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Neath's mindvoice is low, soothing, and slow - the creep of moss over the forest floor, the patter of the last remains of a rainstorm on the undergrowth, the slow rustle of a large animal making its way through the foliage. It speaks always in an unhurried manner, even when others feel a situation calls for immediate action, and seems to slow further when pressed or pushed. Its presence lingers like a vague feeling of dampness - pleasant to some and utterly offputting to others. Its mindvoice rarely changes very noticeably with its emotions, though the particularly perceptive (and those with a close relationship with it) will notice the minute shifts in temperature, humidity, and texture that correspond to different feelings.
Moss Blankets the World is, at its core, easygoing: if it were any more laid-back it would just be going backwards. It's easy to describe it as lazy, and it's not an entirely false assessment, but there's more to it than just that: a low, determined sort of affection for those around it. It's not going to stop anybody from making a rash decision or from getting caught up in their emotions, but it's more than happy to be there for the aftermath. This mellow attitude can easily verge into complacency - it takes "you can't control everything" a little too seriously. It has, at least, improved from its earliest days in the egg, developing a moderately more active sense of curiosity even if it's liable to shut off and stop caring as soon as something gets too complicated.
Its interactions with others can range from relaxing for both parties to extremely frustrating. Moss is the kind of lazy that leads eventually to stubbornness if it's pushed too hard - a dog laying down halfway through a walk and demanding to be carried home. Outside of those moments its general demeanour is that of relaxed contentment. It doesn't like to complain and doesn't like to give others reason to complain either, as long as they aren't asking more of it than it is willing to give. There's a darker underbelly to this relaxed outer face: if it is feeling something particularly strongly, it's more likely to hide it than speak freely of it. Its frustrations, upsets, and joys are all simmered down until they look the same.
This is, of course, not to say that it doesn't feel. It feels deeply, love more than anything else. Moss Blankets the World is a being that will eventually live up to its egg-name. Grand shows of affection will never be its style, but it will always provide a soft landing and somewhere comfortable to rest for those who need it. Its tolerance for the overly-energetic, the angry, and the cruel will be little, its affection for the world and everything else in it great.
Moss Blankets the World is a small, mostly brown egg, dappled with greens in a natural-looking, appealing pattern reminiscent of, as its name suggests, some species of moss. It sits nestled deep into the sands, and though its position changes from time to time it never shifts far from where its mother rolls it.
Part of this may be due to its round, stout shape. The other part may be because of how its shell seems strangely soft from a distance, far behind its clutchmates in the process of hardening up - it seems almost like the egg of a reptile such as a snake. The shape bulges and shifts occasionally, only noticeable to the most observant of onlookers. It seems healthy otherwise, bright and shiny like any other egg - its strange firmness (or lack thereof) is its only truly unusual or concerning feature.
As of the Rifts event, Neath's shell is noticeably misshapen. Whether or not this has had an effect on the hatchling within is yet to be seen.
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2024-07-27 - Shining, Shimmering, Splendid
The chaotic but uplifting group hatching event of the DD2024 clutch. Thank you, everyone.
Shipfish, 004, 005, 006, 007, 009, 011, 012, 014, 015, 018, 019, 021, 022, 023, 024, 025, 027, 028, 030, 032, 033, 034, 035
2024-06-28 - Rifts
Dunespike Weyr is hit with a large earthquake, collapsing the Hatching Cavern and requiring that the eggs be lifted out to a safe place.
Shipfish, 001, 004, 006, 007, 009, 011, 012, 014, 015, 017, 018, 021, 022, 023, 024, 027, 032, 033, 035
2024-07-24 - This Land, That Land
Neath still doesn't fully understand the concept of different territories.
006
2024-07-22 - Neat, Unbroken Lines
Neath finally learns what Thread is, and why Mother worries so about Pertemarth.
006
2024-07-18 - To Be Brown, To Be Gold
Neath knows by now that the different castes have different jobs. It still doesn't know //why.//
006
2024-07-18 - A New Perspective
Neath's view on Flights is turned upside-down by getting to witness one.
006
2024-07-18 - Disdain
Neath thinks little of Rhuman.
006
2024-07-18 - You're All Revolting
Neath only notices the eyes - and expectations - on it after the Touching.
006
2024-07-15 - Outside Contact
Neath is particularly impacted by four of the many candidates presented to it.
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2024-07-14 - What It Knows, What It Can't, What It Will
Neath's physical, personality, and mindvoice descriptions all in one place.
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2024-07-13 - He's Not Good for Much Either
Neath isn't its sire's biggest fan.
006
2024-07-13 - Flights Again
Neath's opinion of the whole 'mating flight' business gets worse by the day.
006
2024-07-12 - A Safe Haven - 5.4
A rest from the noise.
006, 011, 014
2024-07-12 - Draconic, But Not Dragon
Neath is fascinated by Bisk.
006
2024-07-12 - Not Much, It Seems
Neath doesn't think much of this distant concept of a Weyrleader.
006
2024-07-12 - Hunger in a New Colour
Neath ponders on where Gwillanth's food comes from, and is alarmed by the realisation that it is not infinite. It proceeds to completely and totally misunderstand how herdbeasts work.
006
2024-07-07 - Animal Mind
Neath discovers that there are other, different minds to explore - and enjoys exploring them very much.
006
2024-07-06 - Salvation
Just greens saving 'greens'
006, 011, 014
2024-07-03 - Cold and Hot and Cold Again
Why is the temperature changing all the time?
006
2024-07-03 - Them, and Almost Me As Well
Neath reflects on Pycgloith, on Rocranth and Ghrebieth, and it reflects on how it had almost gone the same way.
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2024-07-03 - Rest, Responsibility, and Rumination
Gwillanth has a lot to do now that Issrodeth is quiet.
006
2024-06-27 - A New Type of Sound
It listens to the Harpers play.
006
2024-06-25 - The Favourite Returns!
Mother's favourite comes back. It considers him at length.
006
2024-06-25 - [4.1] In which there is whining and a name
"What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
006, 008, 022, 033
2024-06-25 - Acknowledged By All But Us
Neath, Myrcelleth, and one other discuss what they think the different ranks and colours are. Gang Green is formed!
006, 011, 014
2024-06-23 - From the Bottom, Looking Up
It decides on a name, but it isn't loud about it.
006
2024-06-22 - Seven Days Means Little to an Egg
It struggles to understand what it means for a relationship to be improper.
006
2024-06-22 - If 'It' Isn't Broken...
'It' works just fine for this one, thank you.
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2024-06-22 - Why Ask If Not Do?
Double-meanings frustrate it. Non-truths frustrate it. The outside world is frustrating.
006
2024-06-22 - Who Decides How I Feel?
It wonders if emotions are mandatory.
006
2024-06-22 - What It Can Know
The parts of itself that it //does// know.
006
2024-06-15 - Stirrings of Flight
It gets its first taste of flight.
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2024-06-12 - Reaching, in an Early Form
With the understanding of distance comes a desire to be closer.
006
2024-06-10 - The World Is Not Ternary
It learns that there is more than just Mother, Not Mother, and itself.
006
2024-06-09 - Comprehension, In Small Steps
Isn't it wonderful, slowly starting to join the world?
006
2024-06-07 - What It Can't Know
An external description - the part of itself that it can never know.
006
2024-06-06 - To Become
The sleeper awakes.
006
2024-06-05 - The Light Flickers
Something changes. It is noticed. Slowly, it is remembered.
006
2024-06-05 - The Start
The musings of the not-yet-awake.
006
2024-06-21 - [3.4] Matter
Three eggs are left to think in the quietness of Gwillanth's worry.
006, 018, 024
2024-06-15 - North
TBD
Shipfish, 001, 006, 028, 033
