Roleplaying

"Yo tengo gozo, gozo, en mi corazooon... " Yai's slightly off-key song drifted through the thick fog that had obscured his little hideout, where he was engrossed in organizing a motley collection of undreadable scroll fragments. Yai was immensely proud of his collection, despite the fact that they were little more than tiny scaps of parchment and he could hardly see what he was looking at. He clicked his beak with satisfaction, and continued gurgling his little tune. Suddenly, something rustled near the front of the crumbling driftwood shack, and Yai froze in surpise. "Nothing- No-one ever takes old Yai by suprise. You hear me?" He hissed to himself and stalked on silent talons to the door, and poked his dark head outside into the freezing wind. "Hello! Someone out there?.." He waited a few minutes, then pulled back inside with disgust. "Ridiculous. I must be zafido stupidito to go outside in this weather... Hmph! Hearing noises in the bushes.. Ugh..." He stomped back to his desk, his scrap metal legband jangling quietly. Yai fumbled around on his desk for a minute, searching for an object he could have sworn to swordbird was there three seconds ago. 

Hatu stumbled through the snow. His firefly, Chu, was helping him navigate the darkness. "Where are we going, exactly?" he asked Chu. Chu flickered his tail in different patterns which Hatu could understand.

"East." Was what Chu had been saying to him with his glowing tail. Hatu nodded and continued to follow the firefly's direction.

Soon, after what seemed like miles, Hatu plopped under a small rock shelter. He closed his eyes for a moment, just listening. He could hear the faint singing of a bird nearby. Chu looked up at him from inside the jar and flashed his tail again.

"The song was coming from the southeast!" Chu said with his tail. Hatu got up again to continue his journey even though he was very tired. When he had finally gotten close enough to see a small light flickering in a rock shelter nearby, he tripped and face-planted into the snow. He suddenly realized he couldn't get up. He began to make small squealing noises, even though they were muffled quite a bit by the snow. He knew that if whoever was there didn't hear him, he would freeze to death. Chu blinked his light frantically, trying to get the bird's attention.

Kædal spoke up from behind the Tiny bird.  A good portion of her neck, about ten inches, was stretched across teh ceiling, and her head was facing right down on top of the comparitively very very small bird of prey. After a long period of silence, she spoke up.  Well, that was rather impressive, hearing a "noise at the door".  Most birds really don't get any where close.  Kædal cackled, and dully noted, "So tell me, do you taste meaty, or fleshy?"  However, she forgot to note that it was in her native toungue, which sounded rather like the laughing of a crocodile in the tones of an eagle.  When the smaller bird finally got over the shock, it would see something quiet stunning; not only would it see teh bright green scales of the underbelly and bright orange and red of teh extended headcrest, but it would also see the silvery glint, and the harsh look in her eyes, not to mention the reptilian head, filled with saber-like teeth, all perfectly alligned.  Upon further examination, the bird would notice that this animal, of which every quality bespoke blades and knives, had long, bird-like wings, with vivid feathers and, surprisingly enough MORE claws on the end.

Yai, despite all his years of knowledge, had absolutely no idea what that THING on the cieling was, and he nearly fainted from its mere prescence. He stared at its sparkley glinting eyes with terror and started mumbling untelligibly in spanish, which happening a lot lately- the more suprised or angry he was the more he would revert to his native language.  

"Que?.. Es lo- Oh.. Probably can't understand me..." He began to back away towards the wall slowly, trying to recall where his armory was. Somehthing began to shriek and squeal outside, and Yai growled under his breath hopeing it wasn't another victim of the heartless IceFiends that stalked this area. "Under the- No, no.. Maybe its- No, that's the frozen insects and tapioca are." He searched desperately, knowing it was only seconds until that horrid ugly creature bared its fangs and put an end to him.

He barely supressed the urge to scream, and then an idea dawned in his weathered old birdbrain. "You- Gusta el romepecezas? You like Puzzlegames?!" Yai grinned in his strange beaky way, and pulled a huge, ginko-wood board with his talons from somewhere in the wall. "This game- You will like it!" He began to carefully place tiny, mysterious figures all over the board, and suddenly he couldn't remember for the life of him why this big shiny creature was so scary. "We Birds-who-eat-the-little-things- are the most excellent at games! Oh yes! Join my puzzlegame?" 

Hatu tried to stand again, but couldn't get up. Chu flashed his tail-light everywhere. But, it was no use, The bird seemed to be pre-occipied by another creature.

Hatu could hear the cries of hungry ice-birds coming closer and closer to him. He closed his bright eyes and prayed to the gods of wind. Suddenly, a huge gust of wind came out of nowhere, blowing him out of the snow and rolling him very close to the Bird's hideout. He could feel his little, feathered limbs once again. He stood up and shook the snow off of himself, being careful not to injure Chu in the process. He looked up at the bird's hideout and let out a very irritating call which sounded like someone scraping something against a chalk board. He continued to make that sound until the bird heard him. He was cold and hungry, and would absolutely not be ignored by this stupid singing bird! The wind continued to pound the giant ice cliffs that were around them, and the hungry ice-birds flew ever so much closer.

Kædal laughed slightly, spread her wings, revealing the pure silver and, replying in her regular language, as she did by reflex when consorting, "Yuutuuk Uuuulyuuk Yiituuk Kiit-" Then snapping back to the modern language, at least teh language of the North, she quickly said, trying to cover her mistake; "Ah, yes, I simply adore games.  Riddles, too, if you have any.  Now tell me, lesser eater of animal-flesh; perhaps we should increase the stakes, slightly?  Not our lives on the line, mind you, but some sort of bet would make it a tad mroe...  interesting."  Her neck coiling and twisting in a serpentine manner on the roof of the proportionally tiny shack, grinning, before hearing a very very small, faint squealing, rather like that of a grounded dinosaur sharpening the claws of it's hands on a rock.  She grinned, receiving a blurry idea into her predatory mind.  "What do you say that the winner get's the flesh of whatever's dying out there?"

"Oh- Ohnonono! I don't eat living creatures anymore! Too fast for my old limbs.. I used to be incomparable when it came to weasel hunts thought! Back in the day-" Whatever it was outside was now screeching with pure terror, and Yai knocked over the gameboard in his haste to get outside. When he finally did, the only thing he could do was stare and mumble "Oi mi Buenos Bananas!" 

Not one or even two- But five, Icefiends- Massive, ugly remotely-eagle-like savages- were circling around some tiny feathery lump bawling its face off, while a glowing, flashing beacon indicated its position to every predator for twenty miles around. "Idiotia- Everyone KNOWS IceFiends are attracted to bright lights! Erg.. Foolbird I am!" Yai ran out as fast as he could without tripping or falling in a snowdrift, trying to pull up the edges of his robe at the same time, and soon reached the little banchee. It seemed to be some kind of owl.. Maybe... Yai didn't have time to speculate, the IceFiends would be upon them any moment and they had to get inside. The only problem was- IceFiends were attracted to movement as much as light, so he only hoped this thing wasn't too slow. "Can you- Uh- Fly or uh- Walk, maybe? More like Run, So we don't DIE, maybe?" 

It is a time long, long after people, where a New IceAge has dawned on the earth. Most of the world is covered in thick ice and permafrost, save for just a few places hidden deep in the tundra..

Life is full of journeys, and this one is no different. You are one of the avian kind, on a marveolous journey to a land most say does not exist.

This is a very free-form rp, where the plot is slowly made up as it progresses. For now, it is simply a journey, across the skies and clouds of this strange world.

Once, people dominated this planet, but no more. A massive apoclyptic iceage and possibly a meoteor destroyed most of civilization as it was once known, leaving behind only empty husks of great cities.

Most of the wild creatures were wiped out as well, save for the avians who according to legend found a massive sheltered tree and lived out the years of blizzards and snowstorms.

 

There are some creatures who survived and adapted, however..