I need help.

[hawkfire]

Hey i'm new and my charie is at the moment on a shore somewhere bleeding from a gash in her arm and probably drooling ;D LOL sleeping... ANYWAY moving right along! can someone find her? I don't want to just make her appear in Waterfall City or something. I want to Rp everything that happens to her.

[Korkoa]

Sure, I'll do it. What RPG do you want to be in? You might want to post her introduction and where she is, also.

[hawkfire]

idk what exactly u are talking about but it'd be great for you to find her. Do you mean post a thread where she is on the shore or what? sorry clueless. This site works differently than the ones i have been on before, so im confused. But i learn fast so just tell me what to do and how and ill do it^^

[Korkoa]

You could start your own RPG, or join an existing one.

[Talmarka]

Still getting used to the new rp setup, but:

I'd reccomend (and proboably what korkoa's saying) that you first post a bio in washed up then start your rp.

btw, could i help?

[hawkfire]

yes u can i need at least five people just because it would be fun^^ including Saurians. Definetly need saurians. and we should start a new RPG

SOOO any cool ideas from uz guys?

[Korkoa]

Well, there's always the ever-popular 'Someone gets stranded and tries to find a way off the island.' Also, good luck finding five members, the only ones who are ever on are me, you Talmarka, and Dakota. Sometimes Tiasalle and Braveheart.

[hawkfire]

well my charrie is already stranded on a shore, but i need somebody to find her and wake her up. idk if she will really want to leave.^^

[Tiasalle and Braveheart]

Hey guys!
Welcome, HawkFire, (cool name, by the way ) Do you think I could join in on the fun?

Tia & BH

[Kor]

Sounds like a possible fun rp. Meet the newcommer, help her adjust to Dinotopia. And don't new arrivals have to register at Waterfall, or is it Saurolopolis in the books?

[Talmarka]

kor said:

Sounds like a possible fun rp. Meet the newcommer, help her adjust to Dinotopia. And don't new arrivals have to register at Waterfall, or is it Saurolopolis in the books?

Well, to be technical, sauropolis is the CAPITAL of Dinotopia ( halmark didnt like that i guess ) and waterfall city is the center of knoledge so to speak, and thus is the registry ( i theorise the journey through the polongo symolises the journey one takes to become Dinotopian, but thats another story). A modern comparison might New York City and Albany.

korkoa said:

Well, there's always the ever-popular 'Someone gets stranded and tries to find a way off the island.' Also, good luck finding five members, the only ones who are ever on are me, you Talmarka, and Dakota. Sometimes Tiasalle and Braveheart.

As for more, there aren't many "Dinotopians" in my neck of the woods to find , but what if we could more publicity* However, Kor counts as one to, if he wants to. Now if we could get Dakota to take a break from moderating,- maybe thundertail, but i'm not sure how often he comes on- we could be able to do a sucesfull, and prospering rp! I miss reading the big ones . But this might work if we do get one more person. The only prob might be if one person posts more often- alot more often- it would throw the rp off balence ( in theory, but certain ). But yea, it'd be awsome to do this!


*I don't want to get off topic or risk a move, so that's all i'm gonna say about that

[Thundertail]

Hi,
Noticed my name here, and it sounds like a good plot...
But I'm already in a RP on ToP, I'm working on some information for Dakota's database, I'm fleshing out the rest of my fanfic on ToP - not to mention the writing I'm trying to get published!...
I suppose if you really, really, really need me; I guess I could get into this RP too! (Uh... If so, what character do you want me to portray? Human? Dinosaur? If dino, which kind? Ect...)

Thundertail

[Thundertail]

After posting the above reply, I got to work on a character or two... "Just in case!"

Need a Skybax rider?

One is a Skybax leiutennant named Lanis ('Red') Albian.
The other is his avian steed named Strafewing.
(Haven't finished thier bios, but I will, time pernmitting.)

Other possibilities:

Rick Heresy (Human, farmer or something simple like that...)
Flatrock (Male Dimetrodon, cart puller or farm worker, like that...)
Maisey (Chasmosaur, same as above...)
Flapslap (Male Parasolophus, shop owner, dispatcher, I guess...)
Sasha Falant (Human female, ranger/mercenary, cargo runner...)

Maybe these could be used as ideas for other posters to use for characters...

Thundertail

[hawkfire]

GREAT!! Any of those charries who could be close to a shore(dont know which shore exactly) would be most helpful. We need lots of Saurians and humans so It doesn't matter which kind as long as we have both. Probably the scariest looking one you have would be good if you use a Dino, Thundertail, LOL. Now I don't want all the dinos used to look scary but if anybody has a particulary scary looking one, post here! Mwahahahaha!

[Thundertail]

Hi!
I tried to flesh out the bios for them and they look pretty good, if not complete.
(I'm saving the skybax ones for me, just in case*! LOL!)
Most of them look like they mostly originate on the eastern coast of Dinotopia, like near Volcaneum..
(Everyone take out your maps!)
Any easy way I can shoot thier bios to you? Otherwise I'll have to type out the whole thing all over again!...(Pls. PM me with any ideas.)
Thanks!

PS:
(*Skybax fly all over, and they are doing a coastal survey at the time there.)

[Talmarka]

(My opinion) Now that we have enough people (Me, hawkfire, Korkoa, Tiasalle & Brave heart, Kor Thundertail - Just Checking ) we should probobly star bios and such- whos gonna be who, the works- so we have a "cast" of characters. Everyone might want to use a main, character, with one (or more) secondaries, like co-stars. I was wondering if I could use my personal favorite (maybe Cielo ) and have a saurian-or-2 as a backup. Also, what beach exactly is your character on hawkfire ? I wanted to know if it was on the west (common, like Waterfall city side ) south (seen it, Blackwood Flats area) north (uncommon, also talking prosperine and the whole top) or east (by this I mean closer to Chandara than Prosperine, and a pretty uncomon rp strand site anywhere) coast, cause I don't want to be talking to someone on one beach while the other person is about 200 miles away!

Whew, i've gotta lay off the long posts

[Thundertail]

Aw! That ain't long!
(You should see my RP, named 'Draconian Wilderness'!)
I have all the bios mentioned; but I think I should let you see 'em B4 I post them. Should I email, PM or other to you?

[Tiasalle and Braveheart]

Hey, I just got a cool char idea, although she is not fully developed yet...

Name: Sharpwing
Gender: Female
Species: Dimorphodon
Bio idea: Broke free from postal services to explore Dinotopia on her own. A little fuzzy from there.

Hey, let me know what you think! I'm really excited about this one!

Tia&Braveheart

[Talmarka]

I was wondering what time this rp takes pace in, depending on what it is I might choose Cielo, and if so I might do this:

Name: Cielo Talmarka
Gender: Male
species: Human
Age: 11 Years
What's on him: a bag with assorted veternary equipment, alomost a berray-like hat(not sure what you call it), Other stuff that I forget.
How he got on the island: Shot verson is that he was with his family when there reseach vessel crashed and Cielo hasn't seen them since-blah blah blah- you know how it goes.
Earth sky, or Water: Definietly not water, but my character's only been on the island a few months at this point of my character's life.

There's are more detailed explaination of Talmarka
in the bio section, and he's the Trouble, Temperatures ,Treetown rp too.

Here's another character idea, but it's new:

Name: Bishaka
Gender:Female
Age:13 months
Species: Thierenzosaurus
What's on her: nothing, but she always travels her two brothers, Gahari and Bishaku.
How she ended up on the island: Her mother was part of caravan which spent the year going from Canyon City, stopping at Prosperine, trekking across the Northern Plains, Delivering its goods in Potook, and back again (all in on year ;D). Of course, She and her brothers' eggs were ready to exit, the luckily ready to leave in July and were close by to the Hatchery (Romono's Hatchery if you've read more than the first book). Unlike many saurians, Thierenzosaurs are known to lay clutches of several eggs, but at the cost of reproducing and becoming fertile only once in their life time. However, when the brood was born, three of them were to nimble and weak to continue with the caravan, thus left at the hatchery. They are still traveling around, just aren't doing. The 200+ mile trek their mother and siblings do.

EDIT: Im changing it to a theirenzosaurid (makes it more variable)

They'll both need a little brushing up, but deping on the setting I might scrap them and start over.

[Thundertail]

Name: "Lanis (Red) Albian"

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Place of origin: Born in Gymkhana, apprenticed for weathercasting at Chipacharool; then reassigned to Pteros, where his skills turned towards the Skybax.

Age: 27

Height: 6', 1 1/2"

Appearance: Most distingushed feature is his shortcropped, fire red hair. His lanky form gives away his mere 165 lb. weight; even though he is quite strong for his size. Likes to keep his Skybax uniform in impeccable condition - he is a leiutennant, after all! His triangular, hawklike face is always stern, unless he hears a joke; then the face takes a sinister look! Fearless in the air, and even more fearless in the tight situation; almost nothing can unseat his resolve. The only thing that pushes him over the edge is if anything should happen to his beloved avian steed, Strafewing; whom he had raised from an egg all by himself.

Posessions: Owns his own apartment in Canyon City, and inherited his father's homestead in Gymkhana when his father passed away five years previous; but sublets that property out to wandering farmers. He spends little time at either residences due to his frequent flying, and sleeps at the Skybax stations he happens to be in at the time. Besides furnishings at his apartment, he carries little besides the standard Skybax survival rations in Strafewing's saddlebags - that and various weathercasting paraphanalia.

Skills: Expert Skybax rider, novice to expert Weathercaster, minor first aid skills,

Languages: Human English with a touch of Portugeese, Skybax hand and vocal commands, Saurian, very few words of Ceratopsian and Chasmosaurian.

Allignments: Skybax Corps, Strafewing, Canyon City Courier service, Chipacharool Weathercasting Academy, Gymkhana Philanthropological society.

Biography: Lanis Albian was born to a modest rice farmer in the western outlying areas of Gymkhana, in the Northern Plains of Dinotopia. He is seven mothers Portugeese, and his childhood was relatively uneventful, save for his peers commenting on his red hair all the time, nicknaming hum 'Red'. His views on education and the natural world changed the day the local Weathercaster from Chipacharool visited to tell of an upcoming storm. He was fascinated by all the equipment the old man carried, and the Pentaceratops companion the man brought with him told of all the wonders of the natural world. The old man, returning yearly for the next several years, saw promise in the young, redheaded lad; and sponsored him for the Dinotopia Weathercasting academy in Chipacahrool. Passing the instruction many years later, but never quite mastering it; he eventually became assigned to the Weathercasting station at Pteros as an apprentice weathercaster.

One day, while placing a wind warning flag on a bluff above a rookery area, the flag whipped out of his hand and plummeted hundreds of yards below. He procured rock climbing gear and went down after it. Eventually another gust caught him, and he fell dozens of yards to a rocky ledge below. Coming to, he saw he landed by a nest of a mother Skybax, who had just lain her eggs. not daring to move even though injured, he stayed put as he watched mom work. Days later he recovered enough to venture closer to the nest as mother grew used to his presence. Hours later her two eggs began hatching; and Lanis was there to watch. Of the pair, only one survived the day; and that one thought Lanis was her father or something; because she insisted he feed her. Seeing this, mother Skybax allowed the young man access to the nest, and became great friends with these creatures. He would return almost daily, either bringing food or a nicelo he purchased in the Pteros commesary for music; but this did not escape the notice of the Skybax trainers!

One day while at a class on ocean currents, one of the Skybax trainers came in and handed him an order to report to skybax training camp near Backwood Flats; and there he found out his new destiny. A week into the program he was allowed some leave, and told the Skybax pair through gestures what happened; and these two creatures were enthralled! Many times during training, the mother would fly over and carouse with the other Skybax assigned to train the young humans, just to keep an eye on this firehaired lad; and for affectionate reunions with young Lanis. As the weeks passed, the young man had passed all the training; and was a full-fledged cadet. It was then he had heard of his father's death in a storm back home. Saddened, the skybax corps gave him leave to take care of matters at home. Once there he mulled over his life there, his father who always encouraged his wishes and his mother who died in a similar storm when he was two. He was suprised to find out that his father willed the rice farm to him, even though he knew his place was elsewhere; and he was even more suprised to find the mother Skybax there to pick him up at the end of his dealings there.

The years passed, and as Lanis grew toward his twenties; he first became an expert Skybax rider, and then grew in the ranks to Leiutenant. He had always had different Skybaxes for his many different assignments, but cherished the times he had with the mother Skybax and her now juvenile offspring he had named Strafewing. On one fateful day, the Pteranodons in the bowels of the Amu canyon revolted; and tens of thousands of them attacked Canyon City and Pteros. A battle raged in the air, and soon many casualties came about. Among the ones deceased, Strafewing's mother perished in the fight. Saddened by the news, Lanis consoled Strafewing; saying they were all they had now. From that day onward, he and Strafewing would become Partners for all time. Strafewing was by this tinme was old enough to be enrolled into the Skybax flyer corps; and her training was passed spectacularly, and praised by her avian instructors.

For the next five years, the pair flew all over Dinotopia; delivering messages and on call for any sign of trouble. Most times they never leave each other's side, sleeping together when on the road and never far away when at an outpost. As a team they log hundreds of missions and assignments, and become well known to all. Thier most recent mission is to fly aropund the coast of the island, to circumnavigate and spot anything out of the ordinary. Starting at the east coast, near Prosperine; they spy nothing oput of the ordinary save for an occasional Lipleurodon jousting with a fishing boat. Moving west from Crackshell Point, there was nothing to see but crashing breakers and pods of Dolphins. As they head down the coast many days later (And many stops along the way.), they head south, shadow of the volcano at Volcaneum in the distance, they both spot a tiny form sprawled out on the beach...

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Name: "Strafewing"

Species: Skybax

Gender: Female

Place of origin: Pteros hatchery and then Canyon City.

Age: 10 1/2

Height: 11' tall, 38' wingspan.

Appearance: Her prettiest feature is her satin wings that radiate a rainbow of colors in flight. She has six foot beak with a bright red crest on her head. Her soft greenish brown eyes shows her mirth and rather elongated nostrils denote her better than normal sense of smell; and her neck seems slightly shorter than normal.

Posessions: Has a fragment of her shell in her nest at Canyon City, co-owns her flight saddle with Lanis.

Skills: Natural born flyer, she has won many aerial races in the Amu canyon; which were usually run by her Skybax peers. She has flown to nearly every point of Dinotopia, except environs directly over the Great Desert and the Outer Island. She knows nearly every Skybax on the island, and loves to chat with them as her off-time permits.

Languages: Skybaxian, understands but can not speak Saurian, understands a few words of human, plus the Skybax Corps hand and vioce signals.

Allignments: Canyon City Skybax Corps, Dinotopian Courier service, Lanis Albian, many fellow Skybax.

Biography: Strafewing is one of the youngest skybax to ever excell in the Skybax Corps. Nearing her eleventh hatchday, she is a young prodigy rarely seen among her Skybax peers for nearly ten generations. Her mother, named Sutheer in Skybaxian, but nicknamed Screecher by the Corps as she never really had a full time rider; was a lower ranking creature of her kind, and was forced to make her nest in the lower cliff galleries below the Pteros rookery. Near the end of her eggs incubation cycle, a lone human literally dropped in on her; but since she was too busy tending her eggs, she ignored the obviousely injured creature. Gradually, as she got used to his presence and he recovered enough; she grew to trust him enough to draw near the nest. It was at that moment that her eggs chose to begin the hatching procedure; and it was then that she saw this creatures' humane nature. He crouched in awe as the first emerged, then the second; and cried for hours when the smallest one expired.

Strafewing, having no name at the moment, took to the human right away; and thought he was her caregiver as he insisted helping to feed her. Of course Sutheer let him, for she figured she would need all the help she could get! The human returned nearly every day, and Strafewing grew to love this human like she did her mother. Music was introduced to her when Lanis played a Nickelo, and entertained both profusely at his singing. Strafewing soon began to miss this human companion when his duties took him away from the cliffs; but her and her mother grew quite happy with his fate: Lanis was to train to become a Skybax rider! he was sent away for weeks at a stretch, somtimes with her mother leaving too so she could oversee the humans' progress; and on those times Strafewing was left to fend for herself, so she made friends with the other fledgelings near her nest.

As time went by Strafewing became quite an avid flyer, often joining in competitions with her friends and winning most of them. Her skills did not go unnoticed by the Skybax corps either, for when Lanis returned from his own Skybax training, she was approached by the elders of the Skybax and given the offer to join as well. Lanis was overjoyed at this prospect, and was torn between choosing her for his steed and her mother; but experience won out as far as the corps was concerned, and Lanis was asked to choose Screecher. They performed thier assignments adequately for many months; but all of a sudden something happened that would change thier fate forever. A breakdown in the relations between the Skybax and thier Pteranodon cousins at the base of the Amu canyon resulted in war between them! A terrible aerial battle ensued; and though peace was eventually restored with the building of the Sentinel statues, many lives were lost! Among the casualties were Strafewing's mother, who fought bravely, but died saving Lanis's life who landed on a remote bluff in the canyon and was injured himself. After he recovered he went to console poor Strafewing, saying that they were all they had now; and he chose her as his Sklybax Partner as soon as her grieving ceased.

Tenatively at first, but with growing confidence; the pair gradually became used to each others' moves in flight, and took to each other as the close friends they were. The instructors remarked on how they both could practically know what the other was thinking, and anticipate each others' thoughts and moods; and this was why they were soon promoted, and assigned to leading squadrons in towns and outposts across Dinotopia. Many was the times when thier assignments included going into dangerous terrain like the Rainy Basin for rescue missions and to one seaport or another for Dolphinback searches. Both Strafewing and Lanis would certainly have many more adventures as the years progressed!

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(These bios look good?)