Date Posted:03:02:30 08/16/01 Thu Author: ANON. Subject: Re: Lemme explain In reply to:
Whip, player of Ralkira
's message, "Lemme explain" on 18:48:00 08/13/01 Mon
Thanks so much, I think I understand now. You probably think I'm really stupid though.%0
~ANONAMOUS
>Long ago, the author AnnMcCaffery (Hoping that is
>spelled right) decided to make p a book series about
>dragons and dragon riders, naming it (consequently)
>the Dragonriders of Pern. The planet is threatened by
>an organism called thread, which can eat through
>material except rock and metal and can only be
>destroyed by fire and water. During when the first
>human colonists settled on Pern, Thread fell. At that
>point in time they did not have dragons on Pern, but
>the firelizards, small replicas of dragons, roamed the
>land. The humans genetically altered the firelizards
>and Voila! Dragons were born. Since then in the books
>dragons fight thread by going between to avoid being
>hit and flaming thread while flying. Now, rping this:
>If you want to Impress, you go to a weyr, and go to
>the Hatching Grounds, you'll find other Candidates
>there who want to impress dragons like yourself; to
>Impress, you post a description of yourself in ther
>form of a story or something. Put things like, gender
>and age and name, personality, features, and maybe
>some history. The better you write, the better dragon
>you'll get. Rankings of dragons: Gold, bronze, brown,
>green, and blue. Golds are only impress by females and
>bronzes and browns are only Impressed by males, but
>greens and blues are impressed by bother genders. The
>OOTS or Weyrwoman will decide what you Impress and
>write a post on it. From then until you or your dragon
>dies, you play the dragon-feeding, caring, learning,
>flying, the whole shebang. Now, for firelizards, you
>go to the board and do whatever they say you would do
>to find/impress a firelizard, and it's yours. For
>Halls: If you want to learn a craft, go there, post,
>and learn it. For Holds: If you want to live the quiet
>life, post at the Hold that you are going to live
>there, and play, ya fool. Does that help? If not, you
>need to go to your local bookstore and buy the books,
>starting with DragonsDawn. I've done what I can do.
>
>The retired OOTS of another site ~> ~*Whip*~
