[LOC] The Skate Queen

[saedusk]

Like clockwork, Guineamom was at the edge of the rink, barely holding herself back from charging out into the chaos. Running into a highblood wasn't exactly what she'd had in mind when she sent Nahori out on her own to learn. That sort of blatant disrespect could get her culled in an instant, especially against someone as regarded as a tealblood. Apologize!! she wheeked shrilly, but much like Maccue, her call was all but lost against the backdrop of dance jams.

What mother should've known was just how quickly Nahori already had apologized, and how many more times she would've stuttered her pathetic sorries if the highblood-turned-obstacle hadn't begun to reassure her.

It wouldn't have helped much before, but in recent months the orangeblood found herself beginning to believe in the kindness of others, if only ever so slightly. Everyone she'd met, everyone she'd inadvertently disrespected... almost all of them had been honest when they shrugged it off. Some had even become her friends. For a moment, her chest felt warm.

Then she remembered where she was.

"Oh no, y-you're right..." she bubbled, crawling her way to the railing, as well, huffing as she hoisted herself up (legs still wobbling, of course). "I-I... I do still, um, f-feel bad. I hope you're okay, uh..." You can do it, she weakly pushed herself, so do it. "I'm uh, N-Nahori. Y-You... Do you know anything about, um, s-skating?"

Newbie Skater
Point Total: 1

Melancholies

 

[leon_a_darkangel]

Newb Skater

Voscil had heard talk of Rasali's skate ring, and really after the drama the yellowblood needed a little time to just enjoy life. She'd been stressed, and on edge long enough. The promise of a little fun was just too promising to pass up. Mamaju stayed behind this time back at the village, trusting her troll after a series of long talks to foster the growth of Independence the girl seemed to crave.

Really she was just tired of being treated like a wiggler. A little fun on her own sounded like the perfect get away. And I get to skate more. Memories of Bloodfest flooded her thinkpan, eager to give it another go. As soon as she could, the yellowblood peeled off her sneakers and asked for her size in skates. Tying the laces hazardously Vos got up, giving an experimental shuffle to test the wheels before trying to apply speed.

Holding back was short lived as she tried to push herself forward. Even with crashing down onto her knees at least once or twice she seemed to still have some what of an idea what she was doing. A wide toothy grin lit up her face as she scooted along the roller rink. Occasionally she'd see a few others wobble on t heir feet, at least she didn't as bad. Holding her head up high she wobbled along, determined to improve.

Points: 3  

[leon_a_darkangel]

Crane Game for Toys

As Voscil rounded the rink, she spied one of the many arcade games scattered about the lobby. One in particular had a goofy looking plush! The fox like creature was absolutely adorable, and for selfish collectors reasons wanted it to match her other one she owned that was similar, no matter how many attempts it took. Vos would just keep trying, it gave her something to work towards. She found herself inching closer drawn like a moth to the prize flame. Her eyes lit up her hand touching the glass as she eye'd the game, then the handle in turn. Inserting the necessary token to play, she nudged the handle just so, watching as the crane edged along.

Her eyes rounded with childish excitement, even if the odds were low she was always up for a challenge. Vos's tongue poked out slightly, narrowing on the object as she tried to align both the claw and the prize before squeezing the trigger on the button. Just as she hit it, her skates made her waver, nudging the crane out of the way at the last second.

"Ah! Nooo, I didn't mean to press it yet ugh! Hm, oh well." She scowled, before laughing it off. No matter, there was other goodies near by...like candy. She'd forgive her mishap in favor of trying for some of the sugary delights.  

[quite uneventful]

NEWBIE SK8TER

Tugging on her skates the next day, Forera adjusted her leg and elbow pads, grinning widely at the skating floor. This time Forera was a little more prepared, having bought her own equipment-- And hell, was she excited! Last time she was filled with slight dread when she fell, now it was more like... A usual thing. Thankfully she was used to getting hurt!

POINTS: 3 + 2 = 5  

[purplerosesbeauty]

Newbie Skater!

Adjusting the pads on her legs, Eostre was ready to begin practice again. She wondered vaguely when she'd see Rasali again and when their first real competition would be. Her body was aching for something to release the stress with, and nothing was better than a little bit of friendly violence!

Points: 4 + 4 = 8

 

[quite uneventful]

NEWBIE SK8TER

Adjusting her shirt, Forera tugged it around and onto her body, rubbing her neck and smiling brightly. "Alright, once more!" It was the next night already, and Forera was up and ready for another battle against the threatening floor called the skating floor. After joining the crowd in the skating rink, Forera actually fell down quite hard, letting out more than just a few yelps and screams this time-- Nope, this was pretty bad. She'd need some ice later, ugh...

POINTS: 5 + 1 = 6  

[purplerosesbeauty]

Newbie Skater!

Eostre skated a few tight circles around the rink, watching other skaters when she could. She noticed a few of her other teammates, and waved to them when she passed by. A small yellowblood, and a pierced tealblood... didn't look like much so far, but surely they'd do well when the time came.

Points: 8+4= 12

 

[leon_a_darkangel]

Newb Skater!

Given Voscil was still in her skates, and after the failure at the vending machines and the toy grabs she decided to put that behind her and go back to wobbling around on her set of sick wheels. In her hurry to get back out onto the rink, she made a misstep and nearly crashed the second she got onto the floor. She'd forgotten to take it steady and had tried to rush. Luckily, she managed to find her balance, and easily wobbled and actually rolled backwards a few steps as if she'd been trying to do that intentionally.

It felt like a pretty sweet save, and managed to look vaguely graceful despite her impish toothy grin. No one saw that right?

Points: 3 + 4 = 7  

[quite uneventful]

NEWBIE SK8TER

While she needed to take care of something the previous day, The next day she was back in action, slapping her roller skates ad gliding down the rink with the grace of a lame musclebeast. One leg slid one way, another flew backwards sometimes and while she surely wasn't an expert, it was all she could do for now. Thankfully she wasn't alone.

POINTS: 6 + 3 = 9  

[gracie loff]

Arniva remembered, vaguely, a skating rink during Bloodfest. A skating rink that had totally, and utterly, defeated her. She growled thinking of all the times she had graced the floor with her face. She strolled through the door with a mission, not expecting to be.. slightly.. surprised at how nice the place looked. It had funky music, bright lights, and various trolls either skating gracefully, or hitting the floor. Her eyes wandered off to the back, noticing an area devoted to.. games? There were games? She wasn't aware there would be games. And prizes!

She wandered over to the prize booth, letting herself slowly take in just how many amazing prizes there were. She NEEDED them. She needed them all. Flying to the nearest game she could find, she found herself stonewalled by the fact it claimed she needed a "friend" to play with. She scanned the area, looking for the closet sap she could find. Settling for a rather agile looking yellowblood, she leapt at the troll, grabbing her arm and DRAGGING her to the game.

She locked eyes with the yellowblood. "YOU! You will help me with this game. Now. Come on, stop staring at me like that! Move it."

She completely forgot the reason she walked into the skating rink in the first place. Apparently the skating would have to wait for her, she had prizes to win.

Leon_a_darkangel

Ohai.

 

[purplerosesbeauty]

Casual Skater!

Eostre noticed her skating got much smoother, even after only a few days of practice. She looked at the games lining the walls of the building, and wondered if she'd have time to take a shot at those before she left. The blueblood knew in her pump biscuit the prizes were cheap junk for the most part, but it didn't hurt to indulge every once in a while in such things.

And because she was busy thinking instead of skating, she nearly tripped a few times. Gotta keep focused!

Points: 12+3= 15

 

[ImaginationsParadise]

Newb Skater!!

Eridia kept skating, or rather kept sliding on the floor with her skates. She wasn't giving up, she wanted to get good at this one way or another. Occasionally she'd grabbed someone by their ankles to keep on sliding.


Total Score: 4  

[leon_a_darkangel]

Asphalt Carnage IV

As Voscil made her skating rounds, a blueblood from the looks of it seized hold of her arm. The trolls eyes widened in surprise, for a moment scared someone had recognized her and wanted to try hauling her off to prison. Fortunately she realized the other younger troll was just trying to get her to come play! Lucky for the other troll, they'd have been zapped otherwise.

Her eyes lit up; gleaming with child-like mirth despite the fact she was several inches taller than the other. "Ohhh! You wanna play a game? Sure thing, that sounds rad!" She chirped in reply, the psionic went along with the tugging and pulling willingly once the threat factor had been diminished. Or at least it seemed as such, it didn't even occur to her she was now in the company of a member of the Mirthful Messiahs...even if the paint should have been a dead give away.

All Vos knew was some one was asking her to play a video game. Any sense of worry or danger had been thrown out the window for the now.

The large rainbow splattered arcade game received a loud excited noise as she bounced up and down in place. "Yeah!! I saw this and couldn't play by myself you're so on!" She grinned cheekily at the other, meeting her gaze.

Stepping up to the cabinet, she launched immediately into the game, waiting for her new "friend" to join in. Vos was quick to mash buttons, having no idea what she was doing. Who cared! This was meant to be fun after-all. What could possibly go wrong with a little socializing?

Astro Zombies`.

why herro der fran

 

[gracie loff]

Asphalt Carnage IV

Arniva waited impatiently, watching the older troll button mash into oblivion. Was that the point of the game? To break all of the buttons? Hell, that seemed easy. After a sad, endgame music clip played out she noticed the score flash across the screen. ... 9. Was that good? Bad? Whatever the case, she had to do better than that. "Ok, OK. MY turn now!"

She tried pushing the yellowblood out of the way with the same vigor and force she had when she dragged her there, not really caring that this troll was twice her size and could easily push back. Once she was able to get a good stance in front of the machine, she closed her eyes... slowly cracking her knuckles before proceeding to bash the living heck out of any and all buttons in existence. It didn't take long for the machine to shake a bit, starting to play it's opening intro while trying to hold on for dear life, signifying that the blueblood either didn't know, or didn't care, that she was button mashing before the game had even started. After a while the silly little end clip played again, this time flashing a 12 across the screen. Arniva gasped, clapping excitedly.

"IN YOUR FACE ....TWERP!" she screamed at the yellowblood, proceeding to dance circles around the older troll. She didn't know this trolls name, and she didn't care. SHE WON.

Leon_a_darkangel

I'm so sorry. Kinda. Sorta. Not really.

 

[leon_a_darkangel]

Newb Skater!

Voscil stared, disbelief registering on the pre-teens face as the tiny little blueblood literally SHOVED her out of the way with no regard. Her jaw dropped just a tiny bit, and found it in her to look incredulously at the other troll. Not that she was much better behaved, her eyes flickered to the screen leaning in staring as the in-game fight raged on.

"IN YOUR FACE ....TWERP!" Her words might as well have been a physical slap.

Vos's eyes dilated, widening into saucers as she stared at the kid as she screamed at her. Her cheeks flushed yellow as she growled at the other. "Aw man! No fair! How'd you do that! UGH! You win I guess." She glared at the machine for a moment and its silly music invitation to play again as if it was mocking her. Looking back at the other troll she gave her the same sour look. "I'll show you, Shorty!" Okay, so she'd been beaten at a video game by 3 measly points, but Vos had wanted those tickets!

Shuffling towards the rink with her skates still strapped on. Vos started to push herself with her psionics, trying to increase her momentum as quickly as possible to show off. She figured it'd be a breeze just like earlier when she'd skated around and looked like a budding pro. The pops and sparks of her energy ignited in an erratic rush of black and yellow blurry movement.

It didn't go nearly as planned. At all.

Voscil gave a yelp of surprise as her arms flailed around as she tumbled forward, her blunder resulting in her eating it hard on the rink floor. A whoosh of air left her lungs as she landed with a heavy thud, bouncing slightly with the impact and landing in a heap on the floor. Her pride hurt worse that her knees did. Wincing she picked herself up, sitting on her knees as she scowled. Glancing back over her shoulder, she half hoped the nameless blueblood had still been too busy being a moobeast about her victory.

"Don't you dare laugh!" The yellowblood quickly stated before anything could be said or done, pouting even more-so at the other.

Astro Zombies`

omg don't be this is wonderful pft! Vos likes competition/rivalry even if she's pouting so no worries!

Points: 7 + 1 = 8