1st spear thrown: [Video In which Nephenee somehow managed to figure out the journal stuff...sorta

[shysentinel]

[After many hours of trial and error, Nephenee finally figured some of this strange place out. The one thing that was still giving her trouble was the computer. How did the magic lighted box work, anyhow? In any case, she managed to at least get the video going. Too bad she hadn't a clue how to use it...

Have a confused looking soldier staring at you, folks.]

Uh, I guess this thing's workin'? I suppose I should say somethin'...

Um, m-my name's Nephenee. I just got here from Tellius.
This place is so big and different... I ain't sure what's what, even.

[annnnd she has no idea what else to say]

Comments

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

Trust me, once you get the hang of it, you'll find you're using them without even thinking about it.

Sure - Go ahead.

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

I sure hope so. Guess I jus gotta practice with em.

Well...I'm trying to find out what ya are. Not ta be rude or nothing! Jus never seen something like ya before.

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

Not surprising - I'm an Echidna. I'm the last one, so, you're not gonna see any more of my kind around. You might see some folks who kinda LOOK like Echidna, but they're Hedgehogs. Totally different.

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

Really? That's sad. One of the laguz tribes, the Herons, is real rare too, where I come from. Can I ask what happened?

[monotreme-101.livejournal.com]

It's a long story, but I'll try be brief.

Used to be two Echidna tribes that between them, ruled most of the world. The tribe of my ancestors and one other called the Nocturne.

The Nocturne were all about Technology. Eventually they got too big for their britches n some God or another removed them from the world, sealing them in an alternate universe called the Twilight Cage. I got to meet an Echidna who made her way back from there once.... the tech she used couldn't keep her here, though.

My own tribe? Too power hungry and warlike. With the Nocturne gone, they saw no reason they couldn't take it all... so, they sought power wherever they could find it. Eventually, they angered another God by committing a mindless slaughter of it's children. That God rose up against them and in it's anger, destroyed all but a few of my ancestors.

Over the thousands of years between now and then, the Echidna numbers became less and less and less allowing Humans to fill in thier place and become a great civilisation in their own right. My own parents dissapeared before I even hatched, leaving me to enter the world alone.

[shysentinel.livejournal.com]

...wow. I'm...sorry, I shouldn't have asked...

I just helped fight a goddess not long ago. I kind of can relate I guess.