Post by Aphelion Admin on Mar 1, 2011 14:25:38 GMT -5
AIVAS did its job. In fact, the job was done so well that Thread was no longer a threat to Pern- and a spacecraft some distance away managed to hear the final call. From there things happened quickly- the ship landed, the Antar met Pern and it's wonders. From that moment, nothing was the same.
The beautiful Antari people were fascinated by the dragons, loved the beautiful flits, and enjoyed the simple company of the Pernese. Many of the Antari Impressed their own dragons, including the leaders of the Antari. Together, using the technology and abilities they held, the Antari people changed Pern. It was their touch that brought forth the first of the new colors, and their decision to have the two newest Weyrs built in the time of peace and overpopulation.
They built Clydek Weyr and Aphelion Weyr for their leaders, safe havens with beautiful locations, these Weyrs were meant to be far more exotic and convenient than the Weyrs built before them. However, some sixty Turns or so after the Antari landed, their Princess died. It was a sad day, but the Antari way of life prevailed, and any who were able to leave to return to their home world were ready to go, for they had to appoint a new Princess. Many holders and crafters of all ages decided to go with the Antar, striving to learn more about what was beyond their little planet.
What would have been a large step for so many ended as an utter tragedy.
The Antarian ship, Evernity, had not been off of Pernese soil for more than a few moments before the unthinkable happened. An explosion wracked the atmosphere, heralded by angry reds, bruising violets and vivid flashes of yellow. The ship that carried so many lives had crashed into the no longer erratic Red Star. Those who were left on Pern- Pernese and Antar alike- mourned the massive loss. But life was forced to continue.
A few turns after the Accident, as it was called, Thread fell once more, taking the planet by surprise. Many died. And this first 'Fall since the Accident- since AIVAS- made the Dragonriders realize that there were far too few people spread out about the planet, with an abundance of Dragonriders and a lack of Crafters and Holders. The population was at all time lows, so Holds and Weyrs alike were abandoned. Southern Weyr and Aphelion Weyr were left empty.
Hundreds of turns later, the effects of the Accident are still being felt, though there are many more lives to fill the land of Pern anew. New hope has been placed in the western isles, a chain known as the Kindred Islands. There stood a once great Weyr, home of one of the Antari leaders, and more advanced than any other Weyr. An adventurous soul, Liena of Gold Twilith set out to make Aphelion her own, to start a new world for herself and her gold.
Aphelion Weyr sat upon the largest of the islands, Sillion Island. It had been built by the Antari some centuries ago, with the concepts given to them by Pernese dragonriders. It didn't take long for Liena's band to bring the Weyr back to life, though there were so few people even in this time to inhabit the Weyr. With the protective Weyr above them, Holds took root around the Kindred Isles, providing a new form of life for so many
However, grief overcomes Aphelion time and time again, as their beloved queens seem to have been cursed. A long a chain of bad luck, startling and terrible- not a single golden queen has truly been able to live out a full life so far in the Weyr. The settlers laid all their hope in Analei and her golden Adrainarlyth, the current queen who has managed to thusfar escape the fate of Aphelion's curse...
- Non-canon, with a massive variety of colors and a core of players that has kept the Weyr running for three fun, plot-filled years! Things are never dead at this Weyr!
- We have several pre-made slots available, Dragon and Wher alike, as well as many Crafter and Holder positions for the player tired of making just candidates!
- A continual plot arc that covers everything from natural disasters to stolen weyrlings and dragon war! There is lots of excitement for everyone!
- Aphelion Weyr also sports a devoted player that does nothing but initiate plots! He strictly plays the other side of everything the admins cook up, creating mass chaos, mayhem, death, and mischief! Nothing is ever boring with Darkness Rising around! Beware!
- Open and running Contests, including Plot, Advertising, and Egg Guessing Contests! Have an idea for an interesting plot item? Throw it in, and we may well use it!
Events From the Beginning to Now:
- A monstrous Weyrling-munching watersnake is plaguing the Islands with its rampaging appetite! Though badly injured and half blind from its epic battle with Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth, it came back yet again. Who will it try to eat now?
- Oh no! Brownrider S'koin was murdered in the middle of a Hatching Feast with a meatfork! With no witnesses and no clues to the culprit, how will justice ever be reached? Who killed the dragonrider?!
- A Starship Leviathan was sent crashing onto the Islands after unfortunately inhaling spaceborne thread spores! The threat was neutralized, but now there is the surviving crew. What does one make of a ragtag group of cross-universe species?
- The Landers were moved to Aphelion Weyr for safekeeping and careful watch. The lot of them have strange antics, and know very little about the Pernese culture. Several of the pods holding hopefully rescued crewmembers are showing promise- will there be more aliens to come?
** Alien characters of the already created species are open for creation by Members!
** New Alien Races are capable of creation by Members with detailed species biographies!
-A new Pass begins and Thread terrorizes Pern once more! It was a disastrous first Fall, despite all the timely training from the Old Timer, Whiterider B'nard. Many dragons and riders were badly wounded and will need time to heal before they will ever fly again. Thankfully, the Landers apparently have technology fit to help out! How will the next Fall go?
- Northern Weyr kicked out all of their non-traditional colored dragons, making it the only strictly-canon colored Weyr on Pern! What has gotten into them, the leaders of Northern Weyr? A Celestial Rider from Aphelion is sent on a diplomatic mission to find out!
- Tempest of Aero Queen Eleth was murdered shortly after her dragon's eggs hatched, and the young Queen vanishes between! But the question is, who committed the murder? Drudge Perales is blamed, but not everyone is convinced it was he who did the dirty deed!
- After T'kor of Celestial Oskirth returned from his mission to Northern Weyr, it was discovered rider and dragon were captured and tortured over the course of their strangely long visit. The great Celestial is covered in scars and his rider is left with a permanent limp. The copper flitter that had followed was killed and dissected! Aphelion Weyr is madder than a hornet's nest!
- Pirates spirited away with almost all of three classes of Aphelion's Weyrlings and two of Ista's young classes! After months of being missing, the Weyrlings are tracked to the Southern Continent when Lander Sran pulled the memories of the terrible Water Snake when it returned to Aphelion from following the Weyrling laden boats.
- The rogue Queen and all her Riders are confronted by wings from Aphelion, Ista, and Clydek Weyrs, demanding the Weyrlings back. Things do not go well! A rogue Bronze attacks the Lander Rodegnar in the undiplomatic fray that ensues, aiming to kill the alien. Solar Intanaith defends his Lander Rider by slaying the Bronze, thereby starting the War in which dragon fights dragon!
- Drudge Perales has been found not guilty of murdering Aero Queenrider Tempest and is released from his long imprisonment. But the question still remains; Who did do the dastardly deed?
- Things quiet down for a little while, allowing Golden Lydelask to run! She did well, and now there are a full eight new Wher Handlers ... three of which happen to be Landers! Still more startling, Lydelask took one of her eggs clear across the Weyr to deposit it on the sleeping Lander Captain!
- A Tithing train was flamed to ruin, starting a wildfire in the plains! While the wings of Aphelion were out fighting the blaze, an agenothree tank was set off as a bomb in the hatching sands, glassing the whole thing and knocking out the hatching wall!
- Weyrwoman Analei has gone missing? Where did she go? Will her Weyrmate survive the stress? Her great dragon is still obvious to all, but with the Weyrwoman out of sight, will something be avoided? Or has something already happened?
- The murderer has returned and murdered the Hatching Sands bomber! Worse, he tried to murder the Jr. Weyrperson, Sk'ler of Yellow Murth the same night!
- The Yellow queen and her rider have been rescued, but not without injury. S'kler is left recovering from a number of injuries, and his beloved sport Queen dragon has been left sterilized! Everyone in on the lookout for the blackrider and dragon responsible!
- Weyrwoman Analei returns, having only been hiding in her own Weyr's caverns as a mere Drudge ... and rather convincingly at that! All are relieved, but none more so than T'kor.
- Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth has risen and a new Weyrleader has been chosen! But with the hatching wall shattered and the sands glassed, the massive gold was forced to lay her eggs in furry cradles! Her sizeable clutch of thirteen eggs, now resting on the Wher hatching sands, has hardened and will be hatching soon.
- Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth's Symbology clutch has hatched and all the babies Impressed! With a spread of shades like this one was, it's no wonder Aphelion Weyr is considered an abomination by the strictly original color Weyrs! With two new colors and a young non-original Queen, who knows what trouble this set of Weyrlings might face?
- A new Gold Queen has arrived at Aphelion to stay! Welcome to Seshira of Gold Faerith! Benden was surely far quieter than Aphelion will ever be! Though her arrival is welcome, suspicions run high about the Queenrider and her Gold. What possessed them to come to Aphelion, where not a single Queen beyond the Senior has been left without injury or murdered?
- Aero Queenlet Illyruth and her Rider Otara have been kidnapped in broad daylight mere weeks after the arrival of the Transfer Queen! Aphelion is gearing up for a counterstrike as everyone wonders what became of the vanished pair! Suspicions and rumors fly as a meeting has been called- Anyone who is anyone should attend! What will come out of this terrible terror?
- A Clydek Bronze is murdered during Gold Faerith's Flight by Bronze Osgillieth! Clydek Weyr is most certainly not a happy Ally. Will the Alliance survive this tragedy?
- The curse strikes again! Seshira and her Gold Faerith are murdered on the beach sands while watching over Faerith's clutch! Seshira is torn in half by dragons and spirited away while Faerith is outright murdered by two other, larger dragons while being silenced by another Gold flying overhead! The Wher guard are powerless to stop it! Two eggs are destroyed, stomped to oblivion.
- Amazingly, despite being clutched on the cold beach sands, and having survived their queen mother's murder, the remaining eggs hatch healthy dragons!
- Lander Rodegnar has created a whole second set of Wings known collectively as the War Wings, and is heading up the effort to teach Aphelion Riders about Warfare and how to be most effective in it.
- Landers Rodegnar and Newt have built something ... large and heavy, they turned a massive gem that survived the crash into ... a crude laser?!
- Clydek Weyr opens its hatching sands to Aphelion Candidates, for the first time in history allowing outsiders not only within the massive Weyr's walls, but a chance to Impress Clydek dragons!
Upcoming Events:
- It's been quiet as of late, and everyone is worried. What will our plot-twisting Darkness Rising whip up?
- Many, many flitter flights and non-queen flights!
- Member-created Flitter eggs are going to be given out to Members for Gold Regal's clutch!
- And of course, many, many more plot items!
- We have several pre-made slots available, Dragon and Wher alike, as well as many Crafter and Holder positions for the player tired of making just candidates!
- A continual plot arc that covers everything from natural disasters to stolen weyrlings and dragon war! There is lots of excitement for everyone!
- Aphelion Weyr also sports a devoted player that does nothing but initiate plots! He strictly plays the other side of everything the admins cook up, creating mass chaos, mayhem, death, and mischief! Nothing is ever boring with Darkness Rising around! Beware!
- Open and running Contests, including Plot, Advertising, and Egg Guessing Contests! Have an idea for an interesting plot item? Throw it in, and we may well use it!
Events From the Beginning to Now:
- A monstrous Weyrling-munching watersnake is plaguing the Islands with its rampaging appetite! Though badly injured and half blind from its epic battle with Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth, it came back yet again. Who will it try to eat now?
- Oh no! Brownrider S'koin was murdered in the middle of a Hatching Feast with a meatfork! With no witnesses and no clues to the culprit, how will justice ever be reached? Who killed the dragonrider?!
- A Starship Leviathan was sent crashing onto the Islands after unfortunately inhaling spaceborne thread spores! The threat was neutralized, but now there is the surviving crew. What does one make of a ragtag group of cross-universe species?
- The Landers were moved to Aphelion Weyr for safekeeping and careful watch. The lot of them have strange antics, and know very little about the Pernese culture. Several of the pods holding hopefully rescued crewmembers are showing promise- will there be more aliens to come?
** Alien characters of the already created species are open for creation by Members!
** New Alien Races are capable of creation by Members with detailed species biographies!
-A new Pass begins and Thread terrorizes Pern once more! It was a disastrous first Fall, despite all the timely training from the Old Timer, Whiterider B'nard. Many dragons and riders were badly wounded and will need time to heal before they will ever fly again. Thankfully, the Landers apparently have technology fit to help out! How will the next Fall go?
- Northern Weyr kicked out all of their non-traditional colored dragons, making it the only strictly-canon colored Weyr on Pern! What has gotten into them, the leaders of Northern Weyr? A Celestial Rider from Aphelion is sent on a diplomatic mission to find out!
- Tempest of Aero Queen Eleth was murdered shortly after her dragon's eggs hatched, and the young Queen vanishes between! But the question is, who committed the murder? Drudge Perales is blamed, but not everyone is convinced it was he who did the dirty deed!
- After T'kor of Celestial Oskirth returned from his mission to Northern Weyr, it was discovered rider and dragon were captured and tortured over the course of their strangely long visit. The great Celestial is covered in scars and his rider is left with a permanent limp. The copper flitter that had followed was killed and dissected! Aphelion Weyr is madder than a hornet's nest!
- Pirates spirited away with almost all of three classes of Aphelion's Weyrlings and two of Ista's young classes! After months of being missing, the Weyrlings are tracked to the Southern Continent when Lander Sran pulled the memories of the terrible Water Snake when it returned to Aphelion from following the Weyrling laden boats.
- The rogue Queen and all her Riders are confronted by wings from Aphelion, Ista, and Clydek Weyrs, demanding the Weyrlings back. Things do not go well! A rogue Bronze attacks the Lander Rodegnar in the undiplomatic fray that ensues, aiming to kill the alien. Solar Intanaith defends his Lander Rider by slaying the Bronze, thereby starting the War in which dragon fights dragon!
- Drudge Perales has been found not guilty of murdering Aero Queenrider Tempest and is released from his long imprisonment. But the question still remains; Who did do the dastardly deed?
- Things quiet down for a little while, allowing Golden Lydelask to run! She did well, and now there are a full eight new Wher Handlers ... three of which happen to be Landers! Still more startling, Lydelask took one of her eggs clear across the Weyr to deposit it on the sleeping Lander Captain!
- A Tithing train was flamed to ruin, starting a wildfire in the plains! While the wings of Aphelion were out fighting the blaze, an agenothree tank was set off as a bomb in the hatching sands, glassing the whole thing and knocking out the hatching wall!
- Weyrwoman Analei has gone missing? Where did she go? Will her Weyrmate survive the stress? Her great dragon is still obvious to all, but with the Weyrwoman out of sight, will something be avoided? Or has something already happened?
- The murderer has returned and murdered the Hatching Sands bomber! Worse, he tried to murder the Jr. Weyrperson, Sk'ler of Yellow Murth the same night!
- The Yellow queen and her rider have been rescued, but not without injury. S'kler is left recovering from a number of injuries, and his beloved sport Queen dragon has been left sterilized! Everyone in on the lookout for the blackrider and dragon responsible!
- Weyrwoman Analei returns, having only been hiding in her own Weyr's caverns as a mere Drudge ... and rather convincingly at that! All are relieved, but none more so than T'kor.
- Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth has risen and a new Weyrleader has been chosen! But with the hatching wall shattered and the sands glassed, the massive gold was forced to lay her eggs in furry cradles! Her sizeable clutch of thirteen eggs, now resting on the Wher hatching sands, has hardened and will be hatching soon.
- Sr. Queen Adrainarlyth's Symbology clutch has hatched and all the babies Impressed! With a spread of shades like this one was, it's no wonder Aphelion Weyr is considered an abomination by the strictly original color Weyrs! With two new colors and a young non-original Queen, who knows what trouble this set of Weyrlings might face?
- A new Gold Queen has arrived at Aphelion to stay! Welcome to Seshira of Gold Faerith! Benden was surely far quieter than Aphelion will ever be! Though her arrival is welcome, suspicions run high about the Queenrider and her Gold. What possessed them to come to Aphelion, where not a single Queen beyond the Senior has been left without injury or murdered?
- Aero Queenlet Illyruth and her Rider Otara have been kidnapped in broad daylight mere weeks after the arrival of the Transfer Queen! Aphelion is gearing up for a counterstrike as everyone wonders what became of the vanished pair! Suspicions and rumors fly as a meeting has been called- Anyone who is anyone should attend! What will come out of this terrible terror?
- A Clydek Bronze is murdered during Gold Faerith's Flight by Bronze Osgillieth! Clydek Weyr is most certainly not a happy Ally. Will the Alliance survive this tragedy?
- The curse strikes again! Seshira and her Gold Faerith are murdered on the beach sands while watching over Faerith's clutch! Seshira is torn in half by dragons and spirited away while Faerith is outright murdered by two other, larger dragons while being silenced by another Gold flying overhead! The Wher guard are powerless to stop it! Two eggs are destroyed, stomped to oblivion.
- Amazingly, despite being clutched on the cold beach sands, and having survived their queen mother's murder, the remaining eggs hatch healthy dragons!
- Lander Rodegnar has created a whole second set of Wings known collectively as the War Wings, and is heading up the effort to teach Aphelion Riders about Warfare and how to be most effective in it.
- Landers Rodegnar and Newt have built something ... large and heavy, they turned a massive gem that survived the crash into ... a crude laser?!
- Clydek Weyr opens its hatching sands to Aphelion Candidates, for the first time in history allowing outsiders not only within the massive Weyr's walls, but a chance to Impress Clydek dragons!
Upcoming Events:
- It's been quiet as of late, and everyone is worried. What will our plot-twisting Darkness Rising whip up?
- Many, many flitter flights and non-queen flights!
- Member-created Flitter eggs are going to be given out to Members for Gold Regal's clutch!
- And of course, many, many more plot items!
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