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Post by Vacancy on Dec 10, 2004 17:51:57 GMT
OOC: OK, like, I CANNOT remember which Color that I use for Ylime. So. Yeah. PLEASE PEAPLE JOIN..? I'm tired off all the rping I do is in a lotr setting...
PTS: No magic...sorry about all the non-mag, but mum would boot me off the site if I started all that again...just like Senk...*sighs*
ic: Eli refused to go to the slums. She was dead tired and hungry, but that was the one place she would NOT go for food. She'd not gotten anything so far, but that was OK. She would.....eventually.
The very sound of that word in her head made her stomach growel. She would have to start asking soon...
...swallowing her pride, she walked up to the first person that walked past. "Food, please?" She asked hopefully, holding out her hands. The man regretfully gave her a coin, but he informed her that if she wasn't so young....you get it.
Eli got good results, a bit of food, a coin, about one in five. The rest purposfully ignored her. Eli went up to the last person...after this she would go to the store.
"Food, please?" She asked, holding out her hands.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 12, 2004 21:42:47 GMT
Elizabeth weaved her way through the crowd of people in the market area. She kept her head down, to avoid drawing attention to herself. All she wanted to do was get back to the room she was living in with her supplies. She almost had enough gear to work on something that would get her back to her own world.
She looked up as someone asked her for food. She looked at the girl for a moment, puzzled.
"Umm... sorry, I don't have anything on me." She replied as she fished into her pocket. A small notebook fell out of her arms unnoticed as she handed over a few coins. "Here."
With that she headed off towards what was home for the moment.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 16, 2004 23:21:43 GMT
Eli watched her go, then turned back to the notebook. To her surprise, it had already been snatched by somebody.
"You snooze you lose!" The young boy cried triumphantly, the darted off.
"HEY!!" Eli cryed, chasing the boy. This boy knew the town well, but Eli was faster. She soon caught him and grabbed the book back.
"That was mine," she informed him.
The boy sighed and left.
Eli smiled to herself then went back to the street, flipping through the notebooks contents. It contained many words that she didn't understand, and it was dated so that it might have been a diary of sorts. Eli didn't understand this notebook at all, so she decided that she should return it. But not yet. Later on. It would take a while to find that person, and Eli didn't know the city. She would have to get some food first.
Eli folded the notebook and went around, looking for a place to buy some food. By the time she had found one, a nice looking bakery, the sun was going down and it was closed. She looked in longingly, but there was no use to it. The shopkeeper, however, was just leaving and tossed her an old, stale peice of bread. Eli made a face but started to eat it. Soon, however, another street rat came along and casually nicked it. This one was faster than her, and she didn't even bother chasing him. Eli sighed and, though she didn't want to, laid down near the bakery and fell asleep.
When she woke up, she found it was well past dawn. She thought back on the events of the day before, and muttered to herself, "It's just my luck to have none at all..." But now, the Bakery was open. Eli smiled and walked inside. There was a diferent shopkeeper than the day before, and he frowned at her. She gazed at him for a moment before asking how much a loaf of bread was.
"Five silver coins," he replied stiffly.
Eli smiled and gave him that much, grapped a loaf of bread, then left.
"Now..." she mussed. "Where to find that woman....hm...might as well start by looking."
And so she did look. She wandered about in the city for a while, looking for the woman, though she only vaguely remembered what she looked like.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 17, 2004 2:24:27 GMT
Elizabeth was walking quickly through the streets, keeping her eyes on the ground. She was retracing her steps to and from the shops she visited the day before. So far no luck. She wanted to find that book. The notes in there were important only to her, since many of them were for things this place didn't have yet, so it would have any value.
She sighed in annoyance as she left the last shop. All she had learned was that it wasn't in any of the shops. That meant she had dropped it on the street and by now some theif or homeless person had it. Or had sold it.
Elizabeth rubbed her forehead, feeling a sight headache coming on. Slowly she ran through every detail of the day before. Finally she figured out when she lost the book. It was when that beggar had stopped her. She smiled breifly as she squared her shoulders and looked around.
She started searching again, asking some of the beggars nearby if they had seen or know of a young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 17, 2004 2:47:27 GMT
The boy that had taken the notebook previosly heard someone describe another person, and he remembered...
"Hey, I saw someone like that!" He said. "She stole the book I got on the ground!"
Just then, Eli walked past. She had the notebook gripped tightly in on hand, and the boy promptly grabbed it again, and Eli spun around. "Hey!! Not you again!! GIVE THAT BACK!!"
But the boy had already taken off. Eli, without noticing the woman, promptly took off after him. Again. And this time the boy used his knowledge of the alleys to lose her, and it nearly worked. Though eventually she caught up as he grew short of breath and she got her second wind.
"This," Eli gasped, taking the book back, "is mine. There's nothing good in it, anyways," she confessed.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 17, 2004 7:33:31 GMT
Elizabeth chased after both children, a dark look on her face. Only her photogragphic memory kept her from becoming completely lost in the various alleys and back lanes.
She was also out of breath by the time she reached both, but she straightened abruptly and plucked the notebook out of the girl's hands from behind.
"Actually." She said, flipping through it briefly to make sure it hadn't been damaged. "It belongs to me. I dropped it yesterday when you asked me for food." She looked at the girl, the thin sunlight that managed to shine into the alley glinted off the metal implant on her right temple.
"I gave you three silver coins and a copper one."
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 17, 2004 19:11:25 GMT
Eli turned, and faced the very person she'd just been looking for.
"Yes! I found you!" She cried triumphantly. "I spent half the day looking for you just to return your little book -- and I've found you!!"
Eli looked closer at the womans face, noticing the glint of metal.
"What's that?" she asked, then, without waiting for the answer, asked, "and who are you? And what do the words in the book mean? And what are the pictures of..?"
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 18, 2004 1:07:47 GMT
Elizabeth looked at the girl sharply. "Slow down." she said firmly in an attempt to get her to be quiet. "Thank you for returning this. My name is Elizabeth Nore. This," she tapped the implant, "helps me make machines work. The words and pictures are my notes."
She raised an eyebrow, waiting to see what the girl would ask next.
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OOC: The implant is not magical ;D It's like a computer imbedded into her head.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 18, 2004 6:43:50 GMT
Eli thought through this for a moment, then asked, "you got any food today?"
It might have been a joke, I can't tell...
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 19, 2004 7:38:20 GMT
Elizabeth sighed. "No. I don't usually carry food as I chase kids through the back streets and alleys of a large city."
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 20, 2004 0:59:46 GMT
Eli snickered. "Sorry about that, but at least you got your book back, right? By the way, any idea where I can get free food? It seems to be....very expensive and....hard to get around here."
She was being slightly sarcastic, but ...you could only tell if you listened closly enough. What she meant was that she'd had a fun time, not as much entertainment in ages, and the food-sellers in this dump of a town were grumps who she never intended on seeing again.
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 21, 2004 5:59:45 GMT
"Yes. I guess that would be a good point for today." Elizabeth replied. She remembered what it was like for her when she first arrived to this place. She had been lucky that her skills could get her proper work.
"The only place I can think of that would give out free food would be a church or temple." she shrugged. Religion wasn't something she had ever bothered with.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 21, 2004 21:08:20 GMT
OOC: THINKING!! THINKING!! WE NEED A NEW PLOT! >.<
bic: "OK," Eli said, wondering where on earth the Churches and Temples were. Somewhere, obviosly. but where....?
OOC: any ideas?
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Post by rainlightlyn on Dec 21, 2004 23:45:56 GMT
OOC: I DUNNO!!! *frets*
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Elizabeth looked around for the boy who had tried to claim her notebook, but he had disappeared. She dissmissed him for the moment, so she started to turn away. She really wasn't one for conversations with people.
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Post by Vacancy on Dec 22, 2004 0:14:37 GMT
OOC:I'd say...bring in someone who wants to kill us......or you.............but that isn't very original, is it?
bic: Eli watched her turn, and then walk for a bit, then followed her, hoping she lived in a slightly less foreboding part of this city.
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