Stars* Pyre http://10.wox.org http://livejournal.com/~stars_pyre ***Contact points internet mail absolutely anything you want can go here @tensphere.wox.org or @10sphere.wox.org @starspyre.wox.org @10.wox.org ten10@ ifucksuffedanimals.com ten@ ocf.berkeley.edu Instant Messenging - http://trillian.cc ICQ: "Stars' Pyre" 85833004 AIM: "StarsPyre AIM" Y!ID: "StarsPyre" MSNM: "Stars_Pyre@SPAMFILTERhotmail.com" (minus SPAMFILTER) IRC- Yiffnet, DALnet, EFnet, Action, Enter The Game . . . StarsPyre Stars_Pyre Stars'_Pyre Stars' Pyre livejournal.com/~stars_pyre stars-pyre.deviantart.com **telnet mushclient.com (Stars' Pyre) Chaotic MUX chaoticmux.org:4201 RhostMUSH thematt.net:6288 Spheres MUX spheresmux.net:7777 Xaen MUSH http://xaenmush.com/ dreslough.com:2000 (Stars'_Pyre) SpinDizzy spindizzy.org muck.spindizzy.org:7072 < - - - highly recommended Alfandria chameleon.net/alfandria alfandria.chameleon.net:8888 < - - - recommended Cats' Haven 164.58.115.233:10972 Dreams MUCK muck.katilyr.com:8888 Faibanx ld5.hn.org ld5.hn.org:8888 Feather avians.net/feathermuck feathermuck.avians.net:8888 Fools' Moon http://members.rogers.com/rcphilip/foolsmoon/quickref.htm furryfaire.org:9999 Furry furry.com muck.furry.com:8888 Furtoonia ft.furtoonia.net:9999 Pax Draconis furtropolis.com:9000 Raccoon MUCK tfmuck.tigerden.com:6020 Tapestries tapestries.fur.com:2069 Scales 130.236.252.42:8887 (_*_) Sociopolitical Ramifications spr.ctrl-c.liu.se:23 (Eos) SuperMegaTopia supermegatopia.dyndns.org:8888 < - - - recommended Redwall redwall.muck.limitless.org:4203 (Urania) Furry Faire muck.furryfaire.org:8888 (?) Strange Attractor sa.dragonfeathers.org,dragon.dragonfeathers.org < - - - highly recommended . . . but currently down. DELETED(BANNED?) CHARACTERS: In memorial . . . (Ryuuko) Trimere trimere.com connect.trimere.com:3836 ***Fledging Day Feel free to use 06'08'06 as an excuse to celebrate my fledging - = ^ . ^ = - ***Strings to search for me with . . . Stars' Pyre Ten no Ryuu Ten Sphere white-wolf.com Ryuuko Odoruhoshi Dragon+Tiger/Creative Writer, Dancing Star Kasoushinsei Tenjuukyuu Stars' Pyre, from the Ten Sphere Archipelago Urania Furry Faire Celestial Dynamo Strange Attractor Pyreseal derived from Ogre Battle used as pyreseal@earthink.net Jedit Ojanen old furcadia alias Piotyr old Sierra Online/ImagiNation Network/AOL Worldsomethingorother alias Dream Guardian Nobody's called upon me in this capacity for a long while, but if you want, I can Guard your dreams for you. Eos apteryx haastii From Red Wall MUCK069'09'13'19>>>You page, "I picked it up as Eos apteryx haastii, meaning :: Kiwi of the Dawn ::" to Solstice. 069'09'14'59>>>In a page-pose to you, Solstice nods, In latin Eos if the 3rd person pronoun, plural accusative. ***Wingsibs - adopted siblings I have an open offer that anyone who wants to be my wingsib, can be. So far, I think only Alohilani livejournal.com/~alohilani Breimh Na Aibhion bpickett@SPAMFILTERoz.net ChocolateChip livejournal.com/~chocolatechip Eldarath livejournal.com/~eldarath Freso Kyra/Kya-Kya/Fira/Ashlyn livejournal.com/~neko_chan Lydri livejournal.com/~lydri formerly raincat Ninereeds livejournal.com/~ninereeds Sideria/Jillian of Gothos www.dragonweave.com/gothos have taken me up on that. I think of wingsiblings in a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. way. I consider everyone to be my wingsib. If they choose to acknowledge that, wonderful ^ ^ If not, I'll not force it on them ^ ^ This is primarily an offer for people to communicate to me that my friendship is welcome with them. Every one and any one's friendship is always welcome with me, whether or not the person in question calls me wingsib ^ ^ ***Communities Open Computing Facility at The University of California at Berkeley ocf.berkeley.edu Cal Animage Alpha - UC Berkeley's Anime Organization bounce.to/animage Role Playing Games Associate rpga.org Bay Area Furry Lava Dome ld5.hn.org Gryphon Guild Lake Area Furry Friends United Kingdom Dragons **egroup.com ling100 UGIS20AC AdultDragon alfandria Anthro_Avians Anthro_Cheetah Anthro_Felines Anthro_Hyena AnthroSaur CatsHaven cloudmakers DDRFurs diyskillshare DragonsArt eGroups-Moderator-News EgyptianFurs EQ-Spoilers FLY-UL FurryArt furrygamers Furryrpg FursNotOfThisWorld griffox Grrrwolfartlist inflatafurCS japaness_Fur_art MagicFurs NamasteYogaCircle NativeFurs NeverWere novitas OrientalFurs Pilots-L realdragon RogMinotaur ShivaDances shoujoclub SoCalFurs StarFurs stellos Stith suigetsukan TabrisBList talonsmacrofurries Unifursal werepuppystuff **Newsgroups google.com alt.fan.dragons ucb.class.cs61b ***Descriptions An avatara of wonder - a shapeshifting, multidimensional manifestation of a facet of the collective consciousness of existence. And stuff - = ^ . ^ = - Oceanic Astral- Primary You see a flock of long, lithe digitigrade quadrupeds with gargantuan wings. Pools of shimmering liquid moonlight shaped like teardrops suspended in mid-air occupy the space where one might expect to find eyes, and extend off to infinity in the form of twin cones of light. Four claws per body, with their cheetah-like frames, each curve into six sharply pointed, grasping toes which also serve the function of nails. Mailing in an armour of great stylized plates of argent and aureate runes on a luminous array of blues, and adornment with resplendent, flight-streamlined feathers and blazing halos and fonts of semi corporeal, prismatic flames from crests raised high to spade-accented tips on the end of apatosaurus-like tails, compliment rounded, articulate muzzles, like those of Greater Kudu, crowning swan-like necks. The cones sparkle with vibrant, playful curiosity ^ ^ .. [ Images, profile, niftoscity: http://tensphere.wox.org ^ ^ ] .. [Stars' Pyre's only functioning sensory instrument is hir double- crest, which draws in infintesimally small bits of everything around hir, and like a snake tasting the air with their tongue, forms and reforms the gathered bits into hir consciousness a copy of everything around hir. Hir sense works without regard to obstruction, so can not only see through walls, sie sees what makes up the entire thickness of those walls as well. Stars' Pyre has no other sense than this, and hir crest is hence _extremely_ sensitive. It starts from between hir cones, rises up high and floofy, and extends all the way down to the base of hir neck.] Stars* Pyre smells of crystal-clear waterfalls, clear starry nights after rainy summer days, and the faintest hint of chocolate ^ ^ Stars* Pyre tastes like Ambrosia-grade nectar over chocolate swirled in with creamy milk caramel P = Stars* Pyre's full-body plate mail feels like velvet, hir feathers, soft as clouds. Ambient sound for Stars* Pyre- the soothing ruffle of wind through feathers and ocean waves washing over a sandy shore. Stars* Pyre has feathers at the base of hir neck, on every joint of every limb (ankles, knees, wingthumbs, wingelbows, wingwrists, tailbase) at regular intervals along hir tail, on hir tailtip and especially hir tailspade, and forming a kind of triple-wing on both sides of both wings and extending their vast surfaces even farther down and out - = ^ . ^ = - Stars* Pyre's feathers also form an outercrest covering hir inner sail-crest. Angelic Transcendent Brilliant golden radiance, so luminous, just looking could overflow your entire sense of vision- not painfully, just, completely. And yet, you can still see both this being, and everything else- neither vision seems to obstruct the other, even if they seem to share the same space, in places. You see what you could see of the world as if they weren't there, only in addition to seeing the world around you, you can also see them. The whole area seems to perpetually rain rose petals, cherry blossoms, and cloud-soft feathers, snowy white streaked with argent and tipped and highlighted with the rich blues so deep and dark they're the kind the really black colors quietly whisper to each other about when the speak of blacks that went all the way in and out the other side. Beneath yet clearly crowning the vast sea of feathers and light, two aureate cones without an apparent large end, only a beginning, shimmer, and effluge with curiousity, to the point of palpability. They're sourced on a muzzle of the same blue that often totally confuses any attempt to focus on their apparent distance, smiling warmly, in a friendly, playful manner, perfectly rounded, with neither jaw nor nose. Another great expanse of feathers cascades in a downy waterfall from the top of the being's head, to just below the great wings and back down in the form of a luxurious crest. Two great claws, six-toed, yet made all of one piece, reach down, anchor into, and churn the surface below them with evident enjoyment. A swan-like neck supports the head, its connection drowned in light . . . ? A body, which mightseem at first prismatic, can be sensed. In fact, it's another color entirely, one you can see, yet totally unique to this entity. This makes it difficult to make out the being's true shape. The only other definite form is an enormously long, gradually tapering tail, striped partially in this unique color, partially in the blue, and partially in white, rippling in the wind like a carp streamer . . . or a lion about to pounce ^ ^ Sinking Horror A large horse with a globe floating near her stands here. A white cloth over the horse's back bears large red letters forming: " E M T " beneath a red cross. * This bay mare measures about 22 hands - 222.4cm or 7ft 4in - vertically. Her eyes continually swirl with many colours like a vibrant, luminous nebula. * The orb above her looks all white except for two red stripes, one running the orb's circumference horizontally, the other vertically. * On the chestnut background of her coat, colouring in the shape of long ebony tendrils reaches from the center of the top of her muzzle, whence a cross of equal-lengthed, thick lines taper into points halfway out. From there, the colour trails over her head, then strikes across her flanks in a radial pattern. One jagged, jet line darts down her right hind leg. * Brilliantly prismatic translucency forms the mare's long, flowing mane, voluminous, sleek tail and feathering. Or, her feathers might appear translucent, except for total saturation with rich, deep red liquids. Blood soaks her coat over her body in splattered patches. * Below the larger letters an her blanket, smaller letters reading " Far-Zero Company " and below that, " Urania of Lacus Somniorum" appear, seemingly written on hastily with a particularly stalwart ink. * Urania's globe projects her voice. The voice would sound musical, with a heavenly voice seemingly made for song, if not for a hauntingly, resignedly mournful undertone. http://tensphere.wox.org/images/Leonardo_s_Horse_18.jpg http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23jul_1.htm Superhero Conflicting Contrast Eos apteryx haastii, common name :: Kiwi of the Dawn :: is a genetically altered great spotted kiwi, or apteryx haastii. She has a long, slender bill with nostrils near the tip. Her body is kinda chunky, but this is covered up with big poofy fuzz, which is coloured with a riot of streaks and bars of reds, yellows, and oranges. Her legs are short but powerful, with the three front toes armed with strong claws. Her eyes are much bigger than the little beads on most kiwi, anime-like in fact, but her vision, like most kiwi, is still not that great. Her vision is suplemented by a powerful sense of smell. She has a tail like a phoenix, or a male peacock, with elaborately coloured plumage. Her jelly bean-shaped head is topped by a luxurious crest coloured with a diversity of reds that radiate from a deep, dark red on her head to light pink to white on the very tip of her crest. She is about 75 cm long with a proportionally enormous wingspread like that of a wandering albatross, about 3.4m. It is a good thing that she is able to fold her wings, or else they would drag on the ground when she walks. She unfolds her left wing and waves to you in a friendly manner as you look at her ^ _ ^ Gaming-Playful You see a female, Mew-type pokemorph. She has a bluish-pinkish-tinged body, the majority of her build consisting of her strong, kangaroo-like, but digitigrade legs and foot pads. Her face is dominated by huge, sapphire blue-pupiled eyes in the anime style. Her nose is basically a bump, although her mouth seems more anthropomorphic. She also has little feline ears that are like triangles stuck on either side of her head. The Mew has a very long, thin tail that suddenly widens at the end into a broad scoop. The Mew's ears change posture to communicate along with her words, but her tail just seems to flick around randomly, and almost constantly. The Mew also wears a black leather backpack with no apparent openings. Mew Morph pics: http://velar.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Stephanie-Kao/pokemorphs/ieyasu.jpg http://velar.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Stephanie-Kao/pokemorphs/ieyasu01.jpg Pokedex Mew: http://www.pokemon.com/pokedex (#151) http://home.talkcity.com/TwitchTr/mewthree_armor/tcgpromousaancientmew.jpg http://www.cardcollector.nu/pokemon/set/2523promo.jpg Star Control Static-E A large, floating cluster of innumerable fractal crystal shards. Where light enters them, static bursts of psychedelic, prismatic colours fill the air more densely than a heavy rain. To interact with others, the colony of crystals rapidly grows and modulates new crystal formations around the target for manipulation. ***Utilities I recommend to others . . . Knowledge Discovery in Databases google.com - internet search engine Hacking astalavista.box.sk - search engine cracks.ru - search engine Text and Code ultraedit.com - everything dreamweaver.com - internet publication dictionary.com - word conventions babelfish.altavista.com - language translation Communications opera.com - internet URIs - U niform R esource I dentifiers eudora.com - internet mail trillian.cc - instant messenging + file transfer livejournal.com - status + raw idea sharing + discussing net2phone.com - telephone USA mushclient.com - worldlets of shared text Music Siren by Sonic Foundry 2.0c - playback sound processing ACID music by Sonic Foundry - composing Data storage Clone CD elby.de ***Games I recommend to others . . . Digital Dance With Intensity dwi.claws-and-paws.com Unreal Tournment unreal.com Neverwinter Nights neverwinternights.com Horizons: Empires of Istaria artifact-entertainment.com ***Stories I recommend to others . . . Interactive Video+Audio Chrono Trigger Wild ARMS Video+Audio Invader ZIM yourmom.dhs.org/zim Excel Saga Read Or Die Saber Marionette J The Slayers F^3 - Frustrated, Frantic and Female Buffy The Vampire Slayer Dragon Half Gun Dream - Gunnm; Battle Angel Alita The Fifth Element Graphic Stories - sometimes called comics 9 Chickweed Lane unitedmedia.com/comics/chickweed tensphere.wox.org/story/9cl20011228%20chickweed2001112186228.gif The Boondocks ucomics.com/boondocks images.ucomics.com/comics/bo/1999/bo991009.gif Freefall purrsia.com/freefall Journey to the West journeytothewest.com Mac Hall machall.keenspace.com Skidrow webpages.charter.net/skidrow/20020111.jpg Spellshocked spellshocked.com 8 bit theater nuklearpower.com/comic The Changing Workplace ottercomics.com/tcw Faux Pas ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm Jack.keenspace.com Kinky Turtle's Diaries conmicro.cx/~kturtle Namir Deiter namirdeiter.com Lacunae gothbunny.net/lacunae Over the Hedge hedgeweb.com Ozy and Millie ozyandmillie.org SuperMegaTopia supermegatopia.com Acid Reflux acidrefluxcomic.com Aido's Fallen Manga aido.furvect.com/fall Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures missmab.com Dragon Boy dragonboy.keenspace.com Dragon-Tails dragon-tails.com Intolerators velvetdragon.com/intolerators The Keenlan Chronicles angelfire.com/retro/keelanbleu/ Kitty Kitty Fancia studiorobb.com/fancia MegaTokyo megatokyo.com Mutts kingfeatures.com/comics/mutts geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/7689/mutts.html RPG World rpgworldcomic.com Wertle dragonneo.com/~wertle/comic.html The Very Wrong Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog wrongsonic.keenspace.com Umlaut House umlauthouse.keenspace.com/d/20001219.html Angela Beaman's panels vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Angela-Beaman/comics/fur20010909.jpg Drowtales drowtales.com Gonzo fright.com/gonzo Gaming Guardians gamingguardians.com/d/20020121.html GI Jane brocklee.com/comic/gijoe/GI_JANE.jpg Grootlore: The Rainforest grootlore.com Hengeyokai: Changing Spirit hengeyokai.keenspace.com Mystica us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Mystica/Comics/Aim%20for%20the%20Stars/afts08.gif Random Ravings from Sanctuary darkness.diabloii.net/rrcomic3.shtml River and The Kid riverandtheweirdkid.com The first list are the ones I visit most. The second list I check in with sporadically, the third list I've maybe read a few times, perhaps through the archive once, and the last list I've only seen once, and thought looked nifty, and are in my queue to check out more, and probably were recommended to me. Stories with especially nifty exemplars are listed by those, with the link first as well if the exemplar URL differs too much. Some more of my interests, in no truly particular order: Dragons, Griffins, and other such creative states of being; console games, computer games; live action roleplaying, tabletop roleplaying; cutting-edge technology- esp. biology,computer science, physics and cognology; Japanese Animation, eg Slayers, Card Captor Sakura, Dragon Half, Gun Dream/Battle Angel Alita; Japanese culture; OpenDivX; Dance Dance Revolution; copying games; attending furry/anime/gaming/comics/&c conventions; Magic: The Gathering and many other card games; minatures strategy and tactics games; a/v series like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Simpsons, Futurama, Smallville, Dark Angel, Witchblade, Dragons Tales, Digimon, Pokemon, Beastwars, Gargoyles, Darkwing Duck, Exosquad; windsurfing; martial arts- practicing danzan/mushin ryu jujitsu, yoshinkan aikido, shinkendo, and inayan escrima; basketball; food; reading fantasy and science fiction, reading comics, Writing stories; drawing dragons and comics and sketching; movies; architecture, building and wearing costumes/fursuits; immersive/physical shapeshifting; flying; gyroplanes/autogyros; music-mostly spent downloading and listening to mp3 or encoding into oggvorbis, playing using Sonic Foundry's Siren; collecting drawn or rendered erotica images and videos; checking out nifty art techniques to synthesize new drawings from; website design; snowboarding; skiing; magic; juggling; astronomy and space flight, oceanic exploration and exploration in general; hiking; running marathons; building highly efficient Human Powered Vehicles - ihpva.org; dancing, raves; Open Source, freedom of knowledge, availability of digital information, action-based philosophy, kindness, sharing . . . The Shore of Wonder ///MUSH build macro @dig/tel Final Transcendence metacircling The Shore of Wonder==1dir0 @set here=Jump_OK @desc here =Bathed in radiance that subsumes all of your senses . . . . all of them, including many you might never've known you had otherwise . . . the stardust of the beyond, yet omnipresent. @dig/tel Hidden Cove on The Shore of Wonder==1dir1 @set here=Jump_OK @desc here = You find yourself in a beautiful, hidden cove. The beach is made of fine grains of clean, white sand. The ocean is a sparkling sapphire blue. In the back of the cove, many hot springs of various sizes and temperatures steam out a pleasant fragrance. @dig/tel Marble Water Garden Great Hall on The Shore of Wonder==1dir2 @set here=Jump_OK @desc here=This location's in the middle of the beach of transparent spheres, under a golden summer sun. It's a mostly open-air, half-covered pavillion made of ornate white marble with gold and silver flecks and grains, every section of which is devoted to channelling quickly flowing, crystalline water in some intricate and elaborate way. A long marble combination of dining table, cooking area, and garden dominates the area. Feather-stuffed pillows of every size and description are neatly piled at strategic locations. @dig/tel Trance Terrace high atop The Marble Water Garden on The Shore of Wonder==1dir3 @set here=Jump_OK @desc here=A vast, infinitely intricate pattern of silently shifting coloured sands rests on the top of an infinitely tall spire, slightly above sunset-dappled cloud cover. The area is warmed by verdant hot springs growing lush, exotic birds of paradise and other such plant life of vibrant hues so vibrant the air sings around them with the sheer intensity of light on the edges of the visual spectrum. @open Infinite Spire leads to the Great %[H%]all;h;out=$1dir2 @open Off the %[edge%] of the world;edge=$1dir0 @link me=here h @open Pathway lined with statues of phoenixfire leads to the %[H%]idden %[C%]ove;hc;out=$1dir1 @open Infinite Spire leads to %[T%]rance %[T%]errace;tt;in=$1dir3 hc @open %[Here%] past the last ocean;here;out=$1dir0 @open Pathway lined with statues of phoenixfire leads to The Marble Water Garden %[G%]reat %[H%]all;gh;in=$1dir2 here @open You can get there from %[here%];here;in=$1dir1 @open %[Everything you know is wrong and right%];Everything you know is wrong and right;out=$1dir3 ///MUCK/MUX build macro @dig Final Transcendence metacircling The Shore of Wonder==1dir0 @dig Hidden Cove on The Shore of Wonder==1dir1 @dig Marble Water Garden Great Hall on The Shore of Wonder==1dir2 @dig Trance Terrace high atop The Marble Water Garden on The Shore of Wonder==1dir3 @set $1dir0=Jump_OK @tel $1dir0 t $1dir0 @desc here =Bathed in radiance that subsumes all of your senses . . . . all of them, including many you might never've known you had otherwise . . . the stardust of the beyond, yet omnipresent. @set $1dir1=Jump_OK @tel $1dir1 t $1dir1 @desc here = You find yourself in a beautiful, hidden cove. The beach is made of fine grains of clean, white sand. The ocean is a sparkling sapphire blue. In the back of the cove, many hot springs of various sizes and temperatures steam out a pleasant fragrance. @set $1dir2=Jump_OK @tel $1dir2 t $1dir2 @desc here=This location's in the middle of the beach of transparent spheres, under a golden summer sun. It's a mostly open-air, half-covered pavillion made of ornate white marble with gold and silver flecks and grains, every section of which is devoted to channelling quickly flowing, crystalline water in some intricate and elaborate way. A long marble combination of dining table, cooking area, and garden dominates the area. Feather-stuffed pillows of every size and description are neatly piled at strategic locations. @set $1dir3=Jump_OK @tel $1dir3 t $1dir3 @desc here=A vast, infinitely intricate pattern of silently shifting coloured sands rests on the top of an infinitely tall spire, slightly above sunset-dappled cloud cover. The area is warmed by verdant hot springs growing lush, exotic birds of paradise and other such plant life of vibrant hues so vibrant the air sings around them with the sheer intensity of light on the edges of the visual spectrum. @tel $1dir0 t $1dir0 @open You can get there from [here];here;in=$1dir1 @open [Everything you know is wrong and right];Everything you know is wrong and right;out=$1dir3 @succ here=Exits: {obv-exits} @tel $1dir1 t $1dir1 @open [Here] past the last ocean;here;out=$1dir0 @open Pathway lined with statues of phoenixfire leads to The Marble Water Garden [G]reat [H]all;gh;in=$1dir2 @succ here=Exits: {obv-exits} @tel $1dir2 t $1dir2 @open Pathway lined with statues of phoenixfire leads to the [H]idden [C]ove;hc;out=$1dir1 @open Infinite Spire leads to [T]rance [T]errace;tt;in=$1dir3 @succ here=Exits: {obv-exits} @tel $1dir3 t $1dir3 @open Infinite Spire leads to the Great [H]all;h;out=$1dir2 @open Off the [edge] of the world;edge=$1dir0 @succ here=Exits: {obv-exits} @link me=here