Word Association Thread

[cryptomancer]

The highly mischievious 'Pixception', a sprite of uncanny speed and playfulness, beautiful and devilishly eyecatching.... normally using its sharp and slender fingers to remove the eyeballs before they play.

[cryptomancer]

Eyecatching: the superstition based response to cleaving the head of an enemy in battle, practiced by the ever graceful, ever beautiful Amazonian Warrioress. The most skilled and demanding strike to achieve victory is to cleave the head, just below the eyes of the enemy, allowing the eyeballs to fly free and unharmed into the air. Perfection of this strike allows the eyes of the opponent to be caught, successfully excecuted this strike and the resultant eyecatch is believed to give the Warrioress stealth and good fortune.

[cryptomancer]

Eyecatching: a game played with trained ravens who will to anything for the tasty occular morsels.

[Elvina]

Eyecatching: like with a butterfly net. Only catching flying eyes.

[Gwaihir]

The little girl runs into the field, butterfly net held high and hair streaming behind her. "I almost caught one!" She says excitedly. The grownups sitting and eating smile. They know she wasn't even close, but that doesn't matter. "Good job, honey!"

[cryptomancer]

I ran into a field once, it collided with me mid-thigh and I took a tumble in the grass.

 

[Harmonious_Echos]

To tumble in the grass is lovely, provided you tumble with the right person...perhaps I should continue in the Red Pen... LOL. Of course, it can be just as lovely to tumble into an icy brook in midsummer, or into a bank of white clay mud (if you happen to be a pig)...

 

White clay is especially nice.

[Harmonious_Echos]

White clay can be used to make incredible statues which dry in the sun & create an eerie sense of long, long ago...mischeivious elven babes, playing in the warm clay & fashioning crude, childish representations of their parents, who are to beautiful to look upon with human eyes...

[dottie]

The elven city of Spleilten is home to beautiful statues made from a pure white and malleable substance called plloyi. Many humans often mistake it for white clay. Plloyi has similar properties of clay. It is easily formed into a variety of complex shapes and forms, however it does not dry or harden in the sun. Instead it remains pliable until the use of a special glaze containing a rare powder made from scrapings of a unicorn's horn.

[Harmonious_Echos]

Also; when hardened by unicorn-horn powder, said Plloyi statues posses varying 'shades' of healing and/or protective powers...they are highly valued as shielding charms by humankind...unicorn-horn is not collected through cruel methods as often said in foklore, since killing the unicorn makes the horn worse than useless--it becomes a sort of negative-power, bringing bad luck and fostering unwise decision-making often leading to the death of the unicorn-killer or horn-user. Instead the horns are collected through necessity, for they never stop growing & eventually become cumbersome; a wise unicorn knows to go to the Horn Grinder to relieve iteslf of excessive horn growth. The Horn Grinders are a specialised sect of young people, who live in hermitage and use the income from the sale of Horn Powders to support themselves and local honest poorfolk...if they become impure in thought or deed, (like spending too much on themselves, taking too much horn, neglecting others, etc,) the unicorns won't come to them. Most young people pass along the trade to a more worthy Grinder after only a few years.

[Katzaniel]

This thread... is not at all what I assumed it was based on the title. Oops.

 

Iocaine powder:

Quite a classic blunder, if

Death is on the line.

[The Portrait of Zool]

"NEVER enter a battle of wits with a Sicilian!"

 

*Dies*

 

[Katzaniel]

Sicily... Cecilia, don't be a sissy,

It's simply a city, you see.