[Video] In which phoenixes pirates and countries alike go exploring

[fierybluebird]

Did you know there's a bird of prey called a secretary bird for how ridiculous it looks? It's actually extremely dangerous though. Its legs are so powerful that rather than divebombing enemy like a falcon or eagle or strange bird pinky -- [Wait, what was that last one? Yeah screw your normal birds, One Piece has weird things as you might know from the rapahn.] -- Instead a secretary bird uses its wings for balance and kicks snakes to death. For fun since snakes are shitty prey. I always thought that was a pretty cool fighting style.

Speaking of birds of prey, can anyone tell me more about birds in their world? Or mythological ones? Phoenixes, dragons, rocs, thunderbirds, anything like that, eh?

We're about 2 days out of Discedo now, and I've decided to completely map out the lake for Kiku's map program, eh. There are plenty of explorers in my world, technically the first pirate king started out that way even. But I'm wondering about everyone else's explorers. Is the world you come from all explored? Who first ventured to those far unknown reaches? Come on, I'm sure at least some of you have that adventurer's blood in your veins, eh?

Oh, and everyone in Spero, don't forget Ace is captain!

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[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

feather cheep beasts
i dont knoww
i dont really see them much wwhere i livved on alternia
but wwevve got all kinds of beasts
dragons wwizards (theyre fake though) giant sea creatures... musclebeasts
i dont really pay much attention for these things

i paid more attention to the stories and legends
i can tell you about the summoner though
hes related to beasts

[fierybluebird]

Tell me all you know.

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

wwell hes said to havve commanded an army of beasts
but wwhen endurin the trials of the olden days he climbed the ranks of cavvalreapers and became their leader
in the process of pupation it is said that hed growwn wwings
wwhich is all sorts of mythicals to us
especially so since he is a commonly seen common blood but
its said he made a rebellion against the high bloods
the likes of wwhich the highbloods did crush

because of the summoners rebellion the empress of the time banished evveryone from alternia and made them go out and conquer the stars
evveryone savve for the young that is
i suppose the empress did this to keep evveryone occupied
you knoww
the adults fightin for the glory of the planet
and the young bein too busy growwin up to do just that
it kept any other coups from happenin anywwyas

but thats his legacy
our homewworld dominated by the youth of our race

[fierybluebird]

Wow. That's pretty badass, eh?

So why was he fighting the high bloods, any idea?

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

probably to break tradition
i mean if the legend is true
he had wwings for fucks sakes
it isnt evveryday you hear a troll pupatin wwings
i mean its common for mutations to occur but that wwas no ordinary mutation
and the fact he wwasnt culled is remarkable
i mean the only mutations generally accepted are gills and fins but
thats inherited wwith blood so theres somethin in the blood
question is
if its recessivve then the wwings got lost in the huge incest slurry of genetic material and wwont resurface for another couple of centuries

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

but goin back to my story
he probably wwanted a place among the grand highbloods
i mean
wwings marco
wwings

[fierybluebird]

I understand kiddo, I've got wings, remember?

Not that I've exactly been on a mission to eliminate all the tenryuubito though... that'd just be a huge headache. Besides, in my case, just because they're royalty doesn't mean they can fly. Or touch me.

So do the troll young ever find out what happened to their ancestors exploring the rest of the stars?

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

all the time
i mean the imperial ship has to come back to pick us up sometime
so wwe alwways get to hear stories
at least those accepted by the queen or rumors that get past her

but wwed nevver be able to find out wwho our ancestors are
i mean theres some guess wwork
and some ancestors leavve their legacy behind for you

but youd nevver knoww it

for all i knoww i could havve been the genetic mix of a kismesis relationship between twwo blue bloods
or a matespirt relationship between the fondess sea dwwellers

[fierybluebird]

Well, I don't mean of the ancestry lines themselves, to me my father will always be the man who adopted me, eh? And my blood beyond that doesn't matter.

I was a little more curious about the stars got conquered, eh?

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

huh
wwell i wwouldnt exactly call my caregivver a parent

wwhen i mean stars i mean planets and their stories
you conquer a planet
the stars are yours

[fierybluebird]

Why not?

Heh, I suppose that makes sense, eh. I wouldn't mind sailing the stars. Although exploring just the islands is quite a task in my world.