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[baggietheadventurer]

Homework Diary Week 5

The following are a weeks worth of the journal entries required for Baggie to write for her lessons. She has started to really write up a storm in them, and I an no longer do the pictures of the journal, there is just too much here. So instead its all just being written out. 

Day 1

Omo got hurt. She is a new sister. I made a turban for her and gave her a bell when i first met her. She wears the bell on her earing. Now whenever she is around there is a jingle jingle jingle and all the ghosts go away. Omo is my walking ghost repellent! She likes the draw and play hide and seek with strangers.

She got hurt whens he was sparing with Arl. I wasn’t there to see what happened but I’m very sure it was an accident. Arl would never hurt my sisters on purpose. That would go against his whole reason why we have him. Even though it was an accident she still hurt a great deal.

She is fine now, but when she was hurt her ghosts came out to haunt her. Probably because the bell in her ear wasn’t ringing while she was laying still. I am not going to write about Omo’s ghosts because that’s something personal. Writing secrets will not do any good. I’m not going to write Asli’s secret too, that secret remains only in the tribe.

Asli is a new sister, who is of the same litter as Omo. I tried to help banish the ghosts though by ringing the bell above her. I think it helped a little. But Asli decided it was best to take her away where she can be quiet and hide. Hiding is the best thing to do when your sick or injured because then no one can come and take advantage of your weakened state.

I found out about Omo being hurt when I was rushing home to put away my bow and ball before going to the party at my school house. There were people in the front of the apartment arguing about what happened to Omo with Naru and Leyeh.

Leyeh is a tai of our tribe, he is never around because he is an inspector of ships for Limsa Lominsa. I think he is a pretty corrupt inspector because he doesn’t accept bribes. He doesn't agree with me, so I think he’s also silly for not seeing how logical it is to accept bribes. Everyone accepts bribes.

One of the people who argued about Omo is named Milos. He is a huyr. Milos is a very red man. I saw him at the party in the school house. Since he goes to the same school house, I can’t imagine he’s is a bad sort. Though it makes me uneasy how he was arguing with my tia. I told him that Omo was going to be fine when I saw him at the party and he looked relieved.

Day 2

The party was at my school house. It happened because Azhil decided we will have a barbecue when he, me, Ro, another very red man, and the prince went hunting and caught four drakes. The drakes were cooked up slowly, and they were juicy and delicious. There was cookies, and rice, and Alfy made tea, and there was cake, and fried potatoes, and these green things that were okay but still food so I ate them.

I met all kinds of people at the party. One of them was a lalafell named Nana. She isn’t the landlady, but the maid, healer, and boss. She scolded the prince for eating the tea cup. I was pretty impressed he managed to bite hard enough to get a bite. I tried to bite my tea cup that hard but couldn't. She also scolded someone else for being on top of the fish tank. That is a dumb rule to have, when the fish tank is so high up and sitting on it will give you a good view of the entire rule. But one must never disagree with a  lalafell, because if you do they get angry. No one likes it when the lalafell get angry, because of how they get so scary.

Alfy and Ro scolded me for eating so fast. They added a new rule to the school house. No shoving as much food in your mouth as possible. Now one must only eat one bite at a time. The school house is really starting to gain much too many rules. I already have nine rules! Nine! I counted them.

1 - No throwing alcohol in the fire or dumping on the rug

2 -  No eating the fish pets.

3- Take a bath when you first arrive at the school house

4- No eating the chocobo in the stables.

5- No pooping or peeing in Ro’s room

6- No climbing on the very top of the shelving

7- Eat all food one bite at a time.

8- No eating the dishes

9- No climbing on the top of the fish tank.

How anyone functions with this much oppression is a mystery to me. It seems to get worse and worse as each day I get another rule!

Day 3

Padjal are huyr that transformed by elements deep in a forest to be filled with many holes and really powerful conjurers. The people of Gridania really find padjal to be filled with holes and revere them for it. This probably means they have to have at least twice the normal amount of holes than a normal person. The typical person has 8 holes, so a padjal probably has 16 or 20 holes. They also have horns. Padjals are horny creatures filled with many holes and super magical powers.

They are Alfy’s natural predator. Alfy is afraid that a padjal is coming to eat him. At the party he accidentally mistaken Danyel for a padjal. Danyel isn’t a padjal, because he gives me cookies and he didn’t try to eat Alfy. I think Alfy’s mistake is because his ghosts were haunting him at the time and made Danyel look like a padjal to him. Ghosts are tricky that way. I can tell because he started to calm down after I rang the bell. So it's only natural he will start to see Danyel as a teacher instead of padjal when the ghost is banished by the bell.

It doesn't matter how many holes and how popular  a padjal is, if they are going to eat Alfy they are not welcomed. Not many people are practical though so they don’t see the need to boost our defenses. Luckily they have me, and I am taking matter in my own hands so that Alfy will be protected from all padjals. I will prepare three traps.

Trap 1- Pepper spray.

Padjals are simply huyrs that evolved to become holy and horny. So they have similar eyes to huyrs, therefore pepper spray should work on them just as well as they do on normal eyes. So Alfy will carry pepper spray with him wherever he goes. When a padjal goes to attack him, he will spray the predator in the eyes. This will stun the predator as it becomes painfully blind. Then i will shoot the beast with my bow and Ro will chop its head off with his sword. Afterwords we will have to hide the body or we will get angry Gridanians after us. We can bribe one of the street gangs to take care of it, or simply dump the body off the cliff ourselves.

Trap 2- Trip wire

Padjals walk on two legs with two feet just like huyr do. So we attach a low trip wire at the entrance of the garden. Then attach bells to the wire. The prowling padjal will trip face first from the wire, which will ring the bells. Once alerted we can either hide Alfy so the padjel will think the prey doesn’t live here, or we can pretend that Alfy is already dead and eaten, so the padjal will think it came too late. I’m pretty sure if we full one padjal, it will go and tell the others and then we won’t have a padjal problem anymore.

Trap 3- Scare Padjal

The best way to avoid any predator is to repel them away, like ghosts. We have a scarecrow in the front for the garden, all we have to do is adjust it so it will scare padjals and crows away. We do this by making the scarecrow look like a dead padjal. Then all padjals will stay away because they will see if they come over to our house they will die, just like the corpse above the garden. It's best just to use a fake dead pajdal though not a real one, because real corpses smell and after a while they bloat up, then get very liquidy.

Once all three traps are set there will be no way a padjal will come to hunt Alfy. we will have three  defenses against them. It will be important, however, to make sure Alfy never goes to Gridania where padjals naturally gather to breed and get their holes by the people there.

Day 4

I grew! I know I did. I don’t feel any taller but all my pants show my ankles now, and my clothing is much too tight. Plus my tail is defiantly longer. I no longer have to twist around to see it, and the tip of it now has more than just blond color. I’m probably an entire yalm taller than before now. I don’t know how tall I was before, and i don’t know how tall I am now, but it's definitely much taller.

Arl gave me money and I used to to buy new clothes. I got new pairs of kecks, and a fest and some shirts, and a pancho and some new shirts, and some new boots, and a pink tabard. I didn’t get alot of pretty clothes like what Lyhi and Hima wear. I probably should since no one even noticed I grew, and still call me “kid” or “little” or “child”. I just don’t want to wear pretty. I don’t want to be pretty.

The attention from being pretty would be nice but it just leads to silly and stupid things. I don’t actually want attention, i want recognition. I’m really tired of always being treated like a child! I haven’t been a child for at least six cycles now, but no one seems to acknowledge that.

Its always “behave Baggie”, “We can’t eat that Baggie”, “You’ll understand when you’re grown Baggie”. So many people seem to only see me as a child, and its really frustrating.

I am not a child. I take care of myself. I feed myself. I clothe myself. I go hunt. I go make things. I sell things. I know how to avoid the natural predators. Children do not do these things, adults do.

Maybe if I grow some more they will see me as an adult. The problem is I don’t think I have much growing left. This growth spur took me by surprise. I think it happened because for the last five weeks I not only been eating daily, but several times a day. So much food being piled in as to go somewhere, and I guess it decided to go upwards instead of sideways.

I don’t know why this is important because it never was before. I never cared about the strangers and their doings. Strangers do things, and I avoid them. However its now really really super very much important. I need for Arl, Naru, Lyhi and Danyel to be proud of me. Thinking that they are not makes my stomach and chest feel hurt but not actual hurt like ghost hurt. I don’t think they are though because they only see me as a child. No one is ever proud of children, they are useless.

Day 5

Drakes breath fire from breathing out oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. They breath out a high volume of oxygen, and releases a compressed fuel called dieythl. They keep stones in their gizzard, that clash together to create a spark, fuelled by dieythl, the spark grows then carries out of the drake by the oxygen.

Drakes have a very tough rough leathery skin on the outside and on the inside of their mouths. They can withstand very high temperatures in their mouth since that is where they spit out the fire.

Drakes are cold blooded. This means they do not warm themselves externally. However, unlike other cold blooded creatures such as snakes, drakes can be found in snowy area. This is because Drakes can create fire to warm themselves up when they need to.

Drakes reproduce once a year, and lay eggs. Every year they migrate to the same place to mate. The couple takes turn to fire the eggs for incubation. Eggs need to stay over a temperature of 355 degrees to keep the baby healthy. The sex of the baby can be determined by how hot the eggs are. The hotter the egg the more likely the hatchling will be born male.

Drakes live up to fifty cycles, and will start breading after their first cycle. You can tell the age of a drake by counting the amount of spikes on their tails. The natural predator to the drake is the sandworm.

Day 6

Hima is my little sister, but everyone seems to think she is my big sister. This sometimes really annoys me because it’s quite clear she is the little sister. Hima likes to play games, meet new people, and wear dresses. She doesn't like to wear pants. Her state of bare legs makes others of the tribe uncomfortable. They believe young women should not have bare legs. This belief is very hypocritical because Lyhi often has bare legs and no one ever complains about her.

Hima rarely ever does chores. No one ever asks us to do chores. I do chore automatically because that is what you do. When you are in the tribe you do everything you can to help the tribe, because the tribe comes first. Hima doesn’t do that. She does work as a hostess at a lounge.

Hima is really good at causing trouble and ignoring what Arl says. Her main specialities is looking cute, being friendly, and causing trouble. Arl tried to ground her once, but it didn’t stick. Grounding is when you force someone to wear pants. While Hima doesn’t like to wear pants she will wear long skirts.

Sometimes Hima is annoying because she gets in the way or I have to clean up after her. That's only sometimes. Most of the time I really love Hima around. Things are always way more fun because she will make it fun.

Day 7

Ovens are contained heated areas that cook food quicker than on a stove or frying pan because of air circulation. They are often made out of stone or metal so that it can withstand the heat inside. The heat source is often a fire fueled by coal or wood. The heat source is below and towards the back of the space for the food.

Heat air rises, so the heat in the oven will rise up, the turn from the slope of the oven that spreads on the top of the food. While it rises, it heats the bottom of the food.

To make an oven, you need to make a foundation from metal or stone. It is important that nothing flammable is made with the stove such as wood or cloth. Then you need to insert a heat source on the bottom, such as a place to burn fire. Inside the foundation, you create a dome area right above where the heat source is. For the most efficient oven, have a door to close over the cooking dome.

[baggietheadventurer]

[baggietheadventurer]

Day 1

Once there was an Other Linx who was haunted by ghosts. Every night they came to her in her sleep and she dreamed of bad things. Every day she would feel sad, empty, and lost. Other Linx knew ghosts didn’t like bells, but she couldn’t spend all day ringing bells. She had to eat. She had to avoid predators in the city. So Other Linx decided to lose her name. The ghosts always calls her by her name in her sleep. So if she forgot her name, then the ghosts would no longer be able to call her. It didn’t work at first. The ghosts kept calling “Xe’roseh” Over and over and over and over. However in time they also forgot her name. Everyone forgot her name. So the Other Linx lived nameless. She no longer had ghosts, but she was still empty and lost. Sometimes she remembers her name. Sometimes she wishes she still had her name. However she knows if she takes it the ghosts will return, and the hauntings will begin again.

Day 2

Then one day she met a brass blade. Other Linx was cautious at first, but the blade gave her food and stories. He talked about far away forests, monster trees that ate soup, and places so green. The blade’s name was Lithi. He asked for her name but she couldn’t give what she didn’t have. So instead he named her Baggie. This was a good name. Its easy to say, it dealt with what she could make. She liked this name, so she put it on. Only it didn’t feel like her original name. It’s a fake name. But it serves its purposes. More and more people started demanding  a name from the Other Linx, and so she kept giving the name Baggie. People seem to accept this as a name, probably because it is a good name. Maybe in time it will be a real name, and the ghosts will never be able to find her ever again. Or maybe another name will come into play, that is real, but still as good as Baggie.

Day 3

The Other Linx saw Lithi again, and the Condor family met him too. It still seem so strange that Condors want to keep Other Linx as one of their own. She has no wings. Their tails are all different than Other Linx. They are skinny with a puff at the bottom. Other Linx just has a short puff tail. The Condors liked Lithi, but this is natural. Lithi is a great hunter, there isn’t anyone in the world who wouldn’t like Lithi. One time he took Other Linx hunting, and he faced a billy goat. The billy goat charged right at him, but he stood his ground and stabbed the billy in the eye!  Other Linx wants to go hunting again, for a pray that Naru talked about. Naru is a Condor, a Tia. He is the best tia in all the Condors because he knows things and he lets Other Linx study things. He talked about a great big mean bird named a Gangangar, with tough leathers and prize feathers. Condors say they will hunt with the Other Linx for this prize but Lithi wont. Lithi says he can’t leave Uld’ah without permission. Its annoying, she doesn’t like it one bit! Lithi promised to take Other Linx hunting when he gets time off again. She accepted this, since really there isn’t anything else for her to do.

Day 4

An airship flies by magic enanchers propellers that create wind magic that life the machine up. Above an airship are great balloons that contain a special kind of air that help life the ship in the air. Ceruelium is fuel for airships and most magiteck. It is a refined form of aether created by many crystals crushed and refined. Ceruelium is very dangerous and attracts bad things like bombs and Imperials. It will explode if you don’t handle it carefully. Airships are really hard and expensive to make, but if you have one you can fly the skies like a bird. If you have an airship you have your own set of wings. This would be handy if you want to have wings to fit in with a tribe that is adopted you, when the tribe that did adopt you is a bunch of birds.

Day 5

Other Linx met a child who is an adult. The child is an inspector named Inspector Sophi. She is trying to hunt for the murderer of her mother, but you shouldn’t be an inspector for that you should be a hunter. Hunters hunt things and inspectors inspect things. Sophi did not appreciate Other Linx’ insight to this, and said that Other Linx will not be helping her. Other Linx didn’t want to help anyway, because this inspector is a stuffy foreigner that doesn’t realize you need to wear hats to protect your head from the sun. Sophi tried to woo a old huyr and marry him, but the huyr, his name is Zeke, didn’t want to marry Sophi. Its probably because she hasn’t blooded yet, and until she blooded she won't be able to bear any children. However he seems to really really boldy reject her, so there might be more to that. Maybe he doesn’t like the way she smells. Its all a silly thing anyway. Why would anyone bother getting married? There is no purpose in getting married. Its just a silly party thing.

Day 6

Other Linx hunted drake today! It was excited and painful. She got burned badly by a particularly large drake that appeared. There were other hunters with her who at first seem silly. There were two princes that seemed to be ready for a party than a hunt. One random huyr that worried about things falling from a bookshop and Z’ro who lets Other Linx use his room at the house. Other Linx uses the room to craft things instead of the sand. Its really great having a place to work on things that isn’t going to be taken from a refugee. Baby likes the room too, but  Other Linx has to clean it afterward because Z’ro said no poop or pee in the room.  The hunting group ended up being good hunters much better than Other Linx. They caught four drakes including the one that burned Other Linx. The flowery one, named Azhi said they were going to hold a barbecue for the Free Company and feed everyone the meat. Other Linx will bring some tucos and marmet meat to supplement too. She didn’t actually kill any of the drakes, though she helped. She probably didn’t prove her place as a huntress. She still needs to do that with her Condor family. They still doubt her because of her lack of wings.

Day 7

T’omo is a condor but she isn’t one of the Condor family. She seems to be the same age as Other Linx, and lost. Other Linx wanted to help, but accidentally scared her. Arl then bought Omo a hat that Other Linx made. Later Other Linx showed Omo the place where the Condor family lived and they ate fish that Naru cooked. After a while Omo wasn’t afraid of Other Linx, and hopefully she will be a friend. Other Linx showed trophies of the drake to her Condor family, but Lani wasn’t impressed. More will take to prove herself to Lani. Omo likes to draw. She and her sister used to be in another Condor family but the Nunh of the family was bad so they left. She and her sister are really close and without her sister Omo is really lost. She isn’t like Other Linx that learned how to function without friends and family, so to lose her sister would be a bad bad blow. This is the bright side of losing the ghosts, even if the Condor family finally turns the Other Linx away, she will be okay because she knows how to take care of herself. She will never need a family.

[baggietheadventurer]

Linx being a Condor

She left the apartment quietly, and walked down the steps. It was such a tiny apartment. How could so many people live in such a tiny apartment? Just a short walk away was the Adventure House, Danyel lived in. The house seemed tiny, but there was always another room she never discovered before. So it wasn’t tiny at all. Yet it still felt tiny, just as tiny as the tiny apartment.

So many years she had just sky over her head, any kind of roof seemed to cramp her now. For many years this has been her home, the sky the sand the desert wind. It felt odd how many homes are being offered to her, especially since they were all essentially in the same place.

She felt uncertain by the decision she made tonight. Perhaps it was because it was change. She remembered feeling a brief uneasiness about Danyel being her teacher, but that passed quickly enough. Perhaps this uncertainty will also pass….

She met Miqo’tes tonight, three of them sort of sprung on her in the street, and loomed over. One she saw before, a untrustworthy fellow who tried to give her money. She was fairly certain he was a pimp. Though he proved to be actually a Nunh.. remarkably enough.

The three Miqo’te: Arl, Naru, and Lani were all Condors.. Or Other-Condors. Arl, the not a pimp but a Nunh, was also the leader of the Condors. They invited her to join them.

Just like that, they just asked her to join. They only met her once, well the non-pimp-but-Nunh met her a grand total of twice. Yet they asked her to join. How desperate does a tribe have to be to take on strangers in the street?

At least, that was what she thought, until Lani told her story, and then Naru told his. In truth, they weren’t desperate, they were just born from desperate. They all lost their tribe one way or another. Lani told the story how sandworms got hers. Naru spoke how his was gone but he got close to a tia in the Condors.

Somehow they knew.. Maybe they saw the ghosts. She knows the ghosts are always close by, she simply refuses to acknowledge them anymore.Hiding herself from them as much as possible. It never works, and they are always there.. lingering. ..

Was that why she accepted the invitation? She didn’t need a tribe. She survived all her life without one. She can feed herself, cloth herself, keep herself out of trouble, and learn by herself. She didn’t need the added regulation of having to have a Nunh’s approval for silly things like being taught, or going out to hunt. It was quite plain to her, that the arrangement was silly. She didn’t need them, and they didn’t need her. So why did she accept?

Her steps slowed as she mulled it over. Maybe she wanted something more than ghosts. Maybe she wanted to embrace her culture, something she can only vaguely remember when the ghosts haunt her. Maybe she is just whimsy and it was all just a whim.

Either way this changed things. She didn’t like that. Was this change for the better or for the worse? She’ll have to find out. On the bright side, if it was for the worse, she’ll have a few hiding spots to escape them.

Could a linx be a condor? Or will all this just make the ghosts go bad again?

[baggietheadventurer]

A New Bow

She didn’t know what type of wood this was. It was one of the reasons she was fascinated by it the moment she saw it. She didn’t know where the wood is from, except the direction. A long way towards the East. Never had she seen wood this color before, or this texture. To be honest she wasn’t sure if it was the best for a bow, but it was exotic.

She carefully etched shapes into the bow. Her bow. She wasn’t sure how she obtained it, but it was hers now. She originally saw the bow being carried by the sister woman. A woman that called her sister and claimed kinship, though she knew all of her kin were ghosts.The bow was spellbinding though, she was caught by the exoticness of the wood.

Then the strange man showed up. He tried to give her money which was highly suspicious. She didn’t know what his play was, but she wasn’t about to trust him, even if he was telling her the sister woman couldn’t be trusting.  Then the horned lady showed up and talked about a country somewhere a long way east.

Really the whole thing was confusing to her, and made her anxious so she escaped while she could. She was busy working on her bags in an ally close to home when the bow suddenly appeared behind her. She probably should give it back but… finders keepers, losers weepers.

So now she made her hers.She embedded feathers into the bow, carved shapes into it, then at the very edge of the bow she carved “Xe” and a picture of a courel. She smiled at her work when it was done. Hers. Lithi wasn’t going to take this one away.

She stretched it out, testing its strength. She can kill more than just marmots with this. Maybe even go after the prey she has been eyeing in the animal encyclopedia. Drakes.

Soon.

She was learning to read and write.

She got a new bow.

Soon.

Soon she’ll go on adventurers.

Soon she’ll see the world.

Soon she’ll live instead of just survive.

Soon.

All was needed now was to find a party. A group of adventurers in need of a bowswoman. While she’s at it, she better improve her armor a bit too. Maybe get a mask to hide the youth of her face.