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Post by SIEGE on Mar 27, 2012 12:18:50 GMT -5
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Siege watched as the Baby Grunty trudged slowly within the pin. He could not help but smile as the little guy sniffed a patch of grass every so often...he was just so cute!
Soon after, Siege went into the pin himself and sat cross-legged next to his Crim.[/style] [style=margin-top: 6px; width: 100px; height:100px; float:right; font-size: 7pt; font-family: calibri; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border: 5px solid #DFDFDF] 
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Post by MURMUR on Apr 1, 2012 14:10:11 GMT -5
LOGGED IN EVERY DAY I LOOK THE SAME AND THE SUN IS ALWAYS SHINING I LOOK OUT AND THERE IS
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So. Grunty give-away. Something had possessed her to stop and get one of these little guys. No, it was not seeing Mr. Bacon. It was, she told herself, so that she could use some of this adventuring gold to a practical end. She would endure the baby grunty and kid grunty stage like a pro until the grunty was useful in the field.
So went the plan. But pixelized fate has a way of laughing at the plans of mortals. This grunty was trouble. It was mean-spirited. It could bite. It snorted inappropriately at all the wrong times. And generally refused certain common foods. It threw temper-tantrums in the middle of Mac Anu. And liked to head-butt things.
When she asked Farmer Grunt about this, his only reply was to chuckle and say, 'Well you wanted the black grunty.' She hadn't done enough homework to realize that the black grunties were often bred as 'war steeds.' Well, not really, but that was their peculiar temperament. They still just dragged you along through the fields just like everyone else's grunty. Only they were stubborn and mean about it.
Was this a special grunty? No. It was just an especially annoying grunty.
As she placed Saizo, her black grunty, down into the pen she gave a resigned sigh. Resting one cheek in one hand as she leaned against the railing she gave an unintelligible mumble to the creature and watched it headbutt the post by her leg. [/style] | [atrb=style, width: 30px; vertical-align: top;] [STYLE=background-image: url('http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh399/fionagh/hack/murmur_top.jpg'); height: 100px; width: 100px; -moz-border-radius: 100px; -o-border-radius: 100px; -webkit-border-radius: 100px; border-radius: 100px; border: 3px solid #eee;]
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Post by SIEGE on Apr 1, 2012 15:18:27 GMT -5
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Her avatar looked about Siege's age.
"They're a handful huh?" He spoke to her simply and was referring to the Baby Grunties. Siege obtained Crim through a giveaway promotion for new members, but at the time had no way of knowing how much responsibility the little guy would be.[/style] [style=margin-top: 6px; width: 100px; height:100px; float:right; font-size: 7pt; font-family: calibri; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; border: 5px solid #DFDFDF]
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Post by MURMUR on Apr 1, 2012 15:50:27 GMT -5
LOGGED IN EVERY DAY I LOOK THE SAME AND THE SUN IS ALWAYS SHINING I LOOK OUT AND THERE IS
3D I KEEP LOOKING DOWN AND MISS MY SHADOW [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,10,true][cs=2][atrb=style, width: 400px; border-top: 7px solid #eee; border-bottom: 7px solid #eee;, bTable; ][atrb=style, padding: -5px; height: 400px;][style=height: 450px; padding-right: 10px; overflow: auto;] Saizo gave another head-butt to the post in front of her leg. She suspected that it was his programmed way of saying 'now is not the play time.' But she left him there anyway. At hearing another voice, she turned to see Siege though she didn't know his name yet. From the look of his equipment he seemed like a Heavyblade with vivid red hair. She was dressed in a few level two upgrades from the standard humble level one starter gear, with long white hair and crimson eyes. No facial tattoos and a willowy frame. The player didn't seem all that keen on aesthetics really. "Yeah. I should have researched a little more I guess. But it was kind of an impulse thing..." She trailed off and looked back down at Saizo. Saizo glared up at her from his grunty penitentiary. Although he couldn't speak, he made a distinctive noise. She couldn't help the thin grin that spread as the grunty seemingly challenged her. It was rare for her to grin about anything, especially Saizo, but the absurdity could not be denied in this case. Glancing back to Siege and then out toward what she assumed to be his small baby Grunty in the pen. It was nibbling away on little bits of grass. "Did you name yours yet?" | [atrb=style, width: 30px; vertical-align: top;] [STYLE=background-image: url('http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh399/fionagh/hack/murmur_top.jpg'); height: 100px; width: 100px; -moz-border-radius: 100px; -o-border-radius: 100px; -webkit-border-radius: 100px; border-radius: 100px; border: 3px solid #eee;]
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Post by SIEGE on Apr 2, 2012 20:04:17 GMT -5
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"Well hey, least their cute, right?" He grinned at the Twinblade. "Crim seems to have a lot of spunk...I think he'll be walking in no time." The thought reminded Siege of Grunty Mints, which allowed Grunties to grow the more you fed. So the Heavy blade asked the Twin "Hey have you fed yours yet?" curiously.
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Post by MURMUR on Apr 2, 2012 20:27:44 GMT -5
LOGGED IN EVERY DAY I LOOK THE SAME AND THE SUN IS ALWAYS SHINING I LOOK OUT AND THERE IS
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"Crim. That's a good name." Spoken thoughtfully in that sullen, husky voice before it appears somewhere preserved in the log.
"It's a pretty common tactic of MMOs. Make you feed something for weeks on end before you can get to use it as it was intended." She faded out, stopping herself from saying anything further that would break the fourth wall. An awkward smile between Crim and her grunty, Saizo. The latter was still headbutting the pen post. She'd worry that it might suffer brain damage but still reminds herself that the creature is made entirely of pixels.
"That is. I mean. Mine's named Saizo. After my favorite fictional pig. I thought about Eeyore but he's too mean to be an Eeyore. I thought of Noir, too. But then I thought a French name on a grunty is just ... wrong."
Her nose wrinkles minutely and there's this slash of a comic frown considering such a thing. Looking back to you as you ask her about feeding times.
"I don't really know much about it. How ... how do you feed them?" Hesitation comes from asking a stranger something she doesn't know yet. She doesn't want to come off as a noob. [/style] | [atrb=style, width: 30px; vertical-align: top;] [STYLE=background-image: url('http://i545.photobucket.com/albums/hh399/fionagh/hack/murmur_top.jpg'); height: 100px; width: 100px; -moz-border-radius: 100px; -o-border-radius: 100px; -webkit-border-radius: 100px; border-radius: 100px; border: 3px solid #eee;]
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