Maybe you can...climb down? If you fall then it's the same as jumping, but at a lower height.

Suggestion 2012/09/14(Fri)20:40 No. 454704 ID: befc95
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Well I, yeah I could do that. Maybe, yes... no. No I can't do that. I've halfway scrabbled on the sides of the nest, but I can't ever get up under it! She tore all the branches and leaves before building the nest, keeps me safe you see. I can't get down, but bigger things can't get up, brilliant really!

I don't much fancy starving up here, but those few days can really make a difference in young wings. I'm not a good judge of wing strength though, I've only just gotten used to them and all.

If you've run out of food waiting can only lead to you being hungrier when you do jump and that could lead to your strength giving out before you've found yourself some food, so lets make today the day.

Any other nearby trees you can try to jump to?

If not, you'll probably have to risk jumping--if you stay up here without food you'll probably get weaker, not stronger.

Suggestion 2012/09/14(Fri)20:51 No. 454710 ID: befc95
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Courage! What is flight but controlled falling, up and away and around? I can manage that!

I leap from the nest, bravery and a strong resolution swelling in my chest, what a grand feeling! I thrust out my wings, beating them heavily as I did in practice, gaining altitude.

Flight! The freest of the free, bound by nothing but my own will and strength, this is truly how the Kings of the Sky were born to live.

Unfortunately, my wing are not quite up to par. I panic, the ground looks so very solid and I am going so very fast I beat my wings HARDER HARDER HARDER and no why am I SPINNING this is horrible!

Don't flap, wings out as far as you can and glide instead of flying. They aren't strong enough to lift you up but I bet they can keep you from outright falling.

Hold your wings out and don't flap! Try to glide, instead

Suggestion 2012/09/14(Fri)21:05 No. 454716 ID: befc95
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WHAM

Nail it.

The fact that your conscious is a good sign!

.....Anything broken?

well you didn't die so you must of slowed yourself a little bit.

Ok, first thing to do is look for some food. Can you eat plants, or should you be looking for small animal nests?

Make sure everything is in one piece, make sure nothing big heard your impact and locate foodstuffs. In that order.

Suggestion 2012/09/15(Sat)19:37 No. 455069 ID: befc95
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I'm alright. It's.... goodness there are so many trees! I think those are trees, I'm used to more leafy green. Everything is so tangled and massed up down here, one can hardly see all around them at once.

In gryphon culture, we cry out our names to ward off challengers and threats. IF there is anything around to harm me, it surely doesn't have to know how small I am, how... very exposed I am.

I fill my lungs and shout out my name! And that name is...?

Krisss-ta

Martin!

...hmm. Actually, on second thought, I realize we don't actually know your gender. Are you a boy or girl griffon?

Suggestion 2012/09/15(Sat)19:45 No. 455074 ID: befc95
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(Male)

Dol-Kree

Onyx!

Dol-Kree 2012/09/15(Sat)20:25 No. 455100 ID: befc95
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DOL-KREE!

Ha! That's will teach them!

.....

Yes, okay, I don't hear anything, that makes me the winner! This is now my territory! Which is good, because I'm quite hungry. After the screeching it's much quieter here, so... there must be something to eat, something that is scared, something that fears my superior status in life!

Let us begin. Almost everything down here smells wet, so clotting and thick I can't clearly pick out anything. There's a scent of something very faint and musky from behind, and a sort of dry scratchy smell further along in the trees to my left.

>>455100
Musky.

Musky probably means a mammal of some sort. Dry and scratchy probably is a snake or lizard.

>>455105
Pity we don't know how the local wildlife is distributed. Both mammals and lizards can fill the small prey animal niche, and the too big for a little griffon to mess with niche. We'll have to be cautious.

Dol-Kree 2012/09/15(Sat)20:49 No. 455117 ID: befc95
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Musky it is then! I'm quite the intelligent gryphon, mammals are always a good meal. Anything smelling like that other smell could be big, or venomous! She always told me to be careful with scaly smells, the hominids think they've slain all the wild dragons, but She knows better, She's smarter than some gangly two-leg.

And I certainly know dragons don't like gryphons. Their entire species holds jealousy for our maneuverability in the sky and the fact that we to can use magic like they can. Poor things, so vain and proud, they practically asked for intervention from the hominids. She always warned me against two-legs and their animals, never eat a two-legs animal.

I found some furry things wedged under a tree and dug them out, messy business, but their meat and blood made my belly round and sleek. A good gorging is important when you're still growing. I'm small enough to live like this for several years as long as the mammals hang around. This place is proving to be ideal, shall I stay and grow?

Yes, keep an eye out for the lizard as you do and if hominids start appearing in numbers it might be time to move on. The odd traveller or hunter can be avoided though.

>>455117
I see no reason to move. Just remain vigilant.

Yup. Make sure to establish a den, nest or retreat of some kind, so you have a secure place to hide if some nasty apex predator or a violent band of two legs shows up in your territory one day.

be careful though. you are also small enough that if a big dragon shows up you can't contest it so bow out of the challenge. and if you can convince a two-leg that you mean no harm to them or their animals they may give you something.

Dol-Kree 2012/09/15(Sat)21:27 No. 455134 ID: befc95
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It is here I will grow then! I will be the grandest of gryphons, like She wanted! I am Dol-Kree and I will live by any means!

A few years roll past. The time flies, as I do. I've subsided on prey from the cunning rat to the humble shaggy coated sheep that roam the plains to the south, I am master of my domain.

But I am alone. Daily, I soar high as I dare and cry my name for all to hear, for any to answer with their own. None respond. The urge to leave and find others gnaws away at my mind, not even other gryphons, just anything to speak to, to win victory from.

Gryphons crave glory! We are the proudest of creatures, and rightly so! Kings of the Sky and favorite of the suns creatures. Life is good here thought, I have a food source, the stream runs clean year after year.... I even have this nice jutting of rock to sleep upon and gaze out at my land.

I fear I am going mad. Day after day after day, fly and hunt, patrol the edges of what is mine, challenge any and all to try and take it from me. Why do I feel unfulfilled then?

(Sorry the art is a bit shotty, I'm drawing far outside my comfort zone right now)

[that's ok]

hrmmm... then we must wander! your land will probably fill with an interloper while you ar gone but you can easily get rid of them later. for now explore.

Perhaps it is time to expand your territory? Claim more and more as YOURS until you find someone to oppose that claim!

Then it is time to abandon what is yours and find a being you can share with. To make a place that is not just yours alone but anothers as well. One you can fight one day and keep companionship with the next. A gryphon will do, or a man though you will have to be careful around such. Or perhaps even a ... dragon. Assuming you find one.

Where though is the question.

Dol-Kree 2012/09/15(Sat)21:52 No. 455145 ID: befc95
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"Doooooool-Kreeeeeee!

No answer, how disappointing.

From the edge of the Big Forest to around half of the Plains are mine. My range is how far I can fly when carrying prey, any further and I risk stranding myself to whatever wishes to hunt a gryphon.

That's a silly notion, I am the only intelligent thing here. When my wings first took true flight, I travel this half of the Island. There's Big Land across the water, I can see it when I get close, but the water is wide and deep and the winds are always unsure of themselves. I've seen the other half from high up, a rocky craig with patches of lush grass, but I can't get high enough to see past that.

Perhaps I am truly alone, I will loose myself to myself, and dash headlong into the dirt one day.

As the days go by I'm fairly sure that's what She did.

To Risk the water or to risk insanity. At least the water will be relatively quick.

Remember this place for perhaps one day you will wish a safe haven from those in the Big Land. But we can't stay here. Across the Sea to the Big Land.

Eat a good meal and get some sleep the day before, then in the morning take flight over the water.

>>455145
I think it is time we moved, and found someplace nearer to ANYTHING.

Move towards the other half of the island. Enough so that you can still reach half of your original territory.

Suggestion 2012/09/22(Sat)07:54 No. 456787 ID: befc95
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I decide to stop acting like a chicken and start acting like a gryphon!

The other side of the island is unknown to me, but if I am the only thing here, then that makes it mine. It's about half a day of hard flight to crest the edge of my current territory, and I'm really feeling it in my wing joints. I suppose I'm going to see what all is over here, and make a home away from home of sorts. I like that idea! Such a grand creature as I can have as much land as he wants, I just have to make extra places to seep!

I am brilliant.

Coming up to the tall rocky spire, I can see the Big Water gently washing against the sand, there's some sort of broken old something there. My wings give a shudder, I need to land quickly!

Land, and rest your wings. Don't investigate the thing on the beach until you've recovered. It would be silly to go into a potentially dangerous situation with just your feet to rely on.

Hunt some small game while you rest your wings, then investigate.

Rest your wings in safety. Don't rush into the unknown unprepared!

Try to rest somewhere from which you can keep an eye on the object. If there is anything/one still around it would be best to observe it from a distance.

>>456787
Just go and check it out, broken piece of stuff is no threat. It's yours now as well!

Dol-Kree 2012/10/04(Thu)16:54 No. 460338 ID: befc95
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There's never anything wrong with taking a break! She always told me a tired gryphon is a dead gryphon.

I take a quick sail around to the other side of the big spire, this is all so new and exciting! There are two caverns here! I've never been much for caverns, gryphons like overhangs to keep us dry, but we like being able to take off quickly. Dragons on the other claw... they just LOVE being hold up in their caves, both safe and trapped all at once. Silly creatures really.

I make a landing in the lush grass at the base of the spire, I can see the cave mouths from here, and a quick turn will have me facing the big water. I suppose I should check them out, there might be treasure or some magical device or some such! But the sun is going down soon, so I only have time for one.

( A playable character is near! Will you switch perspectives y/n?)

[Not yet!]

Check out the thing on the beach first, we can come back for these caverns

>>460341
Yeah, we haven't done enough with this character yet to go jumping perspectives yet.

Dol-Kree 2012/10/04(Thu)17:27 No. 460354 ID: befc95
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Perhaps the Beach is a better option! Those caves look way to worrisome for me right now, who knows what kind of low-grade beasties might be lurking in there, waiting for moon-rise.

Ooooooh I had almost forgotten how odd sand feels between my paws. I just want to return to the grass and preen all night. Ick. Oh well, I'm on a time frame here, might as well explore my new land! There are some woody bits here, they smell sort of salty and musty I guess. I can't smell very well and EVERYTHING smells like big water. There also appear to be rocks, but I can't for my life think why someone would put rocks and wood here, and to what purpose? You cannot even see the other land from here, you have to fly up!

Sand stills feels gritty and nasty. The water is nice though, up and down... almost entrancing...

investigate the rocks and wood a bit, then go swimming! Maybe you can catch a fish

>>460354
I see a thing at the base of that wooden log with the rope on it. Look at the thing!

dig that shit up.