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>Be the Adorable Recluse
^ωᴼ Gladly!
You are now ORPHEA SAPPHO and you are rather cute. In fact, if it wasn’t for the CYBORG IMPLANTS adorning the left side of your face or the fact that you are not entirely SANE, you’d probably be the most POPULAR lowblood ever. Instead, you live a cloistered life within a hovel once occupied by SUFFERITE BALLARDRIFTERS. Your DRAGON lusus is still recovering after a recent attack by foolhardy ADVENTURERS seeking the ARTEFACTS rumoured to be present within these caverns. They were CULLED with deserved impunity. Until she is able to fly and hunt again, you keep her fed by CAPTURING intruders (including trolls), though the constant bloodshed is probably not having a positive effect on your DAMAGED thinkpan. Considering you had to incubate her egg with fresh TROLL BLOOD, you figure things could be worse. You are rather OPTIMISTIC, after all.
Your hive is located on a coastal mountainside, connecting to a series of underground tunnels and GROTTOS, which you occasionally SPELUNK when either your lusus is HUNGRY or you feel like practising ARCHERY. These tunnels were once home to a vibrant community of Drifters and Hemotraitors, but have since been abandoned, with a few of those in the lowest caves lost to inundation.
Your INTERESTS reflect your secluded existence. Inspired by the TOMES left behind by previous residents, you have taken to the HARP as a means of overcoming loneliness and ARCHERY as a tool of SELF-DEFENCE. Your skills have been honed over a number of years, such that you rarely employ your potent (but unpredictable) PSYCHIC abilities. You also take a keen interest in poetry, history and folklore; having often visited the SUFFERITE ARCHIVES below your Hive to study its remaining contents. By contrast, such things as FLARP and GAME GRUBS are complete unknowns to you.

-- citharaHeroine [CH] began pestering gamingSwordsman [GS] at 01:33 --
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
GS: Hello
CH: ᴼω^ Hi there.
CH: ᴼω^ I (ω)as just passing through.
CH: ᴼω^ I got caught in this sandstorm!
GS: yes, 7he sands7orms are qui7e bad ou7 here
GS: come inside 7hen, I suppose
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
CH: ᴼω^ Really?
CH: ᴼω^ You're nice.
GS: I know
GS: haha
GS: would ya like some7hin' 7o drink
GS: ?
-- citharaHeroine [CH] gives GS a big smile --
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
CH: ᴼω^ If it's not too much... I (ω)ould, thanks!
GS: alrigh7
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] goes to the ktechen to get a glass of ice water. --
GS: Here ya go
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh, (ω)o(ω).
GS: wha7?
CH: ᴼω^ Thanks mister!
GS: Oh, no problem
GS: haha
CH: ᴼω^ It has little bits of ice in it!
GS: Wha7 were ya doin' ou7 in 7he deser7 anyway?
-- citharaHeroine [CH] starts fingering the ice cubes, watching them bob up and down --
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh...
CH: ᴼω^ I (ω)as hunting!
GS: hun7in'?
GS: 7here isn;;;,7 much 7o hun7 ou7 here
CH: ᴼω^ I kno(ω)! But it's a nice challenge at times.
CH: ᴼω^ There are some big animals in the dunes north of here.
CH: ᴼω^ Realy big!
CH: ᴼω^ And also I guess there's the daystalkers sometimes.
GS: ugh
GS: days7alkers...
GS: I have 7o fend 7hem every mornin'
CH: ᴼω^ I have been trying to find something to feed my lusus.
CH: ᴼω^ Sometimes she gets very hungry and I have to feed her trolls.
CH: ᴼω^ And that makes me sad!
GS: ...
GS: please don'7 feed me 7o her
CH: ᴼω^ Maybe if I feed her daystalkers, I (ω)on't have to kill anyone anymore!
GS: I need 7o be alive for conscrip7ion
-- citharaHeroine [CH] hughs GS --
CH: ᴼω^ Noooo!
CH: ᴼω^ I (ω)ouldn't feed you to her!
CH: ᴼω^ You're too nice, Mr... Mr....
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] hugs back --
GS: Cadrom
GS: Varnak Cadrom
CH: ᴼω^ Mr Varnak!
CH: ᴼω^ Uh, Cadrom!
CH: ᴼω^ I'm Ωrphea!
GS: Nice 7o mee7 ya, Orphea
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] smiles --
-- citharaHeroine [CH] looks at Varnak's hive --
CH: ᴼω^ (W)o(ω), you have a lot of things in here!
CH: ᴼω^ (W)hat are these?
GS: I know
GS: haha
-- citharaHeroine [CH] points at the posters --
GS: 7hose are video game pos7sers and some 7roll Wars ones as well
CH: ᴼω^ Troll (W)ars?
GS: uhh...
CH: ᴼω^ Is that one of those things, you kno(ω)...
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] explains the saga. all six movies. --
CH: ᴼω^ (W)ith the colours
CH: ᴼω^ And they get projected onto a screen?
GS: uhh wha7?
GS: yes
GS: ya mean movies
-- citharaHeroine [CH] is somewhat ignorant of technology and its marvels --
-- citharaHeroine [CH] despite having a cyborg face, lol --
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh!
CH: ᴼω^ Movies!
CH: ᴼω^ I never got to see any.
GS: Oh/
CH: ᴼω^ There isn't any po(ω)er in my Hive.
CH: ᴼω^ But it's very roomy!
CH: ᴼω^ And there are all these nice rocks too!
CH: ᴼω^ Colourful rocks that you can sorta see though a little.
CH: ᴼω^ They are all sorts of colours; blue and green and orange and red...
GS: sounds like gems
CH: ᴼω^ They are really shiny too!
CH: ᴼω^ Sometimes, there are bad trolls that come to try and steal them.
GS: yep
GS: gems
CH: ᴼω^ But I can't let them into my Hive.
CH: ᴼω^ I guess that's ho(ω) I usually feed my lusus.
GS: hmm
GS: so, wha7 else do ya like 7o do?
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
CH: ᴼω^ I like music.
CH: ᴼω^ I like practising on my lute.
GS: Do ya like 7echno music?
CH: ᴼω^ Techno?
CH: ᴼω^ (W)hat is techno like?
GS: uhh
GS: i7 is like compu7erized sounds bu7 in musical form
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh!
CH: ᴼω^ That sounds a little interesting.
CH: ᴼω^ I guess I don't use computers very often, though...
GS: I could play a song if ya like
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh, okay.
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] turns on his iGrub stereo and plays Messij by Cold Storage --
CH: ᴼω^ (W)o(ω).
CH: ᴼω^ I have never heard music like that before.
GS: whaddya 7hink?
CH: ᴼω^ It's very... different!
CH: ᴼω^ I prefer different kinds of music, but it is pretty nice.
GS: glad ya like i7
CH: ᴼω^ I'm a big fan of Troll Moondog!
GS: uhh
GS: wha7?
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh, he's a musician!
CH: ᴼω^ His music is not like techno, but it is pretty good.
CH: ᴼω^ I can play it for you if you like.
GS: sure
-- citharaHeroine [CH] uncovers her robotic eye and reaches out to touch Varnak's iGrub --
-- citharaHeroine [CH] The iGrub seems to glow unsually, before beginning to play a peculiar tune --
CH: ᴼω^ (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL1F4SF8...re=related ))
GS: 7ha7s s7range, bu7 no7 bad
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
CH: ᴼω^ I just remembered something I listened to once.
CH: ᴼω^ I think I have it recorded too.
GS: oh?
-- citharaHeroine [CH] starts palying another tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBZdSHAIZI --
GS: 7ha7's a s7range song...
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
GS: i7's no7 bad 7hough
CH: ᴼω^ It's okay, I guess (ω)e have different tastes.
GS: yea
GS: :::.)
CH: ᴼω^ It's getting early. I think I should get going so I can make it home before morningfall.
CH: ᴼω^ Has the sandstorm stopped?
GS: I don'7 7hink so
GS: I have a spare coon room, if ya wish 7o use i7
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
CH: ᴼω^ Really?
GS: yea
GS: :::.)
-- citharaHeroine [CH] blushes --
CH: ᴼω^ You are really nice, Mr Cadrom!
-- citharaHeroine [CH] hugs Varnak gratefully --
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] hugs back, blushing too --
GS: I know
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] smiles --
-- citharaHeroine [CH] streches her arms a little --
CH: ᴼω^ Can I have a look?
CH: ᴼω^ I'm a little tired.
GS: oh yea, sure
GS: follow me
-- citharaHeroine [CH] follows Varnak --
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] leads down the hall way and shows her the spare coon room --
CH: ᴼω^ It's very cosy in here.
CH: ᴼω^ Do you get many visitors?
GS: no7 really
CH: ᴼω^ Ωh.
GS: I have my quadran7s, 7hough
CH: ᴼω^ I guess it can be lonely in the desert. I don't get many guests.
CH: ᴼω^ And most of them are uninvited.
GS: hmmm
GS: well
GS: ya are safe here
-- citharaHeroine [CH] hugs Varnak again --
CH: ᴼω^ Thanks, Mr Cadrom!
-- gamingSwordsman [GS] hugs her again --
GS: You are very welcome
-- citharaHeroine [CH] gets ready to enter the recuperacoon after a long night's travel --
-- citharaHeroine [CH] ceased pestering gamingSwordsman [GS] at 03:01 --