festival in Louyang ~ CNY special :D

"hey, this doesnt look like Morroc at all... ="= " Sate observed, looking at the ancient fortress' wall.

"well, Morroc is walled like a fortress you know..." the dreamy voice of a young acolyte trailed off upon the look in Sate's pale blue eyes.

"dun tell me you've wrapped us to a wrong place again!" Sate is furious and the dagger in his hand is now treateningly close to the acolyte's smooth neck.

"bullying Ami again? this is not how you should treat a young lady." Grass put a knuckle onto Sate's head. he yelled out in pain and shot Grass an annoyed look while lowering his dagger, trying to make Grass see that the girl should learn her lesson for randomly wrapping ppl to unwanted destinations. Ami had already wrapped him to Lutie. when Sate found the acolyte in the inn where they bunked in Lutie, and was trying to make the girl pay for it, Ami had offer to make amendments by wrapping them to Morroc for real. but it seemed that the acolyte had not really mastered the wrap portal skill yet...

at that moment, the near dark sky suddenly burst out of flames of every colour imaginable. fireworks. some with sparks that twinkles like a thousand stars, some will trailing tails as long as a comets, some took de shape of exotic flowers, some are like firebirds freed from their cage dashing in all directions, some like fairies soaring gracefully across the night sky, and others... all eight eyes of Ami's, Sate's, Grass' and Ai's were locked onto the magnificient show.

someone suddenly muttered that they must be in Louyang. but the fireworks was so breath taking tht no one paid de words more attention than just taking the meaning of them in. the great show lasted more than 15mins and was concluded by a giant fire dragon twisting and dancing and suddenly bursting into a million gold coins before their eyes. they could hear a loud roar and applaus from within the fortress. a huge celebration was going on.

"wow, that was really something O.O" Sate was in awe. he had totally forgot his wrath over Ami.

"we've been forgetting the dates, it is chinese new year eve! we use the lunar calendar in Payon too ^^" Ai explained. she went on to tell them that she'd heard about the huge festive celebration and the splendid fireworks in Louyang this time of the year since she was a girl. and none of the captivating stories from the few travellers who did get to Louyang during the festivals had done justice to the performance they'd just witnessed.

the party agreed to spend the night in the city to enjoy the festival. Sate suddenly thought he'd caught a sly grin on Ai's face. was it a sly grin? on Ai's face? the nice and lovely Ai? he shook his head and dismissed it.

the streets of the city is lighted by red lanterns, big and small, and in all sorts of designs. some fully round, some cylindrical, some egg like, some in rectangular blocks. red papers scribed with foreign characters in black ink decorates most of the doors of the houses. Ai explained that they are for blessings and good fortune, and enlightened them with all the unfamiliar things they encountered along the walk. but the streets themselves were deserted. Ai said evone would be in the raised stage infront of the carved stone wall in the heart of the city. so there was where they went anticipatingly.

as they got closer to the central, the buzzing of a crowd got louder. there were even sounds of drums and gongs and musics foreign to most of them. they turned a corner, and suddenly two dancing dragon sprang into their view.

dancing dragons

"MONSTERS!!" Sate shouted and fled behind Grass, dagger drawn. the arc wand was in Ami's hand, she now stands behind Grass too, shaking slightly but eyes filled with determination. Grass himself was in shock. behind the dancing dragons were a group of munaks, bonguns and hyeguns. a rough count said there were nine of them. and beside that group was a few limemangryangs lurking about. Grass lifted his morning star in a stance of defence, protecting his two younger companions. his heart dropped in dismay when he saw the fair and graceful bacsojin on the brightly decorated main stage, with chung-e and a civil servant flanking her sides. it was a festival for monsters.

munak and bongun ^^

hyegun


more monsters that were scattered around the stage now gathers towards them. but the biggest shock for him came when he turned his head slightly aside to see if Ai is ok. he found her relax in her posture, even a mocking smile playing on her lips, looking at all three of them. he could not fathom the situation. no. surely not. Ai cant be a spy? no!

the crowd of monster was closing in slowly. the group of chinese undeads with amulets on their foreheads had moved behind them and rounded them. the few moments were like years as Sate remembered it. he and Ami were now back to back with Grass to face them. the mob infront of the stage splited in the middle to let the beautiful royal lady and her servants come thru. the cat faced civil servant stepped infront of his mistress and drew nearer. two more steps, two more steps and he would be in striking distance, Grass measured. he would need Ai's attacking power with the bow, but it doesnt seem wise to be counting on it now. no, in fact he should be wary of her. he couldn't believe it. all these years together, all these years that they've known each other. he even thought she loved him.

bacsojin

civil servant

chung-e


the civil servant stopped just outside his attacking range. and bowed. he threw his paper fan open and started,
"humans, my mistress bacsojin and her people welcome you to Louyang on this day." at the sound of that, the two dancing dragon sprang alive with drums and gongs, dancing in welcoming gestures of bows and high spirit. four horongs let out more fireworks in smaller scales. two brightly coloured fire butterflies welcoming the two female guests and two fire phoenix for the males. as these was done, the civil servant continue,
"let us monsters and humans forget our war and be at peace for this day. we offer you our full hospitality." he finished his short welcoming speech with another bow and went back to his mistress' side. bacsojin gave the human party a nod of welcome and Ai bowed back at her. seeing this, all three of the others hestitantly copied her move and bowed stiffly to the monster lady. she went quietly back to her place at the high stage.

A dumpling child ran to the side of Ami and handed her a dumpling skewer. he lolled his tongue at her and ran off before she'd even recovered from the shock. Sate and Grass were still blinking in disbelieve while Ai was grinning at them.

dumpling child


"you knew it! why din you tell us!" Sate suddenly demanded.

"well, i thought it would be a pleasant surprise, was it not?" she smiled affablely to them all. all three sighed in resignation.

the dumpling child was then back with them again, this time handing another dumpling skewer to Sate. he then ran to walk hand in hand back to them with an old man floating on a cloud. a cloud with a face. a taoist hermit ="= and a wild ginseng following them... the three who'd never heard of this monster festival before that day sweated feverously. /swt

taoist hermit


"hey, how nice to see humans here again, it had been three years since any of you came." the taoist hermit greeted them. they replied as civilly as they could. and Ai doing most of the talking as the others were still positively uncomfortable. the taoist hermit told them they floated there all the way from Gonryun, on his faced cloud, to join the festival every year. when the important evil snake lord and evil nymph came to express their welcome and joined their conversation, Grass thought he'd had too much and decided to take the younger ones away for a walk.

evil snake lord, also a taoist ah...


(hi, it's your friendly explaner again~ evil snake lord is a very powerful and formidable MVP monster of Gonryun. bacsojin is a half boss in Louyang. as you might have guessed, we thought Gonryun is 昆仑 and there is no reason to not suspect that Louyang is actually 洛阳 ^^ ah, and horong is simply a ghost fire monster ^^)

the dumpling child had asked for leave from the taoist hermit to follow Ami and Sate. his unlimited supply of delicious dumplings that seemed to materialize in air had bought him the hungry duo's friendship. he was soon showing them around the stalls that was set up surrounding the main stage. the civil servant was now pacing with one hand behind his back and another fanning his paper fan slowly, telling a story from the ancient days. they said de story was called 'the journey to the west'; chung-e was performing a puppet show, with her spirit and her body playing two different marionettes; horongs with their fire shows; dancing dragons rolling up and down the streets; numerous food stalls, lantern stalls, game stalls, fortune telling stalls and all kinds of fun that neither Ami nor Sate had ever imagined.

Grass shook his head in disbelieve at how easily the children had blended in. he walked sololy on the alien streets and bumped into a group of chinese undeads. he tried to smile but found his face frozen and the smile awkward. as he was slowly backing away and tried to flee, a hyegun thrown his arms around his shoulder and pushed a tawny ceramic bottle into his hands.

"try it. it's gao liang, you'll like it." the hyegun offered. Grass couldnt see the monster's face as it was concealed by his long hair. and the amulet sticking out on the side of his head made him all de more spooky and frightening. a bongun urged him to drink up. he didnt know wot the heck gao liang was but he didnt want to offend a whole gang of chinese undeads. so he obediently did.

he felt the liquid burn in his tongue and throat as he swallowed it. "alcohol?" he asked. the amulet caught the wind and flipped, and Grass saw his companion's bloodlessly pale handsome face as the bongun nodded. the liquor burned strongly but Grass liked the way it warmed his stomach. he gave his companions his appreciation.

"come, we shall be ashamed if you are not well fed and entertained this night. follow us, there is food a plenty here." the hyegun half dragged Grass to the food street and filled his stomach with a kind of well cooked gravied pork dish they called 'east hill meat', something that reminded him of squashed meat balls coated and bbqed with honey which they called 'meat dry', some delicacy that tasted like fried seaweeds, a kind of yam paste desert, and off the bests, a kind of soup they called 'god jump wall'. fruits seemed to be mainly consist of pomelos, mandarin oranges and enchanted peaches from Gonryun.

Grass was soon drinking more gao liang and teaching the chinese undeads his gambling tricks with guli's while they generally complained about how hard life was in the underworld. later hours found hyegun asking him if he would be interested in a visit to the 'green homes', which he understood to be where man could burn underworld money for private services of munaks ="= he sweated heavily...

midnight brought all monsters and ppl back to the main stage. they were told there would be a mass prayer. lighted incenses was passed out to everyone. all held their own between their closed palms infront of their chests. lady bacsojin herself had three insences in her palms and the evil snake lord was standing beside her with another three. they lead, and the monster crowd muttered quiet prayers in their own language. the four humans mimiced. it was unnerving to see how the monsters practise some ceremonies so human-like. Grass suddenly thought that they are not so different from human after all.

when the prayer ended, a fresh field of fireworks were set ablaze by a mass of horongs, almost making the night as bright as day. these were shaped like flower buds, like young stems unfolding from their seeds, like tender baby animals crawling out of their egg shells, it was a celebration of the arrival of spring. the priest was left stunned, amazed by the wonderful creation of the kind which humans had always dispised and warred with.

shortly after the ceremony, Grass took leave from his company when Ai came looking for him. together, they found the three kids asleep, head leaning against each other on the meadow beside the water way. the taoist hermit came shortly after them, the wild ginseng still trotting behind him. they carried the two human children on their backs, and the taoist hermit floated the dumpling child off after they said good night to each other.

the temporary tents the monsters set up for them was on the other side of the meadow by the water way. Ai and Grass sat side by side outside the tent where the children slept. they were facing the water and enjoying the warm southern wind of spring. Ai leaned against Grass' broad chest as they watched the wind stir ripples on the water. her face glowed red at the reflection of the red lanterns. she closed her eyes and was grateful for the tranquility.

"happy chinese new year." she whispered, before falling into a peaceful and dreamless sleep.

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yo! i decide to escape my bed and write XD

Ami is again anO + kimi, gan dong? haha
nO, why u wrapped me to Lutie? XD

my 'kind' and 'considering' bro had tempted me with all de food they are having at home and de CNY banquet they had which included 'god jump wall' T.T de only thing i could do about it is to plunge myself into fantasy of good food and good company (of monsters) lo T.T

nola, actually i quite enjoy my CNY eve :D de day was mild enough with clear sky and sun. i spent it looking for ingredients all around for cooking dumpling soup. i couldnt find chinese cabbage for a long while... when de dumplings are finally ready, i gave karin a big bowl and then smuggled de rest to share with yean in school. we then had some coffee and tea and cookies for desert. simple eh? ^^ then we went to play pool in de union house. and finally at 10pm we went to book a table for 7 in a chinese restaurant for tomorrow. it will be the first time i eat in a proper chinese restaurant in gothenburg! :D

hooiching promised a curry chicken lunch for tomorrow too :D and weechong is joining us.

meeting lisa at 9am ah... might as well stay awake til then, should go and read my two papers after a bath :P

for the nth time, happy CNY! XD

又过年噜

祝大家

尤其是在海外过年的大家:)

嗯，顺便换歌吧。那个《镜》(miroirs)实在不符合新年标准啊 ^^ 新年歌真的。。。有时候听了会没力掉，呼~ 咚咚锵咚锵咚锵~ 有点想把背景换成红色，不过为了大家的视觉舒适着想，还是免了吧 ^^

农历新年该是大地回春的日子了吧？这里仍是银花飞舞咧~ 至少还得把自己厚厚地裹着两个月。期待春天的到来，更思念那一片热带雨林的夏呢 ^^

好好让自己被糕点、红包、红色和闪亮的装饰、欢迎和不欢迎的访客、精彩或重播了n次的电影、合法和被禁的烟花还有丰盛的聚餐包围吧 ^^

ok ok update...

huih~
i'm tired ="=
de good sort of tireness, those that one gets after a good day of work done :)
yes, my thesis work finally begun.
and is scheduled to end by 1st of June??!

well, anyway, i would not ladden you with more work talk after your own day full of it ;)

although snow forecasts had become a norm, at least sweden is getting more and more sunlight now. gothenburg just had a wonderful afternoon of blue sky and cotton white clouds :)

ar... as i write, i receive an email from my crazy finnish friend juhani. it was composed in dakar (diop/diouf land XD). he is going to end his current journey in abidjan (drogba land XD) this crazy guy had survived from the snapping jaws of the crocs of the pantanal, the claws of the bears of siberia, and hopefully this time he wont be hurt in the hands of humans. he doesnt seem to like dakar. well, we dont expect someone from winter chilled, tranquil scandinavia to instantly get use to that heat and constant hassle anyway XP

ah, intended to continue our journey in Rune Midgard but doesnt have enough reserve now... hopefully we will be on road again soon ;)

wait wait, before it ends, i can add >>
piano sonata in A minor - schubert
miroir - ravel
nice :D those who havnt watch Nodame Special go watch it now!
i dunno wot the writers wanted to express originally but schubert's sounded to me like a teasing/challenging dance. miriors sounded like a drama with twists and turns XD
was going to add "till eulenspiegel's merry pranks" to it but decided to leave it till nxt time. need time to digest these two first :D

i heard a shout
and i grinned, knowing wot the familiar sound means
MU had scored at bolton :D

just recently discovered my MU fan neighbour, shouting for every MU goal every weekend.
haha
i envy him, to be able to watch every match live on TV
's probably the one i've been stealing the wifi connection from XP

and
we are top :)

a tribute to The Diary

i still cannot listen to this song and not soak with emotion ^^
please load and listen to the song as you read on >>

4th of July, 2007, i was among a few who received it from Zyan. in the email, he included the string of thoughts that lead him to complete the song. let me quote fractions of it. hope zyan wont mind me doing this, i'm really proud of having a friend who've wrote a song like this :)

"i have been writing up this song, which i felt the urge to voice out some thoughts i had in my mind about myself, but the process of the song writing has been prolonged..."
"i had too much things to talk about in this song, so the lyrics was never completed..."
"eventually, i ended up in ikea restaurant, on a couch, amidst the crowd, coffee and ciggies, i finished the song..."
"the song for me, its sorta a gift for myself for my 24 years old bday..."

when i re-read the mail just now, i realised i somehow missed the part that says he was having ciggies...

well, definitely a quarter life crisis song ^^ i generally anti QLC but cant help being drawn into this song. 4th July 2008. i let the song play over and over again on the computer while i worked in my cubicle. the cubicle i was to leave in less than two weeks' time. i wondered if he sent me this song to torment my already fragile spirit XD

and that wasnt the only time i've had it as the only song on my playlist to repeat itself for the whole day. today is another one of those days...

i hereby enclose the lyrics


拾荒日记
词：陈颖见@口袋音乐
曲：陈颖见@口袋音乐


Verse 1:
在人群不停穿梭
寂寞在不停闪烁
时间叠着时间
疲倦叠着疲倦

Verse 2:
诞生的日子死去
蠢蠢欲动的回忆
奋不顾身向前
却边走边怀念

Bridge:
作过的梦多少个
已被岁月风干了
实现的梦想
却已经不记得
沿着轨迹往返着
走着停下又走了
我想要什么？

Chorus 1:
拾级而上 我很勇敢
却不懂怎样收拾身后
狼藉杯盘

Chorus 2:
我拾级而上 拾起地上
谁留下的暗示一段
从容却盲目感伤
我不停拾荒
(能不能停止拾荒
到地老天荒)

Verse 3:
是朋友还是路人
不停的转换身份
才刚过一分钟
这些人来又走

Verse 4:
我逐渐益发惶恐
不禁向人群靠拢
一不小心抓空
跌进寂寞黑洞

fog

to this world
if you have too many grumbles

fall
and never move on again

why
are human so fragile and deprived

please turn on the TV and look
how many people are fighting bravely to be alive

shouldn't we be content?
appreciate everything even if they are never to be possessed

remember you said home is the only castle

following the fragrance of rice
the river runs along

smile
the childhood dream i know

dont cry
let you be freed with the fireflies

country rhyme
the eternal reliance

lets go home
back to the splendour of origin

something evil... about this place

there, another one driven home... with juz de thesis left to go ="=

there are enough ppl dreading and complaining about this place. well, in fact, almost everyone dread and complain about it. they always say that i'm de only one capable to come to like gothenburg. 一物克一物 u see? i'm so evil that even gothenburg has to 献媚 to me...

people juz dropped out of chalmers to get out of this place. people even get a little insane like my light weight materials coursemate who skipped compulsory classes and labs because "i dont feel good, not ill, u understand?". and now this.

sometimes i feel angry with myself. wot kind of friend am i? to see it constantly eating into them, only to remain queit and give them minimal support?! hav i myself gone cold with de weather? sigh, not tht i could be of any good help either...

inhibitants of sograd desert~ chapter 3

"waaaaak! Mat, help!!!!!" Cardry cried out loud to his elder brother. "i cant stop running!!!"

BANG! he'd ran face first into a cactus... Mat-Ahari clapped his forehead. this brother is such a pain in the... he wondered if they would make it across the Sograd desert without causing him a major headache.

"next time just cast the running spell again. then u'll stop, karate kid." Mat said, dragging his red haired brother onto his feet.

"taekwon! taekwon-kid!" Cardry rebuked. Mat rolled his eyes and shrugged.

"peace! here, i got this when i duelled that smith we met in Prontera that day. happy birthday and i havnt congratulate you on passing that karate test." an evil light lingered in Mat's eyes as he extended his hand to reveal a manteau to his younger brother. 'got' meant 'stole'. but his innocent brother didnt need to know that.

"taekwon! not karate! but gee, thanks~ you're the best brother in the world~~~~~" Cardry already eagerly putting the manteau on. it's their first day back into the desert, and it would protect him from the sand and scorching sun. "how do i look? how do i look?!" "ah, and i got this for myself too~ a merchant was vending it for 30zeny XD" he took something out and covered his face with it. an..... alarm mask.

"happy birthday to me!!! XD"

watching his brother running off to the horizon again, Mat let out a defeated sigh. at least he can trust that he would have enough sense to survive in this desert that they had both grown up in.


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somewhere in the endless desert...

"oh no!! muka~~~! Mat~~~" Cardry found himself was going to run straight into a muka. but as he screamed the words, he found himself stopped abruptly infront of it and landed a solid round house kick on the muka.

to his relief, the muka dropped dead. he collapsed to sit on the floor, heart still beating fast and unable to believe his good luck. he had ran away from his brother again, unabled to control his new skill.

"birthday boy is lucky boy~~ ^^" he decided. it was the first time he'd ever killed a muka. and a one hit kill too! he was pleased with how his attacking power had improved.

as he calmed down, he went to examine his kill to see if there is any loot to pick up. he found a cactus needle lying beside the muka and a red herb not far away. he would show his brother the needle, Mat would have to approve how he'd grown stronger. Cardry fascinated himself with the imaginary approving nods of his brother while he picked the two items up. as he was storing them into his pouch, he saw an archer girl in pony tail came running at the turn of the great rocks.

"hey there." she greeted him.

"hey." he gave her a wave.

"you killed it. it was running away from me, may i have the cactus needle please?" the archer girl asked politely, not accusing him of kill stealing.

(p/s: it's me ur friendly explainer again~ kill stealing or KS is a serious offence in multi player online games. it is a term used for players killing a monster who was going to die under attack by another player, without the player seeking for help. thus "stealing" the experience points and items dropped by the monster.)

"but you cant prove it. you wasnt attacking it when i killed it." Cardry said in return.

"see for yourself, there must still be arrows sticking on it." the archer girl offered.

Cardry turned his head to look at the muka corpse more closely and already saw two arrows half concealed by its dead body. his heart sank. he had believed he killed the muka single handedly. and he wanted to prove it to his brother with the needle.

"aren't you going to give me that needle?" the archer girl annoyed by Cardry's delay and unwillingness.

"prove to me you are able to kill it, or i'm not going to give you the needle." Cardry's turn to be annoyed by the tone in her voice. as if he was a thief. no, he hadn't follow his stalker brother's footsteps. he had became a taekwon.

"you mean i cant kill it without you interrupting?" the archer provoked, "PVP then?"

"just the thing i had in mind." he replied sternly, already in the round house stance.


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"young lady, just wot do you think you are doing to my brother." Mat hissed dangerously at the archer girl as he confiscated the double strafe she sent his brother's way just in time. Cardry, now leaning heavily against the great rock already had a few arrow ends sticking out of his body. "you all right Card?" he added, and actually sounded worried.

"near dead bro... see how many birthday presents this anolian girl forced into me..." reliefed for the second time in the day, he took out the red herb he'd just looted and used it on the injuries. his brother was here, everything would be alright. Mat gave his brother a rough scan, he could see that the arrows were not aimed to kill, most are stuck on his brother's limbs. yet he was furious.

"a girl or not, i'll teach you a few lessons." he declared. he'd not harm her, only to frighten the girl into a few nightmares and steal wotever she had. a lesson, that's all.

the archer girl stood fearless confronting him. a stalker. she knew she'd have no chance fighting against him but she would not cower away. not that she'd have any chance to flee either.

in a blink of eyes, he disappeared infront of her. and before she had decided if her eyes had played tricks on her, her crossbow was stripped off her hands. when the stalker reappeared again, he was still in his last position, wearing his last expression, but she saw her crossbow in his hands.

"you like double strafing eh? now, i'll show you how it's properly done." with a smirk on his face, he aimed the crossbow at the archer. she found herself unable to move, strucked by how easily he had left her defendless in just a second or two. the arrows the stalker had confiscated in her last shot was now flying like two bolts back at her. she shut her eyes and raised her arms across her head in horror.

clank clank~~ the sound of metal hitting metal. one closely following another. she opened her eyes and saw the many belts of her own brother's cladding. "Zeph!" she cried. the assassin cross had dashed out of cloaking to block the arrows with his katars.

the stalker frowned. those from the sin class are not his favourite opponents. yes, he'd defeated a few of them before but every single one of them were nothing less than a nasty fight. but as he studied the sin cross now facing him, the frown unknotted, and was quickly replaced by a wide grin on his face. "Zeph!" he let out a muted cry almost imitating the young archer's. as he lowered the crossbow, he cried another one more loudly "Zephyr my friend!" and a short pause. "you've become a sin cross!"


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Cardry the taekwon

Mat the stalker

Noki the archer

Zeph the assassin cross

Muka



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family reunion XD

well, Mat-Ahari was obviously... matahari 阳 XP
and Cardry car-dry 车干 轩 XD
anolian archer girl Noki = ano + kimi (happy le?~)

and ofcoz,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XUAN~~~~~~~

in 变态nia! chapter 2

red hot meteors rained down. yells of pain and dismay echoed through the valleys of Geffenia.

"phew that was close~ tht incubus nearly killed me! Geffenia is seriously not a child's play." Silver exclaimed as he walked out of a circle of bbqed monster carcasses, wiping the slimes off his saber. "and they broke my armor." he added quietly as he realised it.

"tht's why we need you here buddy. eat this, it will make you feel better. there's more in my cart if you need them. i'll mend your armor soon." Nocturn threw Silver a mastela fruit without looking. his eyes were fixed examining the diamond ring he'd just picked up from the burnt incubus that nearly killed Silver. The black haired whitesmith who wore a baseball cap was already doing the calculations how much he shall overcharge the jeweller for the ring with such a dazzling stone.

Silver had only joined the party shortly before they reached Geffenia. he came on their request for a tanker from the guild. Sophia the guild master had thought they would need a capable crusader to survive Geffenia. and a capable priest too. She would have sent Grass along with his healing and protective skills if he was around. But as things turned out, half the guild members were on xmas leave and there were not a single priest available. so she looked at Silver. his eyes met her's and knew wot they were trying to tell him. he gently ran his fingers down her flowing purple hair for one last time, and bated her to get some time off during the holiday herself. then, without much delay, he left to join them in Geffenia.

"pls sit down all of you~ Ms. Ya's meteor storm seemed to have cleared the last monsters in this area~ i'll play The Song of Lutie to help you recover~ zai man jiu ting bu dao~ xian sheng xiao jie men gan kuai lai~ gan kuai lai~~" a graceful bow, and music notes started to flow from Jay the bard's mandolin, replacing his silvery voice.

"sing-mumbling weird words again... (/swt) why did Sophie ever recruit a guy as weird as you into our guild?" a sweet smile rose at the edge of Silver's lips as he mentioned his beloved's name. enduring the damage he'd just shielded his party members from, he followed the other two of the party to sit in an arc infront of Jay.

and i wonder if he hears anything he sings himself... his eyes locked on the earphone Jay wore over his silky blue long hair, as he striped his armor for Nocturn to repair.

"well, mr. beat-cannot-die, if it wasnt for Jay's A Poem of Bragi, i wouldnt have cast that last meteor storm in time. then u might really have died..." Ya finally joining the conversation after recovering from the exhaustion of the last battle, teasing her good friend. Silver strugged his shoulders in reply as he helped himself with a second mastela fruit.

"ah, i'm starting to miss everyone. we are away from the guild castle for almost two months now! Noct, you reckon we've made enough zeny to pay the mask maker?" Ya added.

the intention to come to Geffenia was for the valuable loots. diamond rings, golden rings and silver rings from the incubuses and succubuses. they were assigned to get Zeph a gift for passing the class 3 test, a tradition of the guild. decent weapons as gifts is the norm for the first two classes, rarer items are given to the 3rd.

a kitsune mask for Zeph, they've decided. they've already collected the 999 nine-tails required to make such a mask.

"i still think Mr. Zephyr would prefer a dokebi's wig~" Jay remarked cooly, fingers still strumming his mandolin.

"we are about 200k zeny short, not far away." Nocturn replied Ya's question, ignoring Jay's remark, sweating lightly (/swt).

"geez, Jay, you make a fine clown already! spilling freezing jokes like that." Ya found herself bemused, imagining Zeph wearing a dokebi's wig. a deadly assassin cross with a dokebi's wig..... O.O

so, finally home, soon... she could already feel the warmth in the hall of JP's guild castle as she saw the tower of Geffen in her mind's eye.

"ouch! that hurts!"

"deviruchi's re-spawned!" she gasped.

"poke me again with that fork and i'll make you Jay's pet!" Silver treathened the black little devil as he delivered a blow with his saber.

"wot's so bad with being my pet, sir?~" Jay wondered out loud, as he sent a silver arrow the little devil's way.

"nothing. you know, i changed my mind, you should adopt a dokebi. devi fits Zeph better. or maybe that thief boy Ai mentioned in her report..." another blow, and more silver arrows from Jay. Ya finished the deviruchi off with a fire bolt.

"u've got a point there Mr. Silver sir~ i've got myself a dokebi egg when we were hunting nine-tails in Payon Dungeon~ it sure seems to be a good sidekick~ ta wei xiao zai wo pang bian cheng san~~" Jay replied merrily.

Silver sweated.

"ready for more hunting?" Nocturn finally joined them, and passed Silver his now good as new armor. he had no worries for his companions to deal with the singled deviruchi.

"yeah, lets go!"


(p/s: for non-ROplayers, clown is the class 3 job for bard ^^)

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add some visual effect XD

Silver the crusader

Nocturn the whitesmith

Jay the bard

Ya the high magician

Santa Poring

Incubus

Deviruchi

dokebi's wig



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you know why din sophia appear? becoz... i... i've never played sage before and din know wot skills she shall have (/blush).

Jay is a mixture of 阳's game character jay and my game character mozart XD yang created his jay based on de great jay chou XD my mozart was a clown wearing dokebi's wig and had a dokebi as pet XD

lets all go to rune midgard~ chapter 1

well, i'm ill, and hence bored. coz i am to remain indoors (since it's like -12 outside)... that i've done for 3 full days and am damned bored now... ="=
so, this...

it's done for my own amusement, but hopefully u'll still enjoy it ;P

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"Ah hoy u lil monster~ merry xmas~" as he said it, the novice boy flung a dagger at the pink jelly like monster. the santa poring avoided it just in time and bounced onto the boy's face in response. The boy lost balance and fell.

"ouch! i'm gonna kill u!" he bellowed as he regained his feet quickly from the snow clad ground. he attacked again and this time he din miss his target. the jelly being burst into pieces with a single "blurp", leaving its santa poring hat and a candy cane lying on the ground.

as the boy picked up his loots, he heard the annoyed voice of a woman,
"hey boy, what did u do that for?"

he turned and saw a hunter lady with dark brown hair, short straight and slick. she had eyes of the same colour. and clad in white.
"none of your business lady, unless u would let me make u some xmas pudding out of them XD"
he said as he stored the candy cane into his pouch, already wearing the santa poring hat.
"merry xmas~~" he added with a smile, and immediately running after another santa poring bouncing just beside the bridge.

a man stopped between him and the creature.
"oi Ai, you've found urself a rude little boy ei?" the man said with a careless grin on his face. he had green hair like overgrown weeds and wore the black priest's uniform. and... two ice-creams in his hands.

ice-creams in this weather? the boy wondered, and sweated lightly (/swt)

"boy, you dont go killing santa porings in Lutie on xmas day ok? lovers come here for holiday and frozen jelly patches are not exactly the most romantic scene in the world... how about u spare this miserable little thing's life and i'll give you 20zeny? and how the hell did a novice like you get here anyway?"

"hah~ preaching me~ wot is 20zeny to make me stop?! a stupid acolyte promised to wrap me to Morroc and wrapped me here instead and gone disappearing himself ="= i swear he'd get it back from me someday (/ag)." the boy was holding up his fist. "and as you've so sagely pointed out, i will never make it to Morroc by walking. nor do i have enough zeny to travel with the Kafra service. i need to be there for the tesssssst!" the boy made it sound despair and dramatic, yet he was already chasing after another santa poring bouncing along the half frozen river as he finished the sentence.

three jabs. and more pink jelly spilled onto the snowy ground. both Ai and Grass clapped their foreheads annoyed.

"stop it boy..."

"no. i'll only stop killing these little buggers for the loots if you'd escort me to Morroc or pay Kafra to do so." the boy chasing off another santa poring as he cut Ai's speech.

"... i was just going to offer you to join our party." Ai continued with a smile. the smile turned into a muted laugh as she found the boy looking at her with his widened eyes is now sitting on the santa poring he'd just hunted down to make it still. "although u are annoying enough." she added with a friendly tone. she liked the boy's spirit and cheekiness. "Morroc is our next destination anyway. Zeph is there collecting some cactus needles and talons for his poison bottles." the last sentence she addressed to Grass.

"Ai, u heard him. a test in Morroc. this boy is going to be a thief!" Grass protested, he never liked the theif class.

"so was Zeph. you have problem with that?" Ai's voice was dangerous.

"!!! nonononono... no problem no problem at all... thief boys are the best~~~" and an angry women is scarier than a baphomet... he added inside himself.

"so, welcome to our party, boy ^^"

"ah, wow~~~~~~ party with class 2s! it's my first... many thanks :D and that Zeph you mentioned, is an assassin cross?" the boy is overjoyed, he knew only assassin crosses use poison bottles.

"yes, boy. Zephyr had just passed his sin cross test. we are taking our class 3 tests soon too." she motioned her hands to indicate she was talking about herself and Grass. "by the way, i'm Ai from Payon, and he's Grass from Izlude. and your name?"

"Sate, i'm borned in Alberta. hey~ that emblem~~ so you guys are from the Juvenile Predators guild?!" he points a finger to the simple symbol she has on her hunter bow.

"so we are ^^, follow us if you have no place to stay tonight." another smile from her, and they are underway back to the guesthouse. so, he recognized their emblem. yes, a boy from alberta the merchant city would know things like that. and Sate knows more than wot she first gave credit to, so she thought.

the Juvenile Predators, or JP, is rising to be one of the more recognised guild in Rune Midgard. beside Zeph, they already had 3 other members with class 3 job status. Ya the high wizard, Nocturn the whitesmith and finally Sophia the professor, who was the first to achieve that status, and was also the guild master.

"so much for a romantic holiday >_<" whispered Grass sulkingly as he trotts behind the now animatedly chatting pair, still holding the ice-creams. well, it wouldnt melt in this weather anyway.

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woah, i cross dressed myself... and dragged 颖 down with me XD yes, he is sophia XD yo, no one fits in to the row of a swordsman... no tanker... ="= i want a crusader/paladin la...

no wait! i need to put 颖 together with 银~(to be true to our original JP story XD) i can make 银 our crusader, tht would be fitting, woohoo~~~

feedbacks please ^^ i really intend to put evone in (depend on how long will i have the mood to write this crap, maybe this would be the only chapter XD), so in case u duan to be someone, tell me early XD there's no ploat at all, i juz make things up as i write XP

postcard from the north (updated)

p/s: fireworks across göta älv, taken with my nikon coolpix L15 :)

that was organized by Göteborg Posten, the most popular paper in gothenburg. thousands of ppl gathered on the bank beside de operah house, on the bridge that links gothenburg city and hisingen island, to watch the great show at 5pm :)

then ppl take matters to their own hand at 12. no, since 20mins before 12 ^^ go out and you dont know which direction to watch ^^ the whole sky full of fireworks! it's like a competition to see if one can out fire another XD 3 families joined the competition on splintvedsgatan alone! and also ursa major and orion. de sky wasnt exactly clear but both were there enjoying the show :)

the explosion and gunpowder still fills my ears and nose as i type ^^

wish evone hav a good yr ahead :D