@Luxa

Nebula glanced at Mud and nodded slowly. She watched as he disappeared into his stone, and she quickly walked up to her own. "Well," she said to herself. "Here goes nothing." With that, she touched her nose to the stone and a tornado-like feeling swept up around her, until she could see or feel no longer.


@Immortallight, @Luxa

Landing shakily, Nebula looked around and found herself in the presence of two majestic Ryoris, her brother and sister if you will. She stalked over to Mud and kind of hid behind him. "Whats going on?" she asked softly. Nebula glanced at the Ryoris nervously.

Bum walked up in a respectful way to Galaxis,"Hello," he bowed his head,"I am Bum." Bum turned to Apraxis,"Hello" he bowed his head again,"Very nice to meet you both."

Maze bowed her head down. She wasn't the type to show respect to people she didn't know. But these sylestis were powerful. She should at least bow her head down. But Maze was not sniveling at their feet "My lord and lady. I am Mazer. You can call me Maze."

@ All

Mud heard Nebula softly walk up behind him and he watched Mazer and Bum walk up to and speak to the two powerful Ryoris. He looked around him at the various Sylesties. There was a fierce looking Griffi who reminded him of a barracuda, a Aeridini, who reminded Mud of a glowing fish he had seen, another Sylvorpa whom he thought looked like a flashy guppy, and of course Neko the transparent ghost like one who was looking at him expectantly.

As Nebula asked in what was happening in a soft voice and he looked around himself. He had gone through the portal and now there was no turning back. He looked at the pair of mystical Ryoris and was entranced by the patterns flowing on them. He glanced around himself, trying gathering information about what was going on and slowly walked forward silently on his webbed feet. As the two Ryoris looked at him he smiled. They were very pretty, the swirling patterns on them captureing his attention him. He shook his head a little to clear it and spoke in a steady voice,

"Hello. I am Mud. I feel as if I should know who you two are, but it feels like I'm looking at something's reflection rippling on water and can't quiet remember." He bowed his head then looked at their shining coats. When neither of them said anything but merely bowed their heads he walked back to where the others were and then went back to gazing with wonder at the their beauty. He could feel that they were something more then what he knew, and he wondered what magical world he had entered.

Nebula watched as Mud introduced himself, and waited until he was done. When he finished, the Ryori stepped forward quietly and bowed her head. "Hello, I.." she faltered, glancing at everyone, before finishing. "I am Nebula, it's nice to meet you." With that, she backed up again and looked at the ground.

Neko's mind took a detour as he realized the meaning of the Guards words. "We must pass a test to continue or leave?" He looked around at the others still coming to their own conclusions of the trip they had taken and what their eye's were seeing before them.

Apraxis

"Yes, in order to ensure those passing into this realm have knowledgeable and noble intentions here, we have one riddle and one task that each of you must pass in order too continue without either turning back, or facing my mate and I in battle."The old Ryori smirked, looking to the bold Aeridini and the very well spoken Sylvorpa he'd found, was named Mud.

Neko hadn't known this.. he hadn't seen them practice this in his visions of their ancestors passing through their Runes.. "I see, may I have a few moments to dicuss this with my group?" He glanced back at them again, his knowledge of what was coming and what they had to face now, meant preparing his comrades.

"Of course, choose your paths carefully.." He warned them all.

(Each of you must answer a riddle, and RP a task given to you at the BEST of your writing abilities. If you fail, you will have to turn back or choose to fight the Guardians. Though I must remind you, they're much more powerful than even myself. In order for Myself too pass through, I will be given the task of accompanying each of you in a 'familiar form' on your own tasks, though for obvious reasons cannot aid you in your Riddles. If you'd like to opt out of any options and discontinue your part in the RP I completely understand! I will also be posting a 'breif report' on the storyline so far to give you a clue [if you need it] on where we're going next! Also, with each move on there will be a new Sylesti we meet, they will have character pictures, their own dialogues and the places we visit will have images to enhance your creativity! :-) )

(Um, I am not leaving this RP no way. This it too fun to leave=])

@ All

Mud looked at Neko. For some reason he didn't feel scared but excited. He tried to sit still and look solemn like everyone else but he felt like this was going to be a chance to have an adventure. Mud hoped that none of the others would be too scared to go through it, after all they were in a whole different world and who knows if there was a way to get back to there own one.

He also didn't want to face the two 'guardians' in battle. They were so majestic, and even if he did have to fight them he would never truly want to hurt them. He couldn't tell if they were good or bad, and he suspected it might be somewhere in between or neutral.

Neko had said talk with the group right? Talking was good, action was good, to much talking was bad, but he wanted to give his opinion. "I still want to go forward," said Mud. "I don't know all of you very well, or maybe I don't know you at all...but we're connected by who our ancestors were. And....well that's pretty much it. I can't think of anything else to say" Mud flicked his tail and sat down and started looking at all the different Sylesties in his group, his mind wondering and he started daydreaming about all the pretty patterns.

(In the Sign-Up thread where you explained all of this, like the world and what we're doing here, can we pretend that Neko just told us all it so we can talk about what we're going to be doing and not mention something we shouldn't know because Neko didn't tell us in the RP yet? If that even makes any sense.)

(Indeed! As I have given the heads up it should cut down the need for explaining in the RP here. So, if Mud is ready his Riddle and Task can start now?)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

If you have ever seen the movie the Hobbit you will know this answer. If you need a 'move on' you only have ONE before the Riddle has been failed and your Task goes up to two.
(In order to make up for the Riddle.)

Bilbo and Gollum were playing a riddle game where Bilbos life is at stake. Gollum asks him the following riddle whereby he will be awarded safe passage from the tunnel if he gets it right.

Apraxis and Galaxis

Riddle: This is a thing that is devoured by all things; flowers, trees, beasts, birds; bites steel, gnaws iron; grinds hard stone to meal; beats mountain down, ruins town and slays king. What is it?