(Updated 2023)
| Name | Iolabfej |
| Gender | Male |
| Type | Dragon (size medium-small, B-F/+2, Drive/0, Bonk+3) |
| Nut | NUT |
| Class | Freshman (summer) |
| Smarts/GM | 4 |
| Bod/Feets | 7 |
| RWP | 2 |
| Luck/Nuts | 5 |
| Drive | 0 |
| Looks | 5 |
| Cool/Mouth | 4 |
| Bonk/Meat | 7 |
| Powers | Flight (assisted) Teleportation Speech |
| Clusters | Aerial Navigation/Flight +2 |
| Skills | Study Human Stuff +3 Stomp +2 Technical Manuals +1 |
| Knacks | Understand High Tech +2 Charm +2 |
| Period 1 | RealTime Geometry / Lari / Excellent |
| Period 2 | Advanced Technical Languages / Charybdis / Excellent |
| Period 3 | Locals (Skinside) History / Prescott / Decent |
| Period 4 | Fur-Side Studies / Keevok / Decent |
| Period 5 | Non-Human Heroics / H'zardus / Excellent |
| Period 6 | Four-Legs Plus / T.Houten / Decent |
| Period 7 | Draconic Track and Field / Kazkegu / Excellent |
| Period 8 | Mechanical Engineering / Vasalo / Superb |
From Dasmalenra, Iolabfej (eeohLABfay) is truly enjoying himself. His freshman year he intends to learn as much as possible, so he can 'slack off' in his next... Fitted with flight aiding levitation disks in his wings, since his wing sails are too weak to support him, he's thinking about becoming a superhero or something - after all, there are a bunch of em flying around. Why not him too?
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Io strutted around campus looking for something to do. He'd participated in a flight recently, his first. He hadn't won but that was all right, the competition was sweet and he really needed more practice before doing that again. It was summer vacation, and now he needed to occupy three months of glorious days and nights. He swept over the city and was joined by other dragons, it was becoming a popular spectator sport apparently, to watch from below or rooftops as parades of dragons (both with and without riders) came through the city. Downtown had become a vortex of flighted creatures, all dodging between the buildings and trying to scare the folks inside.
Io had thought about taking summer courses, but the sun and the beach and everything were all so fun! Eventually the school year would start up again and he would choose classes to challenge himself. He didn't care whether he was getting a C or an A, as long as he didn't fail something he wanted to learn.
It had only been a week since school let out, and there was a beach party. A lot of the kids, aliens, dragons and even professors from Carramba were at it, there were bonfires every weekend during summer. Dragons lounged around on the still-warm rocks above the beach, and since the day was done the parking lots were more empty and some of them soaked in the hot asphalt there too.
Iolabfej remained dry and warm outside the surf, he wasn't sure whether the levipads in his wings would work properly in water. There were a few people tossing around a glow in the dark frizbee (that was fun), and some using their powers to create sand sculptures under the floodlights near the grass. It was all in all a really nice night.
He fell asleep under the stars, near the pier, surrounded by a number of other dragons and their friends. Yet, Io had a strange dream that night. It called to him, he wasn't quite done with his off-world travels. A place called to him, so when he woke he was left with such a strong impression of the location he shook off the sand from his hide and mane, and teleported straight away.
"Maybe I should have eaten first" Iolabfej complained, as he picked around looking for a place to stand. The location, Ihlathi, seemed pretty busy. In his dream it was more quiet, intimate. Maybe that was just his impression though. After all there were plenty of dragons around here, they always made things look crowded.
There were bunches of colorful, fancy floofy dragonets though - they attracted his attention pretty quickly. Apparently they were there to find bonds or to get a new home. Their patterns were adorable, and Io wondered if maybe... Maybe one might want to come to Carramba with him?
"Excuse me," he said to one passing furry-dragonet, "want to come to school with me?"
On thinking... maybe that wasn't the ideal pickup line, but hey - it was true and he was serious!
He couldn't believe it. She actually stood there, purple feathers bobbing gently in the wind, and thought about it.
"Sure I would!" She said, ear curlies twitching as she ruffled her wings. Then, she abruptly bowled Io over in a dragon-glomp. She'd started out dragon, at least, but when Io looked down at her she was all but human.
"... Sha...shapeshifter?"
"Uh huh!" She nodded furiously.
"Well that's a surprise," Io said, and he could swear that humanoid smile on her face meant more than the obvious.
"Then let's go, we can get back before the bonfires start tonight on the beach. You can meet a lot of the other students there, and... since you can go human like that you might even get cooler classes than me."
Io ported them back to Crescent City, where summer was still in full swing and only two days had gone by. Io began to introduce his new friend to people. She would appraise each one and then choose something bizarre to do to them. Sometimes she flicked her feathers into their face. Sometimes, she doused them with a magically-lofted wobbly bit of water. It was never too late to drag her back and find someone new...
But Hirra was unerringly positive, always smiling. Never really cruel - she did accidentally toast one of the local alumnus thinking it was just a bit of fluff on someone else's shoulder but apologized right after, and Jake Flake was okay once they re-floured him. (Jake is a pastry creature, by the way.)
It didn't seem like Hirra would be difficult to get into the school, summer courses were going but it was too late to enroll in them. So Io and she started looking over next year's class schedules to find her something of interest.
Name: Hirra'Helle Gredelle
Bonded To: Iolabfej
Gender: Female
Breed: Henne'lel Mutt
Height: 14 Feet
Parentage: Cran Gredelle and Zein-mui (giveaway from Ihlathi on Nexus)
Abilities: Water Manipulation, Conjure Fire, Shape Shifting (Human Form), Verbal Speech
Personality: "Sure I will." Hirra loves to answer in the affirmative, loves to make people think that she is going to cooperate with them, and loves to surprise them. Not only is she extremely arrogant but she doesn't like to listen to anyone. A simple "sure" might be followed by a bit fire in the face, maybe some ice down the back... anything that she thinks of at the moment. None of it is really all that mean, Hirra would hate to actually hurt someone, but she is rather insistent in her pranks. She is sucker for flattery though- and anyone who makes her feel even better about herself than she already does will find that she can be delightful. Luckily, this is the sort of introduction that Iolabfej set up for himself- whether he meant to or not. Hirra is completely taken by him and though Iolabfej can't expect her to stop playing her tricks on other people- he can certainly expect to get none of it himself (as long as he keeps his bond happy...). Hirra, like much of her family, will be loyal and loving to her bond, and Iolabfej will not regret having found her.
| Name | Hirra'Helle Gredelle |
| Gender | Female |
| Type | Dragon (size medium, B-F/+3, Drive/0, Bonk+4) |
| Nut | NUT |
| Class | Freshman |
| Smarts/GM | 3 |
| Bod/Feets | 7 |
| RWP | 1 |
| Luck/Nuts | 8 |
| Drive | 0 |
| Looks | 4 |
| Cool/Mouth | 5 |
| Bonk/Meat | 8 |
| Powers | Flight Shapeshifting (human form) Speech Water Manipulation Conjure Fire |
| Clusters | Flight Tricks +3 |
| Skills | Practical Jokes +3 Fluffy Grooming Tricks +2 Human Grooming Tricks +2 |
| Knacks | Appear Completely Honest +3 Charm +3 |
| Period 1 | Nexus Geohistory / T. Kshau / Decent |
| Period 2 | Interspecies Politics / A.Davis-Dawg / Excellent |
| Period 3 | Betting and Odds / Haitail / Excellent |
| Period 4 | Grooming For Success / Dian Rhein / Excellent |
| Period 5 | Martial Arts for the Fashion Conscious / Carver / Decent |
| Period 6 | Speech / Prescott / Excellent |
| Period 7 | Draconic Shapeshifting / Brianola / Superb |
| Period 8 | Hedge Mazes Alibi and Art / Ihrinnah / Superb |