Pandora's Fox II

[folkie]

PANDORA'S FOX II

If you were here last June, do you remember that app that appeared on the relics then, Pandora's Fox? It's all about finding your Familiar bond. It's been available for people to use since every Star Child was forced to fill it out or have it filled out for them with its grand reveal. However, it's sat quietly in the background unobtrusive to those who didn't click to see what it was about.

Until now.

That's right, Pandora's Fox is back! (and with a makeover). The app has been rejiggered with old questions and new, including some specific to each Role! The app will buzz and open itself with a blank profile waiting to be filled out. Star Children can fill it out for themselves—as long as they don't lie. This app will not allow Star Children to lie. Honesty is important in a Familiar bond. Star Children who lie may find that answer filled in a little too honestly and unable to be deleted. Anyone who waits too long to fill it in will find it answered for them!

Familiar bonds come in all different shapes and sizes, so find the right person for you!

This is game canon!

Forms for your characters!

Myths:
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Legends:
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Familiars:
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As Written by Spirits

[usestwohands]

Drizzt Do'Urden
59 | Male | Legend

An exiled Dark elf who's faced racism wherever he's gone, a hero who refuses to call himself one, and an awkward duck who chooses not to say things most of the time to avoid saying the wrong thing. Mostly, he's a very young elf who's not even old enough to be considered an adult, who lives in a cave with his pet cat and drastically downplays his own capabilities.

My favorite of these colors is: Green

I live in: Drizzt moves around! That is to say he's homeless, but he has been for a long time. We'd say it was sad, but he's a ranger and likes it that way.

I spend a lot of time in: Leshy, Cruel Summer, Exile

I choose these areas because: He spends a lot of time in Leshy visiting his girlfriend, and spending a lot of time with his girlfriend there, doing boyfriend and girlfriend things. He also spends a lot of time in Exile, in the Swamps of Sorrow, facing his demons, and in Cruel Summer, teaching others how to fight as well as fighting monsters in the sand wastes with his pet cat. Some people would say this is because he has a death wish, but really, he just calls it exercise.

Regions/locations I avoid: None that we've been able to see.

I avoid them because: He doesn't get out to Tides or Never Fade often, but that's likely due to his loathing of the train and the submarine. He really doesn't like the train.

I think I'm a Legend because: Drizzt would say he has no idea why he would be a legend because there's nothing particularly special about him. We say it's because of that very selfless nature, and how he's so willing to die to save people, but not only people. He's willing to die for just about anything he believes in, and he doesn't just go with the status quo on things. He's a real rebel, that Drizzt! He follows his heart, and it usually leads him to heroic deeds. Besides, how can you be a hero if you're the one who named you one? Definite hero material, this one.

Reasons I would form a Familiar bond: We'd love to see him form a bond, but we're pretty sure he already has one. She's a fancy cat he summons with a magic statue.

What I want from a Familiar Bond: Someone to read my diary. Probably not, but he does keep one. Did anyone know that? They do now!

I have these physical traits: He has huge bat wings, but only sometimes! He's gotten pretty good at it!

My mood ring eye colors mean: He doesn't want anyone to know his eyes turn red when he's angry, because they remind him of his people, who usually have red eyes (his are purple and they make him special), and he also doesn't like being angry.

The best way to help people is: Observe. He learned that the hard way. Someone should ask him about it!

My dealbreakers are: Oh, he really doesn't like slavers, or prejudice, or bullies!

[nativized]

[ . . . So this is written in third person so it's clearly not the guy himself doing it, right? He had talked to this guy the once, curious about the lessons he offered and this summoned thing. But as is, he's curious about something else, ]

What entails a "dark" elf?

[ They were a thing in his childhood stories, but didn't end up being a thing in the reality he encountered. ]

[usestwohands]

Dark elves are the Drow. They, we, usually make our homes deep beneath the surface in the lightless realm of the Underdark. They worship other gods, but also differ in appearance. Our skin color ranges from deep gray to obsidian and our hair is white. We are, very literally, "dark".

[nativized]

[ Different gods... huh. ]

So it's a culture -- maybe even something magically apart from the other elves of your realm? Distinct?

[usestwohands]

The Drow of Menzoberranzan have forged a pact with Lolth the Spider Queen, a goddess of chaos, who has bestowed them with gifts not afforded to those who do not follow her, so yes, magically apart.

[nativized]

[ ... Huh.

Huh. Interesting. Fascinating, actually. In his own world, the realms he knows, that would go the opposite way, even if people on the ground might not realize it. But he wonders... maybe this is genuinely the case for this guy? Huh. ]

That being the root of the dark elves? This - realm?

[usestwohands]

That's what we're taught. I believe the truth is more oblique. I have met elves of the surface, and outside of color and custom, there is little difference between us.

[nativized]

If I might venture a guess though - that you say their patron is a goddess of chaos, I assume that custom has led to conflicts in the past?

[usestwohands]

Conflict is welcomed, and smaller houses are destroyed by larger, more powerful ones, regularly. What is honored is doing so without anyone knowing it was you who loosed the arrow.

un: zanth; voice

[zanth]

I'm sorry to bother you when it doesn't... look like you wanted all of this shared, and I'm sorry if this is a rude question, but is that "dark elf" in the sense of Drow? It sounds like we could be from a similar world.

[There's a few other things that catch her eye as well, but this already feels like prying under the circumstances.]

un: winstrom; voice

[usestwohands]

It is. You are not the first to know my people here. Forgive me if my heritage gives you pause.

[ As he expects. ]

[zanth]

It doesn't—I mean, not in a negative way or anything. Sorry, it's just... interesting to run into anything I recognise.

[A little pause, she really should have stuck to not asking anyone personal questions, shouldn't she?]

I'm no fan of that kind of intolerance—I think most people find it archaic where I'm from, when it comes to well known species at any rate.

[She doubts drow would give most people pause; even the one drider she's met got little more than surprised looks.]

[usestwohands]

Then you have me at a disadvantage, perhaps, unless you are a being with which I'm familiar. Humans seem to exist in nearly all realities, for example.

Many are superstitious, and many more sheltered, their only knowledge of the world being that of their narrow existence. In the case of the Drow, there is much fear, and all is warranted.

[zanth]

I'm an owlin. We seem relatively unheard of here.

[But she'll attach a picture of a humanoid owl, with glasses.]

Warranted? Well, far be it for me to question your word... but I suppose our worlds are fairly different, in that case. Where I'm from--if history books are to be believed--that may have been true, but certainly not in my lifetime.

[usestwohands]

I fear I've never heard of you, either.

[ A pause, here, before he continues. ]

They slaughter surface dwellers without hesitation. There is little wonder they fear us like boogeymen.

Then your world is truly blessed. I can hope, one day, mine fairs similarly.

[zanth]

[She's... not really sure what to say to that, to be honest. The whole idea feels far away and hard to believe. History books, sensationalized old movies, fairytale monsters. Though she supposes she knows a little about those.]

Well... if it's anything like our past, perhaps it will.

[A pause.]

I wonder if it... could be our past. [But it's probably just a similar world, like Rue's. Still, odd to consider.]

[usestwohands]

Perhaps it is. What gods do your people worship?

[ferrokinetically]

Not even gonna ask what boyfriend and girlfriend things are being referenced here. Don't wanna know, just going to pretend I didn't see it. [ Otherwise she'll feel the need to say be careful to him and message Ariadne with a lecture about being careful. Nobody wants that. ]

Wild that 59 is considered young for your people. Do you feel like an adult here among people so much younger?

[usestwohands]

I appreciate your discretion. [ And for sparing him the embarrassment. ]

To be honest, I haven't given it much thought. Elves live for centuries, and so we are slow to grow and slower still to change. Humans live less than one, their growth measured in decades rather than centuries. There are no less adult than I.

[ A beat. ]

That came out wrong. Human adults are human adults. I feel...myself?

[ferrokinetically]

You're welcome. 50/50 on if it's more for me or not.

Nah, it came out alright. I get it. It's not something that has a one to one comparison. Humans can be pretty slow to change though.

[usestwohands]

Whichever it is, I benefit as well.

Groups of them, yes, but individuals, I find, are much more flexible.

[ferrokinetically]

Yeah, I can agree with that. You seem like you've adjusted yourself well to this place though. You just the acceptation for your kind?

[usestwohands]

I hope not as exceptional as it seems. Surely there are others who don't agree with their practices.

I...have experience with adaptation. [ A beat. ] Have you settled in well??

[ferrokinetically]

Surely. [ She found at least one decent human, so surely there's more like him out there too. ]

At least it came in handy for something. [ That's her vague attempt at positivity. ] Been here a long time, so I've mostly just gotten used to it over time .

[usestwohands]

Ah, of course. [ He pauses. ] Forgive me. Small talk has never been a ready skill of mine.

[ He pauses here. ] You are a good friend of Ariadne's yes?