Dead.

I know declare the Isle dead.

Sorry. Had to do that...

Stonefire

Now, Stone, not know.

And... it's a ghost town, but I still lurk here a couple times a week. I've just got nothing interesting to say most of the time.

~Sky

I come on every other day or so, but there's nothing to say or reply to.

Stonefire

I still check it, more out of habit than anything else. But whenever something is said.. it's just the same old things that get said every time. Yes, this place is dead, and sadly, I don't think it'll ever come back to life. But it's nice to know you guys are still out there, and we haven't lost each other completely.

Indeed.

~Sky

I agree. I wish _I_ could do somthing.y,
Unfortunly,i don't thinnk i can. :(


~-~-~-~Ari

Nobody can really do anything, unless someone decided to resort to hacking. I know someone who can, but I haven't, and will not, ask her to do so.


Stonefire

There's no need for anyone to hack the website anyways.

~Sky

*Pokes the isle*

Stonefire

"Hey, quit poking me! I'm not THAT dead, am I?"
-Dragon Isle

..... That dead? Isn't something either dead or alive?

~Sky

You could be dying...

Stonefire

You can be dying, but technically you're still alive.

~Sky

We should just find another site to live on and have fun and.. stuff.

That's a good idea. Any websites you recommend?

That's where my plan ended, actually.
I have no idea where to go to.

There's a website I like called www.tinierme.com
You guys might like it.

I have no place constructive to add. I really don't go on many social websites anymore. (That, and my first thought was 'Oh, facebook maybe' and then my second thought was 'you idiot what on Earth are you thinking')

~Sky

Sky, if you ever mention Facebook again, I will eat your hands forever.

*amused* I'll be sure to keep that in mind. I don't even have one. It was a stupid idea. And um... my hands! *clings to them somehow*

~Sky

Or we could make our own website, and you guys could be the admin. Do you know how to make a new website?

Lets see...There's the annoying Piczo. Or Webs.com. Someone who has money could join Roblox.com, get builders club then make a place for us to play, talk, hang out, and kill each other.

Stonefire

Webs.com looks the most promising, but my mom probably wouldn't let me make my own website.
And what do you mean exactly by "killing each other?"

I know a site that'd allow me to create a petsite system in which we can battle, feed and train pets. Though, that'd require me to draw all of the pets and I simply don't have time for that with the exams coming up. I could manage the layout and set-up, no problems there, but time dislikes me.
Maybe someday, guys.. Maybe..

Well either way, some of us still manage to keep conversations going on this site, so we've got time at least to ponder over the matter.

~Sky

"I know declare the Isle dead. "

...26 posts and two new threads later...

Like I said before, the Isle's a zombie. It keeps coming back to life.
Speaking of zombies, I want to play more L4D2 but schoolwork is being a douche. :u

... Does that mean it's walking around dropping off limbs and such? Cause if so, that's really gross. It also makes me think of this game called plants vs. zombies, which is reallly fun.

~Sky

I think I've seen an ad for plants vs. zombies.

My entire class plays Plants vs Zombies. I have it on both my Mac and my PC. It's a fun game indeed, but I prefer zombie horror.
Like using a sniper rifle to turn zombies their heads into a storm of bloody parts. It's the best thing ever.

I've never played that game, but the name always amused me. Also; exciting news: I am getting over my dislike of zombies. A little.

I'm not. I hate them. Lots and lots.

Poor zombies, they're so misunderstood.

Oh, by the way.. I'm slowly working on a site where we can retreat to if we wish. It'll have a forum, though less advanced than this, but more pets and the option for users to send in their pets so they'd get adopted. And on top of that, a small storyline.
It won't be as good as the Isle, but it's all I can do, actually.

I neither hate nor like zombies. They're just there for me.

Yays.

Stonefire_

Well, at least we'll have a moderated forum to retreat to, Draca. =D

More than a forum, actually. Compare it to a piczo site but with the option to catch/adopt your own creatures and battle them. Stuff like that. So far, I'm done with the layout and I need to add items and pets, though I might not be able to do all the art myself.
Does anyone care to help? Anyone that can make pets with a transparent background. It'll all be community driven, anyone can do something.

I'd like to help, but I've never done that kind of thing before. If there's anything I can do, though, just let me know.

I would, but I don't have my tablet currently... when it finds its way back I'll try and make some.

I'm probably going to start with around 10 adoptable creatures, so even if you can't draw, you're free to send me a message with ideas for creatures. I'll try to keep them dragon-themed.
And yes, I'll accept friend requests for a short while.

As for anyone that does have drawing skills and Photoshop/SAI/GIMP/whatever other drawing program, feel free to draw creatures or items to show me via messages. If enough are willing to help, I'll make a thread of my own to discuss all this. (:

I'll make my slugs. ;D

I love slugs!

Say, guys.. Would you prefer a site with a light or a dark colour theme?

What do you mean?

The Isle is a website with a light colour theme (white, grey, blue), but I prefer working with darker colours on websites. Of course, I can work with any colours, but I don't know what you guys prefer. Do you prefer lighter colours on websites or darker colours?
I need this info for the small site I'm working on.

I prefer darker colors. It would look cool.

WHOA LIFE (I suppose it's getting redundant when I say this, but oh well)

That site sounds fabulous, Draca. If you have anything I can help with, toss is my way-- I'm home on break for a few days and slightly less busy then usual. Also, darker color schemes are best. =D

Darker colour scheme it is. 8D

Well, if you want, you can make a few/one pet(s) for the site. Try to keep it around 210px height and 230px width.

Or you could try thinking about a story for the site. I wanted to make it a sort of distorted vision of the Isle, where the Islanders are there, but not always what they seem. They let pets battle for them, but the reason behind those battles remains uncertain. Perhaps it's the future of the Islanders? A darker future.

I like that kind of plot.

Darker would be lovely.

As for the story.. psh. You know me. I'll think about it, but, I doubt I'll get any fantastic ideas. I trust all you wonderfully creative people will think of something magical.

Idea for the story:
The Islanders had some kind of enemy they needed to defeat, so they trained pets to fight. The enemy went into hiding, biding its time. Everyone wanted his or her pet to be the one to defeat the enemy, and eventually everyone just completely forgot about the enemy. And they kept battling the pets, but they forgot why. And one day, the enemy will awaken...

So, the classic evil vs good?
I don't really like that. I mean, my charrie's classified as evil, so I don't feel like being evil all the time for the story. Even after the fights would be over and just the pets remain, the plot would lack.. A lot.
Anyone got other suggestions? :u

Man, I sure am a critic.

;~;

Don't take it personally Mxyplzyk. It's not a bad idea, but it just isn't what we're looking for. It's hard coming up with good ideas sometimes, just keep trying.

~Sky

Durn it! I came up with a really awesome idea last night! But I forgot it! D<

Stonefire

Oh nos! You should've written it down somewhere.

~Sky

That happens to me a lot. One time, I made up a whole poem about snails (don't ask) in my head. The next day, I totally forgot.

Snaiiiilllls! I like snails.

~Sky

They're wonderful, aren't they?

Nigel.
Nigel is the best name for a snail, ever.

Wow.I never thought of that before...

In the summer, my garden is just filled with snails. Snails and slugs, yet mostly snails.
I usually stack them all on top of eachother and build a snail totem pole. Good times..

I kissed slugs when I was 4 or 5...

When I was that age, I put them in a cup of water, then added salt and stirred.

We used to get slugs crawling across our kitchen floor every night. We'd wake up to these lovely silvery patterns over the floor.
Except my dad once went down in the middle of the night and stepped on one.

Imagine stepping on a banana slug...

D: Poor sluggg!

Whenever it rains, this one section of sidewalk on a hill near my house gets covered in snails and slugs. I promptly go about moving them off the sidewalk and into the grass.

~Sky

I love snails, but I don't like slugs. For some reason.

My dad and I once saw a super speedly slug. It was going really fast...For a slug. It covered a metre in about five seconds.

Wow. I like how the bottom of a slug or snail is called a "foot."

Little snail feet!

~Sky

SLUGS!
In the first house I lived at, we got slugs in our basement all the time. I would put them in a plastic bottle and try to keep them as pets, but it never worked out. They died in like, five minutes. D: I got really mad at my brother once because he went around with salt killing them.

Stonefire

I don't understand the fun in killing something, even if it is a slug or snail.

~sky

Exactly! I hate when people kill spiders just because they're "scary" and "disgusting." Some people look scarier than any spider I've ever seen.

Eh... I'm not much of a spider person. Though as of late I've taken to scoping them up with a piece of paper and dumping them outside just so I don't have to kill them.

~Sky

My mum tried to rescue a big ol' spider the other day (my sister and I will just set the cats on them if we see them.). She dropped it, and before she could pick it up again, another - even bigger - spider pounced on it and killed it. It was pretty hideous.

*goes pale at the thought of spiders and bigger spiders eating smaller spiders*

~Sky

One time, I saw two spiders fighting in the bathroom. My dad came and blew them away with the hairdryer.

We had a Wolf Spider in our bathroom and my mom screamed and tried to jump on the toilet. Her being really heavy and having a horrible sense of balance ruined that plan. Then my step-dad came in and squished it, so we had a giant spider splatter on our bathroom floor until we eventually decided to clean it up. (it was too disgusting for any of us to clean willingly)

Stonefire

One time, I threw a beetle into a spider web, and giant spider jumped down like a ninja, wrapped up the beetle, and carried it away. It was incredible.

I was running around the side of the house once when I was younger and almost ran into what I think might've been an orb spider. At the back end of our house, we've got a barn about a foot away, and there's hedge on one side of the path running between the two buildings. Well Mr. Spider had set up his huge web in between the bushes and the barn. I was not tooo happy to almost have a spider on my face.

~Sky

I almost backed into a big, black spider with yellow spots on its abdomen. It was sitting on a big web with an odd, squiggly design on the center. My brother named it Gilbert.

I dislike that we're still talking about spiders.. horrid things.

Very true, Glic. We should all talk about me and my greatness. Because I'm the best.

Of course, Ms. Draca. Your greatness is undeniable.
So... is there any chance you can rid the world of the eight-legged bane?

Spiders are useful for keeping the insect population under control. But slippers keep the spider population under control. Buy more slippers.

The purpose of the spider population is to keep the human population in check.

I don't have any slippers at all D:

What excellent advice, Draca. Your magnificence astounds me more and more every day!

I'm just that amazing. Feel free to bathe in my magnificence.

But who's going to keep the slipper population in check?

~Sky

Dogs. Dogs will do this. And dark creepers.

Mmmmm... Dark creepers... So tasty.

Dark creepers like slippers?

~Sky

Yes. You wear them on your feet.

So, what are dark creepers?

I wish I had creepers on my feet. Ohwait, I can totally do this.

Dark creepers are shadow creatures that dark/shadow beings can summon to aid them in battle. They're adorably creepy.

Hey Draca have you by chance ever seen FFVII Advent Children?

~Sky

Only about 32 times. I know the creatures there are called shadow creepers. I had the creepers in my mind before I saw FFVII though, so don't worry, I didn't steal 'em.

I hate it when I create something and then I find out someone already came up with that same idea.

It'd be really, really difficult to think of something entirely unique, though.

Lately, I've been looking for new fantasy series to read. They've all got their little differences, but they pretty much all follow the same idea.

Yes, that kind of related, somehow.

*amused* At one point I watched it enough to pretty much say everyone's quote right on time. And I wasn't implying that you'd stolen the creatures, I was just noting the fact that the two are rather similiar.

It's so annoying how all the new ideas seem taken up, and yet there's always something somewhere out there that could pass as a new concept. :/

Ever read Cirque Du Freak? It's a vampire series but it's a good vampire series.

~Sky

Aye, I have. I've got the first two trilogies, but never got around to getting the last two, though I have read them all. They're pretty good.

*has a mind blank on books*

~Sky

I read this great series called Deltora Quest. Then there's Deltora Shadowlands, and Dragons of Deltora. Three different series, and they're awesome! (In my opinion)

Those are good. Not exactly the most complicated read, but not bad.

~Sky

Finally, someone else who has read them!

I love them! I own all the books, including the extras you get from the Scholastic Book Club! Everytime I would get a couple books, I'd get stickers to put on this large Deltora map, a model of a deltora creature, and collectable cards with illustrations of the creatures and a description from the books on the back!

Stonefire

I wish I had those models!!! My favorite Deltora creatures are the dragons and vraals. My favorite extra book is Secrets Of Deltora. It's amazing!

Is there a secrets? I have one that is called Tales of Deltora. That one is my fav. I like the Tenna Birdsong tales and the story of Adin the most.

Stonefire

I love that one too. But the one I was talking about is written by Doran the Dragonlover, or Dragonfriend. I would be a Lapiz Lazuli dragon. Which dragon would you be?

I just got my mom to order it for me off of Amazon.com. It must have come out after my membership expired due to getting all the books at the time.
If I could choose a dragon to be...Dang that's hard. Um...I'd want to be a Diamond. Because, first of all, diamond is pretty. And second, it has a large territory that would be great to explore!

Stonefire

I like the Mere dragons because they like risk-taking and they're easily bored. (Just like me) I also love the color of their scales.

My favorite Deltora creature is the Vraal. The way it was illustrated makes it look scary and gives it a, 'you're going to die now and there's nothing you can do about it' look.

Stonefire

Really? That's my favorite creature, too, because I like monsters that are small, but look cool and have sharp claws and teeth. Is there a difference between the Vraals and the "green beasts?" Or are they the same?

Hola. c:

Hi there. :v

HI!

You mean the three-toed ones? I looked at the picture of one, and I'd say they are different creatures. The one with three toes is a brighter green than a Vraal and has WAY shorter claws. There's also many other differences I'm too lazy to type out.


Stonefire

The teeth are different, too. And it said that Adin shot it with two arrows in its throat; Vraals have scales which would never let that happen. I'm guessing that the green beasts were early prototypes of the Vraals.

They could be creatures of Deltora. Just because they attack people doesn't mean the Shadow Lord created them.

Stonefire

Maybe they're altered forms of...dragon lizards or some other kind of lizard, like the Ak-Baba, because they were altered versions of birds from other lands.

Actually I thought they were what happened to dragon's eggs when their nests weren't lined with human hair... Because it said he forgot that dragons lined their nests with human hair, and if it were a bird from another land that comment wouldn't make sense to me. He called it Ak-baba because it resembled a bird his servants described to him but the ones he had got bigger or something.
Plus Marc's illustration showed a dragon in the egg.
Or I could be wrong. xD Mrph. I'll go read the book again.

Stonefire

I thought the Ak-Baba were just bigger because he bred them to be that way.

I sense a fight. We leave the Ak-Baba to their own devices.
What's your favorite part in the first series, Deltora Quest?

Stonefire

I think that my favorite part was the fight with Reeah, but I might change my mind later. I also liked the part with Soldeen.

I think the ending is the best, with all the twists, turns, surprises, and tension.

~Sky

Yeah, I liked how Lief was climbing the palace wall and how no one gave him away to the Grey Guards.

My fav part was...The part with the Guardian. When they were trying to figure out his name. I totally freaked out when they thought his name was Endon. (It was Endon wasn't it? I haven't read it in ages)

Stonefire

Yeah, it was Endon.Did you know they made a T.V. show out of Deltora Quest?

Yes. It's on this channel called the Hub. We have it set to record the ones we haven't seen. It's OK. I think it's more fun to hint at what's going to happen next, cause then my brothers get really impatient and antsy.

Stonefire

I always miss it on T.V., so I was watching episodes of it on Youtube, but the videos were deleted because of copyright infringement or something. I liked the episodes, but I think they hinted too early at Lief and Jasmine's relationship.

I didn't really notice, because I already knew about it. Heheh. Now that I think about it, yeah they did hint at it too early. And what's with Jasmine having that blue hair? It's kinda creepy...

Stonefire

Anime is just weird like that, I guess. Now I'm into this anime called One Piece. It's about pirates.

An anime about pirates? 0.o That seems rather strange...

Stonefire

Strange, yet it's amazing. If you go to www.onepieceofficial.com you can watch episodes 1 through 16, subbed or dubbed. The episode after that is 59 on that website for whatever reason. I've been watching them on DVD.

I'm too lazy...Maybe I'll watch them later.

Speaking of Anime, my friend Haime is down because this guy named Gaara died in Naruto. He was her favorite character or something. She said bad guys stole his soul.

Stonefire

I've never watched Naruto. What is it about? All I know is that the main character has whiskers...

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