Post by Steph on Oct 18, 2006 4:14:10 GMT -4
We three idiots of Itropa are…
Mirami (Seaneleth) is the child of Draco, Lotus (Joanzy) is the spawn…er….child of Reth and M’Eltrus (aka Badd), Joanna (Lord Surge) is a cyborg who happened to sit in on the whole bit. Ru’ubine (kravchick2000) is a forest warden.
If you read this whole thing, you have WAY too much time on your hands, but I’d almost guarantee that you’ll be rolling on the floor. Our story opens as the two young ones meet Ru'ubine Hu'ud....
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Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo, you have to teach me how to beat up poachers!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Beat up poachers? Are you good with a bow?
Mirami Munei: Can you teach me to put an arrow through a poacher's eye?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Naw. I use knives. Whenever I do it, I give too much slash and not enough stab.
Ru'ubine H'uud: How old are you two?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: 170!
Mirami Munei: Old enough.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Old enough" isn't an answer.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //That's youngish for an elf, right?
Mirami Munei: I have a couple of weapons, and they don't match. I want to find a pair that does.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Yep
Mirami Munei: Daddy says I'm old enough to explore on my own, and that's good enough for me.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's your daddy?
Mirami Munei: Draco Munei!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *sigh* Draco.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //I don't believe I said that.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL!
Mirami Munei: You know, the big red guy with firey wings and a dragon head and scales and muscles, and
my daddy's real tall.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Yeah, he set fire to my forest one time.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] And yet you did say it... Lol!
Mirami Munei: // Better or worse than telling someone to promise not to fall into the poo?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Wow, I can tell I'm tired because 1) I didn't get it until you said it 2) Someone told me there was leftover pizza, and it made me start to tear up (I don't even know why)
Mirami Munei: Did he help put it out?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //BLASPHEMY! There shoukld NEVER be leftover pizza!
Ru'ubine H'uud: He ran off.
Mirami Munei: // Unless it's for breakfast.
Decontamination : //it's breakfast
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Draco did? Did you tell mom? She'll be SO mad at him!
Mirami Munei: That does sound like him...
Ru'ubine H'uud: He's kinda dangerous in the forest.
Mirami Munei: Yeahbut he's still my daddy.
Ru'ubine H'uud: He's an....interesting...guy
Ru'ubine H'uud: Either one of you use bows?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Tell me about it! Mom used to get on his case because he'd leave wet towels on the floor.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Err... no.
Mirami Munei: I do.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Very good. Do you have one?
Mirami Munei: *points*
Ru'ubine H'uud: //scratch that.....had the wrong view.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom didn't want me to "get into any trouble" so she never taught me how to use bows.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you want to learn the ways of the forest?
Decontamination : //how many kids has she had?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Uh... 4?
Mirami Munei: // Four, I think.
Ru'ubine H'uud: You need those skills in order to hunt poachers.
Mirami Munei: Is the forest interesting and full of all kinds of neat things?
Decontamination : //and hte rest, Tarquin and his brother, Lotus, draco
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Dad taught me how to stab people real good.
Ru'ubine H'uud: It is to me.
Mirami Munei: He teaches everyone how to stab things, though.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Stabbing people real good" isn't the answer to everything.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: That's not what dad says.
Mirami Munei: One day, I caught him trying to teach my pet how to stab things.
Mirami Munei: Nothing right now.
Ru'ubine H'uud: I've met your father, too. He's the only person on the planet who scares me.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I remember that. I was like "Dad , you're embarassing us. "
Mirami Munei: Kyreie still tries to stab the mailman.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //LOL
Mirami Munei: Why's he so scary?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: He's super nice, he just like stabbing... A LOT.
Ru'ubine H'uud: I'm not really sure. I don't know his full story.
Mirami Munei: He stabbed our friend's birthday cake one year.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *rolls eyes*
Mirami Munei: // Impressive.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: he stabbed a pinata at the same birthday party. It was embarassing.
Mirami Munei: I didn't even get my turn...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls back hood*
Mirami Munei: Now I want to kick Graps for that!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's Gramps?
Mirami Munei: Not Gramps, Graps.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Okay, who's Graps?
Mirami Munei: Her daddy.
Mirami Munei: *points at Lotus*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Won't he kick you back?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I doubt it. He'd probably stab instead.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: He really liked to stab thins.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *sighs* I can tell.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: But he makes really good food! He can julienne a carrot like nobody's buisness!
Mirami Munei: If you need something stabbed...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Did you see that?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: See what?
Mirami Munei: Huh?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Something just ran around the corner.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Should... should we stab it?
Mirami Munei: Maybe.
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, you can't stab everything you see.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *looks down the street*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Must have been nothing.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *makes a sour face at Roo* Not stabbing things? That's not how I was raised.
Mirami Munei: I don't know.
Mirami Munei: When you see something and it goes away, most of the time that's because it tried to get away from you, not because it doesn't exist.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Well, who am I to say that you were raised wrong?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You're THE Ru'ubine H'uud, so I'm sure it's fine!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *smirks at the THE bit*
Mirami Munei: ... I guess.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Can we stab some poachers now? Can we, can we?
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, I'm just an Elf trying to do a little good in the world.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Let me ask you this....
Ru'ubine H'uud: How do you identify a poacher?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *smiles dreamily* You're not as big of a .... err... you're not as "bad" as mom said.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... someone who tries to hurt things...?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: In... a bad way?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Sounds like something your mom would say.
Mirami Munei: Someone to tries to kill more animals than they need to for selfish reasons?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Hurt things how?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: By... stabbing them?
Mirami Munei: In a bad way!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Mirami Munei: By hurting them too much.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *hangs her head*
Mirami Munei: // What do you expect?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Exactly what you said. LOL
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: They're... like... someone who poaches things right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: The winged girl had it right. Taking more than you need.
Mirami Munei: Yay!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you even what poaching is in this context?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //here it comes...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Uh... cooking eggs... a certain way? Which is bad... because... eggs are murder?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //DING! We have a winner!
Mirami Munei: If we're talking about the forest it obvious has to birds, and squirrels, and deer...
Mirami Munei: Deer have eggs?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Wrong kind, dear.
Mirami Munei: They're poaching deer eggs! //
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No! We have to stop them!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //ROFLMAO
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, no, no.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No? We can't just sit by!
Mirami Munei: We have to stop them!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: And let those poor deer eggs die!
Mirami Munei: Where else will baby deer come from?!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo, you're not who I thought you were! *begins crying*
Ru'ubine H'uud: A poacher, in this case, is one who kills the forest creatures or any others to sell the hides, meat, or tusks for personal gain.
Mirami Munei: *joins in*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Oh, but if he kills their *sob* eggs, it's fair game! That is SO mean!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer don't lay eggs.
Mirami Munei: *sniffs* Of course not, if they're going to get poached.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: They're too afraid that people are just going to kill them, aren't they? *sob* It's horrible!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Deer eggs! I can hardly see to type!
Mirami Munei: // I'm almost crying from laughter.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //YEP!
Mirami Munei: I wouldn't lay eggs either, if I knew they were going to be poached by bad people!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Girls, have a seat.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Miry, we've gotta save those deer eggs!
Mirami Munei: Let's get Graps! He'll stab those people good!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *slings her bow*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Now's not the time to sit! Those poor deer are too afraid to lay their eggs! We've gotta help'em!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer don't lay eggs at all.
Mirami Munei: *gets a serious look* We've been over this before, THE Roo.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //OMG! If they meet up with Steve......
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You mean... they're going to be no more generations of dear?
Mirami Munei: BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING POACHED?!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer have live babies, just like humans.
Mirami Munei: *starts crying even harder*
Mirami Munei: *... stops*
Mirami Munei: They do?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Huh? Then how do deer get poached?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo... you're not making any sense!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you know the difference between mammals and avians?
Mirami Munei: Are deer like eggs in the wild?
Mirami Munei: Birds have feathers, and I haven't seen any mammals with feathers.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Ooh. You're right, Miry!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do birds ay eggs?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *lay
Mirami Munei: I don't know... do people poach their eggs, too?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No? Because they're too afraid of having them poached like the deer?
Mirami Munei: Wait they do. Then where are the birds coming from?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *tries her best to maintain her composure*
Mirami Munei: People don't poach flowers, right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Right
Mirami Munei: *thinks*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I don't know. I haven't seen flowers lay eggs...
Mirami Munei: Because they must bury them!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Oh! You're right! The deer should bury their eggs too!
Mirami Munei: That's it! All these new deer and birds and squirrels and bunnies come from eggs the flowers bury!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Mammals give live birth. Birds and reptiles lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *scratches head* I'm pretty sure deer is a mammal, Roo. And it CLEARLY lays eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *looks proud of herself*
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, deer don't lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah.... because they're too afraid of poachers?
Mirami Munei: Because the flowers do, and the deer bury them. Right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Where did you two go to school?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: School?
Ru'ubine H'uud: I was afraid of that...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom says school is BotCo's way of indoctrinating us with hate.
Mirami Munei: Daddy burned down my school on accident, and no other school would take me because of that.
Ru'ubine H'uud: All right.....*draws a deep calming breath*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... I stabbed a school once.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer are mammals. They DON'T lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Where do they get their eggs from, then?
Mirami Munei: *that serious look again* We've been over this already. The flowers lay the eggs, and the deer bury them.
Ru'ubine H'uud: They don't.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's the forest expert here?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... you?
Mirami Munei: I didn't think of that part...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Thank you.
Ru'ubine H'uud: And I'm here to tell you that deer don't have anything do with eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Then... um... how do they get poached?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *lets that sink in*
Mirami Munei: If deer don't have anything to do with eggs, then why do people poach them?
Ru'ubine H'uud: As I said, poachers are people who kill the animals for their fur, horns, teeth or whatever to sell for a profit.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Deer have horns and teeth AND fur! That must be why they poach them!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You both speak Elven?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yep!
Mirami Munei: Grams swore in it all the time.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I know some curse words in Valosian, too! Wanna hear?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *explains in Elven the differences in the two types of poach. The words aren't even close to sounding the same way*
Mirami Munei: Are they the ones that involve *bleep*ing a *bleep bleep* in the *bleep* on *bleep bleep bleep* on a Tuesday?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *hangs her head again and shakes it*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *giggles* yeah! but you forgot the... (v) "Bleepin' teleporter bleep bleep 17th of
July? What the bleep!?"
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] Funny, no?
Joanna Signost: [Tell] *nods*
Mirami Munei: Oh, I expected Graps to *bleep*in stab the *bleep bleep bleep* out of it.
Gwhen DawnStar: [Party] (( night all))
Ru'ubine H'uud: Understand the difference now?
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Party] //night night dear
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: (v) Bleep yeah!
Mirami Munei: [V] Wouldn't have been any *bleep* good.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *unleashes a stream of Elven wear words that make both of you take a step back*
Ru'ubine H'uud: FinallY!
Mirami Munei: Yeah, the difference is that one is a yummy breakfast-
Mirami Munei: *bleep*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *swear
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Whoa... *starts writing down all the words that Roo said that she can remember* Holy [V] *expletive*!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //ROFLMAO
Ru'ubine H'uud: *regains her composure* Congratulations. You are the first ones to make say those words.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: So... when do we stab things?
Mirami Munei: That was amazing, Miss The Roo.
Mirami Munei: Can I shoot poachers now?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: It was! Even mom doesn't say some of those!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Just Roo. No "The", no "Miss". Just Roo.
Mirami Munei: Butanyway I think I have it figured out.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Roo. Got it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yep!
Mirami Munei: Yeahyeah Miss The Roo. One is a form of yummy breakfast, and the other is a very bad way of killing animals.
Ru'ubine H'uud: You can shoot poachers, but first you have to tell how you know what a poacher looks like.
Mirami Munei: They look like a *bleep*?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Does he have green hair and big teeth?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL
Ru'ubine H'uud: //OMG! Here we go again! ROFL
Mirami Munei: Does he have a shirt that says Poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: I wish it was that easy.
Mirami Munei: Me too... *sighs*
Ru'ubine H'uud: A poacher can look like anyone. Even you.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] I am tempted to make a merchant character with an 'I'm a poacher' t-shirt selling deer eggs...
Mirami Munei: *gasp*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom always said that poachers looked like *expletive* after she was done with'em.
Ru'ubine H'uud: They usually travel in groups and kill a lot of creatures at one time.
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] ROFL!
Mirami Munei: Likehowbig a group?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Poachers care nothing for the land on which they walk.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: What if the land is made of quicksand? I bet'cha they'd care then!
Ru'ubine H'uud: I've seen poacher groups with 20 men.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Or if it's made outta crocodiles... or poo!
Mirami Munei: Now I see something.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: It's a poacher!
Mirami Munei: Stab it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Ru'ubine H'uud: How do you know it's a poacher?
Mirami Munei: Where is it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... she was...uh...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Stop....just...stop...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Hitting animals?
Mirami Munei: She had a shirt that said it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah! She probably did but just wasn't wearing it today.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *heaves a mighty sigh*
Mirami Munei: No, I'm certain her shirt said "P04ch3r H0n3y".
Ru'ubine H'uud: Poachers usually only come to the city to sell their ill-gotten goods.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom always said that if you were ill, you should get lots of rest.
Ru'ubine H'uud: That woman is NOT a poacher.
Joanna Signost: *rather loudly, in a fabricated voice* 'Deer eggs, get your deer eggs, right her, fresh and tasty...'
Mirami Munei: ... Are their goods sick?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Was she not giving her goods a rest?
Mirami Munei: *shrieks*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *holds her head in her hands*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Omigod! You lied, Roo!
Mirami Munei: I can't believe it!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: We gotta stab her!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Probably a shyster....
Mirami Munei: Is that another kind of poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: DEER DON'T LAY EGGS! *finally losing it*
(Roo wipes out all the stone seats by the Trasa Fountain)
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: ... that's not what the poacher said.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *kicks the wall*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You're scary!
Mirami Munei: ...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: She's poaching the chairs!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *regains her composure*
Mirami Munei: BAD MISS THE ROO!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You two can read, right?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... I can read Valosian curse words...
Mirami Munei: *peeks out from behind the wall*
Mirami Munei: Yeah.. why?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *grabs Mirami by the ear* Come on...
Mirami Munei: *squeaks*
(Roo leads the Mirami by the ear to the Trasa Libray with Lotus following closely)
Ru'ubine H'uud: *points forcefully at the chairs* SIT!
Mirami Munei: *sits meekly*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *glares at Lotus and points at a chair*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yes, Ms. Roo.
Mirami Munei: I'd do it, Loty, she's scarier than any poacher...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Sit there. I'll be right back.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: She's as scary as a *expletive*
Mirami Munei: She's as scary as two.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] How much more trouble can I cause...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out animal anatomy and physiology books*
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] You're baaaaaaaaddd.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... are we gonna stab books?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Like... for practice?
Mirami Munei: You don't stab books.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *plunks down the books and watches them cover the table*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: That's not what Daddy says, Mirami.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] I am... *grins**
Mirami Munei: Just because Graps says it doesn't make it true.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Does too!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You're going to read and tell your aunt about animals and how they reproduce.
Mirami Munei: He also said that a little UKB lived in your closet, and we never found it, did we?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *giggles looking at one of the pictures* Look, Miry, that horsey has a wee-wee!
Mirami Munei: *shakes a finger*
Mirami Munei: *looks at it*
Mirami Munei: That looks like your mom's books I'm not supposed to know about.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Those books are scary!
Ru'ubine H'uud: These are serious books and should be taken seriously.
Ru'ubine H'uud: HUSH!
Ru'ubine H'uud: READ!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *still giggling*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *places her hands on her hips and watches the two closely*
Mirami Munei: At least they're not doing anything to anyone, or vice versa.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Oy, t'is late! I'm going to head off to bed! I'll catch you two later!
Mirami Munei: Miss The Roo, do poachers *bleep* animals?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *winks conspiratoially at the librarian*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL!
Mirami Munei: // Night, Joanzy.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Some do.
Mirami Munei: ... *closes the book* I don't want to think about that.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *places one hand on the table and one on the back of the chair and leans in close. The meaning is clear*
Mirami Munei: *squeaks*
Mirami Munei: *picks up a book and hides her face in it*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Better start reading those words instead of hiding behind them....
Mirami Munei: Yes ma'am... *reads about animal cells*
Mirami Munei: ... I've never heard of a nucleus gettin poached.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *sits and watches*
Mirami Munei: *looks at hand*
Mirami Munei: *looks at book*
Mirami Munei: I don't see it.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Scientists use a microscope to look at cells.
Mirami Munei: Ohhhh.
Ru'ubine H'uud: A good start is here.
Mirami Munei: What;s the opposite of a microscope?
Ru'ubine H'uud: The guys at the Alta Science Academy can tell you more than these books can.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Telescope.
Mirami Munei: Okay.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Those are used to look at other planets up close.
Mirami Munei: That's more interesting tha the little hairy things running around.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Micro" is tiny. "Tele" is...er....far off.
Mirami Munei: But not big?
Mirami Munei: What's big?
Joanna Signost: Macro.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Uh..."Zoom?"
Mirami Munei: ...
Ru'ubine H'uud: I'm not a scientist.
Joanna Signost: *Smiles as her cloaking device fails* Good afternoon.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Are you the lady we saw in town?
Joanna Signost: I do live here, so it's likely you might've seen me before.
Mirami Munei: Are you a poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Are you a scientist?
Ru'ubine H'uud: She's not a poacher, dammit.
Joanna Signost: *Arches an eyebrow* Err... No, and.. not really.
Mirami Munei: Well I don't know what she is, and that's as good a place as any to start.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls off her long-sleeved shirt*
Joanna Signost: *Her eyes are... 'off' now, by the way, that is, not glowing or appearing in a mechanical way as they sometimes do, and she taps her fingers on the table* So what brings you here today?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Trying to teach this girl about the differences between egg-layers and live birth animals.
Ru'ubine H'uud: AND the differences between poaching and poaching.
Mirami Munei: If you're the thing from before, and the lady we saw, then you know why we're here, don't you?
Mirami Munei: And if you know why, then you don't need to ask, right?
Joanna Signost: Thing from before?
Mirami Munei: Yeah, we saw a thing and then it wasn't there anymore.
Joanna Signost: (she was in her battle suit before, which included a helmet >.>
Joanna Signost: That sounds rather odd.
Mirami Munei: // How many things would be running around?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //In a CITY?
Mirami Munei: // Large things, that hide and turn invisible?
Mirami Munei: Not small things that just hide.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //In a CITY?
Mirami Munei: // You tell me.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //
Mirami Munei: // Besides, Mirami may not be able to count that high.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Good point.
Joanna Signost: *tap tap tap*
Mirami Munei: *ponder ponder ponder*
Joanna Signost: Studying... *looks at the book cover* Animals?
Mirami Munei: Apparently deer neither bury nor lay eggs.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out a book and flips to the "deer" section*
Mirami Munei: I thought it was a good idea, though.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *slides in front of MiramI*
Joanna Signost: *Shrugs a bit* Bizzare concept..
Mirami Munei: *reads it*
Joanna Signost: [Tell] You and the library.. heh.
Mirami Munei: How do living things begin, anyway?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out another book on animal poaching and slides it in front of MiranI*
Mirami Munei: If birds lay eggs, and deer lay fawns, where do they come from?
Mirami Munei: *reads that one, too*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer are full grown fawns.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Fawns are baby deer.
Joanna Signost: Surely your parental ... advisors went over that, or you watched the holovids in school?
Mirami Munei: And fawns come from deer. But they can't just go from *bleep* to fawns, right?
Mirami Munei: *thumps the table* What's in the middle?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *turns to the reproductive section*
Mirami Munei: ... Ah hah!
Mirami Munei: *points at the word 'egg'*
Mirami Munei: So they do have eggs!
Joanna Signost: [Tell] If I white out all the words in those sections except 'egg'...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *points at a picture of a mammal egg*
Joanna Signost: [Tell] *Laughs evilly*
Mirami Munei: But they're inside.
Mirami Munei: It's... wow. That's the best idea ever!
Mirami Munei: It keeps the deer eggs safe, and they don't even have to bury them!
Mirami Munei: ... They don't poach deer eggs, right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *rests her elbows on the table and buries her face in her hands*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Right.
Mirami Munei: Phew. *obvious relief*
Mirami Munei: How'd you learn so muc about the forest, Miss The Roo?
Joanna Signost: (Eek, past 0300 and need to be up for 0800...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *opens the book about animal poaching and points out some of the slaughter pictures* Smoochy the Beear taught me all I know.
Joanna Signost: *Stands up*
Mirami Munei: And, I guess, deer and eggs and microscopes and poachers...
Mirami (Seaneleth) is the child of Draco, Lotus (Joanzy) is the spawn…er….child of Reth and M’Eltrus (aka Badd), Joanna (Lord Surge) is a cyborg who happened to sit in on the whole bit. Ru’ubine (kravchick2000) is a forest warden.
If you read this whole thing, you have WAY too much time on your hands, but I’d almost guarantee that you’ll be rolling on the floor. Our story opens as the two young ones meet Ru'ubine Hu'ud....
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Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo, you have to teach me how to beat up poachers!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Beat up poachers? Are you good with a bow?
Mirami Munei: Can you teach me to put an arrow through a poacher's eye?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Naw. I use knives. Whenever I do it, I give too much slash and not enough stab.
Ru'ubine H'uud: How old are you two?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: 170!
Mirami Munei: Old enough.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Old enough" isn't an answer.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //That's youngish for an elf, right?
Mirami Munei: I have a couple of weapons, and they don't match. I want to find a pair that does.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Yep
Mirami Munei: Daddy says I'm old enough to explore on my own, and that's good enough for me.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's your daddy?
Mirami Munei: Draco Munei!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *sigh* Draco.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //I don't believe I said that.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL!
Mirami Munei: You know, the big red guy with firey wings and a dragon head and scales and muscles, and
my daddy's real tall.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Yeah, he set fire to my forest one time.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] And yet you did say it... Lol!
Mirami Munei: // Better or worse than telling someone to promise not to fall into the poo?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Wow, I can tell I'm tired because 1) I didn't get it until you said it 2) Someone told me there was leftover pizza, and it made me start to tear up (I don't even know why)
Mirami Munei: Did he help put it out?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //BLASPHEMY! There shoukld NEVER be leftover pizza!
Ru'ubine H'uud: He ran off.
Mirami Munei: // Unless it's for breakfast.
Decontamination : //it's breakfast
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Draco did? Did you tell mom? She'll be SO mad at him!
Mirami Munei: That does sound like him...
Ru'ubine H'uud: He's kinda dangerous in the forest.
Mirami Munei: Yeahbut he's still my daddy.
Ru'ubine H'uud: He's an....interesting...guy
Ru'ubine H'uud: Either one of you use bows?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Tell me about it! Mom used to get on his case because he'd leave wet towels on the floor.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Err... no.
Mirami Munei: I do.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Very good. Do you have one?
Mirami Munei: *points*
Ru'ubine H'uud: //scratch that.....had the wrong view.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom didn't want me to "get into any trouble" so she never taught me how to use bows.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you want to learn the ways of the forest?
Decontamination : //how many kids has she had?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Uh... 4?
Mirami Munei: // Four, I think.
Ru'ubine H'uud: You need those skills in order to hunt poachers.
Mirami Munei: Is the forest interesting and full of all kinds of neat things?
Decontamination : //and hte rest, Tarquin and his brother, Lotus, draco
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Dad taught me how to stab people real good.
Ru'ubine H'uud: It is to me.
Mirami Munei: He teaches everyone how to stab things, though.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Stabbing people real good" isn't the answer to everything.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: That's not what dad says.
Mirami Munei: One day, I caught him trying to teach my pet how to stab things.
Mirami Munei: Nothing right now.
Ru'ubine H'uud: I've met your father, too. He's the only person on the planet who scares me.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I remember that. I was like "Dad , you're embarassing us. "
Mirami Munei: Kyreie still tries to stab the mailman.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //LOL
Mirami Munei: Why's he so scary?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: He's super nice, he just like stabbing... A LOT.
Ru'ubine H'uud: I'm not really sure. I don't know his full story.
Mirami Munei: He stabbed our friend's birthday cake one year.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *rolls eyes*
Mirami Munei: // Impressive.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: he stabbed a pinata at the same birthday party. It was embarassing.
Mirami Munei: I didn't even get my turn...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls back hood*
Mirami Munei: Now I want to kick Graps for that!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's Gramps?
Mirami Munei: Not Gramps, Graps.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Okay, who's Graps?
Mirami Munei: Her daddy.
Mirami Munei: *points at Lotus*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Won't he kick you back?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I doubt it. He'd probably stab instead.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: He really liked to stab thins.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *sighs* I can tell.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: But he makes really good food! He can julienne a carrot like nobody's buisness!
Mirami Munei: If you need something stabbed...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Did you see that?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: See what?
Mirami Munei: Huh?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Something just ran around the corner.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Should... should we stab it?
Mirami Munei: Maybe.
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, you can't stab everything you see.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *looks down the street*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Must have been nothing.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *makes a sour face at Roo* Not stabbing things? That's not how I was raised.
Mirami Munei: I don't know.
Mirami Munei: When you see something and it goes away, most of the time that's because it tried to get away from you, not because it doesn't exist.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Well, who am I to say that you were raised wrong?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You're THE Ru'ubine H'uud, so I'm sure it's fine!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *smirks at the THE bit*
Mirami Munei: ... I guess.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Can we stab some poachers now? Can we, can we?
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, I'm just an Elf trying to do a little good in the world.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Let me ask you this....
Ru'ubine H'uud: How do you identify a poacher?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *smiles dreamily* You're not as big of a .... err... you're not as "bad" as mom said.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... someone who tries to hurt things...?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: In... a bad way?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Sounds like something your mom would say.
Mirami Munei: Someone to tries to kill more animals than they need to for selfish reasons?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Hurt things how?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: By... stabbing them?
Mirami Munei: In a bad way!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Mirami Munei: By hurting them too much.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *hangs her head*
Mirami Munei: // What do you expect?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Exactly what you said. LOL
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: They're... like... someone who poaches things right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: The winged girl had it right. Taking more than you need.
Mirami Munei: Yay!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you even what poaching is in this context?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //here it comes...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Uh... cooking eggs... a certain way? Which is bad... because... eggs are murder?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //DING! We have a winner!
Mirami Munei: If we're talking about the forest it obvious has to birds, and squirrels, and deer...
Mirami Munei: Deer have eggs?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Wrong kind, dear.
Mirami Munei: They're poaching deer eggs! //
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No! We have to stop them!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //ROFLMAO
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, no, no.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No? We can't just sit by!
Mirami Munei: We have to stop them!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: And let those poor deer eggs die!
Mirami Munei: Where else will baby deer come from?!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo, you're not who I thought you were! *begins crying*
Ru'ubine H'uud: A poacher, in this case, is one who kills the forest creatures or any others to sell the hides, meat, or tusks for personal gain.
Mirami Munei: *joins in*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Oh, but if he kills their *sob* eggs, it's fair game! That is SO mean!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer don't lay eggs.
Mirami Munei: *sniffs* Of course not, if they're going to get poached.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: They're too afraid that people are just going to kill them, aren't they? *sob* It's horrible!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Deer eggs! I can hardly see to type!
Mirami Munei: // I'm almost crying from laughter.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //YEP!
Mirami Munei: I wouldn't lay eggs either, if I knew they were going to be poached by bad people!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Girls, have a seat.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Miry, we've gotta save those deer eggs!
Mirami Munei: Let's get Graps! He'll stab those people good!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *slings her bow*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Now's not the time to sit! Those poor deer are too afraid to lay their eggs! We've gotta help'em!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer don't lay eggs at all.
Mirami Munei: *gets a serious look* We've been over this before, THE Roo.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //OMG! If they meet up with Steve......
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You mean... they're going to be no more generations of dear?
Mirami Munei: BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING POACHED?!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer have live babies, just like humans.
Mirami Munei: *starts crying even harder*
Mirami Munei: *... stops*
Mirami Munei: They do?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Huh? Then how do deer get poached?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Roo... you're not making any sense!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do you know the difference between mammals and avians?
Mirami Munei: Are deer like eggs in the wild?
Mirami Munei: Birds have feathers, and I haven't seen any mammals with feathers.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Ooh. You're right, Miry!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Do birds ay eggs?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *lay
Mirami Munei: I don't know... do people poach their eggs, too?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: No? Because they're too afraid of having them poached like the deer?
Mirami Munei: Wait they do. Then where are the birds coming from?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *tries her best to maintain her composure*
Mirami Munei: People don't poach flowers, right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Right
Mirami Munei: *thinks*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I don't know. I haven't seen flowers lay eggs...
Mirami Munei: Because they must bury them!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Oh! You're right! The deer should bury their eggs too!
Mirami Munei: That's it! All these new deer and birds and squirrels and bunnies come from eggs the flowers bury!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Mammals give live birth. Birds and reptiles lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *scratches head* I'm pretty sure deer is a mammal, Roo. And it CLEARLY lays eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *looks proud of herself*
Ru'ubine H'uud: No, deer don't lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah.... because they're too afraid of poachers?
Mirami Munei: Because the flowers do, and the deer bury them. Right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Where did you two go to school?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: School?
Ru'ubine H'uud: I was afraid of that...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom says school is BotCo's way of indoctrinating us with hate.
Mirami Munei: Daddy burned down my school on accident, and no other school would take me because of that.
Ru'ubine H'uud: All right.....*draws a deep calming breath*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... I stabbed a school once.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer are mammals. They DON'T lay eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Where do they get their eggs from, then?
Mirami Munei: *that serious look again* We've been over this already. The flowers lay the eggs, and the deer bury them.
Ru'ubine H'uud: They don't.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Who's the forest expert here?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... you?
Mirami Munei: I didn't think of that part...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Thank you.
Ru'ubine H'uud: And I'm here to tell you that deer don't have anything do with eggs.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Then... um... how do they get poached?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *lets that sink in*
Mirami Munei: If deer don't have anything to do with eggs, then why do people poach them?
Ru'ubine H'uud: As I said, poachers are people who kill the animals for their fur, horns, teeth or whatever to sell for a profit.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Deer have horns and teeth AND fur! That must be why they poach them!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You both speak Elven?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yep!
Mirami Munei: Grams swore in it all the time.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: I know some curse words in Valosian, too! Wanna hear?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *explains in Elven the differences in the two types of poach. The words aren't even close to sounding the same way*
Mirami Munei: Are they the ones that involve *bleep*ing a *bleep bleep* in the *bleep* on *bleep bleep bleep* on a Tuesday?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *hangs her head again and shakes it*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *giggles* yeah! but you forgot the... (v) "Bleepin' teleporter bleep bleep 17th of
July? What the bleep!?"
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] Funny, no?
Joanna Signost: [Tell] *nods*
Mirami Munei: Oh, I expected Graps to *bleep*in stab the *bleep bleep bleep* out of it.
Gwhen DawnStar: [Party] (( night all))
Ru'ubine H'uud: Understand the difference now?
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Party] //night night dear
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: (v) Bleep yeah!
Mirami Munei: [V] Wouldn't have been any *bleep* good.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *unleashes a stream of Elven wear words that make both of you take a step back*
Ru'ubine H'uud: FinallY!
Mirami Munei: Yeah, the difference is that one is a yummy breakfast-
Mirami Munei: *bleep*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *swear
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Whoa... *starts writing down all the words that Roo said that she can remember* Holy [V] *expletive*!
Ru'ubine H'uud: //ROFLMAO
Ru'ubine H'uud: *regains her composure* Congratulations. You are the first ones to make say those words.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: So... when do we stab things?
Mirami Munei: That was amazing, Miss The Roo.
Mirami Munei: Can I shoot poachers now?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: It was! Even mom doesn't say some of those!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Just Roo. No "The", no "Miss". Just Roo.
Mirami Munei: Butanyway I think I have it figured out.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Roo. Got it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yep!
Mirami Munei: Yeahyeah Miss The Roo. One is a form of yummy breakfast, and the other is a very bad way of killing animals.
Ru'ubine H'uud: You can shoot poachers, but first you have to tell how you know what a poacher looks like.
Mirami Munei: They look like a *bleep*?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Does he have green hair and big teeth?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL
Ru'ubine H'uud: //OMG! Here we go again! ROFL
Mirami Munei: Does he have a shirt that says Poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: I wish it was that easy.
Mirami Munei: Me too... *sighs*
Ru'ubine H'uud: A poacher can look like anyone. Even you.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] I am tempted to make a merchant character with an 'I'm a poacher' t-shirt selling deer eggs...
Mirami Munei: *gasp*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom always said that poachers looked like *expletive* after she was done with'em.
Ru'ubine H'uud: They usually travel in groups and kill a lot of creatures at one time.
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] ROFL!
Mirami Munei: Likehowbig a group?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Poachers care nothing for the land on which they walk.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: What if the land is made of quicksand? I bet'cha they'd care then!
Ru'ubine H'uud: I've seen poacher groups with 20 men.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Or if it's made outta crocodiles... or poo!
Mirami Munei: Now I see something.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: It's a poacher!
Mirami Munei: Stab it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah!
Ru'ubine H'uud: How do you know it's a poacher?
Mirami Munei: Where is it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... she was...uh...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Stop....just...stop...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Hitting animals?
Mirami Munei: She had a shirt that said it?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yeah! She probably did but just wasn't wearing it today.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *heaves a mighty sigh*
Mirami Munei: No, I'm certain her shirt said "P04ch3r H0n3y".
Ru'ubine H'uud: Poachers usually only come to the city to sell their ill-gotten goods.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Mom always said that if you were ill, you should get lots of rest.
Ru'ubine H'uud: That woman is NOT a poacher.
Joanna Signost: *rather loudly, in a fabricated voice* 'Deer eggs, get your deer eggs, right her, fresh and tasty...'
Mirami Munei: ... Are their goods sick?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Was she not giving her goods a rest?
Mirami Munei: *shrieks*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *holds her head in her hands*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Omigod! You lied, Roo!
Mirami Munei: I can't believe it!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: We gotta stab her!
Ru'ubine H'uud: Probably a shyster....
Mirami Munei: Is that another kind of poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: DEER DON'T LAY EGGS! *finally losing it*
(Roo wipes out all the stone seats by the Trasa Fountain)
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: ... that's not what the poacher said.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *kicks the wall*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: You're scary!
Mirami Munei: ...
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: She's poaching the chairs!
Ru'ubine H'uud: *regains her composure*
Mirami Munei: BAD MISS THE ROO!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You two can read, right?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... I can read Valosian curse words...
Mirami Munei: *peeks out from behind the wall*
Mirami Munei: Yeah.. why?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *grabs Mirami by the ear* Come on...
Mirami Munei: *squeaks*
(Roo leads the Mirami by the ear to the Trasa Libray with Lotus following closely)
Ru'ubine H'uud: *points forcefully at the chairs* SIT!
Mirami Munei: *sits meekly*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *glares at Lotus and points at a chair*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Yes, Ms. Roo.
Mirami Munei: I'd do it, Loty, she's scarier than any poacher...
Ru'ubine H'uud: Sit there. I'll be right back.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: She's as scary as a *expletive*
Mirami Munei: She's as scary as two.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] How much more trouble can I cause...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out animal anatomy and physiology books*
Ru'ubine H'uud: [Tell] You're baaaaaaaaddd.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Um... are we gonna stab books?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Like... for practice?
Mirami Munei: You don't stab books.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *plunks down the books and watches them cover the table*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: That's not what Daddy says, Mirami.
Joanna Signost: [Tell] I am... *grins**
Mirami Munei: Just because Graps says it doesn't make it true.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Does too!
Ru'ubine H'uud: You're going to read and tell your aunt about animals and how they reproduce.
Mirami Munei: He also said that a little UKB lived in your closet, and we never found it, did we?
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *giggles looking at one of the pictures* Look, Miry, that horsey has a wee-wee!
Mirami Munei: *shakes a finger*
Mirami Munei: *looks at it*
Mirami Munei: That looks like your mom's books I'm not supposed to know about.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: Those books are scary!
Ru'ubine H'uud: These are serious books and should be taken seriously.
Ru'ubine H'uud: HUSH!
Ru'ubine H'uud: READ!
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: *still giggling*
Ru'ubine H'uud: *places her hands on her hips and watches the two closely*
Mirami Munei: At least they're not doing anything to anyone, or vice versa.
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //Oy, t'is late! I'm going to head off to bed! I'll catch you two later!
Mirami Munei: Miss The Roo, do poachers *bleep* animals?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *winks conspiratoially at the librarian*
Lotus Thel'Amon-Munei: //LOL!
Mirami Munei: // Night, Joanzy.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Some do.
Mirami Munei: ... *closes the book* I don't want to think about that.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *places one hand on the table and one on the back of the chair and leans in close. The meaning is clear*
Mirami Munei: *squeaks*
Mirami Munei: *picks up a book and hides her face in it*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Better start reading those words instead of hiding behind them....
Mirami Munei: Yes ma'am... *reads about animal cells*
Mirami Munei: ... I've never heard of a nucleus gettin poached.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *sits and watches*
Mirami Munei: *looks at hand*
Mirami Munei: *looks at book*
Mirami Munei: I don't see it.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Scientists use a microscope to look at cells.
Mirami Munei: Ohhhh.
Ru'ubine H'uud: A good start is here.
Mirami Munei: What;s the opposite of a microscope?
Ru'ubine H'uud: The guys at the Alta Science Academy can tell you more than these books can.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Telescope.
Mirami Munei: Okay.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Those are used to look at other planets up close.
Mirami Munei: That's more interesting tha the little hairy things running around.
Ru'ubine H'uud: "Micro" is tiny. "Tele" is...er....far off.
Mirami Munei: But not big?
Mirami Munei: What's big?
Joanna Signost: Macro.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Uh..."Zoom?"
Mirami Munei: ...
Ru'ubine H'uud: I'm not a scientist.
Joanna Signost: *Smiles as her cloaking device fails* Good afternoon.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Are you the lady we saw in town?
Joanna Signost: I do live here, so it's likely you might've seen me before.
Mirami Munei: Are you a poacher?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Are you a scientist?
Ru'ubine H'uud: She's not a poacher, dammit.
Joanna Signost: *Arches an eyebrow* Err... No, and.. not really.
Mirami Munei: Well I don't know what she is, and that's as good a place as any to start.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls off her long-sleeved shirt*
Joanna Signost: *Her eyes are... 'off' now, by the way, that is, not glowing or appearing in a mechanical way as they sometimes do, and she taps her fingers on the table* So what brings you here today?
Ru'ubine H'uud: Trying to teach this girl about the differences between egg-layers and live birth animals.
Ru'ubine H'uud: AND the differences between poaching and poaching.
Mirami Munei: If you're the thing from before, and the lady we saw, then you know why we're here, don't you?
Mirami Munei: And if you know why, then you don't need to ask, right?
Joanna Signost: Thing from before?
Mirami Munei: Yeah, we saw a thing and then it wasn't there anymore.
Joanna Signost: (she was in her battle suit before, which included a helmet >.>
Joanna Signost: That sounds rather odd.
Mirami Munei: // How many things would be running around?
Ru'ubine H'uud: //In a CITY?
Mirami Munei: // Large things, that hide and turn invisible?
Mirami Munei: Not small things that just hide.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //In a CITY?
Mirami Munei: // You tell me.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //
Mirami Munei: // Besides, Mirami may not be able to count that high.
Ru'ubine H'uud: //Good point.
Joanna Signost: *tap tap tap*
Mirami Munei: *ponder ponder ponder*
Joanna Signost: Studying... *looks at the book cover* Animals?
Mirami Munei: Apparently deer neither bury nor lay eggs.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out a book and flips to the "deer" section*
Mirami Munei: I thought it was a good idea, though.
Ru'ubine H'uud: *slides in front of MiramI*
Joanna Signost: *Shrugs a bit* Bizzare concept..
Mirami Munei: *reads it*
Joanna Signost: [Tell] You and the library.. heh.
Mirami Munei: How do living things begin, anyway?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *pulls out another book on animal poaching and slides it in front of MiranI*
Mirami Munei: If birds lay eggs, and deer lay fawns, where do they come from?
Mirami Munei: *reads that one, too*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Deer are full grown fawns.
Ru'ubine H'uud: Fawns are baby deer.
Joanna Signost: Surely your parental ... advisors went over that, or you watched the holovids in school?
Mirami Munei: And fawns come from deer. But they can't just go from *bleep* to fawns, right?
Mirami Munei: *thumps the table* What's in the middle?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *turns to the reproductive section*
Mirami Munei: ... Ah hah!
Mirami Munei: *points at the word 'egg'*
Mirami Munei: So they do have eggs!
Joanna Signost: [Tell] If I white out all the words in those sections except 'egg'...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *points at a picture of a mammal egg*
Joanna Signost: [Tell] *Laughs evilly*
Mirami Munei: But they're inside.
Mirami Munei: It's... wow. That's the best idea ever!
Mirami Munei: It keeps the deer eggs safe, and they don't even have to bury them!
Mirami Munei: ... They don't poach deer eggs, right?
Ru'ubine H'uud: *rests her elbows on the table and buries her face in her hands*
Ru'ubine H'uud: Right.
Mirami Munei: Phew. *obvious relief*
Mirami Munei: How'd you learn so muc about the forest, Miss The Roo?
Joanna Signost: (Eek, past 0300 and need to be up for 0800...
Ru'ubine H'uud: *opens the book about animal poaching and points out some of the slaughter pictures* Smoochy the Beear taught me all I know.
Joanna Signost: *Stands up*
Mirami Munei: And, I guess, deer and eggs and microscopes and poachers...