HRWClutch:30/NPCs
HRW Clutch 30/NPCs
Lower Caverns Girl and Minty Green
A minty green head pokes free from a small hole within the With The Candlestick Egg, followed rapidly by the rest of her. Once entirely detangled from her former home, she launches herself into the fray, inspecting one candidate after another, then moving on again. With a trail of disappointment left in her wake, she finally finds what she's after in the form of a gangly girl from the lower caverns - and the very first Impression is made.
High Reaches Hold boy and Brown
It's definitely /not/ too soon for some, though: the constant, low-level shuddering performed by the Natural Twenty Egg finally fades away into nothing as pieces begin to break free, followed by the arrival of a tail forcefully pushed straight through. The brown that shakes itself free is almost bronze-sized, though his mahogany-tinted hide is undeniably brown. He finds a High Reaches Hold boy in short order; the boy leads him off with one hand draped possessively over neckridges.
Weyrbred Calarid and Bronze Albranoth
Impossibly tiny, the cracks that begin to spread across the One Hundred and Eighty Egg aren't even visible until - with an almighty /crack/ - the whole thing collapses in on itself, raining shards down on the burnished bronze within. Intent interest carries him directly towards a group of candidates, where weyrbred Calarid drops to his knees as he wraps strong arms about the narrow creature's body.
Former Guard and Brown
After battering his way free from the What It Takes To Win Egg, a small brown darts across the sands, blatantly ignoring the assembled and eager candidates to positively launch himself at the galleries. In his haste, he tips down the stairs, limbs and wings akimbo, and barely manages to crawl - creeling piteously - the rest of the way towards the one he's after, a man who, until now, served as guard to the convict workers. A buzz raises itself through those nearby, and spreads across the sands, but his choice has undeniably been made. Stunned, but no less overjoyed than any other new weyrling, the man has to mostly carry his lifemate out of the galleries and, presumably, towards the infirmary.
Local Boy (S'varis) and Sandy Bronze (Viondeth)
The sandy bronze that rolls out of the Quick, Guess What It Is! Egg spends a few moments examining some beefy convicts - much to the dismay of many of the nearby candidates - before wandering off again. His actual destination is a local boy standing nearby, who spares only a brief look of triumph before he leads his new lifemate off the sands.
Brown, Blue and Green
Such a flurry of action eventuates from the Improbably Green Egg, Cold Approach Egg and Unstable Tower Egg that it's all but impossible to determine which dragon comes from which. The trio - brown, blue and green - even head in the same direction, choosing their lifemates from a cluster of candidates standing close together. They're all helped off together, excitement visible all round. "
Skinny weyrbred Redhead and Green
The Inevitable Failure Egg does eventually fail, the very last to do so, its shell cracking under the strain of an internal assault. For a moment it shudders, and then a curvy little green pushes her head out through one particular patch of magenta. Body follows and from the start, she knows this game and she's gonna play it. She heads straight for a skinny redheaded boy from the Weyr who cries in an improbably deep voice: "No, of course I'm never gonna give you up!" And then... it's all over.
