader as to be out of
the way of any retaliation.
Jayna smiles at Kassi. "You know, I think I'm just gonna put the other one
on. You can only fall . . . oh. . . .a bunch of times."
From the Ice, A'lex's eyes widen as he sees the hurling snow missiles. "I
dare you to come out here and try that again, sir!"
From the Ice, Rhonneth manages to get hit in the head with a snowball on
top of his embarrassment. He rumbles and refuses to move again.
From the Ice, Silen hurtles towards a group of more cautious people,
yelling, "Look ouuuuuuut...!"
Kassima laughs, and nods once. "Aye, I suppose you're right. Mayhaps I
should get on m'hands and knees and crawl across the ice; I'd have better
luck!" Winking, she summons all of her courage and takes that first,
teetering step.
Making sure Kassi's ok, Jayna drops and lashes on the other skate.
Confusing shoes, these.
You step out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda hides her eyes. "Tell me if he kills
someone..." she manages weakly.
Melina grins and shakes her head, "It's alright. Happy to help" She still
obviously is trying to keep down a laugh from watching R'val slip.
A'lex skates to the edge of the ice to drop off his boots.
From the edge of the ice, Jayna waves to the Weyrleader. "C'mon, sir! It
looks like fun! Can I grab some skates for you?" she smiles.
Alwyn grins again and goes backwards for a moment and stops, eyes wide at
the snowballs. He grins at A'lex and circles him and Nraith for a moment
before going to Rhonneth and Melina, "Ooh, you just need to gain momentum,
Rhonneth.." he says to him. He grins again and skates off to intercept
Silen, trying at least not to bump into him.
From the edge of the ice, A'lex says "Ok, then..."
From the edge of the ice, K'tyn chortles, and quickly scoops up several
soft mounds, holding them in readiness. "A'lex." He nods at the younger
bronzerider, but keeps his eyes on those on the ice.
Silen finally figures out one way to stop and plumps down onto his butt.
It slows him down a little but now he's heading right for poor Alwyn.
Rhonneth looks up again. This time peering at Alwyn. He snorts stubbornly
and still doesn't move.
From the edge of the ice, A'lex grins evilly... and takes a snowball from
K'tyn, "Sir."
Kassima waddle-walks onto the ice, skates clicking against the polished
surface. "Ach... I don't think I *do* remember how t'do this," Kassi
half-moans, and glares at Lysseth who's not being helpful and supporting
her. Lyss, of course, glares right back. Not a chance, lady.
Alwyn glances at Silen, "If you need to stop Silen, dig into the ice. Like
this..." he shows how to stop. Unfortunate for him Silen is heading for
him....
From the edge of the ice, Ro sees a familiar-looking brown dragon looking
pitiful out on the ice and makes her way towards him, carefully, and sans
skates.
R'val grins at Melina and pokes her in the stomach, "You want to laugh at
me, you evil weyrling. I can tell."
Ro steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, A'lex eyes those skating, so many choices, and
just one snowball.
Melina winks at R'val, "Never, sir. Would be as bad as forgetting to
salute Sionelle"
Silen does so, legs and skates out in front of himself; he goes into a
spin but stops just short of Alwyn. "Thanks!"
From the edge of the ice, Jayna steps out onto the ice
R'val grumbles at Melina, "impertinence.' He teases, and gives her a light
push.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda peeks, just in time to see Silen hasn't
caused any major disasters out there.
From the edge of the ice, Prefeth backwings for a landing.
From the edge of the ice, Jayna tries to move, but falls on her behind.
She pulls herself back to solid ground, grimacing.
Alwyn grins at Silen and nods. He looks around a moment and almost flies
on the ice over to Ro, Rhonneth and Melina. "Hey Ro.." he says as he
stops, leaning into his skates.
From the edge of the ice, Jayna gathers her courage, stands, and tries
again. She's not looking too happy with this experiment.
Jayna steps out onto the ice.
Kassima gulps, and pushes with one foot to give herself some momentum.
Wobble, wobble, wobble... what? No crash? It seems to surprise Kassi as
much as it could any spectator. "Hey!" she exclaims, brightening. "Mayhaps
I do still have the knack, after all! Whoa, whoa, whoa--aigh!" She
windmills frantically, making quite a sight as she precariously maintains
her balance by the thinnest of margins.
Silen hauls himself to his feet...again...and takes off again, enthusiasm
barely damped. "Hey, Alwyn," he yells, "how do I turn?"
From the edge of the ice, Prefeth carefully lands out of the way near the
edge of the bowl, eyes whirling brightly. On his neckridges, Aphrael
unstraps herself, before sliding to the ground.
From the edge of the ice, Aphrael climbs down from Prefeth's neckridges
with practised ease.
R'val watches Kassima with an amused grin, "Heh. glad I'm not the only
clutz on the ice."
Jayna moves forward about three feet. She hasn't fallen. She's carefully
maintaining a frozen stance. Not moving, nope.
From the edge of the ice, A'lex grins at Aph, forgetting the salute as he
lets his snowball fly at the big Bronze lump sitting on the ice.
Nraith snorts indignantly as he's pelted with the snowball.
Alwyn glances at the shout and nods, he grins to the brown, "Come on
Rhonneth...you can do it." he grins wider. "Be back in a moment.." he
skates off and stops near Silen. "Almost like stopping except..When you
want to go right, lean right, lean left and you'll go left. You can even
use your back leg as a rutter of sorts.."
Melina slides away from R'val and shouts, "Hey!" She tries sliding back
over at him to push him back, but doesn't get far before she slips and
drops to a knee.
From the edge of the ice, K'tyn takes aim and launches his snowball almost
randomly, by tossing it high into the air. "Aph! Heya."
Kassima makes a face at R'val, and pthbbbts at him for good measure. "I've
nay done this in over a turn; cut me some slack, eh?" Shakily, she keeps
skating on the ice... so far, so good. Maybe this *won't* be a repetition
of the soap-suds incident that sent her sliding everywhere and into
everyone.
A'lex steps out onto the ice.
Silen tries it, slowly gaining some control over what he's doing.
A'lex is a little more confident at his second attempt on the smooth
surface.
Alwyn smiles to Silen, "It just takes practice."
From the edge of the ice, Aphrael calls out, "Evening, all," Before she
breaks off, and oofs, staggering a little as a snowball from a young
weyrkid hits her in the back. "Hey!" She blurts out in surprise.
Jayna's legs suddenly fly up. She falls on her rear end and spins around
like a top, out of control.
Nraith stands, and tries to move towards the edge of the area, to no
avail. His legs slip out from under him, and he starts sliding in random
directions.
Rhonneth warbles curiously and digs his claws in the slippery stuff as
best as he can, rising finally to his feet.
Ro manages to make her way over to Rhonneth, slowly, slipping and sliding,
but she does make it without falling on her rump like so many others. On
the way she waves to 'wyn.
Alwyn hms then blinks at Jayna's topple. He glides over to her, and offers
a hand.
From the edge of the ice, K'tyn whistles innocently, winking as his snow
ball flies through the air to softly explode all over a smoothly skating
individual, just as he offers someone else a hand up.
R'val cackles evilly at Melina and skates away, grinning, "Gotcha, you
evil weyrling!" He thoroughly THPTS back at Kassi, "Feh, excuses!" He
grins at her, and nearly falls over again with a yelp.
From the edge of the ice, Prefeth swings his head around, regarding the
ice. Oooh, that looks fun! Snow flies as he flutters his wings a little,
before settling them carefully along his back.
Rhonneth rumbles to Ro, looking quite pleased of himself that he could get
up.
One of the little weyrbrats climbs to the top of the mound of snow, then
slides down the smoothed face, skidding out onto the ice on his butt.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda grins at the weyrleader, and follows his
example, collecting a good-sized snowball and sending it after her son.
Alwyn blinks and doesn't know what hit him. He topples over himself, "What
tha--"
Jayna gratefully takes Alwyn's hand. She doesn't seem to be able to get
her feet under her though. She laughs as she spins around. "Oh, shards!"
Melina laughs at R'val, "I'm not evil, and I'm going to eventually get you
back!" She gets up to her feet again and tries to slide over at R'val.
A'lex laughs at Alwyn, "The better you do, the more they aim for you
Alwyn!"
Ro offers the friendly brown a warm smile "I knew you could do it."
Silen turns, the snowball just missing him. He looks up and laughs at his
mother, "Nice try!"
Rhonneth croons to the nice Ro lady. He doesn't move his feet but drops
his nose to her to give her a nice gentle nudge.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani walks here from the south.
Of course, just as Kassima says that, the force of gravity decides to
prove her wrong. Her skates slide out from under her with a scrape of
metal against ice, sending her to a landing smack dab on her, uh, dignity.
Further, she continues to slide on the too-slick surface; perhaps she fell
just on a slight incline. "Auuuuuuuuugh!" she wails, until she crashes
into K'star and E'rian in a tangle of Weyrling and rider limbs. "Hey! My
fedora!" Kes yelps, grabbing for it before it can fly from his head.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda snorts. "Young squirt," she grumbles,
and tries again.
A'lex again tries to stand, this time with better luck. Hmmm, standing,
now what, moving is MUCH too difficult...
Alwyn sticks his tongue out at A'lex and gets up once again and gives
Jayna a hand again. "Let's try this again."
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan walks here from the south.
R'val sticks his tongue out at Melina, "Yeah yeah. I only take that threat
seriously from greenriders!"
From the edge of the ice, Aphrael giggles helplessly as she watches those
out on the ice, and bends down to gather together a snowball. Taking aim,
she tosses it in the direction of the weyrkid, but it goes sailing past
instead.
Ro giggles "I don't even have skates on." and she struggles for a moment
to get her balance back. "I don't even know how."
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani slips up from the southern stretch of
the Bowl, her breath hanging about her in a white cloud, her fire lizard
riding on her now en-parka-ed shoulder. The girl hangs mostly out of
sight, but is drawn towards the activity, chewing at her lower lip.
Melina frowns and makes a push toward R'val. She skates quickly toward him
and shouts, "I /will/ get you"
A'lex moves forward slowly, one foot, the other. Better, much better. Wow,
this is almost smooth movement. Look ma! I'm skating!!!
Ro offer the brown a tenative scritch anyhow.
Jayna grabs Wyn's hand. . . . with a lot of hope! She grins.
Silen ducks the snowball again, and sticks his tongue out. "Can't get me!"
he yells, and promptly slips and lands on his butt.
Rhonneth wuffles the nice lady and pushes her gently again. He propels her
gently across the ice as if to show her how to skate.
Alwyn grins and grabs hold of Jayna and rights her. "There ya go Jayna,"
Holl steps out onto the ice.
Nraith stands and actually manages to get his feet under him without
sliding.
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan arrives, bundled in a leather jacket, a
thick scarf, a hat that would do the north pole proud, and a bulky pair of
mittens. Over one shoulder is a pair of skates.
Holl flits abruptly into view overhead, chittering with excited interest
as he circles over dragons and people.
A'lex waves to Jorenan.
E'rian manages to disentangle himself from his brother and cousin first,
quickly skating as far as he can get from them. K'star waits long enough
to at least help Kassi to her feet before following suit. "Cowards!" she
yells after them, reaching down to scoop up a snowball. Since she does
indeed see to be remembering how to do this, it's relatively easy for her
to chase the two novice 'Lings across the ice with the snow in hand. "I'll
get you for that, you--hey! Put down the snow, Eyr... there's a good la--"
*Smack.* She gets a face-full of the white stuff. The Weyrling's aim is
uncanny.
Ro manages to keep her feet for a few moments, but soon they slip out from
under her and she goes down with a thud.
Jayna says "Thanks, Wyn!" Jayna shouts as her arms start waffling.
"Uh. . . .uh. . . . " she drifts away, somehow maintaining her balance,
legs stiff and arms flailing."
R'val yelps as Melina closes on him and skates away hurriedly, "No you
won't! Gah! Save me, evil brownrider in hot pursuit!"
A'lex is now gliding carefully around the perimiter of the icey patch.
Alwyn grins slightly, mischievious thinking perhaps...He skates on over to
A'lex and stops just at the right distance to make him eat some ice for
dinner. He grins once more and skates away from A'lex.
From the edge of the ice, "Holl!" Mehlani yelps, uncharacteristically
loudly for her. Glancing left and ride, she draws nearer to the ice patch,
trying to wave her fire lizard down back to her as unobtrusively as
possible.
Melina laughs and slides after R'val as fast as she can, "Yes I will! I
/can/ catch you"
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan waves to those he knows, and then laughs
at the antics of riders who are usually old enough to be more said. He
takes a seat and begins fastening his skates to his boots.
R'val whimpers, "Nonononono! Ack! Save me!" He skates away from Melina as
quickly as he can, and nearly falls.
Rhonneth cocks his head at the nice lady, warbling an apology. He drops
his muzzle to her to help her up.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda throws another snowball, quickly, while
Silen's down and can't duck.
Vidarth steps out onto the ice.
Holl chitterwarbles, bronze wings gleaming, and playfully aims himself
right towards K'star's brown hat.
Nraith is now carefully sliding himself across the ice, but it seems he's
going in a circle, even though he's trying for the edge...
Melina shouts, "Yes, yes yes" She slides faster, breath coming in fast
puffs of air.
Vidarth steps to the edge of the ice, reluctantly, and whirls his eyes at
the skaters, watching curiously.
R'val spins around, and suddenly moves towards Melina. When he collides,
he tickles her!
A blue firelizard appears, flitting around in surprise and chittering
disapprovingly at the skaters. He keeps away from the dragons, and flits
to hover over Jayna's head.
Kassima wipes the snow away from her face, and raises the back of one hand
to her forehead. "Oh! T'be struck down so young, in the prime of m'life!"
With her other hand, she sends the two snowballs flying towards her
cousins. They connect with satisfying *splats* that cause the greenrider
to grin downright wickedly. Revenge, she is sweet.
Ro says "S'okay." as she carefully gets up, the aid much appreciated "I'll
go and try to find some skates that fit."
Silen gets hit this time, a good shot, and he yells his dismay as he wipes
snow from his hair.
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan looks over at Mehlani. His cheery grin
is only somewhat hidden by the scarf and hat. "Going to skate?" he asks.
Holl grabs K'star's fedora in his claws just as Kassima's snowball
connects, and with mischievously whirling eyes, zooms out of the way with
it. Look what he's got!
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani stomps her foot and calls out sternly,
"Holl, stop that!"
Ro makes her way very slowly to the edge of the ice.
Melina screams and tries to get away, "No! Let me go!" She pushes against
R'val to slide away and falls to the ice with a thump as her legs slide
out from under her.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda laughs joyously. "Gotcha, Silen!"
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani then blinkblinks at Jorenan's voice
nearby, and shoots a bemused glance over at him. "What? Uh, no -- Holl!
Come back here right now!"
Somehow Nraith actaully makes it to the edge of the ice, where he perches,
watching the proceedings carefully.
R'val erks! and tumbles atop Melina, landing in a bluerider-brownrider
heap. He leers evilly, "Got you now!!!" He tickletickletickles her.
Now, Kes was just getting over the shock of being pelted in the face by
his cousin when suddenly he feels a gust of breeze where his hat should
be. "My hat!" he yelps again, trying to run after the fire-lizard. Running
on ice, with skates, is never advisable; he falls on his stomach and
skids, right into the edge of a snow-drift. Indyth, standing just outside
the snow patch, looks mortified.
Jayna glances, chagrined, at the firelizard. "Shadow, be hush!" Looking up
has hurt her balance, though, and she falls to the ice again. Her rear is
starting to feel a bit sore. Not to mention cold.
Melina laughs and screaches all in one, squirming to get out from
underneith the bluerider, "Let me go, you evil thing!"
Holl is a loyal little bronze, and the moment Mehlani calls for him, he
promptly responds to her call. By winging back out to her and deftly
dropping K'star's hat right on the girl's head.
Alwyn grins and skates around the riders and dragons and other people
quietly, whistling all the while. Obviously hatching some scheme.
R'val laughs evilly, "Say uncle, evil brownrider!" He continues tickling!
Rhonneth rumbles, a bit disappointed. He folds his wings against his back
and sits on the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan quirks an eyebrow at the young woman and
grins. "Why not?" he asks. "It'll be --" he pauses as the hat hits her
head smack-on. "Fun."
Kassima catches sight of the 'lizard with her cousin's hat, and just about
howls with laughter. Enough to send her falling to her rump again... but
this time, she doesn't even seem to notice. "Mehlani," she laughs, "that
bronze of yours has the most peculiar taste in hats!"
A'lex steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Silanda plunks back onto the blanket and grins
smugly.
Melina laughs, still squirming underneith R'val, "Never! It takes more
then a psychotic bluerider to make me give up"
A'lex climbs up the snow bank, and slides down the frozen slide, laughing
hysterically. "OHHH! That's cold!"
From the edge of the ice, K'tyn ponders the festivities, and with a slight
smirk, heads for the ice as he pulls some old wooden blades from his
pocket, fastening them to his heavy boots securely. One step, two, he's on
the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Coming out of anybody else, the noise Mehlani
makes would be a yelp; coming out of her, it's a somewhat softer noise.
Aghast, she plucks the hat off her head, and shoots a glance between
Jorenan and the young rider to whom the item belongs. "I-I don't have any
skates! I... oh, K'star, I'm sorry, I don't know what's gotten into
him...!" Her voice picks up a bit of volume to carry to Indyth's rider,
and as if quite acutely aware of how this is making her audible, Mehlani
starts turning pink.
"I think it's more like *good* taste in hats," K'star mutters, scrambling
to pull himself out of the drift before Mehlani can see. He brushes snow
off of himself and gets to his feet, flashing the girl a rather abashed,
crooked grin. "You look good in that hat, Mehlani," he calls over. "Why
don't you keep it? I've another."
K'tyn steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Ro searches through the pile of skates for some
small enough for her. It takes her quite a while to find some that will
fit.
R'val snorts! "We'll see about that!" He tickles even more vigorously.
From the edge of the ice, Holl claims Mehlani's shoulder and chirps
proudly. His job here is done.
Alwyn grins and skates around K'tyn once and then glides off quickly. He
whistles innocently again.
Silen sighs, and goes back to practicing skating without provoking his
mother again.
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan chuckles. "I knew you'd say that. You
can have fun on the ice even without skates." He finishes attaching his
own skates, a pair of well-worn but solid ones, and stands up again.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani blinks wide blue eyes at K'star, staring
at him in startlement at his offer, and then staring again at Jorenan. All
she manages to get out is, "But--"
Melina squirms faster, trying to slip out from underneith R'val, "No!
Qui.. quit it!" She laughs harder, the cold making her cough a bit.
Jayna once again, manages to fall. This time, though, she's close to the
edge. She pulls herself so solid ground.
K'star grins and flicks a stray clump of snow out of his forelock. "Don't
worry about it. It's all Kassi's fault." Kassima does her best to look
innocent from where she's trying once more to skate, succeeding in a
rather less-than-perfect fashion. "Honestly, it's just as well; how else
would I have ever known just who that fedora was perfect for?" Again he
gives her that charming grin, his teeth flashing whitely.
K'tyn gauges the resistance of his blades against the melting surface, and
nods. "Not bad... but let's see what it will do." He beams at the pairs of
people in various states of standing and starts to glide around them.
"Need help?" he offers a nearby pair who can't seem to stay standing?"
R'val makes a face and stands, offering Melina his hand, "You're tough
stuff, Melina m'dear, I'll stop!" he grins boyishly, all innocence,
"Here..take my hand!"
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan blinks at Mehlani innocently, and then
holds out a hand. "Come along! I won't let you fall down or anything."
From the edge of the ice, Lorieth backwings for a landing.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn slides down Lorieth's shoulder to her
forelimb, then jumps to the ground.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria walks here from the south.
A'lex waves to J'lyn, "Heyla!"
A'lex says "Happy Turnover!"
From the edge of the ice, Ceria walks through the bowl. She stops when she
sees everyone.
From the edge of the ice, It's Kassima's fault that Holl is taking a turn
for the impish? Having plucked the hat off her head, Mehlani stands there
bemusedly blinking at it, before looking again at its owner -- and then at
Jorenan, who's rather closer. Well, okay, uhm. Maybe she can give K'star
back his hat if she can get over there somehow. Nervously, she bobs her
head at Jorenan, and reaches her free hand to take his.
A'lex calls, "Ceria! Get out here!"
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn slowly makes his way onto the ice.
Kassima salutes the Weyrleader again, of course. "Going t'try your luck
and risk your dignity with the rest of us mortals?" she grins, then blinks
as she espies J'lyn. "Hey, J'lyn!" she hollers at the top of her lungs.
"Happy Turnday and Turnover!"
J'lyn steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria peers curiously at A'lex. "What?"
Melina finally calms her laughter and grabs R'val's hand, "Don't fall on
top of me. You're sharding heavy!"
J'lyn promptly falls on his backside.
A'lex says "Come on out! The water's fine!"
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan takes Mehlani's hand, and then steps
onto the ice. He doesn't go anywhere, he just steps onto it so's Mehlani
can see that it can be done. He waves his free hand at Ceria. "Evening,
Ceria!"
Jorenan steps out onto the ice.
Mehlani steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria blinks. "But I don't know how," she says
to A'lex.
K'tyn helps the pair to their respective feet, and moves slowly around the
rather largish ice patch, greeting J'lyn as he passes the other man,
watching 'Lani and Jorenan approach the ice and step onto it.
From the edge of the ice, Ro clumsily attempts to tie the skates on, but
it soon becomes apparent that she's done it wrong, so she unties them and
starts over.
Skylyn grins and skates over to where A'lex is,"I wonder if firelizards
woul manage on Ice...
A'lex laughs, "Apparently J'lyn doesn't either, come out anyway!"
Alwyn grins slightly and glides on the outside of the frozen pond. His
hand arches down to collect snow. Whistling innocently all the while.
A'lex raises an eyebrow at Skylyn, "I don't know... maybe... they're light
enought that they might not slip around much..."
J'lyn grumbles as he slowly gets to his feet and almost unbalances himself
again. "You people are crazed!"
Silen skates around, slowly gaining confidence and grace.
Mehlani inches cautiously out onto the ice, one hand in Jorenan's, the
other clutching K'star's brown hat. The girl evidently is familiar enough
with walking on ice -- she doesn't fall, or appear to be about to.
R'val hauls Melina to her feet and makes a face, "Hey! You sayin' I'm
fat?" he asks Melina teasingly.
A'lex says "Your point J'lyn?"
K'star, not being the best of skaters, nonetheless gallantly attepts to
meet Mehlani half-way--while shooting a dirty look at the rumblesnickering
Indyth and the outright snickering E'rian. "That fire-lizard of yours has
great taste in hats," he manages to say while trying desperately not to
fall and further embarrass himself.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria finds a pair of skates the fit and she
slowly makes her way onto the ice.
J'lyn chuckles. "No point. Just thought I needed to say that."
Ceria steps out onto the ice.
From the edge of the ice, Jayna sighs and takes off her skates. She smiles
at Ceria
Jorenan grins. "So far, so good," he says to Mehlani. "Now we try moving?"
He takes a small step, more of a lean, really. Enough to start him gliding
very slowly and pull Mehlani with him if she just glides.
Melina snorts good naturedly, "No.. just /heavy/"
Ceria stands uncertainly, trying not to fall.
K'tyn slides about on the ice gracefully. "Tis no worse than the lake in
midwinter. Which is what this is, aye?" He grins at J'lyn. "Can I offer
you some assistance, man?"
R'val flexes at Melina, "Yeah. Heavy with muscle!" He winks.
"Nay kidding!" Kassi quips to J'lyn, while rummaging around in her
satchel. Eventually, she comes up with a parcel wrapped in vivid green
with streaks of silver-white, onyx-black, and ruby-red. She tosses this
lightly to him. "Catch, Turnday-man!"
Another one of the little weyrbrats climbs to the top of the mound of
snow, then slides down the smoothed face, skidding out onto the ice on his
butt.
Glorfyndal comes to a soft landing gliding around the ice occationally
falling over.
Mehlani bobs her head slowly to Jorenan, moving carefully by him. As
K'star makes his way over, she glances down at the hat, and seems torn.
"Are, um, you sure you don't need it?" she murmurs at the young brown
rider.
J'lyn just stands there, so far, so good. "Nobody touch me!" he says a bit
scaredly. "If anyone touches me, I'll lose my balance. Again."
From the edge of the ice, Ro inspects the skates for a bit, and tries to
see how others have tied them on as they skate by.
A'lex says "Turnday man??"
From the edge of the ice, Jayna disappears down the tunnel that leads out
of the Telgar Caldera.
In Mehlani's arms, Holl chirrs contentedly, eyes whirling blue, and
anchors himself on Mehlani's shoulder by wrapping his tail round her neck.
Melina pokes R'val in the stomach, "Is /that/ what you call it? Hmm.. "
she grins, "never heard it called that before."
Kassima grins over to A'lex and cheerfully answers, "Aye! Today's J'lyn's
Turnday, did you nay know?" She looks quite pleased to be spreading this
news to the general populace, sadist that she assuredly is.
J'lyn spies a small box flying at him, reaches out and grabs it with a
grin, and promptly lands flat on his backside. AGAIN.
Ceria attempts a slow movement, but she almost loses her balance and she
stops.
Alwyn grins and packs in the snow with his hands as he continues to skate
around, somewhat close to A'lex one might add.
A'lex grins, "Happy Turnday J'lyn!!"
R'val sticks out his tongue at Melina, and pokes her back, "Impertinent
weyrling." He grins.
K'tyn snorts at J'lyn, stopping just before him as he makes another pass.
"Do you trust me, Greenrider?"
Jorenan grins at Ceria encouragingly. "Now you just have to get moving,"
he says. "Try a -very- gentle lean-and-glide." He pulls Mehlani in a slow
arc towards the rider whose hat she's wearing.
Skylyn does an elaboratetwerl and then sakes around a bit and slips on the
ice near A'lex.
Silen scrambles up the ice-hill, using the tips of his skates, and slides
back down, yelling the whole way.
A'lex starts as Alwyn passes near him. "Woah." Then, yes, falls on his
tuccas...
Ceria looks down at the ice. "I can't," she murmers. "I'll fall."
J'lyn smirks up at the weyrleader. "No, actually it's refreshing to lie
down on the ice, " he says with with a touch of sarcasm. "Do I have much
choice, Kiat?"
K'star quirks a lopsided smile at Mehlani, ducking his head a bit. "Nah.
I've got others, and it'd be selfish to keep 'em all to myself when that
one suits you so well."
Alwyn grins at Ceria and drops his newly packed snowball for a moment and
looks to Ceria, "Want some help Ceria?"
Skylyn stands offering a hand to A'lex, "Want some help?"
From the edge of the ice, Ro finally manages to get her skates on right
and tenatively stands, taking a few stiff legged steps toward the ice.
A'lex says "We all Fall Ceria, that's what makes it fun! Errrrr, sorta
fun..."
Jorenan hmmms. "Maybe," he agrees. "Keep your knees bent and springy, and
it's easier not to."
K'tyn grins, and offers the taller man his hands. "C'mon. Tis not that
hard, once you've got the rhythm down."
Kassima wobble-skates over to where J'lyn is, the picture of
solicitiousness... except for her eyes, which aren't as good as the rest
of her face at hiding amusement. "Sorry about that, J'lyn. You all right?"
A'lex grins at Skylyn, "No, thanks, I'll just pull you over." He pulls
himself up and gets back on his feet.
Mehlani glances over at J'lyn as several voices call out his name, and
indeed, has to put the hat back on in reflexive nervousness, as the ice
beneath her bootsoles reports a few alarming plans for her balance. Closer
to K'star now, she stumbles a bit, but promptly murmurs to Jorenan, "If
you'd rather help Ceria it is alright..."
J'lyn slowly makes his way to his knees. "Let me see what's in this box
first, before making another ass of myself."
---
Gleaming with the sheen peculiar to fine leather, these black
gloves are snug enough to fit... well, like a glove! Thin and supple
across the back and wrists, yet reinforced with tougher wherhide across
the palms, these articles of clothing are perfect for the rider who needs
a practical and yet stylish sort of accoutrement. The design is simple
without being plain, with little decorative stitchery... save, of course,
for on the the back of each glove. It is there that true beauty becomes
evident; threads of shimmering, shining hues of deep purple, gleaming
bronze, and purest jade green have been used in the proudly embroidered
Thunderbolt Wing symbol. Stuffed in the cuff of one glove is a rolled-up
hide, upon which is written the following note: 'These gifts for a rider,
J'lyn, are meant to perhaps save his skin; should he wear them with pride,
they should protect his hide, and for him some compliments win! Yeah,
yeah, so it's not the best poetry in the world. Who said that we're
supposed to be Harpers, eh? With best wishes, fondest regards, and sincere
apologies for that limerick, Kassima and Kindre.'
---
Ceria makes a face at A'lex. "Doesn't look to fun to me," she says. She
moves very slowly and starts to jerkily move across the ice, fighting to
keep her balance.
A'lex says "Nraith didn't think so either..."
Skylyn giggles a bit reckolecting a time that something like that
happened......
Ro steps out onto the ice.
Alwyn shrugs at Ceria and then looks around for his snowball...Now where
did that thing go...
K'tyn offers to steady J'lyn if the man needs it. "In that box there?
Blades for your boots, I think, my friend."
From the edge of the ice, Nraith trumpets indignantly and moves back
towards the ice.
Ceria grins at A'lex as she starts to get her balance. She moves toward
A'lex. "How is Nraith," she asks conversationally, but the look on her
face is one of intense conversation.
"I can help you, Mehlani," K'star promptly volunteers, ignoring E'rian's
glare. "Really, it's not too hard when you get the hang of it."
Ro stands on the edge of the ice, not moving, but more importantly, she
hasn't fallen, -yet-
Nraith steps out onto the ice.
R'val sticks his tongue out at Melina, grinning, "Impertinent weyrling!"
He declares, and tickles her.
Kassima shakes her head in denial. "Nay, 'tis nay that," she replies
cheerfully. "Go ahead and open it, J'lyn; 'tis your Turnday gift from
Kindre and I both."
A'lex grins at Ceria, "Ask him yourself, here he comes."
Melina shakes her head decisively, "Never" She laughs, "Must you do that?"
Alwyn stops looking for his darned snowball and continues to glide on
looking up at the sky as he does so, happy.
Nraith comes sliding across the ice at a rather good clip, sending
weyrbrats scattering before him as if he were a rampaging herdbeast.
Glorfyndal glides over to the bronze and carefully chirps at him being
sure not to be squished if he sould fall.
J'lyn chuckles and opens the box from Kassi and Kindre. Eyes widening, he
brings out a spectacular pair of new gloves, and reads the card to
himself, laughing loudly at the ending. "Kassi, they're wonderful. If you
see Kindre before I do, pass along thanks to her as well."
Jorenan grins at Mehlani. "I offered to help you first, and I think
there's a few here who would help Ceria if she needs it." He tightens his
hand when she wobbles a bit, and then glides to a stop as he comes up
K'star. He glances back towards A'lex and Ceria with a grin. "Nraith might
make her a good helper, for that matter."
Ceria starts to look up for Nraith and she promptly falls over. "Ow," she
says with a rueful grin.
A'lex says "Helper, for what?"
Rhonneth bugles at Nraith, telling him to be more careful.
K'tyn grins. "Well, twas a good guess, hm?" He looks at the gloves.
"Those'll come in handy, aye. This ice can be sharp if you fall just
right. Or wrong."
J'lyn grins, and unsteadily makes his way to his feet.
Skylyn grins and skates backward for a bit, doing a split-leap and then
lands near Nraith yelling an exclamation.
Vidarth blinks his eyelids and watches Nraith.
Mehlani glances between Jorenan and K'star -- and, for that matter, the
glaring E'rian -- and murmurs tinily, "Um... thank you..." To whom this is
directed is not exactly clear; it could be either Jorenan or Kes.
Regardless, Holl looks mightily pleased, crooning at K'star as soon as
Mehlani is near him.
Jorenan grins. "For skating lessons, A'lex. Ceria could... I dunno, hang
onto his tail or something."
Skylyn adds, of pain.
R'val grins at Melina, "Can't help it, I'm an evil bluerider.'
Kassima grins down at J'lyn, offering him a hand as well. "Seemed the
least I could do, after you got me these fabulous earrings, and I'm
certain Kin felt quite the same. If'n you like them, then I think I can
speak for her enough t'say that we're both glad."
A'lex tries not to laugh at Ceria, "Here, like Jorenan said, prop yourself
up on Nraith."
Melina grins, "As evil as they come, I'd wager"
Ro slowly pushes one foot forward a few inches. Bolstered by the fact that
she doesn't fall, she then shifts her weight to that foot and slides the
other forward.
R'val wiggles his eyebrows at Melina, "Aye, but nowhere near as bad as a
greenrider!"
Ceria struggles to stand as she slips on the ice. Finally she manages to
pull herself up by holding onto Nraith. "Thanks," she says.
Nraith once again, sits on the ice to keep from sliding about.
J'lyn smiles. "Of course I love them."
K'star eyes Jorenan meaningfully when he refuses to leave Mehlani with
him, but sighs. "Well, nevertheless... may I offer you escort back to the
shore, if that's where you're going?"
Nraith turns his head to watch Skylyn, he looks a bit wary.
J'lyn hears some disparaging remark about greenriders and quirks an
eyebrow at the portly bluerider.
From the edge of the ice, Aphrael has disconnected.
Melina eyes Kassi curiously then looks back at R'val, "A greenrider?"
R'val nodsnods to Melina, murmuring, "They're /EVIL!/. Just wait till
Lysseth's proddy. You'll see."
Skylyn grins and stands then quickly skating off the rink and comming back
with the blanket she had earlier and then skates back to Nraith sets it on
the groung nexto Nraith and sits on it.
Jorenan blinks at K'star. And then looks abashed. He lets go of Mehlani's
hand quickly enough, and glances at her to see what her response will be.
Alwyn grins slightly and watches everyone's tumbles and turns. Happily
skating about, Alwyn makes sure everyone is skating well enough.
Kassima wrinkles her nose at R'val. "Sharding straight, bluerider!
Naught's as evil as a greenrider who's *set* on being evil. Unless,
mayhaps, 'tis a proddy green dragon who's set on being evil. I'm nay
precisely certain which is the worser of the two; J'lyn, what would you
say?"
Melina blinks at R'val and whispers, "Shards.. I bet they are. I'm glad
you're just an evil bluerider"
One of the Weyrbrats skates past Skylyn, not seeing the blanket and goes
diving across the ice.
K'tyn grins at R'val, and turns to help J'lyn, should he need it. He
mutters to J'lyn, "... him... jealous, J'lyn,... it."
"Proddy," the older rider says with a significantly evil grin. "Definitely
the proddy one." J'lyn's hands pull on the gloves to test them for a fit,
and by golly, they're perfect! Imagine such a thing!
Mehlani's immediate response, as she is released, is to blurt, "I don't
want to be in anybody's way...!" She glances towards the edge of the ice,
and takes a step in that direction. But her tread is a touch less sure
now, and once more, she stumbles. Holl, on her shoulder, trumpets and
flaps his wings, as if thinking this'll help steady her.
R'val wrinkles his nose at Melina, "Just you wait. Flights are in your
future I'm afraid.' he glances at Kassi fearfully, "Just..try not to chase
Lysseth! Pure evil."
A'lex laughs, "Ya might not want to be sittin on a blanet out here
Skylyn... someone might get hurt."
Ceria glances at A'lex. "What are you laughing at?" she asks archly. Then
she grins.
Melina chuckles and shakes her head, "I'll watch for those 'evil'
greenriders." She eyes Kassi then J'lyn again with mild amusement.
The weyrbrat picks himself up, muttering curses under his breath.
Kassima folds her arms and gives R'val a meaningful look. "Lysseth
wouldn't be pleased if'n she knew that you're trying to chase away her
suitors, bluerider!" she laughs. "Nevertheless, mayhaps there won't be
that much t'fear. When Juliath rose while Meli was expecting Tamlin, her
proddiness was toned down considerably. It could be the same with me."
Yeah, and porcines are taking to the air even now.
Skylyn ducks as the weyrbrat comes past, immediatly stading and then says,
"See what you mean.
Jorenan, who had thought this might happen, puts a hand on Mehlani's arm
to stabilize her. "Holl, that's going to make it worse." He looks to
K'star, as if to indicate that he'll let go once K'star's steadying her.
And if K'star lets her fall, well, they'll settle that later.
R'val winks at Melina, "Some aren't as bad as the rest." He grins at
Kassima, "It's my duty as a bluerider to warn all riders of male dragons
about The Evil That Is Lysseth, Kassi m'dear."
K'tyn laughs suddenly at J'lyn's posturing and Kassi's words. "I know, I
would be jealous, hm? C'mon, you vain creature. Let's skate!"
A'lex grins at Skylyn, then looks up at Nraith. "Ok, who says there's no
peer pressure among Dragons, someone's been taunting Nraith."
Ceria lets go of Nraith as she regains her balance. She glances curiously
at A'lex.
Telgar Weyr> J'lyn says, "Kiat, which vain creature are you speaking of?
Not 'Lani. She's 'fetching', not vain. :)"
Melina whispers to R'val rather audibly to anyone really, "How do you know
which ones aren't evil?"
K'star immediately extends a hand to try and help Mehlani, offering his
arm for support. "Here, let me help you? Between ourselves, we might both
be able to keep to our feet until we get back to solid ground." His dimple
shows as he grins at the girl, with a hint of a chuckle.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn says, "YOU, J'lyn."
Telgar Weyr> Mehlani blushes!
Telgar Weyr> J'lyn grins. Oh. THAT vain creature. :)
A'lex guffaws, "The evil that is Lysseth??"
R'val makes a face, "Assume they are ALL EVIL! You're not far from the
truth if you do."
Skylynpats the large dragon, "Well I better be going, see you all some
other time." She waves.
Alwyn grins at A'lex and continues to gain speed around the perimeter of
the arena.
Steadied, now, between the two youths, Mehlani peeks at K'star out from
under the brim of his fedora, and silently bobs her head at him.
A'lex grins at Skylyn, "Have a good night!"
Silen skates circles around Nraith.
Kassima rolls her eyes at R'val, then gives 'Lex a meaningful look. "Never
underestimate the evil that is a proddy green dragon, 'Lex! Though, why am
I warning you? 'Twould be better t'let you ind out for yourself! Looks
like they fit like... a glove, J'lyn," she puns, grinning impishly.
Nraith watches Silen with concern.
Melina nods, looking as if she's just been filled in on a great secret.
She grins and murmers, "Good.. cause that's what I do with blueriders
already. Isn't too hard to extend that to green"
Jorenan lets go once Mehlani seems steady enough. He gives K'star a close
look, and then grins. "Enjoy your trip," he says to the two of them. Then
he turns and skates off looking nonchalant.
Ceria leans against Nraith, not attempting more skating just yet.
Silen circles in closer, then leans down on one pass and taps the tip of
the brinze's tail.
J'lyn gets as steady as possible, and tries to push himself forward, arms
windmilling ever so gracefully.
A'lex says "It's not too bad, is it Ceria?"
R'val eyes Melina, "What!? Blueriders aren't that bad! We're cute!" He
leers.
K'tyn offers his hands to J'lyn. "Take my hands. Let me pull you till you
get the hang of it, hm?"
Melina snorts, "Cute? Cute is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe to /other/
blueriders you are"
K'star nods firmly once in return, and extends his arm as he begins the
trip back to the shore. Indyth's not snickering anymore; instead, he's
simply rumblechuckling and looking rather smug. Rather like Holl, if you
think about it.
Ceria smiles at A'lex. "If I can manage to keep my balance, this could
actually be fun," she says.
J'lyn latches onto Kiat's arm with a death grip and lets the younger man
drag him all over the ice for a bit.
A'lex says "Even the best of us fall, watch Alwyn, he even falls
occasionally."
A'lex nudges Ceria and points to J'lyn and K'tyn...
Silen skates over to Nraith's nose and considers the bronze closely.
K'tyn pulls J'lyn over the ice easily, offering advice to the other man.
"Bend your knees, a bit--relax! See?" He grins at Mehlani as he whizzes
past her and her companions.
Nraith lowers his head to consider Silen just as closely.
Ceria grins when she sees J'lyn and K'tyn. She pushes off of Nraith and
starts to move slowly across the ice, her balance getting better over
time.
Alwyn grins at A'lex, he looks in his direction...Unfortunate for him he
wasn't looking in front of him. He appropriately topples over, right on
his butt.
Mehlani, clinging to K'star's arm, inches back towards the edge of the
ice. As K'tyn passes her, the girl can be noted to be blushing; or perhaps
it's simply the cold. Holl, on her shoulder, looks in the direction of
Indyth, and coos.
Jorenan misses the smugness. Or perhaps he just ignores it. His face is
momentarily thoughtful as he glides away, but then he is absorbed in
enjoying the day. He comes 'round the patch to Ceria and A'lex. He goes by
slowly and asks, "Getting it, Ceria?"
Kassima laughs, skating away from the others with a gaining ease. Which
isn't to say that she doesn't windmill or anything; she's just--mostly--
able to save the windmilling for when nobody's looking. "I wonder," she
muses, "whether this might serve as a suitable form of exercise for
awhile. Faranth knows, 'snake hunting can be dull if'n there's nay prey
about."
Silen grins at Nraith. "Havin' fun?" he asks.
Ceria nods to Jorenan, but she keeps her attention on the ice under her
feet.
A'lex grins at Alwyn on his butt.
Ro slides forward another step. She wavers to the left a bit, but manages
to right herself.
Nraith whuffs Silen with a blast of warm Dragon breath.
Silen gets whuffed backwards, and laughs. "Neat! Thanks!"
A'lex glances over at Silen and Nraith. "Play nice..."
Aleta steps out onto the ice.
K'star eyes his dragon, then elects to ignore him and pay more attention
to the female he's guiding across the ice. "Cold?" he asks, taking note of
the flush to her cheeks.
R'val spots Aleta wandering onto the ice and flashe sa grin at her, waving
her over to where he stands near Melina. He turns back to the brownrider
weyrling sort of person and grins, "Wanna skate s'more?"
Silen calls over, "I am! I think." He looks doubtfully over at Nraith. "I
am, right?"
Jorenan turns and skates backwards for a moment, watching Ceria. "You're
doing great! Don't let me distract you." Skating backwards also puts J'lyn
and K'tyn in his line of sight. They don't even get a quirked eyebrow.
There are plenty of couples holding hands on the ice, after all.
Ceria trip suddenly. She manages to regain her balance, but she skids
across the ice, barely managing to stop herself from running into A'lex.
K'tyn eyes K'star and E'rian carefully as he and J'lyn swing around again.
His mouth purses meditatively. "Hey, J'lyn. You know that pair of riders?
K'star and E'rian? I'm not familiar with them," he fairly shouts as he
zooms by.
A'lex grins at Silen, "Yea, you are."
Melina smiles and nods, "Sure. As long as I don't end up in a heap again"
Silen grins. "Good!"
J'lyn lets go of K'tyn's arm, and speeds his way around the ice, balance
miraculously there, and form relatively good. Howeever, he doesn't know
how to stop. FLying pretty sharding fast, he tries to slow down, but to no
avail. Scattering people like wherries, his eyes practically bulge from
his head. "HELP ME!" he shouts, fear emblazoned on his face. "How do I
stop???"
Silen yells, "Fall over!"
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn jeez laweez Jorenan! A friend helping another makes
them a couple. Cool! Thats a new one.:) :)
Mehlani's head bobs again under K'star's brown hat. It's a bit large on
her, so she has to keep peeking out from under it, and as J'lyn bellows,
she jumps!
A'lex calls, "Sit down J'lyn!"
R'val yelps, and skates rapidly out of J'lyn's way, "Better move, Melina!"
Ceria falls over again as she is startled by J'lyn's shout.
K'tyn tries to move back toward J'lyn. "Wait!"
Aleta comes dashing out from the living caverns, grinning as she skids to
a halt before the ice. Spying R'val, she nods at his wave, skirting the
edges, "First time I've ever seen so many people taking a fall for the fun
of it." She flashes a broad grin.
Telgar Weyr> Jorenan laughs and laughs. "Always glad to be of help."
Melina screams again and slides after R'val, her feet slipping wildly
without making incredibally good progress on the ice.
Kassima yells helpfully to J'lyn, "Fall on your rump!" Skating over closer
to Kiat, she calls to him in a voice not much quieter than his, "Kes and
Eyr? They're cousins of mine! Good lads! Brown Indyth's and green
Milleniuth's riders respectively!" That's all she manages to get out
before she's skidding out of range, doing her best to avoid J'lyn whenever
he passes by. "Just throw your feet forward; you'll fall fast enough!"
R'val reaches for and grabs Melina's hand before she falls over again,
"Watch out, Melina, don't fall!" he waves Aleta over and grins.
Melina finally skates out of J'lyn's way. She smiles at R'val and murmers
thanks.
Ceria tries frantically to stand up so she can avoid J'lyn, but she
doesn't appear to be having much success.
J'lyn, not knowing how to turn by himself, ends up speeding towards the
edge, a giant snowdrift in his path. Headfirst, he lands with a giant
*POOF* as a flurry of snow flies backwards where J'lyn has displaced it.
Just his feet stick out of the drift, wiggling like crazy.
A'lex laughs so hard at J'lyn that he falls flat on his arse.
K'star starts some himself, and gulps. "Perhaps we should get out of the
way...?" he suggests to Mehlani, but fortunately, the landing of J'lyn in
the snowdrift resolves the dilemma neatly.
Aleta puts one foot out, letting it slip a few inches across the slick
surface before pulling it back. She eyes the others speculatively, "This
is .safe.?"
Jorenan just watches J'lyn careen along, scattering people out of his way.
He skids to a stop and then goes back towards Ceria. He holds out a hand
to her and asks, "Need a hand?"
Ceria grins as A'lex falls next to her. "Now who's laughing?" she teases,
from her seat on the ice.
K'tyn shakes his head, half listening to Kassima and to the shouts of
'advice' being given to J'lyn; a great shout of laughter wells up from
within him as he watches the greenrider plough into a snowdrift. "Well,
that's one way!"
Telgar Weyr> Jehrina fotfl at that on, J'lyn
Muffled shouts come from the snowdrift, from around J'lyn's feet.
R'val grins at Melina, "Dangerous on the ice with nutcases like J"lyn
speeding around." He lets go of her hand and begins circling the iced
area, passing Aleta by, grinning, "Not entirely, Aleta!" He answers, "But
loads of fun."
Silen skates over and yells to J'lyn, "Stop kicking and I'll pull you
out!"
Telgar Weyr> Ceria rofl.
Telgar Weyr> J'lyn says, "Oh, we're not done yet. Kassi I hope you're lo--
What am I saying? Of course you're logging this."
Melina nods matter-of-factly and grins, "Evil greenriders should be
expected to be dangerous on ice"
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "If she's not, I am J'lyn..."
Is it possible to literally howl with laughter? Well, Kassi gives it a
good old try. She throws back her head and *hoots* at the sight of J'lyn's
wiggling feet, falling backwards on her rear end and just collapsing in a
helpless fit of giggles.
Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "You know me so well, Jal. ;)"
Telgar Weyr> J'lyn can only think... o O ( You killed J'lyn! You
Bastards! )
Ceria grins up at Jorenan. "I think I'll stay down here for a bit," she
says. "It seems to be safer."
R'val grins at Melina as he skates away, "Yes, they should. C'mon, don't
lag behind, silly!"
Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "Suffocated by a snow drift... what a way to
go. ;)"
A'lex is still sitting, cause he's still laughing.
Melina laughs and skates after R'val, "I caught you last time, sharding
evil bluerider"
Aleta catches sight of legs flailing about and giggles, shaking her head,
"Why do I think I'm going to regret this?" she murmurs quietly, then
closes her eyes, stepping slowly onto the ice. One foot...then the
second...okay, she's standing. We got that much.
A'lex says "Oh.... my butt is cold!"
K'tyn slides across the ice, ending up near the waggling legs that seem
stuck onto the snowdrift. Gamely, he tugs on one of J'lyn's boots, trying
to help the man get free.
J'lyn wiggles his feet more frantically, rocking back and forth, trying to
get himself out of this sharding snowdrift!
J'lyn's boot comes flying off, sending Kiat flying backwards.
Jorenan laughs and lets Ceria sit, then. "It does, at that." He gives
A'lex a thoughtful look, but doesn't offer any suggestions on ways to warm
his butt. Though a number might have come to mind.
Mehlani nodnodnods quickly to K'star, once she gets over the shock of
J'lyn's landing.
Silen grabs the other foot and starts pulling.
R'val winks at Aleta, circling near her on the ice, before grinding to a
halt, "Don't be silly. You'll not regret this, it's too much fun."
Ceria grins at A'lex. "Thanks for sharing," she says. She moves herself to
a kneeling position, perhaps preparing to stand.
A'lex is still chuckling as he pulls himself to his feet.
Telgar Weyr> J'lyn hehs at all the butt comments. If not Sionelle's,
everyone else's. :)
Kassima curls up in a little ball on her side, wheezing with laughter that
A'lex's comment only exacerbates. "Bet J'lyn's is colder!" she manages to
gasp out, then goes into fresh hysterics at the sight of Kiat and the
boot. Several riders nearby give her odd looks--nothing new there. It's
pretty much common knowledge that the greenrider is mad.
K'tyn tries to avoid the flailing feet, but... with a distinct lack of
traction, he falls forward himself, into the snowpile, still laughing.
Ceria pushes up on the ice, carefully attempting to stand.
A'lex watches K'tyn, and doubles over again, this time catching himself on
Nraith, and managing not to fall.
Ceria glides back over to Nraith and holds onto him as she watches J'lyn.
Her green eyes are bright with laughter.
Aleta eyes R'val, one brow arched, "Alrighty then...how hard can it be?"
She eyes the others, looking down at her feet. Something missing here...
hmm...ah well. This'll do. She slides one foot forward and pushes with the
otherskidding a fair way before gravity taps her on the shoulder and
insists she sit down.
K'star is one of those who eyes his cousin, but not with surprise. Oh, no.
He knows her too well for that. Shaking his head at this madwoman who
shares his blood, he begins skating more quickly towards the shoreline,
though he pauses whenever Mehlani seems in danger of losing her balance.
Melina peers over at J'lyn and laughs, shaking her head. Still, for an
evil greenrider, he doesn't have a bad rear end. She skates after R'val,
making sure not to be left behind.
R'val grins, "Very hard, but still fun." He replies to Aleta, watching her
as she enters the ice. He spots Melina approaching and grins at her,
"how're you finding it?"
Mehlani has a sure grip on K'star's arm now, and she and the young rider
reach the edge of the ice without incident.
Ro makes her way over to J'lyn and the other, looking more like she is
walking that skating. Amazinly she does not fall.
K'tyn quickly digs himself upward and out of the snow, a wide grin on his
face. "Hey! That was fun! I think I might do it again." Half-heartedly, he
scoops snow from the buried greenrider at his side, unburying him.
Jorenan turns and begins a steady set of circuits around the ice. He
avoids J'lyn's flailing feet and their fallout, appears not to see K'star
and Mehlani's progress across the ice, and checks now and again on A'lex
and Ceria's progress towards standing again.
Melina grins, "I'm getting there. Just give me time" She makes better
progress as she loosens up.
A'lex smiles at Jorenan, still trying to catch his breath.
Alwyn just continues to skate happily, watching everyone's coupling and
such.
Kassima finally manages to uncurl herself enough to start crawling on
hands and knees across the snow. "Sorry for laughing at you, J'lyn, sir,"
she says to the two pairs of wiggling feet. "Still need any help?"
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "Coupling???"
Telgar Weyr> Silanda says, "On _ice_?"
Telgar Weyr> Melina awws, "Well.. it /is/"
"Flail no more, J'lyn!" Kiat calls out, still laughing. "You're just
digging yourself in deeper...Aye, Kassi! Take the other side, yes? Dig it
out from underneath J'lyn. Twill help."
Telgar Weyr> Jorenan says, "Now that would be... slippery."
Telgar Weyr> Alwyn rolls his eyes, "Not /that/ kind of coupling."
Telgar Weyr> Alwyn grins.
Telgar Weyr> Kassima says, "Talk about your frigid participants...."
Telgar Weyr> Ceria giggles.
Telgar Weyr> R'val says, "Yeeeeeeeeesh. :)"
Telgar Weyr> Mehlani is NOT coupling! *blush*
K'star whews, glancing back at the entrapped pair. "I think we got out of
there just in time," he murmurs to Mehlani.
R'val grins as Melina makes it over, "You should come out here on the ice
with Tinya sometime, she's an expert skater..."
Aleta hmphs, seemingly at the ice, then sighs, the exhale drifting through
the cold air like a trail of steam. A look of determination crosses her
face, tongue sticking out just a touch as she finds purchase for her feet
and tries to push herself up.
J'lyn finally gets dug out of that sharding snowdrift. Spitting snow and
ice, he blushes and grins sheepishly. "I.. Um, I need to go change my
clothes. I wasn't that scared on my first trip *between*."
Ro scoops up a ball of snow from J'lyn's drift and as accurately as she
throws rocks at tunnelsnakes she takes aim at Alwyn and lets fly.
A'lex watches Alwyn skate by and something in him just snaps. Like some
sort of man possessed, he chases after the lad, and tackles him to the
ice. Laughing hysterically he hollers, "That will teach you to skate
better than the rest of the fardling Weyr!!" He reaches for snow, but
can't find any, so he rolls onto his back and just continues to laugh.
Mehlani peeks again out from under K'star's hat, and nods soberly to the
young man. Holl, positioned more or less between them now as the shoulder
he's perched upon is the one nearer to Kes, chirps his wise agreement.
Melina nods, "I didn't get to do this much where I came from." She slips
unsteadily, "Shards" she hisses.
A'lex gasps, "I'm sorry, couldn't help my self Alwyn."
R'val turns to watch Aleta, and smiles at her encouragingly, "There you
go..that's it. One foot at a time.."
K'tyn mutters to Kassima, "... He makes some... piling... upward,...
shakes..."
K'tyn whispers "Me thinks this snow that's been loosened will come in
handy, hm?" He makes some snowballs, piling them upward, and then shakes
his head at J'lyn. "Change! Go! Change!"
Ceria starts to laugh at A'lex's behavior. "Now who needs to play nice?"
she calls over to him.
K'tyn shakes his head at J'lyn. "Change! Go! Change!"
Ceria's comment sends A'lex into another fit of laughter.
Kassima laughs and does so, of course, digging out snow rather like a
canine excavating a hole in the ground. "Might be a good idea, J'lyn," she
agrees with her co-Wingsecond, trying oh-so-hard not to dissolve in
laughter again or even grin. Small choking noises come from her throat,
but she otherwise maintains her solicitous expression. Until, that is,
Kiat speaks. "You've the right of it there, sir!" she agrees with the most
wicked of grins, already reaching for the loose snow.
J'lyn slides himself off the ice. and towards Lorieth.
Alwyn skates along happily...at least until hit by a snowball, with a
single slip, he dodges the snowball, but there is /no/ way he can dodge
A'lex. He blinks, "What tha---" he gets tackled by A'lex and laughs,
"Noooo."
J'lyn manages not to fall again.
R'val reaches for Melina, blinking, "You ok? Don't fall..."
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn uses Lorieth's forelimb as a step and
seats himself between the green's neckridges.
K'tyn scoops some snow into several nice LARGE missiles; and with unerring
aim, propels them at A'lex. Why? Just because.
From the edge of the ice, Lorieth takes flight, using the thermals rising
from the bowl to carry her aloft.
Melina steadies herself on the ice and grins, "I'm fine. Just new to this
ice"
A'lex arrghs!
R'val grins at Melina, "you'll get better with practice."
Ceria slides across the ice toward A'lex. Unfortunately, she doesn't stop
in time to avoid tripping over him.
Aleta grins, once again on her own two feet, until that is, someone zips
by, showering ice onto her. She makes a face, spying the culprit and
pushing off after them, albeit at a rather slow pace.
Rolling away from the missile launcher, A'lex comes up standing, forgets
he's in skates, and turns too quickly, falling again, just in time to trip
Ceria up.
Ro catches on and starts making snowballs to hand to the weyrleader.
Kassima, in turn, uses her very first missile against her ally; she lobs
it directly for Kiat, while the next one heads Lysseth-wards. To say the
green is surprised to get a snoutful of snow is an understatement indeed.
Melina grins and nods, "I hope so. It's fun enough, just hard"
Ceria starts to laugh. "Sorry," she says as she tries to stand up, but she
collapses into a pile of helpless laughter.
Jorenan does a double-take. Did J'lyn really say what Jorenan thinks he
heard? He stares after the rider for a moment, and then deicdes perhaps it
would be better not to think about it. He continues his quiet slide around
the ice.
Dragon> Benden dragons sense that Nraith rumblechuckles at Lysseth.
K'tyn grins at A'lex. "Prepare your defense, rider!" He grins at Ro, and
laughing evilly--or perhaps, just laughing, sends out the soft balls of
snow with a vengeance.
Mehlani makes another odd little noise for her, as she looks out across
the ice and watches snowballs flying, and the rest of the mayhem: she
giggles.
K'star watches the riders near the snowdrift starting up a missile attack,
looking rather interested in the entire battle. "I don't suppose you often
get into snow-fights?" he asks of the fedora'd girl beside him.
Alwyn collects some snow, and peers at Ro, grinning, gliding near her.
"Oooh Ro!" He tosses the snowball at Ro, but with Alwyn's aim...it hits
Kiat! He blinks and ducks his head skating away quickly.
R'val winks at Melina, 'Hey, you're doing fine..." He glances at Aleta,
watching her skate away, "You doin' ok?"
A'lex says "Defence, I'm stranded out in the middle of a barren wasteland
here! I've no ammunition, unless..." he eyes Alwyn and Ceria, as if
gauging how effective they'd be as missiles.
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth snorts the snow, shaking her head
vigorously to dislodge the rest of it. Her tail whips around to send half
of a snow-drift sailing right towards Nraith.
K'tyn falls backward, laid low by the blow of one thought an ally. With a
great deal of posturing, and groaning, he takes a good deal of time to
'die'.
Mehlani shakes her head solemnly to K'star, murmuring, "Not since Fahloran
went away to the Healercraft and Anra went to live with Mother."
Ro continues to make large snowballs as she watches the carnage on the
ice. Upon the near miss that hits Kiat instead, she points and laughs at
the soon to be unfortunate nanny.
Ceria peers at A'lex. "Why are you looking at me like that?" she says
cautiously.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn walks here from the south.
Nraith doesn't even see it coming. ::SPLAT!!::
Nraith rumbles indignantly.
From the edge of the ice, Rhonneth finally slides off of the ice with a
derasive snort and flops to the ground.
Dragon> Benden dragons sense that Golrath rumblewarbles contentedly. << My
rider is enjoying the quiet. Where are the other humans? >>
Ceria giggles at Nraith.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn decides to stay put OFF the ice.
Dragon> Nraith bespoke Benden dragons with << Playing in the snow in the
bowl... >>
Kassima raises her fists and voice to the air in a victory cheer over the
body of her fallen comrade. "All *right*! Never even saw it coming!" she
laughs. Rather than making more snowballs, she decides, thoughtfully, to
bury the 'corpse.'
Dragon> Rhonneth bespoke Benden dragons with << Mine is slipping on the
hard melted snow. >>
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth rumblechuckles, plainly amused now that
the tables are turned.
K'tyn says "Oh, oh! You got me! I'm seeing the end of my days, the faint
river of life is flowing out of me! I'm wounded, wounded, I tell you!"
*FLOMP* He falls backwards into a waist high drift of snow."
Dragon> Golrath bespoke Benden dragons with << Ah. It does sound
interesting and fun. But not something my rider would enjoy. >>
Nraith looks about, trying to guage how many people noticed.
Alwyn looks around and peers at Ro again and tries this time to toss a
snowball at Ro. He quickly gathers some speed and snow and soon tosses a
rather soft snowball. One that might just shower Ro.
Mehlani giggles again. Twice in five minutes; this must be a record.
Melina watches K'tyn curiously and laughs, "You killed him!"
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "Wow, K'tyn is really melodramitic."
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn looks towards Lysseth with a semi-evil,
semi-innocent grin. He makes himself several good sized snowballs and
tosses them at A'lex and Kassi.
Aleta turns her gaze from the ice in front of her to R'val, nodding at his
question up until the moment she trips over the remnants of a few stray
snowballs. Balance, for a moment is forgotten as she falls forward, hands
flailing to catch the ice before her face does. Fortunately a handily
misplaced wad of snow breaks her fall, though she comes up with a face
full of the wet stuff, "Sure..I'm fine."
K'star reaches down to scoop up a loose snowball, and offers it to
Mehlani. "Well," he offers, with a semi-shy, semi-mischievous grin, "would
you care to amend that now?"
A'lex takes a snowball in the back of the head.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn laughs! Well, yea.;) In a cute, but fun way.
From the edge of the ice, Rhonneth lumbers south.
Alwyn blinks at K'tyn and laughs softly as he glides around him, offering
a hand, "Want a hand, Weyrleader?"
A'lex says "Hey! I was watching K'tyn DIE! That's no fair ganging up on me
like that."
Ro stands waiting, gauging Alwyn's course and speed so she can lob a huge
snowball directly in his path.....
R'val helps Aleta up, smiling ruefully as he pulls her to her feet, "Watch
it, you nearly hurt yourself there...you are ok, huh?" He chortles at the
death of the weyrleader, "We're gonna need another K'tyn!"
Ceria grins at A'lex. "You should be defending yourself," she teases.
A'lex looks about, "The only thing out here to throw is YOU."
Kassima, on burial duty as she is, never even sees it coming. The snowball
hits her in the side of the head with a satisfying *smack* that sends her
toppling to the snow in turn. "I'm hit! I'm hit!" she wails. "Can't a
woman even bury a dead man without being killed anymore?"
Mehlani blinks at K'star, lifting one hand to lift the hat up so she can
get a better look at him, and something else odd happens to Mehlani; she
smiles, not her usual upturned-corners-of-her-mouth smile, but one that
actually flashs teeth, at least for a moment. She bobs her head again,
taking the offered snowball; then, she turns and looks for a target.
Ceria grins. "If you can lift me," she says.
K'tyn sits up. "No thank you, Alwyn," he says courteously. "But..do move
to the left, hm? I must make some more offensive manuevers." He hefts a
very large snowball.
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth rumbles approval to J'lyn, and settles
back down in the snow. Her work here is done.
Nraith bends his head down to look at Ceria. Cautiously, he reaches for
her.
Jorenan skims along the edge of the ice long enough to catch up some snow
and form it into a ball. He shapes it in his hands for long moments, and
then lofts it into the air. The arc is about right for it to come down on
K'star's head.
A'lex says "No! Nraith, no! She was kidding!"
Ceria giggles. "I wasn't talking to you," she says to Nraith. "I know you
can lift me."
Aleta uses her free hand to wipe the snow from her cheeks, the last flakes
melting from her nose. She gives a shake, nearly slipping backwards, but
catches R'val's arm and nods, "I'm fine...really." She grins impishly and
skids off, managing a decent turnabout somewhere slightly offsides, where
she grabs a handful of snow and pats it into a ball, glancing around
thoughtfully.
Mehlani, in the meantime, aims a snowball for -- K'star's brother.
R'val watches Aleta warily, "Uh-huh. Arming herself with a snowball." He
skates to the edge and similarily arms himself."
Which, indeed, it does. No longer protected by the fedora, Kes seems to
receive a white skull cap of snow in its place. After his initial yelp, he
calms down enough to suggest to Mehlani, pointing Jorenan out, "How about
him?"
K'tyn looks at Kassima. "Oh, my valiant one! I will avenge you!" He
shouts, then tosses the huge snowball toward the miscreants who have
pummelled him.---Onto Kassima, that is.
Alwyn hms and grins at A'lex...mischievious lad isn't he? He collects some
snow and throws it t'wards A'lex of course.
Melina sides over to a snowbank and gathers up a good handfull of snow.
Telgar Weyr> A'lex gives K'tyn the great word of the day award for
miscreants.
K'star grins as the snowball goes sailing for Eyr instead. "Or that'll
work!" He decides to avenge the wrong done to him himself, and sends a
snowball hurtling Jorenanwards with the lightning speed and quick aim of
someone who has a lot of practice at this art.
Ro takes this distracting moment to dump a wad of snow down the back of
the neck of Alwyn's coat.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn grins--just call me Foodfight and Snowball master! :)
A'lex sees that one coming, but only manages to fall again AND get hit.
Holl seems to approve greatly of Mehlani's increased participation in the
mayhem, and for giggles and fire lizard grins, the little bronze sails up
to start looking for havoc of his own.
Aleta blinks innocently at R'val, quietly setting her snowball to the side
as she makes another. And another. She continues to look innocent the
whole time...really.
Kassima cracks open an eye as Kiat declares that he'll avenge her, and
then yelps as said eye--and the rest of her, pretty much--is covered in
snow. "I'll get you for that, sir," she avows. It's too bad that her words
are mostly muffled by the snow, which keeps falling in her mouth every
time she tries to speak.
Ceria reaches down to A'lex. "Need a hand?" she offers. So far, she's
managed to avoid being hit.
A'lex mock snarls, "Och! Ye lil evil critter!"
Telgar Weyr> Kassima will have her revenge, Kiat! ;)
Alwyn yelps as Ro pours snow down his jacket, he tries to back track, but
forgetting he's got skates on he tumbles down right on his rump *thud*
right on the ice.
Melina hums, weighing the snowball in her hand. With a practiced flex of
her arm, she tosses the ball at R'val, splatting it at the back of his
head.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn grins.:) I know it.:) Do I look like I care? :)
A'lex nods to Ceria, "Yea, pelt Alwyn!"
Ro is glad she is such a small target and that the riders are bigger ones.
Jorenan is looking very innocent when the snowball caps K'star, but
apparently not innocent enough. He grins good-humoredly, manages a wink at
Mehlani, and then tries to dodge the missile. He manages only to make it
smack into his arm rather than dead-center on his chest. He brushes it
off, and again his feet take him close enough to the snow banks to get a
good handful of snow.
E'rian has been watching Mehlani and Kes--discreetly, of course--but even
so, he wasn't expecting a snowball from the girl in the fedora. It's a
direct hit, right in the chest. His 'death' is even more melodramatic than
K'tyn's... but then, he always *was* a terrible ham.
A'lex gets to his feat, and skates to the edge of the ice, he packs
SEVERAL snowballs and then skates back to Nraith.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn hides behind Lysseth, lest a stray
snowball hurt his tender head.
A'lex steps up on a forelimb and climbs up between two of Nraith's
neckridges.
Jorenan takes much less time forming a hard snowball this time, and rather
than the gentle loft that worked before, his through is just as hard as
the one he was given.
From betwixt Nraith's neck ridges, A'lex uses his arial advantage to pelt
Alwyn repeatedly.
Nraith doesn't look too happy about this.
Ceria uses Nraith to hide as she watches A'lex.
Alwyn blinks as he hears A'lex yell his name. He looks around and tries to
get up, but with A'lex and Nraith's advantage he just keeps getting hit,
thud thud thud... Down the lad goes, right on his rump again and again.
K'tyn laughs at Kassima, and moves to brush the snow from her face. "I
think we need to turn our tactics -outward-, if you get my meaning,
Kassi!" He looks pointedly at the well armed foes about them. "It is
useless to resist! Join me! And we will rule the Ice Patch together!"
Jorenan was throwing at K'star, of course.
Mehlani not only giggles as E'rian goes down, but smiles again, noticeably
wide.
Ro stands there, with a big grin on her face, another huge snowball in her
hands, looking at Alwyn "Throw snowballs at me, will you?" She aims the
snowball directly at his chest.
R'val ACKS!!! as he's hit in the back of th ehead with a snowball, "Grrr.
I'll get you for that!" He declares, whipping a snowball at Melina
quickly.
From betwixt Nraith's neck ridges, A'lex lets out a sound that sounds
awfully like a bugle of triumph, followed by "BAhahahahahahha!"
Aleta waits until R'val's back is turned, loosing the first of her
snowballs straight at his back, then his shoulders, then his head. Hoping
to catch him unawares she quickly packs three more and goes on about her
business of looking innocent while he gets wet again.
A'lex steps out onto the ice.
A'lex slides down from Nraith's back, landing lithely.
Melina laughs and ducks the snowball, succeeding in getting hit just on
the top of her head. She gathers up more snow and tosses it hard at
R'val!
Kassima lies quietly under the snow for just a few moments before lurching
up with a roar. "I am the terrible Snow-Kassi!" she yells, in a way that
would remind some folk of the terrible Snow-Bree. Grabbing haphazardly for
snow, she begins forming a snowball... then pauses, mid-throw. "Huh," she
remarks. "You may have a point." With that, she hurls the snowball with
all her might and considerable power to aim towards A'lex and Nraith.
Alwyn yelps again as Ro as she drops the snowball right at him.
R'val is too busy whipping his snowball at Melina to notice another coming
at him, and he yelps loudly as he's smacked. Spinning on the ice, he
nearly falls, eyeing those about him as he tries to find the second
attacker. He nearly gets hit by Melina's second attack but dodges
accidentally, spinning about and throwing another at her, "Evil
brownrider!"
A'lex says "GAHHHHH! No! Not the Snow Kassi!!!" ::SPLAT::"
Nraith hides his head under a wing.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn peeks out from behind Lysseth and laughs.
Melina whoops with triumph, "I told you I'd get you!"
Ceria grins at Nraith as she continues to press against him.
Aleta sends another barrage back at R'val, once more reaching back into
the seriously dented supply of snow at her feet to make the usual three,
plastering that oh so perfectly innocent look across her face again. She
hopes luck stays with her this time too.
K'star is considerably more alert this time, but nonetheless does get hit
by the snowball right in the arm. "Yeouch! I didn't hit *him* that hard...
Indyth! Avenge me!" Indyth isn't having any of this; he just snorts and
endeavors to look bored.
K'tyn sends his own arsenal out, off the ice, aiming for J'lyn, and any
other 'innocent' looking bystanders.
Ro casts one last glance at the nanny and returns to making snowballs for
the weyrleader type.
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth takes this opportunity to sneak her tail
around J'lyn's legs, and then *pull*--trying to tug his feet from under
him, no doubt.
R'val growls at Melina and biffs another snowball at her, "You /evil/
brownrider. I'll get ya for that!" His rant is interrupted. Yelping, he
looks about as he's hit by another snowball. That innocent look. It must
be...Aleta! "I'll get YOU, you..you...silly!" He throws a snowball at
Aleta this time!
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn ducks behind Lysseth to avoid the evil
bronzeriding weyrleader.
Melina gathers up another handfull of snow and lobs it at R'val again. She
giggles, "Not as evil as you, bluerider"
K'tyn beams at Ro. "My loyal follower! You will be well rewarded when we
are victorious."
"Direct hit! Direct hit!" Kassi sings, jumping to her feet to do a little
dance of joy on the spot that sends snow spattering everywhere. Gathering
two light snowballs, she hurls one towards the corpse of E'rian, and the
other towards Mehlani and K'star's general direction.
Aleta yelps, slipping sideways as she takes a snowball to the side of her
head, then back again, trying to dodge R'val's attempt. Failing miserably
she collapses in a giggling heap, bo.
With a sudden burst of inspiration A'lex calls out, "Dawnchaser wing! To
me! R'val must die!!"
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn falls flat on his backside again.
"Traitorous green."
Ro eyes K'tyn, not knowing for certain if she likes the sound of that. She
keeps a few of her best snowballs in reserve just in case.
A'lex begins the pelt of the AWLM.
Melina whoops again with glee, "That's what I've been doing, A'lex" She
lobs another snowbal R'val-ward.
K'star was probably expecting that from his cousin. Gallantly, he leaps in
front of the snowball's path and takes the hit before it can near Mehlani.
"And so I perish," he groans, "in honor and glory. Fair maid, avenge me!"
He's something of a ham, too.
A'lex says "Good, I need people who can guess what I'm going to do!"
R'val SHRIEKS! as he's hit by A'lex, and he skates hurriedly towards the
edge of the ice. With a yell, he LEAPS!! behind the nearest snowbank,
landing with a thud and a groan, "Ow."
Mehlani scoops up another snowball in her slender gloved hands, and as she
nibbles her lip a moment, considering, she swings her gaze from K'star to
Jorenan and back again. And this time, she laughs out loud as the brown
rider goes over, though she's turning noticeably pink. Her snowball goes
winging for Kassima.
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth snorts with draconic laughter, and
tosses a light barrage of snow over the greenrider for good measure.
Ceria grins and slides away from Nraith to the edge of the ice.
From the edge of the ice, J'lyn gets up and brushes himself off. Grinning,
he hollers out to the ice, "G'night all. This old greenrider is heading
for bed."
K'tyn watches as people pelter one after the other with snowballs and
fall. Grinning widely, he tosses several well-timed missiles at those who
are still standing and not on his 'side'.
A'lex begins to intone in a rather deep melodramatic voice, "And we shall
smite the Evil R'val, and bury him in the icey snow."
Alwyn grins and gets up from the ice finally and glances around and grins,
gathering some snow finally to pack it into a snowball. Done with A'lex,
he tries to get Ro again. He glides by her and throws it at her.
Jorenan snorts. In fact, he probably did get hit just about as hard. He
takes a look at Indyth and then grins evilly at K'star. "Guess you'll have
to fight your own battles," he says. He dives behind a snow bank and
begins firing missiles as quickly as he can make them.
K'tyn looks at J'lyn, "You're not that old!" He calls out after the man.
R'val surfaces from behind his snowbank. Fear! He has an armada of
snowballs, which he begins biffing about him, mainly at A'lex and Melina!
From the edge of the ice, Ceria sits down at the edge of the ice and
watches the battle taking place.
Nraith bends to pick up a mouthfull of drift and drop it over the bank
where R'val hides.
Aleta scoops up a handful of snow, her arsenal having been crushed in her
fall, then packs it and lobs it at R'val. I mean, hey, three on one..it's
fair.
Melina shrieks with laughter and wades through her own snowbank.
Kassima yells to A'lex, "Hey! I hit you--you're supposed t'be dead, and
dead men can't talk!" For good measure, she flings another snowball
'Lex-wards--just in time to be hit full in the side by Mehlani's throw.
"Aigh! 'Tis all... getting black! The final *between* is before my eyes!
Fair allies, fight strongly, lest my death be in full vain!" She collapses
backwards into a snowdrift, spasming once, twice, and then finally kicking
the fake bucket. She does her best to look just like a dead greenrider
should. Lysseth, from the bank, looks faintly disgusted.
A'lex says "Dead? Oh yea! That's right! So... Kill the Weyrleader!!!"
Ro ducks the rest of the way behind the weyrleader, the snowball from
Alwyn barely glancing her arm.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria giggles at Kassima's display of theatrics.
A'lex turns his birrage on K'tyn.
R'val growls, and attacks Melina again, chucking three snowballs at her
rapid-fire, "Attack ME, will ya!"
Melina hums and shakes her head. This isn't working trying to kill R'val.
She turns on Kiat, perhaps a bit foolishly and lobs her ammo of snowballs
at him.
Now, K'star is 'dead', so any barrage of snow sent *his* way pretty much
just covers him up--if it doesn't head for Mehlani. "Hey!" he can be heard
to protest from under the mountain of white. Indyth heaves a great sigh,
and rises from his cozy resting place to gather up a wingful of snow. This
is what goes flying in Jorenan's rough direction; it's not quite one of
Veyath's snow mountains, but it's still a hefty missile all the same.
Alwyn arghs at Ro and turns on Kiat again, hurtling snowballs at him.
K'tyn raises his hands. "Uh! Wait! I can offer you wealth beyond
imagining!" The others move closer. "Power!" Closer. "Hot Kla..." He goes
down under a huge onslaught of snow balls.
Melina snorts and chucks another snowball at R'val, shouting, "You
couldn't hit the tail end of a bronze, you evil bluerider"
Mehlani eeps! as Indyth's snow-wave sprinkles her in passing. But she's
giggling rather steadily now. And in a burst of impulse, she sends another
snowball aimed to K'tyn.
A'lex glances at R'val, "Hey, that's a Dawnchaser patch you have there,
I'm your wingleader, kill the Weyrleader, will ya?"
Telgar Weyr> Kassima guesses we lost, Kiat, since we're both dead and
buried now. :)
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn grins at Kassi. That's okay. we can come back from the
dead, and get our revenge in the sequel.
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "What is this, Star Trek?"
Jorenan arggggghs! He rolls away from where the center of the rain of snow
will land, but it's a hopeless endeavour. He's buried. Rather completely,
in fact. For a moment, there is nothing but snow where he used to be. Then
a completely white figure rises out of the snow in the shape of the Baker
apprentice. He shakes a fist at the dragon and calls, "Pick on someone
your own size!"
Telgar Weyr> Kassima muwahahahas. The Attack of the Dread Snow-Zombies? ;)
Telgar Weyr> Ro says, "Red Star Trek, perhaps."
R'val sticks his tongue out at A'lex, "Feh, bronze boy, I'll get ya with
the Snow!" He whips another snowball at A'lex.
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "Star Trek XXXI The Wrath of K'tyn"
Indyth's snort at Jorenan this time could be classified as the draconic
equivalent of a 'Nyah, nyah.'
A'lex does his best Kassi imitation, "Ye traiterous wretch!" and whips a
snowball back at R'val.
Ro ducks behind a drift as some of the snowballs aimed at Kiat pelt her.
Aleta sputters, caught in the backlash of stray snowball fire...splash
damage as it were...finally figuring the safest place is behind one of
those nice high snow drifts. She awkwardly dives behind a handy one and
pops back up, confident now behind her shelter as she lobs snowballs in
random directions.
K'tyn pokes his head up from the snow that's covered him, and takes
careful note of who aimed at him. A rare gleeful smile stretches his
scarred face, and he move out from the snowpile and off the ice, wooden
skate blades in hand--a low chuckle coming from his chest.'
"Hey," Kassi's voice floats up from one of the two 'graves' off to the
side, "can I stop being dead yet? 'Tis rather boring, y'know."
Telgar Weyr> Melina uh-ohs, "I think we're in trouble"
A'lex stops short, not liking the look on K'tyn's face, "Uh oh."
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn grins at A'lex.
A'lex says "Shut up Kassi, dead people can't talk."
Jorenan mutters something indecent. Rather than continuing an argument
with someone who doesn't even speak his language, he raises him arms and
"ARRRRGGGGGHs!" again. Apparently he's decided he's a snow monster. His
hands full of snow, he vaults over the snow bank, tears across the ice,
and attempts to give K'star the face-washing of a lifetime.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn says, "But I'm not dead!"
Ro sneaks out to help dig Kassi out.
Telgar Weyr> Melina says, "Yet.."
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn says, "I feel happy! I feel happy!"
Melina tosses a few more snowballs R'val-way and ducks under the snowbank
to escape his revenge.
Telgar Weyr> A'lex beats a cat on a rug...
R'val ducks A'lex's snowball and whips another at him.
Telgar Weyr> Aleta laughs!!!!
K'star sits up from his snowy grave, laughing at his dragon's coup d'etat.
"I told you 'twould nay kill you, Indy--aiyeeeeeeeeee! Help, help, I'm
being repressed!" he yelps as Jorenan proceeds to... wash his face? Well,
whatever works.
R'val YELPS! as he gets whacked by another from Melina, and turns, wading
through the snow towards her. "That does it. I'm gonna tickle you to
death!"
Mehlani actually squeals and tries to lob a snowball at Jorenan. Er, uh,
the Jorenan-shaped Snowbeast.
From the edge of the ice, K'tyn walks south.
Melina screams with laughter and tosses three more at R'val's head, "Stay
back, you vile thing!"
Telgar Weyr> Kassima clangs Kiat over the head with her shovel and loads
him onto her cart of dead folk.
Aleta continues pelting just about anything that moves...nay twitches...
with handfuls of snow.
Telgar Weyr> K'tyn goes off to eat irl.;) Thanks Kassi! ;)
R'val gets his by all three, but stoicly ignores it as he CHARGES into
Melina's snowbank, and tackles her, tickling wildly!
A'lex takes another snowball to the back of the neck, it proceeds to slide
down into his jacket, "AAAAAAAIIIIIIEE! Cold cold cold!!"
Melina shreaks, squirming again. Hmm.. deja vu? She tickles back this
time, laughing, "Go away, evil bluerider!"
A'lex does the There's-snow-down-my-shirt dance.
Mehlani is taking on a fair amount of white along her slender form now,
and Holl, roused by her giggling, zooms in to try to drop tiny snow clumps
all over everybody in her immediate vicinity, namely, Jorenan and K'star.
Kassima sits up, too, and shakes a finger at A'lex. "Dead people can talk
if they want to!" she shouts to him, balling up another two handfuls of
snow and sending it flying towards the dancing Weyrling. With a flashed
grin of gratitude for Ro, she takes her place as a Snow-Undead on the
great battlefield. "Eat white stuff, foul fiends," she mock-snarls as she
targets any Weyrling within sight.
Jorenan is in the process of stuffing a full handful of snow as far under
K'star's collar as he possibly can when Mehlani's snowball takes him in
the side of the head. "Yerk!" he declares. "The fair maiden wounds me!"
And his death, while nothing like the performances of other notables,
nevertheless involves a certain amount of dramatic staggering and holding
of his head.
Aleta lets out a bark of laughter as A'lex dances across the ice, her
giggling giving away her hiding spot.
What's with all this 'fair maiden' business? Mehlani turns pinker under
the flush of cold that's brightened her cheeks, but honorably looks for
somebody else to clobber, as proper Weyrleader's Daughters do not pelt
people when they are down.
Kassi's two snowballs peg the poor frozen A'lex, as he vainly tries to
reach over his shoulder and scoop the snow out of his shirt. Of course,
he's too dense at this point to realize the snow on his gloves is just
making it worse.
K'star strikes a dramatic pose, which elicits a groan from the 'dead'
E'rian who's been watching all of this. "Virtue has triumphed," he
proclaims. "Purity, valor, and goodness shall reign the land now that the
evil one has fal--hey! Holl, what'd I ever do t'you, huh?"
Ro hands a few ready made snowballs to the evil greenrider.
Alwyn watches the snowballs go back and forth, biting his lip as he
figures out his next victim. Grinning mischieviously, Alwyn collects some
snow and packs it into a snowball.
From the edge of the ice, Ceria walks south.
Aleta shakes her head, sending a snowball flying for K'star's face...
loosely packed at least, "Don't you know...evil will always triumph...."
In Mehlani's arms, Holl is an equal opportunity snow-clump hurler. With a
flurry of chitters, he whirls about to pelt E'rian, while Mehlani, eyes
widening at the sight of K'star under renewed attack, flings a hastily
assembled snowball at Aleta!
Kassima winks at Ro, and fires off a snowball or two towards the nearest
viable target: Aleta. Why? Well, her excuse is a shouted, "You snowed my
cousin--prepare to die!" The *real* reason is probably because she likes
targetting anyone within range.
Ro builds up a vertable barrage of snowballs and lets loose at Alwyn.
R'val yelps, squirming as he's tickled back. Ack, resistance! He tickles
on, "No! Never! You'll pay for your evilness towards a cute, harmless
bluerider like me!"
Jorenan sits up and shakes his head. Bits of snow fly from his hair and
eyelashes. He doesn't even bother to try to brush off what's on his
clothes. "Virtue my left nostril," he says. "It was a well placed shot
from your companion that did me in."
Aleta lets out a yelp, attempting to duck, but the snowball clips her
across the top of the head. She pops back up, rubbing her scalp, "Heyla
now!" And with an impish grin she lobs another snowball Kassima-wards,
followed quickly by another at R'val for good measure.
Melina snorts laughter, getting a good deal of snow up her nose. She keeps
tickling, "Harmless? You're as harmless as a tunnelsnake, evil bluerider"
Nraith is whuffing warm Dragon breath down the back of A'lex's shirt.
K'star tosses off another sphere of snow towards Aleta, gathering it from
the massive white coat that covers him at this point. "Aim true, m'lady,
and we shall win the day! Good aim is a virtue," he further informs
Jorenan reasonably. "And would you deny that my companion is incomparibly
virtuous?" E'rian, groaning, pauses in his attempts to stave off the
attacks of Holl--without much success, judging by the white splats all
over him--to throw a snowball K'star's way. The brown Weyrling goes down
again, with an oof.
A'lex gets a rather happy look on his face, for just a moment, "Wait, it's
melting and running down my--- NOOOOOO!!!"
Ro yelps as a snowball meant for the greenrider takes her in the stomach.
She now shifts her sites toward Aleta and looses a steady barage.
Alwyn yelps once more as he's pummelled by Ro. He does the dying dance,
skipping backwards on the ice and then finally -=thud=- on the ground. He
clutches his heart as he acts out his 'death'. "Someone...avenge...my
death..." he pauses just one moment and lies down on the ice.
Mehlani blushes pinkly at Jorenan's words, and apparently having decided
to defend K'star against all comers, flings a snowball at E'rian. Holl
wings off to choose another target: Kassima!
::SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT:: A'lex grumbles, "Fardling weyrbrats."
Aleta giggles, sticking her tongue out before managing for once to dodge a
missile. Catching A'lex's shouting, her lips curl into a wicked smile and
she hops uop, making a mad dash across the ice, one handful of ice dumped
(with luck) down his back as she flails the rest of the way across the ice
and flips over, landing with her back in the snow with a solid *whump*...
"Oof."
A'lex says "AIIIIGGGHHHHH!!! NO! It's cold enough!"
Kassima shrieks with laughter again as she points to A'lex. "Snow in the
pants! Snow in the pants! Oof! Hey!" Her shoulder just took a glancing
blow from Aleta's snowball, it seems. She begins to fire another, but
Holl's barrage distracts her and rather spoils the aim. "Get him!" she
yells, and eighteen fire-lizards swirl up from the ground beside Lysseth
to defend their mistress against this assault! Well, a few of them also
try and dump more snow down A'lex's shirt, but *most* of them are loyal
enough to concentrate on Kassi.
R'val pouts at Melina, a funny thing to do while tickling her savagely,
"I'm not evil! I'm cute!"
A'lex says "Help me Nraith!"
Jorenan leans back and considers Mehlani, who is currently standing over
both him and K'star and firing off snowballs admirably. "Your companion is
a nice person," he allows, "who giggles nicely when she'll let herself. If
she's incomparably virtuous, though, what's she's doing with someone like
-you-?"
Nraith gives A'lex a look that says, "You've got to be kidding."
Holl vanishes in a cloud of blue and green, and promptly blips *between*
to reappear on the far side of Indyth. Eek!
Melina laughs, squirming and trying to tickle the AWLM back harder, "Don't
you make /that/ face. Evil bluerider."
R'val YELPS! as he is tickled bakc, and squirms, beginning to giggle, "I..
hee..what..hee hee..face?"
Milleniuth gets into the fray with that, defending E'rian from the assault
and giving him time to lob a loose, light snowball Mehlani-wards in turn.
"Turn my brother over to me," he shouts, "and you can escape with your
life, lady!"
Melina laughs, and tickles more insistantly, "Yes, face. Pouting at me.
Don't you know that that doesn't work for brownriders? We're invincible!"
Ro grins and dashes out, slipping and sliding, to drop another snowball
down Alwyns shirt. He'd better hope it's not tucked in....
A'lex says "Oh thanks," to Nraith, "And you can bet Faranths great Gold
Arse you're not going to get that extra oiling you wanted...""
Mehlani does _NOT_ reply to Jorenan's sally to K'star, at least not in
words. The girl glances at the young brown rider, though, blushingly, out
from under the brim of his hat. As E'rian delivers his challenge, however,
Mehlani pipes simply, "No!"
R'val yelps, and curls up into a ball as Melina tickles him in all the
worst places, giggling madly, "Stop...I give..uncle!"
Alwyn begins to do the squirm on the ice which looks quite funny
considering he keeps slipping on the ice, squirming around like some kind
of ice worm.
K'star climbs to his feet, by now a walking snow-statue. "A gallant man
might say that there's no accounting for taste, but I am not as chivalrous
as this lady fair--so I shall simply say that perhaps she sees something
in me that's worth salvaging." As a final comment of sorts, he tosses off
a snowball almost nonchalantly towards the young Baker.
Melina giggles and sits up, "Good!" She turns from R'val and begins
brushing snow off of her clothes and out of her hair.
Mehlani blushes rather more pinkly now, and avoids looking at K'star
entirely now, as she takes E'rian's snowball in the shoulder. Eep!
Aleta blinks up at the sky for a moment, blowing little vapor trails into
the cold air. After a moment she starts moving her arms back and forth in
the snow. After about five swipes she stops, carefully standing, though
two footprints appear in the middle as she steps back, "A snow dragon."
R'val waits until Melina is turned, and grins craftily. He rises swiftly,
and stuffs a large snowball down the back of her shirt, running off,
cackling wildly!
Kassima pushes herself to her feet in turn, stepping out once more onto
the ice to try and hit A'lex from a closer range. The bronze Weyrling
seems to be a favorite target of hers... probably because of his ever-
amusing reactions to being hit. "Die, die, die, die, die!" she chants as
she tosses snowballs at him.
Ro looks down at the squirming boy with an air of satisfaction and looks
to other targets.
Melina screams and whirls around, eyes wide, 'You'll pay for /that' She
runs after R'val, grabbing snow as she goes.
Jorenan throws out an arm and catches the slow-moving snowball before it
gets very close to hitting him. "There's no accounting for taste," he
agrees. Gallantly, it probably seems to him. He lets the snowball drop,
gets up off the ice, and begins the long process of brushing himself off.
A'lex aieeeghhhss again, "How can I die when I'm freezing to death?!"
::SPLAT SPLAT::
E'rian grins in triumph, following up his successful attack with another
snow-fired assault. "Then suffer the consequences, my lady! You cannot
continue to defend him and live!"
Nraith dumps a big pile of snot on A'lex's head.
A'lex says "No I will not be quiet you big Bronze.... wherryhead!"
Telgar Weyr> Ceria peers at Nraith.
R'val laughs wildly, "have to catch me first, you silly brownrider!" He
dives into a snowbank, and hides.
Apparently bored with her snow dragon, Aleta pokes her head up and
searches for a viable target...spying none, she shrugs and crouches down,
making great sweeping gestures, sending sheets of snow flying everywhere.
Telgar Weyr> R'val says, "Snot? Ie!"
Errrr SNOW!! SNOW!! Not Snot!
Telgar Weyr> Ceria dies laughing.
"Oh, please," K'star groans at his brother. With a sidelong glance at
Mehlani, he steps forth to do battle and protect the girl with the hat.
"You shall never take me alive, blackguard!" he shouts. Missiles fly fast
and furious between them, both of them getting hit again and again
relentlessly by the skilled aim of the other.
Telgar Weyr> Kassima ROTFLs!
Telgar Weyr> A'lex says, "So does A'lex!"
Telgar Weyr> R'val pictures poor A'lex, under a mountain of phelgm.
Telgar Weyr> Ceria says, "It's a good thing my roommate isn't here. She'd
think I was psycho."
Melina laughs and dives after the AWLM, "Catch you I will, evil bluerider"
She digs through the now, trying to find hi,
Mehlani takes E'rian's _next_ snowball in her _other_ shoulder, and
shrieks lightly, as snow-shrapnel from both him and K'star peppers her.
Telgar Weyr> Melina ewws.
Alwyn aighs as he finally gets the snow out of his jacket /and/ shirt. He
gets up again wearily, looking at Ro suspiciously.
Telgar Weyr> A'lex is crying he's laughing so hard... why can't all my
typos be that good?
Kassima ducks in order to keep from being hit by the snot--err, snow. "I'm
sure you'll find a way," she offers sweetly, sending a snowball flying
towards the young bronze for good measure.
Telgar Weyr> Ceria can't even breathe.
R'val 'swims' through the snow, trying to stay under cover and away from
Melina. He surfaces, spots her, and splats a snowball against the back of
her head, leaping to his feet and running again.
Ro busies herself with barraging Aleta in return for that errant snowball
to the stomach.
Nraith whuffs indignantly at Kassima, and chooses that precise moment to
hork up a nice ball of firestone ash, which splats on the ice about 5 feet
in front of him.
A'lex says "Oh, that was pretty."
Melina whirls around, "No! Where are you, you evil thing?
Vidarth rumbles cheerfully at all the play.
Alwyn grins, "Heh heh..." he digs up some snow from the bank and throws a
snowball at Ro while she's busy with Aleta, grinning widely.
With a rebel yell, K'star lunges for E'rian, now close enough to make a
full-contact assault possible. The two Weyrlings begin trying to bury each
other in the snow, in a wrestling match that sends sprays of white stuff
everywhere. "Quick, maid--flee while you still--yack!" Kes manages to cry
before Eyr stuffs a snowball in his mouth.
R'val hides quietly behind Vidarth, glancing over his tail at Melina. He
cackles.
Jorenan makes his way towards the edge of the ice without getting hit
again. He glances backwards in time to see a pleasant bit of dragon bodily
process, and then goes on away from the melee.
Aleta blinks, a sudden realization hitting her as she pats together a
healthy mound of snowballs. She blinks once more as a sudden snowball hits
her too, flopping back from her crouched position onto her bottom. She
arches a brow, peering about for the source, her expression momentarily
grossed out as she spies the new mess, but directs an assault againt Ro,
"Ah ha! Take me unawares, will you!"
A'lex scoots off to find a shovel.
Melina gathers up a huge snowball, still searching for R'val, "Where'd you
hide off to, crazy bluerider?"
Kassima turns a definite shade of green as the ball of ash goes sailing
past her, and swallows hard to keep from repeating that process with her
dinner. "Lovely," she agrees weakly with 'Lex.
Mehlani eeks audibly, as snow flies between K'star and E'rian. Her giggles
start to die down as she inches out of the way, beginning to realize how
cold she's getting. The girl peers bemusedly down at herself.
Ro reaches down for another snowball just as one flies scant inches above
her head.
Ro calls back "Why not? You did it to me!" and she throws a few more
before diving behind a drift.
R'val clambers atop Vidarth, sneakily. As Melina nears, he biffs three
snowballs at her from an unexpectedly high angle!
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan bends down and removes his skates. Then
he heads for the warmth of the living cavern and a mug or two of klah. He
trails bits of snow and ice as he goes.
Alwyn screams and begins collecting more snowballs, then finally pummels
Ro with them as she dives behind the drift, "Die, die, die." he laughs
loudly,
From the edge of the ice, Jorenan walks south.
Melina shouts with frustration and looks up. "There you are, " she calls
and lobs her snowball straight at him.
A'lex returns, shovel and bucket in hand, but ... what's this? The bucket
is filled with snow! And wait, he's == no, not on Kassi! No!!!! Oh well,
too late.
It doesn't take very long of fighting before the two brothers manage to
wear each other out. It's been a long day, after all. Panting, they
collapse back into the snow and stare up at the sky. "Truce?" Kes asks,
and Eyr confirms in an almost identical voice, "Truce."
R'val ducks, cackling, "You can't hit me, you silly brownrider! I'm an
invincible BLUERIDER!!!"
On her way over the drift, a number of snowballs find there mark against
Ro's back.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani tiptoes just a bit away, as Holl zips
right down to claim her shoulder again. She starts brushing snow off
herself, and crinkles her nose as it occurs to her that, indeed, she is
quite cold.
Aleta blinks, taking Ro's next volley to the chest, then spies R'val in
his invincible moment. She gestures to RO, pointing to the bluerider on is
perch and starts a volley aimed for him and him alone, "Silly bluerider.
No one survives the great SnowBalls of She Who Makes funky Snow Dragons!"
Melina laughs and shakes her head firmly, gathering a smaller snowball and
chucking it at R'val, "No, evil bluerider. You've got it wrong. It's the
brownriders which are invincible!"
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani turns, then, at the pair of fallen
brothers, and calls shyly to them, "You should get where it's warm..."
Kassima yelps as a bucketful of snow goes flying towards her, hitting her
with a light thud of impact. Since she's on the ice now, this further
sends her skidding on her rear end backwards into another snowdrift.
*Fwump.* It's the return of the wiggling rider-legs! "A'lex, when I get
m'hands on you...!" she manages to holler through her near-whoops of
laughter.
From the edge of the ice, Lysseth rumbles with amusement at the girl, eyes
whirling a placid and peaceful blue. Not far away, K'star's Indyth adds
his own deeper-voiced draconic comment. Surprisingly, perhaps, for those
who know the brown, he lowers his head just enough to whuffle her lightly
with warm dragon-breath.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani blinkblinks up at Indyth, out from under
K'star's hat, and she offers the brown a shy smile.
Ro glances up from her hiding spot, and seeing the attack on R'val, she
gestures to Alwyn, then joins in the fun with a number of snowballs.
A'lex stops to scoop up the ash, then brandishes the bucket in Kassi's
direction, "You'll what?"
Alwyn quickly dives to Ro's hiding spot and begins making snowballs for Ro
to throw. Grinning mischieviously at Ro then looking up once to see where
R'val is.
The two lookalike siblings climb up out of their snowy graves, and offer
crooked grins to Mehlani. "We will!" they chorus, before each heads for
his respective dragon, ostensibly with the purpose of returning to the
Barracks for the night.
R'val sticks his tongue out at Melina, "Yeah yeah, yer all talk." he leaps
off Vidarht, and lands near her, and pelts her with a snowball!
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani, being near Indyth, smiles unsurely at
K'star as he draws close to the brown, and pipes lowly, "Thank you for the
hat..."
Melina snorts, shaking the snow from her now matted hair, "Sharding
blueriders"
R'val grins at Melina and suddenly smooches her on the cheek, "Fun!"
"Throw up on you, if'n you get that ash too near t'me," Kassi retorts,
sitting up in the snowbank and trying to brush the wet stuff away from
her. By now, her pitch black braid is almost entirely white with snow--to
say nothing of the rest of her. "Beyond that, probably just give you the
snow burial you should've gotten ages ago!"
A'lex places the bucket and shovel off the ice, away from the General
Public. "I tremble in your presence. But ya gotta catch me first!"
Melina blinks at R'val and nods slowly, "Aye.. fun." She shakes her head
again to loosen some more packed snow and remarks, "I'm going to go get
some klah and warm up."
From the edge of the ice, K'star is still wheezing a bit from his battle
with his brother, but manages to suppress weariness long enough to give a
low chuckle. "No need to thank me, Mehlani. That hat was meant for you,
and 'tis only right that you have it."
Aleta tosses a healthy glob of rather wet snow in R'val's general
direction, then grabs a pair of smaller ones, wadding them up and taking
aim. She sends one careening for R"val's legs, the other misses, landing
with a mooshy splat against Vidarth's leg, "Sorry, Vidarth!"
From the edge of the ice, Melina walks south.
R'val hrms at Melina, "Not a bad idea. Who else wants to come warm up?" He
grins at Aleta and thpts her.
Vidarth rumbles amusedly, not bothered by snow.
Telgar Weyr> Melina goes anyway. I need some klah to warm up with.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani bobs her head, once, and steps slightly
out of the way so that K'star can climb aboard his lifemate.
Kassima is not above using manipulative tactics, including the puppy-dog
eyes that she now turns on A'lex. "You'd make a pregnant woman chase you
around on the ice, in the snow, when 'tis freezing?" she asks, doing her
best to look pitiful.
A'lex nods to Kassima, "Twice."
Aleta peers around, seeing who else is planning to go inside. A sudden
chattering sends a confused look across her face until she realizes its
her teeth, "Count me in. If I'm not too frozen to move."
A'lex wanders over to help Kassima up. "I'm up for some klah, even the
poor watery kind.
Alwyn nods to A'lex.. "Klah...Definitely.." he shivers.
From the edge of the ice, K'star reaches up to tip his hat to Mehlani,
then laughs as he remembers that it's not there. "G'night, fair maid," he
grins. "We'll have to do this again some time." With that, he climbs
aboard his lifemate and the two are off and away, following after E'rian
and Milleniuth.
R'val chuckles, "one can only stay out here in THIS for so long! Aye, klah
and warmth!"
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani, looking rather bemused... but perhaps
not unpleasantly so, if her current extremely pink shade can be termed
'pleasant'... turns as Kassima's cousins retreat to the Weyrling barracks,
then retreats herself at a much slower pace, as she is on foot.
Kassima accepts A'lex's hand, then stoops to untie the skates from her
boots. "Some cider would suit me well. Tell you what, 'Lex; I'll get
revenge on the morrow, eh? This patch should still be here, and revenge is
a dish best eaten... well, cold."
Aleta looses herself from a pile of snow, shaking the worst of it off.
Suddenly she recalls something, lips pursed and she spends the entire trip
toward the caverns brushing snow off. Like everyone else, she's utterly
drenched, drops of water dripping from hair to shoulders.
From the edge of the ice, Mehlani walks south.
Alwyn looks to Ro, "Comin' Ro?" he grins to her.
Ro pats Alwyn in the shoulder in a friendly manner and sits down to remove
her skates and returns them to the pile before heading back toward WARMTH.
A'lex says "Okay, but if you want to wait till we can all go to Shipfish
Island, I won't mind."
Aleta quickens her pace a touch, hugging her arms tightly about her.
Ro says "I'm a comin Wyn."
You leave the 'rink.'
From the Ice, Alwyn takes off his skates and nods to Ro, and leaps,
walking at a fast pace.
Alwyn leaves the ice.
Kassima eyes A'lex dubiously as she wades through the snow, skates in
hand. "You expect me t'wait six months for revenge? You don't know me very
well, d'you now?"
A'lex says "I think it would be more unexpected then..."
R'val walks south.
Ro says "That was fun." It is doubtful that you would be able to pry the
smile off her face with a crowbar.
Alwyn puts his boots on and smiles to everyone.
A'lex walks south.
Ro says "C'mon, Wyn."
You walk south.