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- United States
[X] 15 (+2 skill)
[X] Singing
Not sure if too late.
[X] Singing
Not sure if too late.
A Tree in a Dungeon, SV, You Chose This!
- Thread starter Crawkid
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
I am young at heart
Crawkid
Lover of quests and community
- Location
- holed up in my room
"Well, actually...you were right about the gardening. And I think I'd like my tree to be relatively young..."
Well very...let's see...ah. Here we go.
The beach below you has returned to normal, the scene of your death all but wiped away as your replacement takes the seat to watch over the beach goers. The woman and her friends have moved on, supposedly gone home. It was like nothing happened.
But soon, the scene fades to another location. A much darker area. Some sort of stone, underground room. The only way to see in it is some light let in by a hole in the back corner, worn away by the elements. At the edge of the light, you can barely see a young tree, roots desperately zigzagging between the bricks that make up the floor, lucky enough that rain and water often finds its way down here, enough to have lived on until it could find the crack that allowed it to dig down. As you can tell days and nights pass, you can see the roots grow stronger, practically ripping up the floor around it in a desperate search for a foot hold. There it gathers nutrition, aided by occasionally finding the bones of whoever used to be kept prisoner there. The bed they had laid on was also an excellent find, for it absorbed and held water wonderfully. And as it gathered its nutrition over time, so too did it use it to desperately grow towards the light. When the passing of days and nights slowed down to what you assumed was present day, you saw a tree that had grown sideways and up, in a somewhat S-like shape, but its leaves were beautifully spread out. No doubt, still desperately trying to seep in as much sun as possible. Its fought wonderfully hard to survive, but you can tell it still needs more.
A moment longer, and you can feel an energy jolt through you, and get pulled down towards the tree.
You've been connected; that is your tree now. Your home, and your other half. Our time together has almost come to an end, little one. All that's left is to choose your one skill, and give me a name to find you by later.
Question 7. You've chosen to be a younger dryad, so I can only fairly give you one more skill. Let's see...these are probably some good choices..
[] Photosynthesis (Passive)
[] Protective Thorns (Toggle)
[] Nimble Roots (Active)
[] Nature Walk (Active)
Question 8. Finally...what's your name?
[] Write in
Well very...let's see...ah. Here we go.
The beach below you has returned to normal, the scene of your death all but wiped away as your replacement takes the seat to watch over the beach goers. The woman and her friends have moved on, supposedly gone home. It was like nothing happened.
But soon, the scene fades to another location. A much darker area. Some sort of stone, underground room. The only way to see in it is some light let in by a hole in the back corner, worn away by the elements. At the edge of the light, you can barely see a young tree, roots desperately zigzagging between the bricks that make up the floor, lucky enough that rain and water often finds its way down here, enough to have lived on until it could find the crack that allowed it to dig down. As you can tell days and nights pass, you can see the roots grow stronger, practically ripping up the floor around it in a desperate search for a foot hold. There it gathers nutrition, aided by occasionally finding the bones of whoever used to be kept prisoner there. The bed they had laid on was also an excellent find, for it absorbed and held water wonderfully. And as it gathered its nutrition over time, so too did it use it to desperately grow towards the light. When the passing of days and nights slowed down to what you assumed was present day, you saw a tree that had grown sideways and up, in a somewhat S-like shape, but its leaves were beautifully spread out. No doubt, still desperately trying to seep in as much sun as possible. Its fought wonderfully hard to survive, but you can tell it still needs more.
A moment longer, and you can feel an energy jolt through you, and get pulled down towards the tree.
You've been connected; that is your tree now. Your home, and your other half. Our time together has almost come to an end, little one. All that's left is to choose your one skill, and give me a name to find you by later.
Question 7. You've chosen to be a younger dryad, so I can only fairly give you one more skill. Let's see...these are probably some good choices..
[] Photosynthesis (Passive)
[] Protective Thorns (Toggle)
[] Nimble Roots (Active)
[] Nature Walk (Active)
Question 8. Finally...what's your name?
[] Write in
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Crawkid
Lover of quests and community
- Location
- holed up in my room
1. As a dryad, your health is connected to your tree. Your tree naturally photosynthesizes, so theres actually no need to eat at all, if you want to rely on that one food source
2. You have another eating based skill, wich allows for your humanoid body to consume non- water and non- vegetative materials
This skill is put here for incase you want your humanoid body to passively produce energy as well as what your tree already creates
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- Pronouns
- She
What type or species of tree are we bound to?
There are 4 Greek types of Dryads.
Daphnaie - dryads of laurel trees
Names - Daphne?
Maliades, Meliades or Epimelides - dryads of apple and other fruit trees.
Names - Melody?
Hamadryad - dryads associated with Oak trees.
Names - ???
Meliae - dryads of ash trees.
Names - Melanie?
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PaarSiivOnikaan
Resting on a pile of books
- Location
- Germany
[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
We probably can spread our roots faster and if I understand the ability right, we could catch small animals with them, either by ensnaring them or forming roots into traps.
And names... I think I will wait a bit if someone else has a good idea, because I don't.
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[X] Aldea
We probably can spread our roots faster and if I understand the ability right, we could catch small animals with them, either by ensnaring them or forming roots into traps.
And names... I think I will wait a bit if someone else has a good idea, because I don't.
Edit:
[X] Aldea
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Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
] Hama
Eternal_0bserver
(Unverified Bookworm)
- Location
- Earth, Northern Europe
[X] Nature Walk (Active)
As for the names ...
Dryads of ash trees - Ashley.
Dryads associated with Oak trees - Ayla, Elia.
Dryads of laurel trees - Laurel, Lorena.
Dryads of apple... Apple?
[X] Ashley
[X] Elia
As for the names ...
Dryads of ash trees - Ashley.
Dryads associated with Oak trees - Ayla, Elia.
Dryads of laurel trees - Laurel, Lorena.
Dryads of apple... Apple?
[X] Ashley
[X] Elia
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- Location
- United States
[x] Nature Walk (Active)
[X] Rosa Malus
Apples are in the Rosaceae family, basicly I just looked at 2 wiki articles for a name.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
[X] Rosa Malus
Apples are in the Rosaceae family, basicly I just looked at 2 wiki articles for a name.
Malus sieversii - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Rosaceae - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Crawkid
Lover of quests and community
- Location
- holed up in my room
None of these- technically. However, the dryad form im most familiar with, and what I think is most common in writing, is the oak one. Hamadryad...though i will say the tree isnt oak. For reasons, its an alder.
Thats the technicality
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[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
[X] Maye
[X] Maye
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Ryumancer
Dragons Are Romance
the comma at the end of (active) will screw up the vote and count it as separate from other, non-comma'd Nimble Roots votes. Might want to fix that.
[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
That said... my vote for this is primarily because I feel that not only is spreading further, which other people mentioned, a good idea... but ALSO because we can use it to set up traps. It's not quite as versatile as vines for trapmaking, but having someone step into a root noose, and have it naturally tighten when they try stepping out of it, because noose...
Hmm, name ideas.
Alder - Aldrea?
Alder Tree - Altrea? Altea/Altaea?
Genus Alnus - Alna? Alaena/Alayna?
Family Betulaceae(Birch) - Betty?
Surnames for medieval/fantasy commoners would often be their birthplace or home village.
'Carr' could be our surname? (Alder Carr)
Alder - Aldrea?
Alder Tree - Altrea? Altea/Altaea?
Genus Alnus - Alna? Alaena/Alayna?
Family Betulaceae(Birch) - Betty?
Surnames for medieval/fantasy commoners would often be their birthplace or home village.
'Carr' could be our surname? (Alder Carr)
- Location
- Peterborough
[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
[X] Ashley
[X] Ashley
[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
[X] Nature Walk (Active)
[X] Aldea/Aldaea Carr
Aldea/Aldaea = Alder + Althea/Althaea
Carr = (English) bog/marsh/fen, (Old English) stone/rock, Alder Carr.
[X] Nature Walk (Active)
[X] Aldea/Aldaea Carr
Aldea/Aldaea = Alder + Althea/Althaea
Althea/Althaea = female name (Greek), means 'healing'. Also a plant species.
Carr = (English) bog/marsh/fen, (Old English) stone/rock, Alder Carr.
[X] Nimble Roots (Active)
[X] Ouri
[X] Ouri