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Post by (~Silentstar~) on May 8, 2008 17:49:43 GMT -5
Ok, go to youtube.com/fred
they have really funny videos! i couldn't stop laughing!
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Post by Badgerstar on May 20, 2008 16:34:14 GMT -5
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Post by (~Silentstar~) on May 21, 2008 1:39:28 GMT -5
yea, thats funny!
and on fred on the 4th, it funny when he's muttering to himself about how "fine ill get out of ur yard, i dont get the big deal" or sumthing like that, it reminded me of one of my friends Nathan. its just something i can imagine him saying! lol
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Post by Badgerstar on May 22, 2008 17:20:11 GMT -5
and fred at the park "your mom is loser your mom is loser *slowmo*your mom is loser!
it was soooo funny
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Post by Bear on Aug 31, 2013 12:35:12 GMT -5
The city was a clashing mix of Edge. Shops stood next to homes which stood next to farms and stables and workshops. There were people and horses everywhere, carts strapped haphazardly with wood, stone and bricks or hay or clothes or food. There was smoke everywhere drifting through the sky and seeming to create a permanent dark cloud above the city. There was no order to the city, main roads stopped at dead ends and continued through tiny alleyways almost hidden between buildings. Two parallel roads went completely different directions and there were frequent footbridges with nothing underneath them. Gerran weaved them expertly through the streets following the strangest routes to the simplest of places. Renders, horses and packages of supplies were dropped off at different buildings while Emen, Baard, Merri and the other Sundered and Halcyn of Dragonyth and Eytal followed in confusion. Gerran stopped them at one of the largest buildings in Rend. It took up a whole street of its own with buildings on both sides and bridges connecting the two suspended in the air. "Go inside, you'll be given your land and duties," he said gruffly. Baard and Merri were evicted from the coach, Emen had her brown mare taken off her, her wooden chest and pack left on the floor, and the Render promptly abandoned them to their fate. Only the man from Everything stayed with them on his gelding. He began to strap Emen's chest to his horse and waved them inside. Baard and his striped black and white horse went first, shambling up a small flight of steps to the simple wooden double doors. Emen took Merri's hand and followed him. She hadn't gotten close to the other people from Dragonyth and Eytal and only checked to make sure they followed. The inside of the building was a harsh contrast to the mixed state of Rend. Everything matched and co-ordinated. Candle-lit pillars lined the sides of a dark carpeted walkway, leading them to another room further inside. A few people moved around in the shadows but none paid them any mind. Paintings covered the walls, depicting Enders, people and various interpretations of Rend. The next room they entered seemed to Emen like a library. Books, scrolls, ink, quills and parchment littered the room in a state of organised chaos. Two people, a man and a woman who both looked very similar, were hunched over their own sheets of parchment scribbling across the page. The woman looked up as they entered and waved them over. "I'm Teo, I'm going to register you and assign you your own room and give you your jobs. First you'll need to go talk to Jiceo so he can assess you," she explained rather rapidly. The man nodded and beckoned for Merri to follow him. She reluctantly left Emen's side and the two disappeared into a small windowed room tucked into the corner. Jiceo spoke to Merri for only a few minutes before ejecting her and summoning Baard. Merri was sent to the woman, Teo, and they whispered to each other for a while before Merri was sent from the room. The two continued this way, Teo calling each person in the room to talk and then sending them to Teo until only Emen remained. Jiceo waited in the small room for Emen and Lario. He waved them to a comfy chair beside a fire. Lario promptly sat directly in front of it, blocking the warmth. "What is your name?" Jiceo asked. "Emen Delaass," she replied. "How old are you Emen?" "Nineteen." "Where do you come from?" he asked, writing her responses on a sheet of parchment. His quill was a white feather tinged with gold. It reminded her of the Ender Festival. "Everything." He nodded and wrote. "How many people lived in your house in Everything?" "I lived with my mother, my father, my brother and two sisters," she said. The questions were not what she had been expecting and she wondered how personal they were going to get. "Have you ever worked?" "I worked in a stables for several years and then as a seamstress," she said. She'd enjoyed her time as a stable hand far more, but fixing clothes with her mother brought in more money. Her brother couldn't afford to follow his dreams of painting, she couldn't follow her own. "Very good. Thank you Emen. You need to go and see Teo, she'll guide you to your room," he left his chair and held the door open for her, giving her no choice but to leave. She found Teo in the same place she'd been when they'd first entered the room, hunched over another scroll and writing. She too had a white feather tinged with gold. The sight made her nervous and she wanted nothing more than to rip the feather from her grasp and stamp it into the ground. "Everyone in Rend gets their own room. You'll sleep on your own but have to share everything else with the other people in your building. We'll give you a few days to settle in then you'll have to start working - a place this size doesn't run on nothing. You'll help build houses for the new people that arrive each year, plant vegetables, tend to our cattle and other jobs specific to your skill set. Your room will be near the people you travelled with, the old man and the girl," she explained. Emen was relieved to hear that she would be close to Baard and Merri. The rest had been what she was expecting. She didn't mind the thought of working for her room and looked forward to being busy rather than spending all day in the saddle staring at the back of another horse, the carriage or the coach. As she was the last person, Teo escorted Emen to her room. They travelled through so many streets and took so many turns that Emen was disoriented and knew she wouldn't be able to find her way back. She noticed signs nailed to the walls but they were written in a strange language. Her brother had taught her to read and write - she hadn't questioned where he'd learned - but she had never been very good and as she'd only ever written to him in practice she wasn't entirely sure he'd been teaching her a real language. The house she stopped at was dizzyingly high. It seemed to Emen that it touched the clouds. On one side were more houses, most were the same size on the current street. From what she could tell the newer buildings were far more orderly than the older sections of the city. To the other side was a half-built copy of the rest of the street. At the very end Emen could see some cows grazing in a field, and another planted with wheat. Teo hurried inside, the downstairs was one giant room filled with tables and chairs and a fireplace in one corner. Several people were sitting beside the fire and laughing. Teo ignored them and instead led her up several flights of stairs before stopping. Emen noticed a symbol on the wall and memorised it so she wouldn't spend her time wandering the halls searching for the right room. They walked through a corridor filled with doors and candles before Teo stopped. The door had a different symbol painted on it in fresh red paint. Emen made sure to memorise that one too. Once she'd unlocked the door, Teo handed the key to Emen. "This is your room. You're free to do what you like with it but you won't be given another one. If you so choose you can build your own house in land to the west or south but you'll have to organise it by yourself and pay for your own materials. You'll be provided with two meals a day at any of the taverns in the city. Anything else you want you'll have to pay for yourself and you do not have to eat the meals provided for you. If you have any questions return to the assessment centre we left and someone there will help you. Tomorrow morning you'll need to go back to the assessment centre to find out your jobs. If you don't do all the work given to you each day you won't be allowed to live in Rend. We can't afford to keep lazy people," once she'd finished her speech Teo smiled, waved and left. Emen looked around the room - it was literally a room. A bed took up most of the floor space but it seemed comfortable enough. After sleeping on the cold ground for weeks Emen was simply grateful for a mattress. A cupboard stood in one corner and she spotted a small window and seat in another. There was also an empty fireplace and a metal bath tucked out of the way. Her wooden chest was at the foot of her bed and on top of it rested her pack. "This is cosy," Lario said flatly. "Do you know how to build a house?" Emen asked him. For something to do she began to put her clothes into the cupboard. "No. No I don't."
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