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The Dryads

The Hunter-Gatherer Tribe

Description

“Do not test me.”
Full Name
Leilani Aiko
Nickname/New Name
Artemis, Huntress
Age: 19
Male/Female:
Female
Ethnicity/Race:
African American/Japanese
Orientation: Pan

“I am a Dryad, I belong to the Forest”
Role Piper
Tribal Mark Placement
“My Ananse Nnonten is placed on my left shoulder”
Years With Tribe:
“I've always belonged to this tribe. I belong to the Forest.”
Rival Tribe:
The Cyber: “Though my sister is the Piper of this tribe, I truly believe they are going to bring about the next strain of the virus.”
Power and Chaos “Do I even have to explain.”
Allied Tribe:
Inner City: “ They are civil enough. For City Dwellers.”
Grave Diggers: “ They clean the Earth, while We try to keep it clean.”
The Mystics “ They are going to heal us all. Perhaps we will survive.”

“Tousan, Kasan, ganbaremasu....”
Personality
I am rather calm and cool. I don’t anger easily and I don’t allow people to get under my skin. There is only one that has been able to accomplish such a feat and even then it took years to do so. I speak when only necessary and when I do, I will not repeat myself. From time to time, I was speak in Japanese. Usually only to my tribe when we are dealing with the others and don’t want them to know something or overhear something.
I don’t frighten easily and I’m quite jumpy. I leap before I look, if you will. I’m quicker to have a knife at your throat before I extend my hand but in this world you can never be too careful. On a softer note, I do care very deeply about my tribe, especially the little ones. I would do anything to keep them safe. I do hope that one day, I could start a family of my own. I don’t suppose I will but it would be nice...
Likes
Music
Dancing
Hunting
Dislikes
Technology
Power and Chaos
Dying at 25.
Habits
Biting Lip “I bit my lip when I am focusing.”
Jaw Setting “ I set my jaw when someone has either annoyed, bothered and slightly angered me.”
Speaking Japanese "When I'm in a hurry, asleep, annoyed or angered, I tend to switch languages. Sometimes, I'm not even aware. My Tribe, they can speak Japanese so they understand me."
Skills
Hunter-Gatherer, Botanist, Animal Whisperer.
History:

“My sister and I are identical twins. My being the younger. We couldn’t be more different. Growing up, I was into archery and nature while she was into computers and wanted to be as far away from the outdoors as possible. I was a girl scout, she went to space camp. We were always opposites. We were never very close.

When we were 17, the virus struck. We were on our way from school when the news broke. Without our parents, All we had was each other. When Chaos broke out, we took turns looking out for one another. It’s a shame really. It took the world to end for us to act like sisters.

Then Finally, The Elders gathered us all. They created the tribes and placed everyone accordingly.
I was named a member of the Dryads. This separated us as she became a part of the Cybers.

Our Piper, A woman named Liliana believed that it was technology was to blame for the virus and after that Fateful Piper’s Song meeting when all of the Pipers were called to meet the Elders and the world was thrown into chaos once again. She took us into the Raging Forest. Having no one to keep it back, the forest started to take the city back so we lived in the denser parts. The Dryads do not use anything that the Cybers brought back, We do not use any power other than what we could create ourselves.

My sister and I have never been that close but it's probably worse now then it ever was before the Outbreak.

Theme Song: King of the World- Porcelain and the Tramps

So begins...

Artemis The Huntress's Story

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The Raging Forest

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#2013-04-16 01:16:23, as written by MaliceInWonderland

“Remain Calm! Remain in your homes! Evacuation measures will be taken shortly.” called the emergency broadcasting systems.

Leilani and Liliana looked at one another as their parents placed them in the basement. “You’ll be safe.” Their father said. Lelani nodded, Liliana frowned. “ Dad...The virus.”
“ You’ll be safe.” He assured her but they knew that. They were worried about them.

The doors of the basement shut and then the wait.

The seemingly endless waiting....

Artemis shot up from her hammock. Her brown skin glistened with sweat and she gulped in air.. That same damn dream. It was so long ago when the virus took them. All of the adults. Dead. Bodies everywhere. Children left wandering the barren land. She was only a child herself at the time. 14 years old.

She took another breath and noticed the sun creeping up from the east.

Morning. Glorious morning. It meant she didn’t have to sleep though she hated it. All sleep brought was more dreams.

She looked around her tree house. She and the former Piper built in the Raging Forest before she succumbed to the virus. That was the thing about this virus.

You were immune into you reach 25.

That wasn't too long from now for her. She was 19.

It was too soon. Way too soon.

She rose from her hammock. She dressed in her typical Dyrad clothing made only of natural material. and completely barefoot, she walked around the large tree complex. Some nicknamed it ‘The tree house’ but it was much much more. It was a vast complex built into the trees as that housed all of the Dryads. There were hundreds of these ‘Tree houses’ built within the Raging Forest and more being built everyday. There and one for the infirmary, botany, weaponry training and water treatment.
Artemis made her way toward the training fields as the young Dryads were being trained. She watched them with a smile.

Way too soon.

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#2013-04-16 01:34:58, as written by Miss_Dreamer

War

War had been awake for the past two and half hours. She couldn't stop thinking about her brother and what he has become. It was scaring her, but she had to deal with it. She hasn't seen him in a while and she hated it. No matter what she did she couldn't get her brother to love her or even acknowledge her presence. She punched the tree house wall to let out her anger, but it didn't seem to be enough. War exhaled and inhaled. She felt better. People were starting to wake up and this was a good time to get exercise. She changed into her typical dryad outfit that allowed her to move freely and shoot arrows.

She grabbed her bow and arrow holder and strapped them to her back. She left the tree house and walked out to the training area. There were a lot of people training and people waved at War. She politely waved back, but she wasn't in the mood to be with other people. She just wanted to shoot her arrows and release some steam.

Standing in front of her usual target,where many arrows lay in the center, she sets down her arrows and readies her bow. Just then Artemis walks by. Artemis is the leader of the Dryads. War loved her. Not in love because that would have been wrong, but she had strong feelings for Artemis. War was always afraid of that and she was the only reason that she was in the tribe was because of her. War wanted to be with her brother, but Artemis told her to follow who she really was. That is why Diana is now War. Before she shot the arrow she waved at Artemis. "Hey Artemis." The arrow left its holding in the bow and landed in the center of the target.

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The Raging Forest

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#2013-04-16 02:38:19, as written by ZacharyTC

It was Saturday, with another sermon prepared and told to the Echelon masses. This time, he made a reference to 1 Corinthians 13, the Passage of Love, wording it exactly as written in his Bible:

"And now I will show you the most excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a canging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I can have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it I not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophecy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put my childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. NOw I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."

He gave an entire sermon on that passage, afterwards. It was one which took a boldness in tackling the spiritual problems within Echelon. He even went so far as to condemn the current political climate between the tribes, calling the act of hatred towards fellow people the most blasphemous of all crimes against God. The entire assembly within church walls was moved by his words, as it always is. It would not be long before the same boldness Zechariah the Disciple displayed in his sermons spread across the rest of Echelon territory, at this rate. Each Saturday, the crowd becomes bolder in defying the norm of hatred towards one another, resorting instead to respect and compassion, even beyond the tribe's territory.

The sermon ended with music, Zechariah being one of the male singers and guitarists, giving praise to the Lord. Once it was all finished, the Disciple bid everyone a great week and stayed behind to clean up the chapel, as out of habit. He and the other Head Priest made friendly chatter as they worked to tidy things up.

"Zechariah the Disciple, you continue to impress me. I may not agree with all of your sermons, though I admire your passion in giving them to the crowd."

"When you know what you believe to be true, you will defend it to your grave."

The church was clean within a half hour, and he was off to walk beyond Echelon borders, which did not take long, since the church he gave all his sermons at was close to the Dryads. Zechariah soon came across a pair of children playing with wooden swords and hatchets, whom he greeted with a wave, the children doing so in response. It was rather convenient that the Disciple's cross was on his chest, since it meant that it was always hidden so people focus on him instead of where he comes from. Eventually, his walk led him to where young Dryads practiced archery and whatnot.

There, he caught a glimpse of the current piper of the Dryads, Artemis the Huntress. There was something about her that made him grin from ear to ear, his heart accelerate. Perhaps it was her beauty in the all-natural clothing, or perhaps it was her attitude and strong personality. Whatever the reason, he felt as though he was meant to spend the rest of his life with her. Alas, he knew the odds of it. The other suitors already failed to win her heart, yet somehow, he thought he would succeed where they failed.

Walking up to Artemis until he was about ten feet away from her, he tipped his hat and said, "Good morning, Miss Artemis! How are you, this fine morning?"

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#2013-04-16 03:08:43, as written by MaliceInWonderland

Artemis looked over as War spoke. She smiled breifly. “ Ohaiyou.” She said quickly. It was a habit, Artemis has picked up a long time ago. Her parents would sometimes go days speaking just Japanese so that she and her sister could speak it fluently. She even had a slight twang when she spoke English, even though was born in America.

She then noticed Zechariah approaching. People came to the Dryads for food and medicinal herbs, or clothes from time to time. They weren't allowed in to the Treehouses but they were allowed on the grounds. It would seem like a bad idea with Power and Chaos running around, rounding up Lost Ones. Children who somehow managed to not have a Tribe, but since the Dryads were just as skilled fighters are PaC, they were safe.

She gave him a respectable bow. “Ohaiyou, Zechariah. What brings you here?”She asked though she had a pretty good idea already. He probably thought himself attracted to her though she really hadn't the time. She had to make sure that all of her people were fed, skilled and comfortable. Love wasn't really in the cards right now. Where she younger, then perhaps

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#2013-04-16 03:49:41, as written by ZacharyTC

Zechariah figured Artemis would ask why he was here. Being leader of a tribe was troublesome and stressful. Being a leader, period, always took much to handle. Being Head Priest back at Echelon, he knew the stress all too well. As such, he thought it best the conversation not be long, since he realized there was much she had to attend to. "I was just passing by, after having given a sermon, back home."

Walking over to one of the stalls, he purchased some bait for his rod and went back to Echelon territory. Not only did the church have a yard which bordered Dryad territory, but it was also near a river that had plenty of salmon. Applying some of the bait, he let loose the line and hook and perched himself on one of the rocks along the bank of the river. This was one of few times he could relax before his duties as Head Priest began to take up most of the rest of the day. He had to keep the clergy below his rank organized, after all, with next week's sermons, the charity work to be done within and beyond Echelon borders, education for children, and more. Fishing here was one of few moments where he could even pray to god without an interruption.

There was that, and Adam the Follower, the Co-Piper of Echelon, was not the kind of person which he could be comfortable around. In fact, the very character of that man deeply sickened the Disciple. The "Follower" was an utter disgrace, in his book, always preaching a hateful Gospel different from the truth written in the Bible. Why was that heretic even given a leadership post, to begin with?

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